Re: I'm seeing odd udev stuff in F20

2013-08-05 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 05:00:35PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 00:09:10 -0700, > Adam Williamson wrote: > >On Sun, 2013-07-28 at 07:16 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >>I've been having sound issues for over a week. The sound devices are not > >>visible to pulsea

Re: Linux 3.10 in Rawhide

2013-05-02 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 01:14:46AM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > After the disappointing results with Beta TC1 I decided to play with > 64 bit rawhide with the 3.10 kernel. > > As usual I used F18 pxeboot to install rawhide. Gnome had dependency > problems so I installed Xfce.

Re: Rawhide / F19 tester PSA: Don't install the F19 fedora-release yet. If you do, don't install a kernel. If you do THAT, don't reboot.

2013-03-14 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 09:12:58PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le Jeu 14 mars 2013 20:57, Adam Williamson a écrit : > > > So - don't get bitten by this :) If you really want to get on the F19 > > branch, then just make sure you hand-check your grub config file before > > rebooting. >

Re: Tainted kernel flags:GW F18

2013-01-03 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:53:08PM +, Frank Murphy wrote: > KVM F18.386 Guest instance is not crashing, > as fedora default-kernel but, > with dracut.conf > # dracut modules to omit > omit_dracutmodules+="plymouth" > > just abrt supplying non-reportable kernel crashes > repeating the

Re: criterion discussion: memory test tool

2012-11-06 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:02:42AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: > I'd like to discuss the following criterion: > > All release media must include a standalone memory test utility. A boot > menu option to launch this utility must be present and must work correctly > https://fedoraproject.org/w

Re: Latest F18

2012-10-08 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 04:29:18PM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > Noveau still fails now and then. Until we get a reliable Noveau we should > make it easy to install the Nvidoa driver IMO. You're using the wrong distribution. Dave -- test mailing list test@lists.fedora

Re: kernel-3.5.0-4.fc17: interesting blog on http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1596293#post1596293

2012-08-09 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:18:25PM +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 01:25:26PM +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > > > Hi testers, > > > > > > I posted this morning an email abo

Re: kernel-3.5.0-4.fc17: interesting blog on http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1596293#post1596293

2012-08-09 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 01:25:26PM +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi testers, > > I posted this morning an email about unusable kernel-3.5.0-4.fc17, and > now I found an interesting blog on: > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1596293#post1596293 Yep, braino on my part. I sh

Re: built-in DVD mediacheck is gone

2012-03-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 05:08:22PM +, Andre Robatino wrote: > Actually, yes. Optical drives on different machines can easily be different > enough that a disc that's readable on one (such as the one it was burned on) > may > not be readable on another. I've seen this on two of my machines

Re: black screen on f16 laptop after idle

2011-10-25 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 01:54:02PM -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote: > I powered up my laptop. The kdm screen was there, but I did not log in. > After > some time, perhaps 20-30 minutes, I was ready to log in. The screen was > black, > but that occurs after idle, so no problem, just wiggle the m

Re: firstaidkit-plugin-grub breaking tree compose.

2011-10-19 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 09:24:20AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:20:49 -0400 > Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:49:17AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:17:20PM -0500, den...@ausil.us wrote: > &

firstaidkit-plugin-grub breaking tree compose.

2011-10-19 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:49:17AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:17:20PM -0500, den...@ausil.us wrote: > > And the night before grub changes broke lorax. > > and today they broke firstaidkit-plugin-grub. > > yum transaction error: [u'ER

Re: Missing repodata files

2011-10-18 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:17:20PM -0500, den...@ausil.us wrote: > And the night before grub changes broke lorax. and today they broke firstaidkit-plugin-grub. yum transaction error: [u'ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve:', 'grub is needed by firstaidkit-plugin-grub-0.3.1-1.fc16.i686' (h

Re: Missing repodata files

2011-10-17 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 01:03:05AM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > I finally figured out how to make pxeboot work with dnsmasq. > I can loop mount a DVD image of Fedora 16 TC1 and do a > diskless install. > > I can also do a diskless install without askmethod. In this case > An

yum / grub[2] problem ?

2011-10-14 Thread Dave Jones
With todays f16 yum update, first I saw this.. ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve: grub2 conflicts with (installed) grub-1:0.97-80.fc16.x86_64 Which I got around by doing --exclude=grub2 When everything else had updated, I did another yum update. This is what it did.. $ sudo yum -y update

Re: Final Release Criterion for Xen DomU

2011-09-30 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:23:08PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > It might be good to consider use cases too. One particular one is EC2: > I've heard that EC2 guests are Xen instances but I'm not entirely sure > about the details. Is this the case? i.e. if a Fedora release didn't > boot in X

Re: Good thing I build my own kernels

2011-09-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 02:07:23PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > As I was booting my system after today's Rawhide update, I noticed that > there were no Fedora kernels on offer at all. It seems like, once again, > grubby is going weird and refusing to add lines for new kernels to > grub.conf

Re: Final Release Criterion for Xen DomU

2011-09-26 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:17:38AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Anyhow, thoughts around making DomU support a final release criterion? > > I'm kinda ambivalent. I can see the 'should be fixed by install time' > argument but that doesn't quite count as a compelling argument for > making

Re: Fedora 16 RC1 kernel (3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.0.fc16.x86_64) - bug on drop_caches - BZ 740637

2011-09-22 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:57:48PM -0300, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > Hi guys, > > Just to let you know that I've recently upgraded my Fedora box and hit > this problem > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740637 > > This is a recurrent problem that was present on F13, F

Re: F16 slowness

2011-09-09 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:07:48PM -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: > Below are 4 kernels that I have tested to see what works ok and what > don't. The 2 3.0 kernels both were extremely slow, and the 2 2.6.40 > kernels were both faster and more responsive. Using the latest 2.6.40 > does still hav

Re: persistent gnome dep problems (F16 alpha rc3-5, alpha), --skip-broken wants to haul in 32-bit libs

2011-08-25 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 02:20:12PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > Dunno if that helps anybody... never a dull moment... > > When upgrading rawhide from X - use screen. and also when upgrading from ssh. things have definitely gotten a lot more fragile over the last release or two. Da

Fedora kernel bug day.

2011-08-18 Thread Dave Jones
We've been planning on doing one of these forever, but never seeming to get around to it. The kernel gets a lot of bugs (possibly more than any other package), and as such, we've got nearly a thousand bugs open right now, and just three people working on it full-time. The problem we've faced with

Re: absence of images/ on 16

2011-08-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:49:28AM -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 12:19 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > I've been mirroring 16 trees locally for a while now, and don't > > recall there being a single day yet that there has been an images/ > &g

absence of images/ on 16

2011-08-10 Thread Dave Jones
I've been mirroring 16 trees locally for a while now, and don't recall there being a single day yet that there has been an images/ dir with the pxe installable vmlinuz/initrd. Is this a failing compose, or has some decision been made to just not create them any more ? Dave -- test maili

Re: Fedora 15 has a panic attack after an ejection request.

2011-06-30 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 05:17:47PM +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Leslie S Satenstein > wrote: > > > Excuse the provocative subject line. > > > > With Fedora 15, I start file browser from my list of of favorites. I use > > the browser to view the partitons on my co

Re: Howto set norelatime on f15 root?

2011-05-01 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 08:56:27PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > > UUID=768e1633-a96b-4932-832b-f65778b51627 /boot                   ext4 > > > defaults        1 2 > > > ... > > > > > > But according to mount, norelatime was ignored.  2 ques

Re: Howto set norelatime on f15 root?

2011-05-01 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 12:01:28AM +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > 2011/5/1 Neal Becker : > > F15beta running in vm. > > > > I changed /etc/fstab to say: > > /dev/mapper/vg_nbecker6f15-lv_root > > /                       ext4    norelatime > > 1 1 > > UUID=768e1633-a96b-4932-83

Re: [solved] On making a proper kernel for gnome-shell

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:53:04PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:02:52 -0500 > Dave Jones wrote: > > > > Nope, I do have ACLs built into my kernel. > > > > You need the XATTR options, as well as ACL ones. > > I have that

Re: [solved] On making a proper kernel for gnome-shell

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 03:37:34PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Guess I need to start figuring out how all this consolekit stuff works... > > > Maybe you're missing ACL's support, generally? > > Nope, I do have ACLs built into my kernel. You need the XATTR options, as well as ACL ones

Re: [solved] On making a proper kernel for gnome-shell

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:25:24PM -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > Maybe you're missing ACL's support, generally? Linus complained last release when his sound stopped working for pretty much the same reason. CONFIG_*_FS_XATTR is a *must* in Fedora for the last few releases. Dave -- t

Re: On making a proper kernel for gnome-shell

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:34:46AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > So I'm mystified. Any ideas? Might there be some magic in the Fedora > initrd that I'm missing (I've never used initrd on my systems)? An easy test would be to actually build one for your test kernel. make install should do i

Re: Fedora 15 updates-testing report

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:38:59AM +, upda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: > The following Fedora 15 Critical Path updates have yet to be approved: > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-drv-acecad-1.4.99-3.20101203gitf8e87eaf4.fc15,xorg-x11-drv-aiptek-1.3.99-3.20101203git

Re: ot : _download_ requirements?

2010-10-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 08:41:50PM +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > 2010/10/29 Dave Jones : > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 09:06:42AM +0300, cornel panceac wrote: > >  > here > >  > http://fedoraproject.org/ > >  > i see a section called "Download requ

Re: ot : _download_ requirements?

2010-10-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 09:06:42AM +0300, cornel panceac wrote: > here > http://fedoraproject.org/ > i see a section called "Download requirements" > > shouldn't it be "Install requirements" instead? Also the '400MHz pentium pro' part reads oddly, given the fastest pentium pro was 200MHz. T

Re: safely remove drive

2010-10-19 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:53:02PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > > unfortunately, in gnome it's not the caase, and it happened many times i > > losed files because the sync was not finished yet, even after a few seconds > > after "Safely ...". > > You should probably file a bug for t

Re: Proposed release criteria additions for F14+

2010-06-30 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:28:16AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > * The desktop default update manager must not periodically check for > updates when the system is booted live, but must periodically check for > updates when running on an installed system tangentally related: Do we ever res