Fwd: [Test-Announce] PSA: Use fedup 0.8 for upgrades to Fedora 20! (was Re: Should a working fedup in Fedora N's stable repository be a release criterion for N+1?)

2013-12-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
-- Forwarded message -- From: Adam Williamson Date: Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:57 AM Subject: [Test-Announce] PSA: Use fedup 0.8 for upgrades to Fedora 20! (was Re: Should a working fedup in Fedora N's stable repository be a release criterion for N+1?) To: test-annou...@lists.fedorapro

Re: Fedup Failure

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 17, 2013, at 7:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/17/2013 06:34 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: >> I tried upgrading from Fedora 19 to 20. When the System Upgrade task >> starts I get a failure around /run/initramfs (it moves fast). Then it >> boots back to Fedora 19. Any thoughts on how to debug

Re: fedup to F20 failed

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 18, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/17/2013 10:04 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >> I made a DVD and ran >> >> fedup --device --network 20 > >> Anyone else have a similar problem? > I am not having your problem but a similiar one. > > Here on one system, after having run fe

Re: fedup to F20 failed

2013-12-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/17/2013 10:04 PM, Steven Stern wrote: I made a DVD and ran fedup --device --network 20 Anyone else have a similar problem? I am not having your problem but a similiar one. Here on one system, after having run fedup on f19, when rebooting for upgrade, the "upgrade system" starts, b

Re: how to (properly) shut down a fedora 20 virtual machine?

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 17, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > [ 118.522477] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done. > [ 118.986063] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.005 seconds) done. > [ 119.045554] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) > done. > [ 119.689884] PM: suspe

issues with upgrade from f19 -> f20

2013-12-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I did an upgrade from F19 to F20 on three machines (2 laptops and 1 desktop). For one laptop and the desktop, things went smoothly -- no complaints: I used yum/fedora-upgrade. For the other, while upgrading, the X crashed and there were comments about journald, bluetooth etc (not sure if thi

Re: Fedup Failure

2013-12-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/17/2013 06:34 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: I tried upgrading from Fedora 19 to 20. When the System Upgrade task starts I get a failure around /run/initramfs (it moves fast). Then it boots back to Fedora 19. Any thoughts on how to debug? There are several threads on this at fedoraforum.org.

Fedup Failure

2013-12-17 Thread Mark Bidewell
I tried upgrading from Fedora 19 to 20. When the System Upgrade task starts I get a failure around /run/initramfs (it moves fast). Then it boots back to Fedora 19. Any thoughts on how to debug? -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service failed to load

2013-12-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:44:44 -0500 Neal Becker wrote: > Running f20. I see lots of these messages: > > Dec 17 20:40:56 nbecker1 dbus-daemon: dbus[562]: [system] Activation > via systemd failed for unit > 'dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service': Unit dbus- > org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.se

What hath Gnome wrought?

2013-12-17 Thread Tom Horsley
OK, X was working well on my Samsung TV because at some point they introduced a "quirk" that informed the world that the idiots at Samsung set the size of the TV to 160x90 just to get the aspect ratio right in the EDID info, so Xorg.0.log says things like this: [ 4.694] (II) Quirked EDID physi

Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service failed to load

2013-12-17 Thread Neal Becker
Running f20. I see lots of these messages: Dec 17 20:40:56 nbecker1 dbus-daemon: dbus[562]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service': Unit dbus- org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service failed to load: No such file or directory. Dec 17 20:40:56 n

Re: Libre office

2013-12-17 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 12/12/2013 11:59 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > Is there someone to email to for a suggestion for improving Libre > office? It would sure be nice if the program did a grammar check and > made suggestions on how to improve one's document. I haven't used MS > Word for as long as I've used Linux, and

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Ian Malone
On 17 December 2013 20:43, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/17/2013 12:32 PM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> People with the time, resources and >> inclination are more than welcome to run beta. > > And, as far as running beta goes, I have the time and the resources, but not > the inclination. Yes, I was trying

Re: Cron vs. Whenjobs vs. Goaljobs

2013-12-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I'm interested in a replacement for cron which would allow me to run > various cron jobs on demand, and mark them as having been run, so they > won't be run again from the schedule. Looking through the Fedora > repository, I noticed whenj

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Ian Malone
On 17 December 2013 20:28, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > >> On 12/17/2013 11:57 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> Joe, if I must justify my actions, and I question that, there's no "big >>> rush" it's just another form of amusement for me. >> >> No, you don't nee

Re: qmake

2013-12-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:23:47 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Is there a qmake package for fedora? > > I found stuff for windows but nothing for linux! > > > # repoquery --whatprovides /usr/bin/qmake-qt4 > qt-devel-1:4.8.4-

Re: Fwd: Version upgrade from Fedora 17 to Fedora 20

2013-12-17 Thread Steve Forsythe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/17/2013 12:05 PM, Lars Poulsen wrote: > I have been gradually updating my Fedora servers from a variety of > releases ranging to F14 to F18 to more current versions. In order > to do these as in-place updates rather than re-installs (which > s

F20 on iMac: plymouthd runs, clearing screen unexpectedly

2013-12-17 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks, I have installed Fedora 20 on an iMac alongside Mac OS 10.5.8, and it works fine, except for the grub2 bugs 903937, 893179, 904668, and most problematic, the unexpected appearance of plymouthd clearing the screen, and putting a fedora booting-up image in the middle of the screen. Thi

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/17/2013 12:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Fedora doesn't magically get more stable. It's due to testing, bug reporting, and triaging those bugs, much of which is done by volunteers. The more testers, the better the coverage, the more bugs are found before release. The stability depends in la

Re: another FedUp issue

2013-12-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > > ufraw-gimp-0.19.2-10.fc19.x86_64 requires cfitsio-3.340-1.fc19.x86_64 > gnome-shell-extension-xrandr-indicator-3.8.4-1.fc19.noarch requires > gnome-shell-extension-common-3.8.4-1.fc19.noarch > Continue with the upgrade at your o

another FedUp issue

2013-12-17 Thread Steven Stern
I wiped out the failed fedup (deleted stuff from grub.con and /var/tmp/) and tried again with fedup from updates-testing. This time, I got errors after fedup ran: WARNING: problems were encountered during transaction test: broken dependencies libreoffice-pdfimport-1:4.1.3.2-12.fc19.x86_64 re

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 17/12/13 14:22, Chris Murphy wrote: Check commonbugs, in particular this one pertaining to pre-release installation /root permissions: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs#.2Froot_permissions_incorrect_on_pre-release_installations Chris Murphy Ok, I changed the permissions as sugg

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:38:49 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > What do I do with a Fedora-20 beta install to update it? yum or dnf update it. -- Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedora

Cron vs. Whenjobs vs. Goaljobs

2013-12-17 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I'm interested in a replacement for cron which would allow me to run various cron jobs on demand, and mark them as having been run, so they won't be run again from the schedule. Looking through the Fedora repository, I noticed whenjobs, which looks like it may do the job (no pun intended). The do

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 17, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 17/12/13 13:49, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:38:49 -0500 >> Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >>> What do I do with a Fedora-20 beta install to update it? It was >>> updated early this morning and I suspect it is now the equivalent of >

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/17/2013 10:48 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: As I said I updated it around 04:00 this morning before the official release time so it would seem it whould be updated to the max. Why be in such a hurry to upgrade? Is being an early adopter that important to you? On the first day or so of a new

qmake

2013-12-17 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Is there a qmake package for fedora? I found stuff for windows but nothing for linux! Thank. === Patrick DUPRÉ                                 | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère

Re: how to (properly) shut down a fedora 20 virtual machine?

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 17, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > ah, and doing "virsh shutdown f20" blanks the console of the VM, > but leaves the VMM displaying "f20 Running". so "virsh shutdown" > isn't even shutting down the VM properly. Urgh. I think this is a bug getting the external shutdown me

Re: how to (properly) shut down a fedora 20 virtual machine?

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 17, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > So that's consistent with what you're seeing I think. I got sick of the > user@0.service bug causing delays and formed the habit of using virsh > destroy. Looks like a totally separate bug here. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 17/12/13 13:49, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:38:49 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: What do I do with a Fedora-20 beta install to update it? It was updated early this morning and I suspect it is now the equivalent of the new release. You will need to do a 'yum distro-sync' or re-enabl

Re: how to (properly) shut down a fedora 20 virtual machine?

2013-12-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/17/2013 11:16 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: If you do it within the VM, what result do you get with 'poweroff'? systemd maps init 0 to poweroff, as of course there is no init with systemd, but it maintains compatibility with init scripts so I expect init 0 to work the same as poweroff. I don

Re: how to (properly) shut down a fedora 20 virtual machine?

2013-12-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Chris Murphy : On Dec 17, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Quoting Chris Murphy : On Dec 17, 2013, at 8:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: not sure what list would be appropriate for this but i'll start here. currently running RHEL 6.5 on a 64-bit laptop, and installe

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:38:49 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > What do I do with a Fedora-20 beta install to update it? It was > updated early this morning and I suspect it is now the equivalent of > the new release. > > Will I have problems with yum updates? > > Presently it shows: [bobg@box10 ~]$ un

Re: fedup to F20 failed

2013-12-17 Thread Junk
On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 15:04 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > I made a DVD and ran > > fedup --device --network 20 > > Everything went OK until I rebooted and selected the fedup upgrade. > After thrashing around for a while, the system went into emergency mode, > unable to find a file system. > > R

Re: how to (properly) shut down a fedora 20 virtual machine?

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 17, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Quoting Chris Murphy : > >> >> On Dec 17, 2013, at 8:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >>> >>> not sure what list would be appropriate for this but i'll start here. >>> currently running RHEL 6.5 on a 64-bit laptop, and installed a new

Re: how to (properly) shut down a fedora 20 virtual machine?

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 17, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> > > Urgh. I think this is a bug getting the external shutdown message passed into > the VM. So this might mean setting up the VM with a serial device, and using > virsh console so that even if it gets networking in the VM all shutdown, you

System mail (Fedora 20)

2013-12-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, I have a question. On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:02:30AM -0500, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > > == No Default Sendmail, Syslog == > > In the interests of paring down services that are generally not used > on desktop systems, Fedora 20 removes and replaces some services that > many users find unneces

Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
What do I do with a Fedora-20 beta install to update it? It was updated early this morning and I suspect it is now the equivalent of the new release. Will I have problems with yum updates? Presently it shows: [bobg@box10 ~]$ uname -a Linux box10 3.11.10-300.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 29 19:16:

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 17/12/13 13:40, Frank Murphy wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:38:49 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: What do I do with a Fedora-20 beta install to update it? yum or dnf update it. [root@box10 bobg]# yum update Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit No packages marked for update So I can co

fedup to F20 failed

2013-12-17 Thread Steven Stern
I made a DVD and ran fedup --device --network 20 Everything went OK until I rebooted and selected the fedup upgrade. After thrashing around for a while, the system went into emergency mode, unable to find a file system. Rebooted and tried again with the same result. I was able to reboot back

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 17, 2013, at 1:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > And, as far as running beta goes, I have the time and the resources, but not > the inclination. Cleaning up after an upgrade hung, or otherwise failed so > that I don't have to do a complete re-install and figure out what packages I > forgot t

Re: qmake

2013-12-17 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a qmake package for fedora? > I found stuff for windows but nothing for linux! # repoquery --whatprovides /usr/bin/qmake-qt4 qt-devel-1:4.8.4-19.fc19.i686 qt-devel-1:4.8.4-19.fc19.x86_64 qt-devel-1:4.8.5-10.fc19.x86_64

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/17/2013 12:32 PM, Ian Malone wrote: In fact by definition it's people running pre-release for whatever reason who are doing the testing! And even if you don't want, or don't think you're wanted, to fill out test matrices, you can still provide feedback on individual packages. People with th

strange warnings in .xsession-errors

2013-12-17 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Mate (and Cinnamon) on Fedora 19...and lately noticed these errors in my .xsession-errors file when I am in Mate Does anyone know what's behind them ? mate-session[2557]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /home/frank/.config/autostart/sealertauto.desktop: Key file does not

Re: how to (properly) shut down a fedora 20 virtual machine?

2013-12-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Chris Murphy : On Dec 17, 2013, at 8:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: not sure what list would be appropriate for this but i'll start here. currently running RHEL 6.5 on a 64-bit laptop, and installed a new fedora 20 VM using the Virtual Machine Manager -- seemed to work fine, f20 ca

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 17/12/13 14:25, Joe Zeff wrote: Why be in such a hurry to upgrade? Is being an early adopter that important to you? On the first day or so of a new release, the repos are going to be slammed, just as the MS servers are on Patch Tuesday. And, of course, there's always the few (we hope) bugs

Re: how to (properly) shut down a fedora 20 virtual machine?

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 17, 2013, at 12:47 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Quoting Joe Zeff : > >> On 12/17/2013 11:16 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> If you do it within the VM, what result do you get with 'poweroff'? systemd >>> maps init 0 to poweroff, as of course there is no init with systemd, but it >>> maint

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/17/2013 11:57 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Joe, if I must justify my actions, and I question that, there's no "big rush" it's just another form of amusement for me. No, you don't need to justify your actions; if you find it amusing to be an early adopter and deal with all of the last-minute oo

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Ian Malone
On 17 December 2013 19:57, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 17/12/13 14:25, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> Why be in such a hurry to upgrade? Is being an early adopter that >> important to you? On the first day or so of a new release, the repos are >> going to be slammed, just as the MS servers are on Patch Tuesd

Re: how to (properly) shut down a fedora 20 virtual machine?

2013-12-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Joe Zeff : On 12/17/2013 11:16 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: If you do it within the VM, what result do you get with 'poweroff'? systemd maps init 0 to poweroff, as of course there is no init with systemd, but it maintains compatibility with init scripts so I expect init 0 to work the sa

Re: Fedora-20 beta -

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 17, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/17/2013 11:57 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> Joe, if I must justify my actions, and I question that, there's no "big >> rush" it's just another form of amusement for me. > > No, you don't need to justify your actions; if you find it amusing to be

Job opportunities at Lancaster University Library

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Re: how to (properly) shut down a fedora 20 virtual machine?

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 17, 2013, at 8:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > not sure what list would be appropriate for this but i'll start here. > currently running RHEL 6.5 on a 64-bit laptop, and installed a new > fedora 20 VM using the Virtual Machine Manager -- seemed to work fine, > f20 came up, looks good

Fwd: Version upgrade from Fedora 17 to Fedora 20

2013-12-17 Thread Lars Poulsen
I have been gradually updating my Fedora servers from a variety of releases ranging to F14 to F18 to more current versions. In order to do these as in-place updates rather than re-installs (which saves many headaches) I have had to do this gradually. Most are now running F19 with one "pioneer" at

[Fwd: Announcing the release of Fedora 20.]

2013-12-17 Thread Mike Chambers
FYI for those that don't know yet. Forwarded Message From: Robyn Bergeron To: annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org, devel-announce , test-announce Subject: Announcing the release of Fedora 20. Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:02:30 -0500 (EST) Greetings! We can say with great certainty

how to (properly) shut down a fedora 20 virtual machine?

2013-12-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
not sure what list would be appropriate for this but i'll start here. currently running RHEL 6.5 on a 64-bit laptop, and installed a new fedora 20 VM using the Virtual Machine Manager -- seemed to work fine, f20 came up, looks good, but now i want to shut it down, so from the f20 console, i sel

Re: Warnings?

2013-12-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Please see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs#yum-group-errors kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of C

Warnings?

2013-12-17 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang: For the last few upgrades / updates, I've been getting warnings such as are at the bottom of the output; what do they mean? Should I ignore them? setting up repos... adobe-linux-x86_64 | 951 B 00:00:00 default-installrepo/metalink

F20 Gnome-Documents

2013-12-17 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
I just upgrade from a fresh install of F18 to 20 on my laptop(64bit) and would like to start using gnome-documents. (fedup worked great btw) My current setup seems to only be syncing one-way(local->Google). Is that the expected result or do I have to enable two-way somewhere? Thanks, Phil -- user

Re: can one trust mirrors that claim to have fedora 20 ready for download right now?

2013-12-17 Thread Andre Robatino
Robert P. J. Day crashcourse.ca> writes: >as i remember it, new fedora releases typically become available > mid to late morning of the release date, but i checked one of my > common canadian mirrors and there it is (DVD image, checksum, > netinst.iso), but the last modified date of all of th

can one trust mirrors that claim to have fedora 20 ready for download right now?

2013-12-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as i remember it, new fedora releases typically become available mid to late morning of the release date, but i checked one of my common canadian mirrors and there it is (DVD image, checksum, netinst.iso), but the last modified date of all of that is back on dec 12. would that actually be the