Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Yep, so many ways to solve the problem. Just depends on what the goal of end user happens to be. At least the most pressing issue for the OP has been resolved as the partition no longer mounts RO. I find it odd that

Re: Secure Transactions

2014-09-01 Thread Tod Merley
Thanks for the spoof response Heinz! So lets say I do see a wrong fingerprint. As in ghost busting who am I gonna call!? On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Heinz Diehl htd...@fritha.org wrote: On 01.09.2014, jd1008 wrote: As I said, the caveat of all add-on is that they are just as

Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

2014-09-01 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2014-08-31 at 22:48 -0700, Tod Merley wrote: My test for a bad CMOS battery is simply to load the default CMOS values - make sure the machine is NOT turned off - and see if the problem goes away - but returns after the machine is turned off (for a time). I've come across computers

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/01/14 14:04, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Yep, so many ways to solve the problem. Just depends on what the goal of end user happens to be. At least the most pressing issue for the OP has been resolved as the partition

Re: Secure Transactions

2014-09-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.09.2014, Tod Merley wrote: So lets say I do see a wrong fingerprint. As in ghost busting who am I gonna call!? The person(s) who is/are responsible for the bank/netshop whatever you're trying to communicate with. In most cases, they could connect you with whoever operates the

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 09/01/14 14:04, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Yep, so many ways to solve the problem. Just depends on what the goal of end user happens to be. At

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/01/14 14:55, Sudhir Khanger wrote: I ran sudo scrub -fp dod /dev/sdb It show it is mounted as RW but it is actually RO. [donnie@fedora ~]$ mount | grep /dev/sdc /dev/sdc1 on /run/media/donnie/storejet type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: What do you mean? If you do sudo touch /run/media/donnie/storejet/x what do you get? That works fine that will write file x with root:root I was checking dmesg. There are some interesting errors and remounting

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/01/14 15:08, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: What do you mean? If you do sudo touch /run/media/donnie/storejet/x what do you get? That works fine that will write file x with root:root Yes Which *PROVES* it is

Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

2014-09-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/31/2014 11:13 PM, Tim wrote: I've come across computers that foul up when powered up with a dead CMOS battery. I get the impression that some BIOSs have parts of themselves powered only by the battery, and don't get anything from the main power supply. Well, of course. What do you

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 09/01/14 15:08, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: What do you mean? If you do sudo touch /run/media/donnie/storejet/x what do you get? That works

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/01/14 15:30, Sudhir Khanger wrote: Yes, the disk is being mounted as RW but not as a regular user. On your system when mounting ext4 usb-storage through a graphical file manager like Dolphin or Nautilus is it mounted under root:root user? The disk gets mounted with permissions and

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/01/14 15:30, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On your system when mounting ext4 usb-storage through a graphical file manager like Dolphin or Nautilus is it mounted under root:root user? Yes... UNTIL I fix it with using the chown command as I've now said multiple times. -- If you can't laugh at

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Yes... UNTIL I fix it with using the chown command as I've now said multiple times. I will have to try other distribution. I don't remember doing anything like that when mounting through graphical means. I was talking

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/01/14 16:07, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Yes... UNTIL I fix it with using the chown command as I've now said multiple times. I will have to try other distribution. I don't remember doing anything like that when

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Sudhir Khanger sud...@sudhirkhanger.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Yes... UNTIL I fix it with using the chown command as I've now said multiple times. I will have to try other distribution. I don't

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: If you want to not worry about user and group names then simply change to use a different filesystem type mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdg1 or whatever partition is to be hold the file system. If you regularly move files across

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/01/14 16:13, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Sudhir Khanger sud...@sudhirkhanger.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Yes... UNTIL I fix it with using the chown command as I've now said multiple times. I will have

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Once you chown on the file system you never have to do it again. I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. The only way to tell if this is a mountain or a molehill is to try some other distribution. Thank you

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/01/14 16:25, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Once you chown on the file system you never have to do it again. I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. The only way to tell if this is a mountain or a molehill is

Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

2014-09-01 Thread Tim
Tim: I've come across computers that foul up when powered up with a dead CMOS battery. I get the impression that some BIOSs have parts of themselves powered only by the battery, and don't get anything from the main power supply. Joe Zeff: Well, of course. What do you think powers the CMOS

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/01/14 16:25, Sudhir Khanger wrote: The only way to tell if this is a mountain or a molehill is to try some other distribution. I guess you'll find no joy in Ubuntu. Installed a test system and plugged in my drive and allowed it to be automounted egreshko@ubuntu:~$ mount | grep

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 09/01/14 16:25, Sudhir Khanger wrote: The only way to tell if this is a mountain or a molehill is to try some other distribution. I guess you'll find no joy in Ubuntu. Installed a test system and plugged in my

Update conflict libplist

2014-09-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
How do I resolve these package upgrade conflicts? Error: Package: upower-0.99.0-3.fc20.x86_64 (@rhughes-f20-gnome-3-12-x86_64) Requires: libplist.so.1()(64bit) Removing: libplist-1.10-2.fc20.x86_64 (@koji-override-0/$releasever) libplist.so.1()(64bit)

Re: Update conflict libplist

2014-09-01 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 September 2014 15:57, Sudhir Khanger sud...@sudhirkhanger.com wrote: How do I resolve these package upgrade conflicts? Build in progress: http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/rhughes/f20-gnome-3-12/build/30422/ Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 01 September 2014, Sudhir Khanger sent: one possibility is that I use same username across systems which might have made it possible to mount with RW without superuser privileges. Yes, but... It's not so much the user name that's important, but the *numerical* user and

Unexpected upgrade

2014-09-01 Thread Aaron Konstam
I have been away from Fedora for awhile so forgive me if the answer to my question is well known. I installed FC18 onto my laptop when it forst cam out some time ago. Since then all I did was yum upgrades and selected yum installs. So I was surprised to find that the version running on my laptop

Re: Cannot unlock screen after prolonged period of time

2014-09-01 Thread Where Where
As a separate issue, it looks like ctrl+alt+f1 (or any of the F keys) does not switch to a virtual console, so I can't try the above. Are there common issues that prevent either virtual consoles from spawning or users switching to them? On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Chris Murphy

Re: Unexpected upgrade

2014-09-01 Thread Steven Stern
On 09/01/2014 10:41 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: I have been away from Fedora for awhile so forgive me if the answer to my question is well known. I installed FC18 onto my laptop when it forst cam out some time ago. Since then all I did was yum upgrades and selected yum installs. So I was

Re: Get rid of the message: session opened for user

2014-09-01 Thread Pete Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2014 08:58 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, Thanks. I checked all three options Rick suggested and none of them worked. Does anybody know about a solution which works ? regards, Kevin On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Rick Stevens

Re: Get rid of the message: session opened for user

2014-09-01 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi, I'm curious - why? The reason is quite simple: I am a kernel developer and sometimes ssh into my machine in several ssh sessions, many times during work sessions I monitor the kernel log by tail -f /var/log/messages, and any clutter of text simply distracts me and is not needed as I am

Re: Get rid of the message: session opened for user

2014-09-01 Thread Pete Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/01/2014 11:53 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I'm curious - why? The reason is quite simple: I am a kernel developer and sometimes ssh into my machine in several ssh sessions, many times during work sessions I monitor the kernel log by tail

Re: Get rid of the message: session opened for user

2014-09-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 20:53:56 +0300 Kevin Wilson wrote: I am working in an isolated LAN in a LAB, there is no outside access and no risk of penetration. Also the fact that you get the same useless message for cron scripts as for an outside login makes the message utterly useless. There are so

Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

2014-09-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/01/2014 03:28 AM, Tim wrote: I was thinking in the other direction: That when mains power is available, the main supply powers the CMOS instead of the battery, to prolong its life. Not only does the regular power supply run the CMOS, it recharges the battery, which is why they last so

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/01/2014 07:04 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote: I haven't had time to look into it myself but more I read about ext4 your tryst explaining me earlier becomes more clear that permissions persist with the filesystem. Now that I think more about it one possibility is that I use same username across

OT: Recognizing USB audio device

2014-09-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I have a USB audio device which is recognized correctly on my Fedora system (Fedora-20 with all updates running KDE) but is not recognized by another Linux system (a Samsung Chromebook). Can anyone tell me how Fedora recognizes the device, so I can figure out whether it would be practical to

Re: Cannot unlock screen after prolonged period of time

2014-09-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Where Where: As a separate issue, it looks like ctrl+alt+f1 (or any of the F keys) does not switch to a virtual console, so I can't try the above. Are there common issues that prevent either virtual consoles from spawning or users switching to them? I think you have to press the “fn”

Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

2014-09-01 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/01/2014 03:28 AM, Tim wrote: I was thinking in the other direction: That when mains power is available, the main supply powers the CMOS instead of the battery, to prolong its life. Not only does the regular power supply run

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

2014-09-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/01/14 22:04, Sudhir Khanger wrote: I haven't had time to look into it myself but more I read about ext4 your tryst explaining me earlier becomes more clear that permissions persist with the filesystem. Now that I think more about it one possibility is that I use same username across

Re: Cannot unlock screen after prolonged period of time

2014-09-01 Thread Where Where
Just did; that did the trick! Thanks! On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de wrote: * Where Where: As a separate issue, it looks like ctrl+alt+f1 (or any of the F keys) does not switch to a virtual console, so I can't try the above. Are there common issues

Starting programs at the beginning of an xmonad session

2014-09-01 Thread Where Where
Greetings, Fedora seems to be ignoring my ~/.Xsession file with regards to programs to start at the beginning of an xmonad session. Is there another magical configuration file into which I can put programs to run at the beginning of each session? Daniel -- users mailing list

Re: Problems with screen to serial usb on F17

2014-09-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/29/2014 09:41 PM, poma wrote: On 29.08.2014 23:15, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have an old F17 Asus Eee700 and trying to hook it to a USB TTL UART as a serial console to some armv7 systems using screen: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 I am getting garbage characters. Not all the time, but

Re: Problems with screen to serial usb on F17

2014-09-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/29/2014 09:41 PM, poma wrote: On 29.08.2014 23:15, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have an old F17 Asus Eee700 and trying to hook it to a USB TTL UART as a serial console to some armv7 systems using screen: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 I am getting garbage characters. Not all the time, but

Re: Problems with screen to serial usb on F17

2014-09-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 19:08 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: # cu -s speed -l /dev/ttyUSB0 $ man 1 cu # cu -s 11520 -l /dev/ttyUSB0 cu: Unsupported baud rate 11520 Never heard of 11520 baud. Presumably you meant to type 115200. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: bootstrapping from a USB stick

2014-09-01 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com | On Aug 31, 2014, at 9:00 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com wrote: | | I have an oldish PC that only understands booting from 512-byte | sectors and then only with MBR disks. | | I want to install large new disks on it, and no old disks.

Re: Problems with screen to serial usb on F17

2014-09-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 09/01/2014 07:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 19:08 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: # cu -s speed -l /dev/ttyUSB0 $ man 1 cu # cu -s 11520 -l /dev/ttyUSB0 cu: Unsupported baud rate 11520 Never heard of 11520 baud. Presumably you meant to type 115200. ARGH

Re: Get rid of the message: session opened for user

2014-09-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I'm curious - why? The reason is quite simple: I am a kernel developer and sometimes ssh into my machine in several ssh sessions, many times during work sessions I monitor the kernel log by tail -f /var/log/messages, and any clutter of text simply

Re: f21 workstation(gnome) ping fedora servers every 300seconds

2014-09-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.08.2014, bitlord wrote: There is a new feature introduced in Gnome and NetworkManager which allows 'Captive Portal'[1] services to work. This may be useful feature for some users (that is why it is implemented), but most users won't use it, and it pings fedora servers every