Re: WiFi reconnecting periodically after upgrade to F35

2021-11-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/18/21 19:05, Scott Talbert wrote: After upgrading my machine from F34 to F35, my WiFi interface has started periodically losing connection to my AP: [359558.259581] wlp2s0: disconnect from AP 74:83:c2:03:5e:61 for new auth to 7a:83:c2:04:5e:61 [359558.295289] wlp2s0: authenticate with 7a

WiFi reconnecting periodically after upgrade to F35

2021-11-18 Thread Scott Talbert
Hey all, After upgrading my machine from F34 to F35, my WiFi interface has started periodically losing connection to my AP: [359558.259581] wlp2s0: disconnect from AP 74:83:c2:03:5e:61 for new auth to 7a:83:c2:04:5e:61 [359558.295289] wlp2s0: authenticate with 7a:83:c2:04:5e:61 [359558.303728]

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-18 Thread linux guy
Your comment spurred me to use a 256GB USB flash drive instead of the WD spinning drive. 256 GB is large enough to do a couple system installs and multi boot them as well as a bit of data backup.If I need more data backup than 256 GB provides, I can mount a spinning drive or even a network dri

Re: Ejecting USB drive causing system reboot

2021-11-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/18/21 2:29 PM, Neal Becker wrote: For a while now I've found on KDE that ejecting usb drive crashes plasma, which then restarts itself. If you haven't already, you should report this as a bug. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-18 Thread linux guy
Thank you, Tom. This is exactly why I ask the group questions like this. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-18 Thread Tom Horsley
I've done a "normal" install of fedora on a 64GB USB 3 sandisk stick and it worked fine, so I imagine a bigger drive would work also (but I can carry around the stick on my keychain :-). I set the mount options to include noatime so it wouldn't do so much I/O to the usb stick, but that wasn't neces

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-18 Thread linux guy
I'm thinking of using a Western Digital 2TB USB3.2 with a Type A connector. I assume that I can partition and format it to work as a bootable OS ? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.f

Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-18 Thread linux guy
>From time to time I need to do maintenance on Linux computers that involves booting an OS other than the one installed on the machine. Currently I have 2 computers that need such attention. In the past I've used Live bootable USB drives. They have a number of limitations including: - they use

Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

2021-11-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
linux guy writes: « HTML content follows » Sorry, I've been using Redhat/Fedora for 20 years.  Never once lost data like this.  This is bad programming, period ! I partially agree. I've been updating since Fedora Core 4, and I never needed to make a backup of anything. I think this goes

Re: Ejecting USB drive causing system reboot

2021-11-18 Thread Neal Becker
For a while now I've found on KDE that ejecting usb drive crashes plasma, which then restarts itself. On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 9:59 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > > I have a 125GB NVMe drive in a USB 3.0 enclosure that I was trying to > repartition using the Gnome Disks app. > > It failed miserably onl

Re: Hints, tips and advice on restoring data deleted (rm -rf !) from a Fedora 35 LVM ?

2021-11-18 Thread Frank
On 2021-11-18 3:43 p.m., linux guy wrote: As you can read about in another thread, the home directories on one of my Fedora 35 computers were deleted using rm -rf.   These directories are located on an EXT4 LVM. How should I proceed to try to restore this data ? Thanks You could try some o

Hints, tips and advice on restoring data deleted (rm -rf !) from a Fedora 35 LVM ?

2021-11-18 Thread linux guy
As you can read about in another thread, the home directories on one of my Fedora 35 computers were deleted using rm -rf. These directories are located on an EXT4 LVM. How should I proceed to try to restore this data ? Thanks ___ users mailing list --

Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

2021-11-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 10:05 -0700, linux guy wrote: > > > Except that this is a very different case.  You're not telling > > > dnf where > > > it can create its own directory.  You are saying "this is your > > > directory, use it". > > > > Yes, use it.  But don't destroy data in it that the app d

Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

2021-11-18 Thread linux guy
> > Except that this is a very different case. You're not telling dnf where > > it can create its own directory. You are saying "this is your > > directory, use it". > Yes, use it. But don't destroy data in it that the app didn't create ! rm -rf ? Really ? That is a lot strong handed. Yes, y

Re: Packagekit background updates

2021-11-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 04:57 +, Reon Beon via users wrote: > I wish it would automatically do it on reboot/shutdown. Do what? Remember that HyperKitty doesn't quote anything by default and most people here are seeing your post in their mail reader. poc _

Re: F35: Default audio output device

2021-11-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Gordon Messmer writes: On 11/16/21 15:27, Sam Varshavchik wrote: So, anyone knows how to set the permanent default output device? A search for "pipewire set persistent default" brings up a few discussions suggesting that pipewire *should* save the default across sessions, but that was br

Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

2021-11-18 Thread Andras Simon
2021-11-18 11:25 UTC+01:00, Samuel Sieb : > On 11/18/21 02:21, Andras Simon wrote: >> 2021-11-18 5:08 UTC+01:00, Ed Greshko : >>> On 18/11/2021 11:39, linux guy wrote: "And the "rm" man page also does not warn what would happen if one enters "rm -rf /home"." Sorry, not the

Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

2021-11-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/18/21 02:21, Andras Simon wrote: 2021-11-18 5:08 UTC+01:00, Ed Greshko : On 18/11/2021 11:39, linux guy wrote: "And the "rm" man page also does not warn what would happen if one enters "rm -rf /home"." Sorry, not the same context. Giving an app a directory to use does not allow the app

Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

2021-11-18 Thread Andras Simon
2021-11-18 5:08 UTC+01:00, Ed Greshko : > On 18/11/2021 11:39, linux guy wrote: >> "And the "rm" man page also does not warn what would happen if one enters >> "rm -rf /home"." >> >> Sorry, not the same context. Giving an app a directory to use does not >> allow the app to delete data it didn't c

Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

2021-11-18 Thread Marcel J.E. Mol
It is also a bit risky to to just give your whole /home to a application when it probably contains lots uf subdirectories with valuable data. I would have created a /home/dnf supbir and use that as downloaddir. Cheers, Marcel On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 08:53:43AM +, Andy Paterson via users wrot

Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

2021-11-18 Thread Andy Paterson via users
This is why my /home has its own dedicated 2 disk md mirror The disks are physically powered off before i do a dnf upgrade of my system disk I then fix fstab to mount my /home as the very last stage!!! > On 18 Nov 2021, at 04:39, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 11/17/21 9:20 PM, linux guy wrote: >> Sor