Re: Firefox does not play Rutube videos

2015-12-20 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/19/15 18:08, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 19.12.2015, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> And indeed, they ship 11.2.202.554: >> # rpm -q adobe-release-x86_64 flash-plugin >> adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch >> flash-plugin-11.2.202.554-release.x86_64 > > Remove all flash rpms from your distribution. D

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/20/2015 10:30 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 01:42:30PM +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: Hi all, Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash. My problem: suppose you define an alias: alias x='echo PAR=$1' Now call the alias by: x 1 Output: PAR= 1 My question: why do I get the

Re: smartd errors

2015-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
It's over a month old thread now, BUT... These three bits of information: Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical 197 Current_Pending_Sector -O--C- 100 100 000-16 198 Offline_Uncorrectable C- 100 100 000-16 40 51 00 ff ff ff 0f Error: UNC

Re: Installing F22: MUST format root?!?!?!

2015-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Well I guess the lack of responses means that without taking extraordinary > steps, I'm pretty much screwed. > > Thanks for the idea though Tom. I'm not sure if it's worth going to that > much trouble though, at least for now. > > Having the

Re: Installing F22: MUST format root?!?!?!

2015-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > I bought a 32gb class 10 sd card to run Fedora on a laptop where I don't > want to touch the hard drive. > > After a bit of reading it seems it's a good idea to make sure the partition > and filesystem are setup to get the most out of it (main

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> It's neither of these, >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Data_persistence >> >> 'currently implemented (as a Device-mapper copy-on-write snapshot)

Re: Users cannot log in using sddm on Fedora 23

2015-12-20 Thread Andrej Podzimek
So here are the system logs generated by "journalctl -f" during a login attempt: https://andrej.podzimek.org/loginjournal.txt They capture (1) an unsuccessful authentication attempt where unix_chkpwd cannot be used by sddm-helper (!), then (2) a quick switch to a text console and back to sddm

Re: Virtualbox -

2015-12-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/20/15 20:37, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Using Virtualbox in an updated F23 I've installed VM's for Fedora, Centos, and > Scientific Linux. > > Fedora 21 xfce live because I happened to have it handy, the others from the > DVD iso's. > > Fedora21 boots and runs as expected. the others boot and ru

Re: In Firefox 41.0.1 / Fedora 23 Mate-Compiz, mouse pointer doesn't change to magnifying glass

2015-12-20 Thread Sylvia Sánchez
It works as expected to me. I'm on Fedora Cinnamon Spin 23. Cheers, Sylvia On Sunday, 20 December 2015, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Hi there, > > Can anyone else confirm this bug?. In Fedora 23 Mate-Compiz, when using FF > 41.0.1 to view a JPEG file that has been scaled down automatically, when

Re: Virtualbox -

2015-12-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/20/15 17:27, Fernando Cassia wrote: What Virtualbox release are you using?. An updated Virtualbox has been released (5.0.12) last Friday if I remember correctly, it contains fixes for running the latest versions fo RHEL (7.2). Maybe indirectly it will also help with CentOS. I'm just

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-20 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > It's neither of these, > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Data_persistence > > 'currently implemented (as a Device-mapper copy-on-write snapshot), > every single change to it (writes AND deletes) subtracts from it

Re: Virtualbox -

2015-12-20 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Fedora21 boots and runs as expected. the others boot and run with a text > screen but startx reports "command not found" and a ping to other than > localhost, reports network unreachable. > > What am I missing? > > Bob > Bob, What Virtualbox

Re: kernel checkout specific version

2015-12-20 Thread Philip Brown
On 12/20/2015 11:18 PM, Philip Brown wrote: On 12/20/2015 09:55 PM, stan wrote: On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 10:48:40 +0100 Philip Brown wrote: Hi, I would appreciate a little help please. I am building the kernel with the following commands: fedpkg clone -a kernel cd kernel git checkout -b f23 --tr

In Firefox 41.0.1 / Fedora 23 Mate-Compiz, mouse pointer doesn't change to magnifying glass

2015-12-20 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi there, Can anyone else confirm this bug?. In Fedora 23 Mate-Compiz, when using FF 41.0.1 to view a JPEG file that has been scaled down automatically, when positioning the mouse cursor over the image, on the Windows platform the mouse cursor changes to a magnifying glass to show the user that th

Re: kernel checkout specific version

2015-12-20 Thread Philip Brown
On 12/20/2015 09:55 PM, stan wrote: On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 10:48:40 +0100 Philip Brown wrote: Hi, I would appreciate a little help please. I am building the kernel with the following commands: fedpkg clone -a kernel cd kernel git checkout -b f23 --track origin/f23 fedpkg local and this builds

Re: kernel checkout specific version

2015-12-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 10:48:40 +0100 Philip Brown wrote: > Hi, > > I would appreciate a little help please. > I am building the kernel with the following commands: > > fedpkg clone -a kernel > cd kernel > git checkout -b f23 --track origin/f23 > fedpkg local > > and this builds a 4.2.8-300 relea

Re: f21->f23 via dnf system-upgrade?

2015-12-20 Thread patman
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 07:17:14AM -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > I've updated 2 f22->f23 fine using dnf system-upgrade. Can I also use this > method for f21->f23? Sorry this is a bit late, I don't read this list very often. About a month ago, I did an F21 to F23 via dnf system-upgrade on two syst

Re: problems with kde

2015-12-20 Thread Wilfredo Porta
Hi Since you tried removing the .local directory, did you try removing the .kde? Or, instead of removing it, move it to .kde_backup and login again (of course, do this logged out of the graphical environment) you can do it in TTY2. Regards, ~Wilfredo On 20/12/15 11:45, Patrick O'Callaghan w

Re: problems with kde

2015-12-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 17:06 +0100, Walter Cazzola wrote: > Dear Fedora Experts, > I'm a proud user of Fedora (currently 20) Linux on a Dell Laptop > since 6 years. > > A couple of days ago without any real reason something broke up (the > only thing happened is a write error but after that it work

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 01:42:30PM +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi all, > > Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash. > > My problem: suppose you define an alias: > > alias x='echo PAR=$1' > > Now call the alias by: > > x 1 > > Output: PAR= 1 > > My question: why do I get the blank before th

problems with kde

2015-12-20 Thread Walter Cazzola
Dear Fedora Experts, I'm a proud user of Fedora (currently 20) Linux on a Dell Laptop since 6 years. A couple of days ago without any real reason something broke up (the only thing happened is a write error but after that it worked fine) and I get serious problems in login into my KDE account. It

Re: Users cannot log in using sddm on Fedora 23

2015-12-20 Thread Andrej Podzimek
systemctl status sddm Compared to the strace wrapper I tried, combined with a careful inspection of logs from journalctl, status doesn't say too much: Dec 19 21:41:25 prdell.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager. [...] Dec 19 21:41:31 prdell.localdomain

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Michael Welle
Hello, Patrick O'Callaghan writes: > On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 15:00 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: >> Remark: Working with aliases seems to be a bit sophisticated :-) > > Not really. IIRC aliases predate functions. They were first introduced > in the C Shell (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_(

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 15:00 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: > Remark: Working with aliases seems to be a bit sophisticated :-) Not really. IIRC aliases predate functions. They were first introduced in the C Shell (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_(command)) and are thus more limited. poc --

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Joachim Backes
On 20.12.2015 13:42, Joachim Backes wrote: Hi all, Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash. My problem: suppose you define an alias: alias x='echo PAR=$1' Now call the alias by: x 1 Output: PAR= 1 My question: why do I get the blank before the "1"? All comments are welcome. Kind regards

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Michael Welle
Hello, Michael Welle writes: > Hello, > > Philip Brown writes: > >> same problem... not on my terminal >> >> bash-4.3$ x 1 >> PAR=1 >> >> but I must say you explained "the why" very well regards the initial >> empty parameter > by problem I mean the expectation that $1 has any meaning in this >

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Michael Welle
Hello, Philip Brown writes: > same problem... not on my terminal > > bash-4.3$ x 1 > PAR=1 > > but I must say you explained "the why" very well regards the initial > empty parameter by problem I mean the expectation that $1 has any meaning in this context. It looks like it will work, but it will

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Philip Brown
same problem... not on my terminal bash-4.3$ x 1 PAR=1 but I must say you explained "the why" very well regards the initial empty parameter On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Michael Welle wrote: > Hello, > > Philip Brown writes: > > > i think that is a feature of echo > > if you want without

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Michael Welle
Hello, Philip Brown writes: > i think that is a feature of echo > if you want without the space you could use printf > > alias x='printf "PAR=%s\n" $1' same problem as with the initial question. What value does the $1 have? It is empty. alias does not expect any parameters, if that might be the

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Philip Brown
i think that is a feature of echo if you want without the space you could use printf alias x='printf "PAR=%s\n" $1' On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Joachim Backes < joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash. > > My problem: suppose you define an

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Michael Welle
Hello, Joachim Backes writes: > Hi all, > > Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash. > > My problem: suppose you define an alias: > > alias x='echo PAR=$1' > > Now call the alias by: > > x 1 > > Output: PAR= 1 > > My question: why do I get the blank before the "1"? because you wrote it when formu

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Joachim Backes > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash. >> >> My problem: suppose you define an alias: >> >> alias x='echo PAR=$1' >> >> Now call the alias by: >> >> x 1 >> >> Output: PAR

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi all, > > Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash. > > My problem: suppose you define an alias: > > alias x='echo PAR=$1' > > Now call the alias by: > > x 1 > > Output: PAR= 1 > > My question: why do I get the blank before the "1"? > > All

Problem with bash: alias command

2015-12-20 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi all, Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash. My problem: suppose you define an alias: alias x='echo PAR=$1' Now call the alias by: x 1 Output: PAR= 1 My question: why do I get the blank before the "1"? All comments are welcome. Kind regards Joachim Backes -- Fedora release 23 (Twenty

Virtualbox -

2015-12-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
Using Virtualbox in an updated F23 I've installed VM's for Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux. Fedora 21 xfce live because I happened to have it handy, the others from the DVD iso's. Fedora21 boots and runs as expected. the others boot and run with a text screen but startx reports "comm

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-20 Thread Ian Malone
On 19 December 2015 at 05:39, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 18 December 2015, Fernando Cassia sent: >> Thanks for the reply. I choose to stop using so-called "persistent >> storage" because it eventually goes FUBAR. Something about the loop >> device if I remember correctly. The issue being

kernel checkout specific version

2015-12-20 Thread Philip Brown
Hi, I would appreciate a little help please. I am building the kernel with the following commands: fedpkg clone -a kernel cd kernel git checkout -b f23 --track origin/f23 fedpkg local and this builds a 4.2.8-300 release, however I need to build a 4.2.7-300 release which fedora is currently runni