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 sp

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* dis

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

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. > > is

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 p

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 eventually

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
hedule 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 -- ======== R

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 gro

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

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 confus

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

2019-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
olving provides 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 12:54 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 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: > >>> &g

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 u

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
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, Ontar

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

2019-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
cycle and 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
weekend. thanks. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

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

2019-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
third time 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, Ontar

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
r two and try again. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://t

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

2019-02-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com

for system-upgrade to branched f30, do i need yum/yum-utils?

2019-02-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
) yum is required only 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 -- ============

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: no

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'

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 Versi

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

2015-07-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
e : LGPLv2+ 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 -- ==============

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

2015-07-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Fedora 22 - x86_64 - Test Updates 2,265 so it *seems* like updates-testing is enabled. i'm puzzled. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontar

how do i enable the updates-testing repo?

2015-07-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
so ... what am i misunderstanding here? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

proper way to install skype 4.3 on fedora test?

2015-07-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
nd doing things manually. so i'm open to suggestions as to the best approach. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

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 - Regis

"docker-registry.service failed."

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

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

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

2015-05-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http

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-cent

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

2015-04-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
.so.0 => 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

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

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

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: > > >

gcc-5.0.0 chokes on trying to compile ncurses-5.9

2015-02-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
all] Error 2 this appears to coincide with the arrival of gcc-5.0.0. thoughts? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: F21 Beta Final TC1 doesn't shut down

2014-11-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Matthew Miller : 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 with the "shut down menue"

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 i

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 > > clic

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 > > clic

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" > > > wrote: > > > &

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" > wrote: > > watching any sort of youtube video is excruciating ... while audio > >is typically, i will frequently get *maybe* one frame change a second, > &

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

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

2014-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
power isn't the problem. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

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 09:44 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 be charitable. just now, i tried > > clicking on ano

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 > > wrote: > >> > >> i suspect this has an easy answer but playing with virtualization > >> for the first time in a

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 > 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 packag

how to start qemu:///system hypervisor?

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

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'

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

2014-09-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
the header 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

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

2014-09-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
oduct, but still see the same weirdness. i can experiment more today, but i'm open to suggestions as to what might be happening here. if anyone wants to reproduce this, you can download an eval version of studio pro here: http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/ of course, if your version works

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

2014-08-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a bug a couple of days ago: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735375 great, thanks for confirming this. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

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

2014-08-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
21, or rawhide? rawhide. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://t

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 > > &qu

after update, suddenly gnome-screenshot won't start

2014-08-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
display, then nothing. at least one 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. Da

any ETA on when "yum update" dependency issues will be resolved?

2014-08-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
at the moment, "yum update" generates conflicts related to some gnome packages. i assume others can see this just as well as i can -- any idea on when this will be resolved so i can update? rday -- ======== Robert

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

2014-07-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
//bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043670 > > I attached an analysis and proposed patch to that. thanks, i appreciate all the assistance. weirdly, the problem of multiple journalctl processes seems to have gone away in the last couple days, i'm not sure why. they might still be hideously inefficien

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

2014-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ered up and ... everything seems fine. 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, Ont

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. -- >

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 -

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" wrote: > > > > > > > > i'm still trying to understand why fedora ra

is there a better solution than "killall -9 journalctl"?

2014-07-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
every 10 seconds on /dev/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,

Re: why is "journalctl" suddenly running rampant on my system?

2014-07-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > from out of nowhere last night, i suddenly had six journalctl > processes running on my quad core, each one running at 99% CPU, > causing the cooling fans to be running full speed. > > and now this morning, the fans suddenly k

why is "journalctl" suddenly running rampant on my system?

2014-07-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
h one 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 Ottaw

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.

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

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

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 brothe

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 verifi

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

2014-07-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
#x27;m going to keep messing around, but if anyone out there has set up that printer (or something suitably similar), i'm open to guidance. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontar

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'

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 G74

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 l

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, 3.1

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, 3.1

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

2014-06-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
c0.git11.1.fc21.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 -- =============

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

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

2014-05-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, only messages with log level 0 are immediately dumped to all of the open xterm windows in my graphical 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 -- =========

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
mutt, take that extra minute or two to make sure you're clear and concise, and don't make your readers work to figure out what you're trying to say. and don't be a dick. that, too. rday -- ==

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, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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 t

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

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: 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" wrote: > > > > > been seeing numerous examples of this since yesterday: > > > > Error: Package: 1:libreoffice-math-4.2.3.3-3.fc21.x86_64 (ra

any ETA on fixing update dep errors related to libreoffice?

2014-04-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
: 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: bringing up *any* browser cripples system performance

2014-04-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
reoffice, etc. massive improvement. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitt

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: > >>> > >>>>

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 > > $ > >

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 > &g

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 p

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 p

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

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