A high-severity vulnerability has been reported in Linux that could be exploited by a low privilege attacker to gain full root access on an affected system.
The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2017-1000367, was discovered by researchers at Qualys Security in Sudo's "get_process_ttyname()" function for Linux that could allow a user with Sudo privileges to run commands as root or elevate privileges to root.

1. Make sure to run Menu, Favorites, Install Updates.

2. Open a terminal:

Hello everyone, I'm Peter, I've just started out with Linux Lite 3.4 on my old Toshiba M200 tablet PC. This machine was destined for the local recycling center but I decided to give it one last try with a different OS - and I am so glad I did!

Linux Lite not only supports the hardware it even made the WACOM tablet build into the screen function! This is the first OS that has successfully achieved this, I can even stream online videos which is also a first (albeit a little choppy but perfectly watchable). I've tinkered with the system to get over some initial problems, I've modified the hardware so I can keep it in tablet mode all of the time and I've got a really nice set up on it that does everything I wanted to achieve (so far )

My idea is to mount the Toshiba tablet PC in my office and have my web-based work calendar, tasks and also local contact lists. I am also thinking to have social media notifications.

Thank you so much for creating a distro so good!

Hi guys!

I have Nokia 7230 phone that I use as mp3 player.
Just bought 16GB micro SD card for it (which is max. capacity it can handle) and I'm unable to copy mp3 files to it!
It copies 3 songs and then says:

libmtp error.
Could not send object info...

Can anyone help?
Thanks

After install on HP-dv8000 laptop, I installed a couple prog's through SPM. I installed Chrome browser thru command line found on LL forum.

Next day when opening Synaptic Pkg Mgr, I get an "error occurred" msg box filled about 20 errors:

"W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 and  etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:1"

and

"W: Target Translations.......etc, etc, etc...."

All the errors are related to Google Chrome. Do you need the entire log posted?

What is this, and does it require a fix? If so, please advise.

Thanks

I've collected data from different linux installations, and I've asked some linux specialists for their opinion, how many hard disk space is needed for the directory or partition of "/opt".

Because there are some very different statements on what is necessary, I would like to collect some data from the real world. What is going on in fact, not in theory?

Therefore I request everybody to check what's going on at his own linux system. You only have to put the following command in your terminal and post the result here.

Questions:
Is fsck already configured to run after a certain amount of time or number of mounts?
If so, what command will show this?
If not, how do I configure fsck to run and fix errors after a certain number of mounts?
Is fsck configured to run and fix errors after a forced shutdown?
If not, how do I configure fsck to to run and fix errors after a forced shut down?
Should fsck be configured to run for these cases on a separate /home partition?


What I want to accomplish:
-  fsck to auto run on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3 after so many boots and automatically fix errors.
-  fsck to auto run on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3 after a forced shut down and automatically fix errors.


I'm running linux lite 3.4. I've been trying to figure out if fsck is already comfigured to run for the above cases, but I'm just not sure.
Also, my thinking is that, since /sda3 is a data partition with its own file system, and it mounts at boot, then fsck should be run on this part as well - please correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't know if it's necessary, but I'm including some output I've been looking at. All output is default from installation, I haven't change anything.
I'm still a newbie at this, and your help and information is greatly appreciated as I want to learn, and I want to learn to do it right.


Contents of /etc/init/mountall:

Hello

First post here and I just want to say that Linux Lite has made an otherwise useless piece of junk completely usable so thank you kindly to everyone involved for all your dedicated hard work.

My formerly useless piece of junk is a Toshiba M200 tablet PC. I have managed to get around majority of the issues except one. Being a tablet PC I tend to turn the screen around and lay it flat to the keyboard which also happens to be where the lid close switch is hidden, this causes the power management to suspend the system. I've changed the power management settings in XFCE and when logged in and at the desktop turning it into its tablet mode seems to have no effect and the machine doesn't suspend.

However on startup, if it is in tablet mode then the laptop will get so far then suspends. Powering on again just causes it to get a bit further then suspends again and this will continue 2-3 times before it crashes the system and I have to forcibly turn it off.

I have been into /etc/systemd/logind.conf and changed the option #HandleLidSuspend to ignore and restarted the service. I have also edited /etc/UPower/UPower.conf and set IgnoreLid to true. Is there anywhere else I need to look or change? Ideally I'd like to completely disable the lid close button.

Thanks in advance

Hi, I recently installed LinuxLite on my old laptop and on my desktop computer. I was looking for an alternative to Windows 7 for the laptop in the wake of the recent ransomware scare. My laptop was pretty old and had some issues (like not applying Windows updates). If not for Linux, I would have had to get rid of the laptop since it had no protection from ransomware. That's what prompted me to make the switch to Linux when I did. It worked out so well for my laptop (now faster and better than it was under Windows 7) that I decided to make the switch for my main desktop PC too.

I first heard of LinuxLite from [member=6925]RandomBoy[/member] on Diaspora. There is a very active Linux community in general there, and everyone was very helpful with some of my newbie questions about which distros to try etc. LinuxLite worked out wonderfully for both my machines. I actually tried out other distros for my desktop PC also (a full install of one different distro, and live media of another) since the desktop PC was higher-specced than my laptop and could handle a heavier load. But even though my desktop could handle other distros just fine, LinuxLite was the clear winner for me in terms of a) overall looks, b) UX, and c) performance. Also, a huge factor for me that removed a lot of other distros from my consideration was the fact that many of them if you want to keep up-to-date will have to either a) go with a rolling release distro (a decent solution) or b) do a complete fresh install of the OS every year or so. The latter seemed rather silly in 2017 and beyond, so I love the longer support period of the LL releases. The release roadmap on the website was also a positive factor for me in deciding on LL.

It was also intuitive and easy to set up a custom disk partitioning scheme for my desktop PC the way I wanted with LL as compared with the other distro I tried. Both of my machines are Linux-only, no Windows anywhere on them.  ;D

I'm pretty much a total newbie to Linux, although at a previous workplace I used Unix because that's the system they had. I was just an end user like most of us working there, not a dev and not an admin. We used it via command-line because that's pretty much all it ran on at the time. I hated the Vi editor with a passion, and I remember many of my files ending with Zzq from my attempts to quit the Vi editor(!) I don't remember much of the commands anymore now, I mainly was just handling spreadsheet-type of long files doing cat, grep, piping to other programs, etc. Although I'm comfortable looking up commands I need, I'm 100% new to the idea of admin-type tasks like installing software and applying updates like I need to know here for my own PC. I am slowly figuring out most of things I need to know bit by bit.

I'm glad to be here on the forums and learn from what others are saying. I'm open to input, so feel free to mention any words of advice you may have. Thanks.

Why do file copying speeds decline significantly over time, when transferring large amounts of data, following an initial burst?

Let me explain my recent experience.
I have 1.6TB of video recordings (i.e. 3000+ files classified under different subject folders) on a 4TB USB Seagate drive (ntfs formatted).

I'm now backing these up onto a newly formatted 4TB USB Samsung drive (ext4 formatted). File copying speeds, as indicated by the File Operations notification, were initially 112MB/s (4 hours shown to complete). Three hours later, this had slowed to 35MB/s (9 hours to complete); 6 hours later to 31 MB/s, etc...  I should add that I'm using the GUI method of copying/pasting files and not any command-line method.

Is there any action one can take to maintain the initially high file copying speeds when copying large amount of data? Or, is the only way to maintain high speeds to laboriously copy smaller chunks of data at a time, rather than copying the whole lot (1.6TB) in one go as I have done.  Would a command-line method be a more speed-efficient way to go?

Many thanks for your advice on this one
Mike

PS. Apologies if this post has come in bits, rather than all at once - I had problems posting it due to the 403 error forbidden message - I discovered the reason appeared to be the copying and pasting my post from LibreOffice Writer.  The forbidden message didn't pop-up if I typed the post directly into the forum.

Are they really necessary?

I have gone through UBUNTU 12.04 14.04 & 16.something before ending up with this Linux Lite & as with the other variants at each update & upgrade my operating system seems to get more dysfunctional.

This computer was working beautifully for a brief period of time before I upgraded & updated from the original Linux Lite I installed from a disk + the addition of Shotwell that I was helped to install through this forum but now the dysfunctional aspects are starting to get on my tits.
Could I just reinstall the original Linux Lite  (2.04 I think it was) & stay with that,what would be the consequences?