Stop GDM showing notifications?

2020-12-03 Thread Tom Horsley
Can I run dconf-editor for a different user? (user gdm), or find some other magical way to disable the notifications that pop up while logging in? In particular there is a persistently annoying notification that my mouse battery is low. I'm fairly certain it is really the keyboard battery it is

Re: Inhibiting device startup at boot

2020-12-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 13:33:22 -0700 Chris Murphy wrote: > Yep. For sure the kernel is what's responsible for reading the > partition table. And that alone would cause a spin up. e.g. But why would it need to scan when it is shutting down the system (which is my case :-). I swear it didn't use to

Re: Where's the best place to discuss Cura issues?

2020-12-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 14:34:17 -0500 Fulko Hew wrote: > Any suggestions? Start it from a terminal and see if anything shows up on stderr. When I run it I get thousands of lines of output (but I apparently did the initial setup long ago and forgot about it because it already knows I have a

Re: Inhibiting device startup at boot

2020-12-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 14:52:21 +0100 Roberto Ragusa wrote: > How do you power them down? I don't know about the original poster, but my "noauto" disks timeout and power down all by themselves, then even when they aren't mounted at all, every time I reboot, the reboot hangs while it spins up the

Re: Fedora-33 No Sound

2020-11-24 Thread Tom Horsley
Every time I install a new fedora, I think I lost sound because the new feddora always picks the motherboard audio output as the default, and I always listen via the TV speakers over HDMI. I always run: gnome-control-center sound to change the default output to HDMI. It apparently does

Re: HTML/PDF -

2020-11-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:37:06 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > What is the best way to convert an HTML file to PDF. Print it to a pdf? (Install cups-pdf if required). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Post F32->F33 upgrade rsync w ssh fails

2020-11-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:14:23 -0500 (EST) Max Pyziur wrote: > Any suggestions on how to resolve this? I f33 install had to fiddle my ~/.ssh/config file to allow "deprecated" key types for my hostgator web page I update with rsync (hostgator is running an old ssh server version) I added these

Re: Unable to start any VMs : Domain requires KVM, but it is not available.

2020-11-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 23:03:56 +0530 Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > I haven't changed any BIOS settings although I did update my BIOS. I would suspect the BIOS update decided to reset the virt flag. I'd go through the BIOS settings and see if it is now disabled (I've never understood why so many

Re: Grub2 Boot Menu Hidden in Fedora 33

2020-11-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 16:00:38 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > In Fedora 33 is the only way to get the menu to permanently display to > edit /etc/grub.d/12_menu_auto_hide and change the timeout_style and > timeout settings within the else condition for the fastboot check? I > currently have the

Re: systemd-resolved breakage

2020-11-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 11:56:01 +0100 Tom H wrote: > > Yes, system is being shoved down your gullet, whether you like it > > or not. > > Whichever distribution you use, you're at the mercy of its developers. > In this particular case, the developer responsible for the change > didn't care about

Re: systemd-resolved breakage

2020-11-13 Thread Tom Horsley
(Relatively) simple fix: systemctl stop systemd-resolvd systemctl disable systemd-resolvd Edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf And in the [main] section stick this: [main] dns=none Now rm -f /etc/resolv.conf Now create your own /etc/resolv.conf file from scratch with the nameserver

Re: Not setting net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter (explicit setting exists)...

2020-11-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:08:55 -0500 Neal Becker wrote: > Should I care? I've been getting those for a while and ignoring them. I figure if something stops working right, I might remember that I saw them and investigate :-). Nothing has stopped working yet.

Re: coredump problems

2020-11-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 08:54:22 -0500 Neal Becker wrote: > Any ideas? A standard fedora install these days does all sorts of stuff to intercept core files (which is an incredible pain in the butt when you want to get an actual core file for debugging). Check the contents of

Oh God! More helpful software :-).

2020-11-06 Thread Tom Horsley
For as long as I can remember I've run dnf update in a root xterm and when all the akmod activity and wot-not is finished, I've run reboot from another terminal. Now, it won't reboot "because root is logged in". Gah! Who cares if root is logged in? Can I disable this helpful feature any way?

Re: Migration strategy to F33 w/ btrfs?

2020-11-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 09:02:06 -0600 Richard Shaw wrote: > 2. Perform a clean install to it You don't necessarily need a clean install. You can partition and format the new ssd then just rsync everything to it and use grub2-install to make it bootable and edit all the grub.conf, grub env files,

tool to backup/restore just ACLs, xattrs, selinux context, etc?

2020-11-05 Thread Tom Horsley
I've been setting up a NAS running TrueNAS, and after getting media serving sorted out, I'm now looking at using it to backup files from my fedora desktop. Trouble is, the TrueNAS ZFS filesystem don't know 'nuthin about all the "weird" extra file attributes (as near as I can tell, anyway). Is

Re: Network problem

2020-11-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 15:16:02 +0100 Scott van Looy via users wrote: > It’s super frustrating. Does anyone have any ideas why this might happen or > what could be causing it or any suggestions for what I can investigate? I have absolutely no idea if this is the problem, but I know when I setup an

Re: F33: can' t install akmod-nvidia

2020-11-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 13:11:24 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Any ideas? I always get the keys installed automagically when I install the rpmfusion repo packages. Did you get the repo defined that way, or did you just copy the /etc/yum.repos.d/ files from another system? The keys show up in the

Re: f33 reboot didn't?

2020-11-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 17:40:15 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > Could be. I'll try it without the final reboot command and see > what happens. The script is unchanged from earlier versions > of fedora where it was the only way to reboot without incessant > "a stop job is running"

Re: f33 reboot didn't?

2020-11-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 16:20:56 -0600 Roger Heflin wrote: > Generally if a reboot script someone wrote acts like that it means > that some part of it killed something that immediately caused the > logout prior to the reboot command happening. Could be. I'll try it without the final reboot command

Re: f33 reboot didn't?

2020-11-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 05:46:05 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Should we assume that checking the journal didn't find anything? Nothing that looked meaningful to me, anyway :-). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: New parallel port card won't work

2020-11-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 18:16:08 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Ok, so nothing there.  Any luck with the driver? > > I will have to wait till tomorrow. So if you can build a working kernel, obviously the thing to do is make a virtual machine running that kernel and use pci passthrough to

f33 reboot didn't?

2020-11-03 Thread Tom Horsley
I just ran my normal reboot script which just kills off some things systemd has problems killing sometimes then does a reboot. Instead of rebooting, it acted like a logout. I logged back in again, and uptime said 3 days. I rebooted again, and it really did reboot the 2nd time. What the heck

Re: Deprecating SCP

2020-11-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 15:44:39 +0100 Jakub Jelen wrote: > Do you have something against this? I use the scp command all the time, if the command is still there I don't care if it does something different under the hood. I suppose I could always use rsync instead of the command disappeared.

FYI: f33 crypto change ramifications

2020-11-03 Thread Tom Horsley
I don't recall seeing this mentioned here, and since I just spent all morning discovering it, I thought I'd let people know. The default crypto policy changed once again in fedora 33, which I didn't notice till I started trying to use rsync to update my web pages on hostgator (which, by default,

Re: new hardware?

2020-10-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 02:20:26 -0700 Todd Chester via users wrote: > Just a refresher. If I add a new piece of presumably supported > hardware to my computer, do I need to run some kind of scan > to add it to the fray? Or does a reboot take care of that? Reboot will notice, but if it is hardware

logout problems?

2020-10-29 Thread Tom Horsley
Just noticed this fedora 33 problem: With rpmfusion nvidia drivers installed, running a GNOME on Xorg session with sddm as my login manager. (What part of this is relevant, I don't know :-). If I choose "logout" from the menu in the top right, I get the logout dialog, click on logout now, then

Re: Fedora 33, worst bug ever :-).

2020-10-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:42:51 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 27/10/2020 21:15, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Installing fedora 33 virtual machine from workstation live image. > > What type of VM? QEMU KVM using virt-manager > > > The little spinning circle on the left of

Fedora 33, worst bug ever :-).

2020-10-27 Thread Tom Horsley
Installing fedora 33 virtual machine from workstation live image. The little spinning circle on the left of the progress text never spun :-). The text would change indicating progress, but no spinning. ___ users mailing list --

Re: systemd-resolved switching DNS servers

2020-10-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 20:30:31 - Tom Seewald wrote: > Yeah I'm not very happy that systemd-resolved seemingly does this silently > and that I have to just restart the service for it to try again. You could just disable that service, then systemd wouldn't try to cache dns. There are about a

Re: X Org Server is abandonware

2020-10-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:42:09 +0200 Matti Pulkkinen wrote: > Sad if true. Nah, look at it this way: If it is abandoned, it won't be getting scads of gratuitous changes for no reason like everything else in linux gets all the time :-). The last time I checked, I couldn't do things like map

Re: Add repo?

2020-10-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:40:08 - (UTC) Beartooth wrote: > I've just discovered that dnf on one of my machines (a Thinkpad, > but I've forgotten where it keeps its model number) is lacking rpmfusion; > and I can't seem to figure out how to add it. How do I do it? Follow the instructions

brasero versus k3b?

2020-10-24 Thread Tom Horsley
I needed to write an iso image to a DVD-R. I run brasero and it claims there is no drive on the system. I run k3b in the same login session, and it works fine. Does brasero only work if I'm running a full gnome session with the 10,487 gnome daemons in the background? (I'm running a custom fvwm

Re: Install Fedora -

2020-10-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On this topic (probably too late to do any good), I use the technique here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive And make a USB stick that can boot any one of a collection of iso images off the USB stick. I got the last few versions of ubuntu and fedora, memtest, and

Re: Install Fedora -

2020-10-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:01:56 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > Why would you say something like that about NFS? NFS is a network > filesystem that has been used since before Linux even existed. I can't > think of any common protocol where transferring a file over the network > could affect the

Re: Logout cancelled by program

2020-10-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:25:20 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > If I'm running qBittorrent and try to log out with Ctrl-Alt-Del, or by > using the DE's menu, I get this message. I'd immediately switch to a new torrent program. That doesn't even make sense if it is doing something, torrents are

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:11:27 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > as is happening with sylpheed Didn't sylpheed transform into claws-mail? Claws-mail seems to get regular updates. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:36:02 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > Ok, but my other point was that mail clients like Thunderbird can be > configured to download all the emails, so they are available locally and > offline. I use fetchmail to download all my mail locally, where I store it in my own dovecot

Re: Slow down problem

2020-10-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 15:50:31 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > That's a very strange crash. But if you can't remove that module, then > you have a serious problem. See what happens with the new card. Or maybe get one of the little adapters a few people sell to turn a parallel port printer into a

Re: Bluetooth adapter not working on Fedora 32

2020-10-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 18:08:27 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > Any help would be greatly appreciated! Is there a on/off button in the top corner on the screen where it says "no adapter found"? Try turning it on (even though you think that must be utterly pointless since it can't find the adapter :-).

Re: What happened to 'env'?

2020-10-07 Thread Tom Horsley
Most of the ridiculous environment embedded functions come from the "environment-modules" package, which seems to have reached its claws into all kinds of stuff. If I try to remove it, I get this list: Dependencies resolved.

Re: What happened to 'env'?

2020-10-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 06 Oct 2020 22:35:05 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > For as long as I can remember, the shell builtin 'env' has been useful > for listing all the current environment variables. I don't have a shell built in "env" in bash: zooty> type env env is hashed (/usr/bin/env)

Re: Entropy

2020-10-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 17:28:24 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: > Is this something to be concerned about? Doesn't matter if you are concerned, there isn't anything you can do about it unless you can get an add-on hardware random number generator that linux supports (a lot of laptops are coming with

Re: Any Emacs Users?

2020-10-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:40:06 +0200 Lasse Kliemann wrote: > a) Is 'use-package' available for Fedora from a trustworthy source? (I avoid > Emacs' own package management, since the last time I checked, it was a > security nightmare.) I never heard of use-package. I use emacs constantly on fedora

What was that?

2020-10-01 Thread Tom Horsley
Just did a dnf update which (among other things) got the new kernel 5.8.12-200.fc32.x86_64. Rebooted after installing everything (and letting akmods finish building and installing). Got a totally black screen with a mouse cursor in the middle that wouldn't move. After staring at it for a bit, I

Re: VM tool for Fedora 32

2020-09-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:27:23 -0600 S Bob wrote: > Does KVM run on fedora > 32? Can I install a windows VM with KVM? The kvm and virt manager tools work fine on fedora right from the repos. I have a Windows 10 kvm running for stuff I have to run on windows. The only problem (which isn't a

Re: DNS lookup bypassing the system settings

2020-09-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:29:33 -0700 stan via users wrote: > There is currently a large thread in devel discussing the > implementation of systemd-resolved for resolving DNS. I hope I'll still be able to disable and mask systemd-resolved by the time they finish all their improvements.

Re: Newbie question about Qt apps in Fedora 33, 34, etc.

2020-09-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:21:43 -0500 David wrote: > Are Qt5 apps lighter ? snappier ? or easier to code than the gtk 3 > counterparts ? I believe KDE apps are mostly Qt (or a Qt variant with KDE bits wedged in). I certainly find it easier to code Qt than gtk. The gtk apps I've debugged from time

Re: vncserver program disappered on FC32??

2020-09-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:54:55 -0400 Ben Cotton wrote: > You can see the new instructions in the > HOWTO.md file in the package repo More frigging systemd fungus engulfing the world, huh? Soon there will be no commands left in linux other than systemctl. Sheesh!

Re: vncserver program disappered on FC32??

2020-09-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:53:01 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > No idea what that is about. Found a man page saying x0vncserver is only for sharing the physical X display, since the only times I ever use vncserver is to create a separate instance of an X display not associated with a physical disp

Re: vncserver program disappered on FC32??

2020-09-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 06:36:29 +1000 Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > Have two machines running Fedora 32, and just noticed with the latest > update of tigervnc-server the vncserver is GONE? I don't use vncserver very often, but I just did an update and I see no /usr/bin/vncserver, but

Re: Just for fun

2020-09-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 00:28:54 -0500 David wrote: > I am trying to create a bootable USB drive for Fedora 33 or Rawhide, I have successfully used the instructions here to create a handy bootable USB with several iso images on it and grub can boot the isos, so I can boot lots of different things

Re: wifi not found

2020-09-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 20:15:15 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > known wifi networks (which is populated) It has to have working wifi if it can see networks. Click on the one you want and it should try to connect. ___ users mailing list --

Re: wifi not found

2020-09-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 19:26:03 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > How can restart the service? I guess "systemctl start systemd-networkd" but that doesn't explain why it isn't running. maybe you also need a "systemctl enable systemd-networkd" ___ users mailing

Re: wifi not found

2020-09-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 18:08:24 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > Any Idea? Is this the gnome control panel wifi page? If so, try turning wifi on, suddenly it will miraculously find the adapter. I don't know who designed the messages, but it is insanely confusing.

Re: Fn key -

2020-09-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 14:21:21 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > Does anyone know how to produce "Fn" from a standard desktop keyboard? Odds are good that is a special modifier key that only means something to the innards of the dell laptop. You could try running xev on the dell and see if fn+f8 shows up

Re: Update to F32 remotely

2020-08-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 10:00:13 -0400 Neal Becker wrote: > Thoughts? I'd wait a year or two. That's what I'm doing with my system at work I use remotely. I've had systemd's dhcp client fail to get an IP addr on a reboot, so I'm no longer even rebooting or applying updates.

Re: anyone using pulseaudio on F32??

2020-08-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:37:15 -0700 Jack Craig wrote: > now i got it working, i wonder if anyone else out there is using PA ?? I've never known there was a way to avoid it. That's why I'm using it. Every once in a while, for no apparent reason, it will decide my default audio shouldn't be HDMI

Re: ssh reverse tunnel as a service?

2020-08-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:22:43 -0400 Alex Regan wrote: > Hi, I have a fedora32 system behind a firewall without any access from > the outside. I'd like to build a reverse ssh tunnel so I can get to it > from my remote location while working remotely. I do this, but I don't run it as a service, I

Re: Calibre and Python

2020-08-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 11:42:20 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I'm running it in an F31 VM to get round this Yep, me too. Seemed simplest. I use the VM only when I need a plugin, for normal use I run the python3 version on f32. ___ users mailing list

Re: possibly OT: emacs update on Fedora does not like my default font

2020-08-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:28:15 -0600 Jerry James wrote: > ** set-default-font has been renamed to set-frame-font My emacs claims set-default-font is an alias defined in frame.el (for set-frame-font). And the way to make a font be the default in all frames seems to be modifying the

Re: possibly OT: emacs update on Fedora does not like my default font

2020-08-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:13:53 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Symbol's function definition is void: set-default-font That says there is no such function as set-default-font (which is strange because my emacs on fedora 32 certainly has that function defined).

Re: kernel-5.7.17 NFS client can't "see" all directories/files

2020-08-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 12:11:54 -0500 Anthony Joseph Messina wrote: > Has anyone else see this? I haven't seen that specific combination. I have seen a possibly stranger thing: There is a virtual machine at work where a test we run does a "cp /nfs/mounted/dir/* ." and one file from /nfs/mounted/dir

Re: Mouse right-click works intermittently

2020-08-23 Thread Tom Horsley
Earlier in this thread someone said they used a usb 2 hub to get their wireless dongles away from the usb 3 ports. I dug up an old hub I had and gave it a try. I can't for sure say it worked, because I don't have a long enough trial period yet, but I haven't noticed any mouse clicks go missing

Re: Anyone know how to get around a java script on this web page?

2020-08-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 21:54:27 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > however the google search did turn up lots of articles > pointing to other text mode browsers that do support javascript. elinks is in the fedora repos and can apparently be badgered into supporting javascript (never tried it

Re: Anyone know how to get around a java script on this web page?

2020-08-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:42:57 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Any of you guys have a cleaver way to cli extract the revision? I'd say lynx, but apparently lynx doesn't support javascript, however the google search did turn up lots of articles pointing to other text mode browsers that do

Re: Mouse right-click works intermittently

2020-08-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 19:49:39 +0700 Frederic Muller wrote: > I actually have had the same issue using GNOME for quite some times, > even changed my mouse thinking it was the culprit. So yes maybe it's a > generic issue? I recently switched to a wireless mouse and sometimes see this. I never saw

Re: why driftfile is not on Fedora 32 ?

2020-08-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 12:30:18 +0300 Cătălin George Feștilă wrote: > The chronyd working > [root@desk mythcat]# systemctl status chronyd > ● chronyd.service - NTP client/server > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/chronyd.service; enabled; > I don't find the driftfile command , why ? >

Maybe the cable is bad?

2020-08-14 Thread Tom Horsley
I was getting an infinite number of "Maybe the cable is bad" errors in dmesg about a usb port. It insisted on referring to "usb2-port5" when everything else in linux talks about things like :00:14.0 or lsusb says things like Bus 001 Device 004. Is there some reference somewhere on the

Re: Fedora rescue

2020-08-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 15:15:39 -0700 Geoffrey Leach wrote: > But what if the problem was with the root? LiveCD has that one mounted > and in use. I don't see any root mounted when I boot a live cd image. I suppose it mounts it when you are installing, but if you are just running the live image,

Re: NVME drive is not detected

2020-08-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:16:26 + Alex Gurenko via users wrote: > Do you have any pointers or ideas what could it be and how to fix it? I can say that the fedora 32 live image had no problem installing on my new desktop system which only has NVME storage, so there isn't a general problem with

Re: udev change?

2020-08-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 08:46:07 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > It gets weirder. I find the only thing that won't start > is RepetierHost, if I run something like xeyes from the > script, it pops up on the screen just fine. Well, I finally gave up trying to understand. Now my udev script touch

Re: udev change?

2020-08-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 20:59:04 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > Did something change in udev to make it impossible to start > X11 programs now? It gets weirder. I find the only thing that won't start is RepetierHost, if I run something like xeyes from the script, it pops up on the screen jus

udev change?

2020-08-07 Thread Tom Horsley
I've got udev scripts that were working until I installed an update today. Way down at the end of a chain of scripts udev starts, it sets DISPLAY and runs a program (RepetierHost) when I plug in my 3d printer USB cable. Did something change in udev to make it impossible to start X11 programs now?

Re: Fedora Zoom? -

2020-08-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 11:51:47 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > Is there a Linux equivalent application I can > run from my desktop workstation? Microsoft Teams works on linux (after a fashion - you have to kill -9 it to make it go away instead of running forever in the background). The zoom help

gnome control center wifi madness

2020-07-26 Thread Tom Horsley
If I bring up the gnome control center wifi page, it always says "no adapter detected". If I turn on wifi, it shows me a list of SSIDs to connect to, and I can connect. If there is no adapter detected, what am I talking to? :-). ___ users mailing list

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

2020-07-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:15:51 +0530 Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > Okay guys how do I uninstall a kernel ? First you have to boot into an older kernel. Then you might want to look for all rpms with 5.7.10-201 in the name and remove them all since they broke kernels up into multiple packages for some

Re: DNF, Rpmfusion -

2020-07-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 11:01:04 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I guess this means > rpmfusion is running behind, or does it imply something else? I update > first thing each morning and such an explanation seems unusual: I usually just give things a few days to get back in sync. Tends to happen

Re: More portal nonsense?

2020-07-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 09:10:10 -0400 Jonathan Billings wrote: > I was under the impression that the xdg-document-portal only launched > via dbus when running a graphical session. Are you logging into a > graphical session as root? Absolutely not. Never have. I occasionally use ssh to run emacs

Re: More portal nonsense?

2020-07-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 07:59:33 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > More nonsense from portal and flatpak being dragged in? I think I've hit it with a big enough hammer: systemctl --global mask ... I've now got all these masked: zooty> systemctl --user list-unit-files | fgrep masked flatp

More portal nonsense?

2020-07-21 Thread Tom Horsley
Imagine my surprise to find this in my daily logwatch: df: /root/.cache/doc: Operation not permitted So I check it out: [root@zooty ~]# mount | fgrep doc portal on /root/.cache/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0) More nonsense from portal and flatpak being

Re: fedora 3d printing?

2020-07-16 Thread Tom Horsley
I may try to switch to cura, but it turns out that RepetierHost (even though it isn't in the repos) still accepts the definition of my old solidoodle2 printer laying around in the mono repos all this time, so I was able to use RepetierHost right away, and printed this masterpiece last night:

fedora 3d printing?

2020-07-15 Thread Tom Horsley
What do folks use these days for 3d printing from fedora? I can download RepetierHost and it seems to function (at least it brings up a GUI screen, haven't tried a print yet). Any better options out there? (I notice the initial burst of enthusiasm seems to have died down with no recent updates

Re: whereis 'Users Settings Tool'

2020-07-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:14:46 -0700 Geoffrey Leach wrote: > The doc for Fedora 32 makes reference to a 'Users Settings Tool' > accessible (secretly) from the Settings tool. It does not appear to be > available. Any idea why? Or where there might be a similar GUI? I gave up on the GUI after they

Re: ssh: Permission denied

2020-07-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:29:29 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > > The user account that was created with Anaconda permits ssh login. The > > problem account is using a directory that was leftover from the Fedora > > 30 install. Another possibility is that you have selinux enabled and the leftover

Re: ssh: Permission denied

2020-07-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:33:35 -0700 Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Suggestions would be appreciated. I believe the default sshd_config in fedora 32 has been changed to say "PermitRootLogin: prohibit-password", so you can only get it with public keys. If you change it to "yes" and restart sshd, it will

Re: newbie Bluetooth questions

2020-07-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 18:32:27 -0500 David wrote: > > I will look in my BIOS to see if Bluetooth is enabled Another factor: Older motherboards may not support bluetooth 4.0, and new bluetooth devices often only talk 4.0 (because of power considerations).

Re: Qt_5_PRIVATE_API?

2020-07-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 15:59:31 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > They are trying to support both REHL and Fedora. > I think they forgot to test it on Fedora The software I work on at work uses Qt and runs on a truly insane number of distro releases, but one of the things we do is ship our own

Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file

2020-07-05 Thread Tom Horsley
> Maybe that file can't be booted from usb. Are there any instructions > from Microsoft about how to do it? I know I have done it a couple of > times in the past. I have seen claims that yumi can boot a windows iso from a usb stick, but have no personal experience with it.

Re: I need help with sudo.conf

2020-06-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 12:16:20 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > $ /usr/libexec/nm-ifdown eno2 You have to run "sudo /usr/libexec/nm-ifdown" ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Every second GDM login fails

2020-06-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 01:41:28 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > I always hit a neutral key, like the shift key, to wake up a blanked > screen. I definitely noticed that anything you type to wake up the lock screen is passed to the password entry field. So it you hit "space" (which is what I'm used to

Re: nfs mount problem -

2020-06-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:52:55 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > [root@localhost bobg]# systemctl restart nfs > Failed to restart nfs.service: Unit nfs.service not found. systemctl list-unit-files | fgrep nfs probably shows the name you want. "nfs-server" is probably the right name (some other distro

Re: nfs mount problem -

2020-06-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:38:41 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I think there is a command to run after making > a change but I forget that one, do you know of it? I think "systemctl restart nfs" does all that is required (unless the name isn't plain "nfs", but I bet it will have nfs as part of the

Re: nfs mount problem -

2020-06-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:59:17 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > Export list for nfs: > /nfs4exports/home 192.168.2.0/24 Chek the /etc/exports file, it may have the .2 hard coded from the previous setup. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

What the heck does this mean?

2020-06-18 Thread Tom Horsley
tchmail job runs every minute. Does this happen when the previous fetchmail cron job hasn't finished yet? It would sure be helpful if someone mentioned what file it is that already exists :-). -- Tom Horsley Delray Beach, FL Cell: 561-414-9667 ___ users

Re: keeping debuginfo in sync?

2020-06-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:57:46 -0600 Jerry James wrote: > Edit /etc/dnf/plugins/debuginfo-install.conf and set "autoupdate=1". > Then dnf will check for updates automatically. That looks like it. Thanks! ___ users mailing list --

keeping debuginfo in sync?

2020-06-11 Thread Tom Horsley
Is there a trivial way to insure debuginfo files I have installed stay in sync with the libraries when they get updated? I manually updated all my debuginfo packages, then found I also needed to update debugsource packages. ___ users mailing list --

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: 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

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Tom Horsley
I keep asking for people to point me to the huge list of exploits that certainly must exist given all the horrors expressed about running as root. No one has ever been able to tell me where to find it. ___ users mailing list --

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