Re: unable to get Fedora login screen.,:

2025-04-10 Thread R. G. Newbury
10 18:33:42 akmodsbuild: error: Failed build dependencies: 2025/04/10 18:33:42 akmodsbuild:     kernel-devel-uname-r = 6.13.9-200.fc41.x86_64 is needed by You need to run 'dnf install kernel-devel-6.13.9-200.fc41.x86_64' Then re-run akmods. --

Re: command line smtp mailer

2025-04-05 Thread R. G. Newbury
..while read line...). All entries are scriptable, so different recipients can receive different subject,message and attachments as desired R. Geoffrey Newbury -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: How to remove settings from a systemd unit file

2024-06-05 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2024-06-05 00:06, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: From: Jeffrey Walton On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 7:24 PM Sam Varshavchik wrote: So I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why attempts to push via DAV to a git repo were failing. However this apparently did not work.

F40: strange network issue after upgrade of laptop from F39

2024-05-23 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2024-05-23 19:20, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: F40: strange network issue after upgrade of laptop from F39 To:users@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID:<088547fa-c5dd-49f3-86a0-a09dba72a...@sieb.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed On 5/23/24 3:32

Re: Which scanner/copier do you use with Fedora?

2024-03-19 Thread R. G. Newbury
did over 200 pages without stopping, until a missed staple caused a blockage. Very fast in black and white, slightly slower in color. And small! About 3"x4"x 12" long. Very portable. (The ADS1000 has been superseded by the ADS1200). G. -- R. G

Re: Is there an officially Fedora supported replacement for,>,> the old rc.local? - still an issue

2022-07-19 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 07:37:12 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote> On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 22:25:03 -0400 R. G. Newbury wrote: This sleight-of-hand was posted by someone on an Arch distro forum/mailing list. I do not have his name, but kudos and thanks whoever you are. It works Those are my exact notes (

Re: Is there an officially Fedora supported replacement for,> the old rc.local? - still an issue

2022-07-18 Thread R. G. Newbury
Am 18.07.2022 um 22:18 schrieb Peter Boy: wrote I got it finally working. After some tests: It isn’t. The programs I have to start depend on the existence of some (virtual) network interfaces. rc.local is ordered after network.target, which doesn’t mean, the network is functional then. Theref

Re Re: Long timeouts on logging out/shutting down

2022-07-17 Thread R. G. Newbury
/2 or REXX... Lost to human memory.) And also reminds me why Linux can be considered a cult, as there are arcane and unknown rules controlling how things work. Geoff -- R. Geoffrey Newbury 954 Owenwood Drive Mississauga

Re: hardware RAID1 NVMe card?

2022-06-24 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2022-06-24 ToddAndMargo Any of you guys know of a PCIe card that will do hardware RAID 1 with two NVMe drives? I have found some, but they are way to elaborate, and as such, way too expensive. Asus makes the UltraQuad board. Asrock make the QuadUltra board. Both hold 4 nvme drives and can ra

Re: Getting a new printer/scanner

2022-06-19 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:54:16 Richard England wrote > So, it's time again for me to> get a new printer/scanner as the old one> just died. I hope it isn't too much off-topic to solicit advice on what to get so that it would work flawlessly with Fedora. I'm looking for a rather basic model. When I

Re: OT: problems with xsane

2022-05-15 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 5/15/22 12:46, Geoffrey Leach wrote: The Brother DS-640 is a USB-interfaces document scanner. I've been attempting to use it with the Xsane app. All I get is a 1/2" vertical stripe. AFAIK there is no option to Xsane that effects the displayed scan. OTOH, I've tried two DS-640 with the same resu

Re: Can new Fedora changes help users ?

2022-04-28 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2022-04-28 00:04, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: I think the answer's going to depend on the age. I have a 2007 era laptop that still works, though its battery doesn't, and is painfully burdened by modern Gnome. But managed Gnome from way back then quite acceptably. It has a n

Re: pipewire and wireplumber

2022-03-26 Thread R. G. Newbury
DJ Delorie wrote "R. G. Newbury" writes: If you don't mind answering, was it a Rhode Island Red cockerel or a hen which you sacrificed to learn these arcane secrets? And, full-moon at midnight, or dark of the moon? Or did this take moving up to a goat? It took a LOT of googl

Re: pipewire and wireplumber

2022-03-25 Thread R. G. Newbury
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 01:02:01 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote Subject: Re: pipewire and wireplumber R. G. Newbury wrote: DJ Delorie wrote Geoffrey Leach writes: Is there a 'Getting Started With pipewire' and/or wireplumber somewhere? Or should they 'just work' and I need to

Re: pipewire and wireplumber

2022-03-24 Thread R. G. Newbury
DJ Delorie wrote Geoffrey Leach writes: Is there a 'Getting Started With pipewire' and/or wireplumber somewhere? Or should they 'just work' and I need to check my connections? As a non-gnome (and non-display-manager) user, I share these .xsession snippets: # Required by pipewire, at least

Re: pipewire and wireplumber

2022-03-24 Thread R. G. Newbury
Geoffrey Leach wrote: I'm happy for you. For me, not so much :-( I've just installed Fedora 35 and have discovered to my dismay that previously-working (not at all sophisticated) audio no longer works. Is there a 'Getting Started With pipewire' and/or wireplumber somewhere? Or should they

Re: Help configuring internal network

2022-03-20 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2022-03-20 10:11 a.m., Tim wrote: If you want a predictable LAN, then I really only see two ways to manage that without major pain: 1. Run a DHCP server with a DNS server... 2. Manually configure each device to have a fixed IP. I think you left out a third method, which uses part of your

Re: Help configuring internal network

2022-03-20 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2022-03-20 8:00 a.m., Tim wrote R. G. Newbury wrote: Controlling an hdhr with a dhcp served IP address is basically impossible as it is hard to find that address and remember it for use in your program. Control of the unit with most digital tv programs requires a static IP address. Mythtv

Re: Help configuring internal network

2022-03-20 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2022-03-20 8:00 a.m., Tim >R. G. Newbury wrote: edit your /etc/hosts file to give the hdhomerun unit a fixed IP address. When has the /etc/hosts file ever given anything an IP address? You are correct, and I am completely wrong. A static address for the computer would be set by edit

Re: Help configuring internal network

2022-03-19 Thread R. G. Newbury
Geoffrey Leach wrote: It will take me a while to try to understand the output from your suggestions. In the meantime, yes, it is a direct cable to the hdhomerun. Then you will have to set a static IP address in your /etc/hosts file. There is some sort of NETGEAT unit listed in your output.

Re: Help configuring internal network

2022-03-19 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2022-03-19 7:46 p.m., Geoffrey Leach wrote F35, fresh install. I have an ethernet-connected device (HDHomerun, fwiw) newly re-compiled on the newly-installed F35 xfce4 workstation. As far as I can tell from trying every network analysis I can find, the connection is good (exception, no respon

Re: reinstalling fedora 35

2022-03-18 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2022-03-18 7:42 a.m., Angelo Moreschini wrote: I would like to ask for help about to choose the pertizioni to leave and those to format .. starting from the current situation that I transcribe below: As outlined a new install will re-format *everything* as a Fedora install over an existing

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-08 Thread R. G. Newbury
From: Patrick O'Callaghan On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 23:35 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: Has a 240G SSD for Fedora, and 2 500G nvme ssd's for storage (both in adapters as the MB has no M.2 slots). Somewhat OT, but do you notice a difference between the SSD and the NVMe+adapter combos? I do

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-07 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 10:21:05AM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 01:47 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: Hi. I am using Fedora 35 and everything  is working fine in general. But I was checking out my hardware and I realized that It is from 2013. My CPU is 4th generation intel

Re: Picking a new laptop

2022-02-01 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2022-02-01 10:22 a.m., users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Re: Picking a new laptop I recommend Lenovo. I have been using Thinkpads for about 20 years. Presently using an X61 and a T60, both of which are over 10 years old and quite usable. The X61 just needs a new battery a

Re: Identifying what is accessing a USB device.

2021-03-26 Thread R. G. Newbury
Subject: Identifying what is accessing a USB device. I have an external USB-3 2-disk docking station, and a script which can power up and down the drives as needed. I have a systemd automount unit that correctly powers up the dock when accessed, then mounts the drives (thanks Ed). After an

Re: Printing Hell

2020-12-19 Thread R. G. Newbury
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 10:20:11 -0600 From: Richard Shaw I've had my HP ENVY Photo 7800 series printer working fine for some time and then I got stupid. While looking for a BIOS update for my HP ENVY laptop I noticed there was a new firmware for my printer and went ahead and installed it. Since t

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-11 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2020-06-09 8:11 p.m.Stephen Morris wrote if in /etc/default/grub you have the entry GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true that inserts a line into the grub processes to use the new BLS standard,=20 in which case grub2-mkconfig and possibly grubby do nothing until that=20 entry is set to false. I have always

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:02:02 -0400 "Garry T. Williams" wrote On Monday, June 8, 2020 12:41:03 PM EDT R. G. Newbury wrote: On 2020-06-07 4:46 p.m., From: Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/7/20 10:31 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: It was apparently something to do with selinux. I usually disable

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2020-06-08 2:42 p.m.>Samuel Sieb wrote> On 6/8/20 9:41 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:>> On 2020-06-07 4:46 p.m., From: Samuel Sieb wrote:>>> On 6/7/20 10:31 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:>>>> Oddly 1) I was running as root... so*who/what*  was the 'unauthorized&

e: Hourly Error ,> Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2020-06-08 2:42 p.m.,Jonathan Billings wrote On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 12:41:03PM -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: Wow! So running as root causes error messages? Pull the other leg, it has bells on it! And why? Because this was immediately after a clean install to a brand new drive, while I was

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2020-06-07 4:46 p.m., From: Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/7/20 10:31 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: It was apparently something to do with selinux. I usually disable selinux as the first or second thing I do to a new install. I forgot to do that. That should never be necessary. Well obviously, it

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-07 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 10:30:04 -0600 Jerry James wrote On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 9:54 PM R. G. Newbury wrote: > Brand new Fedora 32 KDE spin installation. Seems to work nicely, except: > > I have an error notification popping up, every hour, in the bottom right > corner of the screen

Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-05 Thread R. G. Newbury
) Update Error Sender is not authorized to send message. Searching produces NO answers using any combination of those words. Can anyone assist? It's very annoying. R. Geoffrey Newbury ___ users mailing list --

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, ,> cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-11 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 7:15 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/11/20 9:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 23:18 +1030, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 09:25 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: the printing is largely of documents, but the printer sits for a while doing nothi

Re: Scanning Problem HP4620

2019-03-05 Thread R. G. Newbury
>Ed Greshko wrote: >Well, it is possible that the printers are defined such that cups can >access them but not >in such a way that hplip recognizes them. The scanner portion of the All-In-One machines is not handled by cups. If the OP runs hp-setup, selects 'Network' then 'Advanced' and 'Manu

Re: scanning from a network attached printer

2018-10-09 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 10/9/18 11:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2018-10-09 at 11:09 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So what is the equivalent way to do this from Fedora 28? Have you installed hplip? It was installed, and I can print to the printer.  I did some googling and found that I needed hplib-gu

Re: How to change the default Internet browser on F28?

2018-06-03 Thread R. G. Newbury
n does what it does, but, as noted, command line only, which kinda defeats the urge to "just click that random link - you know you want to". R. Geoffrey Newbury ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: How to change the default Internet browser on F28?

2018-06-01 Thread R. G. Newbury
27, KDE, Chrome, Thunderbird. Using xdg-settings does not work *for me*, nor do the various settings in the Thunderbird config, such as network.protocol-handler-app.http Any other possibilities? Anyone? Bueller? -- R. G

Re: tail for a list of files

2018-03-04 Thread R. G. Newbury
From: bruce Subject: Re: tail for a list of files On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/04/2018 11:15 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: find . -name "*.pdf" | tail -n 2 does not 'find' the files in canonical order: it outputs 124.pdf and 126.pdf What does it pr

Re: tail for a list of files

2018-03-04 Thread R. G. Newbury
From: Joe Zeff On 03/04/2018 11:15 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: find .  -name "*.pdf" | tail -n 2 does not 'find' the files in canonical order: it outputs 124.pdf and 126.pdf What does it print if you don't run it through tail? That exercise was left for those adv

Re: tail for a list of files

2018-03-04 Thread R. G. Newbury
From: Jonathan Ryshpan Subject: Re: tail for a list of files To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: <1520171408.2173.42.ca...@pacbell.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-PuQtDYwItgjfcLx2Crff" --=-PuQtDYwItgjfcLx2Crff Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-T

Re: Riddle me this: grep / regx experts

2018-02-03 Thread R. G. Newbury
Subject: Re: Riddle me this: grep / regx experts Allegedly, on or about 2 February 2018, R. G. Newbury sent: I am cleaning up some html code, using sed to standardize the formatting. I was searching for specific instances of code to amend using grep. In case you're not aware of it, ther

Re: Riddle me this: grep / regx experts

2018-02-02 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 11:04:01AM -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: A bug in regx handling??? I am cleaning up some html code . # grep -h '[0-9]*s[0-9]*">' temp >> Returns the example line with the 's[0-9]">' highlighted. Can anyone explain what

Riddle me this: grep / regx experts

2018-02-02 Thread R. G. Newbury
the 's' is either " or # Can anyone explain what is happening?. This isn't politics so the group [0-9] should not equal [0-9"#]. Or even [0-9\"\#]. -- R. Geoffrey Newbury 954 Owe

Re: DNF install of tesseract fails w call to old lib,> dependency

2017-01-24 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 01/23/2017 09:47 PM, Greshko On 01/24/17 06:43, R. G. Newbury wrote: I used tesseract in an ocr script on F24 last year. Worked well Did a new install of F25, including a dnf install of tesseract, ( and leptonica and leptonica-devel which are actually dependencies) tesseract fails, calling

DNF install of tesseract fails w call to old lib dependency

2017-01-23 Thread R. G. Newbury
I used tesseract in an ocr script on F24 last year. Worked well Did a new install of F25, including a dnf install of tesseract, ( and leptonica and leptonica-devel which are actually dependencies) tesseract fails, calling for liblept.so.3 I did a dnf upgrade of all three, just to be sure, but

Re: unable to start rc-local.service[SOLVED]

2016-09-07 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 09/05/2016 05:07 AM, oe Zeff wrote: Subject: Re: unable to start rc-local.service[SOLVED] To: Community support for Fedora users Message-ID: <57cc87ea.3090...@zeff.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 09/04/2016 01:34 PM, François Patte wrote: > Just unwanted spa

Re: sed question

2016-07-21 Thread R. G. Newbury
l replacement marker, usually ', is changed to " sed gets confused when dealing with mixed ' and " markers, I suspect that this is your problem. So use the opposite marker outside the sed replacement, when you have one inside. -- R. Geoffr

Re: X server dies on startup with kernel-4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64

2015-12-19 Thread R. G. Newbury
Ed Greshko wrote On 12/18/15 20:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >After rebooting I get the login screen but Plasma segfaults and Gnome >gives an oops and sad face so I've had to fall back to LxQT until I can >figure out what's going on. FWIW, I can confirm that akmod-nvidia-358.16-1.fc23.x86_64

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-19 Thread R. G. Newbury
mix A faster and much more useful route is to install isomaster on your main computer and use it to edit the iso image. I have used to to remove unused packages and to add packages. It is extremely easy to use. It's been around since 2007 or Fedora 7 so I would suspect that it's stab

Re: Update on the KDE KF5 build boondoggle,Message-ID:

2015-11-04 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 11/04/2015 01:40 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > >"I don't have to be faster than the bear--I only have to be faster than >YOU!" > And after undergoing 6 surgeries on my feet and looking at having one to repair a damaged knee, I do believe most corpses could outrun me, I th

Re: Thunderbird Opening Links

2015-09-30 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 09/30/2015 01:44 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: From: Ed Greshko To: Can anyone assist? My google-fu produces nothing. What desktop are you using? And what does F21 on this desktop, with kde uname -a Linux tor1.mandamus.org 3.19.5-200.fc21.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Apr 20 19:51:

Thunderbird Opening Links

2015-09-30 Thread R. G. Newbury
ink I have properly set firefox as the default browser. BUT, when I click on a link in an email in tbird, Nothing happens (even if firefox is open). Getting tired of copying link location, and pasting into the address bar. Can anyone assist? My google-fu produces nothing. -- R. Geoffr

Re: Making rc.local work on F20.

2014-10-27 Thread R. G. Newbury
thing properly loaded. Note that I have to remove and re-install modules in rc.local to ensure the correct loading order. YMMV R. Geoffrey Newbury -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.f

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

2014-10-22 Thread R. G. Newbury
(mysqld) /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start starts mysql but I cannot get it to start on boot. My wife's MacAir is a black box to me too. I have NO idea how services are started on a Mac. Google may be your friend. - R. Geoffrey Newbury

Re: selecting some kind of files using the resync command

2014-10-22 Thread R. G. Newbury
l files which have been updated relative to the destination version. (And you may then want to use --delete-after.). -- R. Geoffrey Newbury -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: Fedora support for the Asus ,> N-150 usb wifi adapter

2014-08-05 Thread R. G. Newbury
ipset variants is here: https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819xwhich is based on, but extends the wireless.kernel.org page. The rtl8192su driver (which is still a work in progress apparently) is intended to replace the r8712u driver, and may be worth testing. -- R. Geoffrey Newbury

Re: Why do we use systemd

2014-07-09 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 09/07/14 05:35 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: On 7 Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:36:37 -0700 From: Joe Zeff On 07/08/2014 11:40 PM, lee wrote: >When something is disguised or hidden, it is not disabled. It is >camouflaged or concealed. Camouflage, concealment, hiding, disguise

Question for Fedora users of Garmin nuvi GPS

2014-07-09 Thread R. G. Newbury
x27;t use their Windows based application. Well that answers one question I had and reduces the manufacturers list by one. I *won't* be looking at a Garmin. R. Geoffrey Newbury -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-06 Thread R. G. Newbury
>>> If Mr. Poettering objects to such analysis, he should stop performing it on those who disagree with him. Bullshit, he hasn't done anything to you personally. There is no reason to behave like you're doing here. So in your view, I have no right to object to his behavior but you have a ri

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-06 Thread R. G. Newbury
lee wrote: >Kevin Fenzi writes: >pulseaudio, which I leave alone right up to the moment I have >problems--any problems--with sound, and then eliminate as a usually >successful first stab at a solution. How do you eliminate pulseaudio on Fedora? It doesn't do anything but get in the way. You

Re: Network availability systemd dependency failure at boot

2014-07-05 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 08:13:45 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: Everything was always broken I'm pretty sure everything was always broken. I never had the combination of postfix, dovecot, and stunnel operational more than about 10% of the time with pure systemd. I just took a more practical approac

Re: ARRGH: Anaconda F20: dumb Dumber DUMBEST!

2014-01-23 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 23/01/14 12:49 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jan 23, 2014, at 8:52 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: >Now this sort of blind stupidity really irritates the hell out of me. > >I was trying to do a stand-alone install of F20 on my laptop. The installer knows that I have an Intel 3965 wifi s

ARRGH: Anaconda F20: dumb Dumber DUMBEST!

2014-01-23 Thread R. G. Newbury
. Anaconda burped in the middle of the install with a fatal error: No more mirrors! I presume it was searching for an update (for PackageKit)... WTF??? Whoever thought that requiring network access was a good idea needs to be taken out and spanked. Geoff -- R. Geoffrey Newbury

IPv6 breakage in NetworkManager

2014-01-23 Thread R. G. Newbury
ometimes I can get it to re-connect: about 30% of the time. IF I can get F20 installed, I will disable NM and move to wicd which seems to work. R. Geoffrey Newbury -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Scanimage Fails at 1200 dpi with sane_read I/O error

2013-08-13 Thread R. G. Newbury
hangs in a perpetual'Cancelling Scan'. And this used to work. I have 700 pages already scanned at 1200 dpi... Anyone have any ideas on how to debug this? -- R. Geoffrey Newbury Mandamus Publishing Inc. Suite 106, 150

Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

2013-01-05 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 01/05/2013 07:01 AM, Tim wrote: I don't know about elsewhere, but here in Australia, high resolution TV has been a bit of a flop. We only have about 3 high res TV channels out of about 16, and much of what they put to air is standard resolution, anyway. And, oddly enough, one of the better

Re: Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

2012-12-30 Thread R. G. Newbury
It won't accept the key and the mode. It will only accept Mode as Managed. the key is the one in the router, under Wireless Security . The problem is the wireless network is not starting. It cannot find the Gateway 192.168.1.1 , and that is the correct setting How do you start the wireless n

Re: automatic helpers which really suck!

2012-12-13 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 12/13/2012 01:07 PM, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bonjour, > > I installed f-17 and wanted to set my mail with thunderbird. > > New account, name, mail address, smtp*immediately* thunderbird > helper goes on the web to check my email se

Re: Getting rid of nepomukserver

2012-11-23 Thread R. G. Newbury
Ed wrote On 11/22/2012 12:29 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: > >I have turned off 'Desktop Search' in Settings. I have deleted all executables in /usr/bin with 'nepomuk' in the name (and virtuoso). I have nuked the nepomuk folders hiding down in ~/.kde. >But after I reb

Getting rid of nepomukserver

2012-11-21 Thread R. G. Newbury
I have turned off 'Desktop Search' in Settings. I have deleted all executables in /usr/bin with 'nepomuk' in the name (and virtuoso). I have nuked the nepomuk folders hiding down in ~/.kde. But after I rebooted I *still* ended up with a 'nepomukserver' running. ps -aux says it is started by kd

Re: disabling graphical boot and shutdown in Fedora 17

2012-11-05 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 11/05/2012 07:00 AM, sergio wrote: > When shutting down from the console, a graphical screen appears showing > the Fedora logo. That's really silly and I'd like to turn that off --- > but how? > Delete 'rghb' in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub Or just uninstall the plymouth the

Problem with wpa_supplicant

2012-10-04 Thread R. G. Newbury
Has anyone else noticed a problem with wireless authentication using wpa_supplicant? Following a router change and consequent messing with passphrases, my Thinkpad with iwl4965 chipset has ceased to authenticate. It can easily connect with the wireless router if the router is 'open' but fails o

Re: Production server running from USB stilck with /var on,>> >HD

2012-07-10 Thread R. G. Newbury
>On 10.07.2012 06:07, Philip Rhoades wrote: >>People, >> >>I have been using RH and Fedora since the beginning and love it! So even putting /var on the hard disk would not help much? >You should probably assemble a little cluster and then use kvm for >virtualization. It's very speed effi

Systemctl hates mysqld: refuses to start Fedora 16 (LONG)

2012-07-02 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 07/02/2012 10:25 AM,"R. G. Newbury" wrote Subject: Systemctl hates mysqld: refuses to start Fedora 16 (LONG) Ooops! My apologies for sending this twice. Not awake, or too much coffee or whatever. The question still remains however. Geoff -- users mailing

Systemctl hates mysqld: refuses to start Fedora 16 (LONG)

2012-07-02 Thread R. G. Newbury
Well I am stumped. I have a puzzler which needs the brain-power and knowledge which hangs around here. Systemctl on fedora 16 will NOT start mysqld. The problem started on Thursday evening when I rebooted. Uptime was then 60 days. Mysqld was running, but mythfrontend was having difficulty c

Fwd: Systemctl hates mysqld: Fails writing to /tmp

2012-07-01 Thread R. G. Newbury
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: "R. G. Newbury" > Date: 1 July, 2012 12:50:57 PM EDT > To: Fedora-List > Subject: Systemctl hates mysqld: Fails writing to /tmp > > I am stumped. I have a puzzler which needs the brain-power and knowledg

Re: recover from a bad F16 install

2012-03-19 Thread R. G. Newbury
> Aaron wroteL For what you are doing all you need is a LiveCD and fdisk applied to a unmounted disk. There is a option inn fdisk to clear all partitions from the disk which will leave you in a position to partition the disk from scratch. parted and/or partitionmagic are not needed. I assume that

Re: recover from a bad F16 install

2012-03-18 Thread R. G. Newbury
ller will leave an mbr partitioned disk as is, but will use gpt if the disk is blank or if you let *it* partition the drive. Thus another poster's comment: 'never let fedora partition your disk.' Always pre-partition, and select 'Custom', so you are in control of the parti

Re: recover from a bad F16 install

2012-03-17 Thread R. G. Newbury
I have an install DVD that I used to do a fresh install of F16 onto a i386/686 machine. I then used it to do a fresh install of a second machine. Midway through the formatting/partitioning, it "popped up a bug". When I reported it, it pointed me to 743778 which was closed as "notabug". At that p

Re: US ISPs become 'copyright cops' starting July 12

2012-03-17 Thread R. G. Newbury
have to open their OWN code databases up for examination. They cannot prove it was copied WITHOUT producing the original.Oh, and did they *register* the copyright with the USCO??? So that is NOT going to happen. -- R. Geoffrey Newbury -- u

Re: schroedinger

2012-02-09 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Tuesday 07 February 2012 04:32:10 pm Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 02/07/2012 07:17 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:15 PM, david walcroft wrote: > >> My "yum update" today updated this program,I cannot find any > >> doc's, only "schroedinger's cat" on google.

Re: libvpx issues, anyone?

2012-02-04 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 02/04/2012 03:56 AM, Paul Smith wrote: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Roger wrote: >> Does anyone except me had problems today with updating their F16 systems? >> I seem to have dependency problems regarding ffmpeg-libs and/or libvpx. My >> repos are standard Fedora ones and rpmfusion.

Re: f16 - Brain dead wireless network manager

2012-01-17 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 01/17/2012 04:11 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: f16 and gnome 3 I have to go into Network Settings, turn off wireless and turn it on. ARGH! Then I am not getting anything to work on the Hyatt SSID, < snip> I would like some help on getting things to work better... I gave up on NetworkM

Re: Fedora 16 test

2012-01-03 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 01/03/2012 07:00 AM, Roger wrote: > I just spent this evening playing with the Fedora 16 live iso on a dvd. Wow! Just a couple of questions about clean installing over Fedora 14. Is there an option for it to not overwrite the home and /var/www/html directories? Don't like the font render

Re: Boot Disk

2011-12-30 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 12/29/2011 11:30 AM, Alan Cox wrote: which disk the initial load occurred from? I did run dmidecode and found nothing of value. dmidecode is the wrong interface. EDD provides the drive to BIOS mapping tables, DMI provides static configuration data. Your two hard drives are otherwise (I pr

Re: Boot Disk

2011-12-29 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 12/27/2011 11:21 AM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: >> Is there a way to identify which disk the BIOS is using to boot from (eg >> disk 0 or 1) when I don't have physical access to the system to view the >> BIOS settings? > If both disks h

Re: Bug 648732 – Intel wireless broken on 11n for many users

2011-12-06 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 12/05/2011 10:47 PM, Lawrence Graves > On 12/05/2011 01:32 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: >> > On 12/04/2011 09:44 PM, Lawrence Graves >>> >> On 12/04/2011 07:44 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> > >> > 1 Add rdblacklist=nouveau to kernel grub line (done

Re: Bug 648732 – Intel wireless broken on 11n for many users

2011-12-05 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 12/04/2011 09:44 PM, Lawrence Graves > On 12/04/2011 07:44 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> > On 4 December 2011 11:22, Ian Malone wrote: >> > >>> >> 3. If at this point after rebooting nouveau is still starting then I'm >>> >> really stumped. >> > I've got Lawrence's dmesg output and nouveau is

Re: Can't install nvidia drivers on Laptop

2011-11-23 Thread R. G. Newbury
> On 11/23/2011 09:20 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote: >>> Then what do you suggest I do to get my nvidia drivers installed. You refer to kmod's and akmod version drivers. Have you tried building your own from the bin file? Add rdblacklist=nouveau to the kernel line in your grub conf file Cha

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-15 Thread R. G. Newbury
> On 11/14/2011 01:49 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> > I have to repeat: F16's anaconda's partitioning GUI does not allow you >> > to do so. > I've been using Fedora since FC6, and anaconda's always allowed you to > do a custom partitioning scheme. If it doesn't in F16, it's a serious > bug and yo

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives

2011-10-02 Thread Newbury
To Daniel Thurman Why fight with physical hardware limitations? Install Virtualbox (it's free) and create as many bootable virtuals as you want, each reachable without a physical hard-on-the-hardware re-boot. And from my experience the actual boot times of the virtuals are only about 50% of ph

RE: Network printer not working, how to debug?

2011-09-13 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 09/13/2011 02:29 PM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 09:54 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: >> > I have a Brother MFC665CW connected wirelessly. I installed the cups and >> > lpd driver rpms from the Brother site, and run a cups service on the >> > co

RE: Network printer not working, how to debug?

2011-09-13 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 11:55 -0700, Gordon > Charrick wrote: >> > I click the Network Printer dropdown under "Select Device" and the >> > printer shows up with the proper IP address. Under "Connection", "IPP >> > network printer via DNS-SD" is selected. I choose the driver and apply >> > the set

Re: Network printing in Fedora 15

2011-08-08 Thread R. G. Newbury
he wrong connection. You might try setting up the printer using cups on your desktop machine. It seems to be quite competent at finding and recognizing network attached printers. Use http://your-computer's-IP:631 from a browser. Of course, if you are not running cups

Re: F15: Questions re systemd

2011-07-20 Thread R. G. Newbury
> R. G. Newbury wrote: >> > New install of F15 on Thinkpad X61. Httpd refuses to start using: >> > systemctl enable httpd.service; systemctl start httpd.service > Hmm, this works fine on my installation of F15. 'systemctl enable' > redirects to 'ch

F15: Questions re systemd

2011-07-18 Thread R. G. Newbury
ot know the pid?) But another service httpd start, reports that httpd is already running Does anyone know how to get this working? My google-foo is lacking. I can find nothing about where systemd logs data. And I can find nothing about whether to remove the original (F14) service files.

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-31 Thread R. G. Newbury
r to add: echo "Completed boot at `date`" to the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local Then it does not matter whether the system is using the old method or systemd and whether it is writing to 'messages' or boot.log. R. Geoffrey Newbury -- users mail

Re: very long boot time in fedora 15

2011-05-27 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 05/26/2011 05:04 PM, Ian Malone wrote > I'm trying to work out why Fedora 15 takes an incredibly long time to > start on this machine (Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, 1GB RAM laptop), > booting takes several minutes as opposed to F13. No custom modules, > just stock Fedora, intel wireless and graphics,

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