Re: Identifying what is accessing a USB device.

2021-03-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 27/03/2021 20:18, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: but it's a real kludge Previously you had said that getting all of this to work was a "hobby".  Not nice to call the output of your hobby a "kludge".  :-) :-) But, you do have to admit that you're putting things together to do something that pr

Re: What sets QT_IM_MODULE in F33?

2021-03-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 28/03/2021 06:47, Roger Heflin wrote: I would check in the files in /etc/profile.d that is where most applications put their default settings. grep has a recursive option, but be careful with it as it will follow symbolic links and if done anyplace with recursive symbolic links (/proc, /sys,

Re: Identifying what is accessing a USB device.

2021-03-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 11:29 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > > > You probably should send the power down and wait a few seconds > > > before > > > starting the loop.    It would seem to be pretty likely that if > > > in > > > the > > > middle of the spin-down *ANY* command that is received causes it >

Re: What sets QT_IM_MODULE in F33?

2021-03-27 Thread Roger Heflin
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 4:40 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 28/03/2021 02:03, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via users wrote: > > On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 07:19 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 26/03/2021 16:55, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via users wrote: > >>> Using Fedora 33 with MATE desktop... > >>> > >>> I'm w

Re: wi-fi connection question

2021-03-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/27/21 1:05 PM, David wrote: So any suggestions about updating with a weak wi-fi signal.    Should I just update one package at a time ? There's no risk here. It won't do the update until all packages are downloaded. And they are cached, so if the download is interrupted, the next time

Re: What sets QT_IM_MODULE in F33?

2021-03-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 28/03/2021 02:03, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via users wrote: On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 07:19 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 26/03/2021 16:55, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via users wrote: Using Fedora 33 with MATE desktop... I'm working with the developer of a very handy RPN calculator app called rpCalc t

Re: wi-fi connection question

2021-03-27 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 at 17:06, David wrote: > I fixed my problem, as far as I can tell. > > When I first clicked on the list of wi-fi sources, it only listed the name > of the "motel" but on my > iPhone, their network service listed two motel wi-fi's, one for the > guest.For some reason, w

Re: wi-fi connection question

2021-03-27 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 03:05:53PM -0500, David wrote: > I seldom update with wi-fi.I always wait until I can find an ethernet > connection. > > So any suggestions about updating with a weak wi-fi signal.Should I > just update one package at a time ? I would just use "dnf offline-upgrade"

Re: wi-fi connection question

2021-03-27 Thread David
I fixed my problem, as far as I can tell. When I first clicked on the list of wi-fi sources, it only listed the name of the "motel" but on my iPhone, their network service listed two motel wi-fi's, one for the guest.For some reason, when I tinkered with some things, NetworkManager listed b

Re: wi-fi connection question

2021-03-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 28/03/2021 03:27, Ed Greshko wrote: On 28/03/2021 02:52, David wrote: I am thinking about getting a bigger antenna to put on the wi-fi. However, my iPhone, has no problem connecting to the motel's wi-fi. If your phone has no problem to connect to the wifi, and it is stable, then why n

Re: wi-fi connection question

2021-03-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 3/27/21 12:52 PM, David wrote: I am too scared to update, since I have a poor hot-spot signal. Go to a library, visitor's center or other public place with good WiFi and try there. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: wi-fi connection question

2021-03-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 28/03/2021 02:52, David wrote: I am thinking about getting a bigger antenna to put on the wi-fi. However, my iPhone, has no problem connecting to the motel's wi-fi. If your phone has no problem to connect to the wifi, and it is stable, then why not try configuring your phone as a wifi

Re: wi-fi connection question

2021-03-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/27/21 11:52 AM, David wrote: NetworkManager finds the motel wi-fi and several others ( including the hot-spot on my very crappy iPhone / cheap cell-provider ). But NetworkManager will not connect to the motel's wi-fi.  It will connect to the hot-spot on my iPhone, ( which I am usin

Re: wi-fi connection question

2021-03-27 Thread Dave Stevens
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 13:52:57 -0500 David wrote: > My wi-fi adapter on my Gigabyte motherboard: > >Device-3: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi > > I am staying in a very crappy motel, so the wi-fi is lousy. > > I am using my Rawhide Gnome 40 install, on primary NVMe. > > NetworkManag

wi-fi connection question

2021-03-27 Thread David
My wi-fi adapter on my Gigabyte motherboard: Device-3: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi I am staying in a very crappy motel, so the wi-fi is lousy. I am using my Rawhide Gnome 40 install, on primary NVMe. NetworkManager finds the motel wi-fi and several others ( including the hot-spot

Re: What sets QT_IM_MODULE in F33?

2021-03-27 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via users
On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 07:19 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 26/03/2021 16:55, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via users wrote: > > Using Fedora 33 with MATE desktop... > > > > I'm working with the developer of a very handy RPN calculator app > > called rpCalc to figure out why it doesn't work for my regular

Re: Can't mount XFS filesystems on Fedora 33

2021-03-27 Thread Roger Heflin
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 6:50 AM Shawn Badger wrote: > > I see what happened now. I had moved my /boot to a new partition but didn't > purge the old partition. It turns out that even though it wasn't mounting the > old partition grub is still pointing to it for the kernels and since the > 5.10.2

Re: Identifying what is accessing a USB device.

2021-03-27 Thread Roger Heflin
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 9:35 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 07:59 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > > Wireshark won't help as it won't tell you what process is doing. And > > decoding the commands will be very difficult. > > Yes, that's what I thought. > > > You probably shoul

Re: Identifying what is accessing a USB device.

2021-03-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 07:59 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > Wireshark won't help as it won't tell you what process is doing.  And > decoding the commands will be very difficult. Yes, that's what I thought. > You probably should send the power down and wait a few seconds before > starting the loop.  

Re: Identifying what is accessing a USB device.

2021-03-27 Thread Roger Heflin
Wireshark won't help as it won't tell you what process is doing. And decoding the commands will be very difficult. You probably should send the power down and wait a few seconds before starting the loop.It would seem to be pretty likely that if in the middle of the spin-down *ANY* command tha

Re: Confirming a command for switching kernels

2021-03-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Francisco Tissera writes: Hello everyone, Because of some wi-fi problems I'm having with the latest 5.12 rc4 kernel in rawhide, I'd like to switch back to 5.12 rc3, because I recall that wi-fi worked. The command, credits to Ed, I tried, was sudo grub2-editenv - set "saved_entry=133a2

Re: Identifying what is accessing a USB device.

2021-03-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 21:46 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 5:21 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > > I have an external USB-3 2-disk docking station, and a script which > > can > > power up and down the drives as needed. > > > > I have a systemd automount unit that corre

Re: Identifying what is accessing a USB device.

2021-03-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 23:36 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: > > > Subject: Identifying what is accessing a USB device. > > > I have an external USB-3 2-disk docking station, and a script which > > can > > power up and down the drives as needed. > > > > I have a systemd automount unit that correctly

Re: Identifying what is accessing a USB device.

2021-03-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 09:50 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 27/03/2021 07:20, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > This never happens if I run the script directly from the command > > line > > (i.e. the drives power down and stay down). > > > > Clearly the docking unit isn't just doing this flakily on its

Re: Can't mount XFS filesystems on Fedora 33

2021-03-27 Thread Shawn Badger
I see what happened now. I had moved my /boot to a new partition but didn't purge the old partition. It turns out that even though it wasn't mounting the old partition grub is still pointing to it for the kernels and since the 5.10.22 is the latest kernel on that partition it is the one it is loadi

Re: Confirming a command for switching kernels

2021-03-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 27/03/2021 18:35, Francisco Tissera wrote: Because of some wi-fi problems I'm having with the latest 5.12 rc4 kernel in rawhide, I'd like to switch back to 5.12 rc3, because I recall that wi-fi  worked. The command, credits to Ed, I tried, was sudo grub2-editenv - set "saved_entry=133a2487

Re: Hooks for automount

2021-03-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 07:36 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 27/03/2021 07:24, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Just a quick comment: I think the x-systemd.mount-timeout entry in > > aux.mount should be x-systemd.idle-timeout, at least according to > > the > > systemd.mount man page. > > Actually, it s

Re: Can't mount XFS filesystems on Fedora 33

2021-03-27 Thread Shawn Badger
Looking into the kernel deeper it appears that for some reason tit is trying to load modules from the 5.10 kernel instead of the 5.11 kernels that are installed. I also just realized that it reports that I am still running a 5.10 kernel even though I don't even have one installed. Wow, I must have

Confirming a command for switching kernels

2021-03-27 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello everyone, Because of some wi-fi problems I'm having with the latest 5.12 rc4 kernel in rawhide, I'd like to switch back to 5.12 rc3, because I recall that wi-fi worked. The command, credits to Ed, I tried, was sudo grub2-editenv - set "saved_entry=133a2487cda040dbbe9609f0ab827def-5.1

Re: Can't mount XFS filesystems on Fedora 33

2021-03-27 Thread Shawn Badger
[root@images backups]# uname -r 5.10.22-200.fc33.x86_64 [root@images backups]# lsmod | grep xfs [root@images backups]# modprobe xfs modprobe: FATAL: Module xfs not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.22-200.fc33.x86_64 [root@images backups]# On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:39 PM Chris Murphy wrote:

Re: Can't mount XFS filesystems on Fedora 33

2021-03-27 Thread Shawn Badger
[root@images backups]# lsblk -f /dev/sdc NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT sdc └─sdc1 xfsc2619e30-3bea-4e1d-a7a1-2e72e37a96b2 On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 8:36 AM Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 3/25/21 10:52 PM, Shawn Badger wrote: >