Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 21:32 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 11/14/2012 07:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > That sounds odd. Are you double-extra-plus sure it was booting UEFI? It > > should never attempt to format to MS-DOS for a UEFI install. I suppose > > it might just be that the*message

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 11/14/2012 07:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: That sounds odd. Are you double-extra-plus sure it was booting UEFI? It should never attempt to format to MS-DOS for a UEFI install. I suppose it might just be that the*message* was incorrect. <-- I'm a UEFI noob. My EFI does not have any "BIOS/E

Fedora 16 updates-testing report

2012-11-14 Thread updates
The following Fedora 16 Security updates need testing: Age URL 14 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-17376/seamonkey-2.13.2-1.fc16 54 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-14452/bacula-5.0.3-33.fc16 27 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 19:36 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 11/14/2012 07:17 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > anaconda will use the existing partition label format unless you direct > > it to reformat the entire drive, in which case it'll use the preferred > > format for the install you're doi

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 11/14/2012 07:17 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: anaconda will use the existing partition label format unless you direct it to reformat the entire drive, in which case it'll use the preferred format for the install you're doing. It's not possible to re-label a drive without reformatting it. So if t

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 13:53 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > > I need to file a BZ for the update EFI incompatibility but have not > > quite figured out which component to file against yet. > > Bare in mind that VBox EFI is not fully functional. I just loaded F17 > (in

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 11/14/2012 04:07 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 14:43 -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > >> 3) The installed system won't take to the FB X server by itself, I had >> to mangle a xorg.conf file to bring up an 800x600 fbdev instance and >> then let firstboot run on a reboo

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

2012-11-14 Thread Antonio Olivares
-Original Message- From: roig...@gmail.com Sent: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:32:03 +0200 To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: crontab shutdown as (regular user or root su-) not working Hello Antonio, Here is a thread with a related problem and ways to solve it: http://www.linuxforums.or

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 14:43 -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > 3) The installed system won't take to the FB X server by itself, I had > to mangle a xorg.conf file to bring up an 800x600 fbdev instance and > then let firstboot run on a reboot That's a bug, sir. X on efifb should work witho

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Andre Robatino
Just FYI: EFI install in VirtualBox results in text install https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742695 -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > I need to file a BZ for the update EFI incompatibility but have not > quite figured out which component to file against yet. Bare in mind that VBox EFI is not fully functional. I just loaded F17 (install ISO, not live) on a brand-new UEFI-only motherboard with full graphi

Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
I've been testing the F18 TCx and SmokeNN builds in a VirtualBox EFI environment. For anyone interested here are some notes on getting it working. 1) Use only a SATA controller for both the virtual optical and storage drives. The default for a new guest is to make the optical drive on a

F18 Beta Blocker Bug Review #8 Minutes

2012-11-14 Thread Tim Flink
#fedora-qa: f18beta-blocker-review-8 Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-qa/2012-11-14/f18beta-blocker-review-8.2012-11-14-17.00.html Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-qa/2012-11-14/f18be

Re: TC8

2012-11-14 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 11:19 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > Noveau crashed again. I am now running Nvidia. > The release notes should clearly explain the procedure > for installing the Nvidia driver. Some will need it. No, we're not doing that, ever. Stop suggesting it. - ajax

Re: Regression evolution-mapi between TC7 and TC8

2012-11-14 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Actually I installed TC8 yesterday and this morning I installed evolution-mapi and applied these packages' updates proposed by updates-testing repo: Nov 14 10:34:05 Updated: nss-util-3.14-1.fc18.x86_64 Nov 14 10:34:05 Updated: nss-softokn-freebl-3.14-1.fc18.x86_64 Nov 14 10:34:06 Updated: 2:libwbc

Regression evolution-mapi between TC7 and TC8

2012-11-14 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, installed TC7 on 5/11 and applied updates at the same date. I was able to correctly configure and use evolution-mapi against an Exchange 2007 server. Today same vm scratched, installed TC8 and updates. Unable to configure evolution-mapi account: it successfully goes through all the configur

Re: How to interpret F18 Blocker criterion

2012-11-14 Thread drago01
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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 tr