Encrypting a partition
by Amitakhya Phukan
Hi all!
I want to know how I can encrypt my /home partition which is inside a
Logical Volume to increase the security. Also, should I also encrypt the
main / partition??
All help and guidance are well appreciated.
Thanks,
Amit.
16 years, 2 months
F8 hangs after 10 minutes inactivity on Dell optiplex 755
by Mickey Bankhead
I have some new dell optiplex 755 desktops. F8 installed great, but
after 10 minutes of inactivity, the machine appears to be locked up /
frozen. The mouse arrow pointer will still move around, but mouse clicks
don't do anything, and the keyboard won't respond.
CTRL-ALT-BKSPC will crash X back to a black screen, but that's IT.
CTRL-ALT-F1 will get me a log-in prompt, I can log in, but the init3
command will hang after 10 seconds or so
I suspect it's the power management trying to go to sleep or shut
something down, but I've got limited options in power management, and
with everything there set to NEVER, it still happens.
I can use the machine for an hour if I don't let it get idle...
PS. Related? - the Screen Saver screen will NEVER come up - I just get a
blank white window where it should show the screen saver options, but no
items on the screen...
Thanks in advance!
16 years, 2 months
Yum on x86_64
by Gareth Bult
Hi,
I seem to have (finally :) ) acquired a complete(ish) / working x86_64
system .. but I'm still having trouble with a few bits, not least "yum".
I get;
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Unreleased Updates
Finding updated packages
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "yummain.py", line 204, in main
File "clientStuff.py", line 363, in getupdatedhdrlist
File "clientStuff.py", line 409, in bestversion
IndexError: list index out of range
[root@squizzey oddjob]#
(This is a modified system [2.6.0-test11] however it seems to run well)
Pointing it at mozilla's channel for SeaMonkey seems to work if I
disable the default channels, however...
Anyone any ideas ?
(I was sort of expecting to see it say "no x86_64 updates supported yet"
as opposed to a complete crash)
Also, can yum pull SRPMS and rebuild them ?
tia
Gareth.
16 years, 2 months
mini wifi card & Fedora 8
by Rick Bilonick
Can anyone recommend a mini wifi card that would work nicely with Fedora
8? I have a Toshiba A15-S129 Satellite laptop with an easily accessible
mini-wifi slot (just one screw to remove the cover). I'm using an old
D-Link 650 pc card (orinco driver) with Fedora 8 (works fine). (I dual
boot Windows XP pro on this machine - XP will NOT work with the 650 card
even with the latest driver nor will it work with the built-in wired
ethernet!. It does manage to work with a 650+ card.)
Rick B.
16 years, 2 months
Disk encryption and installing new versions of Fedora
by mike cloaked
In the past year progress has been made with dm-crypt and luks being available
for F7 although with some residual bugs which were never resolved.
It is therefore possible to arrange to have F7 running with an encrypted swap
area, and encrypted /home for example.
I wonder what experience others have had with this?
The other question I have is to ask whether anyone has had problems when
installing F8 on a machine which has been running encrypted swap and
encrypted /home?
Ideally one should be able to do a clean install leaving the encrypted swap
as well as the encrypted /home in place as partitions separate from the root
partition.
Has anyone tried this? Is Fedora set up to properly support disk encryption
in this way? After all anybody running a laptop with sensitive information on
it would reasonably wish to use disk encryption to safeguard the information in
the event of the laptop being stolen. I don't know whether RHEL is any better
at supporting this essential facility.
I would imagine that many companies might not allow employees to use a laptop
for work unless it had secure disk encryption?
Can any experts who know about this comment please?
If disk encryption using dm-crypt/luks is not fully supported then what tools
or changes might be required within the distribution to properly support this
facility? Is this going to get more support in F9?
16 years, 2 months
Gecko crash in Thunderbird/F8
by Mickey Bankhead
I've recently installed F8 on my new Dell, and I've got a terrible
annoying problem with Thunderbird...
If I launch Thunderbird, it opens fine. Every time I click to open and
read any e-mail message, I get this pop-up Gecko Crashed window, and
Thunderbird crashed back to the X Desktop.
I can fix the problem by yum erase thunderbird, then yum install
thunderbird. It works for ONE time I load thunderbird. As soon as I
close Thunderbird, the problem starts over, and I cannot click to
open/read any e-mail message again until I yum erase thunderbird, and
yum install thunderbird.....!
I've tried:
1. checked all the log files in /var/log, but no errors post when
thunderbird crashes
2. I've Deleted the files in the /tmp folder - no effect
3. I've checked google, and this list and thunderbird's support page -
no help...
4. Interestingly enough, I can send mail, forward mail, reply to
messages without any errors, and after a fresh re-install of
Thunderbird, I can open and read mail without error, but ONLY until I
close thunderbird once. After that, on the 2nd time I open thunderbird
and every time after that, simply clicking to open a message causes
thunderbird to crash with a gecko crash and thunderbird crashes back to
the blank desktop....
My config:
New Dell Optiplex 755 with dual core intel 6750s, 2GB 800mhz. ATI X1650
dual-dvi card with dual monitors,
Running F8 x586 with all the current patches as of 12-20-07, and
Thunderbird 2.0.0.9
16 years, 2 months
Hard drive encryption question for dual-boot XP and Fedora
by Kerry Miller
My company is requiring us to encrypt the hard drive on all laptops.
We've already got some encryption software but it only works with Windows,
not anything set up to dual boot or anything running VMware. Do any of
you guys know of some kind of encryption software (open source or not)
that can handle a dual boot laptop with Windows XP on one partition and
Fedora on the other? He's already told me I need to get rid of my Linux
partition but I need it for network diagnostics, I'm hoping if I can find
an alternative he'll let me and the other network guy use a different
encryption package.
Thanks,
Kerry Miller
Victoria, TX
16 years, 2 months
how to jigdo download a fedora 8 re-spin in one easy step?
by Robert P. J. Day
for the first time, i'd like to download the fedora 8 x86_64 re-spin
and, to be frank, there's not a single web page i've found that tells
me how to use jigdo to do it.
i've perused the tutorials and HOWTOs at fedoraunity.org and
followed links, and i'm now fairly conversant on the rationale behind
re-spins and why jigdo was developed and a whole lot of other stuff
but i've yet to find a single page that says, "oh, you want a re-spin?
follow these steps."
seriously, this is what i think has been a fundamental failing of a
lot of online fedora documentation -- the notion of a simple "recipe":
do these things, and you will get what you want. instead, there's
typically a great deal of philosophical substantiation, while the poor
reader is just sitting there, thinking, "well, yeah, but i just want
to *do* something, so how do i *do* it?" (it's sort of like, when i
ask someone for the time, i want them to tell me the time, i don't
need to be told how to build a watch.)
so, really, when i decided to grab a re-spin, i figured to invest a
minute or two googling, find the command, and run it. i'm still
looking. why is it typically this time-consuming?
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
http://crashcourse.ca
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16 years, 2 months
DIR_COLORS, How to change blue to a darker blue, such as "Navy"?
by Dan Thurman
I am fiddling with /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, thinking that this is where
/etc/DIR_COLORS, 34/44=blue are being defined assuming an xterm window?
My problem is that blue (0,0,255) is a bright dazzling blue color and
I need to tone it down a bit to something like "Navy" in X terminology.
How can this be done or is it hardwired?
Thanks!
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16 years, 2 months