Re: conflict with ffmpeg

2023-12-01 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 22:11 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > ffmpeg seems to be necessary to play some videos, > so I wanted ffmpeg. > Not really sure how either firefox or chromium is using it. Browsers can play video files within the page. They may need extra codecs to be able to play some file

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 5:42 PM home user wrote: > > On 12/1/23 3:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 12/01/2023 03:25 PM, home user wrote: > >> The rpm command did not give me enough information, so I had to do the > >> reboot. > > > > You could always look in /boot and see what's there. > > -- > That

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread home user
On 12/1/23 9:30 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/1/23 20:23, home user wrote: On 12/1/23 8:38 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Remove the files for the entry that doesn't have a kernel package. Here's what I did: - -bash.1[~]: cd /boot/loader/entries/ -bash.2[entries]: ls 70857e3fb05849139515e66a3fdc6b

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/1/23 20:23, home user wrote: On 12/1/23 8:38 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Remove the files for the entry that doesn't have a kernel package. Here's what I did: - -bash.1[~]: cd /boot/loader/entries/ -bash.2[entries]: ls 70857e3fb05849139515e66a3fdc6b38-0-memtest86+.conf 70857e3fb0584913951

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread home user
On 12/1/23 8:38 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/1/23 18:46, home user wrote: On 12/1/23 6:44 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: You mentioned in a previous email that there was a rescue kernel. That one isn't tracked by any package.  You can delete the files and the next kernel install will update it with t

printer only prints in flip mode

2023-12-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
My Brother HL-L2360DW B&W laser printer is only printing in flip mode, i.e., when it prints 8.5x11 two-sided portrait, to read the back page, one must flip it vertically by a short side, rather that horizontally by a long edge. The defaults for the printer is set to job-sheets=none, none media=n

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/1/23 18:46, home user wrote: On 12/1/23 6:44 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: You mentioned in a previous email that there was a rescue kernel. That one isn't tracked by any package.  You can delete the files and the next kernel install will update it with the latest kernel. The rescue kernel is

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread home user
On 12/1/23 6:44 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/1/23 16:50, home user wrote: Using the wrong version in the "dnf remove" may have caused more problems: - bash.1[~]: dnf remove kernel-core-6.5.8-200.fc38.x86_64 No match for argument: kernel-core-6.5.8-200.fc38.x86_64 You mentioned in a previou

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-12-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 12/1/23 15:32, Sbob wrote: How is the virtual networking in QEMU/KVM/libvirt? can I just click into settings and 'add' a network interface? Yes. Lots of options https://imgur.com/sOgQTvW.png -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/1/23 17:23, old sixpack13 wrote: ... What is the current, simple, best practice f38 way of removing the oldest kernel, both from the hard drive and from the grub menu? What is the current, simple, best practice, f38 way of removing the oldest memtest, both from the hard drive (if it's

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/1/23 16:50, home user wrote: Using the wrong version in the "dnf remove" may have caused more problems: - bash.1[~]: dnf remove kernel-core-6.5.8-200.fc38.x86_64 No match for argument: kernel-core-6.5.8-200.fc38.x86_64 You mentioned in a previous email that there was a rescue kernel.

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread old sixpack13
> > I'm no sys.admin. tomorrow you *are* the sys.admin ! ;-) -- ___ 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-U

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-12-01 Thread old sixpack13
... >   -  can I run the osx unlocker with virtualbox? > > >   - does virtualbox have the same issues where it needs a patch after > each kernel and sometimes >    just breaks with a new kernel , even with the patch? > I don't know if it also happens with OSX, but Vbox has issues with kernel

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread old sixpack13
... > > What is the current, simple, best practice f38 way of removing the oldest > kernel, both > from the hard drive and from the grub menu? > > What is the current, simple, best practice, f38 way of removing the oldest > memtest, both > from the hard drive (if it's there) and from the grub m

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread home user
On 12/1/23 16:41, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/1/23 14:25, home user wrote: The rpm command did not give me enough information, so I had to do the reboot.  The grub menu shows 4 kernels and 2 memtests (manually typed): How did it not give you enough information?  What were you looking for? I was

Re: NVIDIA RPM DNF Update Issue?

2023-12-01 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 1 Dec 2023 at 18:43, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: From: francis.montag...@inria.fr To: Community support for Fedora users Subject:Re: NVIDIA RPM DNF Update Issue? Date sent: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:43:31 +0100 Send reply to:

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/1/23 14:25, home user wrote: The rpm command did not give me enough information, so I had to do the reboot.  The grub menu shows 4 kernels and 2 memtests (manually typed): How did it not give you enough information? What were you looking for? Fedora Linux (6.6.2-101.fc38.x86_64... Fedo

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-12-01 Thread Sbob
How is the virtual networking in QEMU/KVM/libvirt? can I just click into settings and 'add' a network interface? On 12/1/23 01:17, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 11/30/23 23:04, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I don't know how well QEMU/KVM/libvirt handle other disk images, like from VMware. I have

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread home user
On 12/1/23 3:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/01/2023 03:25 PM, home user wrote: The rpm command did not give me enough information, so I had to do the reboot. You could always look in /boot and see what's there. -- That was a part of that same post. Here it is again: -- bash.1[~]: ls /boot

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/01/2023 03:25 PM, home user wrote: The rpm command did not give me enough information, so I had to do the reboot. You could always look in /boot and see what's there. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread home user
On 12/1/23 11:53, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 10:28 -0700, home user wrote: On 12/1/23 10:06 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 09:11 -0700, home user wrote: What is the current, simple, best practice, f38 way of removing the oldest memtest, both from the hard

Re: turn off service that installs sytem updates(kernel) off when one shuts down

2023-12-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/1/23 05:49, olivares33561 via users wrote: The newest kernel was installed via a service that runs automatically. I use command line to install updates. There is a service that installs system updates and installed the kernel which did not boot on this machine. When starting the machin

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 11:12 AM home user wrote: > > Good morning, > > After yesterday's weekly patches via "dnf upgrade", I have more old kernels > than I want. I also have 2 memtest entries in the grub menu. > > What is the current, simple, best practice f38 way of removing the oldest > kerne

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/01/2023 11:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 'rpm -qa kernel' will list all the installed kernels. The one to be deleted on the next dnf update will be the oldest. Fedora once supplied a program to remove all kernels except the running one and the newest. It's rather old (2011) but shou

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 10:28 -0700, home user wrote: > On 12/1/23 10:06 AM, Tim via users wrote: > > On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 09:11 -0700, home user wrote: > > > What is the current, simple, best practice, f38 way of removing > > > the > > > oldest memtest, both from the hard drive (if it's there) and

Re: NVIDIA RPM DNF Update Issue?

2023-12-01 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Sat, 02 Dec 2023 03:32:04 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 09:43 +, John Pilkington wrote: >> /!\ Please remember to wait after the RPM transaction ends, until the >> kmod get built. This can take up to 5 minutes on some systems. > Don't they bother to do anything to let

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread home user
On 12/1/23 10:06 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 09:11 -0700, home user wrote: What is the current, simple, best practice, f38 way of removing the oldest memtest, both from the hard drive (if it's there) and from the grub menu? It *ought* to be as simple as dnf remove kernel...

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 09:11 -0700, home user wrote: > What is the current, simple, best practice, f38 way of removing the > oldest memtest, both from the hard drive (if it's there) and from > the grub menu? It *ought* to be as simple as dnf remove kernel. Where you use a specific kernel pack

Re: NVIDIA RPM DNF Update Issue?

2023-12-01 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 09:43 +, John Pilkington wrote: > /!\ Please remember to wait after the RPM transaction ends, until the > kmod get built. This can take up to 5 minutes on some systems. Don't they bother to do anything to let you know when it's finished? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-

how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread home user
Good morning, After yesterday's weekly patches via "dnf upgrade", I have more old kernels than I want. I also have 2 memtest entries in the grub menu. What is the current, simple, best practice f38 way of removing the oldest kernel, both from the hard drive and from the grub menu? What is th

Re: Upgrade KDE Wayland Spin 38->39 KDE Background Screen Issue

2023-12-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 05:43 -0800, richard emberson wrote: > Where do I find "the Fedora KDE list"? k...@lists.fedoraproject.org but I see you found it. poc -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to user

Re: turn off service that installs sytem updates(kernel) off when one shuts down

2023-12-01 Thread Felix Miata
olivares33561 via users composed on 2023-12-01 13:49 (UTC): > The newest kernel was installed via a service that runs automatically. I use > command line to install updates. There is a service that installs system > updates and installed the kernel which did not boot on this machine. When > s

turn off service that installs sytem updates(kernel) off when one shuts down

2023-12-01 Thread olivares33561 via users
Dear Fedora users, The newest kernel was installed via a service that runs automatically. I use command line to install updates. There is a service that installs system updates and installed the kernel which did not boot on this machine. When starting the machine it froze and did not boot. T

Re: Upgrade KDE Wayland Spin 38->39 KDE Background Screen Issue

2023-12-01 Thread richard emberson
Where do I find "the Fedora KDE list"? On 12/1/23 03:56, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2023-11-30 at 15:16 -0800, richard emberson wrote: Upgrade KDE Wayland Spin 38->39 KDE Background Screen Issue KDE Screen Issue (or Plasma issue, or...) 1) Login screen comes up and can login. 2)  KDE

Re: NFS Mount Point Write Failure [Resolved]

2023-12-01 Thread Stephen Morris
On 1/12/23 23:09, Stephen Morris wrote: On 1/12/23 22:54, Stephen Morris wrote: On 30/11/23 22:42, Stephen Morris wrote: I have a network drive being mounted from the following entry in /etc/fstab: 192.168.1.12:/mnt/HD/HD_a2    /mnt/nfs    nfs users,nconnect=2,own

Re: NFS Mount Point Write Failure [Resolved]

2023-12-01 Thread Stephen Morris
On 1/12/23 22:54, Stephen Morris wrote: On 30/11/23 22:42, Stephen Morris wrote: I have a network drive being mounted from the following entry in /etc/fstab: 192.168.1.12:/mnt/HD/HD_a2    /mnt/nfs    nfs users,nconnect=2,owner,rw,_netdev 0 0 This resu

Re: Upgrade KDE Wayland Spin 38->39 KDE Background Screen Issue

2023-12-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2023-11-30 at 15:16 -0800, richard emberson wrote: > Upgrade KDE Wayland Spin 38->39 KDE Background Screen Issue > > KDE Screen Issue (or Plasma issue, or...) > > 1) Login screen comes up and can login. > 2)  KDE screen mix of colors and black... moving mouse and screen > continues >    t

Re: NFS Mount Point Write Failure

2023-12-01 Thread Stephen Morris
On 30/11/23 22:42, Stephen Morris wrote: I have a network drive being mounted from the following entry in /etc/fstab: 192.168.1.12:/mnt/HD/HD_a2    /mnt/nfs    nfs users,nconnect=2,owner,rw,_netdev 0 0 This results in the following definition in /etc/m

Re: NVIDIA RPM DNF Update Issue?

2023-12-01 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi On Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:43:09 + John Pilkington wrote: > On 01/12/2023 05:57, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: >> rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia >> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-535.129.03-2.fc38.x86_64 >> akmod-nvidia-535.129.03-1.fc38.x86_64 >> nvidia-driver-cuda-libs-545.23.08-1.fc37.x86_64

Re: NVIDIA RPM DNF Update Issue?

2023-12-01 Thread John Pilkington
On 01/12/2023 05:57, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: Forgot to add info. In working to get it originally working, had following instruction from only page that actually worked and ended up with these packages being installed. rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-535.129.0

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-12-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 11/30/23 23:04, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I don't know how well QEMU/KVM/libvirt handle other disk images, like from VMware. I have done it. My Keeper: References: http://serverfault.com/questions/273982/virt-convert-ovf-to-kvm http://edoceo.com/notabene/ova-to-vmdk-to-qcow2 http:

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-12-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 11/30/23 23:11, Thomas Dineen wrote: "osx unlocker so I can run mac VM's" Help me out here in that I have very little experience with MAC OS: Are you running MAC OS in a VM? if yes how do you purchase MAC OS License? Thomas Dineen Hi Thomas, The OSx license states that you can only run