Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread fedora
On 16/7/24 10:31 am, Todd Zullinger wrote: fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: How do I check that these keyfiles were created? This is a handy command for checking what file defines a connection: $ nmcli -f name,filename,device connection NAMEFILENAME

Re: mysqlhotcopy fails since upgrade f38->f40 [solved]

2024-07-15 Thread fedora
It was suggested (on mythtv-users list, see thread with same subject) to add '--host=127.0.0.1 --port=3306' when invoking mysqlhotcopy and it works. On 15/7/24 10:29 am, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: $ sudo mysqlhotcopy mythconverg --noindices --allowold . Argument "" isn't numeric in subroutin

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 9:57 PM Tim via users wrote: > > Tim: > >> I wonder if anyone vets that information? > > Jonathan Billings: > > Just check the references: > > > > https://static.open-scap.org/ssg-guides/ssg-fedora-guide-standard.html#xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_accounts_maximum_age_l

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread Tim via users
Tim: > > For me, and probably everyone else, the solution would have been for > > some unique part of the hardware (such as MAC, or PCI slot data, etc), > > to get tied to eth0 during installation. Likewise for eth1, etc. > > Rather than used to create a gibberish name for it. Samuel Sieb: > The

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread Tim via users
fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: > > If the name is assigned to a MAC then it will be stable regardless, on > > every boot. Barry: > This is not true. > The eth devices are numbered in the order they are discovered by the kernel. > That is why they can change on each boot if discovery timing has race

Re: Problems with certifcates, firefox and chrome

2024-07-15 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 17:16 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > To reiterate, when replying with HyperKitty, please quote some context. > HK doesn't do this automatically and many (most) of us are reading your > post on the mailing list rather than the web. Even on webpages, replies like that are

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-15 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> I wonder if anyone vets that information? Jonathan Billings: > Just check the references: > > https://static.open-scap.org/ssg-guides/ssg-fedora-guide-standard.html#xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_accounts_maximum_age_login_defs > Although I picked a specific portion (about passwords

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-15 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 12:48 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > And another spoiler from the book: Security Questions are insecure. No > one should be using them nowadays. We've known they are insecure for > 15 or 20 years or so. Yes! Security questions shouldn't ask you to provide them with details t

Re:

2024-07-15 Thread Tim via users
Tim: > > The phone companies have very crap security at preventing that (number > > transferring), and the banks are poor security at user identification > > confirmation (some are easily satisfied with being told just your name > > and birthdate over the phone). > > > > Many years ago I set up

Re: Discover not showing updates recently?

2024-07-15 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jul 15, 2024, at 07:35, Neal Becker wrote: > >  > I've noticed that recently I'm not seeing Discover notifying me of available > updates. Is there some setting for this? Does ‘sudo dnf update’ return any updates either? What release of Fedora are you using? -- Jonathan Billings -- ___

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread Todd Zullinger
fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: > How do I check that these keyfiles were created? This is a handy command for checking what file defines a connection: $ nmcli -f name,filename,device connection -- Todd signature.asc Description: PGP signature --

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/15/24 3:31 PM, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: On 16/7/24 2:25 am, Barry wrote: On 15 Jul 2024, at 13:33, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: If the name is assigned to a MAC then it will be stable regardless, on every boot. This is not true. The eth devices are numbered in the order they are

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread fedora
On 16/7/24 2:25 am, Barry wrote: On 15 Jul 2024, at 13:33, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: If the name is assigned to a MAC then it will be stable regardless, on every boot. This is not true. The eth devices are numbered in the order they are discovered by the kernel. That is why they can cha

Re: nvidia drivers installation

2024-07-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 10:44 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 7/15/24 9:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I'm not sure what any of this has to do with installing Nvidia > > drivers, > > but then I've never enabled Secure Boot. > > If secure boot is enabled, the kernel can't load unsigned drivers.

Re: nvidia drivers installation

2024-07-15 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 7/15/24 4:05 PM, François Patte wrote: Le 2024-07-14 10:50, François Patte a écrit : Bonjour, According to some howto, it is enough to install akmods-nvidia and reboot. some others tell that we have to generate and install some signature I have secure boot enabled. Is there some how-to

Re: nvidia drivers installation

2024-07-15 Thread François Patte
Le 2024-07-14 10:50, François Patte a écrit : Bonjour, According to some howto, it is enough to install akmods-nvidia and reboot. some others tell that we have to generate and install some signature I have secure boot enabled. Is there some how-to explaining with details how to proceed.

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 2:53 PM Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > I wonder if anyone vets that information? > > Just check the references: > > https://static.open-scap.org/ssg-guides/ssg-fedora-guide-standard.html#xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_accounts_maximum_age_login_defs Sad. It is unfortuna

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-15 Thread Jonathan Billings
> I wonder if anyone vets that information? Just check the references: https://static.open-scap.org/ssg-guides/ssg-fedora-guide-standard.html#xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_accounts_maximum_age_login_defs -- Jonathan -- ___ users mailing list -- u

Re: nvidia drivers installation

2024-07-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/15/24 9:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'm not sure what any of this has to do with installing Nvidia drivers, but then I've never enabled Secure Boot. If secure boot is enabled, the kernel can't load unsigned drivers. You can't sign the drivers with the Fedora key for obvious reasons

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/15/24 6:29 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 10:09 +0100, Barry wrote: The reason for the renaming is to ensure that the interface names are consistent in every boot. It is an issue on some systems that an interface may be eth0 on one boot the eth1 on the next. Consider using

Re: nvidia drivers installation

2024-07-15 Thread John Pilkington
On 15/07/2024 17:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 10:10 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 6:48 AM George N. White III wrote: On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 5:50 AM François Patte wrote: [...] I have secure boot enabled. Is there some how-to explaining with d

Re:

2024-07-15 Thread jdow
On 19691231 16:00:00, wrote: ... The phone companies have very crap security at preventing that (number transferring), and the banks are poor security at user identification confirmation (some are easily satisfied with being told just your name and birthdate over the phone). Many years ago I se

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 12:35 PM Barry wrote: > > > On 15 Jul 2024, at 11:08, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > IIRC it dates from decades ago when most people had only one login, if > > that, and it was typically to a mainframe. > > It was made popular in the PC era by a security researcher, so

Re: Is it safe to uninstall lsb_release to install my Epson printer driver?

2024-07-15 Thread Frédéric
> > However, to install it, I'm obliged to remove lsb_release (see below). > > Is it safe? > > Well, it's just a ".noarch" package containing a single shell script, > and it isn't installed by default, and specific to your installation > nothing depends on it either, so what do you fear? Thank you

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-15 Thread Barry
> On 15 Jul 2024, at 11:08, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > IIRC it dates from decades ago when most people had only one login, if > that, and it was typically to a mainframe. It was made popular in the PC era by a security researcher, sorry don’t have a ref to his name. But a few years ago t

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread Barry
> On 15 Jul 2024, at 14:30, Tim via users wrote: > > I'd only encountered eth0 <> eth1 > swappsies games on computer-configured hardware where the user had done > nothing to configure their network. I have seen this issue on hardware I have worked with. For my home router what I do is have sy

Re: Is it safe to uninstall lsb_release to install my Epson printer driver?

2024-07-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:53:04 +0200, Frédéric wrote: > However, to install it, I'm obliged to remove lsb_release (see below). > Is it safe? Well, it's just a ".noarch" package containing a single shell script, and it isn't installed by default, and specific to your installation nothing depends on

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread Barry
> On 15 Jul 2024, at 13:33, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: > > If the name is assigned to a MAC then it will be stable regardless, on every > boot. This is not true. The eth devices are numbered in the order they are discovered by the kernel. That is why they can change on each boot if discovery

Re: Problems with certifcates, firefox and chrome

2024-07-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 06:09 +, Enrique Artal wrote: > At least in Spain certificates are used to sign official documents > with okular or with a software called autofirma, and it works fine in > Fedora 40. It is also possible to sign using browsers and > certificates in browsers serve to be ide

Re: nvidia drivers installation

2024-07-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 10:10 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 6:48 AM George N. White III > wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 5:50 AM François Patte > > wrote: > > > [...] > > > I have secure boot enabled. > > > > > > Is there some how-to explaining with details how to

Is it safe to uninstall lsb_release to install my Epson printer driver?

2024-07-15 Thread Frédéric
Hi, I'm trying to reinstall my Epson Stylus SX525WD printer after a brand new install of Fedora 40. I normally install a rpm package found on http://download.ebz.epson.net/. However the driver that worked in the past giving all features is called "Printer Driver ESC/P Driver (full feature)" and h

Re: nvidia drivers installation

2024-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 6:48 AM George N. White III wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 5:50 AM François Patte > wrote: >> [...] >> I have secure boot enabled. >> >> Is there some how-to explaining with details how to proceed. I'm not >> very good with efi boot system nor secure boot. > > You s

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-15 Thread Tim via users
Tim: > > I just looked for the obvious stupid one, there's probably other bad > > things in there. There's always been stupid advice, and people > > blithely go along with it. Bob Marčan: > Not only that. Different applications have different rules for > passwords: number of characters, special s

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 10:09 +0100, Barry wrote: > The reason for the renaming is to ensure that the interface names are > consistent in every boot. It is an issue on some systems that an > interface may be eth0 on one boot the eth1 on the next. > > Consider using the new naming so you have stabili

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 8:33 AM wrote: > > On 15/7/24 7:09 pm, Barry wrote: > > [...] > > The reason for the renaming is to ensure that the interface names are > > consistent in every boot. It is an issue on some systems that an interface > > may be eth0 on one boot the eth1 on the next. > > I d

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-15 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 11:08 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Ironically, the most hidebound sites tend to be banks, which in my > experience don't even let you use a password manager (other than in > copy-paste mode), which is by far the best way for the average user to > get good non-repeating

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread fedora
Thanks Barry, On 15/7/24 7:09 pm, Barry wrote: On 14 Jul 2024, at 11:44, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: I notice that the network interface 'eth1' is now renamed 'enp2s0' but eth0 is left alone. The reason for the renaming is to ensure that the interface names are consistent in every boot.

Discover not showing updates recently?

2024-07-15 Thread Neal Becker
I've noticed that recently I'm not seeing Discover notifying me of available updates. Is there some setting for this? Thanks, Neal -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: nvidia drivers installation

2024-07-15 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 5:50 AM François Patte < francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr> wrote: > Bonjour, > > According to some howto, it is enough to install akmods-nvidia and > reboot. some others tell that we have to generate and install some > signature > The internet has about 5 to 1 rati

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 11:06 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > For instance, I scrolled through that and came across the section > about > users should be forced to periodically change their password.  That's > always been dumb advice, even if only recently its starting to get > realised.  IIRC it dat

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-15 Thread Bob Marčan via users
On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:06:35 +0930 "Tim via users" wrote: > Bill Oliver wrote: > > > I grew up on Red Hat/Fedora years ago, but moved to Ubuntu because > > > some software I used was available in binary form only in that > > > distro. Recently, I've moved back to Fedora. One thing i took > >

Re: OT: motherboard

2024-07-15 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 7/15/24 00:22, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 5:21 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: [...] Current motherboard works fine. I am trying to get ahead of Windows 12's idiot hardware requirements, which qemu-kvm passes right through to it. I have been able to trick my way around

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread Barry
> On 14 Jul 2024, at 11:44, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: > > I notice that the network interface 'eth1' is now renamed 'enp2s0' but eth0 > is left alone. The reason for the renaming is to ensure that the interface names are consistent in every boot. It is an issue on some systems that an inte

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/15/24 12:46 AM, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: Thanks, On 15/7/24 4:49 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/14/24 3:43 AM, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: I notice that the network interface 'eth1' is now renamed 'enp2s0' but eth0 is left alone. How do I stop this rename? It breaks a number of thing

Re: another f38->f40 issue: network if is renamed.

2024-07-15 Thread fedora
Thanks, On 15/7/24 4:49 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/14/24 3:43 AM, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: I notice that the network interface 'eth1' is now renamed 'enp2s0' but eth0 is left alone. How do I stop this rename? It breaks a number of thing for me. What does it break? I have a number of

Re: OT: motherboard

2024-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 5:21 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > [...] > Current motherboard works fine. I am trying to get > ahead of Windows 12's idiot hardware requirements, > which qemu-kvm passes right through to it. I have > been able to trick my way around W11's idiotic > requirements, but