Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-10 Thread Shaheen Bakhtiar
> On Sep 10, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Alex wrote: > > Hi, > >>> I have a fc22 system that's been working fine and now for some reason >>> kernel updates result in an unbootable system. It appears to be >>> related to dracut failing to build a proper initramfs image. >>> >>> I have a default initramf

Re: Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 10 Sep 2015 at 20:08, Paul Smith wrote: Date sent: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:08:53 +0100 Subject:Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup From: Paul Smith To: Community support for Fedora users Send reply t

Re: Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 14:20 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/10/2015 02:14 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Sparse file support on the backup medium is also very useful if the > > backup program supports it. If the utility has compression support, > > that's also a benefit to conserve space on the backup

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-10 Thread Alex
Hi, >> I have a fc22 system that's been working fine and now for some reason >> kernel updates result in an unbootable system. It appears to be >> related to dracut failing to build a proper initramfs image. >> >> I have a default initramfs from 4.0.4-300 that works fine, but using >> dracut to bu

Re: Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/10/2015 01:40 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Rick, for your reply. The idea of a cloning application with differential / incremental backup is not mine, but inspired on what is written at the clonezilla site: "Differential/incremental backup is not implemented yet." It's important for tha

Re: Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 10Sep2015 21:43, Paul Smith wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: For incremental backups, you could do something as simple as rsync or use one of the many backup utilities around (amanda, bacula, mondorescue, etc.). My personal choice is BackInTime because it's easy fo

Re: HD+ LED-backlit LCD screen washed out - found a temporary solution

2015-09-10 Thread CS DBA
All, Just an FYI, I created a file: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/99-xgamma.sh made it executable, and added this content: #!/bin/bash xgamma -gamma .7 It seems that setting overall gamma to 0.7 does wonders for the display On 09/10/2015 03:06 PM, CS DBA wrote: All; So I went ahead and i

Re: Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/10/2015 02:14 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Sparse file support on the backup medium is also very useful if the backup program supports it. If the utility has compression support, that's also a benefit to conserve space on the backup medium. My backup program uses rsync for the heavy lifting.

Re: Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/10/2015 02:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/10/2015 01:43 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Joe, for your reply. BackInTime seems to be a great backup tool -- I am going to give it a try -- , but I was looking for a cloning application (with differential /incremental backup). Make sure that you

Re: HD+ LED-backlit LCD screen washed out

2015-09-10 Thread CS DBA
All; So I went ahead and installed F22, no freeze issues so far. the display is somewhat better but still washed out, if I tilt the laptop screen way back closer to 180 degrees than the normal 45 degres then the screen looks great but if I tilt it as you normally do a laptop screen (screen ve

Re: Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/10/2015 01:43 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Joe, for your reply. BackInTime seems to be a great backup tool -- I am going to give it a try -- , but I was looking for a cloning application (with differential /incremental backup). Make sure that your backup media is formatted to something

Re: Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/10/2015 01:40 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Do you know of some application to clone a disk with incremental backup? I know about clonezilla, but, unfortunately, clonezilla does not have yet differential/incremental backup implemented. ( http:

Re: Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> For incremental backups, you could do something as simple as rsync or >> use one of the many backup utilities around (amanda, bacula, >> mondorescue, etc.). > > My personal choice is BackInTime because it's easy for me to set up and > manage,

Re: Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> Do you know of some application to clone a disk with incremental >> backup? I know about clonezilla, but, unfortunately, clonezilla does >> not have yet differential/incremental backup implemented. ( >> http://clonezilla.org/ ) > > Well, s

Re: Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/10/2015 12:27 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: For incremental backups, you could do something as simple as rsync or use one of the many backup utilities around (amanda, bacula, mondorescue, etc.). My personal choice is BackInTime because it's easy for me to set up and manage, but it might not f

Re: Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Joe Wulf
"Acronis True Image" is an excellent commercial product.Can get down to the bit level of every part of a hard drive, partition or file structure, and can accomplish incremental backups, too. From: Paul Smith To: Community support for Fedora users Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 3:08

Re: Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/10/2015 12:08 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, Do you know of some application to clone a disk with incremental backup? I know about clonezilla, but, unfortunately, clonezilla does not have yet differential/incremental backup implemented. ( http://clonezilla.org/ ) Well, sure. Cloning a d

Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

2015-09-10 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, Do you know of some application to clone a disk with incremental backup? I know about clonezilla, but, unfortunately, clonezilla does not have yet differential/incremental backup implemented. ( http://clonezilla.org/ ) Thanks in advance, Paul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: HD+ LED-backlit LCD screen washed out

2015-09-10 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/09/15 17:16, CS DBA wrote: Will this fix the screen issue? I'd be a bit cautious. The KDE-fedora list isn't entirely happy with F22 at present. http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-kde/msg15597.html On 09/10/2015 10:02 AM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: Sure, use Fedora 22 KDE... 20

Re: HD+ LED-backlit LCD screen washed out

2015-09-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:40:40 -0600 CS DBA wrote: > Anyone have any ideas how to fix it? I run this perl script from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ to fix the moronic default in the Intel video driver that restricts color levels to "broadcast" standards: #!/usr/bin/perl # # First run xrandr --propert

Re: HD+ LED-backlit LCD screen washed out

2015-09-10 Thread CS DBA
Will this fix the screen issue? On 09/10/2015 10:02 AM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: Sure, use Fedora 22 KDE... 2015-09-10 17:40 GMT+02:00 CS DBA : Hi All; I've just installed Fedora 21 (KDE Spin) on a new Lenovo Thinkpad T450s with a HD+ LED-backlit LCD screen with the following video card: Int

Re: HD+ LED-backlit LCD screen washed out

2015-09-10 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Sure, use Fedora 22 KDE... 2015-09-10 17:40 GMT+02:00 CS DBA : > Hi All; > > I've just installed Fedora 21 (KDE Spin) on a new Lenovo Thinkpad T450s with > a > HD+ LED-backlit LCD screen with the following video card: > > Intel HD Graphics 5500 > > Fedora is running great except the screen is was

HD+ LED-backlit LCD screen washed out

2015-09-10 Thread CS DBA
Hi All; I've just installed Fedora 21 (KDE Spin) on a new Lenovo Thinkpad T450s with a HD+ LED-backlit LCD screen with the following video card: Intel HD Graphics 5500 Fedora is running great except the screen is washed out, colors are blah and its borderline hard to read. The following d

solved: Recreating SMB printer -> PDF -> input program

2015-09-10 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 10 September 2015 15:12:56 Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Thursday 10 September 2015 13:11:14 Ed Greshko wrote: > > > 1) the printer is not storing the file in the directory specified. I > > > set up the connection as cups-pdf:/var/spool/cups-pdf/created but it > > > stored the file in /roo

Re: Recreating SMB printer -> PDF -> input program

2015-09-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/10/15 22:30, Ed Greshko wrote: > That is odd > > I just changed my Out phrase from > > Out ${DESKTOP} > to > Out /var/spool/cups-pdf/created > > did a systemctl restart cups.service > > and printed a test page from "System Settings" of KDE as myself and it worked > as expected. > > [root

Re: Recreating SMB printer -> PDF -> input program

2015-09-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/10/15 22:12, Gary Stainburn wrote: > No, I added the path to the connection field in system-config-printers as per > the web page I was following. > > I've now updated the config as you suggested. I now have the line > > OUT /var/spool/cups-pdf/created > > however, when I did a test print it

Re: Recreating SMB printer -> PDF -> input program

2015-09-10 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 10 September 2015 13:11:14 Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > 1) the printer is not storing the file in the directory specified. I set > > up the connection as cups-pdf:/var/spool/cups-pdf/created but it stored > > the file in /root/Desktop/ > > Are you saying that in /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf you

Re: Recreating SMB printer -> PDF -> input program

2015-09-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/10/15 19:20, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Back in the good old days (F9) I could set up a dummy SMB printer which would > accept the file and then call a program to deal with it. I used this with > Apple PS drivers on Windows PC's to create PDF files and email them back to > the user. These wer

Recreating SMB printer -> PDF -> input program

2015-09-10 Thread Gary Stainburn
Back in the good old days (F9) I could set up a dummy SMB printer which would accept the file and then call a program to deal with it. I used this with Apple PS drivers on Windows PC's to create PDF files and email them back to the user. These were back in the days before windows PDF printe driv

Re: NTP synchronized: no

2015-09-10 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/09/15 00:01, Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: On Sep 9, 2015, at 3:47 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 09/09/15 23:43, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/10/15 06:18, John Pilkington wrote: ... and (on my SL7 box) # tcpdump port 123 shows the outgoing probe and the response, for calculation of the transit t

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 21:11 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Paul Smith writes: > > > Is there something, apart buying a UPS, that one can do in order to > > minimize the severity of the damage that a power outage can cause? > > A UPS, paired with auto-shutdown software is the best possible > defe

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 16:20 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/09/2015 04:00 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > > Thanks, Patrick. The default clean installation of F21 does not > > already install a journaling filesystem? > > I think that the default is ext4, which is journalling. LVM is also > the default, a