Hopefully this does not affect you but if you are running something like Arch, OpenSUSE tumbleweed, Debian sid or Fedora Rawhide and use SSH for remote access you should do a full wipe.
Wow, thank you for sharing this! Grumblegrumble have to reinstall my system…
This straight on the back of a thread about flatpak verification and security - a reminder that a lot of the incredible work of a distribution, especially Debian, is a community of people curating packages with care, and not just for how quick they can be made to work together.
Also a highlight for the work toward fully replicatable systems - if I understand right, the exploit here was snuck in in the binary, not in the source code.
So, I updated Tumbleweed, and the updates to KDE caused my Plasma/Wayland session to restart, breaking the updates part way through. I wasn’t watching at the time so took some while to debug!...
Further to this, my sound stopped working. “No input/output devices detected.”
Turned out if I went to the settings and turned on “show inactive devices”, then changed the Profile from ‘none’ to ‘Analog Stereo Duplex’, it went back to normal and worked. sigh
That’s what I get for a rolling release, I guess. I just hope the friends I set up on Linux Mint don’t get similar issues, since I’m not around to help when things break.
Yeah, if I’d known what was going on I could have just switched to VT1 straight away and finished the update. Did the other machine fine by updating from VT1 from the start.
I wanted to try a different DE to get things working, but with network manager down I couldn’t install anything else! Tumbleweed already had IceWM, but without any networkmanager control there either.
Course that was before I discovered I didn’t need any internet to finish the job and fix it. I assumed the update completed but broke something, and hoped against hope there’d be a fix issued quickly that I could further update to.
P.S. I assume you mean zypper dup, but perhaps you’re using the new Irish Culinary/Political Linux, and supper DUP is the right command.
So, I learned in physics class at school in the UK that the value of acceleration due to gravity is a constant called g and that it was 9.81m/s^2. I knew that this value is not a true constant as it is affected by terrain and location. However I didn’t know that it can be so significantly different as to be 9.776 m/s^2 in...
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )
Hopefully this does not affect you but if you are running something like Arch, OpenSUSE tumbleweed, Debian sid or Fedora Rawhide and use SSH for remote access you should do a full wipe.
Plasma update breaks updates
So, I updated Tumbleweed, and the updates to KDE caused my Plasma/Wayland session to restart, breaking the updates part way through. I wasn’t watching at the time so took some while to debug!...
Does everyone learn the same gravity in school or is it different everywhere?
So, I learned in physics class at school in the UK that the value of acceleration due to gravity is a constant called g and that it was 9.81m/s^2. I knew that this value is not a true constant as it is affected by terrain and location. However I didn’t know that it can be so significantly different as to be 9.776 m/s^2 in...