Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread Dimitrios Glentadakis
Στις 21/05/2012 23:17:05 Mahmut Bulut γράψατε: > probably ntpd won't cause something like this, this is not a botnet > attack :) and also situation can't caused from cpu usage. I think it > can be (and your thought i appreciate) is kernel-related problem. > And use a c code something like that to p

Re: [Mageia-dev] Move of xsettings-kde in kde git

2012-05-21 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and D.Morgan at 21/05/12 22:58 did gyre and gimble: > Hi, > > some kde devs asked in #mageia-dev is this is possible to move > xsettings-kde in KDE git instead of on our svn. > > I think this is a good idea because this way we will allow other > distributions to work more on this s

Re: [Mageia-dev] Move of xsettings-kde in kde git

2012-05-21 Thread John Balcaen
No objection here ;)

[Mageia-dev] Move of xsettings-kde in kde git

2012-05-21 Thread D.Morgan
Hi, some kde devs asked in #mageia-dev is this is possible to move xsettings-kde in KDE git instead of on our svn. I think this is a good idea because this way we will allow other distributions to work more on this soft, and as told by a kde dev, each distro have at least one dev with right acces

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread Mahmut Bulut
probably ntpd won't cause something like this, this is not a botnet attack :) and also situation can't caused from cpu usage. I think it can be (and your thought i appreciate) is kernel-related problem. And use a c code something like that to panic; char *kernel_panic = NULL; char message = *kerne

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread eatdirt
On 21/05/12 18:11, Robert Fox wrote: Any hints what I could check? At first I though this was Firefox related (like flash problem or something) because it was most noticeable when I surfed - firefox freezes off and on and it is really frustrating. Nope, but I got into same pb during a wh

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fwd: [VDPAU] [PATCH] Implement workarounds for Adobe Flash bugs

2012-05-21 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 03/05/12 17:00 did gyre and gimble: > 'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 03/05/12 15:37 did gyre and gimble: >> I think we should probably apply the below libvdpau workaround for Adobe >> Flash issues, for both mga2 and mga1, WDYT? > > Sounds like a good idea.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 19:50 +0200, David Sjölin wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:33 PM, AL13N wrote: > > perhaps check the logs (/var/log/messages) for information regarding those > > downtimes. > > > > see if the ping also delays > > > > perhaps try to monitor something via ssh or in tty, to se

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 18:11 +0200, Robert Fox wrote: > The problem occurs under both KDE and Gnome > > Basically, the system seems to freeze up (mouse moves) but nothing else > - gkrellem freezes and no errors occur - it just seems to hang - but > magically wake up again after some time (many se

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread David Sjölin
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:33 PM, AL13N wrote: > perhaps check the logs (/var/log/messages) for information regarding those > downtimes. > > see if the ping also delays > > perhaps try to monitor something via ssh or in tty, to see if it's only > the graphic card. > > also, check ntpd settings, do

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread AL13N
perhaps check the logs (/var/log/messages) for information regarding those downtimes. see if the ping also delays perhaps try to monitor something via ssh or in tty, to see if it's only the graphic card. also, check ntpd settings, do they make big jumps? etc... in short: logging is always the

[Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread Robert Fox
Hello All - I am experiencing a strange problem with a specific machine running Cauldron. I am beginning to believe it is NOT a Mageia problem because when I boot into Ubuntu 12.04 the problem exists as well. I think it may be hardware related but I can not find what is causing this issue. The

Re: [Mageia-dev] Volunteering to [attempt] packaging.

2012-05-21 Thread Malo
On 21/05/12 10:47, Robert Wood wrote: > Following a discussion on the forum, I'd like to volunteer to do some > packaging. > > I develop software [and hardware] for a living, *but* this is little embedded > programs that work on processors with a few k of RAM and up to 256k of flash > memory. The

Re: [Mageia-dev] Volunteering to [attempt] packaging.

2012-05-21 Thread Colin Guthrie
Hi Robert, Great to hear and thank you for offering to help out. As we are in the final stages of a release some of us are quite busy concentrating on getting it out the door but when everything settles down again in a couple weeks it will be the perfect time to help bring on board new packagers.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Great job everyone

2012-05-21 Thread Marcello
Il 21/05/2012 05:29, David W. Hodgins ha scritto: I've completed qa testing of the latest i586 iso images. Four clean installs, two upgrade from Mageia 1 tests, all completed without any packaging errors. No release blocker bugs encountered. Thanks to everyone for a job well done. Regards, Dav

Re: [Mageia-dev] Question about update media and GUI

2012-05-21 Thread AL13N
> Hi, > > Random question... I've only just noticed that mgaapplet/rpmdrake > started telling me that I had no media... is this just because we've > "flipped a switch" telling it to only update media marked as update > while 99% of the cauldron cycle it would update all media? > > I've not actuall

[Mageia-dev] Volunteering to [attempt] packaging.

2012-05-21 Thread Robert Wood
Following a discussion on the forum, I'd like to volunteer to do some packaging. I develop software [and hardware] for a living, *but* this is little embedded programs that work on processors with a few k of RAM and up to 256k of flash memory. The up-side to this is that I understand programm

Re: [Mageia-dev] Question about update media and GUI

2012-05-21 Thread James Kerr
On 21/05/2012 09:35, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi, Random question... I've only just noticed that mgaapplet/rpmdrake started telling me that I had no media... is this just because we've "flipped a switch" telling it to only update media marked as update while 99% of the cauldron cycle it would updat

Re: [Mageia-dev] Great job everyone

2012-05-21 Thread Marcello
Il 21/05/2012 05:29, David W. Hodgins ha scritto: I've completed qa testing of the latest i586 iso images. Four clean installs, two upgrade from Mageia 1 tests, all completed without any packaging errors. No release blocker bugs encountered. Thanks to everyone for a job well done. Regards, Dav

[Mageia-dev] Question about update media and GUI

2012-05-21 Thread Colin Guthrie
Hi, Random question... I've only just noticed that mgaapplet/rpmdrake started telling me that I had no media... is this just because we've "flipped a switch" telling it to only update media marked as update while 99% of the cauldron cycle it would update all media? I've not actually used the GUI

[Mageia-dev] rescue using libs from /mnt

2012-05-21 Thread AL13N
i've tried to rescue a machine, and after mounting, df and ls got issues, then agetty started respawning too fast. []# df -h df: /mnt/lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by df) df: /mnt/lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by df) so somehow the rescue is usin