Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/26/24 12:37 PM, Tim via users wrote: Michael Hennebry: Any ideas? Samuel Sieb: I don't.  I usually use vlc, but I just tried totem (Videos) and it played anything I tried, include h265. I found totem rather bad for playing some files, likewise with parole media player (what an awful

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-26 Thread Tim via users
Michael Hennebry: >> Any ideas? Samuel Sieb: > I don't.  I usually use vlc, but I just tried totem (Videos) and it > played anything I tried, include h265. I found totem rather bad for playing some files, likewise with parole media player (what an awful name for a media player - and it nearly

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/25/24 4:15 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/24/24 5:58 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Note that gstreamer1-plugins-ugly is from RPMfusion because of licensing issues. # dnf search -v plugins-ugly

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-26 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 6/25/24 18:13, Doug Herr wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2024, at 11:23 PM, Tim via users wrote: Just adding my saved note on how it can be done: Pull files out of an rpm without installing it: mkdir foo ; cp file.rpm foo ; cd foo rpm2cpio - < file.rpm | cpio --extract --no-absolute-filenames

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/24/24 5:58 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Note that gstreamer1-plugins-ugly is from RPMfusion because of licensing issues. # dnf search -v plugins-ugly Have it now, but it did not help. Any ideas?

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-25 Thread Todd Zullinger
Doug Herr wrote: > Just adding my saved note on how it can be done: > > Pull files out of an rpm without installing it: > mkdir foo ; cp file.rpm foo ; cd foo > rpm2cpio - < file.rpm | cpio --extract --no-absolute-filenames > --make-directories Or simpler, IMO: Install 'rpmdevtools' and use:

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-25 Thread Doug Herr
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024, at 11:23 PM, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 19:48 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: >> I can't dissect a .rpm but I know how to dissect a .deb so I installed >> totem onto Ubuntu 24.04 (latest release) so I could take it apart. > > You can open them in an archive

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 19:48 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > I can't dissect a .rpm but I know how to dissect a .deb so I installed > totem onto Ubuntu 24.04 (latest release) so I could take it apart. You can open them in an archive manager (treating them the same as zip files, and various other

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-24 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/24/24 5:58 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Note that gstreamer1-plugins-ugly is from RPMfusion because of licensing issues. Could not find it in rpnfusion-nonfree-* . Found it in rpmfusion-free-source rpmfusion-free-updates-source

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: password issue with f40

2024-06-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2024-06-23 at 17:54 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: Strange that firefox can play it, but totem cannot. AFAIK Firefox has its own built-in codecs, while totem uses the gstreamer library and plugins. Here's what I have: $ rpm -qa

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2024-06-23 at 17:54 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2024-06-21 at 09:44 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > > > > > Possibly related: > > > > totem does not play movies. > >

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 20 Jun 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2024, Roger Heflin wrote: You would need to find the log file that starts up Xorg after you login it. There are a number of things that can be set wrong and/or missing that will cause Xorg to attempt to start and fail and exit like

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2024-06-21 at 09:44 -0500, 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. Correction: could not initialise

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2024-06-21 at 09:44 -0500, 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. > > Correction: could not initialise openGL support > > > I've

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: Possibly related: totem does not play movies. totem complains that it cannot initialize openGL support. Correction: could not initialise openGL support I've installed pretty much everything I can think of, including *opengl* , *openGL* and *mesa*

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
A bit more info: hennebry@fedora:~$ glxinfo -B name of display: :0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer): Vendor: Mesa Project (0x8086) Device: i915 (chipset: Q33) (0x29d2) Version: 24.1.1 Accelerated: yes Video memory:

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
From /home/hennebry/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log [ 81949.159] (WW) glamor requires at least 128 instructions (64 reported) [ 81949.159] (EE) modeset(0): Failed to initialize glamor at ScreenInit() time. [ 81949.159] (EE) Fatal server error: [ 81949.159] (EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Tim via users wrote: Tim: Michael Hennebry wrote: I could not login. The screen would blink. Sometimes I would briefly see a cursor. I'd be back at the login screen. [ 40469.778] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/hennebry/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log"

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-20 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> In what sense, *exactly*, "does not work"? Michael Hennebry wrote: > I could not login. > The screen would blink. > Sometimes I would briefly see a cursor. > I'd be back at the login screen. Very similar to what happened to me, though could be coincidental. I'd occasionally get the

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
The mail server I use for fedora is not mine and it was down for a bit. On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2024-06-20 at 00:30 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: I just discovered something interesting: None of the accounts on my machine will login with Xorg. The option is offered,

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-20 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2024-06-20 at 00:30 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I just discovered something interesting: > None of the accounts on my machine will login with Xorg. > The option is offered, but is does not work. In what sense, *exactly*, "does not work"? I remember an old X problem where you'd try

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-20 Thread Barry Scott
> On 20 Jun 2024, at 16:33, Michael Hennebry > wrote: > > No go on F40. > I expect I need some incantation involving journalctl . Are you using wayland perhaps? So we know the details of your setup what is the output of inxi -Fzxx ? Barry -- ___

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 20 Jun 2024, Roger Heflin wrote: You would need to find the log file that starts up Xorg after you login it. There are a number of things that can be set wrong and/or missing that will cause Xorg to attempt to start and fail and exit like this. F39 puts the log file here on my

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:30:31 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > Not being able to use Xorg is not good news. Just a data point: I use Xorg exclusively and have no problems with fedora 40 login. I use sddm as my greeter and changed the sddm.conf file to say use Xorg, not wayland - don't know

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-20 Thread Roger Heflin
You would need to find the log file that starts up Xorg after you login it. There are a number of things that can be set wrong and/or missing that will cause Xorg to attempt to start and fail and exit like this. F39 puts the log file here on my machine. /var/log/Xorg.0.log On most of my

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
I just discovered something interesting: None of the accounts on my machine will login with Xorg. The option is offered, but is does not work. For F40, I had selected gnome-classic with Xorg. New accounts defaulted to gnome with Wayland. When I made a new hennebry account, even with an old home

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, Barry wrote: You could login at a console and eliminate the gui as a problem. Type alt-ctrl-f3 to get a console. Thank you for that suggestion. I could login from a console. Clearly the problem was not my password. Auto-relabel did not get me back to the gui, but just

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jun 19, 2024, at 16:41, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 06/19/2024 02:31 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> So, if you’ve used a rescue disk to boot into Linux, chroot into your OS’s >> disk, and run “passwd” to change a password, or otherwise edit /etc/shadow >> or /etc/passwd (or other files in

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Barry
On 19 Jun 2024, at 18:25, Michael Hennebry wrote:I try to login: click on the user and type in my password.F40 just goes back to the select a user screen.You could login at a console and eliminate the gui as a problem.Type alt-ctrl-f3 to get a console.You could use the process to reset a

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/19/2024 02:31 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: So, if you’ve used a rescue disk to boot into Linux, chroot into your OS’s disk, and run “passwd” to change a password, or otherwise edit /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd (or other files in /etc), you most likely need to fix the selinux labels of

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jun 19, 2024, at 13:25, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I recently installed F40 from DVD. > F40 and I are having a difference of opinion > regarding what password I gave the initial user. > F40 is winning. > I find it hard to believe I typed in the same wrong password twice, > but it's F40's

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:15:21 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > I'll try that. > Since it has worked for you, > I infer that you did an su first, > otherwise I'd expect passwd to ask for a password. You have to be root to do a chroot, so yep, I'm root once I get there. --

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:24:48 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: My usual strategy is to boot a live disk and to edit the passwd and shadow files directly. My strategy is to boot a live cd, then chroot into the copy on disk and use the passwd command.

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:24:48 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > My usual strategy is to boot a live disk > and to edit the passwd and shadow files directly. My strategy is to boot a live cd, then chroot into the copy on disk and use the passwd command. Maybe that would work better? --

password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
I recently installed F40 from DVD. F40 and I are having a difference of opinion regarding what password I gave the initial user. F40 is winning. I find it hard to believe I typed in the same wrong password twice, but it's F40's opinion that counts. I try to login: click on the user and type in my