Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/23/19 1:36 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 07:51 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: For some reason I can't fathom it seems the mailing list software turns every Content-Transfer-Encoding to base64 Old fashioned stupidity? Thinking 7-bit email is still necessary? It should still

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 07:51 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > For some reason I can't fathom it seems the mailing list software > turns every Content-Transfer-Encoding to base64 Old fashioned stupidity? Thinking 7-bit email is still necessary? It should still work as base64, but the encoding is doing

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/23/19 1:07 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/22/19 6:06 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/22/19 5:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: The same dd restored perfects to another stick. I do believe want went wrong as the partition structures not being written in the right places. So gzip is

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/22/19 10:07 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/22/19 6:06 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/22/19 5:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: The same dd restored perfects to another stick. I do believe want went wrong as the partition structures not being written in the right places. So gzip is

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/22/19 6:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/22/19 5:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/22/19 3:46 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/22/19 2:23 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/21/19 11:24 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/21/19 10:02 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: Try replacing

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/22/19 6:06 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/22/19 5:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: The same dd restored perfects to another stick. I do believe want went wrong as the partition structures not being written in the right places. So gzip is out.  Rats! Can you provide the exact commands

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/22/19 5:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: The same dd restored perfects to another stick. I do believe want went wrong as the partition structures not being written in the right places. So gzip is out.  Rats! Can you provide the exact commands you used?

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/22/19 5:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/22/19 3:46 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/22/19 2:23 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/21/19 11:24 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/21/19 10:02 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: Try replacing gunzip with zcat. - Derrik Worked. 

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/22/19 3:46 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/22/19 2:23 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/21/19 11:24 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/21/19 10:02 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: Try replacing gunzip with zcat. - Derrik Worked.  Thank you! structures were not properly restored on

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 20:16:17 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: > FWIW, I find these headers in your posting on my system: For what it is worth, I glanced at this thread over on the fedora mailing list archives (which isn't an easy thread to find over there because someone changed the subject line of an

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/23/19 8:16 AM, Fred Smith wrote: FWIW, I find these headers in your posting on my system: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by fcshome.stoneham.ma.us id x8MNrkId016512 Your side

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 22Sep2019 15:55, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/22/19 3:49 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 21Sep2019 23:24, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 9/21/19 10:02 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: Try replacing gunzip with zcat. Worked.  Thank you! FFS. The gzip folks are back to this hubris? When it first came out

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 07:51:45AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 9/23/19 12:04 AM, Tim via users wrote: > >On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 22:52 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >>And it did not. > >I noticed the same. On the messages that get corrupted, I've received > >them as base64 encoded (they weren't sent

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/23/19 12:04 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 22:52 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: And it did not. I noticed the same. On the messages that get corrupted, I've received them as base64 encoded (they weren't sent that way), though your messages with Frederic correctly accented was

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread Derrik Walker v2.0
FFS. The gzip folks are back to this hubris? When it first came out they tried to usurp the .Z (compress) file extension unstead of using a nonrude '.gz' as they were quickly convinced to. Please use "gzcat"; "zcat" is for compress/uncompress and if your vendor's installing gzcat as zcat

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/22/19 3:49 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 21Sep2019 23:24, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 9/21/19 10:02 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: Try replacing gunzip with zcat. Worked.  Thank you! FFS. The gzip folks are back to this hubris? When it first came out they tried to usurp the .Z (compress)

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 21Sep2019 23:24, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 9/21/19 10:02 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: Try replacing gunzip with zcat. Worked. Thank you! FFS. The gzip folks are back to this hubris? When it first came out they tried to usurp the .Z (compress) file extension unstead of using a nonrude

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/22/19 2:23 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/21/19 11:24 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/21/19 10:02 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: Try replacing gunzip with zcat. - Derrik Worked.  Thank you! structures were not properly restored on un zipping back to a flash drive , so I

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/21/19 11:24 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/21/19 10:02 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: Try replacing gunzip with zcat. - Derrik Worked.  Thank you! structures were not properly restored on un zipping back to a flash drive , so I had to stick with a raw dd

Re: losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/22/19 10:51 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Notably, my disk flag type is "ext4" and there are no flags. This is different from what the partition on that post is (there the disk flag type is "primary" and the flag is "lba". Is this important? Unlikely. Just to clarify, my SD is being read

Re: losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 10:17:36 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On September 22, 2019 8:07:21 AM PDT, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > >$ sudo losetup -f -P /home/maitra/SD_card_rescue.img > >losetup: /home/maitra/SD_card_rescue.img: failed to set up loop device: > >No such file or directory > > That file

Re: losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On September 22, 2019 8:07:21 AM PDT, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >$ sudo losetup -f -P /home/maitra/SD_card_rescue.img >losetup: /home/maitra/SD_card_rescue.img: failed to set up loop device: >No such file or directory That file didn't exist like it says. >$ sudo mount -o loop

Re: losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 11:18:01 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 10:07:21 -0500 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > At least the error is different here. Any further suggestions? > > Fraid not. Thanks very much for your help with this, though, Tom. Perhaps others will have other

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 22:52 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > And it did not. I noticed the same. On the messages that get corrupted, I've received them as base64 encoded (they weren't sent that way), though your messages with Frederic correctly accented was also base64 encodede. Most other messages

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 22:09 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 9/22/19 10:00 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 19:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > So, I would blame yahoo. :-) :-) > > Ordinarily, I'd agree. But if I post directly through Yahoo (using > > their SMTP servers), and

Re: losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 10:07:21 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > At least the error is different here. Any further suggestions? Fraid not. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Unfortunately, I did all the suggestions in the notes provided but still get the same result. Here is what I did: created: $ sudo cat /etc/modules-load.d/loop.conf loop created: $ sudo cat /etc/modprobe.d/eightloop.conf options loop max_loop=8 $ sudo dracut --force Got back the prompt, and

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/22/19 10:41 PM, Tim via users wrote: I see. I'm curious though. If you respond to this and keep the contents will Fr??d??ric survive? Very punny.;-) Here's the reply. And it did not. I think you've said a yahoo to yahoo message is fine.  Do you have a non-yahoo account you can

Re: losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 10:23:54 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 08:54:28 -0500 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Should I now try what you have written in your notes below? > > Perhaps, or the bugzilla has some other alternatives as well. > Maybe you just need to be root when running the

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 22:09 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 9/22/19 10:00 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 19:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > So, I would blame yahoo. :-) :-) > > > > Ordinarily, I'd agree. But if I post directly through Yahoo (using > > their SMTP servers),

Re: losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 08:54:28 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Should I now try what you have written in your notes below? Perhaps, or the bugzilla has some other alternatives as well. Maybe you just need to be root when running the losetup command. ___

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/22/19 10:00 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 19:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: So, I would blame yahoo. :-) :-) Ordinarily, I'd agree. But if I post directly through Yahoo (using their SMTP servers), and receive from a Yahoo address, international characters come through

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 19:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > So, I would blame yahoo. :-) :-) Ordinarily, I'd agree. But if I post directly through Yahoo (using their SMTP servers), and receive from a Yahoo address, international characters come through unmangled. I've seen this kind of thing

Re: losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Tom. Thanks very much. I am not sure that I follow your notes, but written below is the answer to your question. On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 09:42:22 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 08:32:19 -0500 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Any suggestions? I am on an updated F30. > > One

Re: losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 08:32:19 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Any suggestions? I am on an updated F30. One possibility: If you ls /dev/loop* do you see loop0, loop1, etc.? At some point linux invented dynamic /dev/loop creation and said everyone should use it, but neglected to fix all the software

Re: anacron

2019-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 15:28:06 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > I only need anacron. You don't only need anacron, because it only runs when cron starts it. Personally, I go to a lot of trouble to eradicate anacron because I don't want jobs running at random times (which is utterly ridiculous when you

losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have been trying to rescue the files from a SD card that is connected to a USB adapter, and that can not mount in the usual way because I guess it is corrupt (complains of no read-write permission even though the SD card is unlocked). Following the instructions here:

Re: anacron

2019-09-22 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thanks. Every looks fine. My point is that both anacron and crond run on a weekly basis, while I only need anacron. > > On my machine, I have crond and anacron running. > > I guess that I do not need crond. > > I can easily manage crond, but waht about anacron? > > > > systemctl status anacron >

Re: mkexfatfs doesn't work?

2019-09-22 Thread Richard Shaw
Well, it may not be mkexfatfs's problem... I tried using gparted to re-format it FAT32 - Everything "completed successfully" but same result on replug, all the files are there. I tried deleting a directory on it, and "emptied the trash", unplug, replug, directory is back. [86799.359224] scsi

Re: mkexfatfs doesn't work?

2019-09-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 11:30 PM Tim via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 12:03 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > > But it actually doesn't do anything. All the old files are still on > > the SD card. > > Are you absolutely sure the SD card was /dev/sdb1? > I

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/22/19 7:17 PM, Tim via users wrote: Below I've just pasted a bit of an email: On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 06:13 +0200, Fr??d??ric wrote: It's from my reply to a message. That mangled name is supposed to be "Frederic" with acute accents above both letter "e"s. It was when I wrote it, and my

Re: [dnf] Transaction check error: file ... conflicts with file from package ...

2019-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/22/19 12:13 PM, Frédéric wrote: Not answering the question. Checking for Tim how my email is processed. -- If simple questions can be answered with a simple google query then why are there so many of them? ___ users mailing list --

is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Tim via users
Below I've just pasted a bit of an email: > On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 06:13 +0200, Fr??d??ric wrote: It's from my reply to a message. That mangled name is supposed to be "Frederic" with acute accents above both letter "e"s. It was when I wrote it, and my mail client *CORRECTLY* sent it as UTF-8,

Re: anacron

2019-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/22/19 6:17 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: On my machine, I have crond and anacron running. I guess that I do not need crond. I can easily manage crond, but waht about anacron? systemctl status anacron Unit anacron.service could not be found systemctl status anacrond Unit anacrond.service could

Re: KDE on Fedora 30/31

2019-09-22 Thread John Pilkington
On 21/09/2019 22:37, Alex Gurenko via users wrote: I only have one problem and That's sound not working over HDMI on my laptop. Assist from that no issues since F27. Prior to that there were some problems here and there, but that's long gone. Alex In F29 with an nVidia G710 and the

anacron

2019-09-22 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, On my machine, I have crond and anacron running. I guess that I do not need crond. I can easily manage crond, but waht about anacron? systemctl status anacron Unit anacron.service could not be found systemctl status anacrond Unit anacrond.service could not be found while systemctl status

Re: KDE on Fedora 30/31

2019-09-22 Thread AV
On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 23:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 14:19 -0400, William Oliver wrote: > > So... for the KDE users out there, how is Fedora doing with KDE > > nowadays? > > It's my daily driver. I occasionally fire up Gnome to see I'm missing > something, find

Re: Please recommend a super fast video editing software for Fedora 31 Linux

2019-09-22 Thread Robin Laing
On 20/09/2019 01:32, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: Good afternoon from Singapore, I am presently using Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15.0 on Windows 10 Home Edition to render 4K Ultra HD 3840x2160 videos. My processor is 5th generation Intel Core i7-5820K @ 3.3 GHz with 6 cores only. My

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/21/19 10:02 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: Try replacing gunzip with zcat. - Derrik Worked. Thank you! ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of

Re: KDE on Fedora 30/31

2019-09-22 Thread Robin Laing
Most machines running F30 with no issues. One machine. 2005 nVidia video card and I have issues with any driver I have tried. Frame buffer errors. With current drivers and current nVidia card, no issues at all. Had major issues with an older AMD video that kept locking up. Not that old

Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?

2019-09-22 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/21/19 10:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/22/19 12:55 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, What am I doing wrong here? # gunzip DeadStick.FC30_2019-09-06.dd.gz | dd status=progress bs=4096 of=/dev/sdb 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes copied, 176.897 s, 0.0 kB/s From the