Re: [CentOS] Fix for CVE-2020-1971 on CentOS 6.10
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 same as Simon's apart from whitespace and formatting. It's been deployed on a CentOS 6 system that can't be upgraded yet due to... reasons. Seems to work in the limited testing I've done. Cheers, Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] virt-manager with dhcpd running on same machine
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 by virt-manager: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7884 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154953 The workaround mentioned in the bug reports is to downgrade dnsmasq to the version from CentOS 6.5. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1503 ) on x86_64
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 arguments. >It is what we are using in the future. I suggest you become familiar >with it. You can call it what you like. I'll still call it CentOS 7.1. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Gnome-3 - can't drag menu items out
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 for >more than pretty wallpaper? I'm not at my usual machines so I don't have access to CentOS 7 or GNOME 3 at the moment. And even if did I tend not to bother with stuff on the desktop so I couldn't help with that anyway. However, if it's menu items in the top bar you want I do have an app for that, or rather a GNOME Shell extension. Visit https://extensions.gnome.org and search for 'Frippery Panel Favorites'. You might need to 'yum install gnome-shell-browser-plugin' first to allow extensions to be installed from the website. Frippery Panel Favorites displays icons in the top bar for applications that have been configured as favourites in the overview screen. It works in standard GNOME Shell and in classic mode. I find it much less distracting than having to switch to the overview to access frequently-used applications. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 6.6 and webcams
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 (Gustavo Duarte) [1162072 1145805] The related CentOS bug report is here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7815 Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.6: Webcam problem
Phil Wyett 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 fixed in the centos plus >kernel, but there is a wait to see what Red Hat will do. This is a >kernel issue and all kernel bugs are locked from public view bar Red Hat >people and the reporter. > >Issue seen and fixed in plus kernel: > >http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7815 I know all that: it was covered in the thread last month, where I promised to report any progress on the Red Hat bug. I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 6.6: Webcam problem
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. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.6: Webcam problem
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 http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.6: Webcam problem
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 bug report? thanks I'm seeing the same problem on three different machines. The last kernel that works is 2.6.32-431.23.3. I've raised a bug report with Red Hat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158988 Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] firefox: annoyance
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. On Fedora I've switched to Midori. I don't want 'tabs on top' and over the past several releases the Firefox developers have been making it more and more difficult to configure that. It used to be the default but now it requires a third-party extension and jumping through several hoops. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to setup VNC for GDM access on 6.3
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 this kind of thing up many years ago on CentOS 4. I was curious to see if it still worked on CentOS 6 and found that this works for me: Edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf to add 'Enable=true' to the '[xdmcp]' section. Restart gdm. (I just did 'telinit 3; telinit 5'.) Run this command to start a server: /usr/bin/Xvnc :1 -query localhost -geometry 1100x850 -securitytypes none & Given a properly configured (or disabled) firewall you should then be able to run 'vncviewer hostname:1' to get a login screen. Once you've logged in the session will persist even if you close vncviewer, so you can reconnect later. This is, of course, hopelessly insecure. Starting Xvnc from xinetd is also possible, but then sessions aren't persistent. For some reason that I've never been able to fathom if you log out from a persistent session there's an annoying delay until the login screen reappears. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Extracting the window (titlebar) name from a bash script?
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. It probably wouldn't be too hard to build for CentOS 5 if you needed it there. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ntp update version
Akemi Yagi wrote: >You may want to check upon this CentOS bug report: > >http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4060 Which has been closed as 'no change required'. Some change is required. As things stand my systems are on version 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_8.2, the CentOS name for the August update. There's an October update called 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_8.centos.2 which has the same changelog as the August one, and which wasn't installed because it has a lower version number. Now there's a new update with version 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_8.1 which has important fixes in it, but which is also not being installed because it has a lower number than the incorrectly versioned August update. The CentoS version on the August update is wrong (it should have been 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_7.2) and it's preventing the December update from being installed. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] ntp update version
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 in CentOS it's actually 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_8.2. The changelog says the latest update is 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_8.1, which is what CentOS has, but that's a lower version than the August update. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] EL4 EPEL mirrors missing headers
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 http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
