OpenJDK update to J7u4 level?

2012-05-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi there, I hit a nasty bug with regards to OpenJDK 7 and GTK file requesters. Currently the Sun Bugparade datase is having hiccups and it cannot display bug reports (nevertheless it accepted my bug report and assigned it a bug#). Despite this, I think I may have found a "way too similar" bug rep

F17 netinstall and proxy

2012-05-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Trying to start a netinstall with a ks file behind a proxy without luck. url --url="http://.../"; --proxy=http://10.0.0.4:80 repo --name=testing --baseurl="http://.../"; --proxy=http://10.0.0.4:80 If I change consoles and export a http_proxy=http://10.0.0.4:80 I can wget anything just fine. Any

Re: Testing Needed for F17 Final Blockers

2012-05-01 Thread Tim Flink
On Tue, 1 May 2012 18:16:35 -0600 Tim Flink wrote: > I just went through the sizable list of F17 final blockers and found a > bunch of things that need to be tested. If you have some spare cycles > and/or are looking for stuff to test - please take a look at the bugs > and suggested tests below.

Testing Needed for F17 Final Blockers

2012-05-01 Thread Tim Flink
I just went through the sizable list of F17 final blockers and found a bunch of things that need to be tested. If you have some spare cycles and/or are looking for stuff to test - please take a look at the bugs and suggested tests below. Thanks, Tim https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8

Re: Does a 90 second timeout strike a familiar note?

2012-05-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/02/2012 06:54 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On fedora 16 if I type "reboot" in a terminal, there is a > 7 second delay from when I hit enter to when shutdown messages > start scrolling on my screen (I have rhgb turned off). > > On fedora 17 if I type "reboot" in a terminal, there is a > 1 minute a

Re: GIMP 2.8

2012-05-01 Thread John Morris
On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 11:55 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I sorta do too. That's one of the reasons I started my > "Game Of Linux" web pages :-). Thanks for that. Now the Windows7 and Win7 system partitions don't insist on appearing on my desktop. Yes I kept Lose7 because it is the only easy way

Anaconda 17.24-1 reverts to msdos disklabels for new installs

2012-05-01 Thread Brian C. Lane
Back in Fedora 16 we tried to advance the state of the art. We switched to using GPT disklabels by default, and in many cases this worked just fine. But it has become increasingly obvious that the hardware isn't ready for us. We continue to get reports of boot problems related to BIOS that attempt

Re: Does a 90 second timeout strike a familiar note?

2012-05-01 Thread Tom Horsley
> Anyone know what the heck is happening in those extra > 90 seconds? OK, I found an earlier thread about systemd hanging on shutdown, and tried the experiment of doing "sudo service network stop" just before typing "reboot", and fedora 17 then rebooted in about the same 7 seconds as fedora 16.

Does a 90 second timeout strike a familiar note?

2012-05-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On fedora 16 if I type "reboot" in a terminal, there is a 7 second delay from when I hit enter to when shutdown messages start scrolling on my screen (I have rhgb turned off). On fedora 17 if I type "reboot" in a terminal, there is a 1 minute and 37 second delay between enter and shutdown message

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:51:08 -0400 Adam Jackson wrote: > - xulrunner maybe shouldn't assert PRIMARY ownership in this case That's the point for me: What on earth in the bookmarks sidebar needs or wants the selection? And it is a super long delay just in firefox. I can run other apps that really

Re: RAID install proposed blocker

2012-05-01 Thread Tim Flink
On Tue, 01 May 2012 14:46:23 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > I would like to propose > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809111 as a blocker or > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750794 as they are > related. I am surprised that this hasn't been brought up already as > I am unabl

RAID install proposed blocker

2012-05-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
I would like to propose https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809111 as a blocker or https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750794 as they are related. I am surprised that this hasn't been brought up already as I am unable to install to a software raid device. Am I using an unusual

Re: Dovecot

2012-05-01 Thread Braden McDaniel
On 5/1/12 1:49 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: I'm running dovecot on Fedora 16. I seem unable to create new IMAP subfolders from clients; and this is possibly associated with the most recent dovecot update on F16. Yes I also ran into the above issue when I lost my backups (HD failed) and had to reinst

Re: [Test-Announce] ** RE-SCHEDULED ** 2012-05-02 @ 17:00 UTC - F17 Final Blocker Bug Review #2

2012-05-01 Thread Tim Flink
== #fedora-bugzappers: f17-final-blocker-review-2 == We didn't quite get through all of the proposed blockers but it's a start. Thanks to everyone who stepped up to help today! Minutes: http://meetbot.fedorap

Re: Palimsest discrepancy

2012-05-01 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 05/01/2012 08:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2012 13:03:18 -0500 > John Morris wrote: > >> I depend on SMART being right >> enough so I can usually yank a failing drive before it goes so bad the >> worker can't login and use the machine. > > Of course, it was the SMART firmware on

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 14:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2012 14:11:15 -0400 > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > In my experience, extremely slow FF performance is usually due to > > writing out either the assorted sqlite data files in the profile > > directory, or the big javascript pile

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 1 May 2012 14:11:15 -0400 Bill Nottingham wrote: > In my experience, extremely slow FF performance is usually due to > writing out either the assorted sqlite data files in the profile > directory, or the big javascript pile that is the session storage. I've got one really weird slowdown I

Re: Palimsest discrepancy

2012-05-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 01 May 2012 13:03:18 -0500 John Morris wrote: > I depend on SMART being right > enough so I can usually yank a failing drive before it goes so bad the > worker can't login and use the machine. Of course, it was the SMART firmware on my Crucial SSD drive that made it break after 5184 hours

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jonathan Kamens (j...@kamens.us) said: > I restarted Firefox many times. I restarted gnome-shell. I restarted > my machine. Nothing helped. Performance was poor immediately after > the restart. There was no perceivable degradation over time -- it > was extremely poor right from when it started up

Re: Palimsest discrepancy

2012-05-01 Thread John Morris
On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 12:04 -0700, John Reiser wrote: > How old is the drive? That model number says 3-platter, 320MB, SATA. > If it's three or more years old, then just replace it. A new drive > is $90 or less in US, and 500GB is available for the same price > and same other specs (size, power,

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Jonathan Kamens
On 5/1/2012 1:53 PM, Adam Pribyl wrote: IMHO it was the restart that "fixed" it. I experience this "getting slow" think to happen for a long time. After several days of run, firefox needs to be restarted. 1. it's taking too much RAM, 2. usually causing higher CPU load than after restart with sa

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Adam Pribyl
On Tue, 1 May 2012, Pedro Francisco wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: I thought I would try moving my profile out of the way to see if performance would improve, so I shut down Firefox and moved ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default somewhere else. But then when I tried to r

Re: Dovecot

2012-05-01 Thread Tom Horsley
> > I'm running dovecot on Fedora 16. I seem unable to create new IMAP > > subfolders from clients; and this is possibly associated with the most > > recent dovecot update on F16. > > Yes I also ran into the above issue when I lost my backups (HD failed) > and had to reinstall a workstation. I

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Pedro Francisco
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > I thought I would try moving my profile out of the way to see if performance > would improve, so I shut down Firefox and moved ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default > somewhere else. But then when I tried to restart Firefox, it said that it > was alr

Re: Evolution vs NFS

2012-05-01 Thread Mike Chambers
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 09:31 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > I am using NFS (v4) home directories. The server is running Fedora 16; > the client is running Fedora 17. Recently, when running Evolution on > the client, I find that Evolution becomes completely unresponsive if I > attempt to compos

Re: Dovecot

2012-05-01 Thread Mike Chambers
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 09:37 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > I'm running dovecot on Fedora 16. I seem unable to create new IMAP > subfolders from clients; and this is possibly associated with the most > recent dovecot update on F16. > > I'm not 100% sure on this: I don't try to create new subfo

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Akshay Vyas
well Jonathan Kamens you are bit lucky :) because i dont see any major changes after doing the same it's still slow On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > On 5/1/2012 10:28 AM, David wrote: > > The major of the 'Firefox is slow' problems are caused by misbehaving > themes and

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Jonathan Kamens
On 5/1/2012 10:28 AM, David wrote: The major of the 'Firefox is slow' problems are caused by misbehaving themes and extensions and the the 'remnants' that some of them leave in the configuration files. Yes, I'm aware of that, but that doesn't explain why moving my entire ~/.mozilla/firefox direc

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread David
On 5/1/2012 10:14 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2012 09:50:22 -0400 > Jonathan Kamens wrote: > >> Does anybody have any thoughts? > > My only thought is that firefox became popular mainly because > it wasn't a slow bloated mess, now it has evolved into a slow > bloated mess, and chrome

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Akshay Vyas
Hi Jonathan Kamens i am facing the same problems with firefox 12.0 in fedora 16 x86_64 it takes more then 10 seconds to open and more then 5 secs to open a new tab well i didn't tried anything fix it yet but i will also try to do the same hope it will fix some issues On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:20

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 01 May 2012 09:50:22 -0400 Jonathan Kamens wrote: > Does anybody have any thoughts? My only thought is that firefox became popular mainly because it wasn't a slow bloated mess, now it has evolved into a slow bloated mess, and chrome is becoming popular because it isn't a slow bloated mess

Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Hi everyone, I was seeing really, really poor performance from Firefox. I'm not sure exactly when it started being a problem, but it was going on for at least a week and I certainly saw it with Firefox 12 (in F17 x86_64). I thought I would try moving my profile out of the way to see if perfo

Re: Dovecot

2012-05-01 Thread Braden McDaniel
On 4/29/12 3:24 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: Did an upgrade from F16 to current F17 tree + updates on my server and all seemed well. Except for dovecot..which after the upgrade, it seemed to error on my client side (via imap) about namespace and inbox=yes and no namespace or something along those li

Evolution vs NFS

2012-05-01 Thread Braden McDaniel
I am using NFS (v4) home directories. The server is running Fedora 16; the client is running Fedora 17. Recently, when running Evolution on the client, I find that Evolution becomes completely unresponsive if I attempt to compose a message. (It freezes up before showing the new message windo

F-17 Branched report: 20120501 changes

2012-05-01 Thread Fedora Branched Report
Compose started at Tue May 1 08:15:05 UTC 2012 Broken deps for x86_64 -- [LuxRender] LuxRender-blender-0.8.0-13.fc17.x86_64 requires blender(ABI) = 0:2.61 [aeolus-conductor] aeolus-conductor-0.4.0-2.fc17.noarch requires ruby(

Re: gmplayer in F17: shows no video, only plays sound

2012-05-01 Thread Joachim Backes
On 05/01/2012 12:06 PM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: > 2012/5/1 Ed Greshko : >> On 05/01/2012 05:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> The same thing happens for me in F16 with >> >> Opppsss... It wasn't the same thing. It was actually a configuration error. >> gmplayer seemed to have defaulted to trying to use

Re: gmplayer in F17: shows no video, only plays sound

2012-05-01 Thread Nicolas Chauvet
2012/5/1 Ed Greshko : > On 05/01/2012 05:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> The same thing happens for me in F16 with > > Opppsss...  It wasn't the same thing.  It was actually a configuration error. > gmplayer seemed to have defaulted to trying to use libvdpau_nvidia.so which > doesn't > exist on my sys

Re: OT: Sabotage was Re: GIMP 2.8

2012-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:15 AM, stan wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:21:08 -0400 > Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:26:39 +0200 >> Karel Volný wrote: >> >> > I hope there doesn't exist one more step before like "in previous >> > iteration, users were bad to us, so let's break some f

Re: gmplayer in F17: shows no video, only plays sound

2012-05-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/01/2012 05:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > The same thing happens for me in F16 with Opppsss... It wasn't the same thing. It was actually a configuration error. gmplayer seemed to have defaulted to trying to use libvdpau_nvidia.so which doesn't exist on my system. Working now for mebut I

Re: gmplayer in F17: shows no video, only plays sound

2012-05-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/01/2012 05:43 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 05/01/2012 11:09 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 05/01/2012 04:59 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> did somebody try to play a video DVD (VIDEO_TS) by *gmplayer*? I'm >>> successful in playing the DVD with *"mplayer /dev/sr0"* (picture is >>> s

Re: gmplayer in F17: shows no video, only plays sound

2012-05-01 Thread Joachim Backes
On 05/01/2012 11:09 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/01/2012 04:59 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: >> Hi, >> >> did somebody try to play a video DVD (VIDEO_TS) by *gmplayer*? I'm >> successful in playing the DVD with *"mplayer /dev/sr0"* (picture is >> shown), but using gmplayer with /dev/sr0 as device only

Re: gmplayer in F17: shows no video, only plays sound

2012-05-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/01/2012 04:59 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, > > did somebody try to play a video DVD (VIDEO_TS) by *gmplayer*? I'm > successful in playing the DVD with *"mplayer /dev/sr0"* (picture is > shown), but using gmplayer with /dev/sr0 as device only plays sound :-( > > Installed: > > mplayer-1.0-0

Re: gmplayer in F17: shows no video, only plays sound

2012-05-01 Thread Joachim Backes
On 05/01/2012 10:59 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, > > did somebody try to play a video DVD (VIDEO_TS) by *gmplayer*? I'm > successful in playing the DVD with *"mplayer /dev/sr0"* (picture is > shown), but using gmplayer with /dev/sr0 as device only plays sound :-( > > Installed: > > mplayer-1.

gmplayer in F17: shows no video, only plays sound

2012-05-01 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi, did somebody try to play a video DVD (VIDEO_TS) by *gmplayer*? I'm successful in playing the DVD with *"mplayer /dev/sr0"* (picture is shown), but using gmplayer with /dev/sr0 as device only plays sound :-( Installed: mplayer-1.0-0.135.20120205svn.fc17.x86_64 mplayer-gui-1.0-0.135.20120205sv

Re: F17 wants to auto-update LibreOffice URE-runtime when I've got Apache OpenOffice 3.4 installed

2012-05-01 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 21:39 -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > Strange... here it is called libreoffice-ure, and should not get updated by > any OOo stuff. Perhaps there is something eles that uses it? Both Fedora openoffice.org and the original upstream openoffice.org ended up with a package call