Re: minor upgrade errors

2021-11-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2021-11-13 15:30, Colin J Thomson wrote: Hi, On Saturday, 13 November 2021 19:56:37 GMT Frank McCormick wrote: A couple of times lately when upgrading I see these minor error which don't **seem** to affect anything. 2021-11-12T07:56:09-0500 SUBDEBUG Upgraded: eom-1.26.0-1.fc35.x

Re: minor upgrade errors

2021-11-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2021-11-13 15:03, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 14:56:37 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: I have seen the Failed to connect to bus error several times. Is this anything I should worry about? No idea, but I get lots of those every time I run dnf update on my f35 system (both the one

minor upgrade errors

2021-11-13 Thread Frank McCormick
A couple of times lately when upgrading I see these minor error which don't **seem** to affect anything. 2021-11-12T07:56:09-0500 SUBDEBUG Upgraded: eom-1.26.0-1.fc35.x86_64 2021-11-12T07:56:09-0500 SUBDEBUG Upgraded: ImageMagick-libs-1:6.9.11.27-7.fc35.x86_64 2021-11-12T07:56:09-0500 SUBDEBUG

Re: F35 - audio a bit mixed up

2021-11-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2021-11-08 13:33, John Horne wrote: Hello, I carried out an online upgrade of my laptop a couple of days ago from F34 to F35. No problems with that, and all seemed to be okay. However, today I noticed that audio was not working, or partially working for some things (Zoom audio in particular

fedora 34 upgrade errors

2021-06-26 Thread Frank McCormick
Upgraded my Fedora 34 this  morning..a  lot of additions and upgrades followed by this: Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/systemd. There were about 25 lines like this  with different directory names. Is this something to be concerned about ? Thanks

Re: test message

2021-06-20 Thread Frank McCormick
Well it seems I am still subscribed to the list despite my having sent unsubscribe mail. But anyway I am subscribed at my other email address so I don;t care if this one works or not. Time to change providers I think. I'll try again to unsubscribe here. ___

Re: Long wait for start job

2021-06-16 Thread Frank McCormick
On 6/16/21 3:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 17/06/2021 02:27, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2021-06-16 at 22:36 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 16/06/2021 21:46, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Just to be sure, my next step will be to completely disable those units and reboot again, but I'm 99% sur

Re: test message

2021-06-16 Thread Frank McCormick
On 6/15/21 11:04 AM, stan via users wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 18:50:40 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: As far as switching to say Gmail that is something I am definitely considering. I am using my providers main address less and less to try to avoid these problems. I guess the way is to set

Re: test message

2021-06-14 Thread Frank McCormick
The problem is still not resolved. I was dealing with the weekend staff at my provider so we'll see if thing are  any better with the weekday staff :) The strange thing today is that the list administrator flushed the queue this morning and several messages came in but nothing since then. A

test message

2021-06-13 Thread Frank McCormick
My provider is refusing messages from this list. I'm chccking to see if that's still true. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.f

Re: Long wait for start job

2021-06-12 Thread Frank McCormick
I found and fixed the problem. The key was in my systemd log. 1.825245] udevadm[363]: systemd-udev-settle.service is deprecated. Please fix nm-initrd.service not to pull it in Personally I think this should be spread more...it seems there are quite a few with this problem ___

Re: Long wait for start job

2021-06-12 Thread Frank McCormick
Systemd-analyze blame pinpoints "systemd-udev-settle.service" more than a 2 minute wait!! ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs

Long wait for start job

2021-06-11 Thread Frank McCormick
Just did a new installation of the basic fedora 34 desktop the one which provides a bunch of basic window managers using a netinstall iso. The boot is interrupted for a longtime (2 minutes) while a start job runs for wait for udev to complete initialization. The timeout is three minutes and it

Grub peculiarities

2021-03-03 Thread Frank McCormick
I run several distros on my SSD (/dev/sda) including Debian Bullseye, and Fedora 33. When Grub is installed in Debian, the startup cfg file generated by Debian lists the kernel versions in reverse order, with the rescue kernel first. Fedora lists the kernels in all versions properly. Several

Re: errors during update.

2021-01-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/14/21 11:50 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 1/14/21 6:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Hmmm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1908005 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911038 _ Sounds like it has happened before

Re: errors during update.

2021-01-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/14/21 6:29 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 3:26 PM Frank McCormick wrote: Saw a couple of errors in the middle of an update today on Fedora 33. Couldn't figure out how to copy/paste so I have a small screenshot. The system **seems** to work fine after this.

Re: errors during update.

2021-01-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/14/21 6:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Hmmm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1908005 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911038 _ Sounds like it has happened before ??? ___ users m

errors during update.

2021-01-14 Thread Frank McCormick
Saw a couple of errors in the middle of an update today on Fedora 33. Couldn't figure out how to copy/paste so I have a small screenshot. The system **seems** to work fine after this. Is it something I should be concerned about? Thanks ___ users mail

Re: entropy generation

2021-01-02 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/1/21 9:06 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 6:40 PM Frank McCormick wrote: Running Fedora 33 under systemd. Lately my journal log has been spammed with hundreds of these lines: Jan 01 20:26:56 localhost.localdomain rngd[645]: Entropy Generation is slow, consider tuning

entropy generation

2021-01-01 Thread Frank McCormick
Running Fedora 33 under systemd. Lately my journal log has been spammed with hundreds of these lines: Jan 01 20:26:56 localhost.localdomain rngd[645]: Entropy Generation is slow, consider tuning/adding sources Jan 01 20:26:56 localhost.localdomain rngd[645]: Entropy Generation is slow, conside

Re: Entropy

2020-10-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On 10/6/20 6:29 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/6/20 2:28 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: My system log is filled with dozens of this line: localhost.localdomain rngd[638]: Entropy Generation is slow, consider tuning/adding sources I see that mine is too. Is this something to be concerned about

Entropy

2020-10-06 Thread Frank McCormick
My system log is filled with dozens of this line: localhost.localdomain rngd[638]: Entropy Generation is slow, consider tuning/adding sources Is this something to be concerned about? Thanks ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: Firefox unable to play online videos

2020-09-07 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2020-09-07 11:34 a.m., Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: On 9/7/20 10:06 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Fedora 32 up to date. It is a relatively new install and I noticed  a few days ago Firefox is unable to play any online videos, including those on CNN.COM and Foxnews.com as well

Firefox unable to play online videos

2020-09-07 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Fedora 32 up to date. It is a relatively new install and I noticed a few days ago Firefox is unable to play any online videos, including those on CNN.COM and Foxnews.com as well as other sites. I get various errors including error #4 from CNN. On foxnews the circular loading image

Re: Errors compiling

2020-06-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On 6/24/20 6:25 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:56:40 -0400, Frank wrote: I am trying to compile/install IceWm for my Fedora 32 installation. Ran into some problems I have resolved, but I am stumped by these: checking for strlcat... no checking for C++11 by default... yes

Re: Errors compiling

2020-06-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On 6/23/20 10:30 PM, Jerry James wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 8:10 PM Qiyu Yan wrote: You need to install devel packages (e.g. openssl v.s. openssl-devel) And when dealing with pkg-config, there is a more convenient way: sudo dnf install 'pkgconfig(package-name)' pkgconfig(foo) is the deve

Re: Errors compiling

2020-06-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On 6/23/20 10:10 PM, Qiyu Yan wrote: You need to install devel packages (e.g. openssl v.s. openssl-devel) And when dealing with pkg-config, there is a more convenient way: sudo dnf install 'pkgconfig(package-name)' pkgconfig(foo) is the devel-files for package foo. This case you need things l

Re: Errors compiling

2020-06-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On 6/23/20 10:01 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-06-24 09:56, Frank wrote: I am trying to compile/install IceWm for my Fedora 32 installation. Ran into some problems I have resolved, but I am stumped by these: Snipped What am I missing ? Is there any reason you don't wish to use Name 

Re: 5-1/4 diskettes

2020-01-19 Thread Frank McCormick
Greetings, Unlike 3.5 inch diskettes, where there are USB drives available, there is no such thing for 5 1/4 ones. I have some 5-1/4 diskettes which have data that I never bothered to transfer to newer types of media. So, I'm looking for recommendations in this regard: - buy a 5-1/4 i

Re: help for an install

2019-12-31 Thread Frank McCormick
Resending because part of the reply was missing :) On 12/31/19 12:47 PM, François Patte wrote: I am presently completely blocked: something went wrong and the computer is blocked by a "defaultuser0". resize the partitions to install linux because the ntfs partition is crypted (bitlocker). T

Re: help for an install

2019-12-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/31/19 12:47 PM, François Patte wrote: > I am presently completely blocked: something > went wrong and the computer is blocked by a "defaultuser0". resize the partitions to install linux because the ntfs partition is crypted (bitlocker). This APPARENTLY solves the defaultuser0 problem.

Re: module load failure on boot

2019-12-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/24/19 2:36 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/24/19 11:20 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: BTW, systemd-modules-load.service doe not make any mention of directories with lists of kernel modules?? # cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service [...snip...] [Unit] Description=Load

Re: module load failure on boot

2019-12-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/24/19 12:57 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/24/19 8:02 AM, Frank wrote: I am running a freshly updated Fedora 31. I noticed this morning that the systemd-modules-load.service failed. I saw it on boot and later in the journal log. There is no explanation why it failed, just the notificati

Re: Email Client

2019-06-10 Thread Frank McCormick
On 6/10/19 6:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2019-06-10 at 22:42 +0100, Douglas G Mckendrick via users wrote: Evening all, I'm after setting up an email client, I've tried thunderbird for my gmail account, but I get a google complaint about the client not being secure enough. Is the

Re: Problems with plank settings app

2019-04-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2019-04-20 4:08 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/20/19 9:49 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: In installed the dock plank on my Fedora 29 installation this morning, then found a python-based plank settings app. Where did you find it?  You will need to file a bug there.   That I have done. I

Problems with plank settings app

2019-04-20 Thread Frank McCormick
In installed the dock plank on my Fedora 29 installation this morning, then found a python-based plank settings app. However it does not work with Fedora's version of plank (0.11.4). The settings app gives this error: (planksetting.py:6935): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 12:41:28.299: Settings schema

Re: update failed

2019-02-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2019-02-25 10:01 a.m., Jakub Jelen wrote: On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 09:33 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: Tried to update my Fedora 29 this morning. It failed with this error: [SKIPPED] google-chrome-stable-72.0.3626.119-1.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded Package ffmpeg-4.1.1-7.fc29.x86_64.rpm

Re: update failed

2019-02-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2019-02-25 9:59 a.m., Ed Greshko wrote: On 2/25/19 10:33 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Tried to update my Fedora 29 this morning. It failed with this error: [SKIPPED] google-chrome-stable-72.0.3626.119-1.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded Package ffmpeg-4.1.1-7.fc29.x86_64.rpm is not signed

update failed

2019-02-25 Thread Frank McCormick
Tried to update my Fedora 29 this morning. It failed with this error: [SKIPPED] google-chrome-stable-72.0.3626.119-1.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded Package ffmpeg-4.1.1-7.fc29.x86_64.rpm is not signed Package ffmpeg-libs-4.1.1-7.fc29.x86_64.rpm is not signed Package libavdevice-4.1.1-7.fc29.x

Re: xorg problems

2018-12-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/21/18 3:56 PM, ja wrote: On Fri, 2018-12-21 at 11:57 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:39:09 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: I know when I put an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11, X refused to start and I was left with a blank screen. You can put fragments of an xorg.conf

Re: xorg problems

2018-12-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-12-21 9:49 a.m., Tom Horsley wrote: Is there a work around. I see this bug claims it is related to the PageFlip option which is enabled by default. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/issues/68 Presumably if you disable PageFlip, the spamming would stop (and it is probably OK

xorg problems

2018-12-21 Thread Frank McCormick
Noticed last night that my xorg log is growing wildly. Its fillling up with these lines: 814.151] (EE) modeset(0): present flip failed [   814.163] (EE) modeset(0): Failed to get GBM bo for flip to new front. [   814.163] (EE) modeset(0): present flip failed [   814.178] (EE) modeset(0): Failed

Re: problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-12-20 10:54 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/20/18 7:49 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 2018-12-20 10:22 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: ctrl-alt-backspace needs to be enabled as well.  Gnome appears to have a setting to turn it on, but I've used the following snippet to enable it a

Re: problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-12-20 10:22 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/20/18 3:36 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: A related question: how do I set up Fedora to allow the alt-sysreq REISUB to kill the session? And I also thought alt-ctrl-backspace killed the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq That solved it

Re: problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-12-20 7:06 p.m., Tom Horsley wrote: Are you using the nvidia binary drivers? On my system at work attempting to exit X (which logging out apparently does) sometimes seems to crash my system (perhaps 10% of the time). I stick with nvidia though because the nouveau drivers crash in the mid

Re: problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-12-20 4:36 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/20/18 8:09 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Fedora 29 with the Mate desktop. This morning I tried creating a new user to check out a problem. After logging out and logging in again with the new users name and password, I was presented

problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Fedora 29 with the Mate desktop. This morning I tried creating a new user to check out a problem. After logging out and logging in again with the new users name and password, I was presented with a blank screen with just the mouse cursor visible. I deleted that user  then created

Re: DNF problems

2018-12-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/1/18 7:21 PM, stan wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 09:08:45 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: I would assume DNF would update the 6 files from rpm-fusion ?? Probably dependency errors. Try dnf update --best That should show you any package conflicts. I'll try that when I get back

DNF problems

2018-12-01 Thread Frank McCormick
Running Fedora 29, a fresh installation. When I run dnf check-update this is what I get : [root@localhost ~]# dnf check-update unitedrpms 29 - x86_64 133 kB/s | 1.0 MB 00:07 Fedora Modular 29 - x86_64 314 kB/s | 1.5 MB 00:04 Fedora Modular 29 - x86_64 - Updates 768 kB/s | 1.6 MB 00:0

Re: Just switched to Fedora 28

2018-11-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-11-18 2:14 p.m., stan wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 12:55:34 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: Is there a way to get a newer version  such as 1.43 in the Git repository There is already a bugzilla open requesting that update. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1287762

Just switched to Fedora 28

2018-11-18 Thread Frank McCormick
I am back on Fedora after a couple of years away. One of the first things I did was to install Icewm, and I am a little surprised at how old the Fedora version if (1.38). Is there a way to get a newer version  such as 1.43 in the Git repository without resorting to compiling it myself? Thank

Re: dnf errors on update

2015-12-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/15/2015 03:24 PM, Greg Woods wrote: I was getting the same thing, but it appears to be working now. --Greg On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Robert Arkiletian <mailto:rob...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Frank McCormick mailto:bea...@videotron.c

Re: dnf errors on update

2015-12-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/15/2015 01:21 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/15/2015 10:10 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 12/15/2015 01:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/15/2015 09:51 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Having trouble trying to update Fedora 22 this morning. [root@localhost frankzen] # dnf update Failed to

Re: dnf errors on update

2015-12-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/15/2015 01:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/15/2015 09:51 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Having trouble trying to update Fedora 22 this morning. [root@localhost frankzen] # dnf update Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing' from 'http://mirror

dnf errors on update

2015-12-15 Thread Frank McCormick
Having trouble trying to update Fedora 22 this morning. [root@localhost frankzen] # dnf update Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing' from 'http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-updates-testing-22&arch=i386': Cannot prepare internal mirr

After Mate upgrade panel disappears.

2015-12-01 Thread Frank McCormick
DNF upgraded my Fedora 22 machine tonightmostly the newest 1.12 version of Mate. Now my bottom panel has disappeared. HTOP says mate panel is loaded but nothing is visible on the screen. Any suggestion on how I can debug this latest improvement :) Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: xfce in 21

2015-11-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/11/15 02:08 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:42:37 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: I am still running Fedora 21 with various desktops including XFCE. Because of various bugs in the version I am running I wanted to update to 4.12 -- 4.10 is the current Fedora 21 version. A

(SOLVED) Re: mate problem after upgrade to 22

2015-11-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 11/26/2015 12:57 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Upgraded my 21 system to 22 this morning...but using the script fedora-upgrade not anything else All seemed to go well...after reboot I went into my mate desktop and discovered the panel at the bottom of the screen is not displaying. A quick

mate problem after upgrade to 22

2015-11-26 Thread Frank McCormick
Upgraded my 21 system to 22 this morning...but using the script fedora-upgrade not anything else All seemed to go well...after reboot I went into my mate desktop and discovered the panel at the bottom of the screen is not displaying. A quick check showed it was loaded and seemingly running. Goo

xfce in 21

2015-11-24 Thread Frank McCormick
I am still running Fedora 21 with various desktops including XFCE. Because of various bugs in the version I am running I wanted to update to 4.12 -- 4.10 is the current Fedora 21 version. A user on the XFCE forum pointed me to a user repository on Fedora which has 4.12...and this morning I updat

Re: No sound on Fedora 21

2015-11-10 Thread Frank McCormick
On 11/10/2015 01:36 PM, Emmett Culley wrote: On 11/10/2015 07:32 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Fedora 21 and after the latest updates I have no sound on my machine. aplay -l shows no sound cards. Mixers such as alsamixer show only Pulseaudio master and the output is full. Can

No sound on Fedora 21 solved

2015-11-10 Thread Frank McCormick
I figured out what was wrong. After the recent updates I changed the grub installation to grub on my Debian partition. Everything seemed to go well until todays sound problems. lsmod showed there were NO sound modules loaded and uname -a showed a strange kernel version. I reinstalled grub from F

No sound on Fedora 21

2015-11-10 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Fedora 21 and after the latest updates I have no sound on my machine. aplay -l shows no sound cards. Mixers such as alsamixer show only Pulseaudio master and the output is full. Can someone suggest how to debug this ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: bad update info

2015-08-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 20/08/15 05:23 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:18:33 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: I still use Yum to update my Fedora 21 install...and today got this: Update notice FEDORA-2015-13197 (from updates-testing) is broken, or a bad duplicate, skipping. You should report this

bad update info

2015-08-20 Thread Frank McCormick
I still use Yum to update my Fedora 21 install...and today got this: Update notice FEDORA-2015-13197 (from updates-testing) is broken, or a bad duplicate, skipping. You should report this problem to the owner of the updates-testing repository. Update notice FEDORA-2015-12912 (from updates-testi

Re: slow loading https:\\facebook

2015-08-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 18/08/15 11:06 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: I am having an issue using chrome & loading facebook. It stalls, doesn't load. This is a new fedora 22 installation. I had this issue with my old computer, but I fixed it by disabling IPv6. I thought I did that already, but it is still loading slowy. O

NSA runs on Red Hat Linux

2015-07-14 Thread Frank McCormick
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/08/evil_nsa_runs_on_saintly_red_hat_enterprise_linux_apache/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.

mailto links under google-chrome in XFCE (Fedora 21)

2015-07-06 Thread Frank McCormick
Does anyone know how to setup Google-Chromes handling of mailto links in webpages ? I have run the xfce default handlier application, which has Google-Chrome as my preferred webbrowser and Thunderbird as my mail reader. Everytime I click a mailto link either nothing happens, or I get the messag

Re: Yum update warning

2015-05-28 Thread Frank McCormick
On 28/05/15 04:29 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Frank McCormick mailto:bea...@videotron.ca>> wrote: During todays update of 21 I got several warnings from Yum:  Updating  : 1:java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.45-39.b14.fc21.i686    Â

Re: Yum update warning

2015-05-28 Thread Frank McCormick
On 28/05/15 04:18 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 05/28/2015 02:11 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: What should I do about these ? They are harmless. It's notifying you that the Java security policy files you have are not being overwritten. If you choose to do anything about it you can d

Yum update warning

2015-05-28 Thread Frank McCormick
During todays update of 21 I got several warnings from Yum: Updating : 1:java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.45-39.b14.fc21.i686 3/28 warning: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.45-39.b14.fc21.i386/jre/lib/security/US_export_policy.jar created as /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-ope

Problems setting default mailer

2015-02-25 Thread Frank McCormick
I have been wrestling with setting the default mailer in Fedora 21 under mate. when I use xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler mailto mozilla-thunderbird.desktop It says the desktop environment is unknown. Can anyone tell me where the envronment under Mate is supposed to be set ? -

Re: What the "H" is Chrome and Firefox doing ??

2015-01-23 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/23/2015 05:20 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: Hard Drive runs constantly, I don't get quite the blockage described in the original post, but certainly when I start google-chrome for the very first time after a reboot, it spends vast amounts of time rattling the disk, which I assume has something t

Re: OT - hoping for some pointers ....

2014-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/12/14 07:27 PM, jd1008 wrote: I have been looking for 2TB 2.5", 7200RPM drive to no avail. There are 5400 rpm drives - but I found them considerably slower than 7200 RPM drives. If anyone has the "inside scoop" on this, would sure appreciate the info. Cheers, JD http://www.seagate.com

Re: Canon LIDE 120 scanner - should I expect this never to work?

2014-12-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/12/14 11:41 AM, poma wrote: You can try to temporarily resolve via udev rule, although this is material for bugzilla, downstream and upstream. http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/sane/sane-backends.git/tree/README.linux #n8 Permissions: While SANE automatically uses libusb when t

Re: What happened to system-config-display

2014-10-12 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/10/14 04:35 PM, jd1008 wrote: I used to be able to use it for changing resolutions. Is there no replacement or am I missing a package? It's been MIA since Fedora 15 - they suggest xrandr -- 1984 was not meant as a blueprint for democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@l

Re: Problems with external SATA disk

2014-10-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 10/03/2014 02:17 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 10/03/2014 12:01 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Fedora 20 (updated from 19) and have started having problems with an external SATA disk. It's connected through a USB adapter. Been there and done that. I was plagued with this proble

Problems with external SATA disk

2014-10-03 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Fedora 20 (updated from 19) and have started having problems with an external SATA disk. It's connected through a USB adapter. Smartd recognizes it but I see repeated errors in the journal about not being able to update smart data on the disk. A few days ago, (around the time I

Re: Fedup 19 to 20 problems

2014-09-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/09/14 02:11 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 14:03:18 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: Ran Fedup today to upgrade my 19 system to 20 - all the packages are downloaded, the fedup kernel is installed...and I have 2 new selections of the grub screen fedup and fedup rescue

Fedup 19 to 20 problems

2014-09-27 Thread Frank McCormick
Ran Fedup today to upgrade my 19 system to 20 - all the packages are downloaded, the fedup kernel is installed...and I have 2 new selections of the grub screen fedup and fedup rescue. However neither will complete the boot so the upgrade can go ahead. The boot stalls just after a message abo

Re: Adobereader won't install

2014-06-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 29/06/14 08:01 PM, Mickey wrote: On 06/29/2014 07:37 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 29/06/14 07:23 PM, Mickey wrote: On 06/29/2014 05:48 PM, JD wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris mailto:samor...@netspace.net.au>> wrote: On 06/30/2014 04:23 AM, Temlakos

Re: Adobereader won't install

2014-06-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 29/06/14 07:23 PM, Mickey wrote: On 06/29/2014 05:48 PM, JD wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris mailto:samor...@netspace.net.au>> wrote: On 06/30/2014 04:23 AM, Temlakos wrote: On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote: yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linu

Re: changing editor in m-c

2014-05-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/05/14 05:38 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2014 13:52:11 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I have spent sometime trying to figure out how to change the default editor in Midnight Commander. I am running XFCE most of the time on Fedora 19 I have tried suggestions from Googling

Re: changing editor in m-c

2014-05-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/05/14 05:32 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:52:11PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I have tried suggestions from Googling including exporting EDITOR in $HOME/bashrc...running select-editor ( doesn't appear to be on Fedora )and creating a .select_editor text file in

changing editor in m-c

2014-05-14 Thread Frank McCormick
I have spent sometime trying to figure out how to change the default editor in Midnight Commander. I am running XFCE most of the time on Fedora 19 I have tried suggestions from Googling including exporting EDITOR in $HOME/bashrc...running select-editor ( doesn't appear to be on Fedora )and cr

Re: F19: thunderbird-24.5.0-1.fc19.i686.rpm package issue

2014-05-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/05/14 06:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/06/2014 03:00 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 06/05/14 05:40 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 06/05/14 04:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/06/2014 12:49 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: Shouldn't yum/rpm refuse to install if the MD5 checksum is wrong ? Yes

Re: F19: thunderbird-24.5.0-1.fc19.i686.rpm package issue

2014-05-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/05/14 05:40 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 06/05/14 04:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/06/2014 12:49 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: Shouldn't yum/rpm refuse to install if the MD5 checksum is wrong ? Yes, I'd think that it should. Open a Bugzilla. One has been opened already. Ju

Re: F19: thunderbird-24.5.0-1.fc19.i686.rpm package issue

2014-05-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/05/14 04:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/06/2014 12:49 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: Shouldn't yum/rpm refuse to install if the MD5 checksum is wrong ? Yes, I'd think that it should. Open a Bugzilla. One has been opened already. -- When the rich get richer they get more powerful and that pu

Re: Freezing mouse cursor in 19

2013-12-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/12/13 06:13 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 26/12/13 04:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/26/2013 01:16 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: The mouse cursor remains in one place but as I move the mouse around I can see that it's hovering over other things. So it's only the pointer that st

Re: Freezing mouse cursor in 19

2013-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/12/13 04:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/26/2013 01:16 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: The mouse cursor remains in one place but as I move the mouse around I can see that it's hovering over other things. So it's only the pointer that stops moving, while the computer "knows"

Freezing mouse cursor in 19

2013-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
I have noticed the pasts few weeks the mouse cursor freezes whenever I watch youtube videos in chrome. I am running the same Chrome version in Debian Sid and it doesn't happen when I am running that distro. The mouse cursor remains in one place but as I move the mouse around I can see that it's ho

strange warnings in .xsession-errors

2013-12-17 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Mate (and Cinnamon) on Fedora 19...and lately noticed these errors in my .xsession-errors file when I am in Mate Does anyone know what's behind them ? mate-session[2557]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /home/frank/.config/autostart/sealertauto.desktop: Key file does not

Re: Cinnamon won't load panel.

2013-12-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 14/12/13 02:43 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: The past week or so I have been having trouble with my Cinnamon desktop on Fedora 19. The panel is not loading, and it **seems** like the wallpaper is also not loading, although because I run 2 gdesklets, the proper background can be seen on them

Cinnamon won't load panel.

2013-12-14 Thread Frank McCormick
The past week or so I have been having trouble with my Cinnamon desktop on Fedora 19. The panel is not loading, and it **seems** like the wallpaper is also not loading, although because I run 2 gdesklets, the proper background can be seen on them. The rest of the screen is black except for the

Re: failed updates

2013-12-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/12/13 09:16 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/08/13 21:59, Frank McCormick wrote: Well that solves the problem. What I don't understand is that so few reported the difficulties. Well it could be that some of us never got yum-3.4.3-119 installed. Was it ever pushed to updates or w

Re: failed updates

2013-12-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/12/13 07:31 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 20:23:42 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/linux/updates/19/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates Trying other mirror. I'm getting this message

Re: yum groups

2013-07-11 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/11/2013 12:21 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 07/11/2013 05:42 PM, Pittigher, Raymond - ES wrote: After a fedup to version 19 I no longer can add or remove groups. If I try to remove a desktop or even do a group list I get this message: yum group list Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-pa

Re: Setting wallpaper

2013-07-11 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/10/2013 11:13 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running IceWm on Fedora 19and it has orphaned the background setter I used to use (Nitrogen). It was convenient because it opened a window of thumbnails of all the images...and you could choose one to be set. Is there a way to do this in

Setting wallpaper

2013-07-10 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running IceWm on Fedora 19and it has orphaned the background setter I used to use (Nitrogen). It was convenient because it opened a window of thumbnails of all the images...and you could choose one to be set. Is there a way to do this in IceWm without Nitrogen ? Thanks -- --Cheers--

Re: Nitrogen

2013-07-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/08/2013 10:54 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 22:17:07 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: My favorite wallpaper setter Nitrogen has been orphanedso it's unavailable from the repositories. I run IceWm sometimes...and switch backgrounds quite often and nitroge

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