Password security issues in GDM

2014-05-06 Thread Rodd Clarkson
I've filed bug number 1092274 ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1092274) about a week ago, and so far there's been no response. I have a lab full of fedora desktops and I have disabled the standard login method so the users have to type their username (so that other usernames are not e

Re: Gnome desktop not always logging in properly.

2014-03-16 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On 17 March 2014 12:49, Sérgio Basto wrote: > On Seg, 2014-03-17 at 10:23 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > And the link to the bug > > is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076981 > > > and this one ? , is also about logging : > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/sho

Re: Gnome desktop not always logging in properly.

2014-03-16 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On 17 March 2014 12:21, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:22:24AM +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > Applications work, but you can't log out or > > restart and everything is squashed. I'm seeing this in two environments > > (my laptop, and the sc

Gnome desktop not always logging in properly.

2014-03-16 Thread Rodd Clarkson
Hi Guys, I've files a bug about gnome desktop logging in with squashed icons and being basically unusable. Applications work, but you can't log out or restart and everything is squashed. I'm seeing this in two environments (my laptop, and the schools computer lab). Is anyone else having issues.

Re: Gnome desktop not always logging in properly.

2014-03-16 Thread Rodd Clarkson
And the link to the bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076981 On 17 March 2014 10:22, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I've files a bug about gnome desktop logging in with squashed icons and > being basically unusable. Applications work, but you can'

Re: CUPS in F17 doesn't include BrowseRemoteProtocols=CUPS

2012-05-16 Thread Rodd Clarkson
> CUPS in F17 doesn't include BrowseRemoteProtocols=CUPS Also, the firewalld settings don't seem to allow this to work (I have to stop the firewalld.service) to let me print. I've tried using firewall-config but all it does is stick a firewall icon in the bottom panel and I can't seem to change a

CUPS in F17 doesn't include BrowseRemoteProtocols=CUPS

2012-05-16 Thread Rodd Clarkson
Hi All CUPS in F17 doesn't include BrowseRemoteProtocols=CUPS Is this a bug or is this deliberate. In the past my shared printers (using cups on another server) have just appeared in Fedora, but I've had to manually add BrowseRemoteProtocols=CUPS (which was missing) to get the printers to appear

Re: Installing fedora while running fedora?

2010-12-03 Thread Rodd Clarkson
2010/12/3 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > On 12/03/2010 12:55 AM, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > Can you do the same thing just running vanilla Fedora? This would be > > a really useful feature, but I'm not seeing any information on how to > > do it. > > No you c

Re: Installing fedora while running fedora?

2010-12-02 Thread Rodd Clarkson
2010/12/3 Michał Piotrowski > 2010/12/3 Rodd Clarkson : > > Using a liveCD I can install fedora on my system while running the > LiveCD. > > > > Can you do the same thing just running vanilla Fedora? This would be a > > really useful feature, but I'm not seein

Installing fedora while running fedora?

2010-12-02 Thread Rodd Clarkson
Using a liveCD I can install fedora on my system while running the LiveCD. Can you do the same thing just running vanilla Fedora? This would be a really useful feature, but I'm not seeing any information on how to do it. Rodd -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: h

Re: Interactive white boards and Fedora Xorg setup

2010-11-30 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:01 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > [faked-up reply, I'm not on the list, ajax pointed it out to me on the > archives. please make sure you CC me for any replies] > > > Unlike a mouse, these pointer devices move the mouse pointer to where > > you touch the screen. For examp

Re: disable nouveau drivers

2010-10-15 Thread Rodd Clarkson
Would this work for all modules. Could I for example use it to disable proprietary modules for kernel testing to remove taints. On 16/10/2010 7:23 AM, "Lyvim Xaphir" wrote: -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Comparing other distros kernels to Fedora.

2010-10-12 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:39:46AM +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Michal Jaegermann > wrote: > > > What difference in the Fedora kernels could be causing this > problem?

Re: Comparing other distros kernels to Fedora.

2010-10-12 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Richard Ryniker wrote: > >> >are there other fedora testers using a Dell Studio XPS 1547? >> >> I have a Dell Studio XPS 1645 that runs F13: it suspends and resumes just >>

Re: Comparing other distros kernels to Fedora.

2010-10-12 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Richard Ryniker wrote: > >are there other fedora testers using a Dell Studio XPS 1547? > > I have a Dell Studio XPS 1645 that runs F13: it suspends and resumes just > fine. Not your machine exactly, therefore this information may be more > tantalizing than useful

Re: Comparing other distros kernels to Fedora.

2010-10-12 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 01:09:18PM +0200, Micha? Piotrowski wrote: > > It might be a patch added by one of Fedora kernel developers. CC'ing > > fedora-kernel > > > > Honestly, there's nothing particularly relevant in F-14's kernel. Can > you

Re: Comparing other distros kernels to Fedora.

2010-10-12 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 01:09:18PM +0200, Micha? Piotrowski wrote: > > It might be a patch added by one of Fedora kernel developers. CC'ing > > fedora-kernel > > > > Honestly, there's nothing particularly relevant in F-14's kernel. Can > you

Re: Comparing other distros kernels to Fedora.

2010-10-12 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 21:39 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > > I've downloaded the Ubuntu 10.10 LiveCD which uses kernel 2.6.35 and > > suspend and resume works fine in Ubuntu too. > > > > What differ

Re: Comparing other distros kernels to Fedora.

2010-10-12 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:39:13PM +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > > What difference in the Fedora kernels could be causing this problem? > > It is also possible that this is not strictly a kernel but some of > modu

Re: Comparing other distros kernels to Fedora.

2010-10-12 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > > What difference in the Fedora kernels could be causing this problem? > > Did you look into /var/log/pm-suspend.log after a failed attempt? > Some clues could be there. > I've been through this, but in case something was missed: Init

Re: Comparing other distros kernels to Fedora.

2010-10-12 Thread Rodd Clarkson
2010/9/28 Michał Piotrowski > W dniu 27 września 2010 23:13 użytkownik Michał Piotrowski > napisał: > > 2010/9/27 Rodd Clarkson : > >> I've been having troubles getting 2.6.34.x kernels on f13 and 2.6.35.x > >> kernels on f14 to resume from suspend. &g

Comparing other distros kernels to Fedora.

2010-09-27 Thread Rodd Clarkson
I've been having troubles getting 2.6.34.x kernels on f13 and 2.6.35.x kernels on f14 to resume from suspend. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628897 To try and resolve this I've been trying out other recent distros to see if they have similar kernels and whether I have the same proble

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-23 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > >> > I've already tried this kernel and doesn't fix things for me. > > I'm now having (what I suspect are) the same suspend issues in both f13 and > f14. > > It's being tracked here: >

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-08 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Jan Wildeboer wrote: > On 09/07/2010 02:45 PM, drago01 wrote: > > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=193772 > > > > This one addresses some suspend issues so it is worth testing. > > Bingo! Suspend/resume now works again. (Still have to do a se

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-07 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:10:11 -0400 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > If they don't have time to look at everything, then maybe they should > stop > > shipping kernels they haven't looked at! Really, people who needed 2.6.34 > could > > pull it fro

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Matthias Runge wrote: > > Although I think, this is the wrong way, putting > exclude=kernel-* > in your /etc/yum.conf will exclude the kernel from updating. > Thanks Matthias, I don't like excluding kernels either, but I don't need to be adding --exclude=kernel\*

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-01 Thread Rodd Clarkson
> Anyhow, what a waste of time all around. I spend a couple of painful hours > booting and rebooting my system to try and isolate this bug and the > developers couldn't take two minutes to mention that they needed to post the > kernel and that they would address my bug some time soon. > Anyhow, e

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-01 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:55 PM, pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > > My system suspends and resumes fine on f13 with the 2.6.33 kernels, so it > > isn't unreasonable to expect this functionality to continue on a stable

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-01 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:12 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > To be frank, they don't have time to look at everything, and suspend is > a bit of a way down the list. They are aware of your bug - I know > because one of t

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-01 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:00 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Why was kernel-2.6.34.x pushed to updates in f13 when three people had > > reported suspend issues with the kernel and no attempt wa

Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-01 Thread Rodd Clarkson
Hi all, Why was kernel-2.6.34.x pushed to updates in f13 when three people had reported suspend issues with the kernel and no attempt was made to address these issues. see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615560 I Rodd -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: Fedora 14 updates-testing report

2010-08-20 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > Out put from recent yum upgrade > > Oh, and after doing the above yum update --skip-broken $ sudo yum update Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Adding en_AU to language list Setting up Update Process

Re: Fedora 14 updates-testing report

2010-08-20 Thread Rodd Clarkson
Out put from recent yum upgrade git-1.7.2.2-1.fc14 >glib-java-0.2.6-17.fc14 >gloobus-preview-0.4.1-7.fc14 >gnome-commander-1.2.8.7-1.fc14.1 >gnome-desktop-2.31.90-1.fc14 >gnome-games-2.31.90-1.fc14 > Updating : 1:gnome-games-2.31.90-1.fc14.x86_64

Can't read last ~5% of a remote file

2010-08-18 Thread Rodd Clarkson
I'm getting the same symptoms as a bug that was closed during f11 (and f12) in f13. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516165 Any chance that this bug has re-emerged? R. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Musicians' Guide Draft Now Posted

2010-08-03 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Christopher Antila wrote: > I am pleased to let you know that the first official draft of the > Musicians' Guide is now available under the "Draft Documentation" > category on the Fedora Documentation website, > http://docs.fedoraproject.org > > I'm not seeing this

Re: Interactive white boards and Fedora Xorg setup

2010-07-08 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 00:31 +0200, Tias wrote: > >> The other bit of the problem is defining the mouse region for the > >> pointer device. Unlike your wacom device (and similar devices) where > >> the top left point of the device is quite easier to assume as the top > >> left corner of the displa

Re: Interactive white boards and Fedora Xorg setup

2010-07-06 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:01 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > [faked-up reply, I'm not on the list, ajax pointed it out to me on the > archives. please make sure you CC me for any replies] Thanks for the reply, and it's nice to know that ajax noticed this (as it appears ajax has much to do with Xorg

Interactive white boards and Fedora Xorg setup

2010-07-03 Thread Rodd Clarkson
Hi, I regularly use (a variety of) interactive white boards and the single biggest frustration is getting the pointer device working so it's actually useable. Let me give you an example. I plug and IWB into my laptop and Fedora configures is as an extension to my desktop. This is great because