graphics card needed?

2025-07-19 Thread home user via users
Good morning, For my new workstation, I'll very probably buy 2 monitors.  They'll very probably be 4K, 27-inch, 10-bit depth, HDR.  Assume: * no gaming. * I want to be able to watch 4K, 120 frames per second videos. I think that's the heaviest video load I'll have.  CPU is not yet determined,

Re: hardware shopping (might be OT).

2025-07-18 Thread home user via users
On 7/17/2025 11:06 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2025-07-17 18.28, home user via users wrote: On 7/8/2025 9:10 PM, Felix Miata wrote: snip more others, VGA and/or DVI and/or HDMI. Reviews can be helpful, but mainly after finding good candidates satisfying technical requirements.  Finding what

Re: hardware shopping (might be OT).

2025-07-18 Thread home user via users
On 7/17/2025 10:49 PM, Robin Laing wrote: (snip) What I did the last couple of times to purchase computers is to look at what I needed and who supplied what I wanted.  Then review the issues that people had, more from bug reports. For laptops, Lenovo met over 90% of the latest requirements fo

Re: hardware shopping (might be OT).

2025-07-17 Thread home user via users
On 7/17/2025 1:42 AM, Robin Laing wrote: snip. Sorry for the rant in advance. I don't recommend any web site.  From what you describe, you are looking at component level reviews.  Not system reviews. No.  I'm not looking for reviews, but you're correct saying that what I'm looking for

Re: hardware shopping (might be OT).

2025-07-17 Thread home user via users
On 7/8/2025 9:10 PM, Felix Miata wrote: snip I doubt anything with more than a small fraction of your list ever did or ever will exist. It would be a dream come true. I think the closest you'll come is the results from:

Re: firefox fonts problem since upgrade to F42

2025-07-12 Thread home user via users
> > But do langpacks include fonts? > > I see nothing in Mozilla web pages saying they do. > > No, it just includes the translations for the interface. On 7/4/25 9:44 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/4/25 11:31 AM, home user via users wrote: On 7/4/2025 10:32 AM, Ranjan Mait

Re: multiple spaces in bash strings. [SOLVED]

2025-07-12 Thread home user via users
On 7/12/25 3:17 AM, Francis Montagnac via users wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:33:44 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/12/25 12:18 AM, Francis Montagnac via users wrote: echo "before if, endchars = "${endchars}"." Beware: word splitting will be done here when expanding ${endchars} because the "

Re: hardware shopping (might be OT).

2025-07-07 Thread home user via users
On 7/7/2025 4:09 PM, Thomas Cameron via users wrote: On 7/7/25 4:53 PM, home user via users wrote: To see examples of what I'm looking for, see this web page: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_webmail_providers";. Notice it's organized into tables, all sortab

Re: hardware shopping (might be OT).

2025-07-07 Thread home user via users
On 7/7/2025 3:48 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM home user via users wrote: Good morning, I'm overdue to buy a new home dual-boot (Fedora + 1 other t.b.d. Linux distro) workstation.  I'm trying to find free, no-login-needed web

Re: hardware shopping (might be OT).

2025-07-07 Thread home user via users
On 7/7/2025 12:13 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM Thomas Cameron via users wrote: On 7/7/25 11:29 AM, home user via users wrote: Good morning, I'm overdue to buy a new home dual-boot (Fedora + 1 other t.b.d. Linux distro) workstation. I'm trying to fin

Re: hardware shopping (might be OT).

2025-07-07 Thread home user via users
My apologies. Please ignore the below; I clicked "Send" when I meant to click "Edit". On 7/7/2025 3:49 PM, home user via users wrote: On 7/7/2025 10:29 AM, home user via users wrote: Good morning, I'm overdue to buy a new home dual-boot (Fedora + 1 other t.b.d.

Re: hardware shopping (might be OT).

2025-07-07 Thread home user via users
On 7/7/2025 10:29 AM, home user via users wrote: Good morning, I'm overdue to buy a new home dual-boot (Fedora + 1 other t.b.d. Linux distro) workstation.  I'm trying to find free, no-login-needed web sites that are a good help in comparing and choosing (not actually buying) w

Re: hardware shopping (might be OT).

2025-07-07 Thread home user via users
On 7/7/2025 10:29 AM, home user via users wrote: Good morning, I'm overdue to buy a new home dual-boot (Fedora + 1 other t.b.d. Linux distro) workstation.  I'm trying to find free, no-login-needed web sites that are a good help in comparing and choosing (not actually buying) w

Re: hardware shopping (might be OT).

2025-07-07 Thread home user via users
On 7/7/2025 11:46 AM, Thomas Cameron via users wrote: On 7/7/25 11:29 AM, home user via users wrote: Good morning, I'm overdue to buy a new home dual-boot (Fedora + 1 other t.b.d. Linux distro) workstation.  I'm trying to find free, no-login-needed web sites that are a go

hardware shopping (might be OT).

2025-07-07 Thread home user via users
Good morning, I'm overdue to buy a new home dual-boot (Fedora + 1 other t.b.d. Linux distro) workstation.  I'm trying to find free, no-login-needed web sites that are a good help in comparing and choosing (not actually buying) workstation hardware (monitors, speakers, GPUs, sound cards, CPUs,

Re: recovering back-up. [SOLVED]

2025-07-04 Thread home user via users
On 5/1/2025 9:12 PM, home user via users wrote: (F-42; stand-alone workstation; Gnome) Just before trying to upgrade from F-40 to F-41, I did a back-up to a USB 3 stick. The upgrade failed. A local friend gave me a windows-10 box to use.  Until I could get the Fedora workstation adequately

Re: firefox fonts problem since upgrade to F42

2025-07-04 Thread home user via users
On 7/4/2025 1:20 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM home user via users wrote: On 7/4/2025 10:32 AM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: Thank you! I don't however understand why I can see the characters all right (from what I can tell) on chromium-browser upgraded as

Re: firefox fonts problem since upgrade to F42

2025-07-04 Thread home user via users
On 7/4/2025 10:32 AM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: On Fri Jul04'25 10:29:06AM, Community Support for Fedora Users wrote: snip Thank you! I don't however understand why I can see the characters all right (from what I can tell) on chromium-browser upgraded as with firefox and everything else

Re: firefox fonts problem since upgrade to F42

2025-07-04 Thread home user via users
On 7/4/25 10:32 AM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: On Fri Jul04'25 10:29:06AM, Community Support for Fedora Users wrote: snip Thank you! I don't however understand why I can see the characters all right (from what I can tell) on chromium-browser upgraded as with firefox and everything else.

Re: firefox fonts problem since upgrade to F42

2025-07-04 Thread home user via users
On 7/4/25 3:37 AM, Tim via users wrote: 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 foun

Re: multiple spaces in bash strings. [SOLVED]

2025-07-03 Thread home user via users
On 7/3/25 4:29 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/3/25 3:11 PM, home user via users wrote: snip The things on the right are considered parameters and extra spaces are removed.  You need to quote it as mentioned by others. longstring="${startstring} ${longstring}" That will ke

Re: multiple spaces in bash strings.

2025-07-03 Thread home user via users
t;IFS" in bash before I launched this thread.  I spent some time in the web site that Jerry pointed me to.  "IFS" is in there 33 times.  But I did not see it defined; I don't really understand it.  If I go that route, it will be by "blind faith".  Isn't there

Re: multiple spaces in bash strings.

2025-07-02 Thread home user via users
On 7/2/2025 11:49 AM, Marco Moock wrote: On 01.07.2025 21:42 home user via users wrote: startstring = "11". This is the output of an "echo"; the period is merely the end of the output sentence. longstring = "This is a long test string". This is the outp

multiple spaces in bash strings.

2025-07-02 Thread home user via users
f42 workstation. I'm trying to prepend a string and multiple spaces to another string.  I can't get it to work.  How do I do it?  See 3 attempts below.  I really do want multiple spaces between the startstring and the longstring. - me@road-runner:~$ cat spaces1.bash #!/bin/bash #===

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-08 Thread home user via users
On 5/8/2025 5:32 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM home user via users wrote: On 5/7/25 6:35 AM, George N. White III wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM home user via users > mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> > wrote:

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-07 Thread home user via users
On 5/7/25 6:35 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM home user via users mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote: [...] It is a "MICRO CENTER" stick, probably bought in a Microcenter store in Rockville, Maryland at least 10 years ago.

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-07 Thread home user via users
On 5/7/25 8:19 AM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: On 7 May 2025 at 9:35, George N. White III wrote: Just to note there is a tool to check for fake USB and test USB drives. The latest version from Fedora Repo is f3-8.0-8.fc41.x86_64 There is a newer version on https://github.com/Altr

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-06 Thread home user via users
On 5/6/25 6:45 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/6/25 5:38 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/6/25 6:31 PM, home user via users wrote: More progress. Doing that brings up some files and one directory. There should be multiple directories. If I try to look at the properties of that directory, it

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-06 Thread home user via users
On 5/6/25 6:37 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/6/25 5:31 PM, home user via users wrote: More progress. Doing that brings up some files and one directory. There should be multiple directories. If I try to look at the properties of that directory, it says "contents unreadable", and

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-06 Thread home user via users
On 5/6/25 6:31 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/6/25 6:16 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/6/25 5:13 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/6/25 6:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/6/25 5:07 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/6/25 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/6/25 3:57 PM, home user via users

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-06 Thread home user via users
On 5/6/25 6:16 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/6/25 5:13 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/6/25 6:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/6/25 5:07 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/6/25 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/6/25 3:57 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/5/25 10:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-06 Thread home user via users
On 5/6/25 6:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/6/25 5:07 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/6/25 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/6/25 3:57 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/5/25 10:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Try "fdisk -l /dev/sdb". If it doesn't show the partition table, then

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-06 Thread home user via users
On 5/6/25 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/6/25 3:57 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/5/25 10:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Try "fdisk -l /dev/sdb". If it doesn't show the partition table, then try "gpart /dev/sdb", then try "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" again. If it

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-06 Thread home user via users
On 5/5/25 10:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/5/25 8:18 PM, home user via users wrote: # gpart /dev/sdb Begin scan... Possible partition(DOS FAT), size(14782mb), offset(3mb) End scan. Checking partitions... Partition(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT, LBA): primary Ok. Guessed primary

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-05 Thread home user via users
On 5/5/25 9:29 PM, Mike Wright wrote: On 5/5/25 20:18, home user via users wrote: [... snip ...] # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 14.44 GiB, 15504900096 bytes, 30283008 sectors Disk model: Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-05 Thread home user via users
read all the way to the end; don't stop too soon! On 5/5/25 8:46 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/5/25 5:57 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/5/25 6:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/5/25 5:08 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/5/25 5:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/5/25 3:55 PM, home use

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-05 Thread home user via users
On 5/5/25 6:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/5/25 5:08 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/5/25 5:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/5/25 3:55 PM, home user via users wrote: Here's a mount attempt: - - - - - # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 14.44 GiB, 15504900096 bytes, 30283008 sectors

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-05 Thread home user via users
On 5/5/25 6:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/5/25 5:08 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/5/25 5:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/5/25 3:55 PM, home user via users wrote: Here's a mount attempt: - - - - - # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 14.44 GiB, 15504900096 bytes, 30283008 sectors

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-05 Thread home user via users
On 5/5/25 6:27 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: [...] mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt [...] Unless you are already root that probably should be "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt" I'm already root. -- ___ users mailing list -- u

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-05 Thread home user via users
On 5/5/25 5:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/5/25 3:55 PM, home user via users wrote: Here's a mount attempt: - - - - - # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 14.44 GiB, 15504900096 bytes, 30283008 sectors Disk model: Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-05 Thread home user via users
On 5/5/25 3:37 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/2/25 3:58 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/2/2025 4:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: never been able to figure out how to manually (from the command line) mount something.  File browsers do that for me nicely. "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt"

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-05 Thread home user via users
: Community support for Fedora users From: Tim via users Copies to: home user , Tim Tim: There is a "ddrescue" tool with that kind of thing in mind. https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk TestDisk is another program that can look for partitio

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

2025-05-05 Thread home user via users
(sigh)  time to try to catch up, at least a little. On 4/28/2025 12:12 AM, Tim wrote: 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? No

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-02 Thread home user via users
On 5/2/2025 4:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/2/25 3:34 PM, home user via users wrote: On 5/2/25 4:01 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/2/25 9:44 AM, home user via users wrote: On 5/1/25 9:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: You can try running "gpart" on it. That will try to discover the

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-02 Thread home user via users
On 5/2/25 4:01 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/2/25 9:44 AM, home user via users wrote: On 5/1/25 9:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: You can try running "gpart" on it.  That will try to discover the partitions. # gpart /dev/sdb Begin scan... Possible partition(DOS FAT), size(14782mb), offse

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-02 Thread home user via users
On 5/2/25 3:14 AM, Barry Scott wrote: On 2 May 2025, at 04:12, home user via users wrote: How can I recover the back-up (without cost)? Note that I'm needing to recover the back-up as a whole, not just a file or 2 from a back-up. If the files are in your /home you can do a fresh in

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-02 Thread home user via users
On 5/1/25 10:48 PM, Tim wrote: 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 sneak

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-02 Thread home user via users
On 5/1/25 9:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/1/25 8:12 PM, home user via users wrote: (F-42; stand-alone workstation; Gnome) Just before trying to upgrade from F-40 to F-41, I did a back-up to a USB 3 stick. [snip] But now when I insert the back-up stick into a port on either tower, it&#

Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-02 Thread home user via users
On 5/1/25 9:12 PM, home user via users wrote: (F-42; stand-alone workstation; Gnome) snip But now when I insert the back-up stick into a port on either tower, it's claimed the back-up stick is un-formatted and empty.  Fedora's "disks" and windows-10 (file browser and d

recovering back-up.

2025-05-01 Thread home user via users
(F-42; stand-alone workstation; Gnome) Just before trying to upgrade from F-40 to F-41, I did a back-up to a USB 3 stick. The upgrade failed. A local friend gave me a windows-10 box to use.  Until I could get the Fedora workstation adequately restored, I needed to get a few things off the F-4

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread home user via users
On 4/27/25 4:12 AM, Barry Scott wrote: On 26 Apr 2025, at 01:38, 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

[SOLVED] Re: suppose I remove nvidia card?

2025-04-27 Thread home user via users
On 4/26/25 1:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/26/25 9:22 AM, home user via users wrote: (F-42 stand-alone workstation; gnome) good morning, My F-42 workstation had 21 mixed crashes in a few hours late yesterday, and more in a matter of minutes just a few minutes ago. It was installed

Re: suppose I remove nvidia card?

2025-04-27 Thread home user via users
On 4/26/25 5:10 PM, Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2025-04-26 16:01 (UTC-0600): The workstation rebooted fine without the card. No problems so far. So the CPU does have integrated graphics, which answers Felix and Samuel. There is one cost: this was a 2-monitor workstation; now

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread home user via users
On 4/27/25 2:12 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:45:04 -0600, home user via users wrote: The login GUI that shows up after booting is completed shows "Super User" as one of the 2 user names that I can choose to log in as. Please don't turn this into a gues

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/25 11:22 PM, Tim wrote: 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 m

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
On 4/26/25 5:46 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Apr 26, 2025, at 00:24, David King wrote: As to firewalls: Plugging the workstation directly into the Comcast cable modem puts your computer directly on the internet, where everyone can hack away at it trying to break in. I always put some sor

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/25 10:23 PM, David King wrote: To find out what your ip address is do:    sudo ip addr # ip addr 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft foreve

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
On 4/26/25 12:21 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/25/25 8:45 PM, home user via users wrote: On 4/25/2025 8:48 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/25/25 6:27 PM, home user via users wrote: securing this workstation: part 2. The login screen has 2 named users: 1. a user that Anaconda had me create. 2

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/25 11:00 PM, Marco Moock wrote: On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:23:50 -0400 David King wrote: Plugging the workstation directly into the Comcast cable modem puts your computer directly on the internet, where everyone can hack away at it trying to break in. This only applies if there is any se

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/25 9:37 PM, Fred wrote: curl ifconfig.me # curl ifconfig.me 2001:558:6040:48:e03d:21b7:9d94:6649 # -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of C

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
On 4/26/25 1:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/26/25 8:49 AM, home user via users wrote: On 4/25/25 9:33 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/25/25 8:28 PM, home user via users wrote: I moved the ethernet cable to my windows box.  windows reports the following; IPv6 address:    2001:558:6040:48:787f

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/25 7:02 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM home user via users mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote: (Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation) This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation, done today.  It is not

Re: suppose I remove nvidia card?

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
On 4/26/25 10:22 AM, home user via users wrote: (F-42 stand-alone workstation; gnome) good morning, My F-42 workstation had 21 mixed crashes in a few hours late yesterday, and more in a matter of minutes just a few minutes ago. It was installed yesterday afternoon.  It's practically unu

Re: suppose I remove nvidia card?

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
On 4/26/2025 12:40 PM, Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2025-04-26 10:22 (UTC-0600): (F-42 stand-alone workstation; gnome) My F-42 workstation had 21 mixed crashes in a few hours late yesterday, and more in a matter of minutes just a few minutes ago. It was installed yesterday

Re: suppose I remove nvidia card?

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
On 4/26/2025 10:45 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM home user via users wrote: Before starting this experiment, the top 3 things that were crashing were Thunderbird, Firefox, and gnome; there were other things.  Some crashes took me back to the graphical login

[suspended] Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
As I mentioned in a new thread ("suppose I remove nvidia card"), the workstation is practically unusable.  Once that's solved, I'll return to this thread. I thank all who have tried to help so far. On 4/25/2025 6:38 PM, home user via users wrote: (Fedora-42; stand-alone w

suppose I remove nvidia card?

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
(F-42 stand-alone workstation; gnome) good morning, My F-42 workstation had 21 mixed crashes in a few hours late yesterday, and more in a matter of minutes just a few minutes ago. It was installed yesterday afternoon.  It's practically unusable. I'm now on a windows-10 box (separate hardware,

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-26 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/25 9:33 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/25/25 8:28 PM, home user via users wrote: I moved the ethernet cable to my windows box.  windows reports the following; IPv6 address:    2001:558:6040:48:787f:8998:f490:f5d3 Link-local IPv6 address:    fe80::805:cbe5:bc94:2edd%2 IPv4 address

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/2025 8:48 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/25/25 6:27 PM, home user via users wrote: securing this workstation: part 2. The login screen has 2 named users: 1. a user that Anaconda had me create. 2. "Super User", which I did ***not*** create. Then there's something else bel

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/2025 7:47 PM, Fred wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:38:24 -0600 home user via users wrote: The workstation is connected to a modem via an ethernet cable. The modem connects to the internet service provider (comcast) via common co-ax(?) cable. I lost ***all*** my notes.  How do I

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/25 7:02 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM home user via users wrote: (Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation) This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation, done today.  It is not a part of a LAN or WAN or any other home

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/25 7:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/25/25 5:38 PM, home user via users wrote: (Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation) This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation, done today.  It is not a part of a LAN or WAN or any other home or office network. It is not dual

securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread home user via users
(Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation) This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation, done today.  It is not a part of a LAN or WAN or any other home or office network. It is not dual-boot. I do need for Firefox, Thunderbird, and dnf to be able to interact with the "outside

Re: unable to get Fedora login screen.

2025-04-11 Thread home user via users
On 4/11/2025 4:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/25 12:19 PM, home user via users wrote: error: Failed build dependencies:      kernel-devel-uname-r = 6.13.9-200.fc41.x86_64 is needed by nvidia-470xx-kmod-3:470.256.02-7.fc40.x86_64 Try doing the system upgrade again.  You're still o

Re: unable to get Fedora login screen.

2025-04-11 Thread home user via users
On 04/11/2025 12:26 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/25 11:14 AM, home user via users wrote: On 04/10/2025 11:57 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Was it you or someone else that got into this same situation recently? Not sure.  In early or mid October, I upgraded from f39 to f40. There were major

Re: unable to get Fedora login screen.

2025-04-11 Thread home user via users
(replying to 2) (Marco) > cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora* (see attached file "repos.txt") > Then dnf update(I'll come back to this) On 04/10/2025 11:57 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/10/25 6:58 PM, home user via users wrote: So I tried "dnf upgrade kernel-devel"

Re: unable to get Fedora login screen.,:

2025-04-10 Thread home user via users
On 04/10/2025 8:33 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: stem-upgrade reboot". >  2025/04/10 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_6

Re: unable to get Fedora login screen.

2025-04-10 Thread home user via users
On 04/10/2025 7:05 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/10/25 5:59 PM, home user via users wrote: ... snip ... Install "kernel-devel". The tee's did not capture everything that showed up on the console. "dnf install kernel-devel"... - Nothing to do. - The comm

Re: unable to get Fedora login screen.

2025-04-10 Thread home user via users
On 04/10/2025 6:27 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/10/25 3:43 PM, home user via users wrote: My final answer is that I don't know if the proper graphics driver is properly installed or not.  It was just before this morning's "dnf system-upgrade reboot". Try running "a

Re: unable to get Fedora login screen.

2025-04-10 Thread home user via users
On 04/10/2025 2:28 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM home user via users wrote: On 04/10/2025 1:19 PM, Marco Moock wrote: [...] I assume an issue with the graphical interface. Change the systemd target in grub systemd.unit=multi-user.target Which GPU do you have and

Re: unable to get Fedora login screen.

2025-04-10 Thread home user via users
On 04/10/2025 1:19 PM, Marco Moock wrote: Am 10.04.2025 um 13:12:07 Uhr schrieb home user via users: On 04/10/2025 12:36 PM, Marco Moock wrote: Am 10.04.2025 um 12:21:15 Uhr schrieb home user via users: I've never been able to make a live USB and then successfully boot from it; I

Re: unable to get Fedora login screen.

2025-04-10 Thread home user via users
On 04/10/2025 12:36 PM, Marco Moock wrote: Am 10.04.2025 um 12:21:15 Uhr schrieb home user via users: I've never been able to make a live USB and then successfully boot from it; I don't know why. I do not have a rescue. Specify what you see, especially after you disabled the b

unable to get Fedora login screen.

2025-04-10 Thread home user via users
I tried to upgrade from Fedora-40 (patched this morning) to Fedora-41.  I followed the instructions in the Fedora web site ".../upgrading-fedora-offline" document.  After the "dnf system-upgrade reboot" step, the boot process never resulted in a login screen.  I tried several times, including r

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-04-05 Thread home user via users
On 3/29/25 10:35 PM, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2025-03-29 at 10:31 -0600, home user via users wrote: If anyone is curious, the search keys in my examples in this thread are for pipe organ performances that I like. Classical or another? I've occasionally been able to play real pipe organs (th

Re: prep for upgrade: questions.

2025-04-05 Thread home user via users
On 4/5/25 6:41 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM home user via users mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote: Good morning, I'm planning and preparing to upgrade my workstation from Fedora Workstation 40 to Fedora Workstation 41.  The

Re: prep for upgrade: questions.

2025-04-05 Thread home user via users
On 4/5/25 1:22 AM, Barry wrote: On 4 Apr 2025, at 23:12, home user via users wrote: I don't recall customizing dnf in the past several years. The workstation is 12 years old; I don't recall if I did any dnf or yum customization that far back. I was not thinking of customis

Re: prep for upgrade: questions.

2025-04-04 Thread home user via users
On 4/4/25 5:27 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM home user via users wrote: Good morning, I'm planning and preparing to upgrade my workstation from Fedora Workstation 40 to Fedora Workstation 41. The ipgrade is planned for next Thursday. I have rea

Re: prep for upgrade: questions.

2025-04-04 Thread home user via users
On 4/4/25 10:53 AM, Barry wrote: On 4 Apr 2025, at 17:29, home user via users wrote: configuration file changes? If you drop-in config then nothing to do usually. But if you have the full conf file then check for new options you may need to tune. I don't recall customizing dnf i

Re: prep for upgrade: questions.

2025-04-04 Thread home user via users
On 4/4/25 10:52 AM, Barry wrote: On 4 Apr 2025, at 17:29, home user via users wrote: Good morning, I'm planning and preparing to upgrade my workstation from Fedora Workstation 40 to Fedora Workstation 41. The ipgrade is planned for next Thursday. I have read the instructio

prep for upgrade: questions.

2025-04-04 Thread home user via users
Good morning, I'm planning and preparing to upgrade my workstation from Fedora Workstation 40 to Fedora Workstation 41. The ipgrade is planned for next Thursday. I have read the instructions in docs.fedoraproject.org/ I see that dnf is getting a major upgrade from dnf4 to dnf5. I have

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-04-01 Thread home user via users
On 3/30/25 9:35 PM, Tim wrote: Thank-you, Tim. (more below) On Sun, 2025-03-30 at 15:07 -0600, home user via users wrote: "Pirates of the Caribbean - Davy Jones's theme cover church organ by Grissini Project" The organist was Romain Vaudé. "https://www.youtube.com/wat

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-04-01 Thread home user via users
On 3/31/25 7:51 PM, Tim via users wrote: ... "-ob9LHPEaKY" worked (11 chars), but "D-_qS_3KXBA" (11 chars) didn't, though "-_qS_3KXBA" (10 chars) does. That was my experience also. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-30 Thread home user via users
On 3/29/25 11:25 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2025-03-29 at 10:31 -0600, home user via users wrote: ... You might want to look at 'fd', an alternative to 'find' which is very fast and has some additional options. 'dnf info fd-find'. Also fzf, an

Re: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-29 Thread home user via users
On 3/27/25 10:29 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 03:00:21PM -0600, home user via users wrote: Good afternoon, I'm trying to search a directory sub-tree for a specific string.  I use this: find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l [string] /dev/null (but without the bra

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-29 Thread home user via users
On 3/27/25 11:40 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: home user via users wrote: On 3/26/25 8:02 PM, home user via users wrote: On 3/26/25 7:40 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: home user via users writes: ... I think the man page clearly indicates that the -e option requires an argument: Matching

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-27 Thread home user via users
On 3/27/25 5:03 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: home user via users writes: On 3/26/25 7:40 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: home user via users writes: ... Now, try adding more not-letters-and-digits to the search string. It won't be long before things stop working again. $ echo 'j^k'

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-27 Thread home user via users
On 3/26/25 8:02 PM, home user via users wrote: On 3/26/25 7:40 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: home user via users writes: By the way, grep's behavior suggests that the order of the options matters.  I did not expect that.  Does the order of the options really matter? I was paying attenti

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-26 Thread home user via users
On 3/26/25 7:40 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: home user via users writes: I am indeed wanting the searches to skip the binary files (such as ".png" and ".mkv" files). I am indeed wanting the searches to take case into account. Now, try adding more not-letters-and-digits

SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-26 Thread home user via users
On 3/26/25 5:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/26/25 4:35 PM, home user via users wrote: [snip] The results are correct.  But notice that the case sensitive search took over 7 1/4 MINUTES; the case INsensitive search took less than 1/20 second.  That's a nearly 4 orders of magnitude diffe

Re: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-26 Thread home user via users
On 3/26/25 4:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 15:47 -0600, home user via users wrote: A co-worker back in the late 1980's gave that "find" line.  I'm curious: did "grep" have the -r option back then? Maybe my memory is faulty but I

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