Re: Boot Hangs When Ethernet Cable Plugged In

2022-09-24 Thread Peter G.
Reply #2 Ok, for curiosity, i disabled wifi, set it to be started manually only, left ethernet to be started automatically. I shut down the computer, leaving the ethernet cable plugged in and started up the computer. journalctl reports: Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.

Re: Boot Hangs When Ethernet Cable Plugged In

2022-09-24 Thread Peter G.
I had a look at journalctl. I am not very adept at it or understanding what it says, but I found some curious things just before it hangs: Sep 23 21:13:19 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net systemd[1]: Started user@988.service - User Manager for UID 988. Sep 23 21:13:19 node-1w7jr9y9f

Boot Hangs When Ethernet Cable Plugged In

2022-09-24 Thread Peter G.
I have recently started using the ethernet instead of wifi. I have not disabled the wifi, but I leave the ethernet cable inserted. Recently, I noticed that I was unable to start the computer. I thought it was a faulty F37 testing kernel, so I tried the previous kernel. Same thing. For some reaso

Smooth DNF Update (Yesterday Evening)

2019-05-01 Thread Peter G.
I spotted an article on another site indicating release of F30. I wasn't expecting it for a week! Thus caught unprepared, for the first time ever, I did a dnf system-upgrade on my UEFI system. I had to remove cclive and, for some odd reason, there was a problem with getting the updates repo, so

Re: Posting to the Fedora message boards

2016-05-24 Thread Peter G.
Tim wrote: > As far as I'm > concerned, they're only of use for someone who wants to solve a > particular problem, and not be part of any on-going participation. I participate where I think my input could be useful, but Iǘe learned to stay out of conversations where the extent of my knowledge

Re: Posting to the Fedora message boards

2016-05-23 Thread Peter G.
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > What message boards? If you mean the mailing lists, then I use a mail > client with IMAP (Evolution in my case). > > poc Mailing lists, I meant. I was hoping someone knew of some super cool way of dealing with this dated messaging system. I'll look into how IMAP

desktop dictionary

2014-12-25 Thread Peter G.
Is there a dictionary that can be used with okular, firefox, other programs, such that: when reading a file in any of the aforementioned programs, one need only click on a word and the meanings of any English, German, French and other language words will appear (the definitions for these langu

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-01 Thread Peter G.
Robert Arkiletian wrote: > I run Fedora in school computer lab. I cannot upgrade to F15 because > of gnome3. Boo hoo. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedo

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread Peter G.
Bruce Korb wrote: > Down side: /home is still ext3. Yes, my /home/me/Documents partition (actually drive) is ext4 and when I will finally switch to btrfs (in about Fedora 17 or 18), I will have to transfer all of my stuff onto another partition, create the new btrfs file system on the old /ho

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread Peter G.
Bruce Korb wrote: > It is also useful to have /home on a separate partition that > gets mounted from both installations This is why I have /home/me/Documents on a separate partition (actually a full separate 300GB drive, sdb, with just one partition, hence sdb1), filled with my stuff. Total

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread Peter G.
Darlene Wallach wrote: > When you verify the new install works, what do you do with the new > install on the spare partition and the old install? When I verify that the new system works, I move in, of course :-) I start using it right away... like I did last week with Fedora 16α. I leave the old

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread Peter G.
Peter G. wrote: > kde-rpm stuff meant kde-redhat -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread Peter G.
Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/01/2011 11:10 AM, linux guy wrote: >> But not a KDE session ! Apparently none of my KDE packages had been >> upgraded and my system now only had F15 gnome packages on it. Just a wild guess: maybe you had some kde-rpm stuff installed and when you upgraded, you got confli

Re: I think we need a discussion

2011-08-29 Thread Peter G.
Fernando Cassia wrote: > Google is the best example... they > change features, move user interface elements around without any > questions to the users, and remove features just because they can. And what is most frustrating is that there is no way to talk to them. Any effort at assistance or in

Re: I think we need a discussion

2011-08-29 Thread Peter G.
David L. Gehrt wrote: > I am a long time user of... RedHat, Fedora me2 > I am of the opinion that Linux may be at or close > to a crossroad moving from a computing genre in which the users > and > developers make cooperative decisions on alternative development paths > to > one i