Really Slow boot in F15

2011-05-05 Thread John Mellor
Is it normal to have F15 beta boot times that are much longer than F14? I have a fully up-to-date F14 running on a single-core Athlon-3300+ (4000 bogomips) on an AsRock MB and using a midrange Radeon RV770 gpu and a single primary WD-1200JB PATA drive on the first PATA interface. It boots to the l

Re: Really Slow boot in F15

2011-05-06 Thread John Mellor
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 10:21 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/06/2011 06:08 AM, John Mellor wrote: > > > > What can I look at to determine where in the boot sequence that the > > problem bottleneck is, and how do I do it? > > > > systemd-analyze > >

Re: new criterion proposal: Graphical package managers

2021-11-08 Thread John Mellor
On 2021-11-08 9:31 a.m., Neal Gompa wrote: On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 9:25 AM Frantisek Zatloukal wrote: On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 3:05 PM Kamil Paral wrote: "dnf install foo bar" This is a single operation, comparable to having multiple packages installed via graphical package manager, not schedu

Re: new criterion proposal: Graphical package managers (take #2)

2022-01-20 Thread John Mellor
current GUI installer behaves more like Windows, and does not allow this situation when it most certainly should.  Fedora should consider fixing these packages that routinely allow developer errors instead of downloading the resulting problems to the end user, and the installer tools should

Re: new criterion proposal: Graphical package managers (take #2)

2022-01-21 Thread John Mellor
On 2022-01-20 11:54 a.m., Kamil Paral wrote: This is another attempt at creating a new release criterion specific for graphical package managers. We already discussed it in November, but we couldn't agree easily on some particular details, and then I was gone for a long time: https://lists.fed

Re: new criterion proposal: Graphical package managers (take #2)

2022-01-21 Thread John Mellor
On 2022-01-21 5:54 p.m., Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2022-01-21 at 14:20 -0500, John Mellor wrote: I am unclear from this proposal on what is supposed to happen if a package is not completely installed.  E.g: a powerdown or other outage causes the post-install script in an installed rpm to

Re: new criterion proposal: Graphical package managers (take #2)

2022-01-25 Thread John Mellor
similar, but it does point out the need to fill a large gap in keeping the machine sane when something unexpected happens. Perhaps F36 can expedite btrfs gui and cli tools to roll back to the last known sane state in both the normal and diagnostic images.  You know, lik

Re: Fedora Contributor Tee Shirt Giveaway

2022-04-22 Thread John Mellor
On 2022-04-21 23:13, Chris Murphy wrote: I'm getting: There are currently no products linked to this invitation code... I'd bet that you cut/pasted the code with the sentence end as part of it.  Take the period off. -- John Mellor __

Re: Problem rpm in f42

2024-11-01 Thread John Mellor
On 2024-11-01 3:51 p.m., Robert McBroom wrote: The following packages have not been able to update for the last two weeks. There is no indication what is preventing the updates Skipping packages with conflicts:  libavcodec-free x86_64 7.0.2-6.fc42  rawhide  

Re: Will bin-sbin-merge migrate existing systems?

2025-01-23 Thread John Mellor
On 2025-01-23 2:51 p.m., Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2025-01-23 at 06:00 +, George R Goffe via test wrote: . . . 2) Are we forgetting why we have the concept of statically linked binaries? What does that have to do with where they are? If I may offer some insight: In the Unix philos

Re: Will bin-sbin-merge migrate existing systems?

2025-01-23 Thread John Mellor
On 2025-01-23 5:32 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/23/25 2:17 PM, John Mellor wrote: On 2025-01-23 2:51 p.m., Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2025-01-23 at 06:00 +, George R Goffe via test wrote: . . . 2) Are we forgetting why we have the concept of statically linked binaries? What does