Re: NetworkManager and PEERDNS=no

2020-02-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 17:53:59 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > > # nmcli con mod net-eth0 ipv4.ignore-auto-dns yes > > Sounds like what I want, I've just resurrected an old > system and installed f31 so I can try experimenting > with network manager. I'll see how it goes.

Re: NetworkManager and PEERDNS=no

2020-02-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 06:47:42 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > # nmcli con mod net-eth0 ipv4.ignore-auto-dns yes Sounds like what I want, I've just resurrected an old system and installed f31 so I can try experimenting with network manager. I'll see how it goes. Thanks.

NetworkManager and PEERDNS=no

2020-02-16 Thread Tom Horsley
I keep seeing signs that "network" will someday disappear entirely and I'll be forced to use NetworkManager, so the first question I haven't been able to find an answer for: What is the "proper" way to setup a network connection using nmcli which will get an IP via DHCP, but will ignore the DHCP

systemd-tty-ask-password-agent?

2020-02-16 Thread Tom Horsley
An infection seems to be spreading in systemd. First I saw dhcpd taking forever to shut down: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768604 Now I just saw the exact same thing with the apache httpd service. I found the systemctl --no-ask-password option, so I tried it, now it no longer

Re: Unnecessary hard drive spin-ups

2020-02-12 Thread Tom Horsley
The most irritating spin-up for me occurs on a reboot. I have a really slow USB drive that isn't even mounted, just plugged in (in case I want to mount it). The reboot always hangs for several seconds, and I can hear the drive spin up before the reboot proceeds.

Re: FC31: NM won't activate interface : "strictly unmanaged"

2020-01-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:17:23 -0500 sean darcy wrote: > Any help really appreciated. Install network-scripts, make a ifcfg file with NM_CONTROLLED=no, enable the "network" service, and get NetworkManager completely out of the picture. That's what I've been doing for years every time

Re: First ~500ms of audio gets dropped

2020-01-13 Thread Tom Horsley
When I run "test speakers" from gnome-control-center "sound", I often get "eft channel" instead of "left channel" the first time I click the "left" button. It is always better after that first time. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: firefox-72.0.1-1.fc31.x86_64 does nothing

2020-01-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 15:42:02 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Is anyone also having problems with this update. No problem here with firefox-72.0.1-1.fc31.x86_64 I just went to cnn.com and it displayed stuff normally (I don't usually use firefox, so this is probably the first time I months I've run

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 17:59:15 -0700 linux guy wrote: > rsync over the > network while running the new computer off a USB drive ? Rsync works OK, but you need to run both systems off a live USB so the real disks aren't being touched while being copied. Then you'll need to chroot into the new

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 12:51:27 -0700 linux guy wrote: > Rsync everything ? *Everything* ? Would that work ? I install new releases of fedora by installing in a virtual machine, then rsyncing that to a real partition and editing fstab, grub.cfg, and the grub environment file to change all the

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 11:35:19 -0700 linux guy wrote: > I don't want to start over building > my workstation installation from a fresh install. Probably worth taking this with a large grain of salt, but I'd consider doing a minimal new fedora install on the new box, then rsync old fedora over the

Re: Strange that no Fedora 30 updates since Dec 24?

2020-01-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 14:42:55 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Seems strange after the Kernel of the week updates that there have been > no updates for Fedora 30. > > Perhaps everyone is on holiday?   :) Fedora 31 too. I've been assuming holidays. I wasn't going to get worried till next week

Re: Did I kill it?

2019-12-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 07:34:48 -0700 John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > Well, we're talking about nvidia here, not nouveau.. It's not tested on > Fedora, and not supported to begin with. Yep. I always use nouveau after installing a new fedora release for the 2 or 3 hours it takes for it to freeze up and

Re: Did I kill it?

2019-12-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:58:03 + John Pilkington wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1784839 ? > > Reported to be fixed in kernel-5.4.5-300.fc31.x86_64; 5.3.15 still > works for me in fc30. By golly, that's it sure enough. Booted 5.3.15-300, and HDMI audio is flawless.

Did I kill it?

2019-12-28 Thread Tom Horsley
Moved my GeForce GTX 960 from my old computer to my new one, installed akmod-nvidia, but when I try to play HDMI audio through it, I get left channel only, and the audio from it is more static than the sound it is supposed to play. Did I zap something on the video card? It worked fine in the old

Re: Upgraded F31 system still believes it is living in the past, on F30!

2019-12-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:12:43 -0600 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Amusing, but how do I get this system to not believe that it is living in the > past? > > This is my fourth upgraded system, three today, but this is the one with the > issues. I suppose you could copy the updated repo files from one

Re: Fedora 31: network bridge does not get an IP address

2019-12-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 16:47:20 -0800 Patrick Mansfield wrote: > or just use enp6s1 and > enp4s0 for the bridge and not bother renaming them Resistance is futile :-). I turn off all the renaming junk on systems with just one interface so I can continue to get eth0, but I gave up on systems with

Re: windows 10 virtual machine sound?

2019-12-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 25 Dec 2019 09:18:32 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > A trivial workaround that I always use is that I start Windows 10 from the > Virt-Manager, wait a bit, > then open the display.  I've done this to avoid the frustration of trying to > fix this trivial issue.  :-) I just found the sound

windows 10 virtual machine sound?

2019-12-24 Thread Tom Horsley
This trivial issue has bugged me since I first ran a windows VM: When windows starts up and plays the silly startup sound. it sounds absolutely dreadful like it is being clipped and bursts of static introduced at random times. Is there any way to get more reliable audio while windows is busy

Re: character display quality difference between users.

2019-12-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 09:48:45 -0700 home user wrote: > What's my next step? Probably the fontforge directory doesn't matter (just guessing), but maybe the fonts.conf file in the cn.user is screwing something up? You could try renaming it, then logging back in and see if the fonts get better.

Re: character display quality difference between users.

2019-12-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 22:31:53 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > I'm guessing that you've somehow got a different font in the one > account. Check any ~/.config/*font* directories for different contents. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Multi-user mode -

2019-12-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 07:21:18 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > What is the command to changer to "run level 3" as the default? The safest way is with the systemctl "set-default" command, which will prevent you from making stupid typos and creating the symlinks incorrectly and breaking your system :-).

virt-fs coming soon?

2019-12-14 Thread Tom Horsley
I was reading all the reasons virt-fs is the superior way for virtual guests to share filesystems with the host. Then after all the hype I discovered it apparently wasn't in any released kernels or tools yet :-). Is it likely to appear in the fedora 32 or 33 time frame? Will there be GUI support

Re: Strange output whenever "sh -xv" is used on FC31 x86_64 (rawhide)

2019-12-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 23:40:29 + (UTC) George R Goffe via users wrote: > I have been seeing the enclosed lines PLUS a lot more (several pages worth). > Can anyone tell me which package they come from and/or how to eliminate them > please? That nonsense is defined in the

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:59:04 -0500 sean darcy wrote: > /etc/sysconfig/desktop was empty. Or maybe the problem is that it existed. I have no such file on my system and X is working fine. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread Tom Horsley
You could try telling lightdm to start a dumb failsafe session where it just starts xterm and nothing else. If that works then X is working and the problem is with xfce. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: 2 mice: different settings. impossible.

2019-12-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:36:58 - mario futire wrote: > Is it such an exotic think to ask? Apparently it is too much to ask wayland. If you run straight X11, you can do it no problem with xinput. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: weird delay in some apps after moving to new computer

2019-12-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 12:40:50 -0700 stan via users wrote: > The fact that the delay is exactly 30 seconds supports this, as that > sounds like a timeout value that is set. It is definitely a timeout. An strace showed it sitting in a poll() and timing out talking to someone somewhere possibly on

Re: weird delay in some apps after moving to new computer

2019-12-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 14:25:30 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > If I use virt-manager to tell it to emulate IvyBridge > instead of native cpu, there is no hang! And I've now submitted this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1780965 ___

Re: weird delay in some apps after moving to new computer

2019-12-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 08 Dec 2019 19:12:02 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Maybe do an 'strace' on the process. I've done that, but nothing obvious is going on. However I now have a definite clue: In my fedora 31 virtual machine, the hang happens the same way. If I use virt-manager to tell it to emulate

Re: weird delay in some apps after moving to new computer

2019-12-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 11:49:41 -0700 stan via users wrote: > What is > happening on top when the delay happens? Nothing I can see. I even created a new virtual machine from scratch, and it hangs there - I posted another message with details, but it seems to be the combination of gtk2 and an Intel

more hang investigation

2019-12-08 Thread Tom Horsley
My claws-mail hang has now expanded into a gtk2 hang, and it seems to be specific to running on an Intel i9-9900K, it never happened on my old haswell system, but now if I install a fedora 31 virtual machine from scratch and run claws-mail in the new VM, it hangs there as well. Also hanging is

weird delay in some apps after moving to new computer

2019-12-08 Thread Tom Horsley
The most reproducible one is claws-mail which always takes 25 seconds to start, and the delay seems to be something to do with dbus messages. Here's some debug-monitor output that shows the delay: sig 1575815215.835943 4294967295 org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus

Re: gcc vs gfortran

2019-12-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 18:12:28 +0100 Patrick Dupre wrote: > out = conhyp_ (, , , , ) ; I don't know what "out" is, but if the return type of a fortran function is some struct-like object (which complex might qualify as), I believe there is a hidden first argument that is a pointer to the place

Re: gcc vs gfortran

2019-12-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 11:30:14 +0100 Patrick Dupre wrote: > in c, I use double complex > in f95, I use COMPLEX*16 Never heard of double complex in c. Fortran passes all arguments by reference, so a fortran routine that has a complex*16 arg probably needs something like this in C struct c16 {

Re: Grub.cfg not updating

2019-12-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 19:16:56 -0500 Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Where are the settings for > $kernelopts entered? They are as hidden as they can make them in the grubenv file which usually lives for real down in the efi directories and has a symlink other places. grub2-editenv can be used

Re: lucene update issues

2019-12-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 07:57:21 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > What does > > dnf module list --enabled > > show? Not a lot, certainly not eclipse: [root@zooty ~]# dnf module list --enabled Last metadata expiration check: 0:49:33 ago on Thu 05 Dec 2019 06:28:12 PM EST. Fedora Modular 31 - x86_64 Name

Re: lucene update issues

2019-12-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 06:58:30 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > It sounds as if you have the eclipse:latest module enabled and that packages > conflict with those of non-module > packages. If anything remotely related to eclipse is on this machine, then they have come up with some way to hide it because

Re: F31: /etc/resolv.conf disappears

2019-12-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 15:23:55 +0100 Frank Elsner wrote: > What might be the reason? And how to fix? Don't know reasons, but I have used a big hammer to fix things like this: Create the resolv.conf file the way you want it to be, then do: chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf Thus making the file immutable

lucene update issues

2019-12-05 Thread Tom Horsley
Doing a dnf update this morning and got a bazillion lines of complaints about lucene: Problem 1: package lucene-facet-7.7.0-2.fc31.noarch requires mvn(org.apache.lucene:lucene-core) = 7.7.0, but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install both

Speaking of efi boot...

2019-11-28 Thread Tom Horsley
I have developed a procedure for installing a new fedora that insures anaconda cannot possibly screw up my disks: I install in a virtual machine, guestmount the virtual image then rsync the new fedora to the real partition and edit grub and fstab parameters. I don't yet know if the new computer

Re: (fedora) Re: sshd on F31 : strange problem with login with keys's

2019-11-26 Thread Tom Horsley
Try running the ssh command which is attempting to login with the -v -v -v options, then you can see what it is trying and what didn't work. If it is an old enough system it may not share any ciphers with the new f31 system as they have disabled a lot of old ciphers by default.

Re: New fedora 31 install hangs on shutdown

2019-11-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:13:01 -0700 S.Bob wrote: > Any thoughts on how to debug this? I don't know about debug, but it looks like the nouveau driver is crashing, so you could try installing the nvidia driver from rpmfusion and see if it gets better. ___

Re: system clock out of sync after a reboot

2019-11-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:24:16 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > Some PCs don't keep time well, and that can account for one PC being > different from the others, regardless of CMOS battery condition. Amen :-). I've had at least one PC that would be off by about a minute every hour if I had relied on

Re: system clock out of sync after a reboot

2019-11-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 08:59:02 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Anyone know where to investigate this further? The linux app that syncs to the hardware is "hwclock" (which has various obscure parameters described in the man page). You could make a script to sync with hwclock then reboot and see if

Nvidia driver irritation

2019-11-21 Thread Tom Horsley
I turn my display port connected monitor off over night and when I turn it back on in the morning, I get no video (no valid video anyway). This used to happen a while back, then it stopped, now it is happening again. I find this nonsense in the Xorg.0.log: ... [ 53942.071] (WW) NVIDIA(0):

Re: USB flakes out?

2019-11-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:38:33 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Also, have you tried other mice/keyboards from > other manufacturer? I would be really suspicious > of your peripheral hardware at this point. I've used these for years, and this only started happening when fedora 31 was

Re: USB flakes out?

2019-11-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:28:04 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Never have any issue with the USB ports on the motherboard. > Are the malfunction port(s) on your motherboard? On the motherboard on both systems. I've tried disabling the USB power management on the hub and I'll see what that

Re: USB flakes out?

2019-11-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:42:31 -0400 George N. White III wrote: > EFI is looking like a red herring. Next on the list of > suspects with access to both systems is power > management. Have a look at USB Power Management for Linux 5.3 >

Re: USB flakes out?

2019-11-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:42:51 -0400 George N. White III wrote: > The EFI message was introduced long ago.Has USB3 > port usage changed since you upgraded to Fedora 31? Nope. The only thing different on both these systems is fedora 31. At least it only happens every few hours (or even days),

Re: Fedora 30->31 Client ID changed

2019-11-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 08:18:37 -0600 Richard Shaw wrote: > It was VERY long, something like 23 hex numbers but after the > upgrade changed to the MAC address with a 1: on the front. Does this machine have a bridge defined? Before fedora 31 the bridge used to get the same MAC address as the

Re: USB flakes out?

2019-11-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:56:05 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > I wonder why yours shows as low-speed USB device.  Just curious. Because it is plugged into a usb2 port to leave usb3 port free for stuff that needs them. These are both wired mice, not wireless. I was wondering if maybe older kernels used

Re: USB flakes out?

2019-11-19 Thread Tom Horsley
Everyone seems to have ignored the important bits of info in my original post: This only started happening when I installed fedora 31, and it started happening on two separate systems the same way :-). The mice worked for years with no problems before f31.

USB flakes out?

2019-11-18 Thread Tom Horsley
I'm now running fedora 31 on my system at home and at work. On both systems I occasionally notice all my xinput settings have reverted to default, as if I unplugged my mouse and plugged it back in (even though I didn't unplug it). Has anyone else noticed USB weirdness like this? Looking at dmesg,

Re: Bridged connection MAC address change after F31 update

2019-11-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 14:18:17 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > So, it's HWADDR in the ifcfg for the actual physical interface, and MACADDR > for TYPE=Bridge? Actually you can use MACADDR on a physical interface as well to spoof a different mac. Anything that queries the mac is being mediated by

Re: Bridged connection MAC address change after F31 update

2019-11-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 13:48:43 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > You can make things normal again > by adding the HWADDR="same mac as physical interface" > parameter to the ifcfg- file. Wups! I tell a lie. The parameter you need is MACADDR, not HWADDR. Here's my ifcfg-br0: # Networki

Re: What to do with a non-NM managed bridge, now

2019-11-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 12:57:11 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > And I'm told that ifdown/ifup is being retired and I should use nmcli. That just means it doesn't ship, not that it isn't in the repos. dnf install network-scripts and you get back good old network again :-).

Re: Bridged connection MAC address change after F31 update

2019-11-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 13:04:50 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > DHCP server is now > apparently getting a DHCP request from a different MAC address, apparently > the bridge's MAC address. Yep, for some reason (they are calling a "bug") the bridge no longer gets the same MAC as the one physical

Re: Fedora 31 will not shut down completely

2019-11-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:35:30 -0500 john.mel...@gmail.com wrote: > It would appear that the problem is somehow related to booting an EFI > partition. Or something that got corrupted during the initial install. (But I certainly have seen older machines where UEFI was very dodgy).

Re: Fedora 31 will not shut down completely

2019-11-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 09 Nov 2019 11:00:42 -0500 john.mel...@gmail.com wrote: > I guess its possible that something is not completing its shutdown > step, but it does not appear to be logging that omission. Any idea how > to isolate which is the faulty daemon? If you turn off rhgb and quiet on the kernel

Re: grub2 always defaults to old kernel despite correct configuration

2019-11-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 09 Nov 2019 04:59:50 - Not Random wrote: > The confusing thing is that the output of 'grub2-editenv list' and grubby > both show that currently the correct (newest) kernel is the saved kernel. > This kernel isn't what is actually selected at boot though! That sounds as if grub may

Re: grub2 always defaults to old kernel despite correct configuration

2019-11-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 06:20:30 - Not Random wrote: > I need to understand how Fedora/grub determines the newest kernel as that > logic is somehow broken. I have no idea how it determines the newest, but the saved kernel is saved in the grubenv file which you can edit with the grub2-editenv

Re: 'updates-testing' failed ??

2019-11-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 16:50:23 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Failed to download metadata for repo 'updates-testing' > Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'updates-testing' I've been getting this a lot for random different repos. I usually wait a few minutes and run "dnf makecache"

Re: Network bridge help - fedora 31 broke things!

2019-11-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 13:55:39 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > HWADDR="00:0B:0E:0F:00:ED" No idea why this changed, but if I add MACADDR="00:0B:0E:0F:00:ED" in the ifcfg-br0 file, then it once again gets the same MAC as the physical interface and everyo

Network bridge help - fedora 31 broke things!

2019-11-04 Thread Tom Horsley
I have all NetworkManager services masked out. I have network-scripts installed and network enabled. I have these files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts: ifcfg-p6p1 looks like: NM_CONTROLLED="no" DHCPV6C="no" DEVICE="p6p1" ONBOOT="yes" PEERDNS="no" HWADDR="00:0B:0E:0F:00:ED" BRIDGE=br0

Re: xdg-desktop-portal?

2019-11-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 19:19:22 +0100 francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > systemctl --user mask xdg-desktop-portal.service That seems to have worked. I clobbered a few more that looked useless as well. I'll see if I run into anything that doesn't work now. Thanks.

xdg-desktop-portal?

2019-11-03 Thread Tom Horsley
After running fedora 31 for a day or so, I now have thousands of lines of this in my messages log: Nov 3 12:43:21 zooty xdg-desktop-por[33248]: Failed to get application states: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed: Could not get window list: Cannot invoke method; proxy is for the

Re: What happened to initramfs?

2019-11-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 18:57:43 +0100 Markus Schönhaber wrote: > They're probably still there. I don't know how the initramfs' format may > have changed but > [root@ddt-f30 boot]# lsinitrd initramfs-5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64.img > still shows that there's lots of modules in my initramfs. Yep, I see lots

What happened to initramfs?

2019-11-01 Thread Tom Horsley
While investigating a problem, I decided to look in my initramfs to see what modules it loaded. There ain't anything there any longer! How does this stuff work these days? [root@tomh boot]# cpio -it < initramfs-5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64.img . early_cpio kernel kernel/x86 kernel/x86/microcode

Re: Root Forced to Comply With Password Complexity Requirements

2019-11-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 09:57:51 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > You don't say what Fedora version you are running. This doesn't happen > for me on F30. I get the warnings about short or otherwise bad > passwords, but it lets it happen anyway. Same here, no restrictions on fedora 30 or 31 (just

Re: Has system.config-users been discontinued with FC31?

2019-10-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:33:25 +0100 Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I can't find system-config-users in FC31. Is there a replacement for it? > In fedora 30 I seem to have system-config-users-1.3.8-6.fc29.noarch installed. Perhaps it works on 31 as well. Certainly the gnome-control-center users app is

Re: USB WIFI adapters

2019-10-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:45:51 -0500 Roger Heflin wrote: > It is a mess on the usb adaptors. Especially since the manufacturers often switch chipsets without changing the model number :-(. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch

2019-10-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:04:28 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Any idea what I can do to get around this issue? Don't know what it causing it, but you should be able to run "rfkill" to turn it back on rather than having to reboot. ___ users mailing list --

Re: How to protect 2 kernels from upgrades?

2019-10-26 Thread Tom Horsley
> My question is how to > protect 2 kernels from being erased. I seem to recall I did this once by doing an rpm --justdb -e kernel That removes the info that the kernel exists from the rpm database, but leaves the files. I'm not absolutely positive that works, just a dim memory :-).

Re: Named GeoIP just got large

2019-10-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:56:16 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 62899374 Oct 8 12:07 > /var/named/chroot/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-City.mmdb I have no /var/named/chroot version of that file, but I do have: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61356751 Aug 6 15:31

Re: How to shut off org.freedesktop.trackers

2019-10-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 10:29:59 -0500 Javier Perez wrote: > HI > How do I shut off the Freedesktop trackers? I don't know for sure that this is relevant, but it might help: https://tomhorsley.com/game/punch.html#User%20Daemons ___ users mailing list --

Re: open ssh

2019-10-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:48:19 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > And that the file /etc/nssswitch.conf contains a line similar to: Just be aware that file is overwritten by authselect with whatever values will cause the most headaches :-). ___ users

Re: where is the nasty cache?

2019-10-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 14:57:20 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > So where is this "helpful" cache that has the old > IP stashed? Aargh! It is apparently coming from NIS. I *always* remove the nsswitch.conf entries for nis for everything except user/group (which is the only reliable inf

where is the nasty cache?

2019-10-10 Thread Tom Horsley
We shuffled some systems around at work. An NFS server now has a new IP address. On my fedora 30 desktop I see: nslookup shows the new IP address host shows the new IP address ping still pings the OLD address!!! mount /mountpoint apparent still uses the old IP because it times out. I'm not

Re: /dev/null is full ???

2019-10-08 Thread Tom Horsley
My favorite /dev/null story was the time someone apparently deleted the /dev/null file, then the next time someone redirected output to it, it was created, but as a regular file. The amount of confusion that caused was awesome :-). ___ users mailing list

Re: open ssh

2019-10-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 12:40:58 +0300 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Do I have to Installase BIND? And then what else is needed? ... My router can run a DNS name server, you might want to check if yours has that feature. Otherwise running bind or dnsmasq somewhere on the local network would be the way

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 20:16:17 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: > FWIW, I find these headers in your posting on my system: For what it is worth, I glanced at this thread over on the fedora mailing list archives (which isn't an easy thread to find over there because someone changed the subject line of an

Re: losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 10:07:21 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > At least the error is different here. Any further suggestions? Fraid not. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 08:54:28 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Should I now try what you have written in your notes below? Perhaps, or the bugzilla has some other alternatives as well. Maybe you just need to be root when running the losetup command. ___

Re: losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount

2019-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 08:32:19 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Any suggestions? I am on an updated F30. One possibility: If you ls /dev/loop* do you see loop0, loop1, etc.? At some point linux invented dynamic /dev/loop creation and said everyone should use it, but neglected to fix all the software

Re: anacron

2019-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 15:28:06 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > I only need anacron. You don't only need anacron, because it only runs when cron starts it. Personally, I go to a lot of trouble to eradicate anacron because I don't want jobs running at random times (which is utterly ridiculous when you

Re: Server denies user access -

2019-09-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:14:59 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > Suggestions appreciated. ssh -v -v -v sometimes provides useful information (if you can see it in the noise). Recent distros have started disabling many cyphers as insecure, so if you are coming from an older system you may be trying to

Re: Adding a UEFI boot disk to Grub

2019-09-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 14:21:59 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > BIOS boots using MBR, > > invokes Grub, which then (optionally) invokes UEFI to boot Windows. Or > > is this not possible? > > You can't because the EFI services would not be available. Could you have a separate grub instance that is UEFI

Re: Setting resolution to 4K kills nouveau ... but how do I recover?

2019-09-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 17:46:53 +0100 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > How can I (from ssh) change the display resolution back to something > lower? If it stores it on a per-user basis, perhaps creating a new user via ssh would allow you to login? This could be this bug:

Re: grub regression in f30

2019-08-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 16:54:08 +0200 François Patte wrote: > I use the nvidia driver from rpm-fusion, nouveau does not work with my card. I've never seen the nvidia drive do a high resolution at boot time, only after X starts. The nouveau driver does the high resolution at boot though.

Re: pip and python version

2019-08-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:02:25 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Do I need to do anything, or will this be self-correcting come the new year? I forget where (maybe in redhat rather than fedora), but some distro has utterly removed /usr/bin/python all it has now is /usr/bin/python2 or

Re: NFS mount fails -

2019-08-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 05:58:59 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > host > The host or network to which the export is being shared I'd point out that the host names need to be able to be found by a gethostbyname() call at the time the NFS server starts. It has been my experience that the slightest error in

kswapd?

2019-08-20 Thread Tom Horsley
I have vast amounts of free memory, yet I keep catching kswapd running at 100% every so often. Top also says I'm using a tiny bit of swap (for no reason I can fathom): MiB Mem : 15976.1 total,979.6 free,723.4 used, 14273.1 buff/cache MiB Swap: 32767.0 total, 32680.5 free, 86.5

Re: Boot timeout on non-existent device

2019-08-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 14:07:52 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > However the UUID being flagged is not one of the devices I have: Also check your grub.cfg file to see if there is some leftover nonsense in there that mentions that uuid. ___ users mailing

Re: Boot timeout on non-existent device

2019-08-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 14:07:52 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > However the UUID being flagged is not one of the devices I have: Run blkid as root to be sure. Sounds very much like the kernel believes there is a swap area with that uuid which has a hibernate image it is trying to restore.

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:11:09 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > That was the first thing I tried, but I can't rename /newvar to /var as > /var is "in use" and of course can't be unmounted. That sort of thing is what live media was invented for :-). Boot off a live USB stick, mount the system

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:18:03 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > PS Suggestions on how to move /var without all this jiggery-pokery are > also welcome. What you want is a "bind" mount. Something like this: /zooty/home /home nonerw,bind 0 0 I use this to

Re: Nouveau crashes

2019-08-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:12:01 -0500 Javier Perez wrote: > Is the linux driver for these cards fine? Not the last time I tried them. As near as I can tell the only reliable open source driver is intel, but you need a motherboard with built-in intel video that supports it. Simpler to switch back to

Re: Any good text editor supporting PGP encryption and packaged for Fedora?

2019-08-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 15:55:09 +0700 Frederic Muller wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestion for such a "simple" text editor? Simple, probably not, but emacs can probably do anything. I'm sure it must have a pgp module, but I've never needed encryption.

Re: Fool mouse with minecraft

2019-08-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 23:23:46 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > I can't see how any rubber could wear from the scroll ring.  I can't figure out how it happens either, but it comes from someplace and sure looks like the stuff the ring is made of. Possibly I just have ground rubber pixies that show up at

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