Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-15 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Frank Ch. Eigler f...@redhat.com wrote: Horst H. von Brand vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl writes: [...] Please go with (3), keeping generated files in git is just dumb. Please don't demean those who do it for well-considered reasons. I'm sorry if it came through too abrasive, but I just can't see

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-14 Thread Horst H. von Brand
generated files in git is just dumb. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 234 Fax: +56

Re: sudo and changes in packaging guidelines

2012-04-13 Thread Horst H. von Brand
can't think of a SUID binary written in e.g. FORTRAN, but that is probably just lack of imagination... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56

Re: sudo and changes in packaging guidelines

2012-04-13 Thread Horst H. von Brand
compiler flags: Very much better than the suggestion, IMHO. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile

Re: sudo and changes in packaging guidelines

2012-04-13 Thread Horst H. von Brand
be included here. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 234 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- devel

Re: Primary Architectures: Another Proposal (RFC)

2012-04-10 Thread Horst H. von Brand
stand; this would make rawhide be russian roulette, but with 5 bullets instead of 1. If it compiles, ship it! – Linus Torvalds Riiight... one tongue-in-cheek comment by the well-known punster Linus leads to distribution wide policy. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616

Re: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

2011-10-12 Thread Horst H. von Brand
. The potential benefit is unknown, but certainly not zero. Nodz. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso

Re: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

2011-10-12 Thread Horst H. von Brand
on, it will be handled automagically by my machine here. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 234 Fax

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Horst H. von Brand
enterprisey stuff on even the smallest netbook. [...] This is a great writeup. Why don't you add it to your systemd for sysadmins series? And/or some page on boot speedup in the Fedora wiki? Thanks for the pointers! -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Horst H. von Brand
be worthwhile, and as long as installation DVDs are distributed, it should be considered for them too. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Beta is GOLD!

2011-09-30 Thread Horst H. von Brand
this done without everyone's hard work and assistance. Congratulations all! -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V

Re: PDF printouts with no top margin?

2011-09-27 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Horst H. von Brand vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl wrote: I'm running Fedora 15 on x86_64, up to date, with JNovy's TeXlive (but that one doesn't seem to be at fault). Printing PDFs created by pdflatex (even oldish ones) on a HP LaserJet m1522nf MFP over the 'net gives me pages that start on flush top

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Horst H. von Brand
-responsive, but been too lazy to report it. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 234 Fax

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Horst H. von Brand
, and thus useless. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 234 Fax: +56 32 2797513

Rawhide x86_64: Xorg hang

2011-02-02 Thread Horst H. von Brand
is somewhat far away). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 234 Fax: +56 32 2797513

Rawhide: Gnome totally busted after today's (?) round of updates

2011-01-11 Thread Horst H. von Brand
, etc) did show up. Went to alt-ctrl-F2, logged into root and did: telinit 3 telinit 5 No X did show up. Rebooted by ctrl-alt-del, and tried with plain Gnome. No dice either. Rebooted again, now running XFCE4. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de

Re: x86_64 rawhide: No CPU frequency scaling anymore?

2010-11-26 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Petr Sabata psab...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 09:53:21AM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: After yesterday's updates, on login to Gnome a error message shows up saying that CPU Frequency scaling is unsupported, and claims either misconfiguration or just isn't supported

x86_64 rawhide: No CPU frequency scaling anymore?

2010-11-19 Thread Horst H. von Brand
, stepping 13. I tried my older kernels (kernel-2.6.36-2.fc15.x86_64, kernel-2.6.36-4.fc15.x86_64, kernel-2.6.36-5.fc15.x86_64 here) and downgraded gnome-settings daemon (only thing that looked remotely relevant in the updates), no changes. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616

x86_64 rawhide: Poweroff just shuts down

2010-11-19 Thread Horst H. von Brand
: Address already in use on tty. Only out of the ordinary configuration I can think of is that /usr is a separate partition (really LVM2 volume). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad

Re: Rawhide x86_64: WiFi completely hosed, ditto GDM

2010-09-27 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Horst H. von Brand vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl wrote: As of yesterday there simply is no way to get WiFi (iwlagn here) to work. Restarting NetworkManager, avahi-daemon, udevd, dbus has no effect. Restrarting nm-applet does nothing, no response to iwconfig ow iw. The configuration for the wired

Rawhide x86_64: WiFi completely hosed, ditto GDM

2010-09-23 Thread Horst H. von Brand
, but connecting at home with DHCP does work. GDM crashed on boot yesterday, luckily I've got XDM (and XFCE) installed here. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa

Re: The move to git!

2010-07-30 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Many thanks! -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 234 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- devel

Re: Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker Meeting #3 Friday @ 16:00 UTC

2010-07-29 Thread Horst H. von Brand
. The web browser must be able to download files, load extensions, and log into FAS For that, it must be able to boot with the default configuration... which currently just isn't the case. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-23 Thread Horst H. von Brand
out Gnome... but several other Gnome games (mahjongg from gnome-games-extra-2.31.4-1.fc14.x86_64, sol from gnome-games-2.31.4-1.fc14.x86_64) work fine. gnome-terminal also works. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-23 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Thu, 22.07.10 21:30, Horst H. von Brand (vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl) wrote: Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Thu, 22.07.10 15:19, Simo Sorce (sso...@redhat.com) wrote: [...] Sorry, but what if the configuration got screwed

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-23 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Horst H. von Brand vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl wrote: Let's go off into a tangent: Just booted my x86_64 rawhide box (up to date) into systemd. SELinux is enforcing. Boot worked, but the machine got stuck on shudown. Had to power off. Thanks $DEITY for journalling filesystems... I saw comments

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
everywhere (some tell me I'm way too good at that ;-), the point is to make me find enough stuff I _do_ like so I get over the bitter pill. systemd looks interesting enough to be worth the pain up to here, but there are lost of details to be hashed out. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
symlinks from /etc/systemd/system, terminates the unit before this and reloads the init system configuration after this. The --now controls whether the unit is stopped or not. I hope this simplification sounds good to many of you. Much better. Tghanks! -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
if there's nothing started or being stooped right now, or is waiting for some dependencies to start/stop. It will be empty if your systemd started up completely, because there is nothing to do. Ditto. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
into a loop (or just does something very timeconsuming sometimes) before being ready to answer? This _needs_ answers. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Thu, 22.07.10 16:36, Horst H. von Brand (vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl) wrote: Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: [...] Well, I think good UI means that you distuingish computer parsable and human readable tools. status

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 234 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- devel mailing list

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

2010-07-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
without sysvinit scripts will have to deal with writing their own init scripts. I'd suggest keeping them around until RHEL ships with native systemd + 1 Fedora cycle. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32

Re: Packaging Google Font Directory for Fedora 14

2010-05-22 Thread Horst H. von Brand
://fonts.fedoraproject.org, where the Fedora font buffs hang out. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile