Re: xsane -

2020-04-09 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-04-09 21:25, Samuel Sieb wrote: /dev/bus/usb/001/006 is the device name. ° [root@Workstation-1 bobg]# ls -al /dev/bus/usb/001/006 crw-rw-r--. 1 root root 189, 5 Apr  9 20:11 /dev/bus/usb/001/006 [root@Workstation-1 bobg]# chmod 777 /dev/bus/usb/001/006 [root@Workstation-1 bobg]#

Re: xsane -

2020-04-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/9/20 4:48 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-04-09 18:16, Samuel Sieb wrote:   Or try doing "chmod a+w /dev/bus/001/006" (replace with the correct numbers if you've replugged or rebooted since your post). . After some trial and error I wound up doing chmod 775 /dev/bus/usb but stilt not

Re: xsane -

2020-04-09 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-04-09 18:16, Samuel Sieb wrote: It seems that udev is not recognizing it or you need to add yourself to a different group. . i don't know what group?   You could run xsane as root as a workaround. . Did that earlier, it warned me not to run as root and the did not let me save to

Re: dnf Nothing to do but "Software Updates" GUI showing updates

2020-04-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-04-10 06:46, S.Bob wrote: > > I had a situation where a dnf update showed nothing to do but the "Software > Updates" GUI had updates listed. Even did a "dnf clean all" and dnf still > showed "Nothing to do". Clicked on the Software Updates GUI to install them  > and it did...  Why did 

dnf Nothing to do but "Software Updates" GUI showing updates

2020-04-09 Thread S.Bob
All; I had a situation where a dnf update showed nothing to do but the "Software Updates" GUI had updates listed. Even did a "dnf clean all" and dnf still showed "Nothing to do". Clicked on the Software Updates GUI to install them and it did...  Why did dnf not see them? Thanks in advance

Re: xsane -

2020-04-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/9/20 2:11 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Xsane can't see my scanner as user bobg, as root is detected. bobg]# scanimage -L device `genesys:libusb:001:006' is a Canon LiDE 110 flatbed scanner [bobg@Workstation-1 ~]$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 006: ID 04a9:1909 Canon, Inc. CanoScan LiDE 110 $

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > 139255322 us [ 180481085 ] This says that the run already lasted 180 seconds and the SCSI command to which this line belongs lasted 139 seconds. (Your patience is in good shape.) > INQUIRY There are only two of these commands in the course of normal drive examination by libburn. So

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > But when I add an output device to the image like > xorriso -indev test.iso \ > -boot_image any keep \ > -map "$file_or_tree_on_disk" "$path_in_iso" \ > -outdev test.iso > > Everything magically works. > Weird. Hm. This should yield the same result as -dev

xsane -

2020-04-09 Thread Bob Goodwin
Xsane can't see my scanner as user bobg, as root is detected. bobg]# scanimage -L device `genesys:libusb:001:006' is a Canon LiDE 110 flatbed scanner [bobg@Workstation-1 ~]$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 006: ID 04a9:1909 Canon, Inc. CanoScan LiDE 110 $ sane-find-scanner could not open USB device

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > Okay, so what you are doing is actually against convention. It's fully compliant. Just moving apart the default mountable superblock from the chain of session superblocks which need an extra option to mount(8) in order to get mounted. > Essentially, the OS

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
One more piece of mysterious info for the record: VLC on Windows 10 can play a DVD just fine with the USB drive (the exact same one that hangs on two different linux systems I've now tried). VLC on linux hangs just like everything else. I think I'll now give up completely trying to understand

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-09 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
> In Nautilus, if I right-click an .iso file, I have the option to open > with the disk image mounter. That works. Ok, using the command: xorriso -dev test.iso \ -boot_image any keep \ -map "$file_or_tree_on_disk" "$path_in_iso" Does not work even if I use right-click and

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-09 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
> That's the reason for my invention of emulated table of content. > The first session does not get written to block 0 but rather to block 32. > This leaves room for an official superblock at block 0 and thus saves > the superblock of the first session from being overwritten by session 2. > Now

Re: upgrade attempts are failing.

2020-04-09 Thread home user
(On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:45 PM Stan wrote) > It looks like you are having module problems. I don't know > if this will help, but while testing upgrade from F31 to F32 > to look for issues, we were advised to run > dnf module reset '*' > to make modules behave before running the upgrade. You

Re: upgrade attempts are failing.

2020-04-09 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 12:07:17 -0600 home user wrote: > Nothing seems to have changed: > > bash.19[~]: dnf system-upgrade download --skip-broken --refresh > --releasever=31 --best --allowerasing > Before you continue ensure that your system is fully upgraded by > running "dnf --refresh upgrade".

Re: upgrade attempts are failing.

2020-04-09 Thread home user
(On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:13 PM Doug wrote) > I tend to `dnf erase` anything that complains and reinstall it > after the upgrade. So I wonder if you can do that with gimp > and get it going. (On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:16 PM Richard wrote) > I was starting to think the same thing. Also you

Re: upgrade attempts are failing.

2020-04-09 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 1:14 PM Doug Herr wrote: > > I'm stuck. How do I get this upgrade to work? > > I tend to `dnf erase` anything that complains and reinstall it after the > upgrade. So I wonder if you can do that with gimp and get it going. > I was starting to think the same thing. Also

Re: upgrade attempts are failing.

2020-04-09 Thread Doug Herr
> I'm stuck.  How do I get this upgrade to work? I tend to `dnf erase` anything that complains and reinstall it after the upgrade. So I wonder if you can do that with gimp and get it going. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: upgrade attempts are failing.

2020-04-09 Thread home user
(On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:37 AM Richard wrote) > Unfortunately it looks like that package is needed to deal > with modules, but why it let you erase the package without > pulling in whatever's depending on it I don't know. For now > I think you need to reinstall it. done. bash.18[~]: dnf

Re: upgrade attempts are failing.

2020-04-09 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:33 PM home user wrote: > > Apparently not, but that did not seem to help. > > The only error message now, in the last 3 tries, is > - > terminate called after throwing an instance of > 'libdnf::ModulePackageContainer::EnableMultipleStreamsException' >what():

Re: upgrade attempts are failing.

2020-04-09 Thread home user
(On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:14 AM Richard wrote) > If you do "dnf erase python2-libmodulemd" will > anything important removed with it? bash.14[~]: dnf erase python2-libmodulemd Dependencies resolved.

Re: upgrade attempts are failing.

2020-04-09 Thread home user
(On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:14 AM Richard wrote) > Do a "dnf distro-sync" to see if you have anything weird > going on (manually installed RPMs, etc). bash.12[~]: dnf distro-sync Last metadata expiration check: 0:57:57 ago on Thu 09 Apr 2020 10:19:27 AM MDT. Dependencies resolved.

Re: upgrade attempts are failing.

2020-04-09 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:07 PM home user wrote: > (f30 -> f31; gnome) > > I tried to upgrade my system from f30 to f31 as per the instructions. I > entered > "dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=31" > Failed. The results are in the first attachment (problem1.txt). > Perhaps

upgrade attempts are failing.

2020-04-09 Thread home user
(f30 -> f31; gnome) I tried to upgrade my system from f30 to f31 as per the instructions.  I entered "dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=31" Failed.  The results are in the first attachment (problem1.txt). As the dnf output suggested, I tried "dnf system-upgrade download

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > I am kind of confused as to the difference/advantage between keeping the old > boot image versus rebuilding one. My first multi-session proposal was to keep as much of the boot equipment as possible. After all, we began with the riddle why your genisoimage

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:29:46 +0200 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > If this was a slim drive in a fancy flat USB box i'd ask whether it gets > its electrical power via USB cable. > There have been cases that drives fell unconscious while speeding up > the disc because the computer did not deliver stable

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Jerry James
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:29 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hrmpf. strace reports "openat(2)" where libburn calls open(2). strace reports the name of the Linux system call, which is indeed openat. The open(2) and openat(2) functions (and open64(2) and openat64(2) on some systems) are C library

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:48:30 -0300 George N. White III wrote: > The bug may only appear for certain combinations of drive and USB > chipset. Check for firmware updates for the drive. Yep. I'm thinking it has something to do with the chipset. I believe I did read about some usb problem some

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > 139255322 us [ 180481085 ] This says that the run already lasted 180 seconds and the SCSI command to which this line belongs lasted 139 seconds. (Your patience is in good shape.) > INQUIRY There are only two of these commands in the course of normal drive examination by libburn. So

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-09 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
Sorry rather why are you disabling session history ? Any particular reason? On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 11:54 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > xorriso -dev Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-31-1.9.iso -boot_image any > keep > > -map /home/sreyan/anaconda-ks.cfg

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-09 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
> Is there any noteworthy text to see, beyond what is quoted above ? No you can ignore it. It was just a screenshot from VirtualBox describing the superblocks problem I typed out. I can't thank you enough for your in-depth explanations. Not only are you helping me with my problem but I also

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-09 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/04/2020 12:24, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-04-09 17:57, Terry Barnaby wrote: The script already has date/time and the log shows (The Wed 8th entries entry  having the PID): Bbackup / /usr/beam /home /src /srcOld /dist /opt /scratch /data/svn /data/www /data/vwt /data/www /data1/kvm

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-09 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
> I only see a black rectangle (with some framing ornaments). > My web browser is old. > > Is there any noteworthy text to see, beyond what is quoted above ? Nothing of value. You can ignore it. I could not be more grateful for your in-depth replies. Not only are you helping me with my problem

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 22:21, Tom Horsley wrote: > Anyone else experienced this: > > I have a nice modern LG WH16NS40 Blu-ray rewriter, and a nice modern > computer case with zero drive bays, so I got an OWC external drive > case with sata -> usb3 to hold the drive. > > Everything I've tried

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:33:38 +0200 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > If /tmp/xorriso.log is long (one or two dozen KB) then send it to > my mail address directly. I will then report what it tells me. > If it is short, please post it here. It sat here for about three minutes till I got bored: zooty>

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Tom Horsley wrote: > My current theory is that it has something to do with > the phase II region protection (which is supposed to be hardware > rather than software) That would be plausible. But letting the drive hang on open with the need for power-off seems to be a drastic reaction. >

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 09 Apr 2020 09:29:01 +0200 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > That's not usual. I have a BH16NS40 in a USB box from DeLOCK. No problems > to open it with any medium. My current theory is that it has something to do with the phase II region protection (which is supposed to be hardware rather than

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-04-09 17:57, Terry Barnaby wrote: > The script already has date/time and the log shows (The Wed 8th entries entry  > having the PID): > > Bbackup / /usr/beam /home /src /srcOld /dist /opt /scratch /data/svn > /data/www /data/vwt /data/www /data1/kvm /data/database /data/vwt >

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-09 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/04/2020 07:00, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi On Tue, 07 Apr 2020 07:07:36 +0100 Terry Barnaby wrote: # Min Hour Day Month WeekDay # Perform incremental backup to every work day 01 23 * * 1 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam 01 23 * * 2 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam 01 23 * * 3 root

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-09 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 08/04/2020 23:11, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 08Apr2020 14:54, Terry Barnaby wrote: Note this has happened a few times this year, (approx 1 in 64 x) so not related to DST changes anyway. Might be due to chrony clock resyncs I suppose but I think something stranger is going on here or

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Tom Horsley wrote: > I have a nice modern LG WH16NS40 Blu-ray rewriter [...] > trying to rip a DVD [...] > openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/sr0", O_RDONLY <-- never finishes till I unplug it That's not usual. I have a BH16NS40 in a USB box from DeLOCK. No problems to open it with any medium. In

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/8/20 10:37 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On 4/8/20 11:03 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: Gnome Disks is expecting a disk and the .iso file looks like one: # file Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-31-1.9.iso Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-31-1.9.iso: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 2 : ID=0xef,

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-09 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi On Tue, 07 Apr 2020 07:07:36 +0100 Terry Barnaby wrote: > # Min Hour Day Month WeekDay > # Perform incremental backup to every work day > 01 23 * * 1 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam > 01 23 * * 2 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam > 01 23 * * 3 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam > 01 23 * * 4 root