Re: Umask in Fedora 26 ?

2017-05-02 Thread Peter Gueckel
I just discovered something odd that explains why umask isn't getting set for the user (me). Traditionally (I researched countless sites about the proper place for things and, as I said, it has always worked in the past, right up until F26), umask is supposed to be in bash_profile. However, I

Re: Umask in Fedora 26 ?

2017-05-02 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > So I wouldn't assume that any of the discussion is at > all relevant until you've at least established that someone made a > conscious decision to make some part of KDE not respect those files any > more. It's just as likely, or more likely, to be a straightforward > mi

Re: Umask in Fedora 26 ?

2017-05-01 Thread Peter Gueckel
Peter Gueckel wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F25_bugs#GNOME_Wayland_session_does_not_start_a_login_shell.2C_so_does_not_process_.bash_profile_or_.bashrc_etc. I had a look... quite an interesting discussion. I need to take it in in pieces ;-) I agree t

Re: Umask in Fedora 26 ?

2017-05-01 Thread Peter Gueckel
Gordon Messmer wrote: > Are you talking about ssh or terminal login sessions, or graphical > logins under Wayland? Graphical logins under Kwin on X11. When I ctrl-alt-fx to another virtual terminal (non-graphical) and log in (I just tried it this very minute), it works as it is supposed to and

Re: Umask in Fedora 26 ?

2017-05-01 Thread Peter Gueckel
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > Is this from an application running from: > > * A desktop session? (Which one? And what display manager?) A desktop session, Plasma/KDE, GDM display manager, kwin window manager > * A terminal window opened from within a desktop session? (Which terminal > progr

Umask in Fedora 26 ?

2017-05-01 Thread Peter Gueckel
In ~/.bash_profile, I have umask=022, since I want directories (files) to have the permission 755 (644). Until Fedora 25, this worked perfectly. Now, in Fedora 26, directories (files) are created with the permission 775 (664). When I run umask, it returns 0002. For some reason, my setting

Re: Testing requests: blocker bug confirmations

2017-04-26 Thread Peter Gueckel
Is working WiFi going to be a requirement for Fedora 26? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1435793 I sure hope so. This morning's kernel has done nothing. Adam Williamson wrote: > Hi folks! At today's blocker review meeting, a couple of bugs came up > where we thought it would be hel

Re: Testing requests: blocker bug confirmations

2017-04-25 Thread Peter Gueckel
I had the 'gah' message *once* when I was using Firefox 52, but since upgrading to Firefox 53, I have not not experienced it at all. [It was a big problem in Fedora 25, though.] Adam Williamson wrote: > Hi folks! At today's blocker review meeting, a couple of bugs came up > where we thought i

Re: i686 got past TPM, but now video problem

2016-05-23 Thread Peter Gueckel
I have done that and I am happy to report that, with the new kernel 4.5.5-300 this bug is resolved to my complete satisfaction :-) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-23 Thread Peter Gueckel
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > After bit of irc discussion there is a compelling reason to move > entirely away from Red Hat bugzilla as well as away from concept of > hosting our own. I don't chant that mantra. I am a Fedora consumer, not a maintainer or programmer. My bug reports to bugzilla

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 19 Final Test Compose 2 (TC2) Available Now!

2013-06-07 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > Guided partitioning (non-custom) does not destroy any existing > partitions or data unless you explicitly request it. If you just used > 'Reclaim Space' you could choose to delete only whatever partitions you > don't need. I don't have any unpartitioned space. I just ov

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 19 Final Test Compose 2 (TC2) Available Now!

2013-06-07 Thread Peter Gueckel
Andre Robatino wrote: > As per the Fedora 19 schedule [1], Fedora 19 Final Test Compose 2 (TC2) > is now available for testing. I just tried it. It doesn't work :{( I had the same problem as with the alpha release. During the selection of the drive/partition to install to, I select the drive

Re: espeak update failed

2013-03-22 Thread Peter Gueckel
Joachim Backes wrote: > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924681 Noted :-) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

espeak update failed

2013-03-22 Thread Peter Gueckel
I just updated the system. There was a curious message: Error unpacking rpm package espeak-1.47.01-1.fc18.x86_64 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/espeak- data/voices/en: cpio: rename error: espeak-1.47.01-1.fc18.x86_64: install failed Is this significant? -- test mailing l

Re: What happened to autohint?

2012-12-23 Thread Peter Gueckel
Tom Horsley wrote: > Not only did the autohint file move to > /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf, > but the content changed as well. > Instead of a symlink, I made a copy and changed the > "append" operation to "assign", and suddenly the > scales fell from my eyes! I could see agai

Anaconda Accolades

2012-12-01 Thread Peter Gueckel
No need to comment. Just want to pass on experience to those up the ladder. 1. Stupid 20-minute pause (waiting for a timeout?) before the installation got underway. 2. My Intel ipw2200 wireless simply works! One configuration at install time and it works for every boot. Wow! 3. I wasn't sure

Re: off to a nostart F18B start

2012-12-01 Thread Peter Gueckel
Felix Miata wrote: > Is there any other UI on the planet where > where a done or OK button is at the upper left? I guess you're not a KDE user ;-) SystemSettings has a button with a back arrow, which effectively has the same function as the 'done' button -- in the upper left corner! -- test m

Re: bugzilla question

2012-12-01 Thread Peter Gueckel
Frank Murphy wrote: > You can't report without having a bz account I know. I have one. > you can modify what mails you receive. > I think you need to go here: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Those are global settings. There are cases where you are the reporter, but do not

bugzilla question

2012-12-01 Thread Peter Gueckel
Sometimes someone says: "You should report xxx to bugzilla." If you do, you end up getting emails and may be contacted and are unable to get yourself off the list, because you reported it. How can one report something without being on the list? PS: Obviously, I want to receive correspondence an

Re: Now that Fedora 18ß is out, questions still here? It's a Kmail one...

2012-11-30 Thread Peter Gueckel
Karel Volný wrote: > Dne Čt 29. listopadu 2012 09:37:10, Peter Gueckel napsal(a): >> The kmail question is that after setup, I >> notice that there is no trash folder. One can >> delete messages to a trash folder and they >> disappear, but there is no folder, so one

Re: Now that Fedora 18ß is out, questions still here? It's a Kmail one...

2012-11-29 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > less pointless arguing :-) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Now that Fedora 18ß is out, questions still here? It's a Kmail one...

2012-11-29 Thread Peter Gueckel
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > On 11/30/2012 01:00 AM, Peter Gueckel wrote: >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >>> However KDE questions (even for F18) can >> alternatively go >>> to the KDE-Fedora list, but not cross- >> posted please. I see you

Re: Now that Fedora 18ß is out, questions still here? It's a Kmail one...

2012-11-29 Thread Peter Gueckel
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > However KDE questions (even for F18) can alternatively go > to the KDE-Fedora list, but not cross- posted please. I see you've > already posted there. That list is DEAD! There is not activity on it. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Now that Fedora 18ß is out, questions still here? It's a Kmail one...

2012-11-29 Thread Peter Gueckel
I installed Fedora 18ß on both of my computers. A horrible long wait for about 20 minutes before anything happened. When it finally started, a message about /etc/commandline or somethinglike that flew past. Other than that, anaconda is excellent and it is a beautiful piece of work! The kmai

Re: Fedora 17 updates-testing report

2012-06-29 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > So far, seven people :-) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Fedora 17 updates-testing report

2012-06-29 Thread Peter Gueckel
upda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: > colord-gtk-0.1.22-1.fc17 Hasn't anyone noticed that colord-gtk-0.1.22-1.fc17 will not install, because it conflicts with colord-0.1.21-1.fc17.x86_64? -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/li

NetworkManager-0.9.4.0-8.git20120502.fc17.x86_64

2012-05-22 Thread Peter Gueckel
Non-fatal POSTUN scriptlet failure in rpm package 1:NetworkManager-0.9.4.0-8.git20120502.fc17.x86_64 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.LIDIm9: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `fi' /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.LIDIm9: line 6: `fi' warning: %postun(NetworkManager-1:0.9.4.0-8.git20120502.fc17.x86_64) scriptlet fai

Re: adobe flash crashes in firefox, not in konqueror

2012-04-28 Thread Peter Gueckel
Matej Cepl wrote: > Adobe now supports both x86_64 as well as i686 flash-plugin... I have always used the 64-bit version, even when there were only test zip files. > nspluginwrapper is not needed for covering 32bit for 64bit Firefox anymore. I had not heard until now. > Also since somewhere in t

Re: [update] adobe flash crashes in firefox, not in konqueror

2012-04-28 Thread Peter Gueckel
Peter Gueckel wrote: I just uninstalled nspluginwrapper (I could have unwrapped flash, I suppose) and now it works. However, I have run flash wrapped for years and, now, with firefox 12 or some selinux update of a couple of days ago, it no longer works. -- test mailing list test

Re: adobe flash crashes in firefox, not in konqueror

2012-04-28 Thread Peter Gueckel
Peter Gueckel wrote: > as soon as I so much as scroll the mouse to centre the > player window or even just try to click the play button, it > just whites out and is gone. Correction: as soon as I click the play button, it whites out and a white area remains where the player is suppos

Re: adobe flash crashes in firefox, not in konqueror

2012-04-28 Thread Peter Gueckel
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/28/2012 12:15 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote: >> Since about 2-3 days, coinciding with the release of firefox >> 12, I think, the adobe flash plugin crashes in firefox >> only this site appears to be affected: >> >> http://www.cbc.ca/thenati

adobe flash crashes in firefox, not in konqueror

2012-04-27 Thread Peter Gueckel
My system is up-to-date with updates-testing. Since about 2-3 days, coinciding with the release of firefox 12, I think, the adobe flash plugin crashes in firefox, but it runs in konqueror, but only this site appears to be affected: http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/watch/ Youtube works. -- test

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-27 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > At the user level it's pretty simple: it's a modern replacement for > BIOS. It's an entirely new system firmware standard for PCs. > > The most user-noticeable features of UEFI are probably secure boot > (which has been discussed ad infinitum: the important thing here is

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-26 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > Could you try one? I have to pay when I go over my monthly GB download limit. > [EFI]'s a system firmware level thing. That's what I thought, but, having googled it numerous times, it seems to be quite mysterious, still, and straight answers are hard to come by. --

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-26 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > Do early 17 DVDs work for you? Have you tried? This is the first Fedora 17 disk I have tried. > The 17 Beta TCs should still be available at stage/, and the > Alpha is of course available 'officially'. I didn't bother with any of the alphas. Particularly, because of the

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-26 Thread Peter Gueckel
Peter Gueckel wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > >> Did you checksum it? > > No, I know I should have, but I didn't. I was too lazy to check. > OK. I finally bothered to checksum it and it is OK. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-26 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > Did you checksum it? No, I know I should have, but I didn't. I was too lazy to check. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-25 Thread Peter Gueckel
stan wrote: > Overall assessment - a smooth and positive experience. I downloaded the Beta Release Candidate 1 and just tried to install it to a spare partition. This is what happened: The computer booted, read the DVD, said it would boot it in 3 seconds, then a message appeared in the upper

Re: upower question?

2011-11-16 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > No, that sounds like exactly the bug discussed above, and I would bet > dollars to donuts you got an update to 'at' at the same time as you got > an update to the kernel. The 'at' update fixes the bug. Yes, that is correct. Along with the kernal was at-3.1.13-5.fc16. Tha

Re: upower question?

2011-11-16 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 06:25 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 05:50 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: >> >> > On a recently installed system running rawhide I notice that this is >> > not working for me. I click "suspend", my network drops...it looks >> > hopeful

Re: black screen on f16 laptop after idle

2011-10-25 Thread Peter Gueckel
Dave Jones wrote: > What graphics card ? Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: black screen on f16 laptop after idle

2011-10-25 Thread Peter Gueckel
Dave Jones wrote: > well the good thing is that the machine is still alive when it comes back, > so you should have log files showing what happened on resume. OK. I already turned it off. I hope the relevant information in the log files will still be there when I turn it on again, which will pro

black screen on f16 laptop after idle

2011-10-25 Thread Peter Gueckel
I powered up my laptop. The kdm screen was there, but I did not log in. After some time, perhaps 20-30 minutes, I was ready to log in. The screen was black, but that occurs after idle, so no problem, just wiggle the mouse. Nothing happened. The screen stayed black. I know the password field was

Re: console kit errors

2011-09-25 Thread Peter Gueckel
Mike Chambers wrote: > Seems to be the fix, thanks. > -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: grub2 menu entry for Fedora 16 is not nice

2011-09-18 Thread Peter Gueckel
Tom H wrote: > If you set "GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Fedora" in "/etc/default/grub", you'll > have "Fedora Linux, with Linux ..." in your grub menu. Thanks. I made the change. Next kernel, I will see it in action. This will look much better. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

grub2 menu entry for Fedora 16 is not nice

2011-09-18 Thread Peter Gueckel
Why does the grub2 menu entry list Fedora like this: Linux, with Linux 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64? Instead of like this: Fedora 16, with Linux 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64? While os-prober finds other Fedoras on other partitions and shows them like this (yes, I have 2 partititions with

Re: pulseaudio on f16 using cpu

2011-09-16 Thread Peter Gueckel
Joachim Backes wrote: > I had pulseaudio problems too, and I could get rid of them by updating > to kernel-3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.0.fc16.x86_64 (the buggy kernel was rc5). That is another possibility. I have noticed that, while rc5 works on this computer, it does not boot on my laptop. -- test maili

Re: pulseaudio on f16 using cpu

2011-09-15 Thread Peter Gueckel
Peter Gueckel wrote: > I have noticed that pulseaudio uses upwards of 16% CPU and when I start > krunner to investigate, I see that there are often numerous pulseaudio > processes all running simultaneously, but greyed out. And this, while I am > not even using any applications tha

pulseaudio on f16 using cpu

2011-09-15 Thread Peter Gueckel
I have noticed that pulseaudio uses upwards of 16% CPU and when I start krunner to investigate, I see that there are often numerous pulseaudio processes all running simultaneously, but greyed out. And this, while I am not even using any applications that emit sound! It is so bad, that the mouse

Re: KDE fungus growing over everything!

2011-09-11 Thread Peter Gueckel
Try it! It's edible and nutritious :-) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: KDE fungus growing over everything!

2011-09-11 Thread Peter Gueckel
Tom Horsley wrote: > I very shortly got a popup with the title "kded - KDialog" > saying something about ~/.kde/share/config/kdedrc not > being writable. I don't know what causes it, but it often is the case, after freshly installing or updating kde to a new version, that these "not writeable"

Re: F16: After update to grub2-1.99-1.fc16.x86_64 cannot boot

2011-09-02 Thread Peter Gueckel
Peter Gueckel wrote: > Joachim Backes wrote: >> Anybody has the same issue? > Any ideas how to get grub installed properly...? Many hours of work, my desktop computer is back. I don't care to do that agian (and don't ask me what I did, because I couldn't

Re: lldpad consuming up to 65% of cpu

2011-09-02 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > so if you have anaconda installed, you can probably > just remove it, remove fcoe-utils and lldpad, and be happy. I installed from alive CD, so I think that is why anaconda is installed, and hence, with it, as you said, all of the other stuff. I will uninstall as per

Re: F16: After update to grub2-1.99-1.fc16.x86_64 cannot boot

2011-09-02 Thread Peter Gueckel
Joachim Backes wrote: > after each kernel update I burn a boot cd Explain how you do this! It wastes a lot of CDs, but saves a lot of wasted time trying to rescue a system. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: F16: After update to grub2-1.99-1.fc16.x86_64 cannot boot

2011-09-02 Thread Peter Gueckel
Joachim Backes wrote: > Anybody has the same issue? Yes, please HELP! :-) I am unable to boot my desktop computer. I just get a grub rescue command prompt and no grub commands except set seem to be recognized. I cannot boot into Fedora 15 or Fedora 16 alpha. I am trying to fix by running th

lldpad consuming up to 65% of cpu

2011-09-02 Thread Peter Gueckel
what is this lldpad daemonand why does it run continually for days on end without ever terminating and consume up to 65% of my laptop's cpu? -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test