Re: Working with secureboot

On Wed, 2025-07-16 at 13:39 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > My understanding was that it was a new password entry Todd Zullinger's earlier post said: >> You should already have the key, which is stored at >> /etc/pki/akmods/certs/public_key.der. The "code" that >> GNOME provides is the

Re: Working with secureboot

On Tue, 2025-07-15 at 01:00 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Didn't get very far > :~# mokutil --import /etc/pki/akmods/certs/public_key.der > input password: > input password again: > Failed to enroll new keys Just in general, and WITHOUT (!) telling us the password, are you sure it'

Re: F42: instructions on setting up hibernate for ext4 systems [SOLVED]

George N. White III wrote: > > > Circuit breakers were in a locked closet. Tim: > > Is that legal? How would you cut power in an emergency? George N. White III: > In emergency, leave the building and let professionals deal with it. I > suspect panels > were locked so the electrician could inv

Re: F42: instructions on setting up hibernate for ext4 systems [SOLVED]

On Sun, 2025-07-06 at 10:49 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > Circuit breakers were in a locked closet. Is that legal? How would you cut power in an emergency? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname

Re: F42: instructions on setting up hibernate

On Fri, 2025-07-04 at 23:33 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > About my issue. I do not want to hibernate, but just suspend. Then you do not need to make a swap partition (or file), only hibernate needs that. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UT

Re: sleep/suspend

On Fri, 2025-07-04 at 11:31 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > Jul 4 11:01:41 Sappho systemd-logind[1868]: Error during inhibitor- > delayed operation (already returned success to client): Unit > sleep.target is masked. I don't know if that line in your log (with sleep.target is masked) in i

Re: firefox fonts problem since upgrade to F42

On Tue, 2025-07-01 at 11:38 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > I have a strange problem in that many of the fonts on firefox look > weird and unreadable: an example is at https://ibb.co/bjCGrZNm (This > is a website https://plumz.me/archives/14050/ I found out when I > searched on DDG with th

Re: evince crashes X server

On Wed, 2025-07-02 at 12:08 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > I see I have some Xorg updates to install, and that's running in the > background now. I'll test again afterwards. I installed all the updates available to me, and my system still works fine, so no change at my side. -

Re: evince crashes X server

On Mon, 2025-06-30 at 09:40 +1000, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: > Fedora 42 updated regularly, recently 5 days ago. > > $ uname -a > Linux e7.eyal.emu.id.au 6.15.3-200.fc42.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jun > 19 15:00:25 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux tim@fluffy:~$ uname -a Linux fluffy 6.15.3-20

Re: hibernate

On Mon, 2025-06-30 at 15:01 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > My laptop does not hibernate. > systemctl status sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target > hybrid-sleep.target It might have been a good idea to show us the results... > Then > > systemctl hibernate > > But it is still r

Re: evince crashes X server

I'm not getting any mailing list mail to me since the Fedora system updates the other day (or it's not resumed yet). But looking at your subsequent posting through the mailing list's website: > Thanks for testing. Here I have: > > Xorg.0.log says > Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/int

Re: Post upgrade

On Sat, 2025-06-28 at 15:43 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > How can I recover the list of packages which have been removed? I'd try dnf history -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC w

Re: network configuration

Patrick Dupre: > > I guess that it is waht I want. > > But I do not see this option of profile, or save profile in NM Marco Moock: > It is called connection. You can create one in nm-connection-editor and > set the values you want. > > Then you can bring them up or down with nmcli or via the GUI

Re: F41 /etc/postfix/main.cf file, please

On Fri, 2025-06-27 at 13:47 -0500, Thomas Cameron via users wrote: > Tangential, but have you looked at: > > https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_42&p=mail&f=1 > > The guy who runs that site does a pretty amazing job of telling you > *what* to do. He doesn't tell you anything about th

Re: creating install media for Fedora server (42)

Samuel Sieb: >>> How are you trying to mount it? Tim: >> Plugging it in and trying to mount it like any other USB stick. Samuel Sieb: > How exactly and what happened? Plugging it in, and seeing if something turned up in the file browser, as usually happens when plugging in a USB stick. I've for

creating install media for Fedora server (42)

Is it no-longer possible to use dd to write an install ISO to a flashdrive, or is there something wrong with the ISO (which passes the checksum tests)? If I do this command: [root@rocky fedora42]# dd if=Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-42-1.1.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress 2923241984 bytes (2.9 GB) co

Re: creating install media for Fedora server (42)

On Sun, 2025-06-22 at 22:34 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I used to encounter this on occasion when I refreshed my desktop to > one with 64GB of RAM. My take was, the cache manager could hold a lot > more in RAM before [asynchronously] flushing the write to disk. > > Try adding a `sync` to the co

Re: creating install media for Fedora server (42)

Tim: >> And it can't be mounted. Samuel Sieb: > How are you trying to mount it? Plugging it in and trying to mount it like any other USB stick. I ended up burning a DVD and installing from that. So, now, it's just an mental exercise to figure out why it didn't want to work. I did leave it for

Re: Fedora 42 fonts problem.

On Sat, 2025-06-21 at 08:35 +, Bob Marčan via users wrote: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI > This might help. Welcome to the world where computer geeks did everything wrong... For years we specified computer font sizes in pixels, and pixels meant exactly one thing (the dots that mad

Re: USB BluRay Drive Wrongly Identified

On Fri, 2025-06-20 at 01:51 +, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > I have a BluRay drive that used to work with Fedora. I haven't used > it for a while, but tried it today, and it's being treated as a SCSI > drive. As a result, k3b (say) reports that it can't find an optical > drive. Similarly, asun

Re: Community support?

On Tue, 2025-06-17 at 10:54 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > My "From:" address always comes back as "Community > support for Fedora users". Is this on purpose? > If not, is there a way to get my name on it instead? Your actual address is included as a CC, so people can directly reply to yo

Re: waterfox rpms?

On Mon, 2025-06-16 at 09:55 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > What format do you prfefer? > > Re: SOLVED - waterfox rpms? > SOLVED Re: - waterfox rpms? > Re: waterfox rpms? = SOLVED > > Or just anywhere? Don't type things in front of RE: you get weird behaviour with some mail cl

Re: local network

On Sun, 2025-06-15 at 01:37 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > The internet is connected through the USB interface. Then there are two > RJ45 ports, one for each of B and C. Yes, I know. I think *you* have failed to comprehend my responses, initial and subsequent. Read through them again, carefully.

Re: local network

On 6/14/25 10:04 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > USB device > > 10.42.0.254 > > | <-- Top half in same IP range > > | as themselves (first three > > 10.42.0.1

Re: local network

On Sat, 2025-06-14 at 20:28 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > I tried to fix a small issue that I have. > PC A is connected to internet through a USB port. > This PC A has 2 RJ45 cards, connected to 2 PC: B and C. > Both interface are in shared to other computers > > The problem is this one.

Re: After upgrade to F42, mutt + postfix no longer able to send email

Tim: > > Actually list them individually. You'll most likely find that one of > > them is a binary, and the others are symlinks to it. Ranjan Maitra: > Thanks, here you go: > > $ ll /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 32K May 8 19:00 /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix* > $ ll /usr/sb

Re: After upgrade to F42, mutt + postfix no longer able to send email

On Wed, 2025-06-11 at 21:48 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > Interestingly, the F42 machine has: > $ locate sendmail.postfix > /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix > /usr/lib/sendmail.postfix > /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix Actually list them individually. You'll most likely find that one of them is

Re: After f40->f42 upgrade, NAT is not set up.

Tim: > > So far as I'm aware, NAT has never been set up automatically, you > > always had to set it up in some way. Joe Zeff: > If you really need NAT, you probably need a router, and that's one of > the things are good at. In general, I'd agree it's the simplest way to do things. But, you can

Re: After f40->f42 upgrade, NAT is not set up.

On Fri, 2025-06-06 at 20:45 +1000, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: > After looking everywhere, and digging into my iptables rules and > such, I discovered that NAT is not being set up. > > I added a rule to my firewall script > iptables-legacy -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE > eth

Re: ssh forward agent

Bob Marčan: >>> BTW, it's "sudo -i" Tim: >> No, it's not. When I said I typed "su -" I meant that I typed "su -". Chris Adams: > Which is what "sudo -i" does, without the superfluous "su -". And you > can use "sudo -s" instead of "sudo su" too. > > I don't know where the idea that you need to

Re: ssh forward agent

Tim: Having said that, on my system where I am the sole user, I'll only use sudo if I know I'm doing just one thing. If I have to do a series of things, I will "su -" and do them all as root. It's just too tedious Bob Marčan: > BTW, it's "sudo -i" No, it's not. When I said I typ

Re: ssh forward agent

poc: >> "sudo bash" will not run the login resources. Bob Marčan: > That's exactly what I want. "su" without the dash after it will do that, too. But horses for courses applies (*you* do what *you* need). -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 202

Re: ssh forward agent

Tim: >>> Having said that, on my system where I am the sole user, I'll only use >>> sudo if I know I'm doing just one thing. If I have to do a series of >>> things, I will "su -" and do them all as root. It's just too tedious >>> to do "sudo some-command" over and over. poc: >> Exactly. Bob M

Re: ssh forward agent

On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 11:50 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > passwordless sudo seems quite risky to me (and seems to defeat the > purpose of sudo). Yes, and no... If I "sudo something" the password I'm going to type is my own, which I already know. Though it does offer an "are you sure" m

Re: systemd-automount

Barry: >> The options include noauto François Patte: > Thank you for this remark! I changed to auto and and it doesn't go up > either I wonder if your network is up and ready for use by this stage. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_6

Re: iso from usb stick

On Fri, 2025-05-30 at 06:52 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I have a functioning/bootable USB drive. I want to make an > ISO out of it but do not want the extra space included > that dd gives I think you'd have to play with sizing: Shrink the partition of the working drive down to what it

Re: How to setup certs for https access for Fedora 42?

On Thu, 2025-05-29 at 20:05 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Also see > > and the section, "Configure a Virtual Host for the domain". When following such instructions, you have to be careful about the choice of where y

Re: iso from usb stick

On Fri, 2025-05-30 at 07:47 +, Oliver Ava wrote: > To install an ISO from a USB stick, you’ll need to use a tool like > Rufus or BalenaEtcher to make the USB bootable—just copying the ISO > file won’t work. Neither of them are anything I've heard of. Certainly, you can't just copy the ISO fil

Re: How to setup certs for https access for Fedora 42?

Barry: >>> My guess is because almost everyone uses VirtualHost sections. Todd Zullinger: > > And chage the file there means you now have to track future > > changes to it yourself rather than picking them up via the > > normal package updates. Michael D. Setzer II: > Don't understand this? Looke

Re: Getting "gpg: WARNING: No valid encryption subkey left over." sometimes running dnf

Michael D. Setzer II: > dnf install /usr/bin/clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey Installed it. > /usr/bin/clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey --dry-run Did a test run, that should show you what it would do, but not actually do it (that dry-run option) > /usr/bin/clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey Actually ran it. > When I ran it cleane

Re: How to setup certs for https access for Fedora 42?

On Mon, 2025-05-26 at 15:19 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > To reduce the size of Certificate Revocation List (CRL), and recover > quickly from a compromised host. Conventional wisdom is, browsers > don't download CRLs or OCSP, so a short validity closes the gap in > browser behavior. That's the fi

Re: How to setup certs for https access for Fedora 42?

On Mon, 2025-05-26 at 09:53 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > If so, it looks to be entirely optional: > > Our longer-lived certificates, which currently have a > lifetime of 90 days, will continue to be available > alongside our six-day offering. Subscribers will be able > to opt in

Re: How to setup certs for https access for Fedora 42?

Samuel Sieb: > > If you want a recognized certificate, you either have to buy one or you > > can use certbot to get a free one from https://letsencrypt.org/. You > > need to remember to renew it regularly. I think they're valid for 3 > > months at a time. That's what I use. Patrick O'Callagh

Re: dvd contents show in chinese

On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 17:28 +, Amadeus WM via users wrote: > I'm going through some cd/dvds with data going back to my graduate school > years and when I put them in the dvd drive they get auto mounted fine > under /run/media/user, except that the directory contents are listed in > Chinese (

Re: f40->f42 upgrade conflict: /usr/sbin/rhino vs /usr/bin/rhino

On Sun, 2025-05-18 at 23:55 +1000, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: > I still wonder which package actually uses rhino as everything seems > to work after I removed it. There are tools for discovering what files belong to which package, and what dependencies there are. But... You may find that a too

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem[SOLVED]

On Sat, 2025-05-17 at 19:20 +0200, François Patte wrote: > The problem was not fedora updates but systemd-resolved.service when > DoT is activated. I can't say why! > I needed to use dns servers configured with DoT, so I activated this > service in systemd-resolved.service and firefox and thunderb

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

Tim: >> 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 soon. Michael Hennebry: > Wha

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 16:53 -0500, Michael Hennebry 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, > it does not complain, it just takes me to Startup Menu. > Round and round I go. I just

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 00:07 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I finally found this: > http://www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05166986.pdf > Still do not know what to do. > Cannot get either F38 or F42 to boot. > Legacy Boot Order was grayed out until I found > Secure Boot Disable/Legacy Boot Enable. > I thi

Re: F42 live hangs at boot

On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 21:12 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I burned a DVD. > cmp says the DVD is good. > Test and boot fails. > Boot without testing succeeds so far as I can tell. > Not sure whether installing from it is a good idea. The last time I installed Fedora (40, I think) I had to use th

Re: F42 Server Installer problems

On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 08:01 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > New system with 1.2T drive. Has Windows 11 on it. Split the drive with > the windows manager for 1.2T free space. > > Trying to put f42 server on the free space. The installer options for > custom install won't enable. Only the

Re: is xroach safe?

On Sat, 2025-05-10 at 01:40 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I have a rather large monitor. I can't find my mouse at > times. I just installed oneko and the kitty chases the > mouse as you described. It is actually very helpful. On Mate, there's an option that if I hit the CTRL key the mo

Re: is xroach safe?

Tim: > > Another desktop toy I remember was Meko. It was a kitten that'd chase > > your mouse pointer around. Then sit down and clean itself when the > > mouse was idle, and fall asleep. Samuel Sieb > "oneko". That one is in Fedora. Yes, I realised I got the name wrong shortly after posting.

Re: is xroach safe?

ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Any way to tell if this is infected or just a fun game? (I used it > years ago on Solaris. Total fun.) > > https://fedora.pkgs.org/41/rpm-sphere-x86_64/xroach-12.6.97-2474.1.x86_64.rpm.html > I always thought of it more of a prank than a game, considering that you

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment

On Sat, 2025-05-10 at 06:50 +0300, Earl Ramirez wrote: > I don't use Deepin but I find this a bit interesting and would like > to share it with those that use it. > > https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/09/opensuse_ditches_deepin/ I was always surprised that a Chinese desktop gained any traction

Re: [SOLVED] suppose I remove nvidia card?

On Wed, 2025-05-07 at 00:20 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > "avoid all these problems"?? Note, I said "Unlike many reports I've > never had problems or reasons to switch." > > There may be some advantage to the downloading packages provided by > the distribution rather than by rpmfusion but my rose

Re: sub for dump/restore?

On Wed, 2025-05-07 at 16:05 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I am still trying to figure out a way to get customers to > actually read their backup report. I put the freakin' > statues in their eMail's subject line. They don't ever > have to read the body. But no. Can't be bother

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem

On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 03:51 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Quick fixes if your Firefox slows down, > . Hmm, just looked at some of that, there was a bit of a how to tie your shoelaces feel to it. -- uname -rsvp Linu

Re: Resolving names

On Sun, 2025-05-04 at 08:21 -0500, Patrick Dohman wrote: > Sorry it seems that a pet alligator is actually a lot of work ;) LOL, quite an apt description -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailb

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem

On Fri, 2025-05-02 at 22:26 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Since last update, my firefox and thunderbird are going more and more > slowly: they take 3 mn to start, when I click on a link in a mail it > takes about 2 mn to get it in firefox (which is already started). > > firefox 137.0 thunderbir

Re: recovering back-up.

Tim: >> There is a "ddrescue" tool with that kind of thing in mind. home user > Having looked at the man page, I couldn't make sense of how I should use > these for this situation. See if this page is any different from what you've read, then try discussing things with people here: https://www

Re: recovering back-up.

On Thu, 2025-05-01 at 21:12 -0600, home user via users wrote: > Just before trying to upgrade from F-40 to F-41, I did a back-up to a > USB 3 stick. Too late now, but never consider a USB stick as a back-up. It's flakey technology. I only use them as sneakernet tech. I don't know if "dd" can b

Re: Resolving names

Tim: >>> If I were configuring my DHCP server to hand it out to clients, that >>> would be the following in the dhcpd.conf file: >>> >>> option domain-name "internal."; >>> >>> It's going by proper standards that a domain name ends with a dot. & again, Tim: >> That may not be needed, now. But

Re: Resolving names

Follow-up... On Thu, 2025-05-01 at 11:53 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > If I were configuring my DHCP server to hand it out to clients, that > would be the following in the dhcpd.conf file: > > option domain-name "internal."; > > It's going by proper standar

Re: Resolving names

Tim: > > You could certainly whack ".internal" onto the end of your hostnames to > > make up a FQDN without issues. And even though it's a long thing to > > type, you can make use the search domain feature so it's configured > > into the networking parameters, and you only ever have to type the >

Re: Resolving names

Samuel Sieb: >> That shouldn't work. A name without a domain isn't valid. You >> need to set things up so there's a domain (and don't use >> local!). You can have a default domain, so that bare names will >> automatically be tried with the default domain. Javier Perez: > Sorry. It works. I do

Re: securing this workstation.

Tim: > > I do suppose that more than one of us should have noticed it and told > > the original poster about it. > > > > I skimmed over it and didn't really notice it. Patrick O'Callaghan: > Not really my point. AFAIK billi...@negate.org said he's unsubbing from > the list as reaction to the appa

Re: Postfix

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 14:50 +0300, jarmo wrote: > systemctl status postfix > ○ postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service; disabled; > preset: disabled) > Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d > └─10-timeout-a

Re: Postfix

Tim: > > Bearing in mind that even *then* there have been cases of the network > > not actually being up and running before being declared it was. I'm > > beginning to think we need either a post-boot target, or at least an > > improvement on the network is up decision making. Benny Lyne Amorsen:

Re: Postfix

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 16:12 +0200, Benny Lyne Amorsen wrote: > The recommended solution is to trigger service start off incoming > connections, if possible. This is less ideal for things like Postfix > which might need to send traffic before they receive it. On this computer we don't break the law

Re: securing this workstation.

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 11:07 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > You seem to be blaming the list for the user's alleged mistakes. I > don't see the logic. I do suppose that more than one of us should have noticed it and told the original poster about it. I skimmed over it and didn't really notice

Re: Postfix

Barry kirjoitti: > > Being enabled is not necessarily enough. > > It must be enabled for the default target. > > > > Is it wanted by the default target? > > jarmo: > Is this what you mean? > systemctl enable postfix > Created symlink > '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/postfix.servi

Re: Resolving names

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 03:10 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > Help. Looking at the about systemd-resolved question prompted me to > try to clear a problem I am having with local DNS. > My home system have few pcs and other devices, some of them with > static ip addresses set at my local router. > My si

Re: securing this workstation.

home user via users wrote: > > # firewall-cmd --list-all > > FedoraWorkstation (default, active) > > target: default > > ingress-priority: 0 > > egress-priority: 0 > > icmp-block-inversion: no > > interfaces: eno1 > > sources: > > services: dhcpv6-client samba-client ssh > > ports: 1025-65

Re: Post-F42-Upgrade Error Messages

Jeffrey Walton: > > Maybe related to > > ? Sam Varshavchik: > Yes, that's what that's all about. And by about F50, give or take a release, > I expect that we'll get rid of the rest of ALL thise yucky different > directories altogether

Re: securing this workstation.

Samuel Sieb wrote: > > I am so curious how you installed it to get that. I've never seen > > root have a name other than "root". Barry Scott: > It's the default on a new Fedora install. > > $ head -n 2 /etc/passwd > root:x:0:0:Super User:/root:/bin/bash > bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin

Re: about systemd-resolved

Tim: > > And there are (or were?) various apps that look to Network Manager > > to tell if you're off- or on- line. Felix Miata: > I don't know why apps would care. When I want to know, I look at the > LEDs on my router and/or modem and/or ethernet port Likewise... I found it a problem. If one

Re: [SOLVED] Re: suppose I remove nvidia card?

On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 21:37 -0600, home user via users wrote: > Removing the card worked. That's evidence, an argument, not proof, > that the card was bad. Did you also try putting it back in again? Back in my early days of fixing up people's PCs, reseating cards was often needed. Few cases wer

Re: why is a reboot needed before upgrading?

Tim: >> Yes, I know we're reticent to go rebooting if we really do not need to. Mike Wright: > In early microsoft days (still?) reboot was a mantra. For linux users > uptime was a badge of honor and proudly displayed in mail footers. [tim@rocky ~]$ uptime 15:35:38 up 51 days, 5:10, 13 users,

Re: about systemd-resolved

Tim via users: > > My internal DNS can obviously answer my LAN addressing queries, and > > it's set up to also resolve queries about internet addresses. It runs > > as a full server. No public server can answer queries about my LAN. Marco Moock: > Then only have the i

Re: about systemd-resolved

On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 13:58 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Having no mobile computers, and none using wireless networking, I find myself > to > be the only network manager needed, and barely so, so have no network manager > installed It can still manage that *one* connection. And there are (or were

Re: Curse the login screen!

On Mon, 2025-04-28 at 02:02 +, Jonathan via users wrote: > Have you tried googling your issue? It looks like there should be a > setting for it in Mate as discussed here. "here" *was* a link to a reddit page about Ubuntu, which shows one of the drawbacks with HTML mail (disappearing links), a

Re: Curse the login screen!

On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 20:37 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Every time I have had two going, it has been an > unpredictable mess. This not suppose to be the > case? Installed doesn't mean active... Oddly enough I have two installed, but only one is set to go. Looking on an old installati

Re: securing this workstation.

home user via users wrote: > > I gather from the Fedora docs that I should use firewalld or > > firewalld-config. I have both. But Fedora docs does not give me > > enough detail. I am not an IT professional. What specifically > > should I do to keep unwanted people and things out? Barry Scott

Re: about systemd-resolved

On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 12:17 +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > Then you have a general problem. DNS is intended to give back the same > results for the same query - regardless which server you ask. Yes, and no. My internal DNS can obviously answer my LAN addressing queries, and it's set up to also resol

Re: securing this workstation.

On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 16:45 -0600, home user via users wrote: > # netstat -ltuvpe > Active Internet connections (only servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address > State User Inode PID/Program name > tcp0 0 _localdnsproxy:domain 0.0.0.0:*

Re: about systemd-resolved

On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 23:05 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Current DNS Server: 192.168.1.1 > DNS Servers: 80.67.169.12 80.67.169.40 192.168.1.1 Having multiple DNS servers, like that, *can* be a problem. It depends on your use case. The system will usually have a default server it querie

Re: why is a reboot needed before upgrading?

On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 17:33 +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > An upgrade needs a reboot anyway. This!! Yes, I know we're reticent to go rebooting if we really do not need to. But a system upgrade is a complete interruption to whatever you were doing beforehand. You may as well reboot before starting,

Re: securing this workstation.

On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 16:08 +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > Most of those devices have an IPv6 SPI firewall that provides the same > security as NAT. I shall be pedantic here. NAT does not provide security, it is not a firewall. A "didn't know what to do with an incoming connection" (now) is not the

Re: list/email -- toppost -- off topic..

On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 06:31 -0400, bruce wrote: > I'm using gmail, so recently, I had a few spare mins, and decided to > check out.. can gmail permit the insertion of "content/comments" > within a email thread.. > > as opposed to hitting "reply" and letting the app place the comment > wherever it

Re: securing this workstation.

On Fri, 2025-04-25 at 18:38 -0600, home user via users wrote: > I do need for Firefox, Thunderbird, and dnf to be able to interact with > the "outside world" appropriately. I do occasionally need to be able to > download or upload things. > Beyond those (and maybe other appropriate things that d

Re: dns question

Tim: >> Or is it region-fenced? Allowing local (to it) usage, not world- wide. Mike Wright: > Could be. But François is in France as is fdn.fr. https://www.fdn.fr/renforcement-serveurs-dns-2025/ Auto-translation of that page comes up with this: - begin paste Rei

Re: dns question

On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 12:45 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > That shows that there is some kind of server there and that it answers > on the standard dns ports. It just don't reply to any requests. Or is it region-fenced? Allowing local (to it) usage, not world-wide. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0

Re: grub2

Tim: > > I know some recommend that you should do over-the-top updates, but any > > new release ought to be able stand on its own, and not rely on you > > having pre-installed something. Barry Scott: > Why put yourself to the work of applying the config changes on a new install? > I *can* fresh in

Re: grub2

On Mon, 2025-04-21 at 09:34 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Forgive my ignorance... Why are you putzing around with Fedora 40 > kernels when the latest releases are F41 and F42? Is it one of those "update your current OS to the lastest bits" before upgrading to the next release issues? I gave-up u

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 20:51 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I rooted through all of the gory details, icccm, ewmh, and X11 primitives, > some time ago. It's all there. The fly in the ointment is that the nuts and > the bolts of it are difficult use, cumbersome, and lack some convenient > feat

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 22:16 -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote: > Wayland is still broken as far as I am concerned when it comes to > session restore stuff and new window placement. But I notice that I > can ssh to that system and run x11 apps (over the local network) no > problem. Wayland supplies a

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 11:54 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > Personally, I've always considered Ubuntu to be designed for Windows > refugees. They want to get away from the built in problems of Windows > but don't want to learn how to do things properly. I'd come to a similar conclusion. Windows refug

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

Tim: > > But I'd argue that the hierarchies were there for a good reason. > > *Simple* no-access to some things for some people/software. *Simple* > > more privileged access to things in /sbin to those who had it in their > > path, and lesser privileged versions of a command with the same name to

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 18:38 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I forgot what were the actual, technical reasons for collapsing bin > and sbin, except for "other distributions did it too". But the deed > is done, and one just has to deal with the aftermath: The artificial idiot listed these summaries:

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