General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;44459839]You can't get any terminal access at all? I'd suspect there's a giant log file somewhere.[/QUOTE] It won't boot up now, I've put the server in rescue mode so I'm sure I can get access by doing that.

Probably a massive logfile in /var/log or in the server's folders. Yet another reason why I don't like having a separate /home, or allocating too much space to it - might as well let the software eat through a terabyte of space, buys you time to notice something's wrong.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;44452317][url]https://github.com/helmuthdu/aui[/url][/QUOTE] Dang, thanks for posting this. Super time saver, and I can learn a lot from this for my own install script. Who made this?

[QUOTE=rilez;44463124]Dang, thanks for posting this. Super time saver, and I can learn a lot from this for my own install script. Who made this?[/QUOTE] helmuthdu

What is a good distro I could install say, tomorrow that will be reasonably up to date and won't require me to update it for a little while? I kinda wanna blow away this Windows 8.1 install and go back to the light side, but I don't know what distro to use. I'd normally just say fuck it and install Arch, but I don't have constant Internet access I can actually use to update. (The proxy server all network traffic is routed through here breaks SSL certificates, so I can't use apt or pacman or yum or anything.)

Gentoo? Portage uses wget to get files, and I don't think most mirrors use https so there shouldn't be a problem with SSL.

[QUOTE=lavacano;44465294]Gentoo? Portage uses wget to get files, and I don't think most mirrors use https so there shouldn't be a problem with SSL.[/QUOTE] ... On a T61P from 2007? Dual core at 2.1GHz... Would be pretty painful, especially considering that I can only borrow campus internet from 4PM to 9PM before I get kicked out of the computer room, usually. :v:

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;44465327]... On a T61P from 2007? Dual core at 2.1GHz... Would be pretty painful, especially considering that I can only borrow campus internet from 4PM to 9PM before I get kicked out of the computer room, usually. :v:[/QUOTE] "emerge --sync && emerge -fuDN world" while you're connected to the Internet to get all the distfiles then just "emerge -uDN world" to actually build them overnight.

[QUOTE=nikomo;44461401]Probably a massive logfile in /var/log or in the server's folders. Yet another reason why I don't like having a separate /home, or allocating too much space to it - might as well let the software eat through a terabyte of space, buys you time to notice something's wrong.[/QUOTE] ZFS. Have a seperate dataset for /home that you can backup however you like (I usually just lz4 the fucker while streaming it to a backup site). Each dataset only takes up as much space as it needs, no more, no less. Then you don't have to deal with partition sizes anymore, and you get the flexibility of multiple partitions. You can even set a quota on /var/log if you want.

Holy shit 14.04 is such a [I]revolution[/I] from its predecessor! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAREcpd6_eE[/media] You can even resize the icons now! I guess it's because of LTS.

[QUOTE=FPtje;44467703]Holy shit 14.04 is such a [I]revolution[/I] from its predecessor! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAREcpd6_eE[/media] You can even resize the icons now! I guess it's because of LTS.[/QUOTE] Everytime I see a unity desktop I puke a little

That makes me excited to see what the next major KDE release will be like, the alpha preview videos already look like they've fixed up a lot of the issues I have with Plasma being a bit of an eyesore in places.

Made my i3status bar hide, it shows up when I hold down my modifier. My programs now have 1366x750 of space on a 1366x768 screen, not bad.

[QUOTE=FPtje;44467703]Holy shit 14.04 is such a [I]revolution[/I] from its predecessor! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAREcpd6_eE[/media] You can even resize the icons now! I guess it's because of LTS.[/QUOTE] You could do that before though. [editline]6th April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=danharibo;44468070]That makes me excited to see what the next major KDE release will be like, the alpha preview videos already look like they've fixed up a lot of the issues I have with Plasma being a bit of an eyesore in places.[/QUOTE] I posted before that they've formed some sort of design team. Still seems really disorganized. I think GTK is a better toolkit though

[QUOTE=nikomo;44468572]Made my i3status bar hide, it shows up when I hold down my modifier. My programs now have 1366x750 of space on a 1366x768 screen, not bad.[/QUOTE] i3 is even smart enough not to poll your status program while the bar is hidden (although i3status was designed to use the minimal number of system calls possible to populate itself, so you don't really gain anything). I find I despise UI elements which aren't hidden by default.

I can understand things not hiding by default, for new users. What I don't like is when there's no option to hide something, default or not. There's no excuse for not being able to turn off or at least move Unity's dock or Gnome Shell's panel.

Finally, after a whole nights work (and really long compile times) I got Gentoo working on my machine, with LXDE running on top. I feel proud and I'm celebrating with instant noodles and chocolate milk! Now how am I going to get one of those fancy displays on the desktop with coloured text showing specs, performance, etc?

Just used an hour debugging why Firefox was crashing continuously at random times, figured out it was my memory which is starting to fail. Currently using FF with GDB and jumping over segfaults until I get the time to find out which one it is. Had to jump over six segfaults and an pipe error just to get on G+, fun.

OpenSSL vulnerability in the wild that an attacker can use to read your private keys - [B]update now[/B]. [url]http://heartbleed.com/[/url]

[QUOTE=nikomo;44481700]OpenSSL vulnerability in the wild that an attacker can use to read your private keys - [B]update now[/B].[/QUOTE] Does it affect the version in debian-stable? There's no update yet.

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;44481747]Does it affect the version in debian-stable?[/QUOTE] Yes [QUOTE=Darkwater124;44481747]There's no update yet.[/QUOTE] Yes there is, I just installed it. Run apt-cache show openssl, the topmost output should say Version: 1.0.1e-2+deb7u5 Run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

[QUOTE=nikomo;44481777]Yes Yes there is, I just installed it. Run apt-cache show openssl, the topmost output should say Version: 1.0.1e-2+deb7u5 Run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade[/QUOTE] Oh my bad, forgot Ubuntu used slightly different repositories. The latest version it shows is 1.0.1c-4ubuntu8.2.

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;44481821]Oh my bad, forgot Ubuntu used slightly different repositories. The latest version it shows is 1.0.1c-4ubuntu8.2.[/QUOTE] I have no idea if that's vulnerable. If you're running Ubuntu 12.04, I think you're patched, but if not, I don't know. Also "slightly different" is a funny way of saying "completely different".

[QUOTE=Slarav;44480606]Finally, after a whole nights work (and really long compile times) I got Gentoo working on my machine, with LXDE running on top. I feel proud and I'm celebrating with instant noodles and chocolate milk! Now how am I going to get one of those fancy displays on the desktop with coloured text showing specs, performance, etc?[/QUOTE] I believe you mean conky? emerge conky

Decided to finally end my pains with Flash videos by getting gecko-mediaplayer, mplayer2 and the "Videos WithOut Flash" extension for Firefox. Ooooooh my sweet jesus it's a beautiful setup, especially for my weak little netbook. Mplayer2 always worked really nicely on this thing, while Flash and VLC always worked like complete shit (I have no idea why exactly, besides the fact that it's my netbook) so gecko-mediaplayer and that Firefox extension made my world 10x better, Youtube actually runs nicely now! It has so far worked on every video I've tried it on, and it lets me choose whether I want to stream the webm file (Using Firefox's default HTML5 player) or use gnome-mplayer to watch the higher quality MP4. And I can bearably watch videos fullscreen. It's wonderful. Why the fuck does Flash even exist anymore. Now if only Iceweasel didn't thrash my computer inexplicably, Chromium doesn't have this problem?

[QUOTE=Tark;44484998]Decided to finally end my pains with Flash videos by getting gecko-mediaplayer, mplayer2 and the "Videos WithOut Flash" extension for Firefox. Ooooooh my sweet jesus it's a beautiful setup, especially for my weak little netbook. Mplayer2 always worked really nicely on this thing, while Flash and VLC always worked like complete shit (I have no idea why exactly, besides the fact that it's my netbook) so gecko-mediaplayer and that Firefox extension made my world 10x better, Youtube actually runs nicely now! It has so far worked on every video I've tried it on, and it lets me choose whether I want to stream the webm file (Using Firefox's default HTML5 player) or use gnome-mplayer to watch the higher quality MP4. And I can bearably watch videos fullscreen. It's wonderful. Why the fuck does Flash even exist anymore.[/QUOTE] It still works great performance-wise compared to JS+Canvas when it comes to games and not-video-players. At least that's what it feels like.

[QUOTE=nikomo;44481700]OpenSSL vulnerability in the wild that an attacker can use to read your private keys - [B]update now[/B]. [url]http://heartbleed.com/[/url][/QUOTE] Should I recompile nginx,apache,dovecot,postfix etc? I installed their binaries but I guess that they are compiled using the old version op openssl [editline]8th April 2014[/editline] Fedora does not have the update yet: [code]Installed Packages Name : openssl Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 1 Version : 1.0.1e Release : 37.fc19 Size : 1.5 M Repo : installed From repo : updates Summary : Utilities from the general purpose cryptography library with TLS : implementation URL : http://www.openssl.org/ License : OpenSSL Description : The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications : between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool : and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic : algorithms and protocols.[/code] And debian does not seem to have it either... [code]Setting up openssl (1.0.1e-2+deb7u5) ...[/code] [editline]8th April 2014[/editline] Why does the date on nist.gov show Original release date:02/18/2013??? :tinfoil: [url]https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-0160[/url]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44485368]Should I recompile nginx,apache,dovecot,postfix etc? I installed their binaries but I guess that they are compiled using the old version op openssl[/QUOTE] Pretty sure those dynamically link to OpenSSL, no need to recompile, unless you have some funky setup. I think. [code] Setting up openssl (1.0.1e-2+deb7u5) ... [/code] That's the patched version. Don't know about Fedora.

[QUOTE=nikomo;44485629]Pretty sure those dynamically link to OpenSSL, no need to recompile, unless you have some funky setup. I think. [code] Setting up openssl (1.0.1e-2+deb7u5) ... [/code] That's the patched version. Don't know about Fedora.[/QUOTE] Versions 1.0.1a-f are vulnerable so that's a vulnerable version you just updated to. The pached version is 1.0.1g

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44485722]Versions 1.0.1a-f are vulnerable so that's a vulnerable version you just updated to. The pached version is 1.0.1g[/QUOTE] No, Debian and Ubuntu released new packages that are compiled with -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS, which disables the functionality that is vulnerable.