On the security of the Linux disk encryption LUKS
by Jeffrey Walton
Here's some interesting reading. "On the security of the Linux disk
encryption LUKS," https://dys2p.com/en/2023-05-luks-security.html:
Background
On April 17, 2023 Matthew “mjg59” Garrett published an appeal to
change the key derivation function (KDF) of LUKS-encrypted volumes:
PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function. He refers to the
article “Une lettre d’Ivan, enfermé à la prison de Villepinte :
perquisitions et disques durs déchiffrés” (crosspost from
paris-luttes.info).
According to the source, two encrypted computers belonging to an
accused person had been decrypted – a Windows computer encrypted with
BitLocker and a LUKS-encrypted computer running Ubuntu 18. (It is not
clear from the text whether it is Ubuntu 18.04 or 18.10, but this is
not relevant)...
1 year
Try to reinstall both system fedora and windows 10 from both system
broken on a new storage
by Dorian ROSSE
Hello everybody and the team fedora,
Firstly i have understood the program mount secondly the program grub2-install is always broken so it can't understand whole the parts because i can't encrypt fedora although i have enable the UEFI secure boot in the BIOS thirdly locate is broken fourthly chroot is broken however i have tried to the repair but the dependancies glibc are broken between themself finally thank you in advance to help myself repair the setup,
Have a good end of week,
Regards.
Dorian Rosse.
1 year
F38 update, chrome display problem
by Neal Becker
After updating f37->f38, now chrome-stable is unusable. This is intel
graphics.
The displays of all web pages are unreadable.
I tried installing google-chrome-beta, and this seems to be working fine.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Neal
1 year
Thunderbird black at first launch with F38
by Frederic Muller
Hi!
Installed F38 about a week ago from scratch (wayland & GNOME). When I
launch Thunderbird the first time at every session it starts as a black
screen except for the title bar and then... I believe nothing happens
but since I cannot see anything I close it. When I relaunch it
everything works normally.
Not really a life threatening situation but I was wondering if it was
possible to fix this. Any idea?
Thank you.
Fred
1 year
F38: GNOME on XORG: Some apps have Windows titlebar with
Minimize/Maximize Buttons
by Dario Lesca
I use "GNOME on Xorgs", after upgrade to F38 some apps, like Firefox or
Libreoffice, are show with Minimize/Maximize Buttons on windows
titlebar.
Also F38 Workstation live version, if you set password to liveuser and
logon with "GNOME on Xorgs" (and not with default GNOME on Wayland),
show same apps with Minimize/Maximize Buttons on windows titlebar
Other apps, like gnome-terminal or nautilus, are displayed correctly,
without Minimize and Maximize Buttons on windows titlebar
I use the Middle-Click mouse button set to "lower" via gnome-tweaks,
and this behaviour DO NOT WORK on windows with Minimize/Maximize
Buttons on windows titlebar.
It's possible to disable Minimize/Maximize Buttons on windows titlebar
for all windows, even if I use "GNOME on Xorgs"?
Or it's a bug?
Many thanks for your help
--
Dario Lesca
(Inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 38 Workstation)
1 year
How to get system info
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I get the system info shown at the bottom of this message by running
kinfocenter -> Copy to Clipboard
Is there some way to get this info from the console, for machines
running remotely, typically connected via ssh? I am tired of running to
a remote machine to run kinfocenter on it.
System Info:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 37
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9
Kernel Version: 6.2.13-200.fc37.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600
Manufacturer: ASUS
Product Name: All Series
--
Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh(a)pacbell.net>
Though a program be but three lines long,
someday it will have to be maintained.
-- The Tao of Programming
1 year
Converting ext4 to btrfs
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
I have always upgraded Fedora from the previously installed version.
Consequently, I still have ext4. To have btrfs, is it needed to do a
Fedora clean install?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
1 year
More space needed on the / filesystem to upgrade from F37 to F38
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
I am trying to use
dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=38
to upgrade from F37 to F38. However, I am getting this error:
------------------------------
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Error Summary
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Disk Requirements:
At least 4020MB more space needed on the / filesystem.
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Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
1 year
Post F38 upgrade/fresh install: printing text files via paps (a
Postscript converter) prints raw postscript
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
My F38 upgrade on my desktop and my fresh install on my laptop (because of
an upgrade crash) are taking place in less than stellar fashion. But given
that things have been going very well in this regard since F27 (circa late
2017) something like this shouldn't be unexpected.
Trying to focus on one problem at a time, I am now dealing with printing
text files.
For the last ten or so years, I've relied on enscript and then paps. I
think that I switched to paps because enscript at the time didn't support
utf-8.
paps has worked as designed for me until the upgrade/fresh install. My
sole availabe printer is an HP P3015. On my desktop, I use the HP
Postscript driver; on my laptop I use the HP LaserJet p3010 Series hpijs
pcl3, 3.22.10 driver for the printer.
When printing from a web browser (firefox of brave), libreoffice, evince,
AcroRead, or gedit, the results are correct.
But now with the flip to F38, and issuing a paps command like this (which
I've run for a decade):
paps --columns=3 --landscape --paper=letter --font="Monospace 6"
/path/to/some/textfile | lpr -P lp3
the printer prints raw postscript.
(lp3 is the name that I use for the HP printer)
I suspect that I am part of a small community of paps users. But I would
very much like to continue either using paps or something similar.
Could it be pango (required by paps)? some other possible dependency? Are
there alternatives? Is there some nuance in configuring the printer?
I'd appreciate any advice here.
Much thanks,
Max
pyz(a)brama.com
1 year
