firefox not responding

2025-07-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
Firefox no longer works for me. After I start it up and click on a tab, it immediately gives me the "firefox not responding" popup. Also, I get two firefox processes instead of one. | ps -l -C firefox F S UID PIDPPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 0 t 1000 178490716

Re: firefox not responding

2025-07-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 30 Jun 2025, Michael Hennebry wrote: Firefox no longer works for me. After I start it up and click on a tab, it immediately gives me the "firefox not responding" popup. Also, I get two firefox processes instead of one. | ps -l -C firefox F S UID PIDPPID C PRI

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

2025-05-15 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 15 May 2025, Tim via users wrote: In the end I used the server install, it used a different method of booting up (I don't recall the details, just that it's not the same). Then installed a desktop, post-install. I'll probably have to do the same thing when I get around to updating it so

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

2025-05-14 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 14 May 2025, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 6:53?PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: Got the left port to boot F38, but not F42. I reenabled UEFI secure boot and Boot Menu seems to list it. When I press enter, instead of booting, i

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

2025-05-14 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 14 May 2025, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2025, Tim via users wrote: And asking the obvious question: Have you tried different USB ports on the computer? Some may not be an option for booting from. Yes. I've read that HP's like left ports, but I've tried

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

2025-05-14 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 14 May 2025, Tim via users wrote: And asking the obvious question: Have you tried different USB ports on the computer? Some may not be an option for booting from. Yes. I've read that HP's like left ports, but I've tried both. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Those parts

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

2025-05-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 13 May 2025, Michael Hennebry wrote: I can get to the menuing system, but am at a loss as to what to do once I get there. Does HP document its firmware anywhere? I finally found this: http://www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05166986.pdf Still do not know what to do. Cannot get either F38 or

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

2025-05-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 13 May 2025, Marco wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2025 21:22:30 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: Anyone know how to bbot from USB? F10 opens the UEFI settings. Check the boot options there, as it is possible to disable certain devices for boot. I can get to the menuing system, but am

how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

2025-05-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 12 May 2025, Michael Hennebry wrote: I also have an HP EliteBook 840 G3 laptop that currently has Windows 10 and F39. I'd been hoping to install F42 on both machines the same way. The laptop has no DVD drive. Alas, I no longer have any idea how I got F39 onto the laptop. It no l

Re: F42 live hangs at boot

2025-05-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 12 May 2025, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2025, George N. White III wrote: See: <https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Core-3-Stalls-Boot-Fix> The 3 should be a 2. That seems to imply that the solution is for me to build an install medium with a recent kernel or t

Re: F42 live hangs at boot

2025-05-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 12 May 2025, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 2:04?AM Michael Hennebry < HP Compaq dc5800 . Bought it used. One of the stickers mentions Vista. It will boot from USB. Once upon a time, I installed F39 on an SD card using a USB adapter. It will still boot from t

Re: F42 live hangs at boot

2025-05-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 10 May 2025, Go Canes wrote: My suggestion would be: - re-do the checksum verification against the download to make sure it hasn't gotten damaged in the meantime. 'Tis good. - dd the iso to the SD card - do the checksum verification against the SD card. If this passes the copy on th

Re: F42 live hangs at boot

2025-05-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 10 May 2025, Samuel Sieb wrote: What kind of computer are you trying to boot on and how old? I've had issues with older devices and USB. One in particular I had to burn a DVD to install. HP Compaq dc5800 . Bought it used. One of the stickers mentions Vista. It will boot from USB. On

Re: F42 live hangs at boot

2025-05-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 10 May 2025, Go Canes wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 3:05?PM Michael Hennebry wrote: I downloaded Fedora-Workstation-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso and followed directions to check the checksum. So you should have a good download. dd'ed the file to /dev/sdf . At the time, that was

F42 live hangs at boot

2025-05-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
I downloaded Fedora-Workstation-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso and followed directions to check the checksum. dd'ed the file to /dev/sdf . At the time, that was a USB adapter for an SD card. cp'ed /dev/sdf to f1.iso . cp copied more than was dd'ed, so I interupted it. cmp told me Fedora-Workstation-Live-4

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 12 Mar 2025, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:39 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: On 3/12/25 15:03, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:29 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: That doesn't apply in Konsole for one. Don't know if it applies in other terminal emulato

Re: internal network

2025-03-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
What is daisy-chaining? Multi-drop bus (each device connected to a common wire)? Forwarding (each device has two distinct connections)? Something else? Discovering the topology was easy. Details, not so much. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
sudo flatpak repair did the trick. flatpak now takes up only 140 M. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods -- _

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/17/2025 04:22 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Is there a command that will tell me what packages depend on flatpak? I realize I could do a remove command and see what else would be destroyed, but that means one bad key press and I could lose a bunch of my

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
Is there a command that will tell me what packages depend on flatpak? I realize I could do a remove command and see what else would be destroyed, but that means one bad key press and I could lose a bunch of my system. dnf does not seem to have a --dryrun option. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-16 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, Tim via users wrote: Michael Hennebry wrote: After my most recent sudo dnf upgrade, /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects is using up most of my /var partition. sudo dnf clean all did not help. Previously when my /var ran low, the problem was a directory named cache that I could

/var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-16 Thread Michael Hennebry
After my most recent sudo dnf upgrade , /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects is using up most of my /var partition. sudo dnf clean all did not help. Previously when my /var ran low, the problem was a directory named cache that I could just remove. Not this time. What can I do to reclaim somme room for m

Re: Opengl Access

2024-12-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 26 Dec 2024, Stephen Morris wrote: I've done a further check of the functionality by loading Plasma under X11, and the Opengl initialisation error doesn't occur, so it looks like it is an issue specific to Wayland. I did that with F38, but the X11 that comes with F39 will not run on m

Re: Opengl Access

2024-12-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 26 Dec 2024, Stephen Morris wrote: Thanks Patrick, I'll check that out. In the KDE menus, under category multimedia there is an entry called "Videos", which I thought was installed as part of installing Fedora. The message it produces is "Unable to initialise Opengl support". I'll che

Re: conflicts will not let me install DeVeDe and ffmpepg

2024-12-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: DeVeDe produces a good .iso file and then offers to burn it with brasero. Brasero will burn it, but the result is "incompatible" with my DVD player, Trying to burn it directly with brasero produces "unknown disc image type". Burni

Re: conflicts will not let me install DeVeDe and ffmpepg

2024-12-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: 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

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 i

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 i

conflicts will not let me install DeVeDe and ffmpepg

2024-12-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
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 ffmpeg-free-6.1.2-1.fc40.x86_64 - package ffmpeg

Brasero: Impossible to link plugin pads

2024-12-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
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. When I start brasero from the command line, I don't get that, but it want to make a SVCD and tells me my project is to big. What trigg

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:16:39 -0600 "Michael Hennebry" wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an via users wrote: I am a retired Sysadmin who fully understands all the frustrations brought about

Re: QR code scanning

2024-11-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Michael Hennebry said: Any suggestion on what QR code reader to use with firefox on FC39 or FC40? If CLI is okay, save an image (take a screenshot if needed) and use zbarimg from the zbar package. Thanks. I wanted a recommendation

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an via users wrote: I am a retired Sysadmin who fully understands all the frustrations brought about by the SW installation without real control. Although only for my system, I regularly build a SW package (RPM) for SW

Re: QR code scanning

2024-11-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, Stephen Morris wrote: On 26/11/24 09:08, Michael Hennebry wrote: Any suggestion on what QR code reader to use with firefox on FC39 or FC40? I haven't seen any QR code scanners with firefox, the only method I've seen or used is to scan the QR code with a sca

QR code scanning

2024-11-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
Any suggestion on what QR code reader to use with firefox on FC39 or FC40? -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods -- __

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-22 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 22 Nov 2024, Tim via users wrote: I do understand the "don't update" mentality. More by luck than expertise they've gotten something to work, and they don't want to risk changing anything. But the decision gets taken away from them when they're interacting with other things over the ne

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 21 Nov 2024, Tim via users wrote: Person comes along with my THIS won't do THAT. You spend some time diagnosing, then downloading a few months worth of updates that they never did (which is always a slow thing, no matter how fast your internet is). Reboot. More downloads... Reboot.

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:48:24 -0600 "Michael Hennebry" wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an via users wrote: I am a retired Sysadmin who fully understands all the frustrations brought about by the SW installation without real control. Alt

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an via users wrote: I am a retired Sysadmin who fully understands all the frustrations brought about by the SW installation without real control. Although only for my system, I regularly build a SW package (RPM) for SW, which is not in distribution. Which is actua

Re: gcc/gsl

2024-11-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, Roger Heflin wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 4:25?PM Patrick Dupre wrote: How different are the values? How many significant figures match? 0? 5? relatve difference: 2.7e-8 "noise" ~ 1e-35 values < 2e-23 What significant figure is it of the result? Heavy calc

Re: OT: 404 not found from github

2024-11-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
As noted in another post, starting over from github.com did the trick. On Thu, 14 Nov 2024, Tim via users wrote: In Firefox's setting, go into the privacy & security section, there's a cookies and site data sub-section with a clear button. That "clear" button pops up a window with options, rat

Re: OT: 404 not found from github

2024-11-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/13/24 2:28 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I tried reloading a number of ways. They all seem to have "worked". Noe were effective. I tried both reloading the page I clicked on and the page I got to. No go. Firefox does not seem to offer the

Re: gcc/gsl

2024-11-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 14 Nov 2024, Stephen Morris wrote:     Just my 2 cents worth. I develop at work in a language called SAS, which is interpretive like Python is. I see the sort of precision issues you are highlighting all the time, and the software vendor has written papers (which I can't lay my hands o

Re: OT: 404 not found from github

2024-11-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-11-12 at 22:04 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: When I try to login to github from my usual computer (FC40) using my usual account on said computer, I do not get asked for my user name and password, instead I get 404 not found

OT: 404 not found from github

2024-11-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
When I try to login to github from my usual computer (FC40) using my usual account on said computer, I do not get asked for my user name and password, instead I get 404 not found oginx The second line might be off. Switching accounts on my computer allows me to login to github. How do I

Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40

2024-11-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 6 Nov 2024, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: I recently got a 16TB USB disk and was trying to mount it on Fedora 40 using spacefm. I get the following: Mount /dev/sdb: I think that you need a number after sdb . Do you have it formatted as one massive filesystem? My first instinct was

Re: stop posting replies of replies of replies of replies of replies of replies of replies...

2024-11-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
When a top post quotes boilerplate, one case be certain that it's a case of don't care or TH;DDI. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John

Re: stop posting replies of replies of replies of replies of replies of replies of replies...

2024-10-29 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, Tim via users wrote: When you post to this group crop out all the quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes quotes of quotes of It makes it damn near impossible to re

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 5 Oct 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: Did the survey distinguish between Fedora core (or whatever the term is not) and RHEL? Oops: whatever the term is now -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessa

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 5 Oct 2024, Tim via users wrote: Researching do companies use Fedora? (I should have searched for do *big* companies...) "We have data on 23,511 companies that use Fedora. The companies using Fedora are most often found in United States and in the Information Technology and Services ind

Re:

2024-07-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 17 Jul 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Again, OT, but many people who think voting systems are simple haven't actually thought it through (and experienced IT experts are particularly prone to this fallacy), I mean it's just counting isn't it?). The real world problem is not the technolo

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-16 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 15 Jul 2024, Jeffrey Walton wrote: That's called an Appeal to Authority. On the password expiration item, the authority was the DoD. It is a fallacious argument. They should have appealed to a god, like Yahweh, Jesus or Allah. They would get more blind followers. Or Kahan. Appeal to au

Re: make a bootable dvd

2024-07-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: The OP definitely asked for a tool to create a bootable dvd. With a gui, this may be done through k3b. As a commandline tool, wodim should work, even the dd command: dd used to work. I've even used cp. It's been a while. So far as I kno

Re: crazy dependencies

2024-07-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 1 Jul 2024, Lukas Middendorf wrote: It's likely some update of the evolution package that makes it depend on the gstreamer plugins now (that error proves that the dependency is real). You could not have avoided that by not installing the gstreamer plugins. Installing or updating evolut

Re: brlaser fails to build

2024-06-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 28 Jun 2024, Jerry James wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 3:47?PM Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 28 Jun 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: I recently installed F40. My Brother HL-L2360DW printer is one of the few that fedora linus's does not handle by default. In the past, brlaser,

Re: brlaser fails to build

2024-06-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 29 Jun 2024, Lukas Middendorf wrote: On 28/06/2024 23:32, Michael Hennebry wrote: I recently installed F40. My Brother HL-L2360DW printer is one of the few that fedora linus's does not handle by default. In the past, brlaser, https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser , has helped me o

Re: brlaser fails to build

2024-06-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 28 Jun 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: I recently installed F40. My Brother HL-L2360DW printer is one of the few that fedora linus's does not handle by default. In the past, brlaser, https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser , has helped me out of that difficulty. This time, no go: De

brlaser fails to build

2024-06-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
I recently installed F40. My Brother HL-L2360DW printer is one of the few that fedora linus's does not handle by default. In the past, brlaser, https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser , has helped me out of that difficulty. This time, no go: Despite doing a sudo dnf install 'cups*' , make tells gives

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/24/24 5:58 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Note that gstreamer1-plugins-ugly is from RPMfusion because of licensing issues. # dnf search -v plugins-ugly Have it now, but it did not help. Any

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2024-06-23 at 17:54 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: Strange that firefox can play it, but totem cannot. AFAIK Firefox has its own built-in codecs, while totem uses the gstreamer library and plugins. Here's what I have:

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 20 Jun 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2024, Roger Heflin wrote: You would need to find the log file that starts up Xorg after you login it. There are a number of things that can be set wrong and/or missing that will cause Xorg to attempt to start and fail and exit like

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2024-06-21 at 09:44 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: Possibly related: totem does not play movies. totem complains that it cannot initialize openGL support. Correction: could not initi

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: Possibly related: totem does not play movies. totem complains that it cannot initialize openGL support. Correction: could not initialise openGL support I've installed pretty much everything I can think of, including *opengl* , *openGL* and

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
A bit more info: hennebry@fedora:~$ glxinfo -B name of display: :0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer): Vendor: Mesa Project (0x8086) Device: i915 (chipset: Q33) (0x29d2) Version: 24.1.1 Accelerated: yes Video memory: 38

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
From /home/hennebry/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log [ 81949.159] (WW) glamor requires at least 128 instructions (64 reported) [ 81949.159] (EE) modeset(0): Failed to initialize glamor at ScreenInit() time. [ 81949.159] (EE) Fatal server error: [ 81949.159] (EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for drive

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Tim via users wrote: Tim: Michael Hennebry wrote: I could not login. The screen would blink. Sometimes I would briefly see a cursor. I'd be back at the login screen. [ 40469.778] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/hennebry/.local/share/xorg/

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
The mail server I use for fedora is not mine and it was down for a bit. On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2024-06-20 at 00:30 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: I just discovered something interesting: None of the accounts on my machine will login with Xorg. The option is offered

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 20 Jun 2024, Roger Heflin wrote: You would need to find the log file that starts up Xorg after you login it. There are a number of things that can be set wrong and/or missing that will cause Xorg to attempt to start and fail and exit like this. F39 puts the log file here on my machine

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
I just discovered something interesting: None of the accounts on my machine will login with Xorg. The option is offered, but is does not work. For F40, I had selected gnome-classic with Xorg. New accounts defaulted to gnome with Wayland. When I made a new hennebry account, even with an old home di

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, Barry wrote: You could login at a console and eliminate the gui as a problem. Type alt-ctrl-f3 to get a console. Thank you for that suggestion. I could login from a console. Clearly the problem was not my password. Auto-relabel did not get me back to the gui, but just getti

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:24:48 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: My usual strategy is to boot a live disk and to edit the passwd and shadow files directly. My strategy is to boot a live cd, then chroot into the copy on disk and use the passwd command

password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
I recently installed F40 from DVD. F40 and I are having a difference of opinion regarding what password I gave the initial user. F40 is winning. I find it hard to believe I typed in the same wrong password twice, but it's F40's opinion that counts. I try to login: click on the user and type in my

Re: Thunderbird - Wayland / other apps

2024-06-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 17 Jun 2024, Stephen Morris wrote: I'm not sure this is helpful, but it may be an attempt to emulate windows. I have a similar issue under Windows 10 where all apps, not relative to the screen saver, when minimised and subsequently maximised display on the monitor configured as the pri

Re: getting out of bridge mode

2024-05-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 22 May 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: Hard reset did the trick. Apparently power cycling does not do a hard reset. Bridge mode is gone and I can login. Actually there was still a problem. Even though Wifi was back on, the router was still not connecting to the Midco-tivo. Made no sense

Re: getting out of bridge mode

2024-05-22 Thread Michael Hennebry
Hard reset did the trick. Apparently power cycling does not do a hard reset. Bridge mode is gone and I can login. Thanks folks. Time for a nap. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goa

Re: getting out of bridge mode

2024-05-22 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 22 May 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/21/24 11:48 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: You probably need your ISP to do that.  Once it's in bridge mode, it's basically invisible.  Whatever device is connected to it has a direct internet conn

Re: getting out of bridge mode

2024-05-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 21 May 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: You probably need your ISP to do that. Once it's in bridge mode, it's basically invisible. Whatever device is connected to it has a direct internet connection now. You might be able to access it if you can figure out the IP address. Do you remember w

getting out of bridge mode

2024-05-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
I'm running F38 with an Arris router provided by Midcontinent. The connection is by ethernet cable. Somehow the router got into bridge mode which turns off wifi. I've tried to login to turn off bridge mode. No go. I eventually get a popup saying the operation timed out. After dismissing the popup,

Re: Live USB extra space

2024-04-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 27 Apr 2024, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: I "Finally" have a customer interested in Fedora. I talked him into letting me spin a Live USB flash drive for him to play with before we jump ahead. Question: Is there a way to use the extra space on the drive to install a few more programs

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
any time. Michael Hennebry: Not obvious. Presumably most GUIs would need to monitor the mouse. Presumably most GUIs would be started by the owner of the mouse. If xeyes is not allowed, presumably gnome-screenshot --include-pointer is not allowed either. Is it? If the issue is looking outside

Re: Fedora 40 is available

2024-04-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2024-04-26 at 08:22 +0930, Tim via users wrote: as far as xz, for F40, the affected version was only in updates- testing Thanks.  Also wondering how far back the breach went.  I remember reading that the person had being playing the lon

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 16:00 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: I'll bite: Wassa matter with xeyes? My guess would be that something monitoring mouse movements when those mouse movements could be related to another app is considered insecure. Wel

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 20 Apr 2024, George N. White III wrote: There are things Wayland won't permit (xeyes), and things that are yet to implemented. The latter may not get much attention if they aren't I'll bite: Wassa matter with xeyes? -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. The

Re: Failed to find a suitable stage1 device

2024-04-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 3 Apr 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: The efi partition probably needs to be bigger than that, but it also has to be mounted at /boot/efi as indicated. Ah! With custom partitioning, anaconda needs to be explicitly told the EFI partition is the

Re: Failed to find a suitable stage1 device

2024-04-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: The efi partition probably needs to be bigger than that, but it also has to be mounted at /boot/efi as indicated. Ah! With custom partitioning, anaconda needs to be explicitly told the EFI partition is the EFI partition. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.nd

Failed to find a suitable stage1 device

2024-04-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
While trying to install from Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-39-1.5.iso , I got the following: Failed to find a suitable stage1 device: EFI System Partition must be mounted on one of /boot/efi.; EFI System Partition cannot be of type None; EFI System Partition cannot be of type NTFS; EFI System Par

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/25/24 08:21, Michael Hennebry wrote: Thanks folks. Disabling UEFI mode did the trick, though I do not understand why it was necessary. I thought that recent Fedora DVDs worked with both legacy and UEFI. The Fedora-WS-Live-39-1.5 DVD does have an EFI

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 11:07 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: dmesg > /dev/nvme1n1 What's that about? My guess is that nvm stands for non-volatile memory. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental tech

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Thomas Cameron wrote: Fedora can install on either legacy BIOS mode or modern UEFI. But when it installs on UEFI systems, it creates a special partition mounted on /boot/efi. If you boot a system which was installed in BIOS mode in UEFI mode, it doesn't see that partition a

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
Thanks folks. Disabling UEFI mode did the trick, though I do not understand why it was necessary. I thought that recent Fedora DVDs worked with both legacy and UEFI. The Fedora-WS-Live-39-1.5 DVD does have an EFI directory. I didn't get a grub menu until disabling UEFI. -- Michael henne...@mai

HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
I've been trying to get an HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt to boot from dvd. So far no luck. I've managed to get DVD listed as the first boot entry for both UEFI and legacy. The machine seems to try and fail. The error messages go by rather fast. I think I've seem things like "invalid header" and "no such

Re: How to discover latex fonts

2024-02-16 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, Andras Simon wrote: This is about making \fontsize work, not the warnings, which some other google hits suggest you can ignore. And you don't need to \usepackage{fontspec} for \fontsize to work. (But maybe you're using it for something else.) I was trying to change the fo

Re: How to discover latex fonts

2024-02-14 Thread Michael Hennebry
Antykwa Toruńska Condensed is at https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/antykwatorunskacondensed/ . Somehow I discovered that I needed texlive-antt-10:svn18651.2.08-65.fc38.noarch to use package anttor , so I installed it with dnf. No go: LaTeX Info: Font shape T1/anttc/mx/n has incorrect series value `m

How to discover latex fonts

2024-02-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
Whenever I run latex with anything other than the default font, whatever that is, I get a font not found message. How do I discover what fonts latex can use and the names and methods to invoke them? Search lead me to fc-list, but it did not help. It listed a bunch of files, none of which were in

Re: double sided printing

2024-01-18 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 17 Jan 2024, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 1/17/24 01:32, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, How do I set up my new Brother HL-L2300D for two sided printing? -T CUPS driver ays is has two sides and puts it as "sides=one-sided" for the default. But I can find anywhere in my p

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-12-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 25 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: Hardware issues do not typically leave the machine up (except for intel/amd throttling down when getting hot, but even that will crash if it gets bad enough).install kernel-tools and run turbostat it

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 7 Dec 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: Usually there's a key you can press to get a boot selection menu so you can one-time boot from the USB without having to change the boot order. In my experiencem, external drives come before internal drives anyway. I've been bitten by this. -- Michael

Re: printer only prints in flip mode

2023-12-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 3 Dec 2023, Neal Becker wrote: I have a similar-sounding brother laserprinter. I hate to say it, but I found the available open-source driver didn't produce correct output with mine, I had to use the proprietary driver from brother: hll2395dwpdrv-4.0.0-1.i386.rpm Nope. Didn't work ei

Re: printer only prints in flip mode

2023-12-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 2 Dec 2023, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 12:04?AM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: My Brother HL-L2360DW B&W laser printer is only printing in flip mode, i.e., when it prints 8.5x11 two-sided portrait, to read the back page, one

printer only prints in flip mode

2023-12-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
My Brother HL-L2360DW B&W laser printer is only printing in flip mode, i.e., when it prints 8.5x11 two-sided portrait, to read the back page, one must flip it vertically by a short side, rather that horizontally by a long edge. The defaults for the printer is set to job-sheets=none, none media=n

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