Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, firefox, and flash
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 04:48:28PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote > I posted Friday about this oddity. Now I've got more data, and what's > happening is this: if I tell noscript to enable youtube and googlevideo in > one tab, not only does it affect *all* tabs, but also affects another > browser window opened from the first browser window. > > Anyone have any clues for a workaround fix? Generally, any change you make in a profile affects all tabs/windows opened by that profile. A workaround is to have a separate profile for each website (or group of websites) that you visit a lot. I've got over 20 profiles in Pale Moon ( a Firefox fork ) which still operates similarly to Firefox. Your program launcher/menubar would need to have entries corresponding to the separate profiles e.g. firefox -new-instance -p google firefox -new-instance -p slashdot firefox -new-instance -p wordpress firefox -new-instance -p youtube etc, etc. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Lenovo M900 with CentOS 7 strangeness
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 05:55:21PM +0100, SZ, Zsolt wrote > Hello, > > I would like to install CentOS 7.3 on my new Lenovo M900 machine. I am > using the official 1 DVD installer. The installation process was fine > without any error but after reboot the USB keyboard and the USB mouse did > not work. Therefore I was not able to type anything or pass the first boot > screen. Only the power button is working. > > Any idea why? I believe the installation media is using the same kernel > components as the installed machine. So why the installer is working and > the installed system is not? Did you disable UHCI (low speed) USB support during the install? USB keyboards and mice use that protocol on Intel and Via USB chipsets. There's also an OHCI (low speed) USB driver for non-x86 chipsets. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] current situation with flash plugins?
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:13:15AM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote > Is Adobe the only provider of flash plugins? Yes. > Is it still a gaping security hole? If not kept up-to-date, yes. Adobe changed their minds a few months ago, and now provide up-to-date Flash 24.X for linux, complete with security patches as required. Of course, "zero-day exploits" can still happen. > Do the answers depend on the browser? Most browsers nowadays have the option to set one of 3 values... 1) Never activate 2) Ask-to-Activate (like the old NoFlash plugin) 3) Always activate The settings can be different for each profile. If you often visit a site that requires flash, you can set up a separate profile for it, and select option 3. For other profiles, you can use options 1 and/or 2. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Licence text questions
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:43:39AM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote > The point I was making is to make the old CentOS 6.5 environment as > a chroot. That's exactly my intention. As I said in my original message... >> * or send out a 1.3 gigabyte centos65.tar.xz and give simple >>instructions to extract the archive, copy over /etc/resolv.conf, >>bind-mount /dev and /proc, chroot into the directory, and get >>going right away. The point of my first post was to ask about licencing. Regardless of whether I'm sending out a bootable ISO, or a QEMU disk image, or a tarred up chrootable directory, I'm re-distributing Open Source code and/or binaries, which I assume requires appropriate pointers to where they can be obtained. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Licence text questions
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 08:06:49AM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote > Wouldn't this be easier done as a mock chroot? I realize you're > not building RPMs, but you could use the chroot for building any > software, and on any arbitrary CentOS or Fedora system. 1) Not everybody runs Fedora/Redhat/CentOS 2) The builds I'm doing are targetted at distros, like Puppy linux, which use older libs with backported security fixes. Pale Moon built in a chroot or mock chroot in CentOS 6.8 and up, let alone any modern distro, does not run on "Lucid Puppy" linux. That's because it'll expect the newer libs on the target machine. This is why I have to provide the entire old CentOS 6.5 environment complete with older libs to build against. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Wich web browser on CentOS6 ?
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:37:09AM +0100, Patrick Bégou wrote > Yes David, I'm using a release 32 of Firefox to reach my olds C6100 > IDRAC7 interface. > The problem is for latest Firefox versions as they require libgtk-3 not > available in Centos6/RHEL6 distribution. > > Today I use a very very bad solution to reach my switch with latest > firmware version from the latest Firefox available in CentOS: I disable > https and use http > Even if it is on a private network, in a dedicated vlan behind a > firewall... I don't like this. Hello; Disclosure: I'm the person who does the Pale Moon (Firefox fork) SSE contributed build for linux. Note: this build is 32-bit only. See https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=40=13530=20#p105849 I subscribe to this list because I use a CentOS 6.5 chroot to do the builds, and I have occasional questions. SSE-only machines (i.e. no SSE2 instructions) are old Pentium 3 and similar. The SSE build will work on newer machines, but may be a bit slower than the standard build, because it does not use the SSE2 instruction set. Older machines often run distros like Puppy linux which use older glibc, gtk2, etc. Puppy linux does have security fixes backported. Because Pale Moon SSE version is built in CentOS 6.5, it should work in 32-bit CentOS. You can also try the mainline version of Pale Moon if you want 64-bit. http://linux.palemoon.org/ It uses gtk2, but I don't know if it's compatible with other old libraries that CentOS 6 uses. My build goes out of its way to be compatible with older libraries. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Licence text questions
I'm running a CentOS 6.5 chroot to build Pale Moon (a Firefox fork) for older machines running distros like Puppy linux. Before anyone asks... * Yes, even though the older machines are using "ancient" glibc, etc, they do have security patches back-ported, e.g. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90461 "Lucid Puppy Revitalized as 5.2.8.7 - December, 2016" * I realize that CentOS 6.5 is "not safe for surfing". It starts at the commandline, and the only network activity is pulling down source code with git, and scp to send the compiled package to the host, i.e. my desktop PC. If necessary, that could be done by the host OS. It's used for building, and nothing else. Currently just Pale Moon, but other software could also be built. Other people are interested in doing the same. My choices are... * explain how to install CentOS 6.5, which options to choose, turn off boot-to-gui, and how to download and build newer gcc, yasm, and python-2.7 to duplicate my build environment, etc, etc. * or send out a 1.3 gigabyte centos65.tar.xz and give simple instructions to extract the archive, copy over /etc/resolv.conf, bind-mount /dev and /proc, chroot into the directory, and get going right away. I'm not charging money, but the 2nd choice literally involves re-distributing CentOS, and additional Open Source software. I believe that I'm required to provide at least the location from which it can be obtained. Here's a first draft of my "licences.txt". Any problems, suggestions? The tarball is a collection of various Open Source software, assembled and bundled together by Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>. It's based on a 32-bit CentOS 6.5 install. Additional components necessary for the building of Pale Moon 27 were built from source. It was originally installed in a QEMU VM (Virtual Machine), and then rsync'd to a directory on the host machine for use as a chroot environment. The tarballed directory is intended to run as a chroot environment. The various softwares remain subject to their original licences. As required by many Open Source licences, here is a list of where the original software can be obtained. * The CentOS 6.5 distro can be obtained at http://vault.centos.org/6.5/isos/i386/CentOS-6.5-i386-bin-DVD1.iso http://vault.centos.org/6.5/isos/i386/CentOS-6.5-i386-bin-DVD2.iso DVD1 is approx 3.6 gigabytes and DVD2 is approx 1 gigabyte The following additional source code was downloaded and used to build additional infrastructure required for building Pale Moon. * Python 2.7.13 can be otained at https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.13/Python-2.7.13.tgz * gcc 4.9.4 can be obtained at http://gcc.parentingamerica.com/releases/gcc-4.9.4/gcc-4.9.4.tar.bz2 * gcc 5.4.0 can be obtained at http://gcc.parentingamerica.com/releases/gcc-5.4.0/gcc-5.4.0.tar.bz2 * YASM 1.3.0 can be obtained at http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.3.0.tar.gz ==== -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to downgrade gtk2 libs in CentOS 6.8?
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 11:24:14AM +, James Pearson wrote > One way would be to do the build on the same OS as the 'older linux' ? The 'older linux' is "Lucid Puppy Revitalized as 5.2.8.7 - December, 2016" http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90461 It's a low-memory end-user distro, targetted at really old, low-memory machines. It can do simple compiles, but it's not a development environment suitable for building Pale Moon, which is an independant Firefox fork. > However, CentOS 6.5 shipped with gtk2-2.20.1-4.el6, CentOS 6.6 and > above shipped with gtk-2.24 - see http://vault.centos.org/6.5/os/ Thanks for the pointer; I didn't know about that URL. I'll try to get 6.5 up and running as a VM. > Otherwise, use a CentOS 6.5 VM to do the build (with the usual caveats > that 6.5 is old/out-of-date/etc)? That seems the best route. As it was, even on 6.8, I had to "yum install autoconf213", and manually downloand tarballs and build from source yasm, python 2.7, and gcc 4.9.4. I'm not a programmer, but I can "./configure --with-options && make && make install". It's no more difficult than "yum install ". I realize that CentOS 6.5 is "not safe for surfing", but I'll be using it only for doing builds. The build will not be statically linking in libraries, so CentOS security holes are not a problem. Lucid Puppy has an "ancient" glibc, but has backported patches for the "Ghost" exploit, etc. Ditto for ssl and other exploits. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] How to downgrade gtk2 libs in CentOS 6.8?
Hi all. I'm using a CentOS 6.8 VM to do volunteer builds for an open source project. I want to build Pale Moon with a gtk2 library older than 2.24, to allow people with older linuxes to run it. Short summary, if built against version gtk2-2.24 and/or higher, the binary will use a function that does not exist in gtk2-2.23 and lower. Net result is that the program dies with an "undefined symbol:" error for people with machines lower than gtk2-2.24. Yes, before you ask, they do get security fixes backported. The hits from my Google search suggested... yum downgrade gtk2 The response from yum was... Only Upgrade available on package: gtk-2.24.23-8.e16.i686 Nothing to do Are there ways around this? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SCL devtoolset-3 or 4 without eclipse?
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 09:47:29AM -0800, Robert Arkiletian wrote > Is there a way to install devtoolset packages without the bloat of eclipse? > > I just want the new compiler and toolchain, not a big IDE. > > BTW devtoolset-3 dependencies are broken in yum with C6 You can do it manually as per the instructions at https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC Step 1) Download and extract the tarball for the gcc version you need. I'll use gcc-5.4.0 in this example. Substitute whichever version you actually need. # wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gcc/gcc-5.4.0/gcc-5.4.0.tar.bz2 tar xjf gcc-5.4.0.tar.bz2 # Step 2) The tarball does not contain gmp, mpc, mpfr, and isl libs. To get them, and have them compiled in when you build gcc, you *MUST* run the "download_prerequisites" script from the top-level GCC source dir. It downloads and extracts the appropriate versions corresponding to the version of gcc that you've downloaded. # cd gcc-5.4.0 contrib/download_prerequisites # Step 3) Build and install gcc. The flags and enabled languages you need may differ from mine, so check the "configure" parameters for your use case. I've enabled backwards compatability, and set it to install in $HOME/gcc540 so that the entire build+install process can be done as a regular user. Note that you *MUST NOT* run ./configure from the GCC source dir. # mkdir gcc-5.4.0/gcc-build && cd gcc-5.4.0/gcc-build ../configure --prefix=$HOME/gcc540 \ --disable-multilib \ --enable-libstdcxx-threads \ --enable-libstdcxx-time \ --enable-shared \ --enable-__cxa_atexit \ --disable-libunwind-exceptions \ --disable-libada \ --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible # # Depends on how many cores your cpu has. make -j4 make install # Step 4) Your /usr/bin/gcc remains the default gcc compiler. When you want to use the gcc from $HOME/gcc540 you must *SOURCE* the following commands. Put them in a *PLAIN TEXT* file. Do *NOT* set it executable or begin it with "#!/bin/bash". Think of it as an "include file for bash". If the file is named "setgcc", then execute it like so at the start of your build script... # . setgcc # The commands in the file, to run gcc from $HOME/gcc540 would be # export GCCX_ROOT=$HOME/gcc540 export PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/bin:$PATH export MANPATH=$GCCX_ROOT/share/man:MANPATH export INFOPATH=$GCCX_ROOT/share/info:$INFOPATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/lib64:$GCCX_ROOT/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LD_RUN_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/lib64:$GCCX_ROOT/lib:$LD_RUN_PATH export LIBRARY_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/lib64:$GCCX_ROOT/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH export INCLUDE_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/include:$INCLUDE_PATH export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/include:$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH export C_INCLUDE_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/include:$C_INCLUDE_PATH # The above assumes a 64-bit install. If you're running a 32-bit install, change all occurences of "lib64" to "lib". -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] FireFox and Plugins
On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 09:37:03PM -0700, Alice Wonder wrote > While doing a browser fingerprinting survey, I was quite surprised to > see I actually have a FireFox plugin installed. > > The culprit is > > /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so > > It appears that whoever maintains the rhythmbox RPM has chosen not to > package the browser plugin separately like it probably should be. So if > I have the rhythmbox RPM installed, I have the plugin. > > This is rather worrisome because I can find no trace of the plugin in > the Mozilla preferences panel, so if it is there it is very well hidden > and if it really isn't there, it can't be disabled there. > > Is there some kind of blacklist file I can put in > /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ or ~/.mozilla/plugins/ to specifically tell > FireFox not to load that plugin, or do I have to uninstall rhythmbox? How about manually... sudo rm /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so You'll have to do it each time you update rhytmbox. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
