Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

Tim wrote: >> But that won't work, anymore. The log returns: >> >> rc.local: fetchmail: open: /home/tim/.fetchmailrc: Permission denied Samuel Sieb: > What is the output of the following command: > ls -lZ /home/tim/.fetchmailrc > > If it doesn't include "fetchmail_home_t", then do: > restorecon

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 7/11/19 12:03 PM, Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 11:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> I just installed F30 Workstation from the LiveISO image. The install >> process didn't ask to create a root or user account. This is the new >> expected behavior. > Mine did. I used the MATE spin,

Re: rpmfusion nonfree tainted ....

On 7/11/19 12:05 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > I just realized I didn't have the "tainted" repos installed. I know that feeling.  :-) -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme ___ users mailing list -- u

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 7/10/19 9:03 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 11:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: I just installed F30 Workstation from the LiveISO image. The install process didn't ask to create a root or user account. This is the new expected behavior. Mine did. I used the MATE spin, booted o

Re: rpmfusion nonfree tainted ....

On 7/10/19 8:59 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 7/11/19 11:57 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Which repo file did you install?  I'm hoping you used the -release rpms from rpmfusion. But you must have added some other repo as well though.  I don't see any dvb-firmware package in either Fedora or rpmfusion. [

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 11:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > I just installed F30 Workstation from the LiveISO image. The install > process didn't ask to create a root or user account. This is the new > expected behavior. Mine did. I used the MATE spin, booted off a flash drive. You get the usual se

Re: rpmfusion still broken

On 7/10/19 7:05 PM, JD wrote: warning: /var/cache/dnf/rpmfusion-free-updates-c9c282509e45419b/packages/mpv-0.29.1-6.fc30.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID c0aeda6e: NOKEY RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Free - Updates  0.0  B/s |   0 B

Re: rpmfusion nonfree tainted ....

On 7/11/19 11:57 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 7/10/19 8:47 PM, JD wrote: >> Installed the repo file, but >> >> dnf install \*-firmware >> >> yields >> >> rror: Transaction check error: >>    file /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw conflicts between attempted >> installs of >> ivtv-firmware-2:200

Re: rpmfusion nonfree tainted ....

On 7/10/19 8:47 PM, JD wrote: Installed the repo file, but dnf install \*-firmware yields rror: Transaction check error:   file /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw conflicts between attempted installs of ivtv-firmware-2:20080701-36.fc30.noarch and dvb-firmware-20170329-4.git3fef04a.fc30.n

Re: F30: Suspend to disk - and then reboot does not restore the suspended session.

On 7/10/19 8:41 PM, JD wrote: What is the fix for this? You have "reboot" in the subject. I'll assume you just mean that you turn it back on. Check the kernel cmdline to verify that there is a resume option and that the indicated block device is the active swap. __

Re: F30 Thunderbird format question

On 7/11/19 11:39 AM, JD wrote: > Writing a new message always starts the format in "Pararaph" mode > > instead of  "Body Text" > > And this leads to the messages being double spaced. > > How can I change it so it will default to Body Text every time? > > Thanx! Preferences-->Composition (find th

rpmfusion nonfree tainted ....

Installed the repo file, but dnf install \*-firmware yields rror: Transaction check error:   file /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw conflicts between attempted installs of ivtv-firmware-2:20080701-36.fc30.noarch and dvb-firmware-20170329-4.git3fef04a.fc30.noarch   file /lib/firmware/v4l-c

F30: Suspend to disk - and then reboot does not restore the suspended session.

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F30 Thunderbird format question

Writing a new message always starts the format in "Pararaph" mode instead of  "Body Text" And this leads to the messages being double spaced. How can I change it so it will default to Body Text every time? Thanx! ___ users mailing list -- users@lists

Re: Failed to upgrade to F-30

On 7/10/19 8:27 PM, stan via users wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:14:28 -0600 JD wrote: Justtried to download some things that are on rpmfusion. I got several lines of the type: Public key for x265-libs-3.0-2.fc30.x86_64.rpm is not installed. Failing package is: x265-libs-3.0-2.fc30.x86_64

Re: Failed to upgrade to F-30

On 7/10/19 8:27 PM, stan via users wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:14:28 -0600 JD wrote: Justtried to download some things that are on rpmfusion. I got several lines of the type: Public key for x265-libs-3.0-2.fc30.x86_64.rpm is not installed. Failing package is: x265-libs-3.0-2.fc30.x86_64

Re: rpmfusion still broken

On 7/11/19 10:05 AM, JD wrote: > # dnf -y install smplayer > Last metadata expiration check: 5:42:42 ago on Wed 10 Jul 2019 08:11:20 PM > Boise. > Dependencies resolved. > === > >  P

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 7/11/19 10:00 AM, JD wrote: > I tried it Ed. > > No go. > > It keeps saying that authentication failed. I don't know what you're doing wrong. I just installed F30 Workstation from the LiveISO image.  The install process didn't ask to create a root or user account.  This is the new expected b

Re: Failed to upgrade to F-30

On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:14:28 -0600 JD wrote: > Justtried to download some things that are on rpmfusion. I got > several lines of the type: > > Public key for x265-libs-3.0-2.fc30.x86_64.rpm is not installed. > Failing package is: x265-libs-3.0-2.fc30.x86_64 >  GPG Keys are configured as: > fi

rpmfusion still broken

# dnf -y install smplayer Last metadata expiration check: 5:42:42 ago on Wed 10 Jul 2019 08:11:20 PM Boise. Dependencies resolved. ===  Package  Architecture Versio

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 7/10/19 5:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 7/11/19 6:45 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/10/19 3:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/10/2019 02:37 PM, Alessio wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 9:04 PM sixpack13 mailto:sixpac...@online.de>> wrote:     wasn't su disallowed during the last fedora upgrades ? No.

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 07/10/2019 04:45 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: So much overreaction to incorrect information.  Yes, by default, the root password is locked, which has been the case for a long time.  The installer lets you set it if you want.  There is no change to su or sudo.  As always, if the root password is

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 7/10/19 4:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I don't have a running Workstation instance at the moment.  However, I seem to recall if one is hard-up about using "su -" they can "sudo passwd root" and create a pw and then "su -" will function as before. Exactly. Nothing has changed.

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 7/11/19 6:45 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 7/10/19 3:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 07/10/2019 02:37 PM, Alessio wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 9:04 PM sixpack13 >> > wrote: >>> >>>     wasn't su disallowed during the last fedora upgrades ? >>> >>> No. >>> As far as I k

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 7/10/19 5:05 AM, Tim via users wrote: But that won't work, anymore. The log returns: rc.local: fetchmail: open: /home/tim/.fetchmailrc: Permission denied What is the output of the following command: ls -lZ /home/tim/.fetchmailrc If it doesn't include "fetchmail_home_t", then do: restor

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 7/10/19 3:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/10/2019 02:37 PM, Alessio wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 9:04 PM sixpack13 > wrote:     wasn't su disallowed during the last fedora upgrades ? No. As far as I know only root is locked by default (at least on Fedora Workstatio

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 07/10/2019 02:37 PM, Alessio wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 9:04 PM sixpack13 > wrote: wasn't su disallowed during the last fedora upgrades ? No. As far as I know only root is locked by default (at least on Fedora Workstation). Aka you can't su to root. But yo

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 10Jul2019 21:35, Tim wrote: For the last umpteen years, I did this in /etc/rc.local: su tim -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900" And likewise, for several other users, but with different time periods to minimise overlaps. But that won't work, anymore. The log returns: rc.local: fetchmail: ope

Re: Update to F30 problem

On 11/07/2019 04.56, Frank Elsner wrote: Hi, on my fully updated F29 system the call dnf system-upgrade --skip-broken download --refresh --releasever=30 gives the error: Problem: package python2-rpkg-1.58-5.fc29.noarch requires python2-cccolutils, but none of the providers can be installed

Re: gnome frozen

On 7/10/19 2:28 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: On 6/16/19 2:24 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: I though that it may be due to a mounted filesystem. But it is not the case. You don't have any mounts that might become stale after an extended period of time? I noted that when I make a sshfs to a machine thr

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

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Re: gnome frozen

> On 7/10/19 2:07 PM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py >>> Am I supposed to run this command? >> >> That is a sig line joke. It removes leading white space from Python >> programs. Don't run that. > > That is a very dangerous joke with no indication that it is your sig.

Re: gnome frozen

> > On 6/16/19 2:24 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Since I upgraded to fc30, if I do not use the PC for a while > > the screen turns to lock (no screensaver is used). > > Is this time is long, I may not be able to log in. > > The screen remains frozen after I provide the password. > > Have you tried

Re: gnome frozen

On 7/10/19 2:07 PM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py Am I supposed to run this command? That is a sig line joke. It removes leading white space from Python programs. Don't run that. That is a very dangerous joke with no indication that it is your sig. Yes, I realize tha

Re: gnome frozen

On 7/10/19 1:50 PM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: I have seen this happen before. If you have nvidia-settings installed, but do not have the commercial nvidia driver running, nvidia-settings makes a whole bunch of duplicate connections to the xserver. Once it is full, you cannot open new windows. (T

Re: gnome frozen

On 6/16/19 2:24 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Since I upgraded to fc30, if I do not use the PC for a while the screen turns to lock (no screensaver is used). Is this time is long, I may not be able to log in. The screen remains frozen after I provide the password. Have you tried disabling the screen

Re: gnome frozen

On 7/10/19 1:33 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: On 6/17/19 1:03 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: From: "Samuel Sieb" Where are you entering this? From a console or ssh? Yes That wasn't intended to be a yes or no question. I assume from the answer below that it's a terminal console. Try using "kill -HU

Re: gnome frozen

>> I have seen this happen before. If you have nvidia-settings installed, >> but >> do not have the commercial nvidia driver running, nvidia-settings makes >> a >> whole bunch of duplicate connections to the xserver. Once it is full, >> you >> cannot open new windows. (Things get very strange.) >

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 7/10/19 12:16 PM, JD wrote: On 7/10/19 12:16 PM, sixpack13 wrote: wasn't su disallowed during the last fedora upgrades ? Well, this is a show stopper for me and for many other people. I do not think I will be upgrading the other machines to F30. More likely to a previous release that DOES a

Re: gnome frozen

> > >> > >> On 6/17/19 1:03 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> >> From: "Samuel Sieb" > >> >> Where are you entering this? From a console or ssh? > >> > Yes > >> > >> That wasn't intended to be a yes or no question. I assume from the > >> answer below that it's a terminal console. > >> > >> >> Try u

Re: gnome frozen

>> >> On 6/17/19 1:03 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> >> From: "Samuel Sieb" >> >> Where are you entering this? From a console or ssh? >> > Yes >> >> That wasn't intended to be a yes or no question. I assume from the >> answer below that it's a terminal console. >> >> >> Try using "kill -HUP" on t

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 9:04 PM sixpack13 wrote: > wasn't su disallowed during the last fedora upgrades ? > No. As far as I know only root is locked by default (at least on Fedora Workstation). Aka you can't su to root. But you are able to use Switch to any other (not locked) User, as usual. Gree

Re: gnome frozen

> > On 6/17/19 1:03 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> From: "Samuel Sieb" > >> Where are you entering this? From a console or ssh? > > Yes > > That wasn't intended to be a yes or no question. I assume from the > answer below that it's a terminal console. > > >> Try using "kill -HUP" on the gnome-she

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

Strange I think I upgraded a machine using sudo prefixing the commands. But I do run with selinux disabled. On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 4:12 PM JD wrote: > > > On 7/10/19 12:16 PM, sixpack13 wrote: > > wasn't su disallowed during the last fedora upgrades ? > Well, this is a show stopper for me and f

Re: Failed to upgrade to F-30

On 7/9/19 5:38 PM, sixpack13 wrote: ... file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-30 ... If they are downloaded, where are they located?? see above ! P.S. rpmfusion is ONLINE again ! try sudo dnf upgrade rpmfusion-\* Justtried to download some things that are on rpmfus

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 7/10/19 12:16 PM, sixpack13 wrote: wasn't su disallowed during the last fedora upgrades ? Well, this is a show stopper for me and for many other people. I do not think I will be upgrading the other machines to F30. More likely to a previous release that DOES allow secure su and secure sudo

Re: F30 terminal problems

Hi, Tony Camuso wrote: > Running F30 with Cinnamon desktop. > > Up-arrow a few times, or Ctl-r a couple times, and the cursor and > text get splattered on different terminal lines. All this worked > fine with F29. > > Previous commands cannot be edited, because the cursor is not > aligned with a

Update to F30 problem

Hi, on my fully updated F29 system the call dnf system-upgrade --skip-broken download --refresh --releasever=30 gives the error: Problem: package python2-rpkg-1.58-5.fc29.noarch requires python2-cccolutils, but none of the providers can be installed - python2-cccolutils-1.5-9.fc29.i686 does

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

wasn't su disallowed during the last fedora upgrades ? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-o

Re: Failed to upgrade to F-30

On 7/10/19 12:03 PM, rwar...@gmx.de wrote: On 10.07.19 19:23, JD wrote: On 7/9/19 5:38 PM, sixpack13 wrote: ... file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-30 ... If they are downloaded, where are they located?? see above ! P.S. rpmfusion is ONLINE again ! try sudo dnf

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 7/10/19 5:05 AM, Tim via users wrote: rc.local: fetchmail: open: /home/tim/.fetchmailrc: Permission denied My /home/tim permissions always were, and always will be: drwx--. 24 timtim 4096 Jul 10 21:23 tim Check the journal for selinux messages. ___

F30 terminal problems

Running F30 with Cinnamon desktop. Up-arrow a few times, or Ctl-r a couple times, and the cursor and text get splattered on different terminal lines. All this worked fine with F29. Previous commands cannot be edited, because the cursor is not aligned with any text. Getting the same results with

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

Chris has a good point. You used the ""'s when using the su tim but they are not needed when you are using the crontab as a user. --- Regards, Kevin Martin On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:59 AM Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Tim via users said: > > Okay, in unfamiliar territory here, so

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

I don't know if it is the same problem, but a change to systemd made it impossible to put long running scripts in rc.local, which made me change my /etc/rc.c/rc.local file to look like: /usr/bin/at -M now <<'HERE' > /dev/null 2>&1 /etc/rc.d/the-real-rc.local HERE Then put everything I used to hav

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

Once upon a time, Tim via users said: > Okay, in unfamiliar territory here, so logged in as my user, I tried > crontab -e and put > > @reboot "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900" > > into it, then rebooted to see what would happen. It didn't do what I > expected, and I got this error message back: > >

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:44 AM Tim via users wrote: > > My original re.local file had a string of commands like: > > su tim -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900" > su adam -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 1200" > su eve -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 1500" > > Each with a different delay, so that traffic was stagg

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Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

Hi Ben, > You might try created a systemd service for it instead. I think more about this tomorrow, when my brain has rebooted, but I think if I did it that way, all the different users would be using the same polling period coded into the common service file. My original re.local file had a str

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

Tim wrote: >> For the last umpteen years, I did this in /etc/rc.local: >> >> su tim -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900" >> >> But that won't work, anymore... Ed Greshko: > Along with a systemd option there is cron and the crontab > specification @reboot. Okay, in unfamiliar territory here, so logged

Re: F30 first impression problems (notes and screen timeout config)

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 2:15 AM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 7/10/19 12:39 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > Will check to see if I can find a solution but it may take be a while. > > OK, the problem is "power devil" is crashing. > > You can fix the issue by going to the settings for the VM and for Video > sel

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

On 7/10/19 8:05 PM, Tim via users wrote: > Hi, > > For the last umpteen years, I did this in /etc/rc.local: > > su tim -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900" > > And likewise, for several other users, but with different time periods > to minimise overlaps. > > But that won't work, anymore. The log retur

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

Tim, You might try created a systemd service for it instead. E.g. # [Unit] Description=Get email [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target [Service] Type=simple User=%i ExecStart=/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900 # Save the above to `/usr/lib/systemd/system/fetchmail@.service`. You can then use `sy

What to do instead of using rc.local?

Hi, For the last umpteen years, I did this in /etc/rc.local: su tim -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900" And likewise, for several other users, but with different time periods to minimise overlaps. But that won't work, anymore. The log returns: rc.local: fetchmail: open: /home/tim/.fetchmailrc: