Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

On 01/12/2020 08:18, home user wrote: (on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 23:56 +, Ed wrote) > I thought you said your system was "quiet"? > > For your "network activity" issue the lines of interest are those > which include "ESTABLISHED" as the state. > > It shows both "thunderbird" and "firefox" are bot

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

On 01/12/2020 08:18, home user wrote: (on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 23:56 +, Ed wrote) > I thought you said your system was "quiet"? > > For your "network activity" issue the lines of interest are those > which include "ESTABLISHED" as the state. > > It shows both "thunderbird" and "firefox" are bot

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

(on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 23:56 +, Ed wrote) > I thought you said your system was "quiet"? > > For your "network activity" issue the lines of interest are those > which include "ESTABLISHED" as the state. > > It shows both "thunderbird" and "firefox" are both running and connected > to hosts.  So

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

On 01/12/2020 07:47, home user wrote: (on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 18:37 +, Tim wrote) > ...you really want to do something like "netstat -atuevp" to see what, where, > and who is involved in network traffic. (on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 21:03 +, Ed Greshko wrote) > Along with watching the output of

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

(on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 18:37 +, jtj wrote) >AKAIK, Fedora checks for updates at intervals to notify them > via dnfdragora. May be that. (I replied to this hours ago, but I don't see my reply in the thread.  Trying again.) A few years ago, with the help of members of this list, I turned off

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

(on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 18:37 +, Tim wrote) > ...you really want to do something like "netstat -atuevp" to see what, where, > and who is involved in network traffic. (on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 21:03 +, Ed Greshko wrote) > Along with watching the output of wireshark, you should run "netstat

Re: Fedora-33 No Sound -

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 04:02:32PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-11-30 15:13, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: I don't know that "XFCE volume control" - simply try to start "pavucontrol &" (no quotes) from a terminal, then try to see options similar to the picture on this page with the "Configura

Re: Fedora-33 No Audio out

On 11/30/20 12:36 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I have been comparing the files mentioned for the Fedora-32 system that has a working sound system with the Fedora-33 which does not. Other than the xfce volume control Configuration that I mentioned earlier I see: [bobg@Workstation-2 ~]$ pulseaudio --k

Re: Fedora-33 No Sound -

On 2020-11-30 at 16:02:32 Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 2020-11-30 15:13, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > I don't know that "XFCE volume control" - simply try to start > > "pavucontrol &" (no quotes) from a terminal, then try to see options > > similar > > to the picture on this page with the "Configu

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

On 01/12/2020 04:57, home user wrote: How do I check that? And how do I change it? By the way, I power down every night; and power up every morning. Along with watching the output of wireshark, you should run "netstat -atuevp" and see what connections are "established". --- The key to gett

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 20:57:13 - "home user" wrote: > So how do I get network traffic data for a full minute? That seems > like the best option to either establish that something bad is going > on, or that Joe Wulf is correct. You can observe your network connections by running iftop as root.

Re: Fedora-33 No Sound -

On 2020-11-30 15:13, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: I don't know that "XFCE volume control" - simply try to start "pavucontrol &" (no quotes) from a terminal, then try to see options similar to the picture on this page with the "Configuration" tab activated: https://askubuntu.com/questions/166953

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

On 11/30/20 12:57 PM, home user wrote: So how do I get network traffic data for a full minute? That seems like the best option to either establish that something bad is going on, or that Joe Wulf is correct. Install wireshark. That will let you monitor all the traffic and see what's happen

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

> On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 17:57 +, home user wrote: > > Only one of your image links loaded for me, the browser just spent ages > with the spinning circle. This one worked: > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AyZDRvcKYHYypNSU6AF9Fh34rh_l3q2J/view > Ah-ha! So that's it. The villain is googl

Re: Fedora-33 No Audio out -

On 2020-11-30 13:35, stan via users wrote: On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 15:02:38 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: aplay: main:830: audio open error: Connection refused Did alsa recognize the sound devices? Check with aplay -l I've had this problem with shifting sound devices because of the video (hdmi) dev

Re: Dragora bollixed?

On 01/12/2020 02:44, Beartooth wrote: On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 06:50:32 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: The more important question as this point is the one I asked in a later post. When it comes to dnfdragora, doesn't the drop- down with the selection of "To Update", "All", "installed", "Not Installed" pr

Re: Fedora-33 No Sound -

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 02:12:37PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-11-30 12:27, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Bob, On the pavucontrol GUI "Configuration" tab, try switching off all "Profile"s that have HDMI devices to select from. Then make sure in the hopefully remaining "Profile", that one of

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

> The pictures you shared look to me like very low amounts of data (2-6 > kilobytes).This is > going to be the standard networking which goes on with linux all the > time.System and > network-based services are reaching out to the router (gateway)periodically > to verify > connectivity and the

Re: Fedora-33 No Sound -

On 2020-11-30 12:27, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Bob, On the pavucontrol GUI "Configuration" tab, try switching off all "Profile"s that have HDMI devices to select from. Then make sure in the hopefully remaining "Profile", that one of the "Analog *" output options stays enabled. . I can't see

Re: Dragora bollixed?

On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 06:50:32 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > The more important question as this point is the one I asked in a later > post. > When it comes to dnfdragora, doesn't the drop- > down with the selection of "To Update", "All", > "installed", "Not Installed" provide the needed functionality

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 17:57 +, home user wrote: > In ksysguard, I've been noticing internet activity that I can't > explain. This has been going on for weeks, and it's making me > uncomfortable. Only one of your image links loaded for me, the browser just spent ages with the spinning circle.

Re: Fedora-33 No Audio out -

On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 15:02:38 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > aplay: main:830: audio open error: Connection refused Did alsa recognize the sound devices? Check with aplay -l I've had this problem with shifting sound devices because of the video (hdmi) device being recognized before the other audio de

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

El 30/11/20 a las 18:57, home user escribió: Fedora-32 home workstation; gnome. In ksysguard, I've been noticing internet activity that I can't explain. This has been going on for weeks, and it's making me uncomfortable. What I do: 1. After the system has been powered down overnight, I boot i

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

Bill, The pictures you shared look to me like very low amounts of data (2-6 kilobytes).This is going to be the standard networking which goes on with linux all the time.System and network-based services are reaching out to the router (gateway)periodically to verify connectivity and the like. I

mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

Fedora-32 home workstation; gnome. In ksysguard, I've been noticing internet activity that I can't explain. This has been going on for weeks, and it's making me uncomfortable. What I do: 1. After the system has been powered down overnight, I boot it up. 2. I sign in to a user account. 3. My .ba

Re: How do I restore BTRFS snapshots ?

On 11/30/20 1:17 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > I see there are still some valid nuances and edge-cases! I do understand now why that's the default. If one's an advanced user then you're free to customize the installation as you see fit anyway... Thanks for the insights Chris. Much appreciated.

Re: Fedora-33 No Sound -

Bob, On the pavucontrol GUI "Configuration" tab, try switching off all "Profile"s that have HDMI devices to select from. Then make sure in the hopefully remaining "Profile", that one of the "Analog *" output options stays enabled. Plus: see the "Output devices" tab in the pavucontrol GUI, and t

Re: How do I restore BTRFS snapshots ?

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 6:42 AM Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > On 11/30/20 8:50 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > This was just a test on a scratch VM so no need to troublshoot it further. > > Gave it a 2nd thought prior to scratching the VM... > > It turns out I applied a bunch of updates (including the k

Re: How do I restore BTRFS snapshots ?

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:19 AM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:38 AM Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> >> It does. You can check with any or all of these commands: >> >> mount | grep btrfs >> sudo btrfs subvolume list -t / >> cat /etc/fstab >> > > It doesn't. I just confirmed

Re: How do I restore BTRFS snapshots ?

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 10:37 PM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:38 AM Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> >> There's a lot more than one way to do this. As one possible example: >> >> $ sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p7 /mnt >> $ cd /mnt >> $ ls -li >> total 0 >> 256 dr-xr-xr-x. 1 root

Re: [SOLVED?] Re: NFS Problems in Fedora 33

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 4:20 AM Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 11/26/20 3:26 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> You have to be careful when using "fsid=0". >> >> 1) If you don't set it for any of the shares: >> >> a) "/" is the "fsid=0" filesystem by default (this wasn't the >> case in early nfsv4 implemen

Re: Fedora-33 No Sound -

On 2020-11-30 07:45, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 15:33, Bob Goodwin > wrote:rg Those are MSI motherboards ... -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___ users

Re: Fedora-33 No Sound -

On 2020-11-30 07:45, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 15:33, Bob Goodwin > wrote: In a new install of Fedora-33 I have no audio. It appears that PA has no input when viewing the pa volume display. [bobg@Workstation-2 ~]$ aplay /h

Re: How do I restore BTRFS snapshots ?

On 11/30/20 8:50 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > This was just a test on a scratch VM so no need to troublshoot it further. Gave it a 2nd thought prior to scratching the VM... It turns out I applied a bunch of updates (including the kernel). As /boot is not part of the snapshot I took (since it's an

Re: How do I restore BTRFS snapshots ?

On 11/29/20 5:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > You do not need to worry about renaming an active/in-use subvolume. > Internally Btrfs is using subvolume ID's anyway, and that won't > change. I didn't know this. I thought you had to boot off external media in order to revert back the root filesystem sn

Re: Fedora-33 No Sound -

On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 15:33, Bob Goodwin wrote: > In a new install of Fedora-33 I have no audio. It appears that PA has no > input when viewing the pa volume display. > > [bobg@Workstation-2 ~]$ aplay /home/bobg/apps/audio/login.wav > ALSA lib pulse.c:242:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to co

Re: How do I restore BTRFS snapshots ?

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:38 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > It does. You can check with any or all of these commands: > > mount | grep btrfs > sudo btrfs subvolume list -t / > cat /etc/fstab > > It doesn't. I just confirmed. https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/622149/230582 -- Regards, Sreyan Chakrav