ACPI errors (was: f24 boot fails; need help).

2017-05-19 Thread William
Good evening, One of the problems reported in the log file "rdsosreport.txt" generated by the failed boots discussed in the "f24 boot fails; need help" topic was a set of "ACPI" errors. Here are the relevant lines (with added line numbers) from that log file (the first and last lines are just

Re: Fedora command for motherboard clock condition (from: f24 boot fails; need help).

2017-05-19 Thread William Mattison
After groping through papers in a moving box, I found the user's guide for the motherboard. Amazing: something I kept actually proved useful! It's a ASUS Sabertooth Z77, bought in early 2013. Well, no index, no mention of battery in the table of contents. I skimmed through once, no hint of b

Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]

2017-05-19 Thread William Mattison
You're right. I should see my friend sometime next week or two. He wants me to help him practice his cloud computing paper before he presents it at some conference. (He's an international student.) I'll ask him about the fsck options then. Bill. ___ u

Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]

2017-05-19 Thread William Mattison
Well, as you yourself said in an earlier post on this topic, " Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first!"! You are almost certainly correct - it was "fsck", not "fdisk". I just typed the wrong thing into my posting. Another "senior moment". > This isn't a black art

Re: crappy printing

2017-05-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/20/17 06:35, Tim wrote: > You know, I'd just like software to actually do what I set it to. I > have some things to print that I'd like them to print neatly, but they > don't. > > I set margins that are well within the printing area of my printer (it > can print to about 5mm to each edge of

Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]

2017-05-19 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 18 May 2017, William sent: > Yesterday evening, a third IT grad student (PhD candidate specializing > in cloud computing) came to help with this problem. After I showed > him the log file and the discussion in this list, we booted, and of > course it failed and dropped us in

Re: OT: Q about Firefox

2017-05-19 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 19 May 2017, JD sent: > Any info how to obtain the PID of FF from FF instance? Something tells me that it'd actually be a bad idea to allow that, security wise. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boile

Re: Lost wired connection

2017-05-19 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 19 May 2017, Rick Stevens sent: > Just why M$ (and Google and others) decided top posting was a good > idea, I have no idea--but there's a lot of M$ crud I disagree with. Oooh, can of worms, here. But I suspect it's the easiest way of keeping prior messages so the recipien

Re: crappy printing

2017-05-19 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/19/2017 03:35 PM, Tim wrote: > You know, I'd just like software to actually do what I set it to. I > have some things to print that I'd like them to print neatly, but they > don't. > > I set margins that are well within the printing area of my printer (it > can print to about 5mm to each ed

crappy printing

2017-05-19 Thread Tim
You know, I'd just like software to actually do what I set it to. I have some things to print that I'd like them to print neatly, but they don't. I set margins that are well within the printing area of my printer (it can print to about 5mm to each edge of the paper, but I give it a good 2cm borde

Re: OT: Q about Firefox

2017-05-19 Thread JD
Any info how to obtain the PID of FF from FF instance? On 05/13/2017 07:43 PM, JD wrote: If you have multiple instances of FF running, each for a different profile, is there a way for each FF instance to be queried about it's PID? These multiple instances of FF for different profiles are each r

Re: Fedora command for motherboard clock condition (from: f24 boot fails; need help).

2017-05-19 Thread stan
On Fri, 19 May 2017 23:22:30 +0930 Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 18 May 2017, stan sent: > > The kernel sets system time from the saved time, and then corrects > > it from the web when net access is up. If it is too far off, it > > won't correct it. > > Hey, what?! > > You can't set a

Re: Lost wired connection

2017-05-19 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/18/2017 05:28 PM, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote: > > > On 17-05-2017 17:49, stan wrote: >> On Wed, 17 May 2017 14:58:23 -0300 >> Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote: >> >>> How to restart the network and NetworkManager services? >> >> Pick one, both can't run. The default service on Fedora is

Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]

2017-05-19 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/18/2017 02:40 PM, William wrote: > Good afternoon, > > Yesterday evening, a third IT grad student (PhD candidate specializing > in cloud computing) came to help with this problem. After I showed him > the log file and the discussion in this list, we booted, and of course > it failed and dro

Re: Fedora command for motherboard clock condition (from: f24 boot fails; need help).

2017-05-19 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 18 May 2017, William sent: > "I didn't know workstations nowadays had batteries. When the system is > back on its feet, I'll try to check that. It was bought in 2013." > > I knew that the older motherboards had batteries. But I thought the > newer ones used something like

Re: Fedora command for motherboard clock condition (from: f24 boot fails; need help).

2017-05-19 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 18 May 2017, stan sent: > The kernel sets system time from the saved time, and then corrects it > from the web when net access is up. If it is too far off, it won't > correct it. Hey, what?! You can't set a clock from a stored value, time is a moving thing, it's (now) not

Re: Fedora command for motherboard clock condition (from: f24 boot fails; need help).

2017-05-19 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 18 May 2017 at 23:25, William wrote: > Fedora seems to have a huge number of commands. Does Fedora have a command > to report the condition of a full-sized tower motherboard battery? If yes, > what is that command? I don't think there's any way to check on the status of a motherboard battery

Re: Lost wired connection

2017-05-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 21:28 -0300, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote: > Obs: Rick Stevens, Sorry for top posting. I was on emergency without TB. > Using only Gmail to get help. For future reference, in Gmail (web version) if you select all or part of the text before hitting Reply, only that text will