Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

On Mon, 18 May 2020 01:19:12 +0530 Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > > > Also, firefox has sandboxing on javascript plugins. > > > Would running Firefox in Firejail help in this case ? I'm unfamiliar with Firejail so I don't know. If it is what it sounds like, a chroot for plugins, yes, that wo

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

On Mon, 18 May 2020 01:21:41 +0530 Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > What about OS encryption keys related to LUKS ? And other things that > are in memory, like Thunderbird obviously stores my Gmail username and > password. The attack only accesses things that pass through the L1 cache, so things that

Re: Thunderbird quirk

On 2020-05-16 18:57, George N. White III wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 15:52, Joe Zeff mailto:j...@zeff.us>> > wrote: > > On 05/15/2020 12:39 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > > Sometime in early April the mailserver on yahoo.com > started sending much > > of

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On 17May2020 19:38, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 5/17/20 7:12 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 17May2020 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Well I am shopping for a USB ext HD... At least 2TB, <$100, USB 2, Good life time    2,5" or 3.5"? Well I will call the local Micro Center tomorrow and see w

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On 5/17/20 7:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-05-18 07:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 5/17/20 6:37 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/17/20 1:29 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I basically jammed done the y key until it finished.  I am going to get a new drive... So many errors.  I wonder how?  Perh

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On 5/17/20 7:12 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 17May2020 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Well I am shopping for a USB ext HD... At least 2TB, <$100, USB 2, Good life time    2,5" or 3.5"? Well I will call the local Micro Center tomorrow and see what they have in stock and do a drive up p

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On 2020-05-18 07:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 5/17/20 6:37 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 5/17/20 1:29 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> I basically jammed done the y key until it finished.  I am going to get a >>> new drive... >>> >>> So many errors.  I wonder how?  Perhaps 2 rsyncs running a

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On 17May2020 15:11, George N. White III wrote: According to the man page, "fsck.xfs" is just "exit 0". It has has lead up logic to accept the correct command line arguments, but yes. The kernel "mount" for XFS does any repair. It is all very nice. There is a separae "xfs_repair" command fo

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On 17May2020 16:29, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I basically jammed done the y key until it finished.  I am going to get a new drive... FYI, there's a BSD derived command called "yes" whose purpose in life is to print "yes" (or a string of your choice) forever, precisely for piping into other pro

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On 17May2020 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Well I am shopping for a USB ext HD... At least 2TB, <$100, USB 2, Good life time    2,5" or 3.5"? Well I will call the local Micro Center tomorrow and see what they have in stock and do a drive up pickup. I tend to buy Western Digital Element

How to unbreak pinentry-curses in F32

Sharing the following for the benefit of others. Entering a passphrase for your gpg key with a passphrase is broken again, if you're on a simple ssh connection, from the looks of it. It originally broke a year or so ago – maybe longer, I don't recall exactly -- when the simple prompt for yo

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On 5/17/20 6:37 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/17/20 1:29 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I basically jammed done the y key until it finished.  I am going to get a new drive... So many errors.  I wonder how?  Perhaps 2 rsyncs running at the same time? No.  You could possibly get messed up files,

Re: F32 Upgrade error: more space needed on the / filesystem... --live-root ?

On 2020-05-18 06:38, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/17/20 1:40 PM, Mike Wright wrote: >> On 5/16/20 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 5/16/20 9:29 AM, Barry Scott wrote: > On 5 May 2020, at 03:57, Ed Greshko > wrote: > > FWIW, I generally use lvresize an

Re: F32 upgrade fails (boots into Emergency mode) [Solved]

On 5/17/20 2:06 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Sun, 17 May 2020 11:45:20 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/17/20 8:05 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Any suggestions as to what is wrong? The machine is sort of hard to get to simply because it is not online now, and I have to go in to get more information

Re: F32 Upgrade error: more space needed on the / filesystem... --live-root ?

On 5/17/20 1:40 PM, Mike Wright wrote: On 5/16/20 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/16/20 9:29 AM, Barry Scott wrote: On 5 May 2020, at 03:57, Ed Greshko > wrote: FWIW, I generally use lvresize and only on unmounted file-systems. I'm pretty much sure that is what

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On 5/17/20 1:29 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I basically jammed done the y key until it finished.  I am going to get a new drive... So many errors.  I wonder how?  Perhaps 2 rsyncs running at the same time? No. You could possibly get messed up files, although rsync is pretty safe. But you s

Re: firewalld messed up after updating to F32

On 2020-05-17 07:51, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Thanks, this did the trick, for now. > > Additionally, somewhere along the process all my rules in FedoraServer.xml > got blown away. Fortunately, I had my firewall config backed up, and restored > it. > > Left the complete dump of the trace in Bug

Re: F32 upgrade fails (boots into Emergency mode) [Solved]

On Sun, 17 May 2020 11:45:20 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/17/20 8:05 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Any suggestions as to what is wrong? The machine is sort of hard to get to > > simply because it is not online now, and I have to go in to get more > > information but I will try and provide add

Re: F32 Upgrade error: more space needed on the / filesystem... --live-root ?

On 5/16/20 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/16/20 9:29 AM, Barry Scott wrote: On 5 May 2020, at 03:57, Ed Greshko > wrote: FWIW, I generally use lvresize and only on unmounted file-systems. I'm pretty much sure that is what the warning is trying to tell you. Havi

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 17:30, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I hope. > > I basically jammed done the y key until it finished. I am going to get > a new drive... > > So many errors. I wonder how? Perhaps 2 rsyncs running at the same time? > It is almost certainly a hardware problem: hard disk, cabl

Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

I hope. I basically jammed done the y key until it finished.  I am going to get a new drive... So many errors.  I wonder how?  Perhaps 2 rsyncs running at the same time? On 5/17/20 3:51 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 5/17/20 3:32 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On May 17, 2020, at 14:14, R

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

Hi, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc]  Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK This is a command transport failure of the lowlevel driver. I know such effects from dying USB boxes with optical drives (having SATA controllers). https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/archived/SCSI-Pr

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

> > Do those VMs have access to the internet? Yes they do. And, if you don't run sensitive processes on the main machine while the > VM is running and testing, then there is no sensitive data for any > malicious attack to gather. What about OS encryption keys related to LUKS ? And other things

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On 5/17/20 3:32 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On May 17, 2020, at 14:14, Robert Moskowitz wrote: # fsck /dev/sdc fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /d

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

> > Also, firefox has sandboxing on javascript plugins. Would running Firefox in Firejail help in this case ? On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 6:47 PM stan via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2020 17:32:10 +0530 > Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > > On 5/15/20 1:32 AM, stan v

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On May 17, 2020, at 14:14, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > # fsck /dev/sdc > fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 > e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) > fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... > fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdc > > [...] > # parted /dev/sdc

Re: F32 upgrade fails (boots into Emergency mode)

On 5/17/20 8:05 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Any suggestions as to what is wrong? The machine is sort of hard to get to simply because it is not online now, and I have to go in to get more information but I will try and provide additional requests for information in as timely a manner as possible.

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On 5/17/20 2:13 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 5/17/20 10:22 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: How can I get this bad file out of the way so I can back up properly? IIRC, an IO error can result from either a corrupt filesystem or a media error.  The kernel "dmesg" can tell you more about the cause

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On 5/17/20 1:52 PM, Richard wrote: Date: Sunday, May 17, 2020 13:22:54 -0400 From: Robert Moskowitz I am having a problem with rsyncing: rsync -ah --stats --delete /home/ /media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home rsync: readlink_stat("/media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home/abba/abba/Excel /Home/Pow

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On 5/17/20 10:22 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: How can I get this bad file out of the way so I can back up properly? IIRC, an IO error can result from either a corrupt filesystem or a media error.  The kernel "dmesg" can tell you more about the cause of the error, typically.  If there's filesy

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 14:54, Richard wrote: > > > Date: Sunday, May 17, 2020 13:22:54 -0400 > > From: Robert Moskowitz > > > > I am having a problem with rsyncing: > > > > rsync -ah --stats --delete /home/ > > /media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home > > rsync: > > readlink_stat("/media/HD103SI/bac

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

> Date: Sunday, May 17, 2020 13:22:54 -0400 > From: Robert Moskowitz > > I am having a problem with rsyncing: > > rsync -ah --stats --delete /home/ > /media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home > rsync: > readlink_stat("/media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home/abba/abba/Excel > /Home/Power usage.xls") fail

I/O error on a file on a backup drive

I am having a problem with rsyncing: rsync -ah --stats --delete /home/ /media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home rsync: readlink_stat("/media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home/abba/abba/Excel/Home/Power usage.xls") failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/media/HD103SI/bac

Re: F32 upgrade fails (boots into Emergency mode)

Ranjan Maitra writes: Hi, I was commenting yesterday afternoon on how painless the upgrade had been so far for me (4 laptops, 1 workstation). Got jinxed on a workstation at work! For me, F31 got upgraded to F32 using the methods oulined in https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-31-to

F32 upgrade fails (boots into Emergency mode)

Hi, I was commenting yesterday afternoon on how painless the upgrade had been so far for me (4 laptops, 1 workstation). Got jinxed on a workstation at work! For me, F31 got upgraded to F32 using the methods oulined in https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-31-to-fedora-32/. All steps went

Re: Fedora 32: Monitors not sleeping?

On Sun, 17 May 2020 08:24:30 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: > Since the logs are going to the journal now I just remembered where > the log was and locked and unlocked my system and copied the delta... > Why in the heck is it doing all that just for a lock/unlock sequence? > > May 17 08:19:01 /usr/li

Re: Fedora 32: Monitors not sleeping?

Since the logs are going to the journal now I just remembered where the log was and locked and unlocked my system and copied the delta... Why in the heck is it doing all that just for a lock/unlock sequence? May 17 08:19:01 /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2326]: (II) AMDGPU(0): EDID vendor "GSM", prod