Maybe the cable is bad?

2020-08-14 Thread Tom Horsley
I was getting an infinite number of "Maybe the cable is bad" errors in dmesg about a usb port. It insisted on referring to "usb2-port5" when everything else in linux talks about things like :00:14.0 or lsusb says things like Bus 001 Device 004. Is there some reference somewhere on the interne

Re: Looking for help to install python kivy

2020-08-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14Aug2020 14:37, Paul Smith wrote: >According to the discussion whose address I gave you, the latest >official version of Kivy cannot be installed on Python 3.8. Aye, I saw that, and that they won't release a fix-release. Hopefully it'll be good with 3.9 soon after that comes out. Cheers, Ca

Re: Fedora rescue

2020-08-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-08-15 06:15, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > But what if the problem was with the root? LiveCD has that one mounted > and in use. Yes, but that one isn't your system's root.  It is the squashfs located on the LiveCD. So, if you are using stand-alone partitions you can fsck as you normally do u

Re: Fedora rescue

2020-08-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 15:15:39 -0700 Geoffrey Leach wrote: > But what if the problem was with the root? LiveCD has that one mounted > and in use. I don't see any root mounted when I boot a live cd image. I suppose it mounts it when you are installing, but if you are just running the live image, yo

Fedora rescue

2020-08-14 Thread Geoffrey Leach
Recently I needed to fsck my /home partition to get the kernel to boot. No problem, as I was unable to boot from the LiveCD and umount the partition. But what if the problem was with the root? LiveCD has that one mounted and in use. In days gone by, there was a rescue mode on the Fedora install

Re: Mouse middle - button not working

2020-08-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:23 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > I would like to enable the mouse middle-button to paste what is > > selected. It worked fine before, but not now. I do not know whether > > the cause is that the mouse is a different one or some configuration > > is missing. > >

Re: Mouse middle - button not working

2020-08-14 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-08-14 06:56, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, I would like to enable the mouse middle-button to paste what is selected. It worked fine before, but not now. I do not know whether the cause is that the mouse is a different one or some configuration is missing. Thanks in advance, Paulo I ado

Re: Mouse middle - button not working

2020-08-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/14/20 1:53 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 8:39 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: I would like to enable the mouse middle-button to paste what is selected. It worked fine before, but not now. I do not know whether the cause is that the mouse is a different one or some configuration is

Re: Mouse middle - button not working

2020-08-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 8:39 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > I would like to enable the mouse middle-button to paste what is > > selected. It worked fine before, but not now. I do not know whether > > the cause is that the mouse is a different one or some configuration > > is missing. > > If you're us

Re: Mouse middle - button not working

2020-08-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/14/20 6:56 AM, Paul Smith wrote: I would like to enable the mouse middle-button to paste what is selected. It worked fine before, but not now. I do not know whether the cause is that the mouse is a different one or some configuration is missing. If you're using Gnome, then in the mouse set

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 12:30, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Can someone tell me how to make this work? > > [root@WS1 bobg]# livecd-iso-to-disk > /home/bobg/Downloads/Win10_1909_English_x64.iso /run/media/bobg/4C60-B824 > A previous thread recommended WoeUSB: $ dnf info woeusb Last metadata expiration ch

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-08-14 12:51, Michael Hennebry wrote: I do not know why you expected this to be useful. You've told dd to overwrite a directory. I'm not even sure one can get a mere 4 GiB thumbdrive anymore. I think the error is actually a file size limit. ° Well you are right I am definitely doing so

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:34:29PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > So now I did: > > [root@WS1 bobg]# dd if=/home/bobg/Downloads/Win10_1909_English_x64.iso > of=/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824  bs=4M > dd: error writing '/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824': No space left on device > 978+0 records in > 977+0 records

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Bob Goodwin wrote: So now I did: [root@WS1 bobg]# dd if=/home/bobg/Downloads/Win10_1909_English_x64.iso of=/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824  bs=4M dd: error writing '/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824': No space left on device I do not know why you expected this to be useful. You've to

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-08-14 12:04, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-08-14 11:39, Jonathan Billings wrote: Also, livecd-iso-to-disk is for putting a livecd image on a flash drive.  As far as I know, Windows 10 isn't a Linux liveCD.  I imagine it will fail the attempt at a checksum. ° Ok, that makes it the wrong

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-08-14 11:39, Jonathan Billings wrote: Also, livecd-iso-to-disk is for putting a livecd image on a flash drive. As far as I know, Windows 10 isn't a Linux liveCD. I imagine it will fail the attempt at a checksum. ° Ok, that makes it the wrong command to use then, the block device pro

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 11:30:24AM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > Can someone tell me how to make this work? > > [root@WS1 bobg]# livecd-iso-to-disk > /home/bobg/Downloads/Win10_1909_English_x64.iso /run/media/bobg/4C60-B824 > > ERROR:  '/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824' is not a block device > > I foun

not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
Can someone tell me how to make this work? [root@WS1 bobg]# livecd-iso-to-disk /home/bobg/Downloads/Win10_1909_English_x64.iso /run/media/bobg/4C60-B824 ERROR:  '/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824' is not a block device I found this in my notes, apparently Sam Sieb suggested it as a method of writing

Mouse middle - button not working

2020-08-14 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I would like to enable the mouse middle-button to paste what is selected. It worked fine before, but not now. I do not know whether the cause is that the mouse is a different one or some configuration is missing. Thanks in advance, Paulo ___

Re: Looking for help to install python kivy

2020-08-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 5:18 AM Cameron Simpson wrote: > > >Thanks again, Cameron. After having installed the missing devel rpms, > >as suggested by you, I still ran into pip errors. > > It isn't an exhaustive list. You may have needed to iterate further for > other missing things. > > >But, final

Re: gedit shortcut keys - did you know?

2020-08-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-08-14 at 20:58 +1200, Seth Kenlon wrote: > Somewhat related, this is how I do emoji on Fedora and RHEL: > > https://opensource.com/article/19/10/how-type-emoji-linux That appears to be for Gnome only. poc ___ users mailing list -- users@li

Re: DNF Update this morning -

2020-08-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-08-14 at 00:34 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 8/13/20 8:50 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > > From: Bob Goodwin > > > Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:43:38 -0400 > > > Error: SQLite error on "/var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite": Reading a row > > > failed: database disk image is malformed > > >

Re: gedit shortcut keys - did you know?

2020-08-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-08-14 16:58, Seth Kenlon wrote: > Somewhat related, this is how I do emoji on Fedora and RHEL: > > https://opensource.com/article/19/10/how-type-emoji-linux > > (I think this is the Unicode panel jtagcat mentioned.) Or, you could use "emoji-picker".  -- The key to getting good answers is

Re: gedit shortcut keys - did you know?

2020-08-14 Thread Seth Kenlon
Somewhat related, this is how I do emoji on Fedora and RHEL: https://opensource.com/article/19/10/how-type-emoji-linux (I think this is the Unicode panel jtagcat mentioned.) On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 8:20 AM jtagcat via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > The same combination works in

Re: Python2 package build

2020-08-14 Thread Jon Ingason
Den 2020-08-13 kl. 20:09, skrev Felix Schwarz: > > Am 13.08.20 um 19:19 schrieb Jon Ingason: >> Python 2 did reach end of life (EOL) on January 1st, 2020. And if you do >> "dnf info python2" in F32 you will get something like: >> >> Error: No matching package > > While your comment about Python

Re: DNF Update this morning -

2020-08-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/13/20 8:50 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: Bob Goodwin | Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:43:38 -0400 | Error: SQLite error on "/var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite": Reading a row failed: database disk image is malformed I too got this SQLite error. I was able to fix it simply: just sudo

Re: Any subs for Libreoffice?

2020-08-14 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-08-12 22:48, Todd Chester wrote: On 2020-08-12 16:16, Doug McGarrett wrote: Please tell me the difference between Free Office and SoftMaker Standard. std is version 2021 Free is version 2018 SoftMaker: Disaster! It will only save back in M$O or it own format. It will not save