Re: Strange DNS behavior

2025-05-27 Thread Dave Close
he cables themselves. Fortunate since that means I don't have to tear up walls to replace cables. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Love your enemies, d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359for they tell you your faults." dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu

Re: Strange DNS behavior

2025-05-25 Thread Dave Close
It is now removed. The basic issue seems to be that my Internet connection has become flaky. Provider alleges 45yo wiring is the problem. Tech visit is scheduled for Tuesday. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni

Strange DNS behavior

2025-05-24 Thread Dave Close
oth machines are running Fedora 41, fully updated. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "... all authority is capricious, but may be appeased by a show of zeal, unaccompanied by any re

Re: sub for dump/restore?

2025-05-09 Thread Dave Close
of a block is related to the filesystem and the storage medium. So it would be wrong to say that "du rounds up": "du" just reports what the other parts of the system tell it. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com

Re: sub for dump/restore?

2025-05-09 Thread Dave Close
francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: >No: du rounds up: > >echo > one >du -m one >1 one That is correct, not rounded. 'echo' creates a file with one byte, a newline (0x0a). -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@c

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread Dave Close
ny choice is ephemeral. Since root, by default, does not have a password, if you don't create another user, you have no way to access the machine. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "There is no security on this earth. d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359There is only opportun

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread Dave Close
m somewhere, it has opened a pathway for that other system to send a reply to you. Specially crafted replies and broken filters in the programs on your machine which receive those replies is the most common way get infected. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 73

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-08 Thread Dave Close
check this. As you can guess, Samuel was right. Sorry for wasting everyone's time. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here."

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-07 Thread Dave Close
nose this problem. Of course, even after getting it to work, all I learned is that the machine is fine, just not the VGA. At least, I learned a lot about serial consoles. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.ca

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-05 Thread Dave Close
hine. The USB end of the cable is attached to ttyUSB0 on the laptop. I have tested ttyS0 by connection elsewhere using straight serial and it works as it should. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "A

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Dave Close
ng to think adding a video card would be the right answer. (The current connector is on the motherboard.) -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Country music is just folk music for righties and

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Dave Close
- Load Kernel Module drm. sddm-helper-start-wayland[99236]: "No backend specified, automatically choosing drm\n" sddm-helper-start-wayland[99236]: "kwin_wayland_drm: drmSetClientCap for Atomic Mode Setting failed. Using legacy mode on GPU \"/dev/dri/card0\"\n" >Do you se

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Dave Close
ctl start sddm) and no errors were reported. I don't see anything useful in the log except the service start. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine, CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Everything that can be invented ha

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Dave Close
th a different system), just to see if the problem is a configuration error in Fedora. I now realize that by the time Fedora starts, that process is done. Maybe I should be asking if there is a way to get serial access before Fedora. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvi

Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-01 Thread Dave Close
t220 # Again, lines are split and condensed here only for readability. After all this, I get no output on the putty connection and no response when attempting any entry. I've also tried the other listed baud rates. Is there any obvious step I've missed? Is there a better way to do this

Re: command line smtp mailer?

2025-03-24 Thread Dave Close
ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >Anyone have a favorite command line outbound (smtp) >email program that is easy to use? You could look into nmh, the "new mail handler", originally from RAND. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

2025-03-15 Thread Dave Close
completion before I copied the output. That's a different issue, not terribly important, but annoying. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy becaus

Re: dnf downgrade dependencies

2025-03-13 Thread Dave Close
>On 3/13/25 10:20 PM, Dave Close wrote: >> I've decided I'm unhappy with one of the changes made by the most >> recent version of LibreOffice, 24.8, and I want to try going back to >> the previous version, 24.2, which is part of the FC40 repository. >> B

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

2025-03-13 Thread Dave Close
cerned by the result of using -c; that doesn't seem related to the problems with the card since it claims not to have found any bad blocks. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "The mind is a wond

dnf downgrade dependencies

2025-03-13 Thread Dave Close
others! And it thinks the removal of these packages requires downgrading others, including mod-perl! I suppose I can simply download the older LibreOffice packages and then use rpm to replace them. But there could be some authentic library dependencies. Is there a better solution? -- Dave Close, Co

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

2025-03-13 Thread Dave Close
nt that no bad blocks were found. Jeffrey Walton replied: >Throw the old SDcard away, and use a new one. I intend to. But this isn't a problem with the card. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu

e2fsck malfunction?

2025-03-13 Thread Dave Close
ion after. So it appears that asking e2fsck to check for and mark bad blocks causes it to destroy the superblock(s). Is there another explanation? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Some ideas ar

Re: startx

2025-02-28 Thread Dave Close
Patrick Dupre via users wrote: >I have one x session running, but I wish to open a second one Works find for me with FC41 on a Dell 9020: $ w 13:24:55 up 7 days, 22:57, 6 users, load average: 0.23, 0.25, 0.18 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT dave tty3 13:19

Re: Replacing nano with vim - logout needed?

2025-02-26 Thread Dave Close
Try "dnf remove nano-default-editor". -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "'Always' and 'never' are two words you should always remember

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread Dave Close
n check: 0:23:46 ago on Thu 13 Feb 2025 10:05:51 AM MST >. >Error: No matching Packages to list >bash.9[~]: >- - - - - - >duck-duck-go and google gave me nothing useful. > >What is "wted", and is there a security problem? You didn't try but I did: # dnf pro

'comm' and 'sort' incompatible?

2025-01-07 Thread Dave Close
My searches don't reveal any previous complaints. Trying the same thing on my Raspberry Pi (bookworm) does not exhibit the problem. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Th

Re: F40 to F41 upgrade

2024-12-18 Thread Dave Close
libreoffice, firefox, and cups, were deleted because they were dependent on something. Of course, the log doesn't say what dependency they had. The log shows: Install 84 Packages Upgrade7921 Packages Remove 414 Packages Downgrade10 Packages -- Dave Close, Co

F40 to F41 upgrade

2024-12-18 Thread Dave Close
ting those that had been installed and are still available as part of F41.) All the missing ones have now been added back manually and things seem to be working properly. But I'm holding my breath. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.c

Re: Config to turn off Firefox advertising features

2024-12-18 Thread Dave Close
om Firefox for a while, seeking a better browser, but always found some issues with others. And I avoid Chrome. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "If I don't know I don't know, I think I know;

Re: Fedora 41 systemd or its dependencies now includes qemu

2024-12-03 Thread Dave Close
do not include qemu. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.&

Re: F41 DNF bogus error

2024-11-23 Thread Dave Close
itional relative to the >commands. Until "install" is encountered on the command line, there >*Is no* "--skip-unavailable" option. Likewise, it might not accept >"-y" *after* "install". Thank you. I have read about the change to parameter sequence

F41 DNF bogus error

2024-11-23 Thread Dave Close
Unknown argument "--skip-unavailable" for command "dnf5". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments. Obviously, DNF should not tell a user to use an option that isn't actually available... -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 7

Re: CentOS - what to use now that CentOS 7 is EOL

2024-11-01 Thread Dave Close
does and does not do, exactly how it does those things, and test results. If I buy a piece of software as complex as a database, I get something called "getting started" and that's it. How can you prove they didn't do what they promised when they never really promised anything? --

Re: dnf-system-upgrade to Fedora 41 is Ok

2024-10-30 Thread Dave Close
Is it still true that stock F41 does not include the ability to run X11? I'm stuck until Wayland has a way to invoke Firefox from a cron job. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Tact is insulting a man without d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359his knowing it." dhcl...@alu

Re: dnf disable-repo???

2024-10-28 Thread Dave Close
ng --disablerepo="WineHQ packages" >No repository match: WineHQ >No repository match: packages 'dnf repolist' will tell you the correct names. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "You can only be young once d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359but you can be i

Re: Screen saver no longer working

2024-10-25 Thread Dave Close
Andreas Fournier wrote: >After a recent update I noticed that the screen no longer goes dark >after a time of inactivity. I checked the settings and they are as >before.  > >Any way to get it back working? I confirm that I've seen the same behavior. F40 x86_64 KDE. --

Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

2024-08-30 Thread Dave Close
you were trying to evacuate from a wildfire? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Life would be tragic d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359if it weren't funny." dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu-- Stephen Hawking -- ___ u

Re: Secondary SSH

2024-08-23 Thread Dave Close
at seem relevant. (Of >course, $PPID and similar variables are different.) Can anyone suggest >what could be the issue? Or what other tests might be helpful? The solution was provided through the openssh mailing list. I've added an alias to my system and will use it when connecting from

Re: Secondary SSH

2024-08-23 Thread Dave Close
Jeffrey Walton wrote: >At this point, I would visit each machine and: > > mkdir -p ~/.ssh > chown -R dclose:dclose ~/.ssh > chmod -R o-rwx ~/.ssh That would be guaranteed to cause failure. For example, my private keys cannot have 0777 permissions! -- Dave Close, Com

Secondary SSH

2024-08-23 Thread Dave Close
e1 -> sudo on machine1 -> user@machine2 :: WORKS I've examined the output of the set command for all of these situations and can't find any variables that are different that seem relevant. (Of course, $PPID and similar variables are different.) Can anyone suggest what could be the issue?

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

2024-08-17 Thread Dave Close
mpletely fix the contents of /boot until after I had deleted /boot/efi entirely. (Well, actually, just moved it elsewhere. To be deleted eventually.) -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Politics

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

2024-08-14 Thread Dave Close
sinto /boot/ and blscfg entries >in /boot/loader/entries/. That worked! Thanks! Now I'll try to go back through my logs and try to see when sdubby got installed and why. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "There is no security on this earth. d...@compata.com,

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

2024-08-13 Thread Dave Close
Barry Scott wrote: >> On 12 Aug 2024, at 03:40, Dave Close wrote: >> >> # df -h /boot >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda6 974M 549M 358M 61% /boot >> >> It is held at least three kernels in the past. >That does

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

2024-08-11 Thread Dave Close
francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: >On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:30:14 -0700 Dave Close wrote: > >> # dnf -y reinstall kernel-core-6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64 > >> So, what happened to kernel 6.10.3-200? RPM -V says the package is >> complete but the files are not there! > >

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

2024-08-11 Thread Dave Close
John Pilkington wrote: >On 11/08/2024 18:30, Dave Close wrote: >> I can't make sense of this output, can you? >> >> # rpm -q kernel-core >> kernel-core-6.9.9-100.fc39.x86_64 >> kernel-core-6.9.12-200.fc40.x86_64 >> kernel-core-6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64 &

DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

2024-08-11 Thread Dave Close
-200? RPM -V says the package is complete but the files are not there! -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say." -- Voltaire -- __

Re: Poll: The best way to run an Android app in F40

2024-07-28 Thread Dave Close
no good alternative and sometimes I don't realize the deficiency until after purchase. I tried Waydroid. As you say, it looks nice and many apps work. But some selection points were simply not responsive for me. Maybe a bug, maybe intentional, but the effect made Waydroid useless for me. --

Re: different behaviors for anaconda depending on iso files

2024-07-10 Thread Dave Close
Mike Wright wrote: >The manpage is confusing in this regard. It offers this: > > -a|--activate y|n|ay > >So, is that -a y and -a ay ? Dunno... Using parens to help clarify, that should be read as, ( -a | --activate ) ( y | n | ay ) -- Dave Close, Com

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread Dave Close
n the Fedora documentation web site. I'm sure many of us will want to adopt this approach. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "'Always' and 'never' are two d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359words you should always remember dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu

Re: Uh-oh...

2024-03-30 Thread Dave Ihnat
ultant manager, made sure I didn't look at the original source code, etc.) so I ended up clean. Open Source is the way to keep things moving and surviving. If you want to get into it, DO IT! Sincerely, -- Dave Ihnat -- ___ users mailing

Uh-oh...

2024-03-30 Thread Dave Ihnat
ed other contributions to build rapport or to compromise more projects as well. I looked at the detection script available at the URL in the posting. It's harmless at worst (don't know yet if it can detect anything). Caveat Utilitor, -- Dave Ihnat -- __

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

2024-03-21 Thread Dave Ihnat
plan-printer-subscription-service/ Sincerely, -- Dave Ihnat dih...@dminet.com -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://

Email Balkanization (was Re: Fora vs. mailing lists)

2024-03-10 Thread Dave Close
to be at least semi-intelligent. Since people read email using a web interface that hides much of the information useful for identifying spam, it seems to me that those web systems should make the use of proper encryption techniques to identify senders and recipients easy when that is appropriate. --

Re: gpg decrypt from a script

2024-02-14 Thread Dave Close
Alex wrote: >Also, I'm not new to Linux administration, but somewhat new to sshpass. >Does it only work with ssh passwords or public keys as well? You don't need sshpass if you have the private key matching the public key already stored on the server. Just use ssh. --

Re: VMware woes

2024-01-13 Thread Dave Close
oded, for reasons unfathomable. I wonder what did that. It wasn't sent that way: Content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech

Re: VMware woes

2024-01-12 Thread Dave Close
intended.} -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." -- Nelson Mandela -- ___

Re: Log file *detailed* content description

2023-12-12 Thread Dave Close
ssage on my own system. My question was, when someone connects to my system, which key in my authorized_keys file were they using? That seems to have been a more difficult question. But see my next message. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com

Log file *detailed* content description

2023-12-11 Thread Dave Close
ssh2: RSA SHA256:QSyKp5SJ8gJFcYtbtb9SQ1axtqSg7fEoQBiZf3kPXgU what is the meaning of the RSA value listed? Is it a "fingerprint"? How can I compare it to the various keys on my system? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "

Re: Starting Wayland FC39

2023-11-21 Thread Dave Close
ermissions, etc, I determined I was unlikely to find the problem. I took the coward's way out and downgraded the machine to FC38. After that, the problem is gone! I'll leave it at FC38 for a while while watching for any online comments that might provide a clue to a real solution. --

Re: Starting Wayland FC39

2023-11-19 Thread Dave Close
sing "startw". I agree that this is not likely a plasma problem. It's the reference to /dev/dri/card0 that concerns me. There must be some reason why this device is needed but can't be found. For what it may be worth, I'll attach the complete output (if that is accepted on

Re: Starting Wayland FC39

2023-11-17 Thread Dave Close
0 >device but they are ancient and don't seem relevant. > >This machine is intended to run an application that only works on >Wayland (Waydroid) so at this point I'm stimied. Any suggestions >would be very helpful. If it matters, this machine was never installed with the KDE spin.

Starting Wayland FC39

2023-11-17 Thread Dave Close
that only works on Wayland (Waydroid) so at this point I'm stimied. Any suggestions would be very helpful. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to in

Re: iPad file backup?

2023-10-24 Thread Dave Ihnat
On 24 Oct at 01:05, Dave Close wrote: > That's one of the reasons I find consumer "routers" to be barely worthy > of the name. They're really wifi access points with some routing things > built in. And the WiFi usually isn't that great. And the firmware us

Re: iPad file backup?

2023-10-23 Thread Dave Close
good WAP and a separate router that can really do what a router should be able to do. The ERX I mentioned does not include any wifi (though I think Ubiquiti does make more expensive units which do both). -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com

Re: iPad file backup?

2023-10-23 Thread Dave Ihnat
On 23 Oct at 15:55, Dave Close wrote: > What the consumer world calls a router is barely worthy of the term. > Why not invest a surprising small amount in a real router like the > Ubiquiti Edgerouter X? Actually, I'm having excellent results with the GL.iNET products (for busines

Re: iPad file backup?

2023-10-23 Thread Dave Close
y not invest a surprising small amount in a real router like the Ubiquiti Edgerouter X? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Computers are useless. They can on

Re: iPad file backup?

2023-10-23 Thread Dave Ihnat
s easy to build on a Linux system, works on a VM, and is easy to use. I have a detailed generic guide to installation and configuration if anyone wishes. So you might consider putting up your own NextCloud instance. -- Dave Ihnat _

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 38: Misleading 'verify' instructions

2023-10-14 Thread Dave Close
Barry Scott wrote: >What exactly did you do that got this error message? >How can I reproduce this? To me, the first important question is, is the file actually defective (17 improperly formatted lines) or is the message bogus? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 43

Re: Thunderbird 115 FC 38

2023-09-27 Thread Dave Close
Adam's message seemed just fine when I saw it using exmh. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's wher

multi-user vs graphical mode (was startx equivalent for Wayland)

2023-09-24 Thread Dave Close
ot;save", but when was the last time anyone here used a manila folder or a floppy disk? (Don't tell me about "hover" to discover the meaning of some silly picture. That's just extra work, and tedious besides when searching through dozens of pictures for the one needed.) -

Re: startx equivalent for Wayland

2023-09-24 Thread Dave Close
ou want to run. e.g. gnome-shell Thanks. So there is no equivalent of /etc/sysconfig/desktop? Personally, I prefer KDE. I can eliminate most of the "icons" and similar junk and just manage using things I can read (though it does take some effort to disable that stuff). -- Dave Close

startx equivalent for Wayland

2023-09-24 Thread Dave Close
there is no package that includes such a command and I can't find any other weston command that looks likely. Surely I can't be the only one wanting to start from a command line? (The target is a system running 64-bit F38 fully updated.) -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA

Broken browser? Or broken website...

2023-04-30 Thread Dave Close
-thou attitude. Unfortunately, fedoraproject.org is not the only place I've encountered this abomination. What gives the administrators of these places their special rights to control the rest of us? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com

Re: F37 XFCE bell – where to turn it off

2022-12-19 Thread Dave Ulrick
On 12/19/22 7:02 PM, Dave Ulrick wrote: OK, I think I've found the root cause. It's in this stanza in /usr/share/pipewire/pipewire.conf context.modules = [     #{ name =     #    [ args  = { = ... } ]     #    [ flags = [ [ ifexists ] [ nofail ] ]     #}     #     # Loads a modul

Re: F37 XFCE bell – where to turn it off

2022-12-19 Thread Dave Ulrick
On 12/19/22 6:47 PM, Dave Ulrick wrote: It still seems wrong that the bell sound is forced on me regardless of XFCE event sounds being off, but this approach at least makes the behavior consistent across all login sessions: one sound for each bell event. I hardly know anything about

Re: F37 XFCE bell – where to turn it off

2022-12-19 Thread Dave Ulrick
he behavior consistent across all login sessions: one sound for each bell event. I hardly know anything about pipewire & wireplumber so I'll have to do some research before I can pinpoint what exactly is causing these sounds to be played. Dave _

Re: where did all of these *$!#!! icons come form

2022-12-08 Thread Dave Ulrick
On 12/8/22 3:28 PM, Steven Usdansky via users wrote: Just a guess: you're displaying $HOME instead of $HOME/Desktop. Check ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs Also, to remove all icons from the XFCE desktop, open: Settings / Desktop / Icons and select 'None' from the Icon t

Re: F37 XFCE bell – where to turn it off

2022-11-25 Thread Dave Ulrick
short, and no way to change it to something less annoying. Have you tried turning off this setting: Appearance / Settings / Enable Event Sounds ??? An odd place for a sound-related setting, but there it is... Dave ___ users m

Re: Looking to get connection between 2 local networks?

2022-11-09 Thread Dave Ihnat
dn't work since it had the 100 metric. So, that machine > I switched the connections to interfaces. You could also have changed the metrics. Just a thought. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dih...@dminet.com ___ users mailing list -

Re: "Dummy output" instead of sound card options, was working, now gone.

2022-09-05 Thread Dave Ulrick
ppear, I'd suggest doing a cold boot: shut down, wait for power off, and turn power back on. Every so often I see hardware go into a weird state that doesn't get reinitialized with a (warm) reboot but does with a cold boot. Dave ___ use

Re: following thunderbird upgrade to 102, it takes over 1h of 100% CPU to start

2022-09-03 Thread Dave Ulrick
On 9/3/22 8:18 AM, Dave Ulrick wrote: On 9/3/22 5:35 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 10:36 -0500, Dave Ulrick wrote: I see that TB 102 has a DNS-over-HTTPS option under General / Network Connection / Settings but it's disabled. Perhaps turn that function on, exit, off

Re: following thunderbird upgrade to 102, it takes over 1h of 100% CPU to start

2022-09-03 Thread Dave Ulrick
On 9/3/22 5:35 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 10:36 -0500, Dave Ulrick wrote: I see that TB 102 has a DNS-over-HTTPS option under General / Network Connection / Settings but it's disabled. Perhaps turn that function on, exit, off again, and see if it sets the new se

Re: following thunderbird upgrade to 102, it takes over 1h of 100% CPU to start

2022-09-02 Thread Dave Ulrick
TTPS option under General / Network Connection / Settings but it's disabled. The longish delay plus the "looking up" messages seem to point to a DNS resolution issue with the new TB 102. Dave ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorap

Re: Trying to install from ISO via grub.cfg - almost there?

2022-08-26 Thread Dave Ihnat
h of Forensic, Security, Recovery, and LiveCD images available on my keychain and in my laptop bag. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: file dates

2022-08-06 Thread Dave Stevens via users
On Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:37:41 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > On a couple of my computers using ext4 file systems I get different > results from the stat command on any file. One will list a creation > date, the other has nothing there (for any file). I don't see any > special options in fstab, I'm

Re: marketoblog

2022-08-02 Thread Dave Stevens via users
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 14:04:32 -0700 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > It should now have a link to the new_issue page... > > Hope that helps, yes, clear and direct d -- Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. Teran to Peran, in The Telling -Ursula K LeGuin _

This is...disturbing...

2022-07-26 Thread Dave Ihnat
Ran across this today: https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/25/the-power-of-microsoft-pluton-2/ I'm concerned... -- Dave Ihnat dih...@dminet.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an ema

Re: FYI: My book on Podman, preview is available.

2022-05-04 Thread Dave Stevens via users
On Wed, 4 May 2022 20:13:08 -0500 Thomas Cameron wrote: > You should really apologize to Dan, while you're at it. > > Thomas and you, Thomas, should maybe take it down a notch. I didn't know who he was either. D -- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are pu

Re: LibreOffice Base?

2022-05-02 Thread Dave Stevens via users
On Tue, 03 May 2022 09:11:59 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > There also seems to be a misunderstanding of "base" along the thread. > LibreOffice is the core of a system, so to speak, libreoffice-base is > a database interface that it can use. yes, and I see no real reason to think it's a fedora-sp

Re: LibreOffice Base?

2022-05-02 Thread Dave Stevens via users
On Mon, 2 May 2022 05:42:51 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 5/2/22 04:41, Andras Simon wrote: > > 2022-05-02 3:31 UTC+02:00, Robert Moskowitz : > >> I want to create an Access Database on my F35 system so my wife > >> can also use it on her Windows system using Access. > >> > >> So I did a q

Re: ssh impacted by systemd.resolved

2022-04-28 Thread Dave Ihnat
g to the conflicts on this topic just make me sigh. Sincerely, -- Dave Ihnat dih...@dminet.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http

Re: How To Use Visual Hierarchy To Improve Website Usability And UX?

2022-04-16 Thread Dave Stevens via users
On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 11:25:19 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/16/22 09:33, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Please clarify how this is related to Fedora. > > It's spam. See the last line in the mailing list footer. I agree it's spam but the topic is interesting enough to work as clickbait. May

Re: upower forgets UPS when nut-server starts

2022-03-30 Thread Dave Ulrick
ux systems so I have the Linux system acting as NUT server with the NASes acting as NUT clients. Dave ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Cod

upower forgets UPS when nut-server starts

2022-03-30 Thread Dave Ulrick
ctl restart upower but it will forget it again if I run: # systemctl start nut-server Is this a feature or a bug? Thanks, Dave ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Persistence of Grub2 menu overrides

2022-01-25 Thread Dave Ulrick
nts of /etc/default/grub: GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)" GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist

Re: Samsung Smart TV "crashes" NVidia driver, can't detect TV any more?

2022-01-18 Thread Dave Ulrick
d/system/nvidia-hibernate.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-resume.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-suspend.service I don't recall whether I had to manually enable any of these services, but I eventually managed to restore proper NVIDIA behavior for

Re: Does anybody still use `starship'?

2022-01-09 Thread Dave Stevens via users
On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 11:33:27 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > And the Amish in our area were putting in their 2 years, typically > working in the local hospitals. you might look here too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zivildienst -- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart

Re: F35 problems with Xfce Application Finder

2021-12-30 Thread Dave Ulrick
ion Finder: Type: Prefix Pattern: / Command: exo-open --launch FileManager %S This launches a file manager session for any app that starts with '/'. After deleting the Custom Action, the issue is resolved: apps such as /usr/bin/vncviewer are launched

Re: Setting up webserver for https??

2021-12-14 Thread Dave Ihnat
f it never seems to change, *don't* count on your IP being "static"--it's more "pseudo-static", but can change at the whim of the ISP. Using a dynamic DNS service such as dyndns.org, freedns.org, etc. is wise and recommended in such a case. Cheers, -- Dave Ihna

Re: Simple home floor plan software?

2021-11-13 Thread Dave Stevens via users
On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 17:26:36 -0600 Chris Adams wrote: > I'd like to draw a floor plan of my house. Nothing fancy, but I want > to include all the electrical info (switches, outlets, lights, etc.) > so I can map out and label the circuit each thing is on. > > Any suggestions for something free o

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