rawhide report: 20060313 changes

2006-03-13 Thread Build System
Updated Packages: GFS-kernel-2.6.15.1-5.FC5.15 cman-kernel-2.6.15.1-0.FC5.13 - dlm-kernel-2.6.15.1-0.FC5.11 Broken deps for ia64 -- rgman

FC5 test3 udev hang

2006-03-13 Thread Gianluca Sforna
Hi, I just put my hands an a shiny Acer Travelmate 8202WLMi laptop so I decided to give a try to FC5. The installation wen fine, but upon first reboot I an stuck at: Starting udev:_ Admittedly, I did _not_ expected FC to work fine on that, having a bunch of fancy new hardware in there ( Centrino

Re: FC5 test3 udev hang

2006-03-13 Thread Mike Chambers
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:13 +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > Hi, > I just put my hands an a shiny Acer Travelmate 8202WLMi laptop so I > decided to give a try to FC5. The installation wen fine, but upon > first reboot I an stuck at: > > Starting udev:_ I would try an install from rawhide and see i

Re: System clock speedup with latest kernels

2006-03-13 Thread Joachim Frieben
Sure you can. For 5 years, this has been the only workaround on my PR440FX based SMP box to keep the RTC in sync - with enabled SMP of course! See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55223 > > Interrupt handling. I think you can not disable them on SMP machines > (and retain S

Updated Qt4 spec [was: Qt 4 RPM and pkg-config problem]

2006-03-13 Thread Tarjei Knapstad
On 3/9/06, Tarjei Knapstad wrote: > > With the pkg-config bug though I'd say the package is slightly broken > > as you can't use autotools to detect the library (well, I guess you > > can, but pkg-config is much the preferred solution). No suggestions > > for a fix? > > > > I'm currently adding so

rawhide e2fsprogs & yum

2006-03-13 Thread Steve G
Hi, I've noticed a problem in rawhide just doing yum update regarding e2fsprogs on x86_64. The update fails like this: >Running Transaction Test >Finished Transaction Test > >Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man8/blkid.8.gz from install of >e2fsprogs-1.38-12 conflicts with file from

Re: System clock speedup with latest kernels

2006-03-13 Thread William Lovaton
I'm glad to know this... but I am really worried about performance in this case, there is a lot of traffic between the web server (Apache/PHP) and the database server (Oracle 9.2.0.7) so "noapic" wouldn't be a viable workaround if it degrades performance. Any advice about this? Thanks for your co

Re: rawhide e2fsprogs & yum

2006-03-13 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On 3/13/06, Steve G wrote: > Well, I guess it is needed...is the repo broken ? Its been like this for a > week > or so. the 32bit tree has e2fsprogs-libs-1.38-12 currently. and the 32bit version is in the rawhide tree... so I don't understand your problem...unless your yum is hitting a stale m

Re: rawhide e2fsprogs & yum

2006-03-13 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 05:33 -0800, Steve G wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed a problem in rawhide just doing yum update regarding e2fsprogs on > x86_64. The update fails like this: > > >Running Transaction Test > >Finished Transaction Test > > > >Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man8/bl

My FC5 test3 problems...

2006-03-13 Thread Kaspars
Hi all, My broken things: * From panel, web is not opening. I copy command to command line: $htmlview %u Error: No running window found * Thunderbird is lost icon, what can see, when you are switching with alt-tab, or when it is full screen in workspace windows... * My compiled mplayer anym

Re: rawhide e2fsprogs & yum

2006-03-13 Thread Steve G
>> Well, I guess it is needed...is the repo broken ? Its been like this for a >>week or so. > >the 32bit tree has e2fsprogs-libs-1.38-12 currently. Its the main package...not the libs. [r...@dhcp83-35 ~]# rpm -e e2fsprogs-1.38-1.i386 error: Failed dependencies: locate + rpm -qf does show that

Re: rawhide e2fsprogs & yum

2006-03-13 Thread Erwin Rol
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 08:50 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 3/13/06, Steve G wrote: > > Well, I guess it is needed...is the repo broken ? Its been like this for a > > week > > or so. > > the 32bit tree has e2fsprogs-libs-1.38-12 currently. > > and the 32bit version is in the rawhide tree... so

Re: rawhide e2fsprogs & yum

2006-03-13 Thread Erwin Rol
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 06:16 -0800, Steve G wrote: > >> Well, I guess it is needed...is the repo broken ? Its been like this for a > >>week or so. > > > >the 32bit tree has e2fsprogs-libs-1.38-12 currently. > > Its the main package...not the libs. Maybe the manpage was moved from the main package

Re: rawhide e2fsprogs & yum

2006-03-13 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On 3/13/06, Steve G wrote: > locate + rpm -qf does show that /lib/libcom_err.so.2 is owned by > e2fsprogs-1.38-1.i386. then thats the problem... the most recent packages /lib/libcom_err.so.2 is owned by the -libs. So the problem you are seeing is the result of shifts inside the development tree.

Re: Fedora Core 5 Status

2006-03-13 Thread Horst von Brand
Philippe Rigault wrote: > > Due to circumstances outside of our control, we're going to be unable to > > keep to the scheduled date of March 15th for the release of FC5 and > > instead are going to have to make the release date Monday, March 20th. > > While unfortunate in some ways, this gives us

Re: The repository scoring problem - a proposal

2006-03-13 Thread Horst von Brand
Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Every one in a while the problem of repository scoring comes up (maybe > under a different name, but I chose this one): The wish of users to > give different RPM repositories different "rights" with respect to the > packages that can be installed from the various sources, m

Re: Fedora Core 5 Status

2006-03-13 Thread Andrew Haley
Horst von Brand writes: > Philippe Rigault wrote: > > > > Due to circumstances outside of our control, we're going to be > > > unable to keep to the scheduled date of March 15th for the > > > release of FC5 and instead are going to have to make the > > > release date Monday, March 20th. Wh

Re: The repository scoring problem - a proposal

2006-03-13 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. Horst von Brand wrote: > > * I do not know if such a change can be made while retaining backwards > > compatibility to older RPM versions (if this is desired, that is) > > You are proposing a scheme that doesn't touch the RPM format itself, so > I don't see how this would enter here. The

match between gnome 2.14 "manifesto" and upcoming fc5 features

2006-03-13 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
hello, as one of the core features of fc5 will be final gnome 2.14, I tried to match up what described at gnome.org "A look at Gnome 2.14" (see http://www.gnome.org/%7Edavyd/gnome-2-14/), that seems to me a sort of manifesto of the new functionalities a user will find in upcoming gnome 2.14, with

Re: 'everything' install option in FC5test1

2006-03-13 Thread Janina Sajka
The grub documentation includes provides kernel failover provisions, but these don't appear to work. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Making-your-system-robust.html#Making-your-system-robust Should I expect this to work? Is there some other mechanism to boot a different kernel ju

Grub Fallback -- Is it for real?

2006-03-13 Thread Janina Sajka
The grub documentation includes provides kernel failover provisions, but these don't appear to work. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Making-your-system-robust.html#Making-your-system-robust Should I expect this to work? Is there some other mechanism to boot a different kernel ju

Re: System clock speedup with latest kernels

2006-03-13 Thread Joachim Frieben
Right, the main implication of running in "noapic" mode is a performance hit, as interrupts are not handled as efficiently. For systems that are heavily interrupt driven (includes those that have a lot of network traffic such as web servers) this might be measurable. Nonetheless, the benefits of S

Re: match between gnome 2.14 " manifesto" and upcoming fc5 features

2006-03-13 Thread Joachim Frieben
This test *must* depend on your actual hardware, so the value given has to be taken with a grain of salt and is probably a lower bound. On my IBM ThinkPad T23, the "gnome-terminal" benchmark takes more than a 1/2 a minute! Of course, as indicated for 25x80 and fixed font. > bench this? - gnome t

Re: Grub Fallback -- Is it for real?

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Janina Sajka wrote: > The grub documentation includes provides kernel failover provisions, but > these don't appear to work. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Making-your-system-robust.html#Making-your-system-robust > > Should I expect this to work? Is ther

Re: Grub Fallback -- Is it for real?

2006-03-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Janina Sajka wrote: The grub documentation includes provides kernel failover provisions, but these don't appear to work. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Making-your-system-robust.html#Making-your-system-robust Should I expect this to work? ... Is there some other mechanism

[OT] Happy Birthday Jesse Keating !!!

2006-03-13 Thread Igor Jagec
Hapy Birthday To You Hapy Birthday To You Hapy Birthday Dear Jesse Hapy Birthday To You Cheers mate!;-) -- Igor Jagec

Re: Grub Fallback -- Is it for real?

2006-03-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 13 mars 2006 à 19:37 +0100, Paul Wouters a écrit : > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > The grub documentation includes provides kernel failover provisions, but > > these don't appear to work. > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Making-your-system-robust.

Re: Re: match between gnome "manifesto" and upcoming fc5 features

2006-03-13 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On dual athlon MP 2200+ (1800): 5.6 secs On PIV 2.8GHz: 6.5 On laptop Dell C640 (PIV Mob 1.8GHz): 10.2 It is strange nevertheless to say 1 sec... a typo or an overestimating..

Re: [OT] Happy Birthday Jesse Keating !!!

2006-03-13 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
Happy Birthday, Jesse Chitlesh -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

Re: Current rawhide Anaconda LVM crash

2006-03-13 Thread Dax Kelson
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 20:00 -0700, Dax Kelson wrote: > Just a FYI. > > On my FC4, LVM using, laptop I created a LV to install rawhide on. I > tried installing a March 11th 2006 rawhide tree. But ananconda bombed > out when I tried to do a custom layout and tried to assign "/" to the > previously c

Re: [OT] Happy Birthday Jesse Keating !!!

2006-03-13 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 20:19 +0100, Igor Jagec wrote: > Cheers mate!;-) Heh! In light of the slip and all that, I needed this. Cheers! -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Grub Fallback -- Is it for real?

2006-03-13 Thread Warren Togami
Janina Sajka wrote: Should I expect this to work? Is there some other mechanism to boot a different kernel just once--on the next boot? http://togami.com/~warren/guides/remoteraidcrazies/ My guide here has an example of using grub's savedefault --default X --once directives in order to specif

Re: SD/MMC Support (was Re: Hotplug: no more fstab entries)

2006-03-13 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 11:00 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote: > Rodd Clarkson wrote : > > > Would you like to explain to the masses (or maybe just me) how you got > > SD/MMC support working in Fedora. > > > > I notice that 'modprobe mmc_block' now installs the modules needed, but > > beyond this it's n

Warning - Maxtor SATA II and Nvidia nforce4

2006-03-13 Thread Dax Kelson
Short version == Nvidia Nforce4 chipset with Maxtor SATA II drives with certain firmware revisions cause data corruption and system instability. This was acknowledged just in the last few weeks, see: http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2685

simple script

2006-03-13 Thread Maccy
Does anyone have a simple perl or shell script that will run a set of commands on a number of machines? For example install a perl cpan module on 50 machines, listed in a file. I've very much a beginner when it comes to shell scripting. Many thanks in advance! Mark

Re: simple script

2006-03-13 Thread Michael Favia
Maccy wrote: Does anyone have a simple perl or shell script that will run a set of commands on a number of machines? Sorry, but this is pretty off topic. Please find help elsewhere. -mf -- Michael Favia michael.fa...@insitesinc.com Insites Incorporated http://michael.insitesinc.com

No more selinux-policy-*-sources

2006-03-13 Thread Orion Poplawski
I there some docs (FAQ/ReleaseNotes?) that describe how to make changes to policy in FC5?

Re: rawhide report: 20060311 changes

2006-03-13 Thread Jesse Keating
On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 04:41 -0500, Build System wrote: > > Updated Packages: So uh... yeah. This seems to have gotten stuck in a mail queue somewhere. Don't panic (: -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Grub Fallback -- Is it for real?

2006-03-13 Thread Janina Sajka
Warren Togami writes: > Janina Sajka wrote: > > > >Should I expect this to work? Is there some other mechanism to boot a > >different kernel just once--on the next boot? > > http://togami.com/~warren/guides/remoteraidcrazies/ > My guide here has an example of using grub's savedefault --default X

Re: match between gnome 2.14 "manifesto" and upcoming fc5 features

2006-03-13 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 18:56 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > - You've Got The Whole World In Your Hand > deskbar-applet is at the moment in extras. Ok on x86; it doesn't work > for me on x86_64 (I'm going to open bugzilla point): the icon stays > grey and I'm not able to wwrite in it... Is this wit

Re: Grub Fallback -- Is it for real?

2006-03-13 Thread Peter Jones
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 18:36 -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > Warren Togami writes: > > Janina Sajka wrote: > > > > > >Should I expect this to work? Is there some other mechanism to boot a > > >different kernel just once--on the next boot? > > > > http://togami.com/~warren/guides/remoteraidcrazies/ > >