Re: Iced Tea out of date?

2012-11-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/25/2012 02:40 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Chrome is the only browser where launching a Java Web Start app (jnlp) is a totally ugly experience (it brings the download dialog to the foreground)... or did, I stopped using it because of that. To be fair, most JNLP applications include native c

Re: Iced Tea out of date?

2012-11-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/25/2012 02:20 PM, Steven Stern wrote: Is this just a Chrome glitch? Yes, mostly: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138386 Chrome can't detect the version of IcedTea or OpenJDK underlying the IcedTea-web plugin, so there's some concern over how to protect users. -- user

Re: Iced Tea out of date?

2012-11-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/25/2012 02:58 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: You *authorize* it to run, and it features code signing. Yes, but there's no good reason to streamline the process of authorization over-much. There is no reason to believe that the vast majority of users are qualified to recognize valid digital

Re: How to make a block-level incremental backup using LVM?

2012-12-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
The biggest difficulty in answering your question is that you asked about a specific method to solve a general problem, without specifying any other requirements. In particular, in order to give you good answers we need to know whether you need only single near-line backups, or whether you nee

Re: How to make a block-level incremental backup using LVM?

2012-12-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/14/2012 08:04 AM, Fernando Lozano wrote: I suppose they use something like inotify (or their own virtual file system driver over a real file system, like NFS or a loop fs) to learn about changed blocks, but they find to which file each block belongs to and salve this info in their backup ca

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/27/2012 06:17 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I need to reduce the file size of my PDF in Fedora. As others have noted, your ability to do so depends on the specifics of your file, which you haven't shared. You could use ghostscript to reduce quality (resolution) and size: http://www.ubuntuge

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/28/2012 04:23 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote: I have occasionally found that converting to postscript and then back to pdf will result in a smaller file size, particularly when there are images involved. You probably don't need to change the format. ps2pdf is just a shell script that runs gs

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
Google results for "xorg hangs Sandybridge i915" turn up a whole lot of results (sadly). Among the first page results is one report that a bad BIOS was responsible for the problem. Have you updated yours? Has this system ever run a Linux distribution that didn't hang/crash? It may be useful

Re: [OT] posting and receiving post

2013-01-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/13/2013 02:03 AM, g wrote: why is it that when posting to this tsl i will sometimes receive my via my subscription and sometimes i do not? You won't normally receive messages which list your address on a To: or CC: header. Perhaps those are the messages that you're not receiving via su

Re: [OT] posting and receiving post

2013-01-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/13/2013 07:34 PM, g wrote: please see post from and my reply to T.C. Hollingsworth. I believe that both he and I were referring to the last option in the mailman user preferences: Avoid duplicate copies of messages -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or c

Re: F18 rpmfusion x86_64 key missing?

2013-01-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/15/2013 01:59 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote: From the rpm -ql output shown below, I suspect it's a file missing from rpmfusion-free-release-16-3.noarch Note that earlier releases have both -NN-primary and -NN-x86_64 files, but there's only -18-primary for Fedora 18. I manually installed t

Adwaita GTK3 on F18 no longer honors bgcolor

2013-01-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Under Fedora 17, I was able to select an alternate background color for GTK2 and GTK3. Under F18, only the GTK2 applications honor the setting. Before I file a a bug, does anyone know if this behavior was an expected change? $ dconf dump /org/gnome/desktop/interface/ [/] gtk-color-scheme='se

Re: A Look at Fedora 18

2013-01-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/16/2013 12:05 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: I remember reading that F18 includes both Gnome 3.x and also Gnome 2.x renamed MATE desktop? More or less. MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. Fedora also includes Cinnamon, now, which is an alternate shell based on GNOME 3, but with a more traditional pa

Re: Fedup for LVM?

2013-01-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/16/2013 05:33 AM, Steve Berg wrote: From what I've read it seems that the anaconda in F18 will not be able to deal with this setup like previous anaconda's. Anaconda doesn't do upgrades anymore. Other than that, if you linked to what you'd read, it would help explain any issues that you

Re: rsync (ssh) authorisation weirdness on F18

2013-01-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/22/2013 11:26 PM, William Murray wrote: In F18 the rsync command fails to connect: dbus-daemon[938]: Could not create directory '/root/.ssh'. dbus-daemon[938]: Host key verification failed. Check /var/log/audit/audit.log. SELinux is probably denying access to the script in netwo

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/27/2013 06:02 PM, David wrote: Or? Well you could use a distro that actually works without searching Google and volumes of text files. Bad or missing resolutions are pretty much always invalid EDID information provided by the hardware. Windows tends to use information provided by the I

Re: rant: cifs utterly screwed in fedora 18

2013-01-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/25/2013 04:21 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: Now, please use this rant as motivation to prove I'm wrong by posting a tested, working, smb.conf file that provides a read/write windows file share which requires no credentials prompt on the windows box. Fine. I tested the configuration that follows

Re: rsync (ssh) authorisation weirdness on F18

2013-01-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/28/2013 12:54 AM, William Murray wrote: Thanks, thats it. I put selinux on permissive in the client, and got 258 selinux warnings, but my files are backed up again. I tidied a lot like this: grep rsync /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol Don't do that. I see something lik

Re: rsync (ssh) authorisation weirdness on F18

2013-01-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/28/2013 10:42 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: And, of course, it's often what's needed. Unless you know that one specific process is affected by the policy, it's pretty much always better to use 'tail -f' to capture all of the AVCs starting at the time that you begin testing in permissive mode than

Re: rant: cifs utterly screwed in fedora 18

2013-01-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/29/2013 03:57 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: Just as I suspected from the last time I tried to avoid SHARE security, this still triggers credentials prompts in Windows XP (though it doesn't much care what credentials you provide). You didn't say anything about XP. Not that I have an XP machine t

Re: telnetd mystery ....

2013-01-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/28/2013 07:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Has anyone configured telnetd for use on F18? Running 64 bitbut this shouldn't make a difference. Actually, it might. I ran strace on the telnetd process, which should mostly proxy data between a child process (login, at that point) and the sock

Re: telnetd mystery ....

2013-01-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/29/2013 10:44 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I just installed the f17 rpm on the f18 system and it fails in the same way. I never asked... Does telnetd work on F17 or would we have to go back further to find a working version? Sorry, not looking for a replacement. You don't need to apologize

Re: emulate mouse middle-button on Dell XPS 13?

2013-07-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/17/2013 05:56 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Does anyone know how to emulate a middle-button on the touchpad-integrated mouse (my terminology) on this machine? I have tried hitting the two mouse-clicks (want of a better term) at the same time to no avail. Any other possibilities? http://who-t.b

Re: emulate mouse middle-button on Dell XPS 13?

2013-07-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/18/2013 11:39 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Thanks! I get the following: ! $sudo gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse middle-button-enabled true No such schema 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse' You wouldn't use "sudo" for that. It's a per-user setting. I am

Re: "passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap

2013-07-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/22/2013 02:18 PM, Augustin Wolf wrote: Okay, it isn't safe to store root password in a file. By all my administrator heart I agree. But I don't see why you have to store it in a plain text file. Could you please expand on that? Because that's how LDAP works. In order to change a password

Re: "passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap [SOLVED]

2013-07-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/23/2013 01:54 PM, Augustin Wolf wrote: I agree. The only acceptable solution would be one way hash, but this wouldn't be much help, unless OpenLdap supports it. If the system stored a one-way hash of a "password," and that hash were usable as an authentication token, then the one-way has

Re: Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?

2013-07-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/24/2013 05:55 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: I just did a fresh F19 x86_64 install on my workstation, copied a Virtual Machine to it and started the VM (has IP addr 192.168.122.20). Now I would like to be able to ssh into the VM from another box on my local LAN like my laptop. Thus far I can't m

Re: Backup settings

2013-07-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/26/2013 01:38 AM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: OK, maybe I didn't remember permissions correctly - but I can set up a cron job copying the file to /home/martin and grab it from there instead. Or you could change the permissions on that file to allow other users to read it. That one's prob

Re: Gnome classic working in F19?

2013-07-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/25/2013 03:02 AM, "Paul-Erik Törrönen" wrote: So it seems that the mode selection is not really working, and neither is the selection remembered correctly. Does this sound familiar to anyone? No, I just tested this on a relatively clean F19 installation. I'm not able to reproduce behav

Re: Login messed up after upgrading kernel

2013-07-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/28/2013 10:19 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote: I'm using Linux 3.10.x kernel and I have AMD proprietary graphics driver running akmod. The 3.9.9 kernel series was working fine until the latest update came. Now I can't log in using the new kernel, tthe screen goes black and it logs itself out. I ca

Re: Generate CRL for NSS Self Signed CA

2013-08-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/05/2013 06:46 AM, William Brown wrote: Does anyone have any tips or knowledge about what to do to achieve this? http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page Or FreeIPA, which includes dogtag, IIRC. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscript

Re: Linux Kernel Hacked by NSA/GCHQ

2013-08-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/30/2013 12:35 PM, agraham wrote: As you will all remember, a few years ago we kernel.org was hacked, I cannot remember if that was ever resolved http://www.pcworld.com/article/239400/hack_or_no_hack_the_linux_kernel_is_well_protected.html -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Juvenile BASH question

2013-10-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/21/2013 05:50 AM, Mark Haney wrote: Now, this has worked perfectly for 3 months now, but the last few days I started getting errors about failed authentication to the databases. Here's where it gets weird. I can su postgres - from a BASH prompt just fine,but when I run the script, it asks

[389-users] Upgrade failure

2013-11-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Friday, I updated one of several systems that I manage from version 1.2.11.15 to version 1.2.11.25. Thereafter, the service was unable to start. The error indicates a problem with SSL that I don't understand. I've included the relevant section from the "error" log below. After reverting

Re: [389-users] Upgrade failure

2013-12-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/25/2013 03:54 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: Is there some reason you need to upgrade from the OS provided official RHEL 6.4 version of 389-ds-base to the non-OS provided version from the rmeggins epel6 repo? Now I remember... there's no Windows sync in the RHEL package. We needed that in at

Re: [389-users] Upgrade failure

2013-12-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/03/2013 02:19 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: On 12/03/2013 03:11 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: Now I remember... there's no Windows sync in the RHEL package. Yes, there is. Do you mean POSIX Windows Sync? I'm uncertain. You mentioned this in 2011: https://lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: To Alan Cox (ref: stunning Fedora 15 x64/Win 7 x64 Ultimate performance gap)

2012-01-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/13/2012 04:13 PM, A A wrote: You are a world famous Linux kernel developer and one of the very few able to unravel this mystery. You're asking a Linux developer to explain why your code is slow on Windows. It's unlikely that they will be able to, given that they don't have access to ei

Re: Mounting a partition within a dd image of a windows drive

2012-01-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/16/2012 06:53 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Run "kpartx -a /dev/loop0". You can also run "kpartx -a" on the file itself, and skip manually setting up the loop device. If you have a loop device set up already, "partprobe" is the other tool that will reload the partition table. -- users ma

Re: about authenticating a user through c programming

2012-01-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/17/2012 07:56 AM, shreyas m wrote: I am developing a c based application which needs authenticating the user as a root- user. I'm wiling to provide the responsibility of password verification to fedora os, as in the case of built in applications such as NFS,HTTP. I would prefer a similar in

Re: f16 - Brain dead wireless network manager

2012-01-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/17/2012 08:45 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: We are developing a check list of things that are really needed. Like clicking on an SSID to trigger a reconnect. Thanks, Robert. The GNOME shell people have been fairly helpful in fixing usability bugs when they are reported, at least in those

Re: Recovery mode. Login as root without password

2012-02-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/16/2012 12:59 AM, Emilio Lopez wrote: If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without asking for password. Is this the expected behavior? Yes, the only way to secure your system against this is to encrypt your drives. If you don't encrypt your drives, there will always

Re: booting and NVME on older motherboards

2018-10-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/24/18 2:11 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Is copying the /boot and /boot/efi partitions to the sata drive and editing /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg to point the /dev/sda instead of /dev/nvme0n1 all that needs doing? No hidden firmare on the bootable drive like in the bios days? Is there

Re: Fedora Server 29 do not store last history when reboot without logout

2018-11-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/20/18 4:50 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: How to I get rid on this (my?) issue ? Use "exec reboot" instead of "reboot".  Close all of your other active shells before you do. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: df -H shows irritating values

2018-11-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/20/18 5:45 AM, Frank Elsner wrote: What's going on there? Rather than "df", use "stat": stat /nas ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Condu

Re: df -H shows irritating values

2018-11-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/21/18 8:23 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 11/20/18 5:45 AM, Frank Elsner wrote: What's going on there? Rather than "df", use "stat": stat /nas (That should have been "stat -f". My mistake.) In the output of "stat" you will see the block

Re: Trying to get gpt + software raid + LVM in kickstart

2018-12-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/29/18 1:09 AM, Digimer wrote: zerombr clearpart --all --drives=/dev/vda,/dev/vdb ignoredisk --only-use=/dev/vda,/dev/vdb bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=/dev/vda,/dev/vdb --boot-drive=/dev/vda My first guess is that you're not specifying the disks to clearpart properly.  The docu

Re: upgrading from f28 to f29 messed up my system...

2018-12-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/7/18 9:41 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: This option tells lvm not to find any volumes on the raw hard drive partitions.  So it will wait until the RAID is up to find the volumes there. This bug also affects RHEL and CentOS 7.6.  It's tracked here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1

Re: Can't create a new VM with Virtual Machine Manager

2019-01-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/31/18 6:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: When it happened before I edited the XML file to remove the .osxsave flag and that solved the problem. However now it's happening with a fresh VM so there's no XML file to edit. Try commenting out that feature in /usr/share/libvirt/cpu_map.xml __

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/25/19 6:45 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Is there a quicker way to protect my data when I give the drives away, other than smashing the drives to bits? The quickest would be to encrypt the drives from the beginning. When you want to discard the drives, you just need to wipe the LUKS header

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/27/19 2:44 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: If it's not being read and rewritten, it's not being encrypted. It's as simple as that. A cryptosystem that doesn't read the plaintext? How does that work? The suggestion you're replying to didn't encrypt the drive in place.  It read a stream of z

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/27/19 3:12 PM, Mike Wright wrote: simply wiping the key header. Command example? A LUKS2 header is 4M, and other versions will be smaller, so: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdXN bs=4M count=1 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/27/19 3:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I think the writer *thought* it was encrypting the disk. I may be wrong, but that's what I was responding to rather than the minutiae of the actual command. Ah.  Yeah, now that I read his subsequent reply, I can see why.

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/27/19 6:47 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Yes, something like that is what I suspect: The actual data on disk would be left untouched when the *disk/partition* is encrypted. I had a look through documents explaining luks, and again and again the topic is "disk" encryption, not "data" encrypti

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/28/19 2:12 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Another point: several people have mentioned using /dev/urandom. It's important to note that this is a *pseudo-random* generator. It starts from a random seed, but from that generates a completely deterministic pattern. If you have the seed, you have

Re: Home-directory, NFS and automount

2019-02-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/11/19 6:30 AM, Paul-Erik Törrönen wrote: My setup was simple, I had the following line in /etc/fstab: nfs-server:/path/to/home   /home   nfs defaults  0 0 That's not "automount."  That's just a normal NFS filesystem. Using the word "automount" will confuse people about

Re: Fedora Install

2019-03-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/3/19 8:52 PM, Thomas Dineen wrote: You have a severe quality problem fix it. May I humbly suggest that you have an attitude problem. This list is for Fedora *users* who are interested in helping and supporting each other.  You don't seem to be interested in either.  Neither the users h

Re: Fedora 29 - Interaction with TLSv1/SSLv3 completely broken

2019-03-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/4/19 5:13 AM, Charles Kozler wrote: curl https://github.com openssl s_client -connect github.com:443 CONNECTED(0004) 139888006719296:error:1425F175:SSL routines:ssl_choose_client_version:inappropriate fallback:ssl/statem/statem_lib.c:1929: I can't reproduce problems with those comm

Re: Fedora 29 - Interaction with TLSv1/SSLv3 completely broken

2019-03-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/4/19 3:16 PM, Charles Kozler wrote: That being said, what exactly is the problem here then? That's complicated. https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-tls-1-3-isnt-in-browsers-yet/ See also section 2.2.3 of https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-camwinget-tls-use-cases-03.html We might be able to

Re: Fedora 29 - Interaction with TLSv1/SSLv3 completely broken

2019-03-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/5/19 4:47 AM, Charles Kozler wrote: I mean, I show exactly what the issue is...and while it would suggest it is two part, the fact is this didnt occur in < F29 I don't have an older release handy, and I don't know how its security policy is set.  I will note that Google Chrome only enab

Re: emacs CC mode package

2019-03-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/24/19 7:01 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: It describes itself as "a standard package in both GNU Emacs and XEmacs", but I have emacs installed, and looking for the files in that package's tarball, I don't see them. rpm -qla \*emacs\* | grep cc- Looks like they're present in the "emacs-comm

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/9/19 4:51 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: Someone has some performance comparison between the two virtualization system? Can you post the content of /etc/libvirt/qemu/.xml? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/10/19 8:18 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno mar, 09/04/2019 alle 19.53 -0700, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: Can you post the content of /etc/libvirt/qemu/.xml? see attach. It looks like this host is using virtio drivers for disk and network, and that's usually the important bits. 

Re: A stop job is running for Entropy Gatherer Daemon? Really?

2019-05-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/4/19 4:13 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: In the good-old days, when integrating some new gizmo like rngd, by the nature of the beast you'll always check into how it works and make a minimal effort to learn its basics. Basic due diligence. From the linked bugzilla bug, it seems that rngd was co

Re: A stop job is running for Entropy Gatherer Daemon? Really?

2019-05-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/5/19 6:07 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: But the service knows that. Why isn't there a way to tell systemd that in the .service file? There's no use case for it.  rngd is expected to terminate (more or less) immediately after it gets sigterm.  If there were another directive to ignore shutdown

Re: Laptop and only 100% and 200% monitor scaling shown

2019-05-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/12/19 10:00 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: Any better experience if using XOrg in Fedora 30 with these kind of displays resolutions and dimensions? I haven't used it, but an Xorg solution is listed here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#Fractional_Scaling _

Re: really deep sleep mode?

2019-05-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/14/19 4:59 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: Is there some sort of ultra deep sleep mode sddm goes into if it has been unused for a while? I'd venture a guess that it's more likely the video driver locking up.  Use "journalctl" to get the logs from one of the failed periods and see if there are an

Re: No console login prompt

2019-05-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/19/19 10:41 PM, Michael Eager wrote: Does anyone know why console-getty.service is masked by default? (Where did you get the container image?) I don't know the answer, but my guess would be that a getty doesn't really serve a purpose in a container, since anyone who can access the cont

Re: No console login prompt

2019-05-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/20/19 9:47 AM, Michael Eager wrote: Getty serves the same purpose it does on real hardware Perhaps it's a matter of perspective.  getty does start a shell, but it's purpose (from my perspective) isn't to let authorized users in so much as it is to keep unauthorized users out.  In a cont

Re: bugzilla and python2-virtualenv

2019-06-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/2/19 3:00 PM, Martín Marqués wrote: FYI, it seems that down the road between fc28 and fc30 (don't have an fc29 handy to test this) the python2-virtualenv package doesn't come with `/usr/bin/virtualenv`. Is there a reason for the missing binary? From the package changelog: * Wed Aug 15 201

Re: rpmbuild

2019-06-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/9/19 7:29 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: How can I make a rpmbuild and keep the compiled files? Have you tried "rpmbuild --noclean"? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: gnuplot rpm

2019-06-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/9/19 6:48 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: which packages could provide this missing package in fedora 30? You should be able to pass the name of any dependency to dnf (or yum) to install it: dnf install 'tex(subfigure.sty)' 'pkgconfig(Qt5Core)' ... That'll answer your question to an extent,

Re: rpmbuild

2019-06-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/9/19 2:27 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/bin/JBrowseTest.pl Add that path to the %files section of the spec.  If you're maintaining this for redistribution, you might want to list the path as "%{_bindir}/JBrowseTest.pl"

Re: How to sign a locally compiled kernel so it can be booted with UEFI.

2019-06-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/10/19 11:39 AM, stan via users wrote: It still doesn't boot. Is there anyone here who has a successful technique for signing a locally compiled kernel so it will boot under UEFI? https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Kernel_Administration_Guide/sect

Re: rpmbuild

2019-06-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -name .packlist -exec rm -f {} \; @@ -42,16 +38,14 @@ %{_fixperms} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/* %check -make test - -%clean -rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT +PERL5LIB=%{buildroot}%{perl_vendorlib} \ + make test %files -%defattr(-,root,root,-) %doc Changes META.json READM

Re: rpmbuild

2019-06-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/14/19 2:38 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: 1) I expect that I would have to edit the .spec file That's right.  You do.  And that's expected. http://cpanspec.sourceforge.net/ indicates: "It is assumed that maintainers will need to do some (hopefully small) amount of work to clean up the genera

Re: Just did an upgrade and it took 12 hours??

2019-06-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/20/19 3:44 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Ended up taking just over 12 hours? Just wondering why the process took so long. IIRC, there will be dnf logs of the process.  I would take a look at those to see if the rate was steady for the entire period, or if there was a period of time wh

Re: New install

2019-06-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/21/19 5:35 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: But I get the following message: Your bios-based system needs a special partition to boot from a GPT disk label. To continue please create a 1Mb /biosboot type There is already a fedora installed on sdb Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Numb

Re: EFI partition

2019-06-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/21/19 1:35 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: What is the advantage in having the /boot/efi on a single partition, and not /boot for example (which was the case before EFI)? UEFI doesn't boot from code stuffed into a tiny section of the MBR.  Under UEFI, the non-volatile RAM holds a description of

Re: dnf update fails on f30

2019-08-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/2/19 12:54 PM, cen wrote: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/backports.ssl_match_hostname-3.5.0.1-py2.7.egg-info: cpio: File from package already exists as a directory in system tips? rpm -qf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/backports.ssl_matc

Re: Question on missing file from syslinux rpm?

2019-08-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/17/19 5:38 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: I use syslinux in the g4l project I've maintained since 2004, and noticed that Fedora 30 includes the later 6.04 version versus the latest full released 6.03 version. Did a test, and noted that all the files except display.c32 are include

Re: Question on missing file from syslinux rpm?

2019-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/18/19 2:36 AM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: It looks like 6.04 has been in use since mid-2016.  Even if I go back as far as Fedora 24, I don't see display.c32 in the syslinux-nonlinux package, where I'd expect it.  What was the last release that had the file you expect? ./syslin

Re: pip and python version

2019-08-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/29/19 1:54 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Will this automagically change on Jan 1, 2020? No, but it will be changed in Fedora 31: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_means_Python3 Is there a way to get it changed now and see what is in trouble (though there is very little pyt

Re: tar a flash drive

2019-09-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/4/19 8:20 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: For a USB drive it probably doesn't make much difference. Output will be buffered and speed is limited by the USB interface. If you aren't specifying a block size, the default block size tends to involve more round-trips through the kernel and thr

Re: repositories very out-of-date for Thunderbird version?

2019-09-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/16/19 7:08 PM, home user wrote: I have version 60.7.0; the person implied that the current version is 68.  That's 8 versions out-of-date.  I do a "dnf upgrade" every Thursday. No, Thunderbird 60 is not 8 versions out-of-date.  There was no major release in between 60 and 68: https://w

system-config-kickstart

2020-06-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
I don't need to use system-config-kickstart very often, but I do tend to recommend it to colleagues who are starting out automating setup processes. I've just noticed for the first time that the package is no longer available, because it was never ported to Python 3/GTK 3: https://src.fedorap

Re: DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/9/20 5:10 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: I have the following messages in dmesg output, are they indicating a cpu issue, or are they just indicating that because linux is running in a vm under windows, and hence sharing the cpu cores with windows that windows was using core 7 at the time the pr

Re: DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/10/20 2:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: In KVM/QEMU you can also pin specific cores to your VM to prevent competition between the host and guest (mainly by avoiding cache pollution as I understand it). CPU affinity can improve performance for NUMA systems, and does improve cache effici

Re: DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/10/20 9:36 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On 6/10/20 2:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: In KVM/QEMU you can also pin specific cores to your VM to prevent competition between the host and guest (mainly by avoiding cache pollution as I understand it). https://vfio.blogspot.com/2015/05/vfio-

Re: DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/11/20 3:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: It relates to competition in the sense that keeping host and guest to disjoint sets of cores avoids them competing for the same cores and hence contaminating the respective caches. That's all I mean. Don't read too much into it. Clearly the whole set

Re: DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/11/20 10:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: You can also specify that certain cores are dedicated to certain processes and the kernel won't schedule anything else on them. It looks like you can do that using a boot-time kernel argument (isolcpus), or by creating new exclusive cpusets.  I wasn't

Re: DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/12/20 8:42 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: The origonal reason for this thread was the issue with DMESG seeming to indicate a possible hardware issue on what looked to be core 7, or whether is was just that the monitoring process couldn't access the core at the time. Right.  Everything in thi

Re: DMESG Output Indicating Potential CPU Errors?

2020-06-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/13/20 3:13 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Not really what I suggested (or meant to suggest), In that case, I apologize for the misunderstanding. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@

Re: migrating drives on UEFI systems

2020-06-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/21/20 10:42 PM, Tim via users wrote: On the old BIOS systems, if I wanted to swap hard drives on a system (e.g. move over to a bigger one), I could clone it off-line, then swap over, and it'd just work. Should I expect a UEFI system to do it that simply? In theory, yes.  At least I think

Re: Strange Samba error

2020-06-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/30/20 3:27 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: What I can't figure out is where 'SAMBA<1b>' is coming from (I assume the <1b> is a non-printable byte at the end of the name). My smb.conf file contains: 1B is the domain master browser for the "SAMBA" workgroup.  Are you running nmbd in additio

Re: Strange Samba error

2020-06-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/30/20 8:41 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 07:23 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 6/30/20 3:27 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: What I can't figure out is where 'SAMBA<1b>' is coming from (I assume the <1b> is a non-printable byte

Re: /boot file system

2020-07-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 7/2/20 4:27 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: I prepared my HD, and use custom from fedora live but I always get /boot file system cannot be of type lvmlv While booting with /boot on lvmlv does work in some configurations, support was disabled in the installer as of Fedora 20 because not all confi

Re: I had a bad drive in a LMV setup after using 'vgreduce --removemissing --force vg00' I cannot mount the LVM

2020-07-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 7/2/20 8:01 AM, D&R wrote: I found instructions that resulted in failure to replace the bad drive. The 'bad' drive still works but the directions to add a new drive did not work. Removing a bad drive and adding a replacement is something you can only do when your LVs are redundant across P

Re: podman and PCI passthrough

2020-07-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 7/21/20 4:46 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: What is the argument I need to properly pass a PCI or PCIe device to a podman container at runtime (podman-run)? Assuming that it's supported by the OS running podman, I believe you can mount the device node inside the container using the --v

Re: port based routing

2020-08-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/2/20 12:27 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: I'm looking to make routing decisions based upon either the source or destination TCP port and interface/destination IP, in the Cisco world I'd do this via policy based routing. The same is true with iptables and firewalld.  The article you linked is

Re: My way of remembering the nmcli initialism

2020-08-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/3/20 2:18 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote: You mean Global Regular Expression search and Print? Holy crap!  Someone really wanted it to say GREP. "g", "re", "p" were/are the commands in the "ed" editor to search a file for regex and print the mat

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