qemu-kvm viewer won't type

2025-03-15 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, If I do not have any activity in my virtual machine (does matter what OS) for a bit of time, say 30 minutes, the mouse works, but I can't type. Exiting the viewer and restarting it and happy camping returns. Is this just a bug or is it just some configuration? Many thanks, -T -- ~

Re: VM keeps steeling my USB backup drives

2025-03-15 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 3/15/25 12:26 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/15/25 12:02 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: How do I tell qemu-kvm that I do not want a particular virtual machine to constantly steal my USB3 backup drives when I insert them.  I have to go into the VM console and unhook them.  And every time. If

Re: VM keeps steeling my USB backup drives

2025-03-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/15/25 12:02 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: How do I tell qemu-kvm that I do not want a particular virtual machine to constantly steal my USB3 backup drives when I insert them.  I have to go into the VM console and unhook them.  And every time. If you don't want any VM to automatically g

VM keeps steeling my USB backup drives

2025-03-15 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, How do I tell qemu-kvm that I do not want a particular virtual machine to constantly steal my USB3 backup drives when I insert them. I have to go into the VM console and unhook them. And every time. I tried removing the USB device, but it won't let me. I wonder if I could remove it fro

Re: Why is our Chromium not on VAAPI ...?

2025-03-15 Thread Barry Scott
> On 14 Mar 2025, at 14:55, lejeczek via users > wrote: > > > > On 11/03/2025 13:41, lejeczek via users wrote: >> or is it? >> Hi guys - do you know? >> Is Chromium's playback hw-accelerated some other way, is it accelerated at >> all? >> >> many thanks, L. >> > Nobody, really... no video

/var/cache/dnf

2025-03-15 Thread Felix Miata
I have multiple F41 installations system-upgraded from F40, upgraded from F39, etc., and a few of F42 from F41. Now with DNF5 operational, is there any reason in F41+ for /var/cache/dnf/ to continue to exist? It has multiple files of considerable size. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is,

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-15 Thread Marco
On 12.03.2025 10:42 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > How might I turn off (or change) the display of the current path in a > terminal window? That is being controlled by $PS1 in bashrc (or the config of another command interpreter like ksh if you use that). You can set that temporary by issuing PS1= w

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

2025-03-15 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2025-03-14 at 22:14 -0700, Dave Close wrote: > I received a new SanDisk "Extreme" 128 GB SD card today and used rpi- > imager to put a new OS onto it. After completing successfully, I was > able to mount the linux partition and make a backup copy onto a hard > disk. But then... > > # umo

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

2025-03-15 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mar 15, 2025, at 07:26, Dave Close wrote: > So, again, "e2fsck -c" seems to destroy the superblock. In this case, I > had no suspicion of any problem with the card; I only ran e2fsck to see > if the same problem would occur. It did. > > I'm not directly formatting the card, rpi-imager does tha

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

2025-03-15 Thread Roger Heflin
On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM Dave Close wrote: > > > > I received a new SanDisk "Extreme" 128 GB SD card today and used rpi- > imager to put a new OS onto it. After completing successfully, I was > able to mount the linux partition and make a backup copy onto a hard > disk. But then... > > #

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

2025-03-15 Thread Dave Close
Ron Flory wrote: >  I have a lot of experience with bad/flaky USB/SDCards- often they seem >just fine as the onboard controller conceals signs of creeping-death, >until they suddenly take a nose-dive. > >  I'm not sure about your case, but each time I run "e2fsck -v -c -y >/dev/sde1" (note -v V