Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Friday 14 May 2010 11:05:13 pm Chris Jones wrote: > I was under the impression that a timeout is intentional/used only if > another operating system is detected upon installation. ie. Windows. If no > other operating system is detected, then there's no point having a timeout. In that case, why

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread goineasy9
There are many instances in the forums, where, adding a cheat code to the kernel line in grub will solve a problem, but, if one doesn't have access to grub at boot-up, the solution is made more difficult. Even the act of booting to init 3 to make a diagnosis by looking at the logs requires a re

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Alexander Boström
My home server was running Fedora 10 and I tried to preupgrade it to F12, however the F12 kernel wouldn't work at all on this machine (it oopsed before even mounting the root) and no matter how frantically I pressed the arrow keys during boot I could never get into the GRUB menu and stop it from bo

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 09:58:27AM +0200, Alexander Boström wrote: > Long story short: There are situations where a grub menu is vital, like > until you've successfully booted a new kernel. of course, and I do not think it is so hard to think of a sensible behaviour. After each (semi)automatic c

Re: Fedora 13 Release Candidate Phase

2010-05-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 14 May 2010 20:27:51 -0700, Jesse wrote: > What is releng supposed to do here though? It's a hard problem related to tools *and* people. The longer it takes to push packages into a repo, the longer the window that creates the race condition. It could be that the push has completed 98% of

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 11:01 +0200, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 09:58:27AM +0200, Alexander Boström wrote: > > > Long story short: There are situations where a grub menu is vital, like > > until you've successfully booted a new kernel. > > of course, and I do not think it is

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 12:19 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 11:01 +0200, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 09:58:27AM +0200, Alexander Boström wrote: > > > > > Long story short: There are situations where a grub menu is vital, like > > > until you've successfu

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 11:01 +0200, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > of course, and I do not think it is so hard to think of a sensible behaviour. > > After each (semi)automatic change to grub/kernel conf as well as for the very > first > boot there should be a timeout as well as visible menu. > Once th

Testing of updates

2010-05-15 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 11:06 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Same applies to positive karma. Is the +1 the result of substantial > testing or just a +1 to get the new "adventurous" stuff, which makes > Fedora less boring? Yes, a standard for +1 karma would be helpful. But even before that, we nee

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:24:26AM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 11:01 +0200, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > > More elaborate solution, there could be two config values - quicktimeout > > and > > safetimout. > > After kernel and config changes timeout would be changed to safeti

Re: Testing of updates

2010-05-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 15 May 2010 05:40:27 -0400, Matt wrote: > > Is the +1 the result of substantial > > testing or just a +1 to get the new "adventurous" stuff, which makes > > Fedora less boring? > > Yes, a standard for +1 karma would be helpful. But even before that, we > need a standard (or at least an u

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/15/2010 05:01 AM, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 09:58:27AM +0200, Alexander Boström wrote: > >> Long story short: There are situations where a grub menu is vital, like >> until you've successfully booted a new kernel. > > of course, and I do not think it is so hard to th

Suggestion - better search in application add/remove

2010-05-15 Thread Valent Turkovic
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592565 Description of problem: Mary needs a gnome clipboard manager, she searches it with "Add/Remove programs" and finds only one program. She installs it but that is not the program but perl script. Mary is very confused. Please make searching in Gno

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Frank Murphy
On 15/05/10 07:05, Chris Jones wrote: > I was under the impression that a timeout is intentional/used only if > another operating system is detected upon installation. ie. Windows. If > no other operating system is detected, then there's no point having a > timeout. > It also has 0 when Windows

rawhide report: 20100515 changes

2010-05-15 Thread Rawhide Report
Compose started at Sat May 15 08:15:06 UTC 2010 Broken deps for i386 -- almanah-0.7.2-1.fc13.i686 requires libedataserver-1.2.so.11 almanah-0.7.2-1.fc13.i686 requires libedataserverui-1.2.so.8 anjal-0.3.2-2.fc14.i686 r

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Felix Miata
openSUSE's Grub has defaulted to 8 seconds as long as openSUSE has existed, same as SuSE before it as far back as I ever used it. The 8 is in a select list in the installer's Grub configuration section, so it's easy to change prior to first boot. I always change it to 12-15, depending on how many s

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/15/2010 09:48 AM, Felix Miata wrote: rior to first boot. I always change it to 12-15, depending on how many > stanzas are proposed. 3 seconds doesn't give me time to reach for the You dont really need to 'react' and make a decision other than to touch the kbd .. once you've touched the kb

Re: Fedora 13 Release Candidate Phase

2010-05-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 20:27 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > What is releng supposed to do here though? We can't be experts in every > package. How are we to know that the negative karma is really > appropriately negative, or bad negative, or just misfiled or confused > users? That's what the main

base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-15 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
On 01/26/2009 07:04, Ulrich Drepper wrote: from a last year message: > Jakub Jelinek wrote: >>> The koji build boxes all run RHEL 5. Getting them upgraded to a not-yet- >>> released kernel seems unlikely. >> >> I know it is a pain, on the other hand it would really improve Fedora 11. > > Not o

Re: base kernel to build fedora

2010-05-15 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 04:38:02PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > On 01/26/2009 07:04, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > from a last year message: > > > Jakub Jelinek wrote: > >>> The koji build boxes all run RHEL 5. Getting them upgraded to a not-yet- > >>> released kernel seems unlikely. > >> > >

Re: Quake3 security issue and non-responsive maintainer: Xavier Lamien

2010-05-15 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:26:53PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > What we have is the orphaning (a proactive process) and awol > maintainer processes (a reactive process).. we don't have an automated > process that helps us identify potentially unmaintained packages to be > concerned about. Well, we

Re: Suggestion - better search in application add/remove

2010-05-15 Thread Rakesh Pandit
On 15 May 2010 17:56, Valent Turkovic wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592565 > > Description of problem: > Mary needs a gnome clipboard manager, she searches it with "Add/Remove > programs" and finds only one program. She installs it but that is not the > program but perl scrip

Re: Quake3 security issue and non-responsive maintainer: Xavier Lamien

2010-05-15 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:19:50AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:26:53PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > What we have is the orphaning (a proactive process) and awol > > maintainer processes (a reactive process).. we don't have an automated > > process that helps us identify

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 08:23 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: >What if a user puts in a timeout - after a successful boot will it > stay or be reset to 0. It should never change what the user desires ... > you may need a fancier smarter set of rules. Ok, did a test install this morning on a dual

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread goineasy9
That's not entirely true. I have read many posts where hitting escape had no effect on stopping boot. I, myself have one motherboard that functions (or doesn't function) in the same way. -Original Message- From: Genes MailLists To: Development discussions related to Fedora Sent: Sat

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/15/2010 11:40 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > Also, I changed the timeout after the install and it stays that way and > doesn't change back. The setting is permanently until I change it > again. > Yes it is - I think someone was suggesting it be changed .. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.f

Re: Quake3 security issue and non-responsive maintainer: Xavier Lamien

2010-05-15 Thread Rakesh Pandit
On 15 May 2010 21:07, Till Maas wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:19:50AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:26:53PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: >> > What we have is the orphaning (a proactive process) and awol >> > maintainer processes (a reactive process).. we don't have an

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 11:47 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 05/15/2010 11:40 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > > > Also, I changed the timeout after the install and it stays that way and > > doesn't change back. The setting is permanently until I change it > > again. > > > > Yes it is - I think so

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/15/2010 12:23 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: > Actually, I was answering your question, in regards to if it's changed, > will it be changed back. Was thinking you were asking this as in after > the install and you changed it, will it be changed back by an upgrade or > something. > > Sorry for th

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-15 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:47:47AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 05/15/2010 11:40 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > > > Also, I changed the timeout after the install and it stays that way and > > doesn't change back. The setting is permanently until I change it > > again. > > > > Yes it is - I t

Re: Suggestion - better search in application add/remove

2010-05-15 Thread Richard Hughes
On 15 May 2010 13:26, Valent Turkovic wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592565 It's just a bug in gnome-packagekit. I'll push an update to F13 on Monday. Richard. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Quake3 security issue and non-responsive maintainer: Xavier Lamien

2010-05-15 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 09:29:37PM +0530, Rakesh Pandit wrote: > On 15 May 2010 21:07, Till Maas wrote: > > The upstream release monitoring tool (formerly fever) is not really used > > to identify such packages, because there is no process to identify > > non-uptodate packages like there is a proc

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-05-15 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2010 18:37:06 Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> Petrus de Calguarium wrote: >> > As I had expected, breaking up the monolithic >> > packages into individual packages is a whole lot >> > of unnecessary work. Better to provide rele

Review request: nodebrain - a declarative rule-based language for state and event monitoring

2010-05-15 Thread John Ellson
Requesting review of a new package: nodebrain https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592504 Description: NodeBrain is an interpreter of a declarative rule-based language designed for construction of state and event monitoring applications. It interacts with other monitoring compone

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-05-15 Thread Ryan Rix
On Sat 15 May 2010 1:16:26 pm Valent Turkovic wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > On Friday 05 March 2010 18:37:06 Matthew Woehlke wrote: > >> Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > >> > As I had expected, breaking up the monolithic > >> > packages into individual packages