Re: Bad USB drive?

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 2:03 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > so something killed it and since tomorrow is garbage day... > > Sigh. that was a good $8 down the drain. Return it. Don't let people steal from you. Used a credit card? Report it. Do a charge back. You have 60 days from the date the sta

Re: Problems with disk? apps failed, then reboot failed. Needed fsck

On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 8:07 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Quick note: > > I am using SSD: > > fdisk -l /dev/sda > Disk /dev/sda: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors > Disk model: WDC WDBNCE5000PN > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes /

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 12/30/21 8:03 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 31/12/2021 10:44, home user wrote: This brings me back to the first question I asked after the fix was installed: > In future weekly patching, will I have to do anything different? Won't the same thing happen every time (every Thursday) I do "dnf upg

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 31/12/2021 10:44, home user wrote: This brings me back to the first question I asked after the fix was installed: > In future weekly patching, will I have to do anything different? Won't the same thing happen every time (every Thursday) I do "dnf upgrade", just like earlier today?  If yes, h

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 12/30/21 7:14 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 31/12/2021 07:47, home user wrote: On 12/30/2021 2:36 PM, home user wrote: Using "Ext2explore", I was able to copy to my windows-7 admin account the logs from this afternoon's "dnf upgrade".  I chopped out everything from previous weeks' patching, ex

Re: F35 problems with Xfce Application Finder

Thanks. On 12/30/21 19:07, Dave Ulrick wrote: On 12/30/21 11:46 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: It has never worked right in F35. My last install was F32.  There I would type in vnc and the icon for TigerVNC client would appear, press enter and off I go.  Or same for other apps. But now in F3

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 31/12/2021 07:47, home user wrote: On 12/30/2021 2:36 PM, home user wrote: (f34) I'm using my old windows-7 box to do e-mail. I did my weekly patches ("dnf upgrade") an hour ago.  After rebooting, after the rightmost rectangle turns white, I get the message "NVIDIA kernel module missing. F

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 12/30/21 6:25 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 08:27 home user > wrote: Wow.  It appears to have worked.  I feared this would be much messier. I did quick tests: on-line weather satellite picture, youtube video, watched downloaded video,

Re: f35 and NVIDIA entanglement

On 12/30/21 07:29, John Pilkington wrote: On 29/12/2021 20:31, John Pilkington wrote: I have a GT710 in F34.  It was running the rpmfusion default driver, in the 470 series but without the 470xx label.  Earlier this week 'dnf update' wanted to install 495, the new (unlabelled) default which

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 08:27 home user wrote: > On 12/30/21 4:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > Yep, that's the problem. The 495 driver doesn't support the GTX 660 any > > longer. > > > > Use the "e" thing then. > > > > sudo dnf erase *nvidia* followed by > > sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia-470xx

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 12/30/21 4:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Yep, that's the problem.  The 495 driver doesn't support the GTX 660 any longer. Use the "e" thing then. sudo dnf erase *nvidia* followed by sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia-470xx Check the file /var/cache/akmods/akmods.log to make sure the drivers are

Re: F35 problems with Xfce Application Finder

On 12/30/21 11:46 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: It has never worked right in F35. My last install was F32.  There I would type in vnc and the icon for TigerVNC client would appear, press enter and off I go.  Or same for other apps. But now in F35, I am seeing the dir location of the app?  I a

Re: Weird behavior of dnf install

Hi, In both cases, I get the exact same output to the two following commands: $ rpm -qi mariadb-server Name: mariadb-server Epoch : 3 Version : 10.5.13 Release : 1.fc34 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Thu 30 Dec 2021 04:22:06 PM UTC Group : Unspecified Size:

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

ok, will do.  this will take some time. On 12/30/2021 4:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 31/12/2021 07:11, home user wrote: ok.  I did the 'e' thing.  I sent the output of the lspci and rpm commands to a text output file. After rebooting back to windows-7, I use the "Ext2explore" tool to look at th

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 12/30/2021 2:36 PM, home user wrote: (f34) I'm using my old windows-7 box to do e-mail. I did my weekly patches ("dnf upgrade") an hour ago.  After rebooting, after the rightmost rectangle turns white, I get the message "NVIDIA kernel module missing. Falling back to nouveau.". A few second

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 31/12/2021 07:11, home user wrote: ok.  I did the 'e' thing.  I sent the output of the lspci and rpm commands to a text output file.  After rebooting back to windows-7, I use the "Ext2explore" tool to look at the .txt file. Here are the contents of that filw: --- output from ls

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 12/30/2021 3:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 31/12/2021 06:09, home user wrote: On 12/30/2021 2:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 31/12/2021 05:36, home user wrote: (f34) I'm using my old windows-7 box to do e-mail. I did my weekly patches ("dnf upgrade") an hour ago.  After rebooting, after the

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 31/12/2021 06:09, home user wrote: On 12/30/2021 2:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 31/12/2021 05:36, home user wrote: (f34) I'm using my old windows-7 box to do e-mail. I did my weekly patches ("dnf upgrade") an hour ago.  After rebooting, after the rightmost rectangle turns white, I get the

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 12/30/2021 3:08 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 30/12/2021 21:36, home user wrote: (f34) I'm using my old windows-7 box to do e-mail. I did my weekly patches ("dnf upgrade") an hour ago.  After rebooting, after the rightmost rectangle turns white, I get the message "NVIDIA kernel module mis

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 12/30/2021 2:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 31/12/2021 05:36, home user wrote: (f34) I'm using my old windows-7 box to do e-mail. I did my weekly patches ("dnf upgrade") an hour ago.  After rebooting, after the rightmost rectangle turns white, I get the message "NVIDIA kernel module missing.

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 30/12/2021 21:36, home user wrote: (f34) I'm using my old windows-7 box to do e-mail. I did my weekly patches ("dnf upgrade") an hour ago.  After rebooting, after the rightmost rectangle turns white, I get the message "NVIDIA kernel module missing. Falling back to nouveau.". A few seconds

Re: urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

On 31/12/2021 05:36, home user wrote: (f34) I'm using my old windows-7 box to do e-mail. I did my weekly patches ("dnf upgrade") an hour ago.  After rebooting, after the rightmost rectangle turns white, I get the message "NVIDIA kernel module missing. Falling back to nouveau.". A few seconds

urgent problem: "NVIDIA kernel module missing..."

(f34) I'm using my old windows-7 box to do e-mail. I did my weekly patches ("dnf upgrade") an hour ago.  After rebooting, after the rightmost rectangle turns white, I get the message "NVIDIA kernel module missing. Falling back to nouveau.". A few seconds later, the 3 rectangles turn orange. 

Re: The definitive guide to replacing a disk in raid1?

On 12/30/21 04:04, cen wrote: On 26. 12. 21 04:20, Sam Varshavchik wrote: cen writes: On 25. 12. 21 01:16, Sam Varshavchik wrote: cen writes: # copy partition map from good disk to new disk sfdisk -d /dev/sde | sfdisk /dev/sdd This only works if the new disk is identical to the old one,

Re: F35 problems with Xfce Application Finder

On 12/30/21 07:50, Ed Greshko wrote: On 30/12/2021 12:08, Robert Moskowitz wrote: F35 with Xfce: brings up the Application finder. I type in, say, VNC, to get to TigerVNC. I see /usr/bin/vncviewer as the option? I press enter, and I get a instance of Thunar open to /usr/bin. Other progra

Re: F35 problems with Xfce Application Finder

On 30/12/2021 12:08, Robert Moskowitz wrote: F35 with Xfce: brings up the Application finder. I type in, say, VNC, to get to TigerVNC. I see /usr/bin/vncviewer as the option? I press enter, and I get a instance of Thunar open to /usr/bin. Other programs do the same thing, some work (like Fi

Re: f35 and NVIDIA entanglement

On 29/12/2021 20:31, John Pilkington wrote: I have a GT710 in F34.  It was running the rpmfusion default driver, in the 470 series but without the 470xx label.  Earlier this week 'dnf update' wanted to install 495, the new (unlabelled) default which does not support that card, but I didn't a

Re: The definitive guide to replacing a disk in raid1?

On 26. 12. 21 04:20, Sam Varshavchik wrote: cen writes: On 25. 12. 21 01:16, Sam Varshavchik wrote: cen writes: # copy partition map from good disk to new disk sfdisk -d /dev/sde | sfdisk /dev/sdd This only works if the new disk is identical to the old one, geometry-wise. Otherwise you