Rawhide x86_64: WiFi completely hosed, ditto GDM

2010-09-23 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ither, but connecting at home with DHCP does work. GDM crashed on boot yesterday, luckily I've got XDM (and XFCE) installed here. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Fede

Re: Rawhide x86_64: WiFi completely hosed, ditto GDM

2010-09-27 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Horst H. von Brand wrote: > As of yesterday there simply is no way to get WiFi (iwlagn here) to > work. Restarting NetworkManager, avahi-daemon, udevd, dbus has no > effect. Restrarting nm-applet does nothing, no response to iwconfig ow iw. > > The configuration for the wired

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Horst H. von Brand
n the above is mostly install/running/updating for "final users")? BTW, I've seen several times that updating the server makes a running instance non-responsive, but been too lazy to report it. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Horst H. von Brand
rawhide is just a bag of untested packages, and thus useless. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Ch

PDF printouts with no top margin?

2011-09-27 Thread Horst H. von Brand
e paper. cups-1.4.8-2.fc15.x86_64 ghostscript-9.04-3.fc15.x86_64 hplip-3.11.7-2.fc15.x86_64 I'm at a loss on how to debug this further. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tec

Re: PDF printouts with no top margin?

2011-09-27 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Horst H. von Brand wrote: > I'm running Fedora 15 on x86_64, up to date, with JNovy's TeXlive (but that > one doesn't seem to be at fault). > > Printing PDFs created by pdflatex (even oldish ones) on a HP LaserJet > m1522nf MFP over the 'net gives me pag

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Beta is GOLD!

2011-09-30 Thread Horst H. von Brand
this done without everyone's hard work and > assistance. Congratulations all! -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Horst H. von Brand
he case. > We install LVM and iSCSI and all kinds of other enterprisey stuff > on even the smallest netbook. [...] This is a great writeup. Why don't you add it to your "systemd for sysadmins" series? And/or some page on boot speedup in the Fedora wiki? Thanks for the pointers! --

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Horst H. von Brand
orthwhile, and as long as installation DVDs are distributed, it should be considered for them too. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2

Re: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

2011-10-12 Thread Horst H. von Brand
minutes of work. The potential benefit is unknown, but > certainly not zero. Nodz. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casil

Re: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

2011-10-12 Thread Horst H. von Brand
be handled automagically by my machine here. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 234 Fax: +56

x86_64 rawhide: No CPU frequency scaling anymore?

2010-11-19 Thread Horst H. von Brand
uo CPU t5...@1.80ghz, stepping 13. I tried my older kernels (kernel-2.6.36-2.fc15.x86_64, kernel-2.6.36-4.fc15.x86_64, kernel-2.6.36-5.fc15.x86_64 here) and downgraded gnome-settings daemon (only thing that looked remotely relevant in the updates), no changes. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand

x86_64 rawhide: Poweroff just shuts down

2010-11-19 Thread Horst H. von Brand
: could not log boot: Address already in use on tty. Only out of the ordinary configuration I can think of is that /usr is a separate partition (really LVM2 volume). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32

Re: x86_64 rawhide: No CPU frequency scaling anymore?

2010-11-26 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Petr Sabata wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 09:53:21AM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > > After yesterday's updates, on login to Gnome a error message shows up > > saying that "CPU Frequency scaling is unsupported", and claims either > > misconfiguration

Rawhide: Gnome totally busted after today's (?) round of updates

2011-01-11 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ome panels, etc) did show up. Went to alt-ctrl-F2, logged into root and did: telinit 3 telinit 5 No X did show up. Rebooted by ctrl-alt-del, and tried with plain Gnome. No dice either. Rebooted again, now running XFCE4. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Depar

Rawhide x86_64: Xorg hang

2011-02-02 Thread Horst H. von Brand
of ssh is somewhat far away). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 234 Fax: +56

Re: Packaging Google Font Directory for Fedora 14

2010-05-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
You should look at <http://fonts.fedoraproject.org>, where the Fedora font buffs hang out. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-14 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ely isn't "normal-user" stuff (yes, I know that /sbin and /usr/sbin are on the default $PATH now, but still). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-14 Thread Horst H. von Brand
get back if the result explodes in my face? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 234 F

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ly isn't for ps(1)'s output. > Computer-parsable stuff should be neither. It must be easily readable anyway! Best part is that if done right, you don't get to maintain several programs ;-) -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
to tickle the system so it spits out awk(1)-able logs and stuff. > But anyway, I give up. If you keep looking long enough you'll find > something you don't like in everything. Please don't. I'll find something I don't like everywhere (some tell me I'm way too good

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ng to shoehorn everything into rc.local or some such. It took a while, afterwards I didn't want to look back. It's called "education", and it doesn't come cheap. > This should probably say "systemd for F16" To me Fedora is about trying out new stuff, so I&#x

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
you yourself invented, and that's a backwards way to > > do development :-/ > Jeez. Sometimes before complaining that other people didn't do their > homework maybe you should do your own. Google isn't that hard to > use. Reading up on Wikipedia either. Please show

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
But eventually we stuck with --realize. It's not > great, yes. But we couldnt think of anything better. Happy to take > suggestions. But no, --take-effect-immediately is not really an option. What do other commands use for "do it now" (instead of "later&quo

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
SB though > with some minimal changes, and we also understand the unmodified LSB and > RH names for compat. > "systemctl disable --now" removes the unit file symlinks from > /etc/systemd/system, terminates the unit before this and reloads the > init system configurat

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
> - IT has JOB column (which is always empty, in observation) > > Well, its empty if there's nothing started or being stooped right now, > or is waiting for some dependencies to start/stop. It will be empty if > your systemd started up completely, because there is nothing to do

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
as replaced by a broken version which crashes on startup? Or gets into a loop (or just does something very timeconsuming sometimes) before being ready to answer? This _needs_ answers. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 22.07.10 16:36, Horst H. von Brand (vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl) wrote: > > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Well, I think good UI means that you distuingish computer parsable and > > > human read

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
s they > get more confident in the new configuration format. Compatibility with native SysVinit-style upstart is of very little help if the relevant commands (at least the most used options) aren't available. E.g. when the big switchover from ipchains to iptables was in swing, you could (al

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ges without sysvinit > scripts will have to deal with writing their own init scripts. I'd suggest keeping them around until RHEL ships with native systemd + 1 Fedora cycle. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-23 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ewly created GLX context Seems something took out Gnome... but several other Gnome games (mahjongg from gnome-games-extra-2.31.4-1.fc14.x86_64, sol from gnome-games-2.31.4-1.fc14.x86_64) work fine. gnome-terminal also works. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org D

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-23 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 22.07.10 21:30, Horst H. von Brand (vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl) wrote: > > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > On Thu, 22.07.10 15:19, Simo Sorce (sso...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > [...] > > Sorry, but what if the configuration

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-23 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Horst H. von Brand wrote: > Let's go off into a tangent: > > Just booted my x86_64 rawhide box (up to date) into systemd. SELinux is > enforcing. Boot worked, but the machine got stuck on shudown. Had to power off. Thanks $DEITY for journalling filesystems... I saw comments

Re: rawhide report: 20100724 changes

2010-07-24 Thread Horst H. von Brand
onflicts with systemd (or perhaps among *-sysvinit). In none of my two machines do {systemd,upstart}-sysvinit get installed/updated, due to conflicts. Will need freshen up on broken-rawhide-fu before rebooting. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de

Re: Using LLVM for build package instead gcc, why not?

2010-07-24 Thread Horst H. von Brand
f the many processors > systems are starting to get. Automatic paralelization is still a just a glint in researcher's eyes, some 50 years later... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 265443

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd is now the default init system in rawhide

2010-07-25 Thread Horst H. von Brand
es via symlinks. Can't be installed. yum wants to install _both_ *-sysvinit (even on freshly installed machines: F13 --> rawhide), they conflict, and thus systemd isn't updated at all. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica

Re: Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker Meeting #3 Friday @ 16:00 UTC

2010-07-29 Thread Horst H. von Brand
application from the default desktop environment. The web browser must > be able to download files, load extensions, and log into FAS For that, it must be able to boot with the default configuration... which currently just isn't the case. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand

Re: The move to git!

2010-07-30 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Many thanks! -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 234 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- devel

Re: Primary Architectures: Another Proposal (RFC)

2012-04-07 Thread Horst H. von Brand
more waiting for all architectures to complete, only the > fastest need complete) > * fair treatment of all architectures (ARM will be happy because they won't > be a second-class citizen anymore) > > Drawbacks: Nobody will _run_ that, so no testing other that

Re: SELinuxDenyPtrace: Write, compile, run, but don't debug applications?

2012-04-10 Thread Horst H. von Brand
aff_t) seems like it would get us most of the > way to option 4 without breaking existing user expectations. What am I > missing that makes this infeasible? That would leave just "Hello, world!" style programs (as long as they aren't in some way localized, like the GNU versio

Re: Primary Architectures: Another Proposal (RFC)

2012-04-10 Thread Horst H. von Brand
That is just irresponsible. BTW, there are too few rawhide consumers as things stand; this would make rawhide be russian roulette, but with 5 bullets instead of 1. > "If it compiles, ship it!" – Linus Torvalds Riiight... one tongue-in-cheek comment by the well-known punster

Re: sudo and changes in packaging guidelines

2012-04-13 Thread Horst H. von Brand
hy not? I can't think of a SUID binary written in e.g. FORTRAN, but that is probably just lack of imagination... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Mar

Re: sudo and changes in packaging guidelines

2012-04-13 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ording, but it should make the same thing obvious: > > """ > If your package meets any of the following criteria you MUST enable the PIE > compiler flags: > """ Very much better than the suggestion, IMHO. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand Us

Re: sudo and changes in packaging guidelines

2012-04-13 Thread Horst H. von Brand
t;only" to the sentence then, like: > > * Your package runs only as root. Nope. A program running as SGID games (or any other "different than the user starting it" or "needs any special privileges") should be included here. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand U

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-14 Thread Horst H. von Brand
the rest of the world Please go with (3), keeping generated files in git is just dumb. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 1

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-15 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > "Horst H. von Brand" writes: > > [...] > > Please go with (3), keeping generated files in git is just dumb. > > Please don't demean those who do it for well-considered reasons. I'm sorry if it came through too abrasive,

Re: Proposal for revitalizing the sponsorship process for packaging

2012-05-01 Thread Horst H. von Brand
fficial maintainer, he would apply to official review and > the package would get into official Fedora repo. There are several personal repos around, this is sort of what you propose. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica