Re: [CentOS] Fix for CVE-2020-1971 on CentOS 6.10

2020-12-16 Thread Ron Yorston
Simon Matter wrote: >Since security updates for CentOS 6 are not provided anymore, I've decided >to try my best to address CVE-2020-1971 and I welcome others to do the >same for this and other new issues which may come up. Thanks to Simon for doing this. I made my own patch which ended up the

Re: [CentOS] virt-manager with dhcpd running on same machine

2015-08-28 Thread Ron Yorston
Jerry Geis wrote: If I have dhcpd running on my machine, and I wish to run virt-manager on the same machine How do I do that - its telling me an error for starting the network and the error is that DHCPD is already running - port in use. It seems there's a problem with dnsmasq, which is used

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1503 ) on x86_64

2015-04-01 Thread Ron Yorston
Johnny Hughes wrote: This was discussed on the CentOS-Devel mailing list and approved by the CentOS Board. Yes, it was discussed at great length on centos-devel. The core developers proposed a date-based versioning system which met with much opposition. I certainly wasn't convinced by their

Re: [CentOS] Gnome-3 - can't drag menu items out

2015-02-10 Thread Ron Yorston
Les Mikesell wrote: I've mostly been using MATE from epel when I use GUI access on CentOS7 because it works with x2go, but just noticed on a system with Gnome3 that I can't drag items out of the menus to the desktop or top bar for easier access. Is there some way to make the desktop space useful

[CentOS] CentOS 6.6 and webcams

2015-01-29 Thread Ron Yorston
The issue of webcams not working with recent kernels on CentOS 6.6 has come up a number of times on the list. I'm happy to report that the latest kernel (2.6.32-504.8.1) appears to have fixed the problem. The relevant changelog entry is: - [usb] ehci: Fix a regression in the ISO scheduler

[CentOS] CentOS 6.6: Webcam problem

2014-12-12 Thread Ron Yorston
Last month we discussed the problems with webcams in CentOS 6 and I raised Bugzilla #1158988 with Red Hat. This bug has now been declared a duplicate of 1145805. Unfortunately I'm unable to access that report so although I know Red Hat are looking into the matter I don't know what they're doing.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.6: Webcam problem

2014-12-12 Thread Ron Yorston
Phil Wyett philwy...@aura-tech-systems.co.uk wrote: Could you be more specific about your issue? Does the webcam get detected? if you use 'cheese' do you get any errors in say 'dmesg'? There has been a webcam issue of late that seems to trace back to a regression with the latest kernels. This was

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.6: Webcam problem

2014-11-03 Thread Ron Yorston
Akemi Yagi wrote: Perhaps, Ron can update the RH bugzilla with this info so that the upstream kernel gets fixed. I've added a reference to the CentOS bug in RH bugzilla. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.6: Webcam problem

2014-11-02 Thread Ron Yorston
bax bax wrote: Hi I have a lenovo w530 laptop with integrated camera. with the new kernel 2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64 webcam dont' works on /var/log/messages i can see: localhost kernel: uvcvideo: Failed to submit URB 0 (-28). If I boot with old kernels webcam is ok can I fix it? can someone file a

Re: [CentOS] firefox: annoyance

2014-09-25 Thread Ron Yorston
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: palemoon looks nice My concern with Pale Moon is that it's based on the Firefox 24 extended support release, which is no longer supported. Don't know how that'll play out. In the meantime I've added exclude=firefox to my yum configuration and am sticking with Firefox 24.

Re: [CentOS] How to setup VNC for GDM access on 6.3

2013-01-23 Thread Ron Yorston
Bruce Ferrell wrote: I'm looking for pointer for setting up VNC so that access to the system is via gdm/kdm. Yes, I know about vino, and /etc/sysconfig/vncservers but what I'm looking for is a sertup that allows me to see the *dm login screen instead of being dropped direct into a desktop. I set

Re: [CentOS] Extracting the window (titlebar) name from a bash script?

2012-07-22 Thread Ron Yorston
Fernando Cassia wrote: Surely there' s a way to obtain the window name -which appears on the Window Manager' s Titlebar- for running processes, right?. Well, I can't find it... wmctrl with the '-l -p' flags provides a list of windows with names and PIDs. It's in EPEL for CentOS 6, though not 5.

[CentOS] ntp update version

2009-12-10 Thread Ron Yorston
I noticed that although I'd fetched the latest update to ntp from the mirror it wasn't being installed. It seems that the version numbers have got out of step. According to the changelog the update that was released in August should have had the version number 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_7.2, whereas

[CentOS] EL4 EPEL mirrors missing headers

2009-11-09 Thread Ron Yorston
The EPEL mirrors for EL4 no longer have a headers directory, just repodata. This means that up2date has stopped working. Is this a problem with EPEL or with my system? Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org