Re: Hardy Alpha 6 released

2008-03-13 Thread Martin L'Ecuyer
Thank you guys, In fact, I tried again and pay closer attention to what really happens. After selecting a language ( I tried both English or french with same result) I made my selection to start the installation and after a minute or two I got a warning window telling: I/0 Error Error reading boot

Re: libc borked (and I stop testing)

2008-03-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday 13 March 2008 08:03:32 Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Il giorno mer, 12/03/2008 alle 23.20 -0400, Cory K. ha scritto: > > Thanx to the genius who let the libc update through and rendered 3 > > systems unbootable here. I look forward to your visit to my home to fix > > them. > > > > Frustrate

Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-13 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
Dear developers, I am working on a bug on Launchpad https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/174277 and I suddenly though that I might ask here if the effort I am doing are worthy ( I wouldn't like to work a lot on this bug and have my patches refused :-) ) . So could you please have a look

Re: Hardy Alpha 6 released

2008-03-13 Thread Viktor Nagy
Hi, I was also scared the first time when this "chaotic listing" of languages popped up in front of me. I realize that this is a feature, but I really felt it overwhelming, and it scared me. Wouldn't it be possible to give it a nicer design in line with the boot screen? (If a non-programmer, non-

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Russell Green
*[quote]HARDY HERON SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR YOUR DESKTOP UNTIL IT IS RELEASED IN APRIL 2008* If you decide to use Hardy Heron now, then you are doing so at your own risk, and with the risk of major breakage and possible data loss.[/quote] Cory, hardy is alpha software.There is always going to be br

Re: System Presence Integration Idea

2008-03-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Chris Warburton wrote: > Hi thanks for the input. I realise that such a proposal is quite open > ended, thus I tried to split it into relatively clear steps to go > through to try and prevent both blue sky designing and worrying about > issues that end up not appearing in the implementation. > > I

Re: P2P computing power idea

2008-03-13 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 13.03.2008 um 17:39 schrieb Oran B. Kamelgarn: > My idea is to have an Opereting system that sheres computing power. You perhaps want to have a look for the DragonflyBSD OS. They work towards getting grid computing into the OS, removing the need for grid-specialized software. Markus -

Re: Hardy Alpha 6 released

2008-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Martin, On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 08:05:56PM -0500, Martin L'Ecuyer wrote: > Hello Steve, > I'm not sure you are the person who I should report this but since I > downloaded the .iso using the link from your e-mail I thought I should > report it to someone. ( Since this is just a beta version, I

Re: System Presence Integration Idea

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Warburton
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 12:07 -0700, Ted Gould wrote: > I think that this is an interesting topic, and one that we do need to > solve for the desktop. > > I think that one thing that needs to be in your list, 1a perhaps, is > looking at the way that people think about their status. For instance, >

Re: System Presence Integration Idea

2008-03-13 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 17:38 +, Chris Warburton wrote: > To me such an idea would take 3 stages to implement: > > 1) Discussion and brainstorming of possible use cases throughout the > system > > 2) Building the infrastructure needed to enable such cases (Dbus as far > as I can tell) > > 3) C

Re: "script" command quits upon resize of terminal window (konsole)

2008-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:27:21PM +0100, Felix Endres wrote: > I hope this is the correct place for the problem report in the subject. In general, bug reports should be filed in Launchpad. This bug is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/165251 > This e-mail was given fo

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:55:47PM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > The package is not at fault... > The fault was to upload dpkg (2008-02-11 imho) with > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistCompilerFlags this in mind. > Setting those flags is not good without a bunch of testing. I only discovered today t

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:20:22PM -0400, Cory K. wrote: > Thanx to the genius who let the libc update through and rendered 3 > systems unbootable here. I look forward to your visit to my home to fix > them. I've posted a message to ubuntu-devel-announce with full workaround instructions, which yo

Re: What is "terranova"?

2008-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:14:00AM +, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: > /etc/hostname in daily hardy has "terranova" as hostname. why is that? > What does it mean? I assume you're using a live CD. This is just the hostname of the build daemon machine that built the live filesystem; it's left ther

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:13:03AM -0500, HggdH wrote: > BTW this is also a very good example of why LP should have a > "bypass" (or whatever you want to name it) field/link. > > With the amount of comments, finding the bypasses get slightly more > arduous. You mean workaround? The appropriate pl

Re: P2P COMPUTING POWER IDEA

2008-03-13 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
Vincenzo Ciancia pisze: My idea is to have an Opereting system that sheres computing power. The idea is that whenever your computer will need computing power it will take it from all of the other computers over the internet with the same OS. this way, for example when you will need to render a mo

Re: libc borked (and I stop testing)

2008-03-13 Thread Jerone Young
I'm in the same boat as you Vincenzo. Kind of the last straw for myself also. Been trying for a while now to test and get fixes into Hardy so that the Thinkpad T61 whould work out of the box (pretty much perfectly). As this is they laptop I now use on a daily basis, and I was going to try and start

Re: P2P COMPUTING POWER IDEA

2008-03-13 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno gio, 13/03/2008 alle 17.39 +0100, Oran B. Kamelgarn ha scritto: > > > My idea is to have an Opereting system that sheres computing power. > The idea is that whenever your computer will need computing power it > will take it from all of the other computers > over the internet with the s

P2P COMPUTING POWER IDEA

2008-03-13 Thread Oran B. Kamelgarn
hello My idea is to have an Opereting system that sheres computing power. The idea is that whenever your computer will need computing power it will take it from all of the other computers over the internet with the same OS. this way, for example when you will need to render a movie 1000 computers

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday 13 March 2008 08:31:59 Soren Hansen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:14:23AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > >> Cory's comment was a bit intemperate, but I feel your response was > > >> not at all helpful and that it really minimized Cory's extensive > > >> contributions to Ubuntu

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread HggdH
> YAY Daniel - here's a hug for finally adding some *helpful* content to > this discussion. A bug reference - just what Todd so nicely asked > for!! BTW this is also a very good example of why LP should have a "bypass" (or whatever you want to name it) field/link. With the amount of comments,

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Neal McBurnett
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:43:41PM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: > https://launchpad.net/bugs/201673 has information about what happened > and how to fix it. Semi-official workaround instructions will be added > there too. > > Have a nice day, > Daniel YAY Daniel - here's a hug for finally adding

Re: What is "terranova"?

2008-03-13 Thread Sarah Hobbs
(``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: > /etc/hostname in daily hardy has "terranova" as hostname. why is that? > What does it mean? Many things, but it's one of the names of the buildds. As for why it's there...i've no idea. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Mod

What is "terranova"?

2008-03-13 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
/etc/hostname in daily hardy has "terranova" as hostname. why is that? What does it mean? by the way, why do I get this error: "id: cannot find name for group ID 128" -- BUGabundo :o) (``-_-´´) http://Ubuntu.BUGabundo.net Linux user #443786GPG key 1024D/A1784EBB My new micro-blog @ ht

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cory K. schrieb: > If you think that was a flame then I would say you're a tad sensitive. :P Please make an effort to make this thread productive. > It comes down to why would a package be uploaded at this stage in the > cycle that renders systems u

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Soren Hansen
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:29:57AM -0400, Cory K. wrote: >>> Cory's comment was a bit intemperate, but I feel your response was >>> not at all helpful and that it really minimized Cory's extensive >>> contributions to Ubuntu developmen. >> But it's cool for Cory to flame doko because Cory's a devel

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Soren Hansen
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:14:23AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> Cory's comment was a bit intemperate, but I feel your response was > >> not at all helpful and that it really minimized Cory's extensive > >> contributions to Ubuntu developmen. > >But it's cool for Cory to flame doko because Cor

Re: libc borked (and I stop testing)

2008-03-13 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno mer, 12/03/2008 alle 23.20 -0400, Cory K. ha scritto: > Thanx to the genius who let the libc update through and rendered 3 > systems unbootable here. I look forward to your visit to my home to fix > them. > > Frustrated and pissed, > > Cory K. > Even though the tone of the mail is ang

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Stephan Hermann
Moins, Cory K. wrote: > Soren Hansen wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:00:03AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> >> >>> Cory's comment was a bit intemperate, but I feel your response was not >>> at all helpful and that it really minimized Cory's extensive >>> contributions to Ubuntu

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Cory K.
Soren Hansen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:00:03AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> Cory's comment was a bit intemperate, but I feel your response was not >> at all helpful and that it really minimized Cory's extensive >> contributions to Ubuntu developmen. >> > > But it's cool for

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:29:16 +0100 Soren Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:00:03AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> Cory's comment was a bit intemperate, but I feel your response was not >> at all helpful and that it really minimized Cory's extensive >> contributions to

Re: System Presence Integration Idea

2008-03-13 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 17:38:54 Chris Warburton wrote: > With the increased momentum towards unified messaging and presence > systems (ie. Telepathy and things built on top such as Decibel) I think > there needs to be some thought put into the use of presence by the > system. That is, if the sy

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Soren Hansen
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:00:03AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Cory's comment was a bit intemperate, but I feel your response was not > at all helpful and that it really minimized Cory's extensive > contributions to Ubuntu developmen. But it's cool for Cory to flame doko because Cory's a devel

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:33:12 +0100 Daniel Holbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Scott Kitterman schrieb: >> In theory who says something shouldn't affect how it gets responded to, but >> in real life it does. On a developer's list, I think people who are making >> substantial contributions sh

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Kitterman schrieb: > In theory who says something shouldn't affect how it gets responded to, but > in real life it does. On a developer's list, I think people who are making > substantial contributions should get a little slack. I can clearly