Re: conflicts will not let me install DeVeDe and ffmpepg

2024-12-18 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/17/24 8:15 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Did you try what it suggests? Add "--allowerasing" to the dnf command. I have now and it seems to have done the job. I hadn't before because it seemed like a

Re: conflicts will not let me install DeVeDe and ffmpepg

2024-12-18 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/17/24 8:15 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Did you try what it suggests? Add "--allowerasing" to the dnf command. I have now and it seems to have done the job. I hadn't before because it seemed like a generic suggestion, like turn it off and on or

Re: Config to turn off Firefox advertising features

2024-12-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/18/2024 02:13 PM, Dave Close wrote: Don Marti wrote: The current two preferences that it sets to false are: dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored I tried that in a new tab, with a page up with several ads. I already had the first

Re: Maintainers for This List

2024-12-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Kevin Fenzi writes: But note, you are using gmail... and gmail tries very very hard to never ever let you see an email you sent yourself. That's an artifact of gmail's automatic de-duping. If someone sends mail to a list you're on, CC-ed to you, you're only going to see whichever copy won

Re: Config to turn off Firefox advertising features

2024-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2024-12-18 at 10:23 -0800, Don Marti wrote: > The advantage of setting these in /etc/firefox/policies/policies.json > is that they automatically take effect for all new users and profiles Until such time that they change the names of the variables... Any time programmers do annoying anti-

Re: F40 to F41 upgrade

2024-12-18 Thread Dave Close
Barry wrote: >Check the system-upgrade log for clues about why this happened. >I do not recall the same issue being reported in discuss fedora. I don't have any file with a name like *system-upgrade*. However, /var/log/dnf.log shows that the three packages I mentioned previously, libreoffice, fir

Re: Brasero: Impossible to link plugin pads

2024-12-18 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 9:29 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > Brasero: Impossible to link plugin pads > What does that mean? > I get it when I start brasero from the desktop > and try to creat a video DVD from a single video file. > Braserro hasn't had a release sinc

Re: F40 to F41 upgrade

2024-12-18 Thread Barry
> On 18 Dec 2024, at 21:24, Dave Close wrote: > > All the missing ones have now been added back manually and things > seem to be working properly. But I'm holding my breath. Check the system-upgrade log for clues about why this happened. I do not recall the same issue being reported in discuss

Re: Maintainers for This List

2024-12-18 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 09:15:26AM +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, >     A while ago I sent a message to the list maintainers around my replies > to mails on this list not getting echoed back to me via the list. I didn't > get a response to my mail but the issue changed in that after sending the

Re: Tracer Output

2024-12-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 09:09 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > > Then anecdotally, I've just updated a system, restarted a service tracer > > > has identified (as you have), tracer still tells me that it needs > > > restarting because the calculated delta hasn't changed, despite the > > > service >

Maintainers for This List

2024-12-18 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     A while ago I sent a message to the list maintainers around my replies to mails on this list not getting echoed back to me via the list. I didn't get a response to my mail but the issue changed in that after sending the mail I started seeing replies being echoed back without having to

Re: Tracer Output

2024-12-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/12/24 10:29, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2024-12-17 at 22:47 +, Will McDonald wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 22:20, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, How does Tracer decide on what messages to display and what instructions to provide. For example, what does it look at to produce t

F40 to F41 upgrade

2024-12-18 Thread Dave Close
I have eight machines all running Fedora (two virtual). I successfully upgraded seven of them over a few weeks, patiently waiting to see what issues might appear. The last one to be upgraded is my primary desktop. All upgrades were done with "dnf system-upgrade" and all appeared to have been upgrad

Re: Config to turn off Firefox advertising features

2024-12-18 Thread Dave Close
Don Marti wrote: >The current two preferences that it sets to false are: > > dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled > browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored Thanks, Don. I'm adding these to my list of configuration variables to disable. I'd gone away from Firefox for a while, seeking

Re: Config to turn off Firefox advertising features

2024-12-18 Thread Don Marti
begin Bob Marčan via users quotation of Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 03:53:07PM +: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 07:14:12 -0800 > "Don Marti" wrote: > > > On 12/17/24 11:10 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > > On Tue, 2024-12-17 at 18:31 -0800, Don Marti wrote: > > >> problem: Firefox quietly turned on ad tracki

Re: Config to turn off Firefox advertising features

2024-12-18 Thread Bob Marčan via users
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 07:14:12 -0800 "Don Marti" wrote: > On 12/17/24 11:10 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-12-17 at 18:31 -0800, Don Marti wrote: > >> problem: Firefox quietly turned on ad tracking (see bug report from > >> Alan Cox > > > That's where writing /etc/firefox/policies/p

Re: Config to turn off Firefox advertising features

2024-12-18 Thread Don Marti
On 12/17/24 11:10 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-12-17 at 18:31 -0800, Don Marti wrote: problem: Firefox quietly turned on ad tracking (see bug report from Alan Cox I notice that the two options in "Firefox Data Collection and Use" of " "Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction

fedora 41 not booting with kernels newer than 6.11.4

2024-12-18 Thread AV via users
This with respect to a Dell Precision 5690 with Intel Core Ultra 7 155H and Intel Arc graphics. Everything worked perfectly with Fedora 41 up to the update that first installed a kernel > 6.11.4. Then the boot process stopped before the login prompt appeared and I had to use a hard reboot. This al

Re: conflicts will not let me install DeVeDe and ffmpepg

2024-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/17/24 8:15 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: When I try to install DeVeDE, dnf complains about a lack of ffmepg, even though I have /usr/bin/ffmpeg . When I try to install ffmpeg, dnf complains about conflicts between @System and rpmfusion-free: rror:  Problem: problem with installed package ffm