Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread linux guy
c1d3ebaecd08428ba86f4aba3749efca-5.6.16-300.fc32.x86_64.conf as it sits now: title Fedora (5.6.16-300.fc32.x86_64) 32 (Thirty Two) version 5.6.16-300.fc32.x86_64 linux /vmlinuz-5.6.16-300.fc32.x86_64 initrd /initramfs-5.6.16-300.fc32.x86_64.img options $kernelopts grub_users $grub_users grub_arg -

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 19:14:23 -0600 linux guy wrote: > Changed GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true to false. Some random suggestions. I don't run nvidia anymore so never have problems like this, but maybe one of these will at least give you some insight to what is happening. F32 should work with GRUB_ENABL

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/9/20 9:16 AM, Beartooth wrote: On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 11:18:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: it or doing copy and paste. "ls -a /.snapshots" (It's plural...) # ls -a /.snapshots . .. alpha.0 lost+found I should have said "ls -l". I'm just curious what that is. Can you do "file /.snapsh

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread linux guy
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 6:57 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > I think there is a file added to /etc/modprobe.d with the blacklist > entry. You need to install a new kernel or regenerate the initramfs > using dracut for it to take effect at boot. > I've installed several kernels since changing to the NV

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread linux guy
Changed GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true to false. # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Generating grub configuration file ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.6.16-300.fc32.x86_64 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.6.16-300.fc32.x86_64.img Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.6.14-300.fc32.x86_64

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/9/20 4:59 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 10/6/20 4:46 am, linux guy wrote: dnf list akmod-nvidia Last metadata expiration check: 0:09:43 ago on Tue 09 Jun 2020 12:35:57 PM MDT. Installed Packages akmod-nvidia.x86_64                            3:440.82-2.fc32                    @rpm

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/6/20 8:53 am, linux guy wrote: I've run Nvidia drivers since the RH8 days, back in the early 2000s.  Same experience.  This is the first time I've had this issue. On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 4:31 PM Joe Zeff > wrote: On 06/09/2020 02:40 PM, linux guy wrote: > So

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/6/20 4:46 am, linux guy wrote: dnf list akmod-nvidia Last metadata expiration check: 0:09:43 ago on Tue 09 Jun 2020 12:35:57 PM MDT. Installed Packages akmod-nvidia.x86_64                            3:440.82-2.fc32                            @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates Not sure why the

Re: DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/9/20 5:10 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: I have the following messages in dmesg output, are they indicating a cpu issue, or are they just indicating that because linux is running in a vm under windows, and hence sharing the cpu cores with windows that windows was using core 7 at the time the pr

Re: DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/6/20 4:19 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/9/20 5:10 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I have the following messages in dmesg output, are they indicating a cpu issue, or are they just indicating that because linux is running in a vm under windows, and hence sharing the cpu cores with window

Re: NFS Mount Point Failed

2020-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/6/20 7:12 am, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 1:55 PM Stephen Morris wrote: I have the following statement in fstab: 192.168.1.12:/mnt/HD/HD_a2 /mnt/nfs nfs nfsvers=1,x-systemd.automount,defaults 0 0 When I issue the command 'mount /mnt/nfs' it fails with the following messages show

Re: NFS Mount Point Failed

2020-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/6/20 12:40 am, Roger Heflin wrote: I used linux in 2.0.X kernels (vintage 1998), and we used version=2, so I am going to guess there was never a version 1 on linux. And wikipedia says this interesting bit I did not know: Sun used version 1 only for in-house experimental purposes. So I gue

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread linux guy
re: Adam Mercer's suggestion: grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1" Grubby is already returning the right kernel parameters. Not sure why I would need to run this. re: As far as setting /etc/default/grub LINUX_CMDLINE ar

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread linux guy
I've run Nvidia drivers since the RH8 days, back in the early 2000s. Same experience. This is the first time I've had this issue. On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 4:31 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/09/2020 02:40 PM, linux guy wrote: > > So both grubby and /etc/default/grub are set up correctly to run the >

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/09/2020 02:40 PM, linux guy wrote: So both grubby and /etc/default/grub are set up correctly to run the nvidia driver by blacklisting the nouveau driver. But when I boot and edit the grub menu (with e), the kernal parameter entries lack the blacklisting of the nouveau driver. I used nV

Re: NFS Mount Point Failed

2020-06-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 2:14 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 21:54:30 +1000 > Stephen Morris wrote: > >> nfsvers=1 > > I seriously doubt there is any support for nfs 1 left > in the code (could be wrong). > > Depending on random variations every time the nfs > utilities get updates, I've

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread Mike Wright
On 6/9/20 1:40 PM, linux guy wrote: So both grubby and /etc/default/grub are set up correctly to run the nvidia driver by blacklisting the nouveau driver. But when I boot and edit the grub menu (with e), the kernal parameter entries lack the blacklisting of the nouveau driver. According to this

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread Mike Wright
On 6/9/20 1:40 PM, linux guy wrote: So both grubby and /etc/default/grub are set up correctly to run the nvidia driver by blacklisting the nouveau driver. But when I boot and edit the grub menu (with e), the kernal parameter entries lack the blacklisting of the nouveau driver. According to this

Re: NFS Mount Point Failed

2020-06-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 1:55 PM Stephen Morris wrote: > > I have the following statement in fstab: > > 192.168.1.12:/mnt/HD/HD_a2 /mnt/nfs nfs > nfsvers=1,x-systemd.automount,defaults 0 0 > > When I issue the command 'mount /mnt/nfs' it fails with the > following messages shown in dmesg, which indi

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread linux guy
So both grubby and /etc/default/grub are set up correctly to run the nvidia driver by blacklisting the nouveau driver. But when I boot and edit the grub menu (with e), the kernal parameter entries lack the blacklisting of the nouveau driver. According to this page https://docs.fedoraproject.org/e

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread linux guy
# grubby --info=ALL index=0 kernel="/boot/vmlinuz-5.6.16-300.fc32.x86_64" args="ro rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1" root="/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-root" initrd="/boot/initramfs-5.6.16-300.fc

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread linux guy
It appears that the problem is that my machine thinks it is booting in non efi mode but is in fact booting in UEFI mode. How do I fix this ? On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 12:49 PM linux guy wrote: > Thank you for sharing that ! Here is my /etc/default/grub. It > blacklists the nouveau driver. > >

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread linux guy
Thank you for sharing that ! Here is my /etc/default/grub. It blacklists the nouveau driver. How do I tell how my computer is booting (UEFI or not) and how do I set up the parameters if its booting UEFI ? GRUB_TIMEOUT="5" GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)" GRUB_D

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread linux guy
dnf list akmod-nvidia Last metadata expiration check: 0:09:43 ago on Tue 09 Jun 2020 12:35:57 PM MDT. Installed Packages akmod-nvidia.x86_643:440.82-2.fc32 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates Not sure why the changes don't make it into grub. If I blacklist nouvea

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/9/20 10:09 AM, Doug McGarrett wrote: games looks like playing cards. And Thunderbird, while showing a letter, has it wrapped in a wig that covers where ears would be. Is that supposed to be feathers? If you look closer, you'll see that it's a bird with its wings wrapping around the envel

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 6/9/20 1:43 PM, linux guy wrote: This is pretty interesting because I am trying to fix a problem caused by transitioning from nouveau drivers to the Nvidia drivers.  I installed the Nvidia drivers but my system continues to boot the nouveau drivers.   If I blacklist the nouveau drivers, my s

Re: DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/9/20 5:10 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I have the following messages in dmesg output, are they indicating a cpu issue, or are they just indicating that because linux is running in a vm under windows, and hence sharing the cpu cores with windows that windows was using core 7 at the t

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread Jerry James
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 11:44 AM linux guy wrote: > This is pretty interesting because I am trying to fix a problem caused by > transitioning from nouveau drivers to the Nvidia drivers. I installed the > Nvidia drivers but my system continues to boot the nouveau drivers. If I > blacklist the

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-09 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
Tim via users kirjoitti 9.6.2020 klo 17.55: the controllers on video games that I never play, there's nothing sensible about why a game uses the square button, or the green button, etc., it's all arbitrary. They do nothing to contribute to ease of use. I don't know about you, but I can't think o

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread linux guy
This is pretty interesting because I am trying to fix a problem caused by transitioning from nouveau drivers to the Nvidia drivers. I installed the Nvidia drivers but my system continues to boot the nouveau drivers. If I blacklist the nouveau drivers, my system boots and runs the Nvidia drivers

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-09 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 6/9/20 12:01 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: I don't know about GUIs in general, but I do know that only one icon means anything to anyone :-). They invented the envelope icon to mean mail, and everyone recognized it, so they set off the dynamite in the icon factory and exploded cryptic icons all ove

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 16:16 +, Beartooth wrote: > I did think it seemed to have surprisingly little > > storage when I did that df -h; but if I understand better now, that 1.7T > > is real -- and, I hope, available for other uses. Is that so? Maybe I > > don't need to wipe it? If 'df' sa

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 09:52 -0600, Jerry James wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 9:33 AM Beartooth wrote: > > Years ago, I think about the time OSX first appeared, there were > > reports of an eminent industrial psychologist (whose name I've forgotten) > > who had said that all modern GUIs w

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 15:32 +, Beartooth wrote: > On Tue, 09 Jun 2020 11:40:15 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > If you think the layout is problematic, I'd suggest discussing it on the > > Evo mailing list and eventually filing an RFE. > > > > The icons are determined by the current st

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-09 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 11:18:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/8/20 9:35 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:07:29 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> It's not a file. It appears to be an lvm volume, kind of like a >>> partition. It's mounted at /.snapshot, so what does "ls -a >>> /.snapshot

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-09 Thread Tom Horsley
I don't know about GUIs in general, but I do know that only one icon means anything to anyone :-). They invented the envelope icon to mean mail, and everyone recognized it, so they set off the dynamite in the icon factory and exploded cryptic icons all over everything, and not one of them can be re

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-09 Thread Jerry James
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 9:33 AM Beartooth wrote: > Years ago, I think about the time OSX first appeared, there were > reports of an eminent industrial psychologist (whose name I've forgotten) > who had said that all modern GUIs were downright wrong-headed. Does > anybody remember? And was t

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-09 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 09 Jun 2020 11:40:15 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > If you think the layout is problematic, I'd suggest discussing it on the > Evo mailing list and eventually filing an RFE. > > The icons are determined by the current style dictated by Gnome, not by > Evolution itself. The same appli

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-06-10 at 00:25 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 11:40 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > If you think the layout is problematic, I'd suggest discussing it on > > the Evo mailing list and eventually filing an RFE. > > > > The icons are determined by the current st

Re: DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 23:04 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 9/6/20 10:34 pm, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 22:10 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have the following messages in dmesg output, are they indicating > > > a cpu issue, or are they just indicat

Re: NFS Mount Point Failed

2020-06-09 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 23:01 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > There is also one other thing I don't understand. If I run dolphin, > under the Remote Section in the left hand panel it shows the entry > /mnt/HD/HD_a2:/mnt/nfs on 192.168.1.12 which matches the fstab entry, > and when I click on that entr

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-09 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 11:40 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > If you think the layout is problematic, I'd suggest discussing it on > the Evo mailing list and eventually filing an RFE. > > The icons are determined by the current style dictated by Gnome, not > by Evolution itself. The same applies

Re: NFS Mount Point Failed

2020-06-09 Thread Roger Heflin
I used linux in 2.0.X kernels (vintage 1998), and we used version=2, so I am going to guess there was never a version 1 on linux. And wikipedia says this interesting bit I did not know: Sun used version 1 only for in-house experimental purposes. So I guess that says no one outside of sun used ver

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread Jerry James
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 6:38 AM Jonathan Billings wrote: > One thing I've noticed, if you've used grubby to add/modify kernel > arguments, on default Fedora configs, it modifies all the files in > /boot/loader/entries/*.conf to have hard-coded kernelopts. By > default, it uses $kernelopts which is

Re: DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 9/6/20 10:34 pm, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 22:10 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I have the following messages in dmesg output, are they indicating a cpu issue, or are they just indicating that because linux is running in a vm under windows, and hence sharing the

Re: NFS Mount Point Failed

2020-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 9/6/20 10:14 pm, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 21:54:30 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote: nfsvers=1 I seriously doubt there is any support for nfs 1 left in the code (could be wrong). Depending on random variations every time the nfs utilities get updates, I've had to sometimes specify "

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-09 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 09:06:39PM -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > Follow that with a update-grub or update-grub2 (not sure which) and that > will fix your grub.cfg without having to go through the grub-mkconfig > process. update-grub{,2} is a debian/ubuntu-ism, I believe. I typically use grub2-mkcon

Re: DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 22:10 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, > I have the following messages in dmesg output, are they indicating > a cpu issue, or are they just indicating that because linux is running > in a vm under windows, and hence sharing the cpu cores with windows that > windows w

Re: NFS Mount Point Failed

2020-06-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 21:54:30 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote: > nfsvers=1 I seriously doubt there is any support for nfs 1 left in the code (could be wrong). Depending on random variations every time the nfs utilities get updates, I've had to sometimes specify "proto=udp" as well as or instead of the

DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I have the following messages in dmesg output, are they indicating a cpu issue, or are they just indicating that because linux is running in a vm under windows, and hence sharing the cpu cores with windows that windows was using core 7 at the time the process checked? [16236.896502] r

NFS Mount Point Failed

2020-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I have the following statement in fstab:             192.168.1.12:/mnt/HD/HD_a2 /mnt/nfs nfs nfsvers=1,x-systemd.automount,defaults 0 0     When I issue the command 'mount /mnt/nfs' it fails with the following messages shown in dmesg, which indicate that the mount seems to be trying

DNF Upgrade of F31 to F32 did not Update Grub

2020-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     After eventually getting 'dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=32' to download and reboot the system, when the upgrade had finished the system booted into sddm. When I selected KDE to start into all it did was display a black screen. If I selected Gnome, that did exactly the same t

Re: Mount options for mostly-offline drives

2020-06-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 23:25 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 10:57:10AM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I have a powered USB dock with a couple of SATA drives configured as > > RAID1, and used only for nightly backups. The (minimal) manual for the > > dock tells me it will

RPM Fusion GPG not Found

2020-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     As part of upgrading F31 to F32 using 'dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=32', dnf downloaded all packages and downloaded and installed the gpg for rpmfusion-free, but it was not able to download and install the gpg for rpmfusion-nonfree, and hence would not recognise the system

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 10:39 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Icon choices really annoy me, so many of them are just so completely > > arbitrary that they convey no meaning. You eventually get used to > > clicking on the third icon across by habit. And too many of them are > > too similar. On Evo