Re: 11 year old server!

2025-02-23 Thread bruce
tangentially following the thread. But if i'm understanding. You have a somewhat "critical" piece of software, dealing with "Aerospace" components, that I gather are used for Aerospace related projects. Given that you mentioned "chain of custody" (supply channel) this implies some level of importa

Re: 11 year old server!

2025-02-23 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2/23/25 5:36 AM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: I am surprised that your client's software has not complained of something assuming that it is still being maintained and interfaces with things beyond the computer. The software on so poorly maintained that I consider is to be not maintained

Re: 11 year old server!

2025-02-23 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2/22/25 8:14 PM, Tim wrote: Set up a demo computer, with new software There is no new software. If you mean the old software on a new OS, no one is willing to pay for that. And the vendor would not be willing to test his stuff on the new OS. -- _

Re: 11 year old server!

2025-02-23 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2/23/25 1:42 PM, Slade Watkins wrote: What's the extent of what the point-of-sale tracks? Does it handle payment processing? I mainly does inventory tracking for aerospace. Sales to, but it does not take credit cards. That is a different piece of software. The software in a badly maintaine

Re: F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle

2025-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM Go Canes wrote: > > I have a laptop running F40 Server with KDE, fully updated, that I > have been using without issue. I am in the process of moving to a new > laptop and plan to repurpose the old one. But I am running into an > issue with the old laptop. > > If

Re: F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle

2025-02-23 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Moving forward, buy an inexpensive Intel NUC when you want an > inexpensive server. The thing about the NUCs is, Intel provied > BIOS/UEFI updates. Eventually power problems get fixed in the firmware > so you don't have to putz around with ke

Re: 11 year old server!

2025-02-23 Thread Slade Watkins
On 2/22/2025 10:39 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: I just visited a customer I had designed a Fedora 30 server. That makes the computer eleven years old! I do not dare upgrade or even install updates it as the point-of-sale software he is running a YUGE nasty K-L- U-G-E. T, What's the ex

Re: $MYVIMDIR

2025-02-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:26:39 +0100, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > Hello, > > A $MYVIMDIR directory has been created in my hierarchy. > It seems a duplicate of / !! > root is the owver. > Can I just remove it? Just from the suspicious looks of it, it seems to be some bug related to an enviro

Re: F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle

2025-02-23 Thread Frank Bures
On 2025-02-20 17:45, Go Canes wrote: (stuff nuked) If the laptop is idle it locks up after ~25 minutes. "Idle" can mean no one logged-in, or a user logged-in but not doing anything. If the user is doing something, it does not lock-up. "Something" can be running a Windows 10 VM, a ssh sessio

Re: F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle

2025-02-23 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM Tim via users wrote: > Check for screensavers. You could have one that is crashing. I don't run any screensavers. Even if I were, lack of lock-up when a Windows VM is running would suggest a screensaver is not the issue. Thank you for the suggestion! -- ___

Re: F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle

2025-02-23 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM Go Canes wrote: > > - systemctl entries for sleep, suspend, hibernate have been masked - no > > change > I don't use systemd-sleep.conf(5). Instead, I use the following to > mask the services: > > syste

Re: F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle

2025-02-23 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM Barry wrote: > Check that the power settings are the same on the working and not working > laptops. Power settings are as identical as I can make them given differences in the UEFI BIOS. Power settings within KDE are identical. > Look in the system journal to se

$MYVIMDIR

2025-02-23 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
Hello, A $MYVIMDIR directory has been created in my hierarchy. It seems a duplicate of / !! root is the owver. Can I just remove it? Thanks === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com =

Re: 11 year old server!

2025-02-23 Thread Ranjan Maitra via users
On Sun Feb23'25 09:24:32AM, Peter Boy Uni wrote: > From: Peter Boy Uni > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:24:32 +0100 > To: Community support for Fedora users > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: 11 year old server! > > > > > Am 23.02.2025 um 04:39 schrieb ToddAndMargo via user

Re: 11 year old server!

2025-02-23 Thread Peter Boy Uni
> Am 23.02.2025 um 04:39 schrieb ToddAndMargo via users > : > > Hi All, > > I just visited a customer I had designed a Fedora 30 server. > That makes the computer eleven years old! We release twice a year, so it is about 5 or 6 years old. I see no reason why you should take the hassle to buy