Re: Date change on reboot

2016-07-24 Thread Stephen Davies
On 24 July 2016 8:14:07 PM ACST, fred roller wrote: >First thing I would check is the CMOS battery if you have one or can >get to >it. Sounds like system time is not being held. Go through boot log. If >the >system corrects shortly after a. Nts comes up and b. Network connection >is >established t

Re: Date change on reboot

2016-07-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/24/2016 08:40 PM, Tim wrote: I'm sceptical, too (about that belief). I'm inclined to believe that story has been conjured up by someone to explain things, and everyone else has simply gone along with it. Be as skeptical as you want, but it's been true ever since I got my first PC in the

Re: Date change on reboot

2016-07-24 Thread Tim
Joe Zeff: >> Actually, the CMOS has always been designed to make the clock run >> slow when the battery's weak to warn the user. geo.inbox.ignored: > this is true, to a point. > > it is not intended _by_design_, it is due to nature of the clock > oscillator circuit used. I'm sceptical, too (abou

Re: Date change on reboot

2016-07-24 Thread geo.inbox.ignored
hello Joe. On 07/24/2016 07:27 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/24/2016 02:14 PM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote: >> imbw, but, if battery is too weak to hold clock settings, reversion would >> be further than a few days. even if there is a cap holding cmos v. > > Actually, the CMOS has always been designed

Re: USB drive name change -

2016-07-24 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 24 July 2016, Bob Goodwin sent: > /dev/sdd1 on /mnt/temp type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered) > /dev/sde1 on /mnt/temp type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered) You've mounted two things onto the same mount point. Do-able, but the second thing takes over, and

Re: Date change on reboot

2016-07-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/24/2016 02:14 PM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote: imbw, but, if battery is too weak to hold clock settings, reversion would be further than a few days. even if there is a cap holding cmos v. Actually, the CMOS has always been designed to make the clock run slow when the battery's weak to warn t

Re: USB drive name change -

2016-07-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/25/16 04:16, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 07/24/16 05:59, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 07/24/16 16:28, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >>> I have an external drive I set up yesterday that has the name >>> "a3cd7e7f-254d-410a-b120-e02524f75a29." How can I change that to >>> something like "/run/media/bobg/exter

Re: F24 gedit and large text files, background becomes black

2016-07-24 Thread stan
On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:01:08 -0600 Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 10:15 PM, stan > wrote: > > > So, yes, it appears that if I was using gedit I would have the > > problem also. > > Thanks for that. What do you use? I use vim. I know, a modal editor? Yeah, it has a learning

Re: Date change on reboot

2016-07-24 Thread geo.inbox.ignored
On 07/24/2016 05:44 AM, fred roller wrote: > First thing I would check is the CMOS battery if you have one or can get to > it. Sounds like system time is not being held. Go through boot log. If the > system corrects shortly after a. Nts comes up and b. Network connection is > established then thi

Re: USB drive name change -

2016-07-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 07/24/16 16:27, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/24/2016 01:16 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Thanks Ed, that seems to have worked although I'm don't understand how ... If a removable device has a label, the system will create a mountpoint for it using that label; it was using the UUID simply because that

Re: USB drive name change -

2016-07-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/24/2016 01:16 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Thanks Ed, that seems to have worked although I'm don't understand how ... If a removable device has a label, the system will create a mountpoint for it using that label; it was using the UUID simply because that was the only unique identifier it h

Re: USB drive name change -

2016-07-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 07/24/16 05:59, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/24/16 16:28, Bob Goodwin wrote: I have an external drive I set up yesterday that has the name "a3cd7e7f-254d-410a-b120-e02524f75a29." How can I change that to something like "/run/media/bobg/externaldrive?" What type of file system? If you're using e

Re: F24 gedit and large text files, background becomes black

2016-07-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/24/2016 01:01 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Thanks for that. What do you use? You might try leafpad, from Xfce for a GUI editor. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: F24 gedit and large text files, background becomes black

2016-07-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 10:15 PM, stan wrote: > So, yes, it appears that if I was using gedit I would have the problem > also. Thanks for that. What do you use? I found emacs/powerful editor in GNOME Software, but whether I use a trackpad or a mouse, it chirps and complains pretty much constantl

Re: Timeline of a Fedora-24/KDE reboot

2016-07-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:59:57 -0600 Chris Murphy wrote: > sync && reboot -f > sync && poweroff -f Might work until you try it with active NFS mounts :-). The very clever systemd first shuts down the network connection, then tries to unmount the NFS filesystems. My projected time to reboot when I

Re: allow wifi to run while laptop lid is closed?

2016-07-24 Thread Bob Marcan
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:46:48 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > On 07/22/2016 04:29 PM, bruce wrote: > > How can this be accomplished? > > > > Can't find much via SO or the net. > > > > Found plenty on the suspend/etc. Curious as to how to do this. /etc/systemd/logind.conf #HandleLidSwitch=suspend

Re: Date change on reboot

2016-07-24 Thread fred roller
First thing I would check is the CMOS battery if you have one or can get to it. Sounds like system time is not being held. Go through boot log. If the system corrects shortly after a. Nts comes up and b. Network connection is established then this may be the case. Couple dollars for a button batter

Re: USB drive name change -

2016-07-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/24/16 16:28, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I have an external drive I set up yesterday that has the name > "a3cd7e7f-254d-410a-b120-e02524f75a29." How can I change that to > something like "/run/media/bobg/externaldrive?" What type of file system? If you're using ext you can label the file system

USB drive name change -

2016-07-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
I have an external drive I set up yesterday that has the name "a3cd7e7f-254d-410a-b120-e02524f75a29." How can I change that to something like "/run/media/bobg/externaldrive?" Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 FEDORA-24/64bit LINUX XFCE POP3 -- users ma