Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-25 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 10:51 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > "libgee problem"? In Rawhide you may need libgee06 (libgee06-devel). > It is parallel-installable with libgee (libgee-devel), which has been > upgraded to to 0.7.0 and strangely decreases its API version from > gee-1.0 to gee-0.8 also

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/23/2011 03:13 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Sigh. I've been running Rawhide for a very long time. As of the last > year or so, though, almost every post I make draws a response like > this. I'm dense, I'll admit, but I'm getting the hint. Rawhide > probably does not have much of a future on th

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-24 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:24:09 -0400, MC (Matthias) wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 11:59 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > The gnome guys have been mostly working in f16, so this stuff won't show > > up in rawhide until the updates hit stable. (Right now they are in > > updates-testing.) They sho

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-23 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 11:59 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > The gnome guys have been mostly working in f16, so this stuff won't show > up in rawhide until the updates hit stable. (Right now they are in > updates-testing.) They shouldn't hit stable until after a beta rc is > accepted. I have tried

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 09:41:08 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:09:43 +0100 > Peter Robinson wrote: > > > Looks more like you need gnome-shell 3.1.92 amd clutter-gst-1.3.14-2 > > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-13111 > > > > They're both in the

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-23 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:50:16 +0200 Michael Schwendt wrote: > > 3.7.9 never showed the problem - > > Let's not argue about that, please. 3.7.9-0.3.20110409cvs was the first to > suffer from focus problems, and 3.7.9-4 was the one to "fix" it. Sorry, I was being sloppy. I meant "recent 3.7.9"

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:05:15 -0600, JC (Jonathan) wrote: > > The old focus issue was due to a side-effect of a work-around for > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653061 > > which had caused Claws Mail to start minimized. That bug is still > > not fixed in GNOME Shell, but we have swi

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-23 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:09:43 +0100 Peter Robinson wrote: > Looks more like you need gnome-shell 3.1.92 amd clutter-gst-1.3.14-2 > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-13111 > > They're both in the update, you might want to try another mirror, or > "yum clean all" The thing the

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-23 Thread Adam Pribyl
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Peter Robinson wrote: > Looks more like you need gnome-shell 3.1.92 amd clutter-gst-1.3.14-2 > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-13111 > > They're both in the update, you might want to try another mirror, or > "yum clean all" This is very common for rawhid

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:50:24 +0200 > Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> The old focus issue was due to a side-effect of a work-around for >>   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653061 >> which had caused Claws Mail to start minimized. T

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-23 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:50:24 +0200 Michael Schwendt wrote: > The old focus issue was due to a side-effect of a work-around for > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653061 > which had caused Claws Mail to start minimized. That bug is still > not fixed in GNOME Shell, but we have switched

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 22:12:33 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > I think thats not so great an idea... :( > > What happens if an update is pulled? > > rawhide goes back? Or keeps the bad update? I don't think going back is worse than not getting updates for a week because fixes are in update

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:06:34 -0500 Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 16:13:53 -0600, > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > > Sure .. I will learn the magics of what to do. Hey Jonathan you > > think you can find me a good cowboy rope >? > > One proposal that would be nice to hav

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 16:13:53 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > Sure .. I will learn the magics of what to do. Hey Jonathan you think > you can find me a good cowboy rope >? One proposal that would be nice to have approved before f17 branches is have rawhide inherit from updates-testin

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:48:04 -0400, AJ (Adam) wrote: > > > IMO, it could be much more productive if you also > > > evaluated Fedora 16 development instead of Fedora 17 development. > > > > Sigh. > > > > I've been running Rawhide for a very long time. As of the last year or > > so, though, almos

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:58:40 -0600, KF (Kevin) wrote: > I'd suggest opening a bug on that claws-mail issue and see if it can be > tracked down there. > > I just looked on my rawhide machine and I can't see the claws-mail > focus issue here. I am using Xfce tho, not gnome. The old focus issue was

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 16:06, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 16:01 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 15:48, Adam Jackson wrote: >> > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:43 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:05:28 +0200 >> >> Michael Schwen

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 16:01 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 15:48, Adam Jackson wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:43 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:05:28 +0200 > >> Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> > >> > IMO, it could be much more productive

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 15:48, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:43 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:05:28 +0200 >> Michael Schwendt wrote: >> >> > IMO, it could be much more productive if you also >> > evaluated Fedora 16 development instead of Fedora 17 devel

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:43:55 -0600 Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:05:28 +0200 > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > IMO, it could be much more productive if you also > > evaluated Fedora 16 development instead of Fedora 17 development. > > Sigh. > > I've been running Rawhide for a

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:43 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:05:28 +0200 > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > IMO, it could be much more productive if you also > > evaluated Fedora 16 development instead of Fedora 17 development. > > Sigh. > > I've been running Rawhide for a ve

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:05:28 +0200 Michael Schwendt wrote: > IMO, it could be much more productive if you also > evaluated Fedora 16 development instead of Fedora 17 development. Sigh. I've been running Rawhide for a very long time. As of the last year or so, though, almost every post I make d

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:14:42 -0600, JC (Jonathan) wrote: > 3) Speaking of claws, the current Rawhide version remains hosed. It has > the old pop-under and focus problems that got fixed earlier this year, In one of your older threads I've told you before that I cannot reproduce that. Dunno whethe

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 14:14:42 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > 1) Chances are the "oh no" will go away once I install the latest versions > of clutter and mutter; that has been my experience in the past. But yum > won't do that for me. Somehow, in recent times, it has gotten rather > hard

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:14:42 -0600 Jonathan Corbet wrote: > There's something about that "oh no something went wrong" screen that just > makes it clear that you're not going to have as good a day as you'd hoped > for. I haven't tried to look at it in detail yet, but the gnome control center alway

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread drago01
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > 2) When running under gnome-shell, I have all kinds of problems with > partial and/or delayed updates to the screen; these have been mentioned on > this list before.  Emacs and claws-mail seem particularly susceptible to > this problem, f

Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Jonathan Corbet
There's something about that "oh no something went wrong" screen that just makes it clear that you're not going to have as good a day as you'd hoped for. Now that I've finished re-educating the window manager about my peculiarities ("yes, I do like more than one workspace, thank you"), here's a fe