Re: Rawhide: /run/initramfs/sosreport.txt stuck.

2013-07-09 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/09/2013 12:55 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:35:32 +0100 Bryn M. Reeves" wrote: >> Sos does not normally write anything under /run and the string >> 'sosreport.txt' does not exist anywhere in the package > > https://bugzilla.redhat.co

Re: Rawhide: /run/initramfs/sosreport.txt stuck.

2013-07-09 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/09/2013 09:44 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > Am running Rawhide on a Dell Vostro 200. > > This is the only kernel that works (F19 days) > kernel-3.9.8-300.fc19.x86_64 > > F20 kernels fails at "cryptsetup my root device" > > > Am left at the following prompt: > :#/ > following the instructions

Re: [criteria update] Rescue mode

2012-07-27 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/27/2012 02:53 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Petr Schindler said: >> Because of changes in new anaconda [1] and after short discussion >> with Chris Lumens, I propose to remove this beta criterion [2]: >> >> 'The rescue mode of the

Re: New Anaconda UI initial testing

2012-07-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2012 06:27 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 5 July 2012 23:50, Adam Williamson wrote: >> Hey, folks. So, I've been keeping in touch with Chris about >> testing the new anaconda UI, and we think it's at the point now >> where QA can probab

Re: /usr/bin/sync hangs up if called in

2012-04-16 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/2012 10:27 PM, Pedro Francisco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Kalev Lember > wrote: >> On 04/15/2012 01:50 PM, Kalev Lember wrote: >>> On 04/15/2012 10:18 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: Calling /usr/bin/sync manually will hang up.

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-19 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 02/18/2012 12:02 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 02/17/2012 02:27 PM, FRank Murphy wrote: >> On 17/02/12 20:52, John Dulaney wrote: >>> >>> I say, write it in Fortran! >>> >>> >> >> Cobol. > > I'd vote for PL/1, APL, Ada, or BCPL. But let's get really odd... > how about Lisp? After all, we want

Re: anaconda update fails due to stupid cpio error

2011-12-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/05/2011 02:45 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > OK, this is the 2nd time this happened to me on updating a machine from f15- >> f16. > > I used preupgrade. > > 08:55:51 Upgrading pyparsing-1.5.6-1.fc16.noarch > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/python2.7/site- > packages/pyparsing-1.

Re: / must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an existing / is not allowed.

2011-10-20 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 10/19/2011 08:37 PM, David Lehman wrote: > On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 13:37 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: >> Because ordering affects performance. For example, I set up a separate >> LV "queue" for the mail queue on a mail server; I also have a separate >> LV for /usr/local ("usrl", grows to fill the VG

Re: / must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an existing / is not allowed.

2011-10-18 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 10/18/2011 02:08 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Adam Williamson said: >> Yes, that is what it means. We can't sensibly expect to be able to >> reliably install to a root partition with data on it. > > Does this affect kickstart installs? I have some kickstarts that > manually creat

Re: USB Flash Drive fs chk...

2011-10-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 10/04/2011 05:38 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 10/04/2011 12:33 AM, Rob Healey wrote: >> Greetings: >> >> Is there a way to do a filesystem check on my USB Flash Drive from within my >> FC16 x86_64 system? > > Just like any other device, but it shouldn't be necessary. If you must, > do a "mount

Re: Any hope for system-config-services ?

2011-07-21 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/21/2011 10:26 AM, agraham wrote: > On 07/20/2011 09:31 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 07/20/2011 11:53 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: >>> Since F15 this does not seem able to enable httpd or >>> anything as far as I can tell. "enable" and "disable" >>> are greyed out. >>> >>> How i

Re: Remote applications in gnome-shell

2011-07-01 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/01/2011 10:54 AM, Adam Pribyl wrote: > Does someone know how to start remote applications in/from gnome-shell > via ssh -X from remote machine? Most of apps I try to start from remote Does it work when you use ssh -Y - -X has not worked for many applications in years (FC4-ish?) since it re

Re: fsck.btrfs? (Was Re: Feedback needed : Fedora 15 Announcement)

2011-05-20 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 05/20/2011 03:31 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 05/20/2011 01:08 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> >> No idea. Try filing a RFE against that package >> > > Doesn't appear to have done any good in the past. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625967 > I find I get better responses in b

Re: F15b X fail on Thinkpad T410/i915 (_DSM problem?)

2011-05-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 05/10/2011 10:24 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Thanks - I'm usually OK at basic troubleshooting for X but I was puzzled here > as > I couldn't even get a basic VESA display up (without the intel driver > complaining it was about to catch fire..). Right, have a working

Re: F15b X fail on Thinkpad T410/i915 (_DSM problem?)

2011-05-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 05/09/2011 11:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > It occurs to me that the message may be a red herring; neither of the It definitely is - confirmed this last night with the i686/x86_64 Live CDs - both of which run perfectly. So either there is something borked on this install or it's been broken b

F15b X fail on Thinkpad T410/i915 (_DSM problem?)

2011-05-09 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Hi Folks, So far the only machine I've had any hw trouble on with f15b is my Thinkpad T410 with Intel i915 graphics (and latest Lenovo fw). Anaconda ran happily in normal graphics mode as did Firstboot and Plymouth displays fine during boot but as soon as we get to the end of the boot process X i

Re: Well, I've switched to KDE now

2011-05-05 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 05/05/2011 04:23 AM, David L wrote: > Since gnome shell wasn't working well for me, I've > switched to KDE. I'm trying to get back some of > the functionality I was using in gnome2. One thing > I do is query the screensaver in a cron job to log > my consulting hours. So I figured I'd attempt

Re: Focus-follows-mouse in Gnome-shell?

2011-05-03 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 05/02/2011 03:34 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 08:46:00AM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >> This must be a FAQ here, but googling didn't turn anything up. How can >> I enable focus-follows-mouse without auto-raise in Gnome-shell? > > You have to enable it in gnome-tweak-too

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 04/27/2011 09:43 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Debian turned aways from libc, SUSE has always followed KDE, ... Many > Fedora packagers do so on the package level, when upstreams die or "go > nuts". Ein minute bitte.. that's a touch revisionist, isn't it? Yes, Debian was not the first distribu

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 04/27/2011 06:01 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 04/27/2011 05:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 09:52 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> On 04/27/2011 07:14 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 06:56 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> Fedora, as a volunt

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/20/2010 01:37 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:56:56 +0200 > MichaƂ Piotrowski wrote: > >> You can blacklist the firewall modules - it can be critical :) > > Actually, I think you can run any arbitrary command to > load a module, so it is probably a gigantic security > hole.

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/20/2010 06:43 AM, Ralph Loader wrote: > >> After all these years, something from the fedora repos >> (the only ones I have active in my F14 partition) is still >> creating an (empty) /etc/modprobe.conf file. > > Looks like it's a minor security hole too: Not sure I'd call that minor consid

Re: Lot of "kernel: ima_file_free: " messages in the syslog...

2010-08-20 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 08/20/2010 11:35 AM, Francis SOUYRI wrote: > Hello, > > I upgraded my FC10 to the FC12 (PAE kernel) but now I have lot of > "kernel: ima_file_free: " messages in the syslog... > how can I disable these messages ? > I upgraded some other system (no PAE kernel) and I don not have this > p