Re: Password security

2015-03-03 Thread Gregory Woodbury
This is just the latest symptom that Fedora and RedHat are showing of a disease I call beating Microsoft at their own game. The main symptom is removing choice and forcing admins and users to do things the way the company wants you to do it. Things will LOOK this way! Things will WORK that way!

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Final Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Available Now!

2011-05-13 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Andre Robatino robat...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: As per the Fedora 15 schedule [1], Fedora 15 Final Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is now available for testing. Please see the following pages for download links and testing instructions. F15 Final Blocker tracker

Re: Karma needed for anaconda-15.29-1.fc15

2011-04-27 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:16 PM, James Laska jla...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 13:33 -0400, James Laska wrote: Greetings testers, http://jlaska.fedorapeople.org/updates/anaconda-15.29-1/ Downloading now. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe(proventesters) -- test mailing

Re: Virtualbox upgrade fedora 14 to 15 RC 2 -- video driver ABI error

2011-04-14 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Joshua Andrews woodguy552...@yahoo.comwrote: The upgrade seemed to go okay but on restarting xorg rejects the vboxvideo module so I can't even start complaining about GNOME 3 yet! The error is something like module is ABI (9) server is ABI (10). I rebuilt

FC15 most recent selinux denies shutdown/restart (nightly 2011-04-12)

2011-04-13 Thread Gregory Woodbury
Test installs and updates in VBox guests are denied permission to shutdown or restart by the latest SELinux policy. setenforce permissive allows shutdown and restart to occur. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe(proventesters) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: FC15 most recent selinux denies shutdown/restart (nightly 2011-04-12)

2011-04-13 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2011 03:30 PM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: Test installs and updates in VBox guests are denied permission to shutdown or restart by the latest SELinux policy

BETA.RC2 LXDE Live spin install report: yumex won't run

2011-04-10 Thread Gregory Woodbury
Test installs of the various BETA.RC2 live spins into VBox guests. Desktop: OK KDE: OK LXDE:OK, but yumex won't run XFCE:InProgress the yumex run failure is BZ#695144 -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe(proventesters) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: BETA.RC2 LXDE Live spin install report: yumex won't run

2011-04-10 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Gregory Woodbury redwo...@gmail.comwrote: Test installs of the various BETA.RC2 live spins into VBox guests. Desktop: OK KDE: OK LXDE:OK, but yumex won't run XFCE:InProgress the yumex run failure is BZ#695144 XFCE: OK All the beta.rc2

FC15 Beta.RC1 install test report (not covered in wiki lists)

2011-04-08 Thread Gregory Woodbury
Installing from the Beta.RC1 dvd iso into a VBox VM: XFCE selection leads to missing dependencies (non-fatal) Installed system will not boot, tried enforcing=0 and selinux=0, errir in tmpfs usage. coming next: netinst install -- G.Wolfe Woodbury

Re: FC15 Beta.RC1 install test report (not covered in wiki lists)

2011-04-08 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:40 PM, James Laska jla...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 14:14 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: Installing from the Beta.RC1 dvd iso into a VBox VM: coming next: netinst install This will cover several of the tests listed in the install matrix ... https

Re: Today's GNOME pathologies

2011-03-28 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Jonathan Corbet corbet...@lwn.net wrote: So I just updated my Rawhide system. Items noticed in the first few minutes: - Blinking cursors are on everything and cannot be turned off. I *hate* blinking cursors. They make me Grumpy. - Lots of icons are

Re: [Test-Announce] Preupgrade Test Day Tomorrow(Mar 17)

2011-03-17 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:26 AM, He Rui r...@redhat.com wrote: Greetings everyone, Preupgrade test day is coming up tomorrow! It's available at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Current As you've noticed that install.img is included in initrd.img From F-15 builds, the procedure of

Re: [Test-Announce] Preupgrade Test Day Tomorrow(Mar 17)

2011-03-17 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Gregory Woodbury redwo...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:26 AM, He Rui r...@redhat.com wrote:Let me point to Bugzilla #684054. The F-14 preupgrade isn't patched yet, where can we find a fixed one? Nevermind. I read the Wiki and found the koji

Nightly builds in abeyance?

2011-03-17 Thread Gregory Woodbury
The nightly composes havent been updated since the 15th. http://alt.fedoraproject.org:/pub/alt/nightly-composeshttp://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ -- G.Wolfe Woodbury aka redwolfe (proventesters) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Errors in GNOME installer for 2011-03-15 builds

2011-03-16 Thread Gregory Woodbury
1) The boot.iso netinstall fails with an anaconda error about unique uuid for disks. 2) The nightly compose for 3/15 won't allow a partition to be assigned to root. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury aka redwolfe (proventesters) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: F15 alpha problem.

2011-03-16 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.comwrote: On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 11:51 -0400, James Laska wrote: A side question, does this mean that gnome3 requires hardware accelerated graphics? Yes. No. =) It's kind of a definition issue. GNOME *Shell* requires

Re: Errors in GNOME installer for 2011-03-15 builds

2011-03-16 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Tim Flink tfl...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/16/2011 11:36 AM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: No traceback or messages that I can see, just a notification that i can't put a partition on root. Just to re-iterate (and slightly rephrase) what James said: I believe

Re: Errors in GNOME installer for 2011-03-15 builds

2011-03-16 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:15 PM, David Lehman dleh...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 15:18 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: This is rather awkard as the format checkbox is below the mount point box. You shouldn't get the warning until you click on 'OK', so I don't understand how

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Alpha RC1 Available Now!

2011-02-22 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Andre Robatino robat...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: Fedora 15 Alpha RC1 is now available [1]. Please refer to the following pages for download links and testing instructions. Installation: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test

FC15 TC2 Install failure

2011-02-15 Thread Gregory Woodbury
TC2 DVD desktop image boots and starts the install. The install fails with hugin missing a dependency on pano and won't continue Netinst reports that the local mirror doesn't contain an install image and halts -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe(proventesters) -- test mailing list

Re: fc15 TC1 isos

2011-02-11 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:31 AM, James Laska jla...@redhat.com wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test+AF8-Results:Current+AF8-Installation+AF8-Test That page doesn't exist. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

nightly-compose install attempt 20110205

2011-02-05 Thread Gregory Woodbury
Downloaded the fresh nightly desktop compose for 2011.02.05 (x86_64) to install to a virtual machine. gdm-greeter goes into an infinite loop of fail/restart never allowing a login going in via runlevel 3 and doing a startx brings up a useable desktop attempting install to hard drive results in

Rawhide install report: anaconda doesn't think it's a live image

2011-01-28 Thread Gregory Woodbury
The install to disk link on the nightly compose image (1/26/2011) don't work. I suspect that the use of udisk is confusing anaconda into thinking it's not on a live image and it throws up an error box. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe(proventesters) -- test mailing list

plymouthd error in rawhide

2011-01-27 Thread Gregory Woodbury
in rawhide in a x8664 virtual machine plymouthd spits a bug out on the console about halfway through the progress bars: plymouthd: cannot log startup: address already in use Also the latest kernel in rawhide crashes on startup. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe(proventesters) -- test mailing

rawhide install attempts fail - missing /usr/bin/hal-lock

2011-01-19 Thread Gregory Woodbury
Trying to install from the nightly compose desktop spin: 1) direct booting fails as gdm goes into a paroxysm of fail/restart and just flashes the screen. 2) booting into mode 3 and doing a startx brings up a useable desktop 3) /usr/bin/liveinst fails with an error report of missing

Re: rawhide install attempts fail - missing /usr/bin/hal-lock

2011-01-19 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Christoph Frieben christoph.frie...@googlemail.com wrote: 2011/1/19 Gregory Woodbury: 3) /usr/bin/liveinst fails with an error report of missing /usr/bin/hal-lock Run 'yum install /usr/bin/hal-lock'. You will be prompted to install the corresponding

Re: rawhide install attempts fail - missing /usr/bin/hal-lock

2011-01-19 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Gregory Woodbury redwo...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Christoph Frieben christoph.frie...@googlemail.com wrote: 2011/1/19 Gregory Woodbury: 3) /usr/bin/liveinst fails with an error report of missing /usr/bin/hal-lock Run 'yum

Re: tty errors Booting Nightly Compose: desktop-x86_64-20101120.20.iso

2010-11-28 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:26:53 -0500, Kyle McMartin k...@mcmartin.ca wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 08:08:19AM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: desktop-x86_64-20101120.20.iso (2) Acer Aspire One: Boot Basic

Re: F14 Flag Day Breaks Pan Newsreader

2010-11-07 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.comwrote: Pan on Ubuntu 10.10 is downloading the very same posting that Fedora can't get with no difficulty. Something in the bowels of Fedora 14 is causing two different programs to corrupt data. I wonder what else is

Revisor - I give up :-(

2010-10-18 Thread Gregory Woodbury
I've beaten my head against revisor for two days now, actually patching python code and examinig debug output. I'm retired from programming on disability for a good reason, my head hurts (bad) and I'm depressed and confused. the problem I'm having is from anaconda changes that the packaged

Revisor bug? the .discinfo file is missing in action

2010-10-17 Thread Gregory Woodbury
I've been playing around with revisor/pungi/etc... Everything works up to the point of starting to write the iso file, when it errors out with a missing .discinfo file. Is there a simple missing step to generate this file? I'm sure that Jesse Keating and others in the rel-eng team are using this

Re: Revisor bug? the .discinfo file is missing in action - try two

2010-10-17 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Gregory Woodbury redwo...@gmail.comwrote: I've been playing around with revisor/pungi/etc... Everything works up to the point of starting to write the iso file, when it errors out with a missing .discinfo file. Is there a simple missing step to generate

Re: Revisor bug? the .discinfo file is missing in action

2010-10-17 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 3:44 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Gregory Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: I've been playing around with revisor/pungi/etc... Everything works up to the point of starting to write the iso file, when it errors

Re: Testing f14 anaconda

2010-10-16 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:17 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.comwrote: There is currently version anaconda-14.20-1.fc14 in updates-testing but I seem to be the only one who has tested it ( At least according to bodhi comments) . It would be nice if this could be pushed into the main f14

Re: F14 Release TC1.1 install report

2010-10-14 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:12 PM, James Laska jla...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 17:26 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: Perfect install via hd iso image and munging the f13 grub lines. No errors except ones already reported (e1000e instability and pata_it821x bypass) updates

Re: Harddisk installation fails

2010-09-24 Thread Gregory Woodbury
I was getting this failure on a harddisk install until I removed an extraneous .iso image in the directory holding the dvd .iso. It seems that anaconda is a bit simple when it comes to the hd install, and doesn't know anything about the names of the images, just the .iso extensions. Anaconda

broken f13 update?

2010-09-23 Thread Gregory Woodbury
[...@wolves ~]$ sudo yum update Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package kdepim.x86_64 6:4.4.6-2.fc13 set to be updated --- Package kdepim-libs.x86_64 6:4.4.6-2.fc13 set to be updated -- Processing

Re: F14 Beta RC2 comments

2010-09-19 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7...@cox.netwrote: On 09/19/2010 10:47 AM, Richard Ryniker wrote: In RC1 the anaconda has eliminated the screen to select where to put the boot loader, There is also an opportunity to specify the location on the grub

Re: F14 Beta RC2 comments

2010-09-19 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.comwrote: Try booting all three a few times. It could simply be an intermittent bug which you happened to see on one but not the other. I think all the relevant packages are the same between DVD and netinst, so it would be odd