Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/14/20 7:52 PM, John Mellor wrote: "home user" asked: > How do I rescue the rescue mode? I think the root cause of the problem is that you have upgraded multiple times, and somewhere along the way (maybe around the F25 timeframe), the management of the rescue image and its grub entry got

Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-14 Thread John Mellor
"home user" asked: > How do I rescue the rescue mode? I think the root cause of the problem is that you have upgraded multiple times, and somewhere along the way (maybe around the F25 timeframe), the management of the rescue image and its grub entry got lost by the release and testing teams, and

Re: OT?? : Xscreensaver: Is it me??

2020-03-14 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 12:08:25AM +0100, sixpack13 wrote: > On 14.03.20 22:30, Beartooth wrote: > > > > On a Lenovo Thinkpad running F31 Mate, fully updated, I'm > >presently running the Binary Ring screensaver. It works fine; this is > >just a question, not a problem. Whenever that screensave

Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/14/20 12:53 PM, home user wrote: I chose the line "Fedora (0-rescue-[32 hex digits]) 30 (Thirty)" That's probably not what you think it is. By default the initrds have a very limited number of drivers, intended to be the minimum required to boot the current hardware. The rescue image h

Re: OT?? : Xscreensaver: Is it me??

2020-03-14 Thread sixpack13
On 14.03.20 22:30, Beartooth wrote: On a Lenovo Thinkpad running F31 Mate, fully updated, I'm presently running the Binary Ring screensaver. It works fine; this is just a question, not a problem. Whenever that screensaver begins to move toward a change, I see or think I see images inside

Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-03-15 03:53, home user wrote: > How do I rescue the rescue mode? Use a live image instead. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to use

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-03-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-03-14 at 17:02 -0400, Ranbir wrote: > On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 17:31 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Has anyone done this successfully on Fedora? There are any number of > > Google hits on similar themes, but mainly focussed on Ubuntu, which > > is > > what Valve are mostly aiming a

OT?? : Xscreensaver: Is it me??

2020-03-14 Thread Beartooth
On a Lenovo Thinkpad running F31 Mate, fully updated, I'm presently running the Binary Ring screensaver. It works fine; this is just a question, not a problem. Whenever that screensaver begins to move toward a change, I see or think I see images inside the ring. Most of them l

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-03-14 Thread Kevin Becker
I installed Steam via flatpak with no issues. On Sat, 2020-03-14 at 17:02 -0400, Ranbir wrote: > On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 17:31 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Has anyone done this successfully on Fedora? There are any number > > ofGoogle hits on similar themes, but mainly focussed on Ubuntu, >

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-03-14 Thread Ranbir
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 17:31 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Has anyone done this successfully on Fedora? There are any number of > Google hits on similar themes, but mainly focussed on Ubuntu, which > is > what Valve are mostly aiming at. I've been running Steam on Fedora for two years now and

Re: GRUB2 removing args "quiet" "rhgb" - grubby doesn't work

2020-03-14 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 11:33:00 -0700 stan via users wrote: > On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 22:23:41 +1100 > Philip Rhoades wrote: >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=UUID=d98a1bbc-fdaf-484c-9dc9-2f5fd062077d" > Are you really trying to resume instead of booting from the installed > system? As far as I know this

rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-14 Thread home user
(stand-alone home workstation; f30; Gnome) Well, as I noted when I closed the "prep. for upgrade." thread, I'm getting hints of hardware trouble.  I thought I'd start by testing memory (memtester).  My understanding is that it's best to do that with as little else as possible running.  So I re

Re: prep. for upgrade.

2020-03-14 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:49:58 -0600 home user wrote: > [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ su - > [root@localhost-live ~]# mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/sysimage > mount: /mnt/sysimage: mount point does not exist. > [root@localhost-live ~]# > > I do not know how to determine what to use as the second argument.

Re: GRUB2 removing args "quiet" "rhgb" - grubby doesn't work

2020-03-14 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 22:23:41 +1100 Philip Rhoades wrote: > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=UUID=d98a1bbc-fdaf-484c-9dc9-2f5fd062077d" Are you really trying to resume instead of booting from the installed system? As Francis already said, you are still booting using legacy grub, so your grub.cfg will

Re: prep. for upgrade. [SOLVED]

2020-03-14 Thread home user
(On 3/13/20 6:59 PM, Samuel wrote) > In general, it's better to use "sudo -i" instead. > "su" requires you to know the root password which > is usually not even set. "sudo" uses your user password. > > sudo -i > mount /dev/sda6 /mnt > chroot /mnt > journalctl > less /var/log/dnf almost... [liveus

Re: GRUB2 removing args "quiet" "rhgb" - grubby doesn't work

2020-03-14 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 22:23:41 +1100 Philip Rhoades wrote: > # cat /etc/default/grub ... > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=UUID=d98a1bbc-fdaf-484c-9dc9-2f5fd062077d" ... > GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true With this, grub2-mkconfig will generate in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg (your previous trace shows that your ma

Re: GRUB2 removing args "quiet" "rhgb" - grubby doesn't work

2020-03-14 Thread Philip Rhoades
sixpack13, Tom, On 2020-03-14 10:48, sixpack13 wrote: On 13.03.20 22:59, Philip Rhoades wrote: ... [ -d /sys/firmware/efi/efivars ] && sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg || sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg ... Did that but I still don't get the verbose boot .