Re: F17 & btrfs installation

2012-04-10 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On 04/11/2012 12:23 PM, hamidou dia wrote: > Hi List, Kashyap > > I hit the same error message yesterday when testing F17RC4, when > manually partitionning (though I wasn't issue btrfs). > I got this fixed by creating a bios boot partition > > I think that in your case you should try to append th

serious Python-2.7.2-12.x86_64 crash...

2012-04-10 Thread Rob Healey
Greetings: Major crash! Please fix before releasing Fedora 17 Here is what I received on my terminal window regarding this crash... [Frog@FartingSalmon gep-026]$ pysetup run sdist running sdist running check invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile (No

Re: F17 & btrfs installation

2012-04-10 Thread hamidou dia
Hi List, Kashyap I hit the same error message yesterday when testing F17RC4, when manually partitionning (though I wasn't issue btrfs). I got this fixed by creating a bios boot partition I think that in your case you should try to append the following in your KS file part biosboot --fstype=biosb

Re: F17 & btrfs installation

2012-04-10 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
> > I'm going give it a try w/ btrfs partitioning. Meanwhile, I wasn't keeping > up. Can someone > confirm, does /boot still need to be ext3/ext4 for btrfs to work? > Ok, I gave it a try w/ the below command line, and an error "you have not created a bootloader stage1 target device. This can

[Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting, Round 3, Wednesday, April 11, @17:00 Eastern

2012-04-10 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Please join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this important meeting. This will be Round 3 of this meeting for the Beta release of F17. Wednesday, April 11, 2012 @21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determin

Cannot add FreeBSD entry to grub 2

2012-04-10 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I have succeded in installing Fedora 17 nightly build. I have successfully added the updates as of yesterday and today. I cannot add FreeBSD entry to the grub2 configuration. I have read several howto's but only Fedora and two entries for windows show up: [root@acer-aspire-1 gru

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-04-10 Thread mwesten
On 04/10/2012 01:37 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 21:14 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote: > I'm pretty sure there must be a less strange and rarely-used way of > doing it that would be usa

Re: Noveau wedge still alive

2012-04-10 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I used the RC4 DVD to upgrade my office system. Got another Noveau wedge not long afterwards. WSPR was still running normally in an unselected window. I was able to SSH into the system. As with the last time, installing the current Nvidia driver seems to have solved the problem. On 04/09/20

2012-04-09 - Fedora QA Meeting - recap

2012-04-10 Thread Adam Williamson
As always, minutes and IRC transcript available on the wiki at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20120409 Next meeting is scheduled for 2012-04-16 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. If you have topics you think we should bring up at the meeting, please add them to the Wiki page at https://fe

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Beta Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!

2012-04-10 Thread Piscium
On 10 April 2012 07:06, Adam Williamson wrote: >> firstboot employs a belt-and-braces method of disabling itself - to get >> it to fire again you have to turn it on twice. >> =) /etc/sysconfig/firstboot is one place, you found that, but you missed >> the other: you have to re-enable it as a servi

Re: new Release Criterion proposal: kernel+initrd boot

2012-04-10 Thread Petr Schindler
On Út, 2012-04-10 at 10:49 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 09:49 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > > Recently we found out that we don't have any criterion for PXE boot. Also > > F17 anaconda separated its root image from initrd.img, adding new ways > > where things can break. In

Re: Proposal: stop holding composes for preupgrade bugs at Alpha and Beta phases

2012-04-10 Thread Richard Ryniker
>The thread for longer files is more likely to be in the middle of a >transfer, and thus capable of boosting its throughput, while the other >thread suffers low throughput due to starting or stopping the transfer of >an individual file. Maybe. Certainly "The thread for longer files is more likely

New BugZapper Introduction

2012-04-10 Thread patrick korsnick
Hi all, Just wanted to drop a quick note to introduce myself as a triage noob. I've been using fedora as my primary OS for a couple years now but have been using linux for about ten years and Unixes like Solaris & IRIX since the early 90s. In my day job I'm a consulting software engineer, most re

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-04-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 12:37 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 21:14 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > >> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote: > > >> > I'm pretty sure there must be a less strange and rarely-used way of > >

Re: new Release Criterion proposal: kernel+initrd boot

2012-04-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 09:49 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > Recently we found out that we don't have any criterion for PXE boot. Also F17 > anaconda separated its root image from initrd.img, adding new ways where > things can break. In the QA meeting we decided that new criterion is required > [1].

Re: Proposal: stop holding composes for preupgrade bugs at Alpha and Beta phases

2012-04-10 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 07:18:26PM -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: > As I said in the meeting let's just deprecate it. > > Upgrade methods as follows: > > 1) YUM > 2) DVD > Actually, it would be better if we dropped DVD upgrades and only used preupgrade. yum upgrades have never been officially support

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-04-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 21:14 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote: > I'm pretty sure there must be a less strange and rarely-used way of > doing it that would be usable in your situation... If you know what it is,

Re: Proposal: stop holding composes for preupgrade bugs at Alpha and Beta phases

2012-04-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 11:13 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > In any case, as the preupgrade has to be installed on the _old_ system, it > doesn't help much having it on the (pre-final) installation media. Perhaps > a separate small repo for rolling update of preupgrade while testing? We already

Re: F17 & btrfs installation

2012-04-10 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 21:12 +0200, gaelic wrote: > Hello. > > I know that anaconda is having a bug in terms of installing to btrfs > Partitions and btrfs is generally disabled for now. Anybody knows if a > installation of F17 to btrfs is possible if it already exists? Almost anything will be poss

Re: Proposal: stop holding composes for preupgrade bugs at Alpha and Beta phases

2012-04-10 Thread John Reiser
On 04/10/2012 07:03 AM, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > John Reiser wrote: >> A close-to-optimal strategy for typical cable modem ISP is: >> 1. Sort the download list by size of file to be downloaded. >> 2. Run two parallel threads. The first thread downloads >>

Re: Proposal: stop holding composes for preupgrade bugs at Alpha and Beta phases

2012-04-10 Thread John Reiser
On 04/09/2012 10:05 PM, Dan Mashal top-posted: > 1) Yum should be intelligent enough to recognize this > > 2) yum-plugin-fastestmirror solves this problem. > > 3) I think we all upgraded from 14.4k modems a few years ago. Replying in "top post" style may work for a management discussion, but for

F-17 Branched report: 20120410 changes

2012-04-10 Thread Fedora Branched Report
Compose started at Tue Apr 10 08:15:03 UTC 2012 Broken deps for x86_64 -- [HippoDraw] HippoDraw-devel-1.21.3-2.fc17.i686 requires python-numarray HippoDraw-devel-1.21.3-2.fc17.x86_64 requires python-numarray HippoDraw-

Re: Proposal: stop holding composes for preupgrade bugs at Alpha and Beta phases

2012-04-10 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Kalev Lember wrote: > On 04/10/2012 09:04 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 22:15 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> I think we want preupgrade to work for at least beta. I think just not > >> blocking the composes, but requiring it to work for beta is better than > >> waiting u

Re: Proposal: stop holding composes for preupgrade bugs at Alpha and Beta phases

2012-04-10 Thread Horst H. von Brand
John Reiser wrote: > On 04/09/2012 07:18 PM, Dan Mashal wrote: > > As I said in the meeting let's just deprecate it [in favor of yum+network]. > > The problems I have seen with using only yum+network to perform a distro > version upgrade are: [...] > 2. yum is stupidly slow about collecting t

Re: F17 & btrfs installation

2012-04-10 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On 04/10/2012 06:03 PM, Karel Volný wrote: > > hi, > >> I know that anaconda is having a bug in terms of installing to >> btrfs Partitions and btrfs is generally disabled for now. >> Anybody knows if a installation of F17 to btrfs is possible >> if it already exists? > > I've tried Alpha install

Re: F17 & btrfs installation

2012-04-10 Thread Karel Volný
hi, > I know that anaconda is having a bug in terms of installing to > btrfs Partitions and btrfs is generally disabled for now. > Anybody knows if a installation of F17 to btrfs is possible > if it already exists? I've tried Alpha install, and Anaconda was crashing while reading a device that c

Re: Proposal: stop holding composes for preupgrade bugs at Alpha and Beta phases

2012-04-10 Thread Kamil Paral
> What I would do is treat preupgrade bugs at Go/No-Go meetings as > release > blockers, but at the same time not require install media respin for > preupgrade fixes. This should allow more flexibility and faster > turnover > for validation. As long as there is a process to accept Anaconda > builds

Re: size of F17 install DVD

2012-04-10 Thread Kamil Paral
> Most space was saved by stripping translations (KDE, libreoffice), > aspell and some fonts. > > I guess the translations will be downloaded during/after > installation... or not? I should probably answer that myself. Live does not download anything, neither DVD in default mode. We should check

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-04-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 21:14 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 17:08 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > >> It's now been moe than a month sicne I started trying to install F16. > >> Grrr. > > > > To be honest, I've mostly tuned