Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-03-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
In my most recent efforts, I added noapci to the kernel command line. In the case of F17, the last line I could read before catatonia included "unpacking initramfs". F16 was similar, but it was to fast for me to read well. Here are the grub stanzas: title Install Fedora17 from iso root (hd

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-03-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
In bugzilla bug 808300, Josh Boyer wrote: D865GBF is one of the motherboards that was broken due to an ACPICA change. It was fixed in an updated kernel, but the F16 media cannot be updated. See bugs 73007 727865. Can you please try the nightly F17 live images, or the upcoming F17 beta? I can tr

nightly live CDs?

2012-03-30 Thread Rob Healey
Greetings: Are the nightly build live CDs being built on Rawhide/ FC18 yet or when will they? -- Sincerely yours, Rob G. Healey -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: F17 video annoyances, old hardware

2012-03-30 Thread stan
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:54:20 -0400 Adam Jackson wrote: > On 3/30/12 10:46 AM, stan wrote: > > - mplayer can't adjust brightness and contrast. This is strange > >since qiv can. > > What video output method is mplayer using? xv, gl, ... Thanks for the hint. It turns out that the gl, gl2,

Gnome 3.4 Testing

2012-03-30 Thread Tim Flink
6.live.iso http://tflink.fedorapeople.org/iso/F17-preRC3-gnome34.i686.live.iso.sha256 x86_64 LiveCD: http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/rc3test-20120330-x86_64.iso signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: Fedora QA and Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-03-30 Thread Tim Flink
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:51:04 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:31:58 -0600 > Tim Flink wrote: > > > I think this has been discussed before, but the basic idea is to > > take fedora-easy-karma and add more information to it so that > > karma-giving isn't quite so intimidating an

Re: Fedora QA and Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-03-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:31:58 -0600 Tim Flink wrote: > I think this has been discussed before, but the basic idea is to take > fedora-easy-karma and add more information to it so that karma-giving > isn't quite so intimidating and swapping back and forth between > bodhi, koji, yum and repoi

Fedora QA and Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-03-30 Thread Tim Flink
Now that the student application period has opened, I figured that the test list might be a good place to mention a QA related idea that was submitted for GSoC 2012. Fedora Gooey Karma https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2012#Fedora_Gooey_Karma I think this has been discussed

Re: Some errors from package install in F17

2012-03-30 Thread stan
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:15:09 -0700 Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 22:53 -0700, stan wrote: > > In general, install went very well. Of the several thousand > > packages I installed, these were the only errors. I was really > > impressed. > > We already get automated checks for d

Re: F17 video annoyances, old hardware

2012-03-30 Thread stan
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:46:24 -0700 stan wrote: In my later responses, s/Michael/Bruno/gG Sorry Bruno. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: F17 video annoyances, old hardware

2012-03-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012/03/30 14:43 (GMT-0700) stan composed: Nv should be dropped from the repositories for F17. Only when we know nouveau works for all antique NVidia chip classes. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) T

Re: F17 video annoyances, old hardware

2012-03-30 Thread stan
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:01:02 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012/03/30 07:46 (GMT-0700) stan composed: > > > - nouveau doesn't allow different resolutions on consoles and gui. > > Must be something recent. It works for me pre-17, video= on cmdline > for consoles, PreferredMode if necessary in xo

Re: Weird F17 effect: New gdm-3.4.0.1 presents mysql server account on the login screen

2012-03-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 23:29:08 +0300, cornel panceac wrote: 2012/3/30 Ray Strode why not offer to 'root' user a list of users that can be displayed or not on gdm? why not filtering out by defaul the famous non-human users, like mysql and postgresql? You can change the shells of these a

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-03-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 08:47 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 20:34 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > >> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Felix Miata wrote: > >> > >> > If you want NX for your existing motherboard you'd probably have t

Re: Some errors from package install in F17

2012-03-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 22:53 -0700, stan wrote: > In general, install went very well. Of the several thousand packages I > installed, these were the only errors. I was really impressed. We already get automated checks for dependency issues in the repos posted to devel@, fwiw. -- Adam Williamson

Re: Weird F17 effect: New gdm-3.4.0.1 presents mysql server account on the login screen

2012-03-30 Thread Ray Strode
Hi, > on gdm? why not filtering out by defaul the famous non-human users, > like > mysql and postgresql? We could do that, but it's not a very scalable or upstream friendly answer (since different upstreams might have different account names for these users). It's something worth considering tho

Re: Weird F17 effect: New gdm-3.4.0.1 presents mysql server account on the login screen

2012-03-30 Thread cornel panceac
2012/3/30 Ray Strode > Hi, > > - Original Message - > > Anybody sees this too: After applying all F17 updates (including > > gnome-3.4... packages), the GDM login window presents the mysql > > server > > account on the login screen. Why that? > The issue arised, becase we no longer filter

Re: curious: yum-presto prevents from updating in F17 by yum?

2012-03-30 Thread cornel panceac
> >> > >> /Workaround: UNinstalling yum-presto helps/ > >> > >> > > I got that too. Worked OK with --disablepresto. > > > > -Mike > > There is an update: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-presto-0.7.3-1.fc17 > > -- > updated presto fixed it. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedorapr

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-03-30 Thread James Wilkinson
Michael Hennebry wrote: > I'm not looking for NX. > I only mentioned it because in another thread someone suggested that > NX might be the reason I couldn't get the F16 installer to boot. Actually, I think you’ll find someone questioned whether PAE was necessary (it isn’t, but a Pentium 4s has PAE

F17 Beta Blocker Bug Review #4 minutes

2012-03-30 Thread Tim Flink
= #fedora-bugzappers: f17-beta-blocker-review-4 = Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2012-03-30/f17-beta-blocker-review-4.2012-03-30-17.00.html Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedorapr

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-03-30 Thread John Reiser
> How do I find the most recent image? There is only one Release image ever made and distributed by Fedora, so if the checksum matches then you have the latest official image. Updates are distributed electronically via yum in the repository that is designated in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.r

Re: Weird F17 effect: New gdm-3.4.0.1 presents mysql server account on the login screen

2012-03-30 Thread Ray Strode
Hi, - Original Message - > Anybody sees this too: After applying all F17 updates (including > gnome-3.4... packages), the GDM login window presents the mysql > server > account on the login screen. Why that? The issue arised, becase we no longer filter users less than UID_MIN in /etc/logi

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-03-30 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Michael Hennebry wrote: > How do I find the most recent image? > I'd previously thought that that was the most recent image. Official images are made one time only. You will need to make a new install image yourself or try a Fedora 17 beta image. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F17 video annoyances, old hardware

2012-03-30 Thread Adam Jackson
On 3/30/12 10:46 AM, stan wrote: F17 boots using nouveau for my old Nvidia hardware (MX420). There are two problems with this for me. - nouveau doesn't allow different resolutions on consoles and gui. Why do you want this? If the console text is unreadably small for you, would simply changin

Re: Weird F17 effect: New gdm-3.4.0.1 presents mysql server account on the login screen

2012-03-30 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 09:41 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 14:59:08 +0200, >Joachim Backes wrote: > >Anybody sees this too: After applying all F17 updates (including > >gnome-3.4... packages), the GDM login window presents the mysql server > >account on the login scree

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-03-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Josh Boyer wrote: Actually, there was a change in the ACPICA code that broke a number of P4 motherboards entirely that went out with F16. That was in 2.6.39, and F16 shipped with 3.1, and it wasn't fixed until last month. I have no idea if that is the issue Michael is seei

Re: F17 video annoyances, old hardware

2012-03-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012/03/30 07:46 (GMT-0700) stan composed: - nouveau doesn't allow different resolutions on consoles and gui. Must be something recent. It works for me pre-17, video= on cmdline for consoles, PreferredMode if necessary in xorg.conf or xorg.conf.d/ for X. -- "The wise are known for their u

Re: F17 video annoyances, old hardware

2012-03-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 07:46:24 -0700, stan wrote: I can't find this module xaa. Can anyone tell me where it is? According to http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NDg xaa acceleration is no longer supported in the X server. I don't know if the nv driver supports any ot

Re: Weird F17 effect: New gdm-3.4.0.1 presents mysql server account on the login screen

2012-03-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 14:59:08 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: Anybody sees this too: After applying all F17 updates (including gnome-3.4... packages), the GDM login window presents the mysql server account on the login screen. Why that? Because mysql has a normal shell. I think the scheme u

F17 video annoyances, old hardware

2012-03-30 Thread stan
F17 boots using nouveau for my old Nvidia hardware (MX420). There are two problems with this for me. - nouveau doesn't allow different resolutions on consoles and gui. - mplayer can't adjust brightness and contrast. This is strange since qiv can. On F15 I'm running the old nv driver to get aro

Weird F17 effect: New gdm-3.4.0.1 presents mysql server account on the login screen

2012-03-30 Thread Joachim Backes
Anybody sees this too: After applying all F17 updates (including gnome-3.4... packages), the GDM login window presents the mysql server account on the login screen. Why that? Kind regards -- Joachim Backes http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signat

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-03-30 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 20:34 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Felix Miata wrote: >> >> > If you want NX for your existing motherboard you'd probably have to find a >> > Prescott 478, which may never have existed, and e

F-17 Branched report: 20120330 changes

2012-03-30 Thread Fedora Branched Report
Compose started at Fri Mar 30 08:15:04 UTC 2012 Broken deps for x86_64 -- [HippoDraw] HippoDraw-devel-1.21.3-2.fc17.i686 requires python-numarray HippoDraw-devel-1.21.3-2.fc17.x86_64 requires python-numarray HippoDraw-