Re: stange dependencies

2019-07-07 Thread François Patte
Le 08/07/2019 à 07:22, Ed Greshko a écrit : > On 7/8/19 12:50 PM, François Patte wrote: >> Bonjour, >> >> I removed ssmtp from a machine (f30) and dnf has removed more than 100 >> packages as dependencies of this package. A lot of perl modules (I did >> not know that ssmtp was a perl script...)

Re: stange dependencies

2019-07-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 7/8/19 12:50 PM, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I removed ssmtp from a machine (f30) and dnf has removed more than 100 > packages as dependencies of this package. A lot of perl modules (I did > not know that ssmtp was a perl script...) and *google-chrome* > > Is it serious? >

Re: Mate on latest fedora releases

2019-07-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/6/19 8:46 AM, JD wrote: Installing latest mate desktop (from rpmfusion) on Fedora 30, 29, 28, 27 ...24, 23 22 DOES NOT work. At least up to 28, Mate has worked fine for me. I haven't yet upgraded those computers past that. I would expect a lot of complaints on this list if there

Thanks for: [OT] best (Linux based!) all-in-one NAS-VPN-firewall?

2019-07-07 Thread M. Fioretti
Many thanks to all who answered this request, and added very useful general comments. I have synthesized all the feedback collected here and elsewhere, and forwarded the result to the client. We'll know how it ends next month. For the record, and to give more context: both the client and I know,

stange dependencies

2019-07-07 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, I removed ssmtp from a machine (f30) and dnf has removed more than 100 packages as dependencies of this package. A lot of perl modules (I did not know that ssmtp was a perl script...) and *google-chrome* Is it serious? -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique

Re: VLC stopped launching

2019-07-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 7/8/19 10:51 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Jul  7 22:48:58 lx140e audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 > ses=4294967295 > subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=fprintd comm="systemd" > exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' > Jul  7 22:49:06

Re: VLC stopped launching

2019-07-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I had ran vlc successfully to listen to another video from my son (of one of his boy's) and then went to quit the vlc from the panel. Looked at messages and see: Jul  7 22:48:58 lx140e audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0

Re: VLC stopped launching

2019-07-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 7/8/19 9:54 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > From the "there's more than one way to do it" file... There is also the "killall" command -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme ___ users mailing list

Re: VLC stopped launching

2019-07-07 Thread Jack Craig
how about 'strace vlc' ?? ;) just for variety On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 7:43 PM Todd Zullinger wrote: > Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 07/07/2019 07:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> How can I find its process number to try and kill it or any better way > >> to get its attention? > > > > ps aux | grep

Re: VLC stopped launching

2019-07-07 Thread Jack Craig
i use the gnome desktop and open a terminal window. i launch it using vlc at the bash command line. i Know this isnt right, should use cvlc or some such, but you asked, ... hth,... On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 7:31 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Where do you see these messages? > > On 7/7/19 10:27

Re: VLC stopped launching

2019-07-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Where do you see these messages? On 7/7/19 10:27 PM, Jack Craig wrote: i have a stubborn vlc too have you got any, ... Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared

Re: VLC stopped launching

2019-07-07 Thread Jack Craig
i have a stubborn vlc too have you got any, ... Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory *Gtk-Message: 13:52:48.765:

Re: VLC stopped launching

2019-07-07 Thread Earl Ramirez
On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 21:24 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I got it 'open media' option to browser for a file and supposedly to > open an mp4, but nothing. > > top is showing pulseaudio process running along. I suppose I could try > and kill that... > > killed pulseaudio, but still

Re: VLC stopped launching

2019-07-07 Thread Todd Zullinger
Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/07/2019 07:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> How can I find its process number to try and kill it or any better way >> to get its attention? > > ps aux | grep vlc | grerp -v grep > > will do what you want. I have this as a one-liner shell script because it > comes in

Progress of sorts - Re: VLC stopped launching

2019-07-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
The task manager app showed me the process number and let me kill vlc and then I was able to view another video. But this should not be needed. On 7/7/19 9:24 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I got it 'open media' option to browser for a file and supposedly to open an mp4, but nothing. top is

Re: VLC stopped launching

2019-07-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/07/2019 07:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: How can I find its process number to try and kill it or any better way to get its attention? ps aux | grep vlc | grerp -v grep will do what you want. I have this as a one-liner shell script because it comes in handy more often than you'd

Re: VLC stopped launching

2019-07-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I got it 'open media' option to browser for a file and supposedly to open an mp4, but nothing. top is showing pulseaudio process running along.  I suppose I could try and kill that... killed pulseaudio, but still nothing responding in vlc. On 7/7/19 9:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have

VLC stopped launching

2019-07-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have been looking at a couple mp4 videos transferred from my son's phone. I successfully opened 3 of them with vlc, closed vlc and renamed them. Then for the fourth, vlc stopped launching. Well I guess it is really not launching, as I see the vlc icon on the panel.  It is not responding. 

Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-07 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
On 7/2/19 3:06 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 01:42 -0400, Steven Ulrick wrote: But for some reason, the password that I used to install and upgrade all that stuff stopped working. So, I booted the Live DVD again (which takes a long time on my system), did the chroot thing

Re: Most of the system can't print to network printer.

2019-07-07 Thread Stephen Morris
On 4/7/19 6:03 am, Alan Evans wrote: FC29, Cinnamon desktop, fully updated. The printer is an Epson ET-4500, connected through WiFi. The Administration->Print Settings dialog detects the printer. Printing a test page works like a charm. But it seems like nothing else included with the system

Re: Manually installed grub (no bls) doesn't update entries automatically on kernel install or removal.

2019-07-07 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/6/19 12:36 am, Sergio Cipolla wrote: Thanks, Tom. Currently it seems grub uses /etc/default/grub to generate grub.cfg, as usual, but I had a look at /boot/loader/entries/.conf and the nouveau driver blacklisting (for I installed the proprietary driver) is there. So probably the boot

Amarok song list seems to be white on white

2019-07-07 Thread SternData
Sometime in the last week, one of the updates seems to have broken Amarok's display. See https://imgur.com/eHk4Vc0 The list of tracks on the right is there, but seems to be white on white. I can't find anyplace to change the color scheme. -- -- Steve

Re: selinux - help - directory policy syntax

2019-07-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 7/7/19 1:35 AM, Robin Laing wrote: I cannot find out in anything I have searched what the syntax description for the two directories under this policy. /home/[^]+/\.cache/thumbnail(/.*)? /home/[^]+/\.thumbnail(/.*)? So, does the  [^] mean the "user" home directory? Does the + mean this

Re: Restarting Display Manager

2019-07-07 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 at 15:19, Javier Perez wrote: > Hi > Is it possible to restart display manager without killing all the apps > open? > Nouveau has a tendency to crash more often that I like and each time it > does it, i restart display manager. Each time a restart it, all the apps > are

Re: selinux - help - directory policy syntax

2019-07-07 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 00:35 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > I cannot find out in anything I have searched what the syntax > description for the two directories under this policy. > > /home/[^]+/\.cache/thumbnail(/.*)? > > /home/[^]+/\.thumbnail(/.*)? > > So, does the [^] mean the "user" home

Re: selinux - help - directory policy syntax

2019-07-07 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 00:35 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > I want to modify a policy to allow a more localized directory for > creating thumbnails for videos and such. Presently the policy > "thumb_exec_t" is set for "thumb_home_t" > > I cannot find out in anything I have searched what the syntax

selinux - help - directory policy syntax

2019-07-07 Thread Robin Laing
Hello, I have searched documentation but I cannot find the answer to my question. I want to modify a policy to allow a more localized directory for creating thumbnails for videos and such. Presently the policy "thumb_exec_t" is set for "thumb_home_t" I cannot find out in anything I have