Re: Intermittent freezing

Chris Smart: >> hmm... The Fedora flash page >> suggests nspluginwrapper for 32-bit systems. That's odd. (Written >> by security people?) >> > > Adobe canned the native 64bit plugin which is now highly vulnerable > (and won't be fixed) I had used that highly v

Re: Intermittent freezing

L : > Well, sadly say, problem is still there. when a web page with some > media component opened, most likely, it frozed. I am confident that > "Firefox's npviewer.bin" is the prime culprit. If I'm not mistaken, npviwer.bin is part of nspluginwrapper which enables 32-bit plugins to run on 64-bit

Re: Intermittent freezing

>> If your laptop uses Intel graphics, the culprit might be: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528312 >> >> I had a similar problem and was able to fix it by undoing the fedora >> patch for xorg-x11-drv-intel as suggested by Colin Macdonald: >> > > I had similar problem with HP NC

Re: Intermittent freezing

Nigel Bishop : > I am running Fedora 13 with Linux Kernel 2.6.33-3.85.fc13.x86_64 with Gnome > 2.30.0 on HP laptop ProBook 4510S > > At times, it almost freezes, with very slow response to the keyboard. System > monitor shows that something is hogging the CPU. Sometimes, after a few > minutes, it

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

Patrick O'Callaghan : > If the behaviour has changed then of course it becomes slightly more > difficult, but still feasible. Since the file is still open (though > unlinked) just link to /proc//fd/ It's not feasible. You cannot create a hard link from /proc entries. -- users mailing list users

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

Ian Malone : >> I was just curious about how Patrick manages to link to a deleted file. >> > > I assumed this meant hardlink to it before it is deleted, then when > the entry in firefox's tmp is deleted you still have a link to it. The new flash player (preview 2) unlinks a temp file right after

Re: Hole in 64-bit Linux kernel provides root rights

> Explain how you could have possibly compiled it let > alone run it. Please don't. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guid

Re: Suspend "lid switch" & NetworkManager

I wrote: > I had a similar problem with Lenovo T500 yesterday. It was not > reproducible reliably, and oddly the symptom is completely gone > today. > > There is a bug report against kernel 2.6.34.6-47: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629291 > > with a possible fix. Ouch. After hi

Re: Suspend "lid switch" & NetworkManager

> I may be seeing something similar or related. I think I am seeing > a second sleep/suspend fail. Close the lid and it goes to sleep. > Open the lid and it wakes up. Close the lid again and it hangs. > I'll gather some evidence and report back, probably Monday. > uname -r: 2.6.34.6-47.fc13.x86_

Re: SELinux

> And since he is not a criminal, he published his findings so that > Adobe can fix the appropriate hole. Thanks for the link. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: SELinux

>> Just count the known incidents of such exploits. ZERO. No WMD. > > Hmmm. Is that why we run it on our systems? Just for the record I > cannot discuss anything else, but believe me, the vulnerabilities > and their exploits do exist. The "such exploits" refers to buffer overrun type exploits (I

Re: SELinux

>> Just count the known incidents of such exploits. ZERO. No WMD. > > Pure bullshit. There are PLENTY of UNIX/Linux systems that are 'powned'. You misunderstood my sentence. out of context. this is the second time. you are knocking a strawman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: SELinux

;;; the clueless sent the mail directly to you again. Sorry. ;;; >> Just count the known incidents of such exploits. ZERO. No WMD. > > Wrong again You mentioned "Dowd exploit of flash". Google returns: "IBM researcher Mark Dowd has outlined a Flash vulnerability that could allow for a r

Re: SELinux

> Of course flash, firefox, all the image libraries it uses and the font > libraries are perfect and never had a bug triggerable remotely - right ? I have never said or suggest such things. for the record. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o

Re: SELinux

>> I assume you know the chances that an average linux user actually >> get exploited in that way is very low. > > Don't expect that to last. Windows users get hosed by web browser > and plugin bugs a lot. Right now it isn't worth the trouble to set > up similar exploits for Linux systems. S

Re: SELinux

>> I assume you know the chances that an average linux user actually get >> exploited in that way is very low. > > I would love to see the academic paper reference for this and the > analysis as to why - maybe it's because most of them use SELinux ;) Just count the known incidents of such exp

Re: SELinux

;;; sorry again -- my thunderbird habit does not work for your message >> Well, please educate me. All I hear from advocates is "more >> security" without a concrete example. You mentioned the danger of >> emails get stolen without SELinux. Please give me the scenario. So >> we can gauge the r

Re: SELinux

;;; sorry other one goes straight to you > Linus is not exactly famous for his ability to understand security > concepts. I find the fact your argument is produced by google and > cut/paste rather than technical material ... enlightening Well, please educate me. All I hear from advocates is "m

Re: SELinux

>> Likewise for people vehemently advocating to disable SELinux, I view >> them with a great deal of suspicion. Is it simply they really do not >> like it, or do they have ulterior motives? > > Neither. Initially, when trying to use it, they typically notice > something stops working. Then,

Re: SELinux

>> So you measure the quality of the programs with SELinux. Ouch. > > I certainly put bad marks against programs which do unwise things > Unwise according to SELinux -- another program. >> Linux is not Microsoft Windows. > > Though some programmers seem to think that it should be. Some > users,

Re: pkg for gnome daemon configuration

> anyone know what package I've to install on fedora 12 to configure > daemon/services startup ? ntsysv -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wi

Re: SELinux

> You have to wonder if those programs had such big problems because they > were badly coded, trying to do things that they shouldn't do. So you measure the quality of the programs with SELinux. Ouch. > You see warnings with some programs about it trying to make something > executable that SELin

Re: SELinux

> I've had exactly the opposite experience running SELinux, even with hand- > compiled applications from a variety of sources - including my own. You say "the opposite" but you seem to have a lot of problems and spent fair amount of time because of SELinux. And what you get in return? Nothing exce

Re: SELinux

>> I would advise Patrick to disable Selinux. I've made that decision >> long ago because it gives me more problems when enabled that I can >> possibly solve. IMHO the user interface is so bad that selinux is >> unuseable for an ordinary enduser. > > So what is the purpose of SELinux ? Theod

Re: Removing user list from login screen.

> How can you rmove the list of users that can login from login screen? On Fedora 13 you should be able to do that through accounts-dialog . Unfortunately, there is a bug: Bug 590456 : Broken login widget with gdm-2.30.2 when "disable_user_list" set to "true" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

> As someone who actually doesn't care much if the mail is HTML or Text, > can I just point out that one of the arguments against HTML is that it > is a waste of other people's bandwidth. > > Much like this discussion thread. Yes. Actually I agree with you. And you too have just contributed to it

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

>>> why does a "multipart/mixed" declaration in the header make >>> it html? >> >> It does not. >> > It IMPLIES that there are mulitple parts, Huh? IMPLIES!? Of course multipart IMPLIES multiple-parts. Isn't that fucking OBVIOUS? > one of which can be text/html. Or something else. > The filte

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

>>> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; >>> >>> boundary="===1539751590095400808==" >> >> This is HTML mail. If it were text, this would be text/plain... bah. HTML is text too. It's called "text/html", which is not "multipart/mixed". They are not related. > why does a "multipart/mi

Re: system mail

> I always wondered why system mail was not delievered in utf-8. But it was. ANSI_X3.4-1968 = US-ASCII ⊂ UTF-8 It's like calling {1, 2, 3} a set of natural numbers instead of integers. Sigh. Am I invisible? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscriptio

Re: system mail

> Now, as I scroll down, I see that the system mail is sent as: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ANSI_X3.4-1968" > > However, my system is set up to use UTF-8. ANSI_X3.4-1968 is the canonical name for US-ASCII. And UTF-8 is compatible with US-ASCII. -- users mailing list users@lists.fe

Re: Flash on 64 bit systems (was Re: Firefox 4 repo)

> I think FlashBlock would be a fairly good compromise. If you're using > FlashBlock, you can safely wander around the web knowing that no flash you > do not explicitly authorize will be running. Unfortunately FlashBlock is useless. I tested it on a malicious swf file, and the firefox immediately

Re: Question on recording of audio output of steaming websites from sound card in my Fedora Linux 11

> Given this case is there a generic procedure to record audio output from > sound card in my Fedora Linux 11 ? Try pavucontrol. (I don't know if it's available on the Fedora 11 repo though.) I found it via: Redirect Audio Out to Mic In http://www.kirsle.net/blog.html?u=kirsle&id=79 --

Re: FlashPlayer-10.1.X86_64 RPM ?

> The point is this 10.0.45.2 build has a serious security flaw which > has been fixed in the more recent 10.1 RC build. I wonder how serious the security threat is. Since the warning, I installed Flashblock plugin for firefox but stopped using it after a while. I just can't take the warning ser

Re: Setting gnome-terminal size

Jonathan Ryshpan: > It looks like it ought to work, but it doesn't. No effect on the size > of a terminal started using > Rt-click (anywhere in the terminal)->Open Terminal > Should I submit a bug? This looks like the same bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=581097 > Further