On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 17:52 -0600, home user wrote:
> Fortunately (I hope!), I did back up my ".thunderbird" directory
> before doing the upgrade. I seriously need my e-mail filters and my
> calendar (lightning?) data. How do I restore those?
You really need to be sure that Thunderbird has fully
On 10/10/19 4:12 AM, wwp wrote:
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 21:08:47 -0400 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr."
wrote:
Been noticing the same thing on my F30 system as wellI don't think its
FedoraI think its Mozilla's Firefox, this behavior also has hit my OpenSuSE
and my CEntOS laptopssomething is e
On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 11:33 -0600, Bill wrote:
> bash.12[~]: df -hP
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> devtmpfs7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
> tmpfs 7.9G 62M 7.8G 1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs 7.9G 1.7M 7.9G 1% /run
> tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /
> if your hope came full true: remove the new ~/.thunderbird
> and restore your backup-ed .thunderbird save it before removing !
I tried it. It did not work.
But thank-you for the suggestion.
Bill.
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No one on the list apart from you can tell if your hope comes true...
;-)
did they ?
I hope so, but as always: no backup more "fun" !
at least it will burn in FOR EVER to always take backups BEFORE doing any task
which could touch important user data.
if your hope came full true:
remove the n
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 14:57:20 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:
> So where is this "helpful" cache that has the old
> IP stashed?
Aargh! It is apparently coming from NIS. I *always* remove
the nsswitch.conf entries for nis for everything except
user/group (which is the only reliable information
the NIS ser
The upgrade to Fedora-30 is done. This included upgrading Thunderbird
to version 68.1. Unfortunately, this also lost all preferences,
calendar data, set-up, filters, etc.
Fortunately (I hope!), I did back up my ".thunderbird" directory before
doing the upgrade. I seriously need my e-mail fi
ok, it's done. A couple issues remain. I'll launch a separate thread
for one (Thunderbird issues). The other...
==
-bash.3[~]: dnf list extras
Last metadata expiration check: 1:44:37 ago on Thu 10 Oct 2019 03:53:44
PM MDT.
Extra Packages
beignet.x86_64 1.3.2-5.fc29 @fed
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 12:53, Tim via users
wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 07:03 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > SSDs haven't been around long enough, I feel, for their claimed
> > longevity to be proven.
>
I used to work at an oceanographic institute, so many systems got
used at sea (in the N
We shuffled some systems around at work. An NFS server now has
a new IP address. On my fedora 30 desktop I see:
nslookup shows the new IP address
host shows the new IP address
ping still pings the OLD address!!!
mount /mountpoint apparent still uses the old IP because it times out.
I'm not run
(sigh) I was too fast?
bash.31[~]: dnf system-upgrade reboot
Error: system is not ready for upgrade
bash.32[~]: cd
bash.33[~]: dnf system-upgrade reboot
Error: system is not ready for upgrade
bash.34[~]:
I see I missed a post from Samuel while off-line.
I re-tried the download; here's the end
I'm going to try what Samuel suggested and Terry agreed I should try:
> But here is what I've done in this situtation. If you have enough
space on /home,
> then run:
> mv /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade /home
> and
> ln -s /home/system-upgrade /var/lib/dnf
Roger's and Joe's suggestions look like goo
On 10/10/19 10:53 AM, home user wrote:
(replying to both of Samuel's posts)
> Your / is pretty full.
Is that all from the dnf downloading of f-30, or is there something
(prior upgrades? prior patching?) that I can clear out to make room? it
helps here's an overview of '/':
On 10/10/2019 12:01 PM, Roger Heflin wrote:
I have machinesthat / is only 20G and I have been able to upgrade
them. So you should probably figure out what is using the space.
Another thing that might help is to install Bleachbit and run it as root
so that you can clean all of the cruft out o
if you are using firefox I have noticed recently (maybe last 2 months)
it has started using excessive memory. And it seems to get quite
large and start paging.
Mine is doing it on some websites in no more than a few days, it is
getting annoying. I have seen a single firefox process >10G, and on
I have machinesthat / is only 20G and I have been able to upgrade
them. So you should probably figure out what is using the space.
cd / and run this:
du -sh * | grep G
and ignore anything that is a separate mount. Once you find a
largish directory then cd into it and repeat the above command.
(replying to both of Samuel's posts)
> Your / is pretty full.
Is that all from the dnf downloading of f-30, or is there something
(prior upgrades? prior patching?) that I can clear out to make room?
it helps here's an overview of '/':
=
bash.19[/]: ls -la
total 85
dr
Agreed / filesystem is very small.
I usually make /usr its own filesystem too sometimes /var as well
It was suggested to use a ln -s command to use space in /home to store the
rpms, this is your best option
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 1:38 PM Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 10/10/19 10:33 AM, home user wr
On 10/10/19 10:33 AM, home user wrote:
(Terry asked)
> Is home mounted on its own device/filesystem? Provide output of df -hP
I don't think so.
This a dual-boot workstation (Fedora and windows-7) with one hard drive
and no other storage.
>Provide output of df -hP
bash.12[~]: df -hP
Filesyste
(Terry asked)
> Is home mounted on its own device/filesystem? Provide output of df -hP
I don't think so.
This a dual-boot workstation (Fedora and windows-7) with one hard drive
and no other storage.
>Provide output of df -hP
bash.12[~]: df -hP
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
de
On 10/10/19 5:14 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
George N. White III writes:
In general, multiple CPU's only make sense if you need more cores than
you
can get (or afford) on one CPU. The exception might be cases like
compiles
where there are lots of independent processes and you benefit from do
On 10/10/19 4:03 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Samuel Sieb writes:
I'm not understanding what you mean here. What's wrong with several
decades?
I've got HDDs that are already that old. They still work fine. They'll
probably work fine for just as long.
SSDs haven't been around long enough, I f
On 10/10/19 10:13 AM, home user wrote:
Error Summary
-
Disk Requirements:
At least 1274MB more space needed on the / filesystem.
bash.6[~]:
How do I safely get the needed filespace?
Am I correct in assuming that deleting files from
/home/[whatever]
would not
Is home mounted on its own device/filesystem?
Provide output of df -hP
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 1:14 PM home user wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade from Fedora-29 to Fedora-30. Everything seems to
> have downloaded fine. The transaction check succeeded. But then I get
> this:
>
I'm trying to upgrade from Fedora-29 to Fedora-30. Everything seems to
have downloaded fine. The transaction check succeeded. But then I get
this:
Running transaction test
The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful
transaction.
You can remove
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 08:14:35AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I understand all of these factors. I'm looking for some links to
> vendors that delivered something that Fedora ran on, without issues.
> Google is not cooperating.
I got a desktop system from Zareason configured with Fedora pre-in
On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 07:03 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> SSDs haven't been around long enough, I feel, for their claimed
> longevity to be proven.
While that is true, it is hard to predict future performance of a new
product.
> And no matter what it is, SSDs have a ticking clock, counting down
On 10/10/19 11:53 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
I just can't get used to the concept on an expiration date on my storage. I've
got rust here that's been spinning for a decade,
FWIW, I have several systems using SSD only. The maker being Crucial. I was
not an early adopter.
I looked at the "wo
On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 9:09 PM Sam Varshavchik
wrote:
> My C++ compiles are getting longer. It's time to get new hardware, but
> I'm
> having some difficulty finding Fedora-friendly hardware, that's slightly
> above average grade, such as dual CPU and spinning rust (I haven't gotten
> quite aboar
George N. White III writes:
In general, multiple CPU's only make sense if you need more cores than you
can get (or afford) on one CPU. The exception might be cases like compiles
where there are lots of independent processes and you benefit from double
the cache, but you can also get CPU mode
On 10/10/19 6:54 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Ed Greshko writes:
On 10/10/19 11:53 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
And Nvidia's proprietary driver is another thing I'd rather not deal with. it
seems that most vendors ship new Nvidia chipsets that x.org lists as not
supported.
May I ask where that
Hello Eddie,
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 21:08:47 -0400 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr."
wrote:
> Been noticing the same thing on my F30 system as wellI don't think its
> FedoraI think its Mozilla's Firefox, this behavior also has hit my
> OpenSuSE and my CEntOS laptopssomething is eating up the R
Hi,
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 23:52:28 -0400 "Eddie O'Connor" wrote:
> So, after upgrading the RAM in my Lenovo ThinkPad T-420 I thought I'd get
> faster performance. But even with two 8GB sticks?it's running even
> SLOWER?! Is there something I've done wrong? It's got a 320GB 7200RPM hard
> drive.
Samuel Sieb writes:
On 10/9/19 8:53 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
I just can't get used to the concept on an expiration date on my storage.
I've got rust here that's been spinning for a decade, and I've been banging
away it, constantly. Hard. I'm told that even under constant use modern SSDs
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 00:53, Eddie O'Connor wrote:
> So, after upgrading the RAM in my Lenovo ThinkPad T-420 I thought I'd get
> faster performance. But even with two 8GB sticks?it's running even
> SLOWER?! Is there something I've done wrong? It's got a 320GB 7200RPM hard
> driveand it's
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 23:09, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> My C++ compiles are getting longer. It's time to get new hardware, but
> I'm
> having some difficulty finding Fedora-friendly hardware, that's slightly
> above average grade, such as dual CPU and spinning rust (I haven't gotten
> quite aboard
Ed Greshko writes:
On 10/10/19 11:53 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
And Nvidia's proprietary driver is another thing I'd rather not deal with.
it seems that most vendors ship new Nvidia chipsets that x.org lists as not
supported.
May I ask where that list is located?
https://nouveau.freedesk
On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 23:52 -0400, Eddie O'Connor wrote:
> So, after upgrading the RAM in my Lenovo ThinkPad T-420 I thought I'd
> get faster performance. But even with two 8GB sticks?it's running
> even SLOWER?! Is there something I've done wrong? It's got a 320GB
> 7200RPM hard driveand i
On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 23:53 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I just can't get used to the concept on an expiration date on my
> storage. I've got rust here that's been spinning for a decade, and
> I've been banging away it, constantly. Hard. I'm told that even under
> constant use modern SSDs are r
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