[Test-Announce] 2012-11-14 @ 17:00 UTC - F18 Beta Blocker Bug Review #8

2012-11-13 Thread Tim Flink
# F18 Beta Blocker Review meeting #8 # Date: 2012-11-14 # Time: 17:00 UTC (12:00 EST, 09:00 PST) # Location: #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net Keeping with what we've done for the last couple of weeks, we'll stop around the 3 hour mark if we're not done by then and resume on 2012-11-15. We'll be run

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-13 Thread John Reiser
> I suspect the use case is 'test every version of OS/distro that comes > down the pipe'... if that's your goal, your choices are: > > 1) virt > 2) LVM (note: Linux only) > 3) pile'o'partitions > > For those that can't do #2, and don't feel like doing #1... Yes. Customers want to do _their own_

Re: Call trace in rawhide

2012-11-13 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: > For the last few weeks, I get frequent call traces in Rawhide. It normally > happens when I'm attempting to do a yum distro-sync. As a result, I've had to > do > daily updates in rescue mode only. This is in a VirtualBox 4.2.4 guest with >

Fedora 18 updates-testing report

2012-11-13 Thread updates
The following Fedora 18 Security updates need testing: Age URL 0 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-18146/xen-4.2.0-4.fc18 35 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-15716/libxslt-1.1.27-2.fc18 4 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-17513/s

Call trace in rawhide

2012-11-13 Thread Andre Robatino
For the last few weeks, I get frequent call traces in Rawhide. It normally happens when I'm attempting to do a yum distro-sync. As a result, I've had to do daily updates in rescue mode only. This is in a VirtualBox 4.2.4 guest with guest additions installed. Anyone else seeing this? I'll file a bug

Re: OT Re: Floppies available

2012-11-13 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 11/13/2012 03:56 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 01:28 +0530, Arnav Kalra wrote: >> haha, looks like you're talking about things older than me. >> >> p.s. i am not even 16. > > Oh boy I feel old now! > > I'm 30, and I'm only just older than the CD-ROM, which was apparently

Re: OT Floppies available

2012-11-13 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-11-13 12:56 (GMT-0800) Adam Williamson composed: On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 01:28 +0530, Arnav Kalra wrote: haha, looks like you're talking about things older than me. p.s. i am not even 16. Oh boy I feel old now! I'm 30, and I'm only just older than the CD-ROM, which was apparent

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Mike Chambers (m...@mtchambers.com) said: > But I in no way have a reason to have more than 1 linux system, and 1 > windows system on 2 HD's. What in the hell do you use all those OS's > for and do you *really* need/use them? Or do you offer those for > commercial use or something? Just curious

Re: How to interpret F18 Blocker criterion

2012-11-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 09:36 -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: > > No, I don't see any reason why VMs are any different from any other > > hardware plattform. So for VMs everything that applies to hardware > > applies. If you are using out of tree or closed source drivers you > > are > > on your own etc. pp

Re: Criterion proposal: security

2012-11-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 04:10 -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: > > As this got generally ack'ed and no-one complained, I've pushed it > > into > > production now in the Final criteria - > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Final_Release_Criteria . > > I added a hyperlink to the severity classificat

Re: OT Re: Floppies available

2012-11-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 01:28 +0530, Arnav Kalra wrote: > haha, looks like you're talking about things older than me. > > p.s. i am not even 16. Oh boy I feel old now! I'm 30, and I'm only just older than the CD-ROM, which was apparently standardized in 1985. So you're easily younger than that. Y

Re: OT Re: Floppies available

2012-11-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 10:53 +, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 07:51:27 -0300 > Fernando Cassia wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R > > > > wrote: > > > > > I have a number of 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppies available. > > > > > > And I have a

Fedora KDE 4.9 Test Day needs your help!

2012-11-13 Thread Martin Holec
Hi, I looked on KDE 4.9 release announcement and added KDE desktop components and KDE applications with news features and changes that can cause regressions to Test Day page[1]. [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-11-15_KDE_4.9 KDE has lot of applications and I can't write all tes

[Test-Announce] Join Fedora KDE 4.9 Test Day (2012-11-15)

2012-11-13 Thread Martin Holec
Hello, this Thursday is Fedora KDE 4.9 Test Day which is one of the most popular testing events among Fedora users and developers. KDE 4.9 has many new features: http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.9/ Please join this test day and help us to hunt down KDE desktop bugs before Fedora 18 Beta rel

Re: [X-post] Reminder: FESCo, FAmSCo, Board election nomination period and questionnaire collection ends in about 10 hours!

2012-11-13 Thread Ankur Sinha
Hi folks, Another gentle reminder. There are about 10 more hours to go. Please complete your nominations ASAP! I apologise for the spam, but we'd like to have enough candidates to make it a fruitful election. :) On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 10:16 +1100, Ankur Sinha wrote: > Attention all fedorians! >

F-18 Branched report: 20121113 changes

2012-11-13 Thread Fedora Branched Report
Compose started at Tue Nov 13 09:15:33 UTC 2012 Broken deps for x86_64 -- [dhcp-forwarder] dhcp-forwarder-upstart-0.10-1801.fc18.noarch requires /sbin/initctl [dvisvgm] dvisvgm-1.0.12-1.fc18.x86_64 requires libkpathsea.so.4()(

Re: crontab shutdown as (regular user or root su-) not working

2012-11-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:57:17 +0100 Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2012-11-13, 09:35 GMT, Frank Murphy wrote: > > This is all I use in my crontab: > > 00 01 * * * poweroff > > Relying on $PATH being what you expect it to be in crontab is > highly dangerous (see crontab(5) on details) ... I generally don’

Re: crontab shutdown as (regular user or root su-) not working

2012-11-13 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2012-11-13, 09:35 GMT, Frank Murphy wrote: > This is all I use in my crontab: > 00 01 * * * poweroff Relying on $PATH being what you expect it to be in crontab is highly dangerous (see crontab(5) on details) ... I generally don’t trust $PATH I don’t see in crontab itself, or in this case, jus

Re: crontab shutdown as (regular user or root su-) not working

2012-11-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:42:58 -0800 Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear fellow testers & devs., > > I have a special crontab which shuts down the computers at a > specific time, ie., > > 30 15 * * 1-5 /usr/sbin/poweroff > /dev/null 2>&1 > This is all I use in my crontab: 00 01 * * * poweroff --

Re: crontab shutdown as (regular user or root su-) not working

2012-11-13 Thread Vadim Rutkovsky
Hello Antonio, Here is a thread with a related problem and ways to solve it: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red-hat-fedora-linux/159976-cron-shutdown-fails.html Try using "/sbin/poweroff" instead of "/usr/sbin/poweroff" - and check root mail (stored in /var/spool/mail/root) for debug informatio