Re: Scrolling gone haywire

2016-02-15 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2016, Les Howell sent: > I have a problem with touchpads in general. My finger tips are > normally quite dry, so they skip and jump when dragging across the > pads. I always have to turn double click off, multitouch off, and > sensitivity down a bit to get them

Re: how to tell where it booted from

2016-02-15 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2016, Mike Wright sent: > I have several large disks filled with experiments and multiboots. I > need to make changes to the current /boot/grub/grub.cfg but I have no > idea which one I'm using or which one of the systems' grub config > tools were used so I don

Re: Google messed up :)

2016-02-15 Thread Tim
Tim: >> It's not a new problem Tom Horsley: > Actually it is a new problem. Yum was fine with multiple > rpms defining the same directory till somewhere around > fedora 19 or 20, then it suddenly became an error. I don't think relying on the updating software not caring that you're trying to own

Re: Google messed up :)

2016-02-15 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 2/15/16, Tim wrote: > What's more mind-boggling is why those (in Google) who created the > problem haven't pulled their fingers out and fixed it. It's not a new > problem, the fault is entirely theirs, and they should know better. > Don't make the users jump through hoops to fix things that y

Re: Google messed up :)

2016-02-15 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 05:47:23 +1030 Tim wrote: It's not a new problem Actually it is a new problem. Yum was fine with multiple rpms defining the same directory till somewhere around fedora 19 or 20, then it suddenly became an error. I don't think the problem is multiple

Re: gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:02 PM, SternData wrote: > I just got one of these to replace one that was dropping sectors: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005T3GRN2?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00 Yeah, I shopped around a bit and decided to give a referb with 1 year warranty

Re: how to tell where it booted from

2016-02-15 Thread Mike Wright
On 02/15/2016 04:21 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 02/15/2016 03:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Does the boot process leave any footprints behind telling where it booted from? So you can see my boot partition is a plain-old partition on /dev/sda1 and the root filesystem (block device 253:1) is a Linux

Re: how to tell where it booted from

2016-02-15 Thread Mike Wright
On 02/15/2016 04:21 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 02/15/2016 03:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Does the boot process leave any footprints behind telling where it booted from? You can always "cat /proc/cmdline" to see what the boot command line was. In my case: [root@prophead ~]# cat /proc/cmdli

Re: gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-15 Thread SternData
On 02/15/2016 04:47 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Um I'm not sure what the threshold should be for this drive (2TB) > but I would think that having over 7000 bad sectors it would not be > considered OK. > > In either case I plan on replacing the drive as soon as funds allow. > > Thanks, > Richard

Re: how to tell where it booted from

2016-02-15 Thread Mike Wright
On 02/15/2016 04:10 PM, doug wrote: On 02/15/2016 06:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Does the boot process leave any footprints behind telling where it booted from? Don't know if you have legacy grub or not. With legacy grub, you can change the names in menu.lst--put a 1 or 2 or whatever after the d

Re: how to tell where it booted from

2016-02-15 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/15/2016 03:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi everybody, I have several large disks filled with experiments and multiboots. I need to make changes to the current /boot/grub/grub.cfg but I have no idea which one I'm using or which one of the systems' grub config tools were used so I don't dare j

Re: how to tell where it booted from

2016-02-15 Thread doug
On 02/15/2016 06:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi everybody, I have several large disks filled with experiments and multiboots. I need to make changes to the current /boot/grub/grub.cfg but I have no idea which one I'm using or which one of the systems' grub config tools were used so I don't da

how to tell where it booted from

2016-02-15 Thread Mike Wright
Hi everybody, I have several large disks filled with experiments and multiboots. I need to make changes to the current /boot/grub/grub.cfg but I have no idea which one I'm using or which one of the systems' grub config tools were used so I don't dare just grab any old one and use it I've se

gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-15 Thread Richard Shaw
Um I'm not sure what the threshold should be for this drive (2TB) but I would think that having over 7000 bad sectors it would not be considered OK. In either case I plan on replacing the drive as soon as funds allow. Thanks, Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: Scrolling gone haywire

2016-02-15 Thread Les Howell
On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 22:37 +0200, Mihuleac Sergiu wrote: Very happy to hear I'm not the only one. Same issue with my touch-pad -- Lenovo E540 > > On 02/15/2016 10:33 PM, Go Canes wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion - the problem manifests without touching > > the trackpad (other than the c

Re: Scrolling gone haywire

2016-02-15 Thread Mihuleac Sergiu
Very happy to hear I'm not the only one. Same issue with my touch-pad -- Lenovo E540 On 02/15/2016 10:33 PM, Go Canes wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion - the problem manifests without touching the > trackpad (other than the click to load the web page). I tried > adjusting sensitivity, switching

Re: Scrolling gone haywire

2016-02-15 Thread Go Canes
Thanks for the suggestion - the problem manifests without touching the trackpad (other than the click to load the web page). I tried adjusting sensitivity, switching from libinput to the legacy driver, etc. No change. On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > > On 12/02/1

Re: Scrolling gone haywire

2016-02-15 Thread Go Canes
Thanks for the suggestion - I have not tried google chrome - since the problem manifested with Konquerer, I am thinking it is unlikely to be a Firefox issue. But seeing what chrome does may be useful. On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 6:53 AM, Morne Snyman wrote: > Hi, > > Have you tried using google chr

Re: Google messed up :)

2016-02-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/15/2016 11:44 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: Actually it is a new problem. Yum was fine with multiple rpms defining the same directory till somewhere around fedora 19 or 20, then it suddenly became an error. I first ran into it when I upgraded from Fedora 19 to 20, suggesting that it started wit

Re: Google messed up :)

2016-02-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 05:47:23 +1030 Tim wrote: > It's not a new > problem Actually it is a new problem. Yum was fine with multiple rpms defining the same directory till somewhere around fedora 19 or 20, then it suddenly became an error. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Google messed up :)

2016-02-15 Thread Tim
jd1008: >> And the fix is so totally simple. Just remove one line from the spec file: >> %dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/usr/bin" >> which is line 341 Dave Stevens: > that's very useful and leaves me totally agog wondering how you found > it - exhaustive search?? or what?? What's more mind-bogg

Re: Google messed up :)

2016-02-15 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting jd1008 : On 02/15/2016 07:04 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: jd1008 wrote: Downloaded google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm from google and tried to install it, got Error: Transaction check error: file /usr/bin from install of google-earth-stable-7.1.4.1529-0.x86_64 conflicts with file f

Re: Google messed up :)

2016-02-15 Thread jd1008
On 02/15/2016 07:04 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: jd1008 wrote: Downloaded google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm from google and tried to install it, got Error: Transaction check error: file /usr/bin from install of google-earth-stable-7.1.4.1529-0.x86_64 conflicts with file from package filesy

Re: Google messed up :)

2016-02-15 Thread Rex Dieter
jd1008 wrote: > Downloaded google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm from google > and tried to install it, got > Error: Transaction check error: >file /usr/bin from install of google-earth-stable-7.1.4.1529-0.x86_64 > conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.2-32.fc22.x86_64 google has b