Protecting files in linux
by Jorge Delgado
Hi, i would like to protect files like passwords and websites of Firefox
(iceweasel), and this cannot be done encripting the files.
So, i need some program for protect the files and, at the same time be
using them. If i encript the files, i cannot use them at the same time.
And if I cannot use them at the same time, it's meaningless.
Somebody could help me? Thank you very much, I appreciatte your help.
11 years, 10 months
Read error at booting
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
I am trying to boot in my F10 partition, but just before the grub menu
appears (and it does not show up), I get the following error:
"Read error".
I cannot boot anymore.
Any ideas? Yesterday, everything was working fine.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
11 years, 10 months
qGo and sound
by Colin Paul Adams
Since updating my F10 system today, I no longer get sound out from
qGo.
If I select the Sound option from it's help menu, it says:
"You are not running the Network Audio System"
"If you have the 'au' command, run it in the background before
this program."
"Nevertheless, if you have oss sound should be working and directed to
/dev/dsp".
Apparently I don't have the au command.
Burt everything was working yesterday.
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
11 years, 10 months
grub
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I have 2 systems (identical) on 2 different disks:
THis is my /etc/grub.conf
boot=/dev/sda
title Fedora (2.6.23.17-88.fc7)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda8 rhgb quiet
selinux=0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img
title Fedora (2.6.23.17-88.fc7 new)
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 ro root=/dev/sdb5 rhgb quiet
selinux=0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img
I can easily boot on /dev/sda8, but not on /dev/sdb5, However, if I do:
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 ro root=/dev/sdb5 rhgb quiet
selinux=0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img
then I can boot on /dev/sdb5
I try plenty of things but I have not been able to make it works properly.
When I try to make a grub-install from /dev/sdb5, I get:
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
I check the /boot/grub/device.map (it has both! hd0 and hd1).
Still from /dev/sdb5,
If I do: grub
then: root (hd1,4)
I get:
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
find /boot/grub/stage1
gives: (hd0,7) !!!
Same if I do:
find /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-64.fc7
It only find the one on sda8 and never the one on sdb5
It does the same from both systems (loading from sda8 or sdb5)
I check both kernels are identical and at the right place.
then:
setup (hd0)
gives:
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
Error 2: Bad file or directory type
How can I fix this grub configuration ?
thank.
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11 years, 10 months
NM Won't Remember WPA Password
by Richard Heck
On a new installation of F10, Network Manager won't remember the
password for WPA on ONE user account. It's fine on the other one. Any ideas?
rh
11 years, 10 months
XDMCP on multiple machines
by Deboo ^
How do you simultaneously login to several remote machines via XDMCP?
Or I can not do that and I need to run startx -- remote_server from
xterm for each server?
Regards
Deboo
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11 years, 10 months
F10: could not start ksmserver
by Tarjei Knapstad
A recent update seems to have botched KDE somehow. When I log in I get
an xmessage stating "Could not start ksmserver. Check your
installation."
If I click OK the window manager dies, but if I just let it sit there
I can use my desktop just fine...
This started showing today, apparently after last nights updates.
These updates included:
gdm-user-switch-applet-2.24.1-4.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:23 CET
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.1.3-1.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:22 CET
libpng-devel-1.2.35-1.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009
22:50:22 CET
pygtk2-libglade-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:21 CET
setup-2.7.4-4.fc10 Fri 27 Feb
2009 22:50:20 CET
pygtk2-devel-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:18 CET
pygtk2-codegen-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:17 CET
pygtk2-doc-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:10 CET
ntfs-3g-2009.2.1-2.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009
22:50:07 CET
libmusicbrainz3-3.0.2-4.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:05 CET
pygtk2-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009
22:49:59 CET
gdm-2.24.1-4.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009
22:49:19 CET
libpng-1.2.35-1.fc10 Fri 27 Feb
2009 22:49:04 CET
After googling the issue I found a suggestion saying that I should
check the perms on my . files in $HOME. Everything seems OK here.
Any ideas what's happening?
Cheers,
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Tarjei
11 years, 10 months
FC9 Compromised...
by Jack Lauman
On Feb 25, between 1753-2046 PST several of my Fedora Core 9 machines
were compromised. All had the latest patches applied.
1. Only the installed user accounts are on these machines. The root user
password is long with upper/lower case characters with numerals &
punctuation. It is unlikely this was cracked.
2. All log files were deleted.
3. The following users were deleted 'root':
mysql
apache
sshd
dbus
haldaemon
dovecot
gdm
smmsp
4. The machine can only be accessed in 'single user' mode. Using
'passwd' to reset the root password fails with: "passwd: User not known
to the underlying authentication module."
Any help on resolving this would be appreciated. I need to get data off
these before re-installation.
Have any other incidents like this been reported lately?
Thanks,
Jack
11 years, 10 months