Re: It's a brick :-<(

2022-11-20 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Geoffrey Leach | Tip of the hat to whoever created the Fedora Live troubleshooting. It has | (at least) gparted, fdisk, fsck, smartctl and badblocks. Seems like that | should be enough for my purposes. (Aside from a hammer :-) | | Interestingly, the first three do not find any issues. ba

Re: It's a brick :-<(

2022-11-20 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Geoffrey Leach | | I find myself in need of a bootable rescue disk that provides (at least) | disk diagnostics and disk wipe programs. (I have a F36 thumb - I assume | that it has neither) I always use the latest Fedora installation .iso, booted from a USB stick. I asssume that that is t

Re: firewalld problems

2022-07-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | This isn't quite working. tcpdumping the gateways external port, I | can see the ICMP Echo Request makes it out and an ICMP Echo Reply | comes back, but it never make it into the LAN. The packets on the external interface have the IP address of that interface

Re: scale or change monitor resolution on high dpi

2022-07-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Anil Felipe Duggirala | I have a laptop with a high dpi monitor, 4k on a 15" screen. 'Im on F36, Gnome. | I'm wondering whats the better alternative, change the resolution of the display or use scaling? (performance and usability) | Is there any update on fractional scaling? It didn't w

firewalld problems

2022-07-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I updated from Fedora 34 to 36 on my gateway machine. Computers on the LAN could no longer access the POP3 server. Somehow some service settings got lost. What else got lost in the transition? NAT/forwarding no longer works. This didn't matter because there is a second gateway with a much faste

gnome: display of battery charge as a percent

2022-07-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
On a notebook, gnome displays the state of the battery at the right end of the top bar of the screen. I find that a percentage of full charge is a clearer way to present this data. It used to be an option in the gnome Tweaks tool, under "top bar". This seems to be gone in Fedora 36. You can

trip report: upgrading to Fedora 36 (fwd)

2022-06-01 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
[I wrote this for the Greater Toronto Area Linux Users Group but it might be of interest to this list.] I just upgraded several systems to from Fedora 34 or 35 to Fedora 36 over the last week. This process is mostly uneventful. Here are some notes. There are two ways to upgrade: - use the GNO

Fedora 36 update vs broadcom-wl

2022-05-31 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I have an 11-year-old netbook. The WiFi hardware needs the broadcom-wl driver from RPM Fusion. The Fedora upgrade from 35 to 36 worked fine, including keeping/updating broadcom-wl. But WiFi didn't work. The desktop didn't even see the device. I needed to issue the command sudo depm

upgrade to F36 forgot WiFi passwords

2022-05-31 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I have several WiFi networks and several notebooks. Whenever I updated a notebook to Fedora 36, some WiFi passwords needed to be re-entered. I don't remember the exact details. I think that if I were updating over WiFi, that password was retained. I don't have any remaining updates that I wish

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-10-01 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
Trivial thoughts from reading this thread. Please don't take the triviality as an insult. Perhaps the best way to determine if the problem is from a software update is to downgrade likely packages. In the case of the kernel, you can just boot an older one (assuming that an old enough one is s

Re: Fedora 33 and HDMI KVM switch

2021-02-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Samuel Sieb | On 2/6/21 5:44 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: | >  I'm having an issue running Fedora 33 and an external monitor connected to | > an HDMI KVM switch.  Here is the way it's connected: | > | > Laptop thunderbolt 3 connector -> 4 port USB c to USB 3.0 hub -> USB to HDMI | > adapter

Re: DNF Update this morning -

2020-08-13 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Bob Goodwin | Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:43:38 -0400 | Error: SQLite error on "/var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite": Reading a row failed: database disk image is malformed I too got this SQLite error. I was able to fix it simply: just sudo mv /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite /var/lib/dnf/his

Re: Root Forced to Comply With Password Complexity Requirements

2019-11-03 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Tim via users | If any user should need the enforcement of good passwords, it's the | root user. If your PC was on a LAN where crackers can have a go at | you, this could be very important. It does not take long for someone | to mess up a system if they can get in. It's better to be sa

Re: Root Forced to Comply With Password Complexity Requirements

2019-11-03 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Tim via users | Samuel Sieb: | >> 3 retries is the usual thing. | Ignoring your particular case, it may stop a bad keyboard, or a typist | who needs to type slower to accurately enter their password. It also makes brute-forcing a little harder. Not a lot. __

Re: trouble with Fedora 31, notebook, and nvidia

2019-11-02 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | I bought a used notebook which came with an Nvidia GPU and I haven't | managed to get it to work with Fedora. Sorry, that was a bad summary. I have not been able to get it to work WELL with Fedora. I'm still hopeful. - it hangs with the nouveau drive

trouble with Fedora 31, notebook, and nvidia

2019-10-31 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I bought a used notebook which came with an Nvidia GPU and I haven't managed to get it to work with Fedora. Computer: Dell XPS 15 9580. UltraHD screen. Nvidia GFX 1050 mobile GPU. 1) Fedora 30 installation medium hung. 2) tried Fedora 31 beta. Hung the same way. 3) it seems that nouveau is

Re: Thinkfan

2019-07-03 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Robert Moskowitz | I have not done IRC since '98!  Going to have to find a client and remember | how...  :) I use IRC a bit. hexchat (the replacement for xchat) seems OK if you want a GUI client. Perhaps you'd find it less challenging to use this mailing list:

Fedora sometimes fails to sleep when I close my laptop

2019-04-03 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I have a no-name netbook-style laptop running up-to-date Fedora 29. When I close the lid, fedora almost always puts the notebook in sleep mode. Unfortunately, once in a while, it does not. And then my battery r

Nautilus search bar slow

2018-08-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
(I understand that Nautilus has been renamed "Gnome Files". But ps(1) calls it nautilus, and so does the manpage, so I will too.) I (on Fedora 28) use Nautilus once in a while. There is a handy feature that if you start typing a filename, it will do some kind of search for that filename. Very

SD slot errors

2018-04-13 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I've just installed F28 beta on my Cube Mix Plus tablet. It seems to work but a sequence of messages keep showing up in the dmesg outputnevery 10 seconds. [ 537.896013] mmc1: Timeout waiting for hardware cmd interrupt. [ 537.896023] mmc1: sdhci: SDHCI REGISTER DUMP === [ 5

Windows eats Fedora installation USB stick

2018-04-13 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
Sometimes when I try to install Fedora, Windows eats my installation USB stick. Fedora is distributed as a .iso (a CD/DVD image). This image is cleverly designed such that if you dump it, byte for byte, onto a USB stick (not into a filesystem), you get a stick that can be booted. I install by b

Re: GnuCash 3.0

2018-04-06 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: SternData | Version 3.0 was released the other day. Are there plans to update the | version in the repos? I don't see anything in updates-testing. I'm looking forward to it because some gnucash bugs were caused by using an old version of webkit and 3.0 moves to a newer version. I trie

Re: Entropy from TPM of Fedora 23?

2016-05-17 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | To: Community support for Fedora users | Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 15:27:53 -0400 (EDT) | Subject: Re: Entropy from TPM of Fedora 23? | | | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | | | I don't know how to get the TPM to feed entropy to the Linux kernel RNG. | | Maybe a clue

Re: Entropy from TPM of Fedora 23?

2016-05-17 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | I don't know how to get the TPM to feed entropy to the Linux kernel RNG. Maybe a clue here: sudo modprobe tpm-rng sudo ./rngd -f -v and now I've got lots of entropy in the pool. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Entropy from TPM of Fedora 23?

2016-05-17 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I have a server that I want to use to test Libreswan VPN software. This requires a lot of entropy (for random number generation). Unfortunately, the box, a Dell, has a processor with no RdRand instruction. But it does have a TPM 1.2 module, and that is supposed to be able to generate entropy.

Fedora 23 installation failed and symptoms destroyed

2016-04-10 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
The system is a newly assembled and installing Fedora 23 from live DVD is its first use. The processor is Skylake (I guess that might matter). GPT partitioning and UEFI firmware are being used. Fedora 23 installation seems to work fine until it says that it is installing the bootloader. At thi

Re: btrfs doesn't support filesystem swap

2016-03-20 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Rick Stevens | Keep in mind that SuSE is not based in the United States and can, if | they so choose, thumb their noses at US patent and copyright law. Red | Hat IS based in the US and cannot (well, will not) knowingly violate US | law. 1. US has a nasty habit of "extraterritoriality" 2

confusion setting up local email delivery, a war story

2016-03-19 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I wished to set up a Fedora 23 notebook to pick up email via fetchmail. A problem I'd solved long ago on other distros and releases. fetchmail failed because it tried to use SMTP with localhost to do the local delivery and nobody was listening for SMTP. That got removed from the default install

Re: btrfs doesn't support filesystem swap

2016-03-19 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Mark Haney | Ubuntu's using OpenZFS, which is under the CDDL. IANAL, but I don't see | that as a showstopper for Fedora including it in the future. My bet is that those who want to think it is OK will get away with it but tha

/var/cache/PackageKit/metadata gets very big

2016-03-19 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
On my Fedora 23 systems, /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages is full of .rpm files. For example, 2.7G on my desktop. /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/fedora/packages has some too. "sudo dnf clean packages" doesn't seem to change this. What does it change? What is the purpose of thi

Re: /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata gets very big

2016-03-19 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: stan Thanks for your useful response. But there are still things that puzzle/annoy me. | On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:22:36 -0400 (EDT) | "D. Hugh Redelmeier" wrote: | | > On my Fedora 23 | > systems, /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages is full | > of .rpm

Re: confusion setting up local email delivery, a war story

2016-03-19 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Rick Stevens | Can you recall if you installed postfix via RPM? We installed it via dnf. The logging of dnf is a bit confusing but it appears in /var/log/dnr.rpm.log-20160214 "journalctl -t dnf" doesn't mention postfix. "journalctl" , search for "postfix" finds a sudo of a "dnf instal

Fedora 23 on Asus UX305C / UX305CA ultrabook

2016-01-09 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
The UX305 is an ultrabook that can run Linux (google for discussion). So I bought a couple when the Canadian Microsoft Store had a great Boxing Day sale. (Boxing Day in Canada and the rest of the Commonwealth is a sale day like the US Black Friday. It is the day after Christmas.) It turns out th

Re: "Input out of Range"

2014-11-02 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Tom Horsley | That works up to the point where you try to modify the xorg.conf | file. X pays no attention to xorg.conf most of the time these | days. What does work is getting the EDID from the monitor and | stashing it in a firmware directory where you can use it to | force the kernel t

Re: 4k video fails after update

2014-10-20 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | I have a Seiki "4k" monitor that I'm using on my Fedora 20 system. I'm | using the nvidia proprietary driver with a Geforce GTX 650 video card. It | has been working well for a while. | After updates from the last week or so, when I b

4k video fails after update

2014-10-19 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
[This is a very incomplete report. Sorry. I wanted to get this out before I go to bed. More when I have time.] I have a Seiki "4k" monitor that I'm using on my Fedora 20 system. I'm using the nvidia proprietary driver with a Geforce GTX 650 video card. It has been working well for a while.

Re: netflix play on chrome works (finally)

2014-10-11 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Neal Becker | I see with fedora20 + current chrome stable, netflix now works! And, even works | well with my chromecast. Wow! Will it do Netflix in HD? Most Android devices cannot do Netflix in HD for some (intentional?) reason but some Nexus Android devices can. I don't know the r

Re: bootstrapping from a USB stick

2014-09-01 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Chris Murphy | On Aug 31, 2014, at 9:00 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | | > I have an oldish PC that only understands booting from 512-byte | > sectors and then only with MBR disks. | > | > I want to install large new disks on it, and no old disks. These | > don'

Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

2014-08-31 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Philip Rhoades | Any ideas what the problem(s) might be? It sort of looks like a RAM problem | to me but ALL the SIMMS can't be faulty . . When I have a flaky system, I fire up memtest86+ and let it rip for 12 to 24 hours. I sometimes finds an error. If the memory passes, I no longer

Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

2014-08-31 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Ralf Corsepius | I am not sure, but IIRC, Socket 478-era processor all were 32bit and did not | support pae. Socket 478 was for Pentium 4 "Northwood" processors and some later ones. PAE was introduced with the Pentium Pro. As far as I know, all P4 processors had PAE. -- users mailing

bootstrapping from a USB stick

2014-08-31 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I have an oldish PC that only understands booting from 512-byte sectors and then only with MBR disks. I want to install large new disks on it, and no old disks. These don't even pretend to do 512-byte sectors: 4k all the way (3T and 4T sizes aren't good for MBR either). I was thinking that I sho

/boot/efi in a dual boot system

2014-08-31 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
As I type this, I'm installing Fedora 20 on a UEFI system which already has CentOS 7 (and nothing else). Should the two systems share /boot/efi? As I understand it, the answer is yes: /boot/efi is universal on a machine. It is where the firmware goes to load things. Not just OS bootloader: man

Re: Brother HL-5250DN duplex printing: loves me, loves me not, ...

2014-07-03 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | See <http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/hugh/poppler-fix-f20/> | | I'd love feedback. Thanks for the feedback. We've noticed that we can no longer print envelopes. I wonder why. The printer no longer stops with a blinking light, awaiting a blank

Re: Brother HL-5250DN duplex printing: loves me, loves me not, ...

2014-07-02 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | Please sign up for bz 1035090 and whine :-) | That may increase the priority for backporting the already-fixed | pdftops. New alternative: try my COPR. I've assembled a version of poppler that seems to fix the problem. And be compatible with the rest of F20.

Re: Brother HL-5250DN duplex printing: loves me, loves me not, ...

2014-06-29 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Michael Hannon | Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 21:57:20 -0700 This thread is over a month old. I found it when thrashing around to solve my own problem: failure of duplex printing with Fedora 20 on a Brother HL-5150D (connected via USB). Please look at this bugzilla:

Re: unreportable kernel oops / bluetooth

2014-05-05 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Steven Stern | I get kerneloops reports that I can't pass on because the kernel is | tained by the virtualbox drivers. ... | Any suggestions about how to debug/fix this? See if you can repeat this without the virtualbox drivers installed. If so: report to Fedora bugzilla. If not: report

Re: Brother DCP7065dn laser printer on Fedora 20 [was Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation]

2014-04-28 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Lee | Just wondering, do all Brother printers ship with Linux drivers? No. Many don't need proprietary drivers. Some have proprietary drivers. I would guess some don't have Linux drivers at all. As usual, one good resource is

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

2014-04-28 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Javier Perez | I know, but I wanted the famous speed a SSD/flash system is supposed to | give for the OS. Specially given that it is an old system. I could be wrong, but I think - most USB sticks are quite slow. - USB2 sticks are guaranteed to be slow-ish - USB sticks seem to have low

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

2014-04-28 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Joe Zeff | On 04/28/2014 10:44 AM, Javier Perez wrote: | > | > Is there anything I should know I am not taking into consideration? | | Putting your OS onto a 10 GB partition on that drive will take up about 0.5% | of its capacity. It will also be much safer than having it on an external

Brother DCP7065dn laser printer on Fedora 20 [was Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation]

2014-04-28 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Fred Smith | I'm using a Brother DCP7065DN at home, and it seems to work well with | Linux, BUT you have to use Brother's drivers for it. The driver recommended | by the RH printer tool didn't work for me. | | I've printed to it from Centos 6.5, Fedora 19, and Fedora 20, so far. | I've u

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-15 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Juan R. de Silva | Yes, you need to use Brother's drivers for it. | But what's the problem with it, if they are always available and easy to | install? 1. At some point, Brother will stop supporting the printer. The printer may still be otherwise useful. I've had that happen with a

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-15 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Patrick O'Callaghan | > i never have and never will recommend any 'all-in-one'. They have their place (and sometimes it is hard to find a place for all the bits it would replace). (I have the Brother DCP-7065dn mentioned earlier.) Likes: - I really like duplex printers. - really inex

Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! after recent update of Fedora 20

2014-03-15 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: The Walters | I have tried the last 2 kernels and the 1st kernel that that was with the | original release of Fedora 20 (I know this was a long shot) but no go. That's as good. | I also | have the last Fedora 19 kernel install from before I did an upgrade to 20 and | that starts okay wi

Re: Screen Brightness Keys Not Working - Thinkpad W540 & Fedora 20

2014-03-15 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: CS DBA | Just setup a Thinkpad W540, most everything is working well. I hope you are aware that there is a BIOS bug that can cause Linux to brick the machine. As in: once it happens, the motherboard needs to be replaced. See this, for example:

Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! after recent update of Fedora 20

2014-03-14 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: The Walters | After a recent update started seeing messages like what is listed below and | now complete lock up. Tried going back 1 or 2 kernels but same issue. I can't help you with the specific problem. It is always good to google an error message. Have you? I'm not going to try --

Re: install fedora via usb stick

2013-12-11 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht | Anyone know why there are so many complicated ways listed? The LiveUSB creator lets you 1) add to an existing FAT filesystem without losing what's already there 2) create a persistent store so changes you make on the live system will be there next time you

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-12-09 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Daniel J Walsh | On 12/08/2013 01:11 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882568> Fedora could not mount | > the Ubuntu partition for examination because it wasn't SELinux labelled. | > Of course requiring a Ubuntu partitio

Re: [GW-C] Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-12-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Joe Zeff | On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Javier Perez wrote: | > For some reason, Ubuntu does not find out Fedora unless I mount the disk | > each time I update ubuntu kernel. | | How do you expect Ubuntu to find a kernel on an unmounted partition? It is supposed to find it. There is a bug i

F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws

2013-12-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I rarely use Nautilus on F19. I'm trying it now. There are a few improvements that seem obvious. It calls itself "Files" (see "about files") but is nautilus (see ps(1) output). Make up your mind. I think "files" is a terrible name -- it is too generic. "Gnome Files" might be OK. But I like "

Re: [GW-C] Re: turning off Screen Lock in F19 GNOME doesn't work

2013-10-17 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I forgot to mention another symptom. Sometimes a warning box would pop up near the bottom of my screen, and then go away. I think it popped up when a screen-save was about to fire, so I didn't see it very often. It said: Unable to Lock: lock was blocked by an application Stupidly, the m

Re: turning off Screen Lock in F19 GNOME doesn't work

2013-10-17 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Joachim Backes | On 10/15/2013 11:03 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: | > Andre Robatino fedoraproject.org> writes: | > | >> Has anyone else noticed that in F19 GNOME, even with Screen Lock turned off, | >> lately the screen will lock anyway? Is there an existing bug, and if not, | >> which c

Re: old disk in new system

2013-10-17 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Randolph Jones | I have 1tb disk with bootable fc14 installed as second disk in new box | with fc19 xfce spin installed in 320gb disk. Sounds reasonable. Did you shut down the fc14 system cleanly last time you booted? Perhaps an fsck is needed. | fc19 sees the old disk and mounts as no

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-06 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Reindl Harald | Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 11:38:21 +0200 | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D319901 | | looks like Redhat based systems are the only remaining | which does not support EECDHE which is a shame these | days in context of PRISM and more and more Ciphers | are going

Re: 3.2Gb over 4Gb

2013-08-10 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Alexander Dalloz | The chipset of that laptop is not capable to address thze whole 4GB RAM. | That's not untypical for systems of that age (Intel T2300). To back this up: says about the same thing. It also says that th

Re: Brother DCP-7065dn printer with Fedora 19

2013-07-26 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Fred Smith | I've been looking for a cheap multifunction printer/kitchen-sink device, | so given your success, I went to amazon and ordered one of the same thing. | Please cross your fingers for me! ;-) ;-) I will cross my fingers. Here's a sort of review and some hints. + great capabi

Re: Brother DCP-7065dn printer with Fedora 19

2013-07-24 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | | From: Fred Smith | | | Have you actually downloaded and installed (and configured, as needed) | | the drivers Brother provides? you don't actually say... | | I think so. I guess not. I have now performed step 5b from <http://welcome.solutions.bro

Re: Brother DCP-7065dn printer with Fedora 19

2013-07-24 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Fred Smith | Have you actually downloaded and installed (and configured, as needed) | the drivers Brother provides? you don't actually say... I think so. I used fedup to go from F18->19. The printer didn't work. So I did rpm -e cupswrapperDCP7065DN dcp7065dnlpr rpm -iv

Brother DCP-7065dn printer with Fedora 19

2013-07-24 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I carelessly bought a printer/scanner that has a proprietary driver. It worked fine in Fedora 18 and earlier. It doesn't seem to work with Fedora 19. Not much to be done with a proprietary driver, but I'd be happy with any reasonable solution. The printer is a network printer. I have a CentOS 5

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-16 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Reindl Harald | what he menat was showing the difference between | present and new config file before updates and the | option to merge them - not that the merge is useful | in many cases but *that* is was Debian offers Yes. Perhaps it is my greater time with Red Hat / Fedora than debia

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-16 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Heinz Diehl | Only speaking for myself: I always try to upgrade first, having a | complete backup, of course. If it doesn't work, I reinstall. There's | nothing to loose, since I'm expecting to reinstall anyway. There is a risk: things can be subtly wrong, in such a way that you don't no

Re: [GW-C] [ECOTONE] Re: rant of the day: installing fedora

2013-07-11 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Tom Horsley | How did you get past the screen that only lets you pick a whole disk | drive then, as the only possible option after that, click "Done"? | (Or, as I did the first time I saw it, push the reset button :-). | | No power on earth could get me to click "Done" under those circum

Re: [GW-C] Re: Resume problem

2013-07-11 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Tanguy Eric | Updating my dell gx520 to the latest available bios (A11) does not solve the | problem. For what it's worth, the GX50 is already listed in this quirks file: /usr/lib64/pm-utils/video-quirks/20-video-quirk-pm-dell.quirkdb Here's a not-totally-ancient GX520 ACPI report again

Re: updating live CD: does it result in more up-to-date installations?

2013-07-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Bruno Wolff III | On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:16:29 -0400, | "D. Hugh Redelmeier" wrote: | >If I install from this stick, will the installed system be already | >updated? | The way things currently work the anwser is yes. The file system is | essentially copied off th

updating live CD: does it result in more up-to-date installations?

2013-07-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I have built a USB stick with a Live Fedora 19 on it. I gave it a large overlay to make room for updates. I booted the stick and did a yum update. (Boy was that slow. I think that the Kingston DT101 G2 stick, combined with the USB 2.0 interface, was the cause.) If I install from this stick,

Re: Resume problem

2013-07-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Tanguy Eric | The problem was in f18 and now also in f19. The pc seems to go fine in | hibernate but when i try to resume it seems to try to resume and after few | seconds reboot normally. I tried to activate the pm_trace functionality with | |echo 1 > /sys/power/pm_trace| and use |dmesg

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I've been using Fedora and before that Red Hat Linux for over 15 years. I've never trusted any update process. I've always done a re-installation. This time, I thought I'd give fedup a chance. I've done it on three systems. Each mostly worked. The problems were minor and could essentially b

Re: Perplexed

2013-07-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Roger | I just now used Fedup to update Fedora 18 to 19. It did it's thing quickly and | efficiently and awaited a reboot. | I have both Ubuntu and Fedora on the hard drive. It boots to the Ubuntu grub | from which I select the Fedora install. | I selected Fedora spherical cow from the U

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2013-07-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I'm sorry about my last message. I got into a time warp and replied to a mesage from Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:26:48 -0500! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedora

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2013-07-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Gene Heskett | I take it you are referring to modern machines? This one was new in '81, I | think. Maybe '82.? I'm confused. What machine built in 1981 or 1982 can run Fedora? A recent enough one that you can file a BZ on (i.e. F17, F18, F19)? Heck, I vaguely recall that soft-sector

SELinux: colord vs. livecd-iso-to-disk.sh

2013-07-05 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
You'd think those two things would be unrelated: one manages color rendering profiles, the other builds a bootable USB stick from a .iso file. When I was running livecd-iso-to-disk.sh, SELinux popped up a warning. The source process: /usr/libexec/colord Attempted this access: read,search

what do you use tracker for?

2013-07-04 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
Do you use tracker? Can you give examples of how you've used it and if you find it useful? Is there a useful guide to exploiting tracker? background / war story I've been oblivious to tracker. I must have had it for some time, but it hasn't crashed so it didn't come to my attention. It

Fedora 18 "software": "check for update" hangs

2013-03-31 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
When I selected "Software" and within that chose the menu item to check for updates, the process worked for a while and then apparently made no more progress but ate 100% of the CPU. It is kind of scary interrupting an update, but after about half an hour of no progress, I decided that there wa

Re: Can't Load Fedora 15

2013-03-31 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Reindl Harald | Am 30.03.2013 04:51, schrieb Richard Vickery: | > Those with much more experience in the group and Linux will tell you that this version is no longer supported, and | > that you should download the current one if you need help. It sounds rather cold when they say it, bu

yum Environment Groups?

2013-03-27 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
On my Fedora 18 system, when I do a "yum group list", I get three lists of groups: Available Environment Groups, Installed Groups, and Available Groups. I understand what the second and third lists are. What is an Environment Group? Why is none actually installed (eg. GNOME Desktop)? The yum m

Re: Fedora 18 network printer setup

2013-03-27 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Tim Waugh | That's odd. What output does this command give?: | | su -c 'lpinfo -l -v' | | (I'm hoping it lists the network printer there...) Context: my F18 system currently has a working printer setting, installed through the CUPS web interface. When I go to System Settings: Printer

Fedora 18 network printer setup

2013-03-26 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I have a Brother DCP-7065dn printer scanner connected to my LAN. Sadly, it requires a proprietary driver. I've installed that. I asked the System Settings: Printers to set it up (add the printer). The SS:P found the print

Re: Lack of things in Gimp

2013-01-30 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Bill Davidsen | I have a bunch of laptops I would love to have on Fedora, but Fedora doesn't | include the drivers, rpmfusion has them, but the Live-CD and install kernels | in fc18 don't match the driver, I can't D/L drivers because I don't have the | drivers, if I did I could download b

Re: What to do with warnings like these?

2012-12-19 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Alexander Volovics | $ dmesg |grep -i -e warning | [7.211363] ACPI Warning: 0xefa0-0xefbf SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI 1 (20120711/utaddress-251) | [7.212758] ACPI Warning: 0x0428-0x042f SystemIO conflicts wi

Re: abrt: how can you change bugzilla credentials?

2012-11-17 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Sergio | --- Em sáb, 17/11/12, D. Hugh Redelmeier escreveu: | > Does anyone know how to change abrt's idea of Bugzilla | > credentials? | Go in 'Preferences' and re-configure the bugzilla account. Ah, thanks. I had tried that menu but didn't know w

abrt: how can you change bugzilla credentials?

2012-11-17 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
On Fedora 17, I'm getting a few aborts. Before I get to the fundamental problem, I'd like to let "abrt" file a BZ. The problem is that I mistyped the password when abrt first ran. Now it always uses that wrong password. So it can never succeed. Does anyone know how to change abrt's idea of B

Re: [Fedora] Re: itunes-like applications

2011-09-15 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Walter Cazzola | Indeed I'm not interested in passing music on the ipad but ebooks and | pdf files, I'd like to use it as a sort of e-reader. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the security aspects, but dropbox runs on Fedora and on an iPad, so you can share files that way. It works well

Re: DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

2011-09-15 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Daniel J Walsh | Well I just tried to run NetworkManager as root and see something | similar, although I also end up with the resolv.conf having bogus data | in it. I can fix F16 to label this correctly if it happens. But we | can not fix this in F15. I'm glad you can fix it. It won't

Re: DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

2011-09-13 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
Thanks for all your useful replies. | From: Joe Zeff | Do you have the SELinux troubleshooter running? I don't know. The new-to-me Gnome 3 desktop is still quite a puzzle. If I have it running, it didn't signal me in a way that I noticed. Is it part of the default F15 desktop setup? | If so

DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

2011-09-12 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
My netbook has a rather vanilla installation of F15. I tried a new desktop. Wireless didn't work (long story, not relevant) so I manually ran network manager (didn't help). Then I rebooted back to Gnome. Wired networking seemed to no longer work. Actually, networking worked but no domain na

Re: Analog video capture

2011-05-23 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Rick Stevens | | On 05/21/2011 07:57 AM, JD wrote: | > On 05/20/11 23:11, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: | >> On 05/20/2011 11:12 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: | >>> JD writes: | What do you think of this hauppague gizmo? | | http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-det

Re: Sipwitch in Fedora 14

2011-05-23 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: james tate | | F14/kde | I'm using Twinkle to setup a Profile for sipwitch, can someone tell me | what is; I'll take a stab. I don't use twinkle or sipswitch, so don't trust my answers. | Domain Usually that would be a "Fully Qualified Domain Name". Like "example.com" | Sip Proxy

Averatec notebook hangs on resume from sleep with Fedora 14

2010-12-12 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | Subject: Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition | I've got a laptop that currently has WinXP, Fedora 14, Ubuntu 9.10, | Ubuntu 10.10. The Ubuntu 10.10 is using GRUB2 and I'm not liking it. | | The Ubuntu 9.10 can properly resume from a suspend. Neither th

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-12 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Timothy Murphy | I've always had a single /boot partition and it seems to work fine, | with the same grub.conf for different systems. Always is a long time. I've been upgrading my Linux boxes since at least RHL 5.x. A small chance of grief times a lot of instances can still yield greif

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-11 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: | Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:47:50 + | From: Timothy Murphy | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | Followup-To: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general | Subject: Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition | | Joachim Backes wrote: | | > having the following qu

Re: ctrl-alt-+ doesn't work for me

2010-09-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | ctrl-alt-+ does not work for me on F13. I don't know when it | disappeared. Perhaps when ctrl-alt-backspace was retired. I've created a bugzilla entry for this. <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631659> -- users ma

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