Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/15/20 8:40 PM, home user wrote: Is there a reasonably easy, short, and reliable way to test * the CPU(s) (is that the correct term?) (Intel Core -7-3770K CPU @ 3.5...)? Maybe a benchmarking program, but it's unlikely that you have a problem there. * the power supply? * the data bus (i

Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/15/20 8:52 PM, home user wrote: (On 2020-03-16 06:44 PM, Ed wrote) > Or, and I haven't tried this, do what is indicated > in the "dnf info memtest86+" and Though I've now already done the memory test as Samuel suggested, this looks worthwhile.  The other one took a long time.  I assu

Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-03-16 11:40, home user wrote: > > > ... but the net install boot has a real rescue option. > I'm looking here: > "https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/"; > and I don't see it.  Where should I be looking?  (or maybe I'm looking for  > the wrong thing?) Go to https://alt.fedoraproj

Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-15 Thread home user
(On 2020-03-16 06:44 PM, Ed wrote) > Or, and I haven't tried this, do what is indicated > in the "dnf info memtest86+" and Though I've now already done the memory test as Samuel suggested, this looks worthwhile.  The other one took a long time.  I assume this memory test will, too.  So I'll

Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-15 Thread home user
(On 3/15/20 2:59 PM, Samuel wrote) > Right after you select the USB flash drive from the bios menu, > you should get a grub menu that's titled something like > "Fedora Workstation Live". Thank-you.  Found it.  Ran the memory test.  It took a long time, but I like that it kept me informed.  The w

Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-03-16 06:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: > The memory tester needs to be run with nothing else running, not even an OS.   > It needs full access to the hardware.  That's what memtest does. He may also consider going here, https://www.memtest86.com/memtest86.html, and download the free version. 

Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/15/20 2:59 PM, home user wrote: (On 3/14/20 6:33 PM, Samuel wrote) > That's probably not what you think it is. ... Well, what I thought it was, was that when it was done booting, all I would get is an old-fashioned command line interface, with many but not all Linux commands.  No GUIs. 

Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-15 Thread home user
(On 3/14/20 6:33 PM, Samuel wrote) > That's probably not what you think it is. ... Well, what I thought it was, was that when it was done booting, all I would get is an old-fashioned command line interface, with many but not all Linux commands.  No GUIs.  It should have ls, vim, grep, more, cd

Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/15/20 2:28 PM, home user wrote: (On 2020-03-14 05:06, Ed wrote) > Use a live image instead. Though I just made it last week, it does not work well.  It sometimes "freezes" within a very short time of the completion of it booting. When shutting down, it sometimes seems to get the cpu into

Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-15 Thread home user
(On 2020-03-14 05:06, Ed wrote) > Use a live image instead. Though I just made it last week, it does not work well.  It sometimes "freezes" within a very short time of the completion of it booting.  When shutting down, it sometimes seems to get the cpu into a tight loop that gets the cpu hot e

Re: OT?? : Xscreensaver: Is it me??

2020-03-15 Thread sixpack13
On 15.03.20 18:19, Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:08:25 +0100, sixpack13 wrote: Oddly enough, I can't make them out there. ... means to download them ??? then: youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPiJb0Qm1SE would download them as a movie. -- sixpack13 _

Re: OT?? : Xscreensaver: Is it me??

2020-03-15 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:08:25 +0100, sixpack13 wrote: > On 14.03.20 22:30, Beartooth wrote: >> >> On a Lenovo Thinkpad running F31 Mate, fully updated, I'm >> presently running the Binary Ring screensaver. It works fine; this is >> just a question, not a problem. Whenever that screensaver beg

Re: OT?? : Xscreensaver: Is it me??

2020-03-15 Thread Tim via users
sixpack13: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPiJb0Qm1SE Fred Smith: > what's the point of the horrible noises accompanying each of the > screensavers? That just sounds like an open microphone picking up the hard drive grinding away at the same time. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7