Re: Starting user UIDs at 1000 - please check your packages

2011-07-21 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Miloslav Trmač wrote: > No, applications expect system accounts and user accounts to have > non-overlapping ID intervals. So this would be just a more broken > version of keeping the limit at 500. +1. And keeping consistency with other distros. Definitely the right move, since UID=1000 is the d

RE: biosdevname in fedora 15 - why is this inconsistency?

2011-07-08 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
shyam_i...@dell.com wrote: > Can you create a BZ with the following output.. ? > > sudo /sbin/biosdevname -d > sudo /usr/sbin/dmidecode > sudo /usr/sbin/biosdecode > lspci -tv https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720068 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.

Re: biosdevname in fedora 15 - why is this inconsistency?

2011-07-08 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tom Hughes wrote: > Did you upgrade this machine from an earlier version of Fedora? If so > then I suspect the old names will stick because you will have udev > persistent naming rules for them. No, I did a clean install. I installed a week before the first Test Candidate for the first Release C

Re: biosdevname in fedora 15 - why is this inconsistency?

2011-07-08 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Adam Williamson wrote: > That would indicate your BIOS doesn't have the necessary support; quite > a few don't. There's some notes on what's needed for biosdevname to work > at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-01-27_Network_Device_Nami ng_With_Biosdevname#Hardware_Requirements I

Re: biosdevname in fedora 15 - why is this inconsistency?

2011-07-08 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Adam Williamson wrote: >> ifconfig shows I have em1, p2p1; >> Why does it not defined as pci#? > The man page is out of date. pciXp_Y got changed to pXpY, I believe > because it turned out to be important that the names be kept below a > certain length. I also have biosdevname-0.3.8-1.fc15.x86_6

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
John5342 wrote: > I forget which one exactly contains the mp3 plugin gstreamer-plugins-ugly, I believe > i just install all of them and then i don't have to worry about any > other format i may one day come across. ditto > The same plugins are also used by just about every other form of KDE >

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > John5342 wrote: > >> Hence xine-lib-extras-freeworld should make no difference to amarok when >> using the default backend anyway. You probably want gstreamer-plugins-* >> in f15+ (or whenever phonon-backend-gstreamer became the default) u

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
John5342 wrote: > Hence xine-lib-extras-freeworld should make no difference to amarok when > using the default backend anyway. You probably want gstreamer-plugins-* in > f15+ (or whenever phonon-backend-gstreamer became the default) unless you > changed the back end manually. Oh, so you mean I ne

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Kevin Kofler wrote: > there's one third-party KDE-Platform-based application still using > xine-lib for the foreseeable future: Kaffeine. kaffeine has begun to look kind of shabby. I always installed it, as xine appeared to have the most complete set of codecs. Can other programs now deal with

Re: Fedora 15 / Gnome 3 gotchas

2011-05-07 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Denys Vlasenko wrote: > Gnome 3 is a usability disaster. I rather like Gnome3. I am a KDE user and through Gnome3, I have managed to discover all kinds of things in KDE that I never knew were there or never knew how to use. Gnome3 is kind of like a simplified KDE4 (imagine a different activity

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Hans de Goede wrote: > The problem has been analyzed and is known, as well as a fix for it, see: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477 This worked perfectly on my x86_64 system. I will try later on the i686 laptop. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin

Re: applied, non-theoretical use of systemd

2010-08-29 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Kevin Kofler wrote: > What KDM does is that it runs (as root, like all of KDM) the command given > by its HaltCmd option, which defaults to its HALT_CMD macro, which is > defined on GNU/Linux as "/sbin/halt". However, I see that we override this > in our default kdmrc in kde-settings-kdm as "HaltC

Re: applied, non-theoretical use of systemd

2010-08-29 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Lennart Poettering wrote: > Hmm, the problems you pointed out, which ones of those remain? Can you > please file a bug about those! (unless you already did so?) > They are all solved. dnsmasq was not caching because I forgot to tell it not to use the default resolv.conf, but rather to use 127.

Re: applied, non-theoretical use of systemd

2010-08-27 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Brendan Jones - I.T. wrote: > On 08/27/2010 10:11 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: >> Where are the logs for systemd? In /var/log/messages, maybe? > I add systemd.log_target=kmsg systemd.log_level=debug as kernel > parameters to flesh out logging in /var/log/messages > Thanks.

Re: applied, non-theoretical use of systemd

2010-08-27 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Matthew Miller wrote: > It doesn't log separately -- it uses syslog. So look in the > /var/log/messages file. > You know, I'm getting the hang of systemd. I like. I hope we're not going back to sysv, despite the grumbling. I just converted my scripts and this is easier, I think. -- devel mail

Re: applied, non-theoretical use of systemd

2010-08-27 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Bill Nottingham wrote: > OK. So the question is ... what does this button do? Invoke 'halt'? > Invoke 'shutdown -h now'? Invoke ConsoleKit's Stop() method? > Do I need to look in the logs for this? :-) I think this is a question for the KDE guys, non? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedorap

Re: applied, non-theoretical use of systemd

2010-08-27 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Forget the BS about dnsmasq not cacheing! I forgot to change /etc/resolv.conf and was still using the old one that uses the default nameservers. So, the problem reduces to the Shut Off Computer button in KDE not working. -- devel mailing list devel

Re: applied, non-theoretical use of systemd

2010-08-27 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Matthew Miller wrote: > And what do the shutdown and poweroff commands do? > OK, I'm back. I ran shutdown (forgot to add -h now), so it took a bit, from within konsole. It shut off the system, without running plymouth. To speed things up, I appended 3 (Lennard wrote that you can still to this

Re: applied, non-theoretical use of systemd

2010-08-27 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Thanks Rahul and Martin (other posts in this thread) :) Bill Nottingham wrote: > Petrus de Calguarium said: >> 1. I noticed that one can no longer (with v8-2) turn off the computer by >> clicking the 'turn off computer' button in KDE. I figured out, with help >>

Re: applied, non-theoretical use of systemd

2010-08-27 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Matthew Miller wrote: > > What do the logs say? > Where are the logs? I looked in /var/log/ last night and there is no system.log or systemd.log file on my system. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: applied, non-theoretical use of systemd

2010-08-27 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > dnsmasq does not appear to be working correctly. This is odd. systemctl and systemctl status dnsmasq.service both show dnsmasq as active (running), but it is not cacheing. Could it be that it's not reading /etc/dnsmasq.conf? No, I don't think so

applied, non-theoretical use of systemd

2010-08-26 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
1. I noticed that one can no longer (with v8-2) turn off the computer by clicking the 'turn off computer' button in KDE. I figured out, with help of recent threads, that one has to run: systemctl isolate poweroff.target. It worked. Is this the correct way? 2. I use privoxy as a proxy and dnsm

Re: How many lost users is an acceptable loss in exchange for systemd?

2010-08-25 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > To say it bluntly: Any significant infrastructural change _will_ cost > Fedora some users in the short term. > I'm not lost. I am using F14α as my day-to-day system since the weekend. I am considering putting F14α on my laptop, too, so goodbye F13. I have experienced

Re: mcelog errors

2010-08-22 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Michael Schwendt wrote: > Bugs are to be reported in bugzilla, e.g. via this convenient link: > http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/mcelog Thanks. It appears that there are a number of bug reports already opened on exactly this problem. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://ad

mcelog errors

2010-08-22 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
The mcelog script in cron.hourly runs hourly and, hourly, I get system mail stating that a "device does not exist". This is a regression, as this error was present in rawhide before f13 came out, and now, in f14α, it is back. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.f

Re: F14 TC2 x86_64b

2010-08-03 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: >> The workaround is to choose "Install with basic video driver". >> > > Or, pass nomodeset to the kernel... I tried both nomodeset and the basic video driver. In both cases, the boot hangs at: "Waiting for hardware to initialize..." It hangs here forever and the CD/DVD

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-04 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Doug Ledford wrote: > [the whole nine yards] I like this idea. As a user of fedora updates- testing and kde-redhat, in order to get the latest software the soonest onto my computer, without having the burden of reinstalling my system twice a year on 2 computers, x86_64 desktop and i686/PAE la

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Juha Tuomala wrote: > For all those who say that "latest stuff is the reason why > I use Fedora!!!1", there is rawhide for you. > I have tried this, but that is not possible. Generally, a few weeks after the release of a new fedora, rawhide becomes unusable for a while, even unbootable. My la

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > So please, Fedora KDE users - comment > these changes! I prefer to get the releases as KDE releases them, instead of having to wait... and wait... and wait... I scanned the Stability Proposal document that had been linked. Here is what I think: As I had expected, b

Re: Heads up: X server configuration changes

2010-02-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Peter Hutterer wrote: > ... Thanks for the 'Heads Up'. As I had said so long ago, I couldn't possibly read every developer's blog to find out what I must do to avoid inevitable doom after updating my system and not taking the required configuration measures -- that I would only know about,

Re: Unable to start X

2010-01-25 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Paul F. Johnson wrote: > Ta Ta For Now I haven't heard that for a while. Yes, we use that here in .ca sometimes, too. > It's only me, only me and no-one else. ditto -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Unable to start X

2010-01-25 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Paul F. Johnson wrote: > TTFN TTFN? Thanks to F'ing Nobody? > Any ideas on how to get my desktop to boot I am using Intel driver and I am also unable to get X to boot in rawhide. I have tried startx, putting 5 on the kernel boot line in grub, etc., to no avail. I get a mouse pointer superim