Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/4/24 16:30, Mike Wright wrote: --> EFI EXPLAINED <-- I just found this collection of pages about EFI. If you learn all of this you will know more about EFI than all but a miniscule percentage of humanity. https://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/inde

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/4/24 11:37, Tim via users wrote: If you install other OSs, they should do something similar. You'd have something like: ... EFI/debian ... EFI/fedora Which should keep all the OSs separate from each other. If you wanted dual booting different versions of Fedora, without one

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/4/24 09:29, François Patte wrote: Le 2024-07-04 18:18, Mike Wright a écrit : On 7/4/24 09:09, François Patte wrote: Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because anaconda is unable

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/4/24 09:09, François Patte wrote: Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because anaconda is unable to ignore the windows partition) I *think* that there can be only one /boot/efi

Re: Local, system e-mails only delivered on reboot

2024-07-03 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/3/24 07:21, Tom Horsley wrote: ...sendmail is utterly cryptic, I still have nightmares about the Bat book. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/2/24 07:44, Frank Bures wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to boot the existing F40 installation from a USB.  I tried to research this but everything I was able to find dealt with booting a live image of F40 from USB and/or installing a live image of F40 on a USB. What I

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/2/24 07:44, Frank Bures wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to boot the existing F40 installation from a USB.  I tried to research this but everything I was able to find dealt with booting a live image of F40 from USB and/or installing a live image of F40 on a USB. What I

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-24 Thread Mike Wright
On 6/21/24 07:44, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: Possibly related: totem does not play movies. totem complains that it cannot initialize openGL support. I can't dissect a .rpm but I know how to dissect a .deb so I installed totem onto Ubuntu 24.04

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-18 Thread Mike Wright
On 6/18/24 01:03, Stephen Morris wrote: On 18/6/24 09:23, Mike Wright wrote: On 6/17/24 15:28, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I haven't done a restart yet to see if that rectifies the issue. Have you tried executing "systemctl poweroff"? Thanks Mike, I haven't tried that yet nor ha

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-17 Thread Mike Wright
On 6/17/24 15:28, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     Ever since a couple of updates ago, from KDE, when I select "Shutdown" KDE displays a black screen (it used to be that you could press the escape key and it would show you the apps that were closing down so you could see which apps were causing

Re: number of lines on console

2024-06-06 Thread Mike Wright
On 6/6/24 09:00, Greg Woods wrote: on a standard 1920x1080 HD monitor in this case). If the boot hangs, then of course the last few messages are the crucial ones to see. Once the machine is booted, of course, then I can log in and use tools such as "stty" to set the number of rows and cure this

Re: Please stop hijacking /etc/resolv.conf

2024-05-30 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/30/24 13:18, Todd Zullinger wrote: Kevin Fenzi wrote: [...snip loads of useful information...] So, I think if you: disable systemd-resolved sudo bash -c 'mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system-preset && echo "disable systemd-resolved.service"

Re: 2 installations on the same PC - Add partition in Ftab

2024-05-28 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/28/24 21:24, soles.g wrote: El 23/5/24 a las 21:28, Mike Wright escribió: porque desde la terminal no me deja de ninguna manera: because from the terminal it won't let me in any way: soles_40@garibaldina-40:~$ sudo mount -n /dev/sda7 /run/media/soles_40/desde_fedora_37 mount: /run

Re: 2 installations on the same PC - Add partition in Ftab

2024-05-23 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/23/24 15:43, soles.g wrote: El 23/5/24 a las 18:28, Patrick O'Callaghan escribió: On Thu, 2024-05-23 at 13:00 -0300, soles.g wrote: ¡Hola...! :-) ¿Escribo aquí en castellano...? ;-)     [Should I write here in Spanish?] La lista realmente es para usarse en inglés y no quiero asumir la

Re: getting out of bridge mode

2024-05-22 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/21/24 23:48, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: You probably need your ISP to do that.  Once it's in bridge mode, it's basically invisible.  Whatever device is connected to it has a direct internet connection now.  You might be able to access it if you can

Re: My Fedora 40 experiences

2024-05-19 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/18/24 01:10, John Pilkington wrote: On 18/05/2024 03:17, Stephen Morris wrote: On 17/5/24 22:43, John Pilkington wrote: On 17/05/2024 13:08, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi. On Thu, 16 May 2024 23:04:21 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote: On 16/5/24 21:33, George N. White III wrote:

Re: postfix fails to start on boot

2024-05-16 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/16/24 18:40, Alex wrote: Hi, I have a fedora38 server with postfix-3.7.9 (although this problem has existed for a long time) that fails to start because I believe the server has multiple interfaces. ifconfig shows just the primary ethernet interface, but "ip addr" shows the rest. There are

Re: How to list Apache (httpd) virtual servers

2024-05-12 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/12/24 14:56, Ian Pilcher wrote: I am trying to list the virtual servers in my Apache httpd configuration on Fedora 38.  My internet searches keep turning up references to using either apachectl or apache2ctl with the -S option, but neither one seems to work on Fedora. # apachectl -S

Re: Live USB extra space

2024-04-28 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/27/24 21:21, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, I "Finally" have a customer interested in Fedora.  I talked him into letting me spin a Live USB flash drive for him to play with before we jump ahead. Question:  Is there a way to use the extra space on the drive to install a few more

Re: [correction] The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/17/24 17:37, Mike Wright wrote: From what I read X11 suffered from mission creep and a lot of features that should have been in the windowmanagers ended up in X11 and will never be in Wayland. -- ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/17/24 12:30, Go Canes wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 1:48 PM John Mellor wrote: With X being a completely unmaintainable mess, all new and bugfix development stopped about 2 years ago. Most disturbing is that for the last 2 years there have been essentially no security fixes as a

Re: systemd-networkd-wait-online times out

2024-04-11 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/11/24 15:08, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 6:01 PM Sam Varshavchik wrote: Tim via users writes: "The service systemd-networkd-wait-online.service invokes systemd- networkd-wait-online without any options. Thus, it waits for all managed interfaces to be configured or

Re: [OT] plasma6

2024-04-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/3/24 22:52, Barry wrote: On 3 Apr 2024, at 23:13, Mike Wright wrote: If anybody is curious about KDE's new Plasma6 on Wayland you can install Fedora-KDE-Live from rawhide to get a sneak-peak at Fedora 41. Spoiler alert: it's nice. It is already part of fedora 40. What

[OT] plasma6

2024-04-03 Thread Mike Wright
Hey all, If anybody is curious about KDE's new Plasma6 on Wayland you can install Fedora-KDE-Live from rawhide to get a sneak-peak at Fedora 41. Spoiler alert: it's nice.

Re: Failed to start jobs message from today's F39 update

2024-03-13 Thread Mike Wright
On 3/13/24 10:10, Neal Becker wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 2:50 PM Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/12/2024 12:33 PM, Neal Becker wrote: Failed to start jobs: Failed to enqueue some jobs, see logs for details: Invalid argument Should I worry? I don't even know what armadillo is. Did you look at

Re: Configuring LXC containers

2024-03-13 Thread Mike Wright
On 3/13/24 04:45, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2024-03-12 at 15:36 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: On 3/11/24 14:41, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 16:39 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'd like to play with LXC but I find the docs not very newbie- friendly. I'm trying

Re: Configuring LXC containers

2024-03-12 Thread Mike Wright
On 3/11/24 14:41, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 16:39 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'd like to play with LXC but I find the docs not very newbie- friendly. I'm trying to follow a guide at: https://brandonrozek.com/blog/lxc-fedora-38/ (basically because it mentions

Re: Configuring LXC containers

2024-03-11 Thread Mike Wright
On 3/11/24 14:41, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 16:39 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'd like to play with LXC but I find the docs not very newbie- friendly. I'm trying to follow a guide at: https://brandonrozek.com/blog/lxc-fedora-38/ (basically because it mentions

Re: Configuring LXC containers

2024-03-11 Thread Mike Wright
On 3/11/24 14:38, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2024-03-11 at 09:16 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: >> On 3/11/24 08:41, Mike Wright wrote: >>> On 3/11/24 04:33, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>>> On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 22:56 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: >>>&

Re: Configuring LXC containers

2024-03-11 Thread Mike Wright
On 3/11/24 08:41, Mike Wright wrote: On 3/11/24 04:33, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 22:56 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: On 3/10/24 15:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 11:13 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: The last two lines are key.  Add these flags: -F -o

Re: Configuring LXC containers

2024-03-11 Thread Mike Wright
On 3/11/24 04:33, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 22:56 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: On 3/10/24 15:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 11:13 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: The last two lines are key.  Add these flags: -F -o logfile.  The default loglevel is ERROR

Re: Configuring LXC containers

2024-03-10 Thread Mike Wright
On 3/10/24 15:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 11:13 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: The last two lines are key.  Add these flags: -F -o logfile.  The default loglevel is ERROR.  If you want more detail include -l LEVEL. e.g. lxc-start -n containerName -F -o containerName.log -l

Re: Configuring LXC containers

2024-03-10 Thread Mike Wright
On 3/10/24 15:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 11:13 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: The last two lines are key.  Add these flags: -F -o logfile.  The default loglevel is ERROR.  If you want more detail include -l LEVEL. e.g. lxc-start -n containerName -F -o containerName.log -l

Re: Configuring LXC containers

2024-03-10 Thread Mike Wright
On 3/10/24 09:39, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'd like to play with LXC but I find the docs not very newbie-friendly. I'm trying to follow a guide at: https://brandonrozek.com/blog/lxc-fedora-38/ (basically because it mentions Fedora). I followed the steps closely and rebooted, but I get the

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread Mike Wright
es. If the mailing list were to atrophy from lack of users it would become useless to me and I would fade away from the Fedora scene. Mike Wright -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists

Re: imminent /boot problem.

2024-02-22 Thread Mike Wright
On 2/22/24 10:21, home user wrote: (f-38; gnome) Good morning, While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the following pop-up at the top of the screen" -- Low Disk Space on"boot" The volume "boot" has only 20.9 MB disk space remaining. Examine   Ignore -- Seeing

Re: sudo problem on restore from archive

2023-12-30 Thread Mike Wright
On 12/30/23 20:48, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 12/30/23 18:18, Mike Wright wrote: On 12/30/23 15:13, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On a system restore from a tar archive sudo won't work. Says /usr/bin/sudo  needs to be owned by 0 with the suid bit set. Root owns the file and is 0

Re: sudo problem on restore from archive

2023-12-30 Thread Mike Wright
On 12/30/23 15:13, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On a system restore from a tar archive sudo won't work. Says /usr/bin/sudo  needs to be owned by 0 with the suid bit set. Root owns the file and is 0. Looking at a working system directory list shows   -rwsr-xr-x.  1 root root   57456

Re: F38 - ssh now having a password popup

2023-12-25 Thread Mike Wright
On 12/25/23 18:22, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I did a system upgrade last week and now the following is failing: $rsync -ah --stats -e "ssh -p 223 -4" /home/stuff/Daf/21-Bava_Kama/ inside.htt-consult.com:/media/WD3TB01/Archive/Videos/Daf14/21-Bava_Kama/ Permission denied, please try again.

Re: Location for python plugin to allow letsencrypt(certbot) automated access to GoDaddy DNS

2023-12-21 Thread Mike Wright
On 12/21/23 09:04, John W. Himpel wrote: All, I am a complete stranger to python. I am attempting to automate the certificate renewal process for several certificates obtained from Letsencrypt via certbot. My DNS is hosted at GoDaddy.com. I found several projects on github that provide

Re: chromium will not start

2023-11-24 Thread Mike Wright
On 11/24/23 14:43, Michael Hennebry wrote: I realize 127.0.0.1 is my computer, but I'm not clear on how 127.0.053 and 127.0.0.53#53 are used. All addresses from 127.0.0.0 to 127.255.255.255 are on your machine. They are called loopback addresses (because they loop back to you). Usually the

Re: FC39 Upgrade failure - Kernel not in grub

2023-11-11 Thread Mike Wright
On 11/11/23 19:48, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I did an upgrade today from from FC37 to FC39 and all went well except that the kernel is NOT in grub. All the apps are now FC39 but no option to boot with the FC39 kernel. I tried to reinstall the kernel to see if it would be picked up by grub

Re: Web page doesn't display (Trouble with javascript?)

2023-11-06 Thread Mike Wright
On 11/6/23 13:27, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Can anyone display this page: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2024Apr08Tgoogle.html The text claims the page contains a map of the April 2024 eclipse, but no such thing appears on the screen. No go here. Chrome, Firefox,

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-14 Thread Mike Wright
On 10/14/23 18:18, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/14/2023 02:35 PM, Montague Bestes via users wrote: The fact that the usb inserted prevents you from 'F*number*' (as in F12 or whatever) into your BIOS is the most peculiar thing I have heard. I don't know much about the engineering of these various

Re: Google Chrome Update Question

2023-10-10 Thread Mike Wright
On 10/10/23 15:38, Tim Evans wrote: Usually, dnf updates take care of updating Google Chrome.  Lately, for the past week or so, however, there's a big pink button in Chrome's status bar labeled "Update," but dnf insists I have the latest version (google-chrome-stable-115.0.5790.110-1.x86_64).

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-08 Thread Mike Wright
On 10/8/23 11:10, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 10:19?AM Michael Hennebry wrote: What is a livecd to hard disk type install? There is usually an install-to-hard-disk icon someplace on the livecd desktop. That is what I did,

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-07 Thread Mike Wright
On 10/7/23 11:23, Michael Hennebry wrote: As noted in another thread, I recently installed F38, retaining my /home partition. When I try to play a .avi file, Videos claims "Could not initialise OpenGL support". dnf was not a help. How do I get videos to work? Firefox is also unpleasantly

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Mike Wright
On 10/6/23 07:58, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/05/2023 09:15 PM, Tim via users wrote: It's a pity there isn't a hotkey for killing just the frontmost/topmost program.  ALT+F4 will close the top/front window, if they're obeying control, but I mean instantly

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 10/4/23 13:25, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/04/2023 02:16 PM, Go Canes wrote: - on the laptop, boot off of the USB drive.  If it gives you the expected menu, choose the option for verifying the media. If I could do that, I wouldn't be asking about a grub prompt, would I? Working from the grub

Re: Couple of Thunderbird pains

2023-10-03 Thread Mike Wright
On 10/3/23 09:33, Lester Petrie wrote: On 10/2/2023 8:01 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/2/23 16:32, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/2/23 14:13, Lester Petrie wrote: In my thunderbird, in settings/general the last group of entries is Indexing. The second entry is Message Store Type for new accounts:

Re: LiveUSB doesn't boot

2023-10-02 Thread Mike Wright
On 10/2/23 13:43, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/02/2023 03:17 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:   Di you checksum the iso? Also, try using a rocky/ubuntu .iso to see if the problem is in your USB drive or image. I downloaded a new copy and tried to verify it but was unable to because some of the options

Re: can't ping

2023-09-27 Thread Mike Wright
On 9/27/23 12:12, Doug Herr wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2023, at 11:46 AM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi everybody, I have no idea how I got in this mess, but I've lost the ability to use ping as a regular user. sudo still works. What do you get with: sysctl net.ipv4.ping_group_range For me: sysctl

can't ping

2023-09-27 Thread Mike Wright
Hi everybody, I have no idea how I got in this mess, but I've lost the ability to use ping as a regular user. sudo still works. Nothing in lsattr, regular perms are 755 no suid. ping: socktype: SOCK_RAW ping: socket: Operation not permitted ping: => missing cap_net_raw+p capability or

Re: Problem with mediawriter on old Fedora installation

2023-09-14 Thread Mike Wright
On 9/14/23 14:30, Joe Zeff wrote: For a number of different reasons, my desktop is still on F25, and my laptop's hard drive has failed.  I need to make a bootable USB drive, first to install F38 on my laptop's new drive and second to get my desktop current.  Alas, when I try to run

Re: unwanted login

2023-08-29 Thread Mike Wright
On 8/29/23 07:44, Beartooth wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:58:47 +, Richard wrote: Date: Monday, August 28, 2023 19:09:43 + From: Beartooth One of my F38 machines has taken to demanding that I login over and over. I want not to have to login at all. (I'm the sole user, and at

Re: Creating a bridge

2023-08-18 Thread Mike Wright
On 8/14/23 18:54, Alex wrote: Hi, I've just installed fedora38 over my previous fedora install but didn't save my network config that included a bridge to allow for local IPs for my virtual machines. Is there a network tool that I can use to create a bridge so I can then use the bridge option

Re: dnf install stuck

2023-08-17 Thread Mike Wright
On 8/15/23 20:34, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2023-08-15 at 22:02 +0100, Barry wrote: Better these days to replace ifconfig with: ip addr I'm not so sure I agree with that, there's some useful info provided by ifconf that ip addr doesn't supply. For example: RX packets

dnf install stuck

2023-08-14 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, 2 f38 hosts. 1 dnf install xxx works fine. Very fast. 2) spins forever: dnf.log shows Error during transfer: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for https://mirrors.fedo... Web searches show this to be common. It also showed the cures to "just wait", reboot, "try it again".

Re: recommended key pair encryption

2023-08-14 Thread Mike Wright
On 8/14/23 12:16, Todd Zullinger wrote: Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, I recall a discussion that may have said RSA was not being accepted in f38 and a different type was being preferred, possibly ecdsa? It's only old RSA1 keys which use SHA1 which are not accepted by default. RSA keys which

recommended key pair encryption

2023-08-14 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, I recall a discussion that may have said RSA was not being accepted in f38 and a different type was being preferred, possibly ecdsa? Can anybody point me to that? (date or subject would help me search) I generated an ECDSA pair. The public key seems awfully short. Thanks

Re: Firewalld - "forward:" in output?

2023-08-07 Thread Mike Wright
On 8/7/23 07:29, John Horne wrote: Hello, Would someone tell me to what the 'forward:' line in the 'firewall-cmd --list- all' output refers: services: dhcpv6-client mdns ssh ports: protocols: forward: no masquerade: no forward-ports: I have a server with this set to 'yes', so

Re: Starting LXDE from xinit -- :0 xterm window

2023-08-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 8/4/23 10:09, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Been having problems with f38 startup going to a blank screen with no response to the keyboard, mouse. Was using sddm as the display manager. Can get around it by by booting in terminal mode. Starting the graphical mode with xinit -- :0 and

Re: OT: sed or awk command to add a file extension

2023-07-28 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/28/23 05:31, olivares33561 via users wrote: Dear fellow Fedora users I have a file with entries \input{file1} \input{file2} ... \input{fileN} How can I add extension \input{file1.eps} \input{file2.eps} . \input{file3.eps} In case I need to add *jpg or *.png extension. I believe awk or

Re: OT: sed or awk command to add a file extension

2023-07-28 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/28/23 05:31, olivares33561 via users wrote: Dear fellow Fedora users I have a file with entries \input{file1} \input{file2} ... \input{fileN} How can I add extension \input{file1.eps} \input{file2.eps} . \input{file3.eps} In case I need to add *jpg or *.png extension. I believe awk or

Re: OT: sed or awk command to add a file extension

2023-07-28 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/28/23 05:31, olivares33561 via users wrote: Dear fellow Fedora users I have a file with entries \input{file1} \input{file2} ... \input{fileN} How can I add extension \input{file1.eps} \input{file2.eps} . \input{file3.eps} In case I need to add *jpg or *.png extension. I believe awk or

Re: console logging during shutdown.

2023-07-25 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/25/23 18:43, home user wrote: On 7/25/23 2:42 PM, Barry Scott wrote: I uninstall plymouth so that there is no splash screen on many of my systems so that I can see the console messages. Without plymouth systemd will show start up and shutdown messages on the console. I checked; dnf

Re: mariadb missing install file

2023-07-17 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/17/23 15:20, Jerry James wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:15 PM Mike Wright wrote: There is supposed to be a file that creates the db's system files, sets an admin and its password, etc. From mariadb-10.5.2 onward it's called "mariadb-install-db". That file is missing

mariadb missing install file

2023-07-17 Thread Mike Wright
ate method to initialize the mariadb? Thanks for any help, Mike Wright ___ 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/pr

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/9/23 18:09, Charlie Murff wrote: On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 8:54 PM Mike Wright wrote: On 7/9/23 17:07, Bill Cunningham wrote: I pinged 8.8.8.8 and the gateway of my router. "Network Unreachable" is the response. I can't find traceroute on my system which is unusual. What is

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/9/23 17:07, Bill Cunningham wrote: I pinged 8.8.8.8 and the gateway of my router. "Network Unreachable" is the response. I can't find traceroute on my system which is unusual. What is the exact output of the command "ip route list" ? ___ users

Re: xfce4 desktop problem

2023-07-06 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/5/23 22:04, Robert McBroom via users wrote: How could xfce4 be told to use Openbox? More specifically: http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:XFCE/Openbox ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: xfce4 desktop problem

2023-07-06 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/5/23 22:04, Robert McBroom via users wrote: How could xfce4 be told to use Openbox? http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: xfce4 desktop problem

2023-07-05 Thread Mike Wright
case is xfce4. Hope there is something there to help you out. Mike Wright ___ 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

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-20 Thread Mike Wright
On 6/20/23 17:46, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Mike Wright said: You want to use "sudo su" and use your personal password. There's no reason to "sudo su" (don't know why this gets recommended). In my case su is easier to type than -s. I don't have to take my

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-20 Thread Mike Wright
On 6/20/23 17:33, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I have uploaded the tar.gz file to my cloud VM and try to use the system and it will not let me have root privledges. I use 'su' and the system wants me to enter a password. IDK what the password is. IS there a way around this? You want to use

Re: firewalld question

2023-06-19 Thread Mike Wright
o try mucking around with any of firewalld's custom chains without knowing what I was doing I could definitely envision being bitten by the laws of unintended consequences which, as we all know, have very sharp teeth. Thanks for your post. It got me digging around in all sorts of unfamil

Re: firewalld question

2023-06-18 Thread Mike Wright
On 6/18/23 11:15, Amadeus WM via users wrote: Say I want to drop/reject outgoing connections to a particular destination address (for parental control). How would I do this with firewalld? How about bypassing firewalld and using iptables directly to add a rule to the kernel? iptables -A

Re: cannot remove disk if it has logical volumes

2023-06-03 Thread Mike Wright
On 6/3/23 21:02, Mike Wright wrote: On 6/3/23 19:42, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: I am on f38, but I had this problem before with f36. I attach an external USB disk that has CentOS. I see that beyond the basic device and partitions, three other devices /dev/dm-{0,1,2} show up. Without doing

Re: cannot remove disk if it has logical volumes

2023-06-03 Thread Mike Wright
to swap with swapon /dev/cl/swap. eject /dev/sdi -- you may now safely remove your device. Hope that explains everything clearly. Mike Wright ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le

Re: PS1 not in .bash_profile but somewhere else ?

2023-06-02 Thread Mike Wright
explains which files in which order and why: https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash.html#Bash-Startup-Files Hope that helps, Mike Wright ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-06-01 Thread Mike Wright
On 6/1/23 17:37, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2023-06-02 at 00:39 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: (a) The message says .. domain failed DCV (Domain Control Validation) … Even if the domain worked previously, it may be worthwhile to check the DNS entry. So far as I can tell, there's nothing wrong with

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/31/23 18:45, Tim via users wrote: Trying to find decent and affordable hosting in my country is an exercise in frustration. Trying to find one that's actually in my country is difficult (for Google to return my site to people as some kind of local service it needs to be at a local IP).

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/31/23 18:57, Mike Wright wrote: On 5/31/23 18:45, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 20:26 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: Did you really use example.com <http://example.com/>? That would Trying to find decent and affordable hosting in my country is an exercise in frustration. 

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Mike Wright
chever webserver you'd like. PTR record on request. Best $4 US / month I've ever spent. Mike Wright ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: /boot problem.

2023-05-21 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/21/23 20:02, home user wrote: On 5/18/23 4:21 PM, home user wrote: [... snip ...] There are two more /boot subdirectories I want to look at: /boot/grub2/i386-pc/ /boot/grub2/themes/starfield/ I did an "ls -lRt" on /boot/grub2/ and put the output (as a text file) onto the google drive

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-05-18 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/18/23 05:21, Dorian ROSSE wrote: Hello everybody and the team fedora, blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart so it has losen a lot of part and luckily locate works without type the button star finally thanks you in advance to

Re: exslt.org domain name expired

2023-05-11 Thread Mike Wright
) have expired. There is a man of many talents named Uche Ogbuji who is associated with LinkedIn and is part of the exslt management team. You might be able to contact him through there. I have no social media presence or I'd do it. Mike Wright

Re: DMARC and SPF and DKIM, oh, my!

2023-05-10 Thread Mike Wright
that was the action (not?) taken because I didn't want that email address out in the wild, i.e. on a public mailing list, so this is a big shoutout and thank you to the moderators. Mike Wright ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F38 - qr code reader?

2023-05-08 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/8/23 20:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Is there an app that will use my notebook's camera to read a qr code and put the content, maybe into the clipboard? Xfce app would be nice. CoBang is available as a FlatPak and QtQr is available from the RPM Sphere repo.

Re: More fun with SSL certificates

2023-05-03 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/2/23 05:31, Peter Boy wrote: Am 02.05.2023 um 12:23 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan : # httpd -S VirtualHost configuration: *:80 bree.org.uk (/etc/httpd/conf.d/bree.conf:1) *:443 is a NameVirtualHost default server bree.org.uk

Re: More space needed on the / filesystem to upgrade from F37 to F38

2023-04-30 Thread Mike Wright
needed on the / filesystem. Why does it need more than 4 gigabytes to upgrade from f37 to f38? That's just crazy. I'd look into that before I started trying to stretch partitions. Mike Wright ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

NetworkManager vs systemd-networkd

2023-04-25 Thread Mike Wright
or systemd-networkd with networkctl? Or are they going to co-exist? Enquiring minds... Thanks, Mike Wright ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct

Re: Certbot error - SOLVED (?)

2023-04-23 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/23/23 15:08, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan said: httpd: could not open error log file /var/www/bree.org.uk/error.log Putting the log under /var/www is very bad practice, as that could be remotely accessible now (and share all kinds of useful information

Re: Certbot error

2023-04-23 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/23/23 10:45, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2023-04-24 at 02:36 +0930, Tim via users wrote: If you browse to http://bree.org.uk/ and https://bree.org.uk/ do you get the same results? Internally, yes. If I try web browsing your site, I get the same "books" page to either address. 

Re: Certbot error

2023-04-22 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/22/23 14:17, Tim via users wrote: Nor should you really have to have a virtual host. I think it may be referring to the Apache directive ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Certbot error

2023-04-22 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/22/23 10:26, Todd Zullinger wrote: Mike Wright wrote: I've never seen the port number included as part of the ServerName directive. Try removing that and give it a go. FWIW, the documented syntax¹ for ServerName is: ServerName [scheme://]domain-name|ip-address[:port] That docs go

Re: Certbot error

2023-04-22 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/22/23 05:11, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'm trying to set up a simple web server for personal use, using Apache, and want to enable HTTPS access. This involves getting an SSL certificate and I'll be using LetsEncrypt (www.letsencrypt.org). The recommended way to do this is with Certbot,

Re: Certbot error

2023-04-22 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/22/23 05:11, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'm trying to set up a simple web server for personal use, using Apache, and want to enable HTTPS access. This involves getting an SSL certificate and I'll be using LetsEncrypt (www.letsencrypt.org). The recommended way to do this is with Certbot,

Re: GNOME interface is too bulky

2023-04-03 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/2/23 21:00, Ranbir wrote: On Fri, 2023-03-31 at 17:32 -0400, Roger Wells wrote: What part do you think is so big?  I find it's quite minimal. I think so as well. Interested to learn the concern I have a dual boot system with Windows 10 and Fedora 37. I don't boot into Windows nearly as

Re: Where is the magic SysReq key?

2023-04-01 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/1/23 10:10, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I have a Logitech MX series wireless keyboard, and no keys are labelled as SysRq or PrtScr. Is there a way to configure a different sequence for the magic SysRq function? The man pages are not helpful. Hi Patrick, I've seen several things say the

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