Re: USB Broadband mobile

2018-01-04 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thank for the idea,   Actually, the pin is OK,   THis is waht I get:   mcli -m 4 --simple-connect="pin=,apn=3G"   error: couldn't connect the modem: 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.Error.MobileEquipment.NetworkPuk: Device is locked: 'ph-net-puk''     ttyUSB4 gsm

Re: Device or resource busy when trying to do a software update

2018-01-04 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, 03 Jan 2018 20:11:29 +0100 Martin Wagner wrote: > On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 18:45 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Jan 2018 20:06:24 +0100 > > Martin Wagner wrote: [ ... ] > > Did you try to log out from your X (Gnome?) before the upgrade? Then > > switch to a tty (can be r

Re: Can't create volatile files... -- What is "gluster"?

2018-01-04 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 23:23 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > Here are the results of the commands you asked about: > > > > $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gluster.conf > > > > glusterfs-3.12.4-1.fc27.x86_64 > > I suspect that it was brought in by qemu. Did you install > virtualization packages? Th

Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

2018-01-04 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
What do people know about Fedora vs. the Meltdown and Spectre bugs? And should I enable "site isolation" in my browsers?___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: NetworkManager-wait-online is still utterly, and completely, broken

2018-01-04 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/03/2018 04:53 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: As a network admin, I can see no reason to remove a fixed IP address from a NIC based on whether or not there's a carrier present. Even in the case of DHCP, unless the address lease expires between a disconnect and reconnect or there's pressure on the D

Silly question about iconv

2018-01-04 Thread Tom Horsley
If I run "iconv --list" it sticks "//" on the end of every encoding name, but I don't need the "//" when specifying a to or from encoding name. Does anyone have the slightest clue why the slashes are there in the listing output? ___ users mailing list --

mounting a USB HD with autofs

2018-01-04 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi, only a simple (and maybe stupid) question ... To use autofs for the automatic mounting of partitions existing on USB HD (that is permanently connected to the computer), it is also mandatory to install NFS ? Thank you regards Angelo ___ users mai

Re: Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

2018-01-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 05:49:15AM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > What do people know about Fedora vs. the Meltdown and Spectre bugs? Mitigation for Meltdown is in place in the kernel updates we released yesterday. (Thanks to kernel team, release engineering, infrastructure / security, and qa!)

Re: Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

2018-01-04 Thread sean darcy
On 01/04/2018 12:01 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 05:49:15AM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: What do people know about Fedora vs. the Meltdown and Spectre bugs? Mitigation for Meltdown is in place in the kernel updates we released yesterday. (Thanks to kernel team, release e

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-04 Thread Bob Marcan
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 19:26:01 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > thank you Bob, > > I wont try your suggestion, but I have not installed autoff on Fedora 21 : > -- > [angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ sudo systemctl status autofs.service > [sudo] password for angelo_dev: > ● autofs.service >Loaded:

Re: PDF viewers: suggestions? reviews?

2018-01-04 Thread Go Canes
I use okular under KDE. For PDF forms that it can't handle, I resort to using a WIndows VM. But I don't think I have had form issues for a while. On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 4:29 AM, Rami Rosen wrote: > Hi, > I use Evince as a PDF viewer under GNome. > https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince > There is

Re: Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

2018-01-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 12:50:44PM -0500, sean darcy wrote: > >Mitigation for Meltdown is in place in the kernel updates we released > >yesterday. (Thanks to kernel team, release engineering, infrastructure > >/ security, and qa!) Updates for Spectre should be coming in soon. > Meltdown - CVE-2017-

Re: Silly question about iconv

2018-01-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/04/18 23:27, Tom Horsley wrote: > If I run "iconv --list" it sticks "//" on the end of every > encoding name, but I don't need the "//" when specifying > a to or from encoding name. > > Does anyone have the slightest clue why the slashes > are there in the listing output? I do not see that b

Re: Silly question about iconv

2018-01-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 02:31:16 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > I do not see that behavior   Unless I | the output to more, less, or cat. Yep. If I run it in a terminal I don't see it either. I was running it as a shell command under emacs (which would send output to a pipe), and that's where I get the

Re: XPS 13 (9360)

2018-01-04 Thread Go Canes
My wife's XPS 13 (not sure which sub-model) runs Fedora. Only issue was a specific range of kernels that broke the screen brightness settings (long since fixed). Unfortunately, we have to replace it because it will no longer charge the battery, and all the indications are that it is a motherboard

Re: Device or resource busy when trying to do a software update

2018-01-04 Thread Martin Wagner
On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 13:06 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Ah, I see: I missed that in your first message - sorry. But if dnf > upgrades work, your concerns about not being not be able to upgrade > to > the next major version of Fedora might be not necessary: there's some > upgrade version for d

Re: Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

2018-01-04 Thread stan
On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 12:50:44 -0500 sean darcy wrote: > Meltdown - CVE-2017-5754 - is not mentioned in the koji kernel builds. > > But should we be worried about Meltdown even without kpti for: > > An internet facing headless laptop acting as a router. No local > users. No X. No browsers. The onl

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/27/2017 01:24 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: However, this solution for backing up the data is problematic, because _I always receive messages with the request of access to the partitions __of the “backup-partitions”__by "nautilus"_ - every time that I use the "find" command. I don't unde

Re: Silly question about iconv

2018-01-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 02:31:16 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > I do not see that behavior   Unless I | the output to more, less, or cat. Yep. If I run it in a terminal I don't see it either. I was running it as a shell command under emacs (which would send output to a pipe),

Re: Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

2018-01-04 Thread Sergio Belkin
2018-01-04 15:27 GMT-03:00 Matthew Miller : > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 12:50:44PM -0500, sean darcy wrote: > > >Mitigation for Meltdown is in place in the kernel updates we released > > >yesterday. (Thanks to kernel team, release engineering, infrastructure > > >/ security, and qa!) Updates for Spe

Re: Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

2018-01-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 01/04/2018 04:30 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote: But I'm wonder if an attacker can exploit this vulnerability remotely, that's not clear for me... Do you allow remote users in to your systems? If you do not then you are not affected. The vulnerabilities require a local user to exploit. Unles

Re: Silly question about iconv

2018-01-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:22:10 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > The man page for iconv_open() gives you a clue. So it does. Thanks! ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

2018-01-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 17:08 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 01/04/2018 04:30 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote: > > But I'm wonder if an attacker can exploit this vulnerability remotely, > > that's > > not clear for me... > > Do you allow remote users in to your systems? If you do not then you

Re: Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

2018-01-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 01/04/2018 05:32 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Browsing a malicious website that runs Javascript can be a problem. Site isolation is a mitigation technique that provides partial protection. Hints for Chrome can be found at: https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7622138 Presumably similar t