Re: Seeking advice on router.

On 20/08/16 09:44, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have a linksys router model WRT160NL but the range is too short. I experience many situations where the connection is dropped when the distance from the router is more than 25 feet. What is the recommended router when it comes to signal strength? I would

Re: Browser Privacy

On 25/08/16 06:41, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 25 August 2016 at 03:14, Tim wrote: [...] I used to use NoScript up until a couple of years ago when loading pages took extra time *because of* NoScript which is just irritating. So I ditched NoScript (which over the

Re: evercookies.

On 24/08/16 20:51, William Mattison wrote: (I'm replying to the entire discussion as of Wednesday evening US Mountain time.) I'm now wondering if evercookies can really be fully blocked. I do want to block what I reasonably can. But as was pointed out, a lot of wanted web functionality needs

Re: Decent picture viewer

On 17/08/16 07:53, Tethys wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Andras Simon wrote: In 25+ years of using linux, I haven't seen anything that comes close to xv. Correct answer. I've been using it since the late '80s, and it's still the best option for the vast majority

Re: Recommended cases and HDDs for home server

On 19/08/16 10:41, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I'm looking for any recommendations for both HDDs and cases for a simple home server setup. I have a good working mobo. I have used a few Antec Sonata cases; are there better similar cases to consider? As for HDDs, any recommendations on

Re: F23, Nouveau, and GeForce 750 Ti

On 02/08/16 07:06, Justin Moore wrote: Can anyone help me understand whether VDPAU is even supported on my hardware/kernel/driver combination, and if so, what I need to do to get it to work? I don't know about that, but I do know that on F24 the nouveau driver would freeze up solid as a rock

Re: Drive ordering mechanism /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc

On 01/08/16 00:51, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, I know that it is possible to refer to drives by various naming conventions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Persistent_block_device_naming but it is annoying that the "SCSI" drive (SATA and USB) order in which their corresponding

Re: Date change on reboot

On 25/07/16 08:38, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/25/16 22:30, Tim wrote: Tim: I'm sceptical, too (about that belief). I'm inclined to believe that story has been conjured up by someone to explain things, and everyone else has simply gone along with it. Joe Zeff: Be as skeptical as you want, but

Re: Date change on reboot

On 31/07/16 19:16, Stephen Davies wrote: Back to square one. I have checked the battery and it seems fine and the hardware clock is correct. More recent reboots suggest that the "extra" log entries are from eight days before the reboot. There is nothing in the logs to suggest that the clock is

Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade. [success]

On 13/07/16 18:47, Robin Laing wrote: I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin I thought I would post my experience. I started with the fear that it was going to create many headaches. I was wrong

Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.

On 13/07/16 20:38, Doug wrote: On 07/13/2016 07:47 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- I did this twice. In both cases I had a dual-boot Windows plus Linux / and /home

dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.

I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Strange messages from sudo dnf repoquery --unsatisfied after upgrade from F23 to F24.

On 05/07/16 15:31, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I have issued the command specified in the subject as recommended on site https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade to see if there are any old packages that should be removed because they would not be working properly anyway, and

Re: No video from Gigabyte GT710 graphics card

On 05/07/16 15:28, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 05:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/06/16 05:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 13:55 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 05 Jul 2016 18:47:20 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Enable the rpmfusion repo and

Re: nVidia driver not loading

On 02/07/16 00:48, Dave Pawson wrote: On 1 July 2016 at 22:08, Robin Laing <me...@telusplanet.net> wrote: On 27/06/16 10:28, Gabe Rubin wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Dave Pawson <dave.paw...@gmail.com> wrote: With my problem (update rather than new system), Xo

Re: new nvidia drives in rpmfusion updates F24

On 01/07/16 19:27, Sérgio Basto wrote: FYI , we have updates in all nvidias packages and support for kernel 4.6 in F24 ! [1] but not for F23 , unfortunately who have F23 and nvidia package should not install new kernels 4.6.x [1]

Re: nVidia driver not loading

by the nVidia driver installation? regards On 27 June 2016 at 22:34, Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: On 27 Jun 2016, at 01:14, Robin Laing <me...@telusplanet.net> wrote: Hello, A new machine and I have installed the rpmfusion nVidia akmods but xorg is trying to load

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

On 01/07/16 05:46, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 12:40:50 +0200 Matthew Colton wrote: Additionally, using the akmod-nvidia as opposed to relying on rpmfusion to supply kmods will free you from having to wait or worry about rpmfusion repositories keeping in sync with released kernels.

Re: rpmfusion for F24

On 27/06/16 17:28, Clifford Snow wrote: I use the non free rpmfusion for Nvidia drivers. (The nouveau doesn't work for my card, no or insufficient thermal controls.) Where is the best place to ask for drivers compiled for the latest kernel, 4.5.7-300? Thanks, Clifford Just installed a new

nVidia driver not loading

Hello, A new machine and I have installed the rpmfusion nVidia akmods but xorg is trying to load module "nv", not "nvidia" according the Xorg.0.log. Where could the system be trying to load the nv driver instead of the nvidia driver? nvidia-xorg.conf exists 99-nvidia.conf exists and

Re: Fedora 24 install fail

On 25/06/16 23:45, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 06/25/2016 08:58 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Trying to install Fedoar 24 to a new machine. System freezes on the install just after and EDAC sbridge, - couldn't find mci handler. It freezes while booting the installer or during the install? -- users

Fedora 24 install fail

Trying to install Fedoar 24 to a new machine. System freezes on the install just after and EDAC sbridge, - couldn't find mci handler. Used to have an message about KVM before but enabled VT in bios and that disappeared. Tried Fedora 24 live and Fedora 24 KDE live with the same problem.

Re: a compatibility question: AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series

On 20/06/16 08:30, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 00:14 +0930, Tim wrote: Does anyone have any good/bad experience with this graphics chipset: On-motherboard AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series I'm keeping watch on this thread, and have seen the five replies, so far. I can say things for and

Re: a compatibility question: AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series

On 19/06/16 23:44, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 06/19/2016 05:12 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Last year I purchased a motherboard with onboard AMD graphics. A real nightmare. Check the AMD site for support for the video card. As it turned out, AMD dropped support for the chipset and their web site states

Re: a compatibility question: AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series

On 19/06/16 22:43, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/19/2016 05:12 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I would have to do a reboot to know the onboard video. Use this: lspci | grep VGA Doesn't even need root. HTH, HAND. Doesn't show the onboard video. Tried that before I posted. I only get the Nvidia GTX 960

Re: a compatibility question: AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series

On 17/06/16 08:44, Tim wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any good/bad experience with this graphics chipset: On-motherboard AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series I was offered a reasonable price for a system using it, but really don't want to have to deal with something that's going to be pain. Last year I

[systemsettings] [Bug 340982] I cannot set my short date to YYYY-MM-DD, nor my time to HH:MM

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340982 --- Comment #74 from Robin Laing <me...@telusplanet.net> --- Maybe it would save allot of headaches if there was an easy way to change locale system wide. There are ways to play around but it would be nice if there was an ISO 8601 based locale i

Re: Par2cmdline with non normal characters.

On 14/05/16 21:55, c...@zip.com.au wrote: On 14May2016 18:25, Robin Laing <me...@telusplanet.net> wrote: I am trying to run par2 to repair an archive that has an apostrophe in the name. Not a single quote. This archive was created on Windows. Is there any reason you can't just

Re: Par2cmdline with non normal characters.

On 14/05/16 18:58, Pittigher, Raymond wrote: From: Robin Laing <me...@telusplanet.net> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 8:25 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Par2cmdline with non normal characters. Hello, I am trying to run par2 to

Par2cmdline with non normal characters.

Hello, I am trying to run par2 to repair an archive that has an apostrophe in the name. Not a single quote. This archive was created on Windows. File name should be Joe’s file.part01.rar If I do ls I get Joe?s file.part01.rar ls -b I get Joe\302\222s\

Fedora 23 - Davmail - Thunderbird - localhost blacklisted

For years I have been using Davmail on my workstation to get my email into Thunderbird at work from Exchange Server. There is no POP access and never could get any mapi suggestions to work. Upgrading from F20 to F23 via a clean install of F23 and moving my home partition to F23 and I am

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 05/02/16 23:30, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 05 February 2016, g sent: something that amazes me is that with all the add-ons that have been written for cookie handling, none have a feature that ties in to url bar or bookmarks that will disable/enable cookies with out user having to make

Re: nvidia-304xx is broken

On 05/02/16 11:03, David A. De Graaf wrote: On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:55:11PM -0700, Robin Laing wrote: On 31/01/16 16:29, Ed Greshko wrote: I wrote the inquiry below to the fedora users maillinglist but there was no response except a suggestion to ask here, so this is it. I recently had

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 04/02/16 09:04, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 04 February 2016, Tom Rivers sent: I do know of a free one that is privacy oriented and it works really well: https://duckduckgo.com/about I can't say that I find them anywhere near as good as Google. Much as it pains me to say it. I

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 03/02/16 03:35, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 11:13:30PM -0700, Robin Laing wrote: This is a pain. I am frustrated and my productivity has taken a nose dive. I'm curious. Why not use one of the many more sophisticated cookie manager add-ons? https://addons.mozilla.org/en

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 04/02/16 14:01, stan wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 21:47:00 +1030 Tim wrote: On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:18 -0700, stan wrote: I doubt that you are experiencing traditional cookie tracking. Hmm, I reckon they probably still do that. I'd agree. But my bank, to

Re: nvidia-304xx is broken

On 31/01/16 16:29, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/01/16 00:50, David A. De Graaf wrote: I wrote the inquiry below to the fedora users maillinglist but there was no response except a suggestion to ask here, so this is it. I recently had a problem with the nvidia-340xx. I would only get a blank

akmod-nvidia-340xx won't build F23 - info

Hello, Akmod-nvidia has worked for ages with no issues. Upgrading to F23 has not worked. Removed all nvidia sources and re-installed with no success. make oldconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/bin2c HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o HOSTCC

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 04/02/16 12:11, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/04/2016 06:50 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: On 2/4/2016 9:36 AM, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: After (two?) mentions to Google search, I wonder if any you know of any paid web search engines? I don't know about search engines that cost money, but I do know of a

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 03/02/16 07:33, g wrote: On 02/03/16 04:35, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 11:13:30PM -0700, Robin Laing wrote: This is a pain. I am frustrated and my productivity has taken a nose dive. I'm curious. Why not use one of the many more sophisticated cookie manager add-ons

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 02/02/16 21:58, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: Why would they remove it? Was it a big maintenance burden? Seems something reasonable to keep around. There was an issue with poorly written sites opening hundreds of cookie requests. So to fix that problem they now have two choices. Accept or

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 02/02/16 23:02, Robin Laing wrote: On 02/02/16 21:58, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: Why would they remove it? Was it a big maintenance burden? Seems something reasonable to keep around. There was an issue with poorly written sites opening hundreds of cookie requests. So to fix that problem

Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

For those that like to control how sites track you, you may want to think again about using Firefox 44. As of now, the cookies settings don't have the option to "Ask Me Every Time" Choice is to accept or deny all cookies from a site. I for one, like to know if I am being asked for cookies or

kernel source - "make prepare" - error

Hello, I am trying to compile a module and having a problem. When I run make oldconfig I have no issues but when I try to run "make prepare", I get an error. 4.3.4-300.fc23.x86_64]# make oldconfig scripts/kconfig/conf --oldconfig Kconfig # # configuration written to .config

Re: nvidia-304xx broken with new kernel

On 29/01/16 13:50, David A. De Graaf wrote: The latest two kernels and the nvidia-304xx module are incompatible. That is, the nvidia.ko module built by akmod-nvidia-304xx won't load. That means that my three machines with older nvidia video cards (one built into the mobo) are stuck running the

[kwin] [Bug 353428] KWin freezes until drkonqi is closed from a terminal

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353428 --- Comment #36 from Robin Laing <me...@telusplanet.net> --- Just an update. After major problems with KDE after the latest KDE updates, I decided to wipe out all my old configuration files and start my account from scratch. Since doing this,

Re: Looking for a printer

On 31/12/15 12:47, William Henry wrote: I have a HP Laserjet Pro 200 and it meets all your criteria. You will change cartridges less often but they are expensive. William P.S. I had no idea tweakers were that into ink cartridges! Sent from my iPhone On Dec 31, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Thomas

Re: installation on a HP250 as UEFI

On 2015-12-28 08:14, maderios wrote: I've had that on a work laptop (also an HP). You can try to disable secure boot in the UEFI screen, or you can try and tell the USB stick to treat the laptop like a BIOS machine. The problem is that changing those settings now will break the existing Windows

Re: yum configure to only download one package at a time

On 2015-12-18 01:34, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:05:21 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to upgrade my system and through our corporate firewall/network filters/etc, the bandwidth is limited. Today while doing an upgrade, yum was downloading five packages

Re: yum configure to only download one package at a time

On 2015-12-18 06:49, Robin Laing wrote: On 2015-12-18 01:34, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:05:21 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to upgrade my system and through our corporate firewall/network filters/etc, the bandwidth is limited. Today while doing an upgrade

yum configure to only download one package at a time

Hello, I am trying to upgrade my system and through our corporate firewall/network filters/etc, the bandwidth is limited. Today while doing an upgrade, yum was downloading five packages at a time. Due to the limits, I was running into a under X bytes for 60 seconds restart. The limit is

Re: yum configure to only download one package at a time

On 2015-12-17 17:45, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/17/2015 04:05 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to upgrade my system and through our corporate firewall/network filters/etc, the bandwidth is limited. Today while doing an upgrade, yum was downloading five packages at a time. Due

[kwin] [Bug 353428] KWin freezes until drkonqi is closed from a terminal

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353428 --- Comment #34 from Robin Laing <me...@telusplanet.net> --- No, it was the "Strg-Alt-Fx" you wrote that I hope was a typo. Your freezing is similar to a situation that I run into every once in a while that is different. My desk

[kwin] [Bug 353428] KWin freezes until drkonqi is closed from a terminal

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353428 --- Comment #26 from Robin Laing <me...@telusplanet.net> --- For part of the discussion. I wonder if others that are having this issue have upgraded and those that don't have a problem are using a clean install. I have a couple of test ac

[kwin] [Bug 353428] KWin freezes until drkonqi is closed from a terminal

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353428 --- Comment #27 from Robin Laing <me...@telusplanet.net> --- Bzi, comment 25 I use a USB keyboard and can Ctrl+Alt+Fx to the terminal. I usually use F5 out of years of habit. I hope your comment is a typo. Try to Ctrl+Alt+Fx before the

Re: more external display woes... SOLVED (sort of)

On 2015-09-11 20:44, CS DBA wrote: F22 works until I update, closing this thread for a more appropriate one, sent a new email: Fedora 22 - no external monitor after kernel update On 09/11/2015 05:16 PM, CS DBA wrote: All; I bought a new Lenovo X1 Carbon 3rd generation, installed Fedora 21

Re: Aaugh! Sound devices changed again!

On 2015-09-02 16:10, jdow wrote: On 2015-09-02 05:20, Ian Malone wrote: On 2 September 2015 at 12:27, Tom Horsley wrote: Every single fedora release, and sometimes even just from an update where there wasn't a full release, the sound devices get renumbered or renamed.

Re: Disk partition

On 2015-07-19 12:15, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/19/2015 11:06 AM, g wrote: if such is critically related to /etc/fstab, partition magic has a live cd you can boot to restructure partitions and the open fstab to edit changes. Even better, edit /etc/fstab to refer to partitions by UUID instead of

Re: What Seriously Ails Fedora

On 2015-05-28 21:15, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/28/2015 03:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: What you're saying is, in effect, that boost 1.54 breaks backward compatibility and boost-terminal isn't going to get upgraded. Yes. Isn't it up to boost's maintainer to see to it that this doesn't become an

Re: Status of Optimus laptop graphics in F22?

On 2015-05-28 08:16, Pete Travis wrote: On May 28, 2015 7:36 AM, Matthew Saltzman m...@clemson.edu wrote: On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 16:40 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:09 AM, Matthew Saltzman m...@clemson.edu wrote: Does anyone know if nVidia's Optimus technology is

Re: Yum and partial downloads.

On 2015-04-23 08:27, stan wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:38:35 -0600 Robin Laing me...@telusplanet.net wrote: In one case, the file was at 99% complete when it stopped. Restarted on a different mirror at 0% Due to firewall rules there is bandwidth management and it allows downloads to start

Re: help - Fedup F20 to F21 through firewall

On 2015-04-13 07:53, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 21:05 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: In yum.conf I have (domain hidden) proxy=http:/webproxy.XXX.X:8080 Does your actual proxy config have http://; rather than http:/? Can you check that your proxy is working properly? Sorry for taking so

Yum and partial downloads.

at 25MB. The Question. The network admin asked if Fedora was like Ubuntu that will continue downloading where it left off? I stated I doubted it as the display kept going back to zero Robin Laing -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

RANT . Very poor install experience. 10 hours and just got it working.

I waited until I had calmed down and edited this post. Originally it was written on Sunday April 12. This is a rant and there are bug reports due to my issues. Some are automatic from the install issues and others created or to be created by me. I have been working on this laptop all

Re: help - Fedup F20 to F21 through firewall

On 2015-04-10 10:41, Rick Stevens wrote: On 04/09/2015 08:05 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2015-04-02 10:51, Rick Stevens wrote: On 04/01/2015 09:44 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2015-03-31 11:49, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: The fedup

Re: Rescue boot - Cannot mount vfat partition - /boot/efi System won't boot

On 2015-04-09 20:52, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, A Fedora 21 laptop that was working now will not boot. Fully updated dual boot machine. Windows quit working but Fedora worked until last night. Trying to boot today, it won't mount the efi partition. /boot/efi so the boot process cannot boot

Re: help - Fedup F20 to F21 through firewall

On 2015-03-31 11:49, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: The fedup installation guide used to say that it was not recommended if one is using KDE or Gnome, which I imagine would be 90% of users. Does it still say this? In general, upgrades are

Re: question about burning and then reading (dd) to confirm sha256sum

On 2015-04-01 19:15, g wrote: On 04/01/2015 02:18 PM, jd1008 wrote: After burning 3 DVD's, and reading them back to compute sha256sum. all three of them generated these error messages during readback, and all 3 messages show the error was past the 4gb offset. Is this a media issue or is it

Re: help - Fedup F20 to F21 through firewall

On 2015-03-29 19:33, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/29/2015 04:53 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I really don't want to have to upgrade manually again. You might want to try the unofficial route, upgrade-fedora. Are you saying to just try upgrading without using fedup? The one reason I would like to use

help - Fedup F20 to F21 through firewall

Fedup won't use the proxy server where I work. I can download packages and do yum updates by command line or yumex on the machine for updates. sudo yum update works as expected. I cannot run fedup. I get error messages for every server tried as 403'd. This is from the log file. [

Fedup not working through firewall.

Hello, I have a Fedora 19 machine at work that I would like to upgrade to Fedora 21 using fedup. Running yum works on this machine. Running fedup seems to be blocked by the firewall. How do I make fedup use the proxy server? Searching through bugzilla, it is supposed to be fixed but in my

Re: Assistance building a backup server

On 2015-03-05 09:48, Alex Regan wrote: Hi, I have a fedora20 system acting as a backup server, and I've exceeded its capacity. I'd like to build a bigger one, probably using fedora21. I currently have a 3TB backup system using five 1TB disks in RAID5. Restore times in case of disk failure are

Re: problem playing video DVD

On 2015-02-26 22:29, jd1008 wrote: Rented a DVD movie (the 3rd in the series Atlas Shrugged). It would not play with any media player (such as smplayer, vlc, Dragon Player, xine, totem, ... etc) No errors in /var/log/messages. I told the vendor, and they stuck it into a machine the tests it

Re: computer boot (some times) in emergency mode.

On 2015-02-26 05:22, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Hi Chris, I would be more inclined to to think about a electrical problem, since the only rep-plugging of the connectors of the HD solves the problem .. In any case I think the control of the HD is appropriate, so I would ask you in detail how to

Re: Disabling the UPS alarm using Linux

On 2015-02-16 21:45, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 18:30:57 -1000, Jim Lewis j...@jklewis.com wrote: I know this has always been hard/impossible to do but I thought I would ask in case this had finally been resolved. I tried using upscmd but it can't find the APC UPS (USB).

Re: F21 on UEFI

On 2015-02-15 11:59, Chris Murphy wrote: I suggest booting live media with and without the legacy option enabled, and compare dmesg from both boots. Check things like video and trackpad support (if this is a laptop) and also the libata messages for what linkage is made with the drive. This is

Re: rpm -V - verifying packages

On 2015-02-03 00:45, bitlord wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:45:47 -0700 Robin Laing me...@telusplanet.net wrote: On 2015-01-20 10:14, Tony Nelson wrote: On 15-01-19 23:00:27, Robin Laing wrote: ... I decided to check my machine with rpm -Va rpm_verify.txt ... I do understand

Re: Livna releases missing: Fedora 18, 19, 20, 21

On 2015-02-03 08:58, Nicolas Viéville wrote: Le mardi 03 février 2015 à 15:37 +0100, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 03.02.2015 um 15:07 schrieb Jargon Scott: Greetings, folks. This is an issue with Livna, but I'm raising it here as per the support instructions at http://rpm.livna.org/ . Livna

Re: rpm -V - verifying packages

On 2015-01-20 10:14, Tony Nelson wrote: On 15-01-19 23:00:27, Robin Laing wrote: ... I decided to check my machine with rpm -Va rpm_verify.txt ... I do understand the configure and data files but when lib files are all showing that issue as below. S.?../usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so

Re: rpm -V - verifying packages

On 2015-01-18 02:27, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:14:11 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I don't know if I found a bug with upgrade or if there is a strange issue with rpm. I have upgraded from F19 to F21 on a machine. The upgrade worked quite well. Due to the nVidia

rpm -V - verifying packages

Hello, I don't know if I found a bug with upgrade or if there is a strange issue with rpm. I have upgraded from F19 to F21 on a machine. The upgrade worked quite well. Due to the nVidia driver changes, I installed the nVidia driver from nVidia instead of the normal rpmfusion as the 340

Re: Cannot boot laptop due to video driver

On 2015-01-17 02:25, poma wrote: On 17.01.2015 05:51, Robin Laing wrote: On 2015-01-16 00:55, poma wrote: On 16.01.2015 07:20, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to help my child whom is across the country repair their laptop after installing the wrong video driver. They can boot

Re: current laptop recommendations

On 2015-01-09 06:43, Ian Malone wrote: Anyone have any good suggestions for a new laptop with good Linux compatibility? My current one is about 8 years old (IIRC), not looking for anything superspecced to replaced it, just annoyances like reduced battery life and the wifi switch playing up are

Re: Cannot boot laptop due to video driver

On 2015-01-16 10:07, Doug wrote: On 01/16/2015 01:20 AM, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to help my child whom is across the country repair their laptop after installing the wrong video driver. They can boot into emergency mode but not any of the other kernels. During booting

Re: Cannot boot laptop due to video driver

On 2015-01-16 00:55, poma wrote: On 16.01.2015 07:20, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to help my child whom is across the country repair their laptop after installing the wrong video driver. They can boot into emergency mode but not any of the other kernels. During booting

Cannot boot laptop due to video driver

Hello, I am trying to help my child whom is across the country repair their laptop after installing the wrong video driver. They can boot into emergency mode but not any of the other kernels. During booting into the system, the boot process stops close to the point of starting KDM. We

Re: Fedora 21 on a GIGABYTE P34Gv2-CF4 (NVIDIA GeForc GTX 860M)

On 2015-01-07 19:05, Doug wrote: On 01/07/2015 06:37 PM, CS DBA wrote: All; I'm thinking about getting a GIGABYTE P34Gv2-CF4 with these specs: - 14.0” FHD 16:9 LED IPS Backlit Wide screen (1920x1080) Anti-Glare Matte Type Screen - 4th Generation Intel® Haswell Core™ i7-4710HQ (2.5GHz -

Re: Fedup issues

On 2014-12-29 18:39, Robin Laing wrote: Overall, I say that this worked pretty good. F19 to F21 Encrypted laptop using FedUp following the wiki. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp One issue with shutdown which is a reported bug. om the wiki, went well until the shutdown. Left it as we

Re: Fedup troubles

On 2014-12-29 15:03, Greg Woods wrote: Downloading failed: Didn't install any keys [root@localhost ~]# Clue, please? I never could get the GPG part of the Rpmfusion repo to work with fedup. I ended up using --nogpgcheck (yes I am aware of the risks of doing that) so that I could

Fedup issues

Overall, I say that this worked pretty good. Two machines different problems. First machine, F20 to F21. Full procedure followed and install went almost 100% perfect. Only issue remaining is that I have two F20 kernels listed via rpm but not when I run yum list kernel. I removed on

Re: Fedup issues

On 2014-12-29 18:39, Robin Laing wrote: Overall, I say that this worked pretty good. ... Machine 2. Dual boot, Win 8.1 / Fedora. While running fedup, is stuck at the end. Before the shutdown and reboot. Don't know what happened but after two hours of sitting there, I shut down

Re: recovering data from a preceding installation of Fedora..

On 2014-12-16 10:31, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/16/2014 09:05 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Hi, I I had to re install Fedora on my computer, I did it and now I have to restore the data from the old installation. Using an external support for the disc (USB to SATA / IDE converter) I can access

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

On 2014-12-16 16:45, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Chris Murphy sent: Android 7.61MB. This just displays them, there's no creation or modification as far as I'm aware. So it's possible most of the code complexity is in the creation and modification. The point is that as

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

On 2014-12-16 05:14, Neal Becker wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:15:50 -0500 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than evince (F20 is 3.10, F21 is 3.14)? Being a happy KDE user, I like okular. And I

Re: Most efficient way to upgrade a bunch of workstations

On 2014-12-09 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: So, I read the blurb that strongly advises against doing an iso-based fedup, and strongly encouraging a network-based fedup in order to yank in all the updates at once. I have a bunch of machines to

Re: Samba 4 support

On 2014-12-09 18:43, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I was asking about Samba 4 on the Samba list and got the following response about Fedora and Samba4: If you look thru previous posts to this forum you will see that Samba 4 uses Heimdal Kerberos libraries , while Fedora uses MIT kerberos libraries,

Re: Most efficient way to upgrade a bunch of workstations

On 2014-12-09 19:52, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:45 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-12-09 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: So, I read the blurb that strongly advises against doing an iso-based fedup, and strongly encouraging a network

Re: Samba 4 support

On 2014-12-09 19:53, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:47 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-12-09 18:43, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I was asking about Samba 4 on the Samba list and got the following response about Fedora and Samba4: If you look thru previous posts to this forum you will see

fedup - luks encrypted system

Hello, In the past, using fedup was a disaster due to encrypted systems. Is this working in F21? Don't use LVM's and partitions are encrypted using LUKS. This includes /tmp swap. /boot isn't encrypted. Have had issues installing in the past with encrypted partitions. Seen many bug

Re: Most efficient way to upgrade a bunch of workstations

On 2014-12-09 20:09, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 07:04 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-12-09 19:52, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:45 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-12-09 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: So, I read the blurb

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