two observations re: installing on dell precision tower 5810

2019-08-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
over last couple days, several installations of pre-release fedora images 201908{26,28,29} on this dell tower have produced the following two symptoms. first, this is a dual HD system and, when selecting the disk layout, i would select both HDs, then select "I would like to make additional

Re: what to install to (eventually) be able to upgrade to fedora 31?

2019-08-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Alessio wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 7:07 PM Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >   what is the *proper* ISO to install that will eventually get me to > fedora 31? thanks. > > > Hello. > I think you should look here: > https://kojipkgs.fedorap

Re: what to install to (eventually) be able to upgrade to fedora 31?

2019-08-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i was just about to say ... :-) also, i'm sure there is a more comprehensive document describing koji and bodhi and other related bits and pieces and how they all hang together ... anyone got a link? rday -- =============

Re: what are the valid version-to-version upgrades for fedora?

2019-08-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Adam Williamson wrote: > The only problem you might run into here is the 'updates-testing > disablement trap'. When you install from a Branched pre-release, the > 'updates-testing' repository is enabled by default. simple solution ... any problem with just *immediately*

Re: what are the valid version-to-version upgrades for fedora?

2019-08-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 16:54 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > followup to earlier post but different enough that i'll start a new > > thread: using f30 and f31 as examples, what are the valid > > version-to-version upgra

Re: what to install to (eventually) be able to upgrade to fedora 31?

2019-08-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, stan via test wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:26:39 -0400 (EDT) > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > i mean that if i install this pre-release form of fedora 31, i > > will eventually be able to upgrade to full, official fedora 31. > >

what are the valid version-to-version upgrades for fedora?

2019-08-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
followup to earlier post but different enough that i'll start a new thread: using f30 and f31 as examples, what are the valid version-to-version upgrades using "dnf system-upgrade" that will both: 1) do the appropriate upgrade, and 2) allow normal, subsequent "dnf update" operations? i'm

Re: what to install to (eventually) be able to upgrade to fedora 31?

2019-08-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Alessio wrote: > Mmm. Do you mean updating an existing system (running a previous > Fedora version) using the CD/DVD/USB stick? If so, please note that > it is no more possible since a long time. i mean that if i install this pre-release form of fedora 31, i will

Re: what to install to (eventually) be able to upgrade to fedora 31?

2019-08-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Alessio wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 7:26 PM Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >   i checked a number of STATUS files, and all the ones i looked at > said either FINISHED_INCOMPLETE or DOOMED. that does not fill me with > confidence. does that su

Re: what to install to (eventually) be able to upgrade to fedora 31?

2019-08-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Alessio wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 7:07 PM Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >   what is the *proper* ISO to install that will eventually get me to > fedora 31? thanks. > > > Hello. > I think you should look here: > https://kojipkgs.fedorap

what to install to (eventually) be able to upgrade to fedora 31?

2019-08-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
and, sure enough, the fedora 31 branch happened earlier this month so this image is already rawhide for fedora 32. what is the *proper* ISO to install that will eventually get me to fedora 31? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J

groupinstall of "Electronic Lab" fails spectacularly with missing packages

2019-04-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i have no idea if package groups are supposed to be installable at this point, but: $ sudo dnf groupinstall "Electronic Lab" Last metadata expiration check: 0:03:55 ago on Mon 08 Apr 2019 04:20:34 AM EDT. No match for group package "eqntott" No match for group package "gds2pov" No match for

Re: "runc" versus "containerd" versus "containerd.io"?

2019-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, Daniel Walsh wrote: > On 3/29/19 7:08 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm sure i will embarrass myself for asking this, but i'm confused > > about the relationship on my F30 (branched) system between those three > > packages. i can see that they are

Re: "runc" versus "containerd" versus "containerd.io"?

2019-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm sure i will embarrass myself for asking this, but i'm confused > about the relationship on my F30 (branched) system between those three > packages. i can see that they are all container runtime packages, but > i get confused when i

"runc" versus "containerd" versus "containerd.io"?

2019-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
des and conflicts or something of the sort, i'm just confused as to what's happening here. (if there is a better forum for a question like this, by all means, let me know.) rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day

Re: podman: "error creating libpod runtime" running as non-root

2019-03-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Daniel Walsh wrote: > On 3/22/19 11:50 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Daniel Walsh wrote: > > > >> On 3/22/19 11:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Thomas S. Clayborne wrote: > >>>

Re: podman: "error creating libpod runtime" running as non-root

2019-03-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Daniel Walsh wrote: > On 3/22/19 11:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Thomas S. Clayborne wrote: > > > >> What version of podman are you running? I see said fix was > >> supposedly pushed to master 14 days ago, while th

Re: podman: "error creating libpod runtime" running as non-root

2019-03-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Thomas S. Clayborne wrote: > What version of podman are you running? I see said fix was > supposedly pushed to master 14 days ago, while the latest release > was 17 days ago. Unless you're building from master, it's possible > your version just doesn't have the fix i have

Re: podman: "error creating libpod runtime" running as non-root

2019-03-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just system upgraded to fedora 30 branched (worked almost flawlessly > other than having to manually Ctrl-Alt-Del manually at the end), > testing some simple container examples and immediately hit this when > trying non-root podman

podman: "error creating libpod runtime" running as non-root

2019-03-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
was addressed, so i'm not sure whether i should try all the suggestions listed there, or whether i'm doing something wrong. thoughts? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: trying to "dnf system-upgrade" to F30 reboots and hangs

2019-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
come back to f29. so how does one "force a reboot"? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter:

Re: trying to "dnf system-upgrade" to F30 reboots and hangs

2019-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
hanks. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.

trying to "dnf system-upgrade" to F30 reboots and hangs

2019-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
without at least a vague idea as to what might be going on. is there a log file that i can examine? open to other suggestions as well. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: "nothing provides module(platform:f30) needed by module ..."

2019-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
at this point? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitte

Re: "nothing provides module(platform:f30) needed by module ..."

2019-02-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
and try again. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitte

"nothing provides module(platform:f30) needed by module ..."

2019-02-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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for system-upgrade to branched f30, do i need yum/yum-utils?

2019-02-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
by yum-utils 2) yum-utils is required by nothing on my current system so it *seems* that i have no apparent for either yum or yum-utils. is this a safe assumption? rday -- Robert P. J. Day

gthumb: ... Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found

2018-04-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
last friday, i did a system upgrade from a fully-updated f27 system (ASUS laptop) to fedora 28 beta, it worked flawlessly, then suddenly yesterday, gthumb started behaving badly: ** (gthumb:6069): CRITICAL **: 13:15:22.317: Failed to parse arguments: Unable to initialize the Clutter backend:

Re: how do i enable the updates-testing repo?

2015-07-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
2,265 so it *seems* like updates-testing is enabled. i'm puzzled. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: how do i enable the updates-testing repo?

2015-07-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/26/15 17:55, Robert P. J. Day wrote: as you can see, the installed version is 0.60, while the updates-testing version is 0.62. so ... what am i misunderstanding here? Not sure why you're seeing Version : 0.62 in updates-testing. I don't

Re: how do i enable the updates-testing repo?

2015-07-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Dom, 2015-07-26 at 06:04 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Rares Aioanei wrote: Did you run 'dnf update' after enabling the repo? What does 'dnf repolist' say? i've run sudo dnf update a number of times, tells me

Re: how do i enable the updates-testing repo?

2015-07-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
+ Description : Cockpit runs in a browser and can manage your network of GNU/Linux : machines. [rpjday@localhost yum.repos.d]$ so i'm still confused. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

how do i enable the updates-testing repo?

2015-07-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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proper way to install skype 4.3 on fedora test?

2015-07-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to suggestions as to the best approach. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http

docker-registry.service failed.

2015-05-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
in bugzilla about this. thoughts? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com

Re: docker-registry.service failed.

2015-05-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 27 May 2015, Robert P. J. Day wrote: on fully-updated rawhide system (still), i installed the docker-registry package, and tried to enable and start it, and got the following: $ sudo systemctl status docker-registry ● docker-registry.service - Registry server for Docker

Re: installing hadoop-yarn fails to find maven-wagon-http-2.8-1.fc22.noarch.rpm

2015-05-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 22 May 2015, Robert P. J. Day wrote: on a fully-updated rawhide system, i tried: $ sudo dnf install hadoop-yarn and while a number of new packages were downloaded, the install failed thusly: [FAILED] maven-wagon-http-2.8-1.fc22.noarch.rpm: No more mirrors to try - All mirrors

installing hadoop-yarn fails to find maven-wagon-http-2.8-1.fc22.noarch.rpm

2015-05-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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missing libwbclient.so.0 -- do i just need a symlink?

2015-04-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
= not found $ so ... just add a symlink? some other package i should be looking at? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: missing libwbclient.so.0 -- do i just need a symlink?

2015-04-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 26 Apr 2015, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:40:21 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote: after morning update from testing updates, gnome-control-center fails to start: Apr 26 09:26:49 localhost gnome-control-center.desktop: gnome-control-center: error while

how does one resolve Requires: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.20.2) update issue?

2015-03-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
. thoughts? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn

gcc-5.0.0 chokes on trying to compile ncurses-5.9

2015-02-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
with the arrival of gcc-5.0.0. thoughts? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http

Re: gcc-5.0.0 chokes on trying to compile ncurses-5.9

2015-02-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 05:03:46AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i ran across this issue trying to build a basic linux image with yocto project and asked about it here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.core/60488

Re: F21 Beta Final TC1 doesn't shut down

2014-11-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org: On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 01:50:38AM -0500, Joerg Lechner wrote: there is something strange going on. On an Acer Aspire E15 Laptop I installed F21 Beta Final TC1 x86_64 workstation on an external disk. Kernel 3.17.2-300.fc21. When I shut down

Re: can someone suggest why firefox is so $*^%*#^%* slow?

2014-09-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 10:44 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i am at my wit's end with firefox on my fedora rawhide system -- to say it's nad-grindingly slow would be charitable. just now, i tried clicking on another tab ... some 30 seconds later

Re: can someone suggest why firefox is so $*^%*#^%* slow?

2014-09-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 10:44 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i am at my wit's end with firefox on my fedora rawhide system -- to say it's nad-grindingly slow would be charitable. just now, i tried clicking on another tab ... some 30 seconds later

Re: can someone suggest why firefox is so $*^%*#^%* slow?

2014-09-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, Chuck Anderson wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 07:36:19PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 10:44 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i am at my wit's end with firefox on my fedora rawhide system -- to say it's nad-grindingly slow would be charitable

can someone suggest why firefox is so $*^%*#^%* slow?

2014-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: can someone suggest why firefox is so $*^%*#^%* slow?

2014-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Kevin Martin wrote: On 09/24/2014 09:49 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Kevin Martin wrote: On 09/24/2014 09:44 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i am at my wit's end with firefox on my fedora rawhide system -- to say it's nad-grindingly slow would

Re: can someone suggest why firefox is so $*^%*#^%* slow?

2014-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Nikos Roussos wrote: On September 24, 2014 5:44:40 PM EEST, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: watching any sort of youtube video is excruciating ... while audio is typically, i will frequently get *maybe* one frame change a second, i kid you not. i

Re: can someone suggest why firefox is so $*^%*#^%* slow?

2014-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Qua, 2014-09-24 at 11:08 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Nikos Roussos wrote: On September 24, 2014 5:44:40 PM EEST, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: watching any sort of youtube video is excruciating

how to start qemu:///system hypervisor?

2014-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
quad core i7: $ lsmod | grep kvm kvm_intel 152115 0 kvm 492841 1 kvm_intel $ what embarrassingly obvious step have i overlooked? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: how to start qemu:///system hypervisor?

2014-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: i suspect this has an easy answer but playing with virtualization for the first time in a while, installed what i think are all the necessary packages, and just want

Re: how to start qemu:///system hypervisor? [SOLVED]

2014-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, poma wrote: On 12.09.2014 12:07, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: i suspect this has an easy answer but playing with virtualization for the first time in a while, installed what i think are all

why does perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker depend on systemtap-sdt-devel?

2014-09-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
file sys/sdt.h is installed on the development system, but it needs the MakeMaker package, so i'm in a bit of a dilemma. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: why does perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker depend on systemtap-sdt-devel?

2014-09-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Adam Jackson wrote: On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 12:32 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: possibly admitting my ignorance, but why does installing perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker drag in systemtap-sdt-devel? i see no logical connection, and i don't even have any systemtap packages

weird behaviour of qoppa studio pro on rawhide -- cursor seems mispositioned

2014-09-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to reproduce this, you can download an eval version of studio pro here: http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/ of course, if your version works fine, i'll be even more confused. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

after update, suddenly gnome-screenshot won't start

2014-08-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
other graphical app (qoppa's studio pro PDF editor) is also behaving weirdly. anyone else finding strange things happening in their gnome desktop session? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa

Re: after update, suddenly gnome-screenshot won't start

2014-08-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 15:38 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: did a massive yum update on my 64-bit ASUS laptop earlier today and, suddenly, gnome-screenshot won't come up. if i now go to Activities and left click ... nothing. if i run gnome

Re: after update, suddenly gnome-screenshot won't start

2014-08-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: after update, suddenly gnome-screenshot won't start

2014-08-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735375 great, thanks for confirming this. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: is there a better solution than killall -9 journalctl?

2014-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 22:28 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 15:23 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:19:04 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca

Re: is there a better solution than killall -9 journalctl?

2014-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2014-07-14 at 13:27 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: When one of these journalctl processes is running, 'systemctl status (pid of that process)' may tell you what service is spawning it. -- i'll set aside some time this evening

Re: is there a better solution than killall -9 journalctl?

2014-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
. no journalctl processes sucking up every CPU in sight. is it possible that last update contained a fix for this? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http

is there a better solution than killall -9 journalctl?

2014-07-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
/tty2. i'd love a more elegant solution but, frankly, this is solving the problem so i'm sticking with it. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http

Re: is there a better solution than killall -9 journalctl?

2014-07-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 15:23 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:19:04 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: i'm still trying to understand why fedora rawhide thinks it's necessary to run a journalctl

why is journalctl suddenly running rampant on my system?

2014-07-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
running at 99%. is this something new? oh, wait, now there's three. and now dnf joins the party at 98.9%, and fans are now running full speed. thoughts? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario

Re: has anyone added a brother MFC7460DN printer to their rawhide system?

2014-07-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Fred Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 02:52:16PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... oh, for the love of mutt: $ sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.0.0-1 MFC7460DN You are going to install following packages. mfc7460dnlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb

Re: has anyone added a brother MFC7460DN printer to their rawhide system?

2014-07-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i've been fighting for the last couple of hours to add a network printer to my rawhide system. the shared work area where i hang out has a brother MFC7460DN printer on the network, at 192.168.2.126, and i've verified that i can ping it, so that's

Re: has anyone added a brother MFC7460DN printer to their rawhide system?

2014-07-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Shawn Starr wrote: On July 3, 2014 01:12:41 PM Robert P. J. Day wrote: i've been fighting for the last couple of hours to add a network printer to my rawhide system. the shared work area where i hang out has a brother MFC7460DN printer on the network

Re: has anyone added a brother MFC7460DN printer to their rawhide system?

2014-07-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Fred Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 01:12:41PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i've been fighting for the last couple of hours to add a network printer to my rawhide system. the shared work area where i hang out has a brother MFC7460DN printer on the network

Re: was there some weird issue with the second last rawhide kernel? [DIAGNOSED?]

2014-06-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 06:46 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: rebooted my rawhide laptop this morning, it totally hung ... powered down and up, same thing, so i manually backed off to the earlier kernel release, 3.16.0-0.rc0.git1.1.fc21.x86_64

Re: was there some weird issue with the second last rawhide kernel? [DIAGNOSED?]

2014-06-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Dan Mossor wrote: On 06/20/2014 11:34 AM, poma wrote: On 20.06.2014 18:27, poma wrote: On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 06:46 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: and as long as i disconnect HDMI first, my asus G74S laptop boots just fine, and i can plug in the monitor

Re: was there some weird issue with the second last rawhide kernel? [DIAGNOSED?]

2014-06-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Dan Mossor wrote: On 06/20/2014 01:32 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: just finished another yum update to get the 3.16.0-0.rc1.git3.1.fc21.x86_64 kernel, which is still showing the exact same symptoms -- if i boot my ASUS G74S with HDMI connected to my external ASUS

Re: was there some weird issue with the second last rawhide kernel? [DIAGNOSED?]

2014-06-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 14:32 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: if, however, i simply unplug the external monitor from HDMI, no problem, and i can plug in the monitor after booting. oh, and as before, once i'm running under this new (but clearly

was there some weird issue with the second last rawhide kernel?

2014-06-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
.x86_64, and i'll try that one. so was there a known issue with, uh, 3.16.0-0.rc1.git1.1.fc21.x86_64? it's been a while since a kernel simply froze my machine in its tracks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: was there some weird issue with the second last rawhide kernel?

2014-06-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 06:46 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: rebooted my rawhide laptop this morning, it totally hung ... powered down and up, same thing, so i manually backed off to the earlier kernel release, 3.16.0-0.rc0.git1.1.fc21.x86_64

confused by how to generate kernel messages via /dev/kmsg

2014-05-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
session, which i equate with the system console. any messages with log levels 1 through 7 do *not* show up that way. what am i misunderstanding here? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa

Re: confused by how to generate kernel messages via /dev/kmsg [SOLVED?]

2014-05-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 25 May 2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote: (while this is probably not technically a fedora rawhide issue, since i'm trying this on rawhide, i figure this would be the best place to ask about it.) i really should know how to do this, but i'm confused about what happens when i try

currently broken update issue with nodebug kernel

2014-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: Nasty Habits in Replying to Emails

2014-04-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
what you're trying to say. and don't be a dick. that, too. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

what in fedora rawhide replaces pdftk for extracting pages from PDF file?

2014-04-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
since i just noticed that pdftk is obsoleted in fedora rawhide, what new package can i use to do nothing more than extract a single sequence of pages from a PDF file? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: what in fedora rawhide replaces pdftk for extracting pages from PDF file?

2014-04-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Guy Streeter wrote: On 04/22/2014 12:30 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: since i just noticed that pdftk is obsoleted in fedora rawhide, what new package can i use to do nothing more than extract a single sequence of pages from a PDF file? thanks. rday

any ETA on fixing update dep errors related to libreoffice?

2014-04-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
By: 1:libreoffice-core-4.2.3.3-3.fc21.x86_64 (rawhide) Not found any idea when this is going to be resolved? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: any ETA on fixing update dep errors related to libreoffice?

2014-04-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 14:10:04 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: been seeing numerous examples of this since yesterday: Error: Package: 1:libreoffice-math-4.2.3.3-3.fc21.x86_64 (rawhide) Requires: libsaxlo.so

Re: bringing up *any* browser cripples system performance

2014-04-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn

bringing up *any* browser cripples system performance

2014-04-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
with to see if that helps? i'm open to suggestions. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: bringing up *any* browser cripples system performance

2014-04-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Philip Rhoades wrote: Robert, On 2014-04-06 20:24, Robert P. J. Day wrote: (note: i'm starting a new thread for this since my original post blaming firefox for system slowdown now seems inaccurate. the problem appears to be more widespread.) the system: an asus

Re: bringing up *any* browser cripples system performance

2014-04-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/06/14 21:18, Robert P. J. Day wrote: just tried that, same symptoms but i also got the following selinux diagnostic when i logged in with xfce: = start diagnostic = SELinux is preventing /usr/lib64/tumbler-1/tumblerd from write

Re: bringing up *any* browser cripples system performance

2014-04-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/06/14 21:18, Robert P. J. Day wrote: just tried that, same symptoms but i also got the following selinux diagnostic when i logged in with xfce: = start diagnostic = SELinux is preventing /usr/lib64/tumbler-1/tumblerd from write

Re: bringing up *any* browser cripples system performance

2014-04-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 7 Apr 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/06/14 21:43, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/06/14 21:18, Robert P. J. Day wrote: just tried that, same symptoms but i also got the following selinux diagnostic when i logged in with xfce: = start

Re: bringing up *any* browser cripples system performance

2014-04-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 7 Apr 2014, Ankur Sinha wrote: On Sun, 2014-04-06 at 09:43 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: no change under nodebug kernel -- this is the nodebug kernel, correct? $ uname -r 3.15.0-0.rc0.git5.2.fc21.x86_64+debug $ Er. No. This is the debug kernel. The nodebug kernel would

Re: bringing up *any* browser cripples system performance

2014-04-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 7 Apr 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/07/14 05:57, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/06/14 21:43, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/06/14 21:18, Robert P. J. Day wrote: just tried that, same symptoms but i

Re: any advice to fix firefox being excruciatingly slooooooooow?

2014-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 04:33 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: since upgrading to rawhide, numerous operations in firefox are just glacially slow -- playing videos results in jerky motion, scrolling has a significant time lag, even typing

Re: any advice to fix firefox being excruciatingly slooooooooow?

2014-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/30/14 18:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 04:33 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: since upgrading to rawhide, numerous operations in firefox are just glacially slow -- playing

Re: any advice to fix firefox being excruciatingly slooooooooow?

2014-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to have some independent confirmation. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http

any advice to fix firefox being excruciatingly slooooooooow?

2014-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
into about:config and turned off several features but that hasn't helped noticeably. anyone else running across this? any simple advice? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: any advice to fix firefox being excruciatingly slooooooooow?

2014-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, Tom London wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:   since upgrading to rawhide, numerous operations in firefox are just glacially slow -- playing videos results in jerky motion, scrolling has

Re: any advice to fix firefox being excruciatingly slooooooooow?

2014-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, Tom London wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 8:02 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Tom London seli...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote

Re: any advice to fix firefox being excruciatingly slooooooooow?

2014-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 04:33 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: since upgrading to rawhide, numerous operations in firefox are just glacially slow -- playing videos results in jerky motion, scrolling has a significant time lag, even typing

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