Re: stdio.h

2024-01-31 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/31/2024 12:21 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 03:54:50PM -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 1/29/2024 9:22 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 07:23:26PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:11:26 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote:   I installed from

Re: stdio.h

2024-01-30 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/29/2024 9:15 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 7:12 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: I installed from scratch fedora 39. Now I looked in /usr/include and the usual development headers aren't there. glibc-headers and glibc-devel are both installed. No standard C headers are present

Re: stdio.h

2024-01-30 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/29/2024 9:22 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 07:23:26PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:11:26 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote:   I installed from scratch fedora 39. Now I looked in /usr/include and the usual development headers aren't there. glibc-headers

Re: stdio.h

2024-01-29 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/29/2024 7:23 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:11:26 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote:  I installed from scratch fedora 39. Now I looked in /usr/include and the usual development headers aren't there. glibc-headers and glibc-devel are both installed. No standard C headers

stdio.h

2024-01-29 Thread Bill Cunningham
 I installed from scratch fedora 39. Now I looked in /usr/include and the usual development headers aren't there. glibc-headers and glibc-devel are both installed. No standard C headers are present. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? --

Re: libdvdcss

2024-01-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/14/2024 7:51 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2024 19:38:57 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote: I tried looking for "css"  "libdvdcss" and "dvd" and got some responses but nothing that I recognize. I used "dnf search" btw. I have the rpmfusion repo

Re: libdvdcss

2024-01-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/14/2024 5:56 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/14/24 14:48, Bill Cunningham wrote: Does fedora maintain a version of libdvdcss. I thought for sure I backed up my version online but can't seem to find it. I went to the main repo and downloaded the 4.x.x. version which is the latest

libdvdcss

2024-01-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
    Does fedora maintain a version of libdvdcss. I thought for sure I backed up my version online but can't seem to find it. I went to the main repo and downloaded the 4.x.x. version which is the latest but cannot get it to compile. I have libdvdread-devel installed. Maybe I am missing

Re: EFI and fedora

2023-09-25 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/25/2023 4:44 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Bill Cunningham said: ... There's no magic reserved space outside partitions that is used for booting anymore. The firmware finds the device, reads the partition table to find the correct partition, mounts that partition and reads

EFI and fedora

2023-09-25 Thread Bill Cunningham
    In the days of mbr bios we could save the 512 of the HDD sector. Now is all this gone with UEFI? Is the bootsector of the partition, 512 to 1024 or so bytes no longer valid? IS there specific locations that uefi files are stored in binary of the drive? Or, is that all gone now and we are

Re: Partition Type

2023-09-24 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/24/2023 1:24 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: ... It seems that sdc4 is bootable The sizes seem bizarre Partition types are rather meaningless. They are there and everyone seems to set it, but when wrong it does not seem to matter. At best it is information that is sometimes right. I have

Re: quoting issues

2023-09-23 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/23/2023 2:42 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/23/23 01:41, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 23:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: His quoting is often broken for some reason.  That whole section was actually added by him. Probably needs to add one more blank line between quotes and

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 8:58 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-21 20:23 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: ... Since UEFI, most USB sticks for installation and/or rescue are configured to boot in either legacy or EFI mode. When the UEFI BIOS has CSM (legacy) booting enabled

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 8:11 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-21 19:52 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: # efibootmgr -o 0,4,1,2,3 BootCurrent: 0005 Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: ,0004,0001,0002,0003,0005 Boot* fedoraHD(... Boot0001* UEFI OS HD(... Boot0002

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 7:23 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-21 18:43 (UTC-0400): its bootloader will be default. I will need to boot into the fedora rescue mode. This is where grub will need to be put. With mbr boot, I used this- grub2-install /dev/sda grub2-mkconfig

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 6:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/21/2023 04:24 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: What I would like to do for example, is if I removed a Windows OS, for example, the partition data (for fedora) would need to be reset. Say I reinstalled the system (windows). I believe that windows could

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 5:53 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 09:02:42AM +0100, Barry wrote: On 20 Sep 2023, at 01:41, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 5:53 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 09:02:42AM +0100, Barry wrote: On 20 Sep 2023, at 01:41, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/19/2023 9:21 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Sep 19, 2023, at 20:41, Bill Cunningham wrote: I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from scratch. Is there a way to simply reinstall the boot loader

restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from scratch. Is there a way to simply reinstall the boot loader code without having to install from scratch with a UEFI system? I'm sure there is but I don't know

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/15/2023 2:56 AM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 15.09.2023 um 04:57 schrieb Felix Miata : BTRFS devs seem to think only one is somehow better due to its inclusion of LVM technology. There is no „inclusion of LVM technology“ in BTRFS. LVM provides you with several separate filesystems, completely

GPT Partition

2023-09-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I am just starting to get into the UEFI with my newer computer. I notice that f38's auto partitioning creates a partition and formats it with xfs. I suppose manually ext4 could be used. This drive I don't believe is too big for ext4. But it would take a little time to format.     My

Re: no network access

2023-08-07 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 8/7/2023 4:50 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/7/23 13:42, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 8/7/2023 4:25 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/7/23 13:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/7/23 13:18, Bill Cunningham wrote: Sometime ago I wrote to this list about network connection problems. I reinstalled my fedora

Re: no network access

2023-08-07 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 8/7/2023 4:25 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/7/23 13:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/7/23 13:18, Bill Cunningham wrote: Sometime ago I wrote to this list about network connection problems. I reinstalled my fedora server and all was fine. Well I reinstall a windows system and had to fix grub2. So

Re: no network access

2023-08-07 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 8/7/2023 4:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/7/23 13:18, Bill Cunningham wrote: Sometime ago I wrote to this list about network connection problems. I reinstalled my fedora server and all was fine. Well I reinstall a windows system and had to fix grub2. So I booted F38 server

no network access

2023-08-07 Thread Bill Cunningham
Sometime ago I wrote to this list about network connection problems. I reinstalled my fedora server and all was fine. Well I reinstall a windows system and had to fix grub2. So I booted F38 server and this is the error I got. Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'fedora':   -

Re: shrinking Windows C: drive to make room for Linux

2023-08-03 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 8/3/2023 6:14 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 12:37 AM Michael Hennebry wrote: None of the hits I got from search made explicit that one could shrink the C: partition even while it was in use. They focused on getting around Windows shrink's liomitations.

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-22 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/21/2023 11:10 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2023-07-21 at 16:05 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: but I warn you up to this point I always disable selinux. Not just because idk what it is exactly, but it always starts running and I have never really needed security. I guess that can change

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-22 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/21/2023 11:10 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2023-07-21 at 16:05 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: but I warn you up to this point I always disable selinux. Not just because idk what it is exactly, but it always starts running and I have never really needed security. I guess that can change

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/21/2023 1:47 AM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 20.07.2023 um 01:57 schrieb Bill Cunningham : On 7/18/2023 7:16 PM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 16.07.2023 um 20:23 schrieb Bill Cunningham : I definitely want to see your doc article. I first version is now available: Installing Wordpress (on Fedora

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/21/2023 1:47 AM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 20.07.2023 um 01:57 schrieb Bill Cunningham : On 7/18/2023 7:16 PM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 16.07.2023 um 20:23 schrieb Bill Cunningham : I definitely want to see your doc article. I first version is now available: Installing Wordpress (on Fedora

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/18/2023 7:16 PM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 16.07.2023 um 20:23 schrieb Bill Cunningham : I definitely want to see your doc article. I first version is now available: Installing Wordpress (on Fedora Server Edition) https://docs.stg.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/tutorials/wordpress

Re: Aw: wordpress problem

2023-07-16 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/16/2023 3:41 AM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 14.07.2023 um 21:59 schrieb Bill Cunningham : I have the server edition installed and log into firefox and enter https://localhost/wp-admin and I always get there's no such url. https://localhost:9090 works fine for the server edition login. What

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/15/2023 4:37 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jul 15, 2023, at 15:28, Bill Cunningham wrote:  On 7/15/2023 3:17 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/15/23 12:09, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/14/2023 9:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/14/23 12:59, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have the server edition

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/15/2023 3:17 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/15/23 12:09, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/14/2023 9:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/14/23 12:59, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have the server edition installed and log into firefox and enter https://localhost/wp-admin and I always get there's

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/14/2023 9:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/14/23 12:59, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have the server edition installed and log into firefox and enter https://localhost/wp-admin and I always get there's no such url. https://localhost:9090 works fine for the server edition login. What am I

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
You have something listening on port 9090. On 7/14/23 16:54, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/14/2023 4:09 PM, Richard Ibbotson wrote: Hi I have the server edition installed and log into firefox and enter https://localhost/wp-admin and I always get there's no such url. Try https://localhost

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/14/2023 4:09 PM, Richard Ibbotson wrote: Hi I have the server edition installed and log into firefox and enter https://localhost/wp-admin and I always get there's no such url. Try https://localhost/wp-login.php or.. http://localhost/wp-login.php No that doesn't work either.

wordpress problem

2023-07-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
I have the server edition installed and log into firefox and enter https://localhost/wp-admin and I always get there's no such url. https://localhost:9090 works fine for the server edition login. What am I doing or not doing here? I installed one rpm called wordpress and its' dependencies.

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/9/2023 8:53 PM, Mike Wright wrote: On 7/9/23 17:07, Bill Cunningham wrote: I pinged 8.8.8.8 and the gateway of my router. "Network Unreachable" is the response. I can't find traceroute on my system which is unusual. What is the exact output of the command "ip route

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/9/2023 6:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/09/2023 03:02 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: "local" is not really a network.  That's the loopback interface and it's always available.  The packets don't leave your machine.  If you pinged something like 8.8.8.8 that would be more useful.  But you didn't

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/9/2023 5:02 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/9/23 17:58, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 4:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/9/23 13:09, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 4:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/9/23 14:49, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 5:48 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/9/2023 4:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/9/23 13:09, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 4:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/9/23 14:49, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 5:48 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 5:47 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: I had this figured out a while back

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/9/2023 4:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/9/23 14:49, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 5:48 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 5:47 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: I had this figured out a while back but I am once again lost. This the error after a clean install and I try 'dnf install

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/9/2023 5:48 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 5:47 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: I had this figured out a while back but I am once again lost. This the error after a clean install and I try 'dnf install indent' to add to my system: Errors during downloading metadata for repository

comparing group lists

2023-07-08 Thread Bill Cunningham
Is there a way to use dnf or rpm to compare the listing of groups. For example, in my case I use "minimal install" or the "Fedora Server Edition" install. If I wanted to compare these two groups and the rpms that are in each, how would I do that? B

Re: xfce4 desktop problem

2023-07-05 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/5/2023 3:18 PM, Mike Wright wrote: On 7/5/23 11:02, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Running xfce4 desktop on f38 terminal the desktop windows have lost the window bar at the top. Can't reposition open windows. They are fine if I switch to LXDE or kde. What part of xfce needs to be

Re: Server edition password

2023-07-05 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/5/2023 2:07 AM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 05.07.2023 um 04:24 schrieb Bill Cunningham : I installed the Server addition to get used to servers. I added firefox and Xfce and their dependencies along with httpd and tried to log into localhost:9090. I believe that is the right port. I am

Server edition password

2023-07-04 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I installed the Server addition to get used to servers. I added firefox and Xfce and their dependencies along with httpd and tried to log into localhost:9090. I believe that is the right port. I am prompted to enter fedora server edition password. I have read there is no default password,

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2023 8:22 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jun 20, 2023, at 20:35, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have uploaded the tar.gz file to my cloud VM and try to use the system and it will not let me have root privledges. I use 'su' and the system wants me to enter a password. IDK what

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2023 8:22 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jun 20, 2023, at 20:35, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have uploaded the tar.gz file to my cloud VM and try to use the system and it will not let me have root privledges. I use 'su' and the system wants me to enter a password. IDK what

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2023 6:09 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: Yes I tried sudo and entered that and I was prompted for a password. I don't have one that I know. On 6/21/2023 5:59 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/21/23 14:56, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 6/21/2023 4:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/23 17:33, Bill

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2023 6:33 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 6/21/23 17:56, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 6/21/2023 4:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/23 17:33, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have uploaded the tar.gz file to my cloud VM and try to use the system and it will not let me have root

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2023 6:33 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 6/21/23 17:56, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 6/21/2023 4:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/23 17:33, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have uploaded the tar.gz file to my cloud VM and try to use the system and it will not let me have root

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
Yes I tried sudo and entered that and I was prompted for a password. I don't have one that I know. On 6/21/2023 5:59 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/21/23 14:56, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 6/21/2023 4:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/23 17:33, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have uploaded

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2023 4:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/23 17:33, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have uploaded the tar.gz file to my cloud VM and try to use the system and it will not let me have root privledges. I use 'su' and the system wants me to enter a password. IDK what the password

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
, 2023 at 09:45:35PM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > I never set a personal password I just uploaded the tarball and converted it > to an image and ran it in a VM. It's the GCP tarball. You need to initialize the image with something like 'cloud-init'. You could also use 'virt-i

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
, 2023 at 09:45:35PM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > I never set a personal password I just uploaded the tarball and converted it > to an image and ran it in a VM. It's the GCP tarball. You need to initialize the image with something like 'cloud-init'. You could also use 'virt-i

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/20/2023 8:46 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Mike Wright said: You want to use "sudo su" and use your personal password. There's no reason to "sudo su" (don't know why this gets recommended). You can "sudo -s" (similar to plain "su", stays in current directory, doesn't act like

logging in as root

2023-06-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I have uploaded the tar.gz file to my cloud VM and try to use the system and it will not let me have root privledges. I use 'su' and the system wants me to enter a password. IDK what the password is. IS there a way around this? B ___ users

fedora tarballs

2023-06-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
    H as anyone ever used these tarballs that fedora releases in a cloud service? I would think these would have to be bootable is there a particular way to boot in GCP or another cloud? I will look into it but if anyone does it maybe they have a couple of hints. B

Re: servers

2023-06-17 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/17/2023 9:11 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jun 17, 2023, at 19:38, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I want to apply fedora 38 to a VM in GCP to run in the VM. The thing is I am new to servers and the installation instructions are beyond me. I have always used console and even rarely GUI

servers

2023-06-17 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I want to apply fedora 38 to a VM in GCP to run in the VM. The thing is I am new to servers and the installation instructions are beyond me. I have always used console and even rarely GUI. SO the desktop is what I am used to. How do you install a server edition to remote storage? What is

Re: find command problems

2023-05-28 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 5/28/2023 11:17 AM, ogio.spam wrote: Il giorno dom, 28/05/2023 alle 08.49 -0400, Max Pyziur ha scritto: Greetings, When I issue a command such as: tar zcvf /var/tmp/SomeArchive.tgz `find . -iname '*pdf' -type f` This can also introduce some errors cause the command line can be too long

Re: randomization

2023-05-26 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 5/26/2023 4:38 AM, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote: -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Walton Sent: Friday, May 26, 2023 4:20 AM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: randomization On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 9:18 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: How would you access

Re: randomization

2023-05-25 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 5/25/2023 10:19 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: ... You should use /dev/urandom nowadays, not /dev/random. According to Theodore Ts'o on the Linux Kernel Crypto mailing list, /dev/random has been deprecated for a decade. From Re: [RFC PATCH v12 3/4] Linux Random Number Generator:[1] Practically

Re: randomization

2023-05-25 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 5/25/2023 10:24 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Samuel Sieb said: On 5/25/23 18:18, Bill Cunningham wrote:     How would you access randomization at the system level? No via srand or rand, but the randomization the system offers through /dev/random. Would this be a fedora level

randomization

2023-05-25 Thread Bill Cunningham
    How would you access randomization at the system level? No via srand or rand, but the randomization the system offers through /dev/random. Would this be a fedora level system call ?     I intend to take a 512 or 1024, for example, size chunk and fill that with system randomization. Not

Re: problem downloading rpms with wifi

2023-05-01 Thread Bill Cunningham
I will answer this thread to close it out so if anyone with this problem that might refer to this thread, can have an answer or at least, a direction in which to go. I reinstalled everything and choose the wifi option and entered my wifi password. Then went back to the main screen that gives

Re: problem downloading rpms with wifi

2023-04-30 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 4/30/2023 9:28 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 7:49 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: Fedora 38 - x86_64 [=== ] ---  B/s |   0  B --:-- ETA Fedora 38 - x86_64 0.0  B/s |   0  B 00:00 Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'fedora':    - Curl

problem downloading rpms with wifi

2023-04-30 Thread Bill Cunningham
I just was able to install the fedora 38 build and I want to use dnf to install so more rpms. I get this error and I have no idea where to begin. It has to do with wifi networking I know that. using the gui I was able to install fine. I booted to cli and get this: Fedora 38 - x86_64 [=== ]

Re: Encryption for internet storage

2023-04-22 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 4/22/2023 6:52 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2023-04-21 at 17:21 -0400, Go Canes wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 5:17 PM Robert Nichols wrote: And no, I don't have a clean solution for keeping encrypted backups in the cloud. I do believe that my current backup method (rdiff-

Re: /etc/hosts question

2023-03-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
I checked those DNS resolvers out of curiosity. Indeed porn is blocked. Cool. I don't have any kids or anyone I want to limit in mapping from getting to porn sites, so I trust myself. :) Nice though. B On 3/15/2023 9:58 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 37

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/24/2023 3:28 PM, John Mellor wrote: On 2023-02-24 12:46 p.m., GianPiero Puccioni wrote: On 24/02/2023 15:31, John Mellor wrote: Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes anyway. We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem for some time in Fedora.

Re: nmcli problems

2023-02-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/21/2023 1:25 PM, Mike Wright wrote: On 2/21/23 08:56, Bill C wrote: This thing is an antenna that plugs into the USB port On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 7:20 AM George N. White III wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 4:47 AM Barry wrote: On 21 Feb 2023, at 03:42, Bill Cunningham wrote

Re: nmcli problems

2023-02-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/20/2023 5:29 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:58 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried

Re: nmcli problems

2023-02-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/20/2023 5:08 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Feb 19, 2023, at 20:58, Bill Cunningham wrote: Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried another command

nmcli problems

2023-02-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried another command and got this, STATE CONNECTIVITY  WIFI-HW  WIFI WWAN-HW  WWAN disconnected  none 

Re: connecting using wireless usb

2023-02-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/15/2023 6:09 PM, Reon Beon via users wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Networking/CLI I have tried everything here, and so more on the man page. Nothing seems to work. This is an error I get, I have no idea what it means; Error: Failed to add/activate new connection: Device class

connecting using wireless usb

2023-02-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
Does anyone have any idea how to turn on wireless from the cli? ip add is extremely complicated as well as ifconfig which is I guess deprecated. I had to reinstall everything and it was detected when rebooting no wifi. Can I get online in a simple manner. One can I guess use iw somehow too. I

Kernel drivers RT2870

2023-02-12 Thread Bill Cunningham
IDK if anyone is familiar with this series of legacy products/drivers or not, but I am using of course F37. Now there is some nice source code and such with these drivers for this USB wifi antenna; but I just want to load a driver and go at it. I can't even get online now via linux. Does

booting fedora project image

2023-01-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
I have tried to boot from Fedora's g'ziped tarball on GCP. I find it hard to understand how to do this. GCP's instructions seem vague Videos I find on youtube also seem to be old and out of date. I know you upload this to a bucket but how do you get it to a VM to install and boot? Is anyone

Re: koji

2023-01-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/9/2023 3:53 AM, Barry wrote: On 8 Jan 2023, at 23:05, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/8/23 14:38, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 1/8/2023 5:32 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/8/23 14:20, Bill Cunningham wrote: I will post this here since the test list is low traffic; I don't believe it is OT

Re: koji

2023-01-08 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/8/2023 5:32 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/8/23 14:20, Bill Cunningham wrote: I will post this here since the test list is low traffic; I don't believe it is OT. Is koji only used for the testers? I know fedpkg is for development and there is a build system too called "Copr".

koji

2023-01-08 Thread Bill Cunningham
I will post this here since the test list is low traffic; I don't believe it is OT. Is koji only used for the testers? I know fedpkg is for development and there is a build system too called "Copr". I am only interested in looking into testing. So to begin this would an interested person look

Re: Grubby? Doesn't Load Initrd

2023-01-07 Thread Bill Cunningham
I remove rhgb too. I will even sometimes remove quiet. it doesn't do anything to my system, that I do not want done. I like to see the boot noise and if something comes up "failure" and I need my password for something. This is only usually something t do with a filesystem issue. Like e2fsck

Re: mingw32 directories, possible bug?

2023-01-01 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/1/2023 3:55 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 03:02:11PM -0500, Bill C wrote: Osinfo-db-tools and libosinfo are listed. IDK what they are for, but that is what rpm says. No other rpms listed. They're used as a dependency for some virtualization packages, but the issue

mingw32 directories, possible bug?

2022-12-31 Thread Bill Cunningham
I reinstalled my system and one reason was to take a look at these directories that are odd. I choose minimal install and no hypervisor checkbox. In /usr is two directories one is i686-mingw32- and another is x86_64-mingw32- or so directories. Now inside these is a directory called sys-root

Re: backup/restore

2022-12-31 Thread Bill Cunningham
it that setting up an ssd as a rescue device does not appeal. Barry On Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 1:42 AM Barry wrote: > On 30 Dec 2022, at 22:08, Bill Cunningham wrote: > > In visiting the backup subject from some time ago, I have found that from most environment boots that are re

Re: backup/restore

2022-12-31 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/31/2022 2:38 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 30 Dec 2022 at 17:07, Bill Cunningham wrote: Date sent: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:07:57 -0500 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Bill Cunningham Subject:backup/restore Send

backup/restore

2022-12-30 Thread Bill Cunningham
In visiting the backup subject from some time ago, I have found that from most environment boots that are rescue type boots, there are two restores that seem to be available. 1. rsync, of course, and; 2. I have seen fsarchiver. Now I have never seen restore/dump in a rescue environment. So

Re: housekeeping

2022-12-30 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/30/2022 4:16 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Dec 30, 2022, at 13:14, Bill C wrote:  I see. Of course I meant/tmp/* Files in /tmp are automatically removed by systemd-tmpfiles on Fedora based on a schedule defined in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf

Re: housekeeping

2022-12-28 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/28/2022 6:34 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:20:57 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: Just because they are a cache doesn't mean they are necessarily safe to delete while running. Most applications take care of managing their cache files. I used to try and deal with avoiding

housekeeping

2022-12-28 Thread Bill Cunningham
What files are basically safe to remove because they are caches and such? There is the invisible file .cache. And the /var/cache. The files in /tmp are these safe to delete? Are there any other files you can delete? For example if you were using rsync, what file would you not want to backup,

Re: directories in /usr

2022-12-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/27/2022 6:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/27/22 14:59, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/27/2022 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/27/22 14:15, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have found directories in /usr that are named after architectures. So something has changed; is it ok to delete

Re: directories in /usr

2022-12-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/27/2022 6:00 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/27/2022 5:56 PM, Barry wrote: On 27 Dec 2022, at 22:15, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have found directories in /usr that are named after architectures. So something has changed; is it ok to delete these? One is "x86_64",

Re: directories in /usr

2022-12-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/27/2022 5:56 PM, Barry wrote: On 27 Dec 2022, at 22:15, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have found directories in /usr that are named after architectures. So something has changed; is it ok to delete these? One is "x86_64", something and one is another ar

Re: directories in /usr

2022-12-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/27/2022 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/27/22 14:15, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have found directories in /usr that are named after architectures. So something has changed; is it ok to delete these? One is "x86_64", something and one is another architecture. Are these for

directories in /usr

2022-12-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
I have found directories in /usr that are named after architectures. So something has changed; is it ok to delete these? One is "x86_64", something and one is another architecture. Are these for the system installing? They were not in f36. B ___

Re: config.h

2022-12-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
Is all that is in the src directory only the source of dvdbackup? I see it wants headers in /dvdread. Am I assuming correctly that that is the /usr/include/dvdread headers? I would like to for my purpose eliminate all these build time tools. This code isn't really super big from what I am

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