[Test-Announce] Fedora 23 Release Notes are Open!

2015-08-05 Thread Pete Travis
; If you want to participate to that degree, great! If not, don't be dissuaded. It's a huge help to have leads and requests thrown into the funnel, there are writers waiting to take it the rest of the way. -- -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - &#

Re: Again? The password

2015-07-28 Thread Pete Travis
On Jul 28, 2015 6:07 PM, "Kevin Fenzi" wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:39:55 -0500 (CDT) > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > > The above is stuff thats all being worked on, yelling at anyone is > > > unlikely to change the speed at which it gets done. > > > > What does "worked on" mean? > > I have

Re: problems with publican on Fedora 22 Workstation beta

2015-05-21 Thread Pete Travis
CC list on the bug, perhaps it will gain priority. [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199396 -- -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanet...@fedoraproject.org -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: cockpit not enable by default?

2015-03-04 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 4, 2015 2:25 PM, "Chris Murphy" wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Pete Travis wrote: > > > > > If cockpit.socket isn't working, yes. > > > cockpit.socket is working, and it looks like it starts cockpit.service > when I actuall

Re: Convert nonproduct to productX

2015-02-18 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 18, 2015 3:33 PM, "Chris Murphy" wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Pete Travis wrote: > > > In my personal, arguably pedantic opinion, this isn't something that should > > be encouraged. > > That's reasonable. What's the

Re: Convert nonproduct to productX

2015-02-17 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 17, 2015 1:57 PM, "Chris Murphy" wrote: > > Currently installed F22 lxde spin, which contains: > fedora-release-nonproduct-22-0.12.noarch > fedora-release-22-0.10.noarch > > But how to convert it to server product? It seems like this should > work but it fails: > # dnf group install "Fedora

Re: Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

2015-01-22 Thread Pete Travis
On 01/22/2015 02:36 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > There's a proposed anaconda patch ATM which would disallow mounting an > existing partition as /boot or /var (or any subdirectory of those > except /var/www ) without reformatting it. i.e., you can't reuse an > existing partition with those mountpoin

Re: Grub and something called ZISD

2014-10-23 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 23, 2014 4:50 PM, "Ankur Sinha" wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 06:18 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > Google ZISD. Look at screen. See "GRUB and ZISD - Cool Solutions | > > Novell" as second entry. > > > > Click on link. > > > > https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/grub-and-zis

Re: Grub and something called ZISD

2014-10-23 Thread Pete Travis
dding for the grub binary, or installing GRUB directly to a BIOSBOOT type dummy partition. In theory, ZCM should only be touching sectors 34-63 these days, but I wouldn't want to fight that battle with the university's IT administration :P -- -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - &

Release Notes

2014-05-15 Thread Pete Travis
Hello Testers, The Fedora Docs group has started work on Release Notes for F21, and we could use your help. It turns out that there are a lot of packages in Fedora, we have trouble keeping up with all the changes. That's where you come in. If you're riding rawhide, testing new packages, doing re

Re: kernel-3.15 series fail to load gnome desktop

2014-04-16 Thread Pete Travis
On Apr 16, 2014 9:12 AM, "Clyde E. Kunkel" wrote: > > With all of the kernels in the rawhide 3.15 series so far the gnome > desktop fails to load. Kernels in the 3.14 series are fine. > > All I can see is that the X server seems to start (ps -A | grep Xorg > returns a PID), but the Xorg.0.log is

Re: Lack of documentation for Fedora configuration setups - NFS example

2014-01-26 Thread Pete Travis
e do open a new bug or comment on an existing one. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1018500 - -- - -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanet...@fedoraproject.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG w

Re: how to convince a mouse that a screen has a diferent size?

2014-01-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 9, 2014 11:30 AM, "Michal Jaegermann" wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 10:37:43AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2014 7:03 PM, "Michal Jaegermann" wrote: > > > > > > Maybe somebody knows a reasonable method of convincing a mouse

Re: how to convince a mouse that a screen has a diferent size?

2014-01-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 8, 2014 7:03 PM, "Michal Jaegermann" wrote: > > Maybe somebody knows a reasonable method of convincing a mouse that a > screen has different dimensions than defaults? > > I have at this moment a specific use case for this. Namely, after an > upgrade to F20 I am trying to configure gnome-sh

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-16 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 16, 2013 1:23 PM, "Adam Williamson" wrote: > > Hi, folks. So this one keeps popping up for individual people, and we > keep doing a quick band-aid when anyone needs group membership...but we > may as well just bite the bullet and do it properly. > > Fedora QA has always been pretty informal

Re: RC1 and UEFI

2013-12-13 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 13, 2013 3:12 AM, "poma" wrote: > > On 13.12.2013 11:02, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: > > > Please provide the name of a command that sends the required > > files to Red Hat when this happens. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_installation_problems :) > BTW don't hesitate to a

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Pete Travis
On Sep 23, 2013 3:49 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > > Greetings you all > > After bit of irc discussion there is a compelling reason to move entirely away from Red Hat bugzilla as well as away from concept of hosting our own. > > Now it pretty much boils down to this. > > 1. Generic attitude o

systemd-cryptsetup and TrueCrypt volumes.

2013-09-08 Thread Pete Travis
orks well. Can anyone with access to a TrueCrypt volume speak to the support for TrueCrypt in Fedora, and confirm that systemd-cryptsetup does its job if the volume is added to /etc/fstab? - -- - -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanet...@fed

Re: Telnet server broken in TC4

2013-05-11 Thread Pete Travis
On May 11, 2013 2:24 PM, "Kevin Fenzi" wrote: > > On Sat, 11 May 2013 13:22:39 -0700 > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > Release-note worthy, perhaps? > > perhaps. > > I don't know how many people are still using telnet server. I would > hope very few. SSH is much more secure and already enabled by

Re: UEFI testing of F19 Alpha RC2 requested

2013-04-10 Thread Pete Travis
On Apr 10, 2013 11:08 AM, "Adam Williamson" wrote: > > Hi, folks. This is a special testing request for F19 Alpha. > > There are known to be a couple of bugs that can cause UEFI installation to fail because there isn't enough space in the firmware NVRAM; as a fix for that somewhat-infamous brickin

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-03 Thread Pete Travis
stay away from absolute 'minimum' guidelines. Those with the skills to set a system up with comically low resources are not the target audience - we want to set reasonable expectations for the desktop user, and guidelines for other use cases. We can steer towards a lighter spin for machine

System Requirements

2013-04-02 Thread Pete Travis
ess to provide guidance and perhaps validation of hardware requirements. Your thoughts? -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanetize at fedoraproject.org -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: [Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 18.

2013-01-15 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 15, 2013 7:01 PM, "Adam Williamson" wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 18:30 -0700, Pete Travis wrote: > > > They are assembled using the repodata on the release media, which > > generally means they aren't published until after the release ships. >

Re: [Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 18.

2013-01-15 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 15, 2013 4:45 PM, "T.C. Hollingsworth" wrote: > > On 1/15/13, cornel panceac wrote: > > Release Notes say: > > > > "For a detailed listing of all changes, refer to the Fedora Technical > > Notes." > > > > Where can Fedora Technical Notes be found? > > I don't think the docs team is doing t

Re: Connecting remotely to f18 in single user mode

2013-01-07 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 1, 2013 5:30 PM, "Gianluca Cecchi" wrote: > > Hello, > Sometimes when doing various types of maintenance for a server,I work this way in rhel based systems and fedora pre-18: > - boot in single user mode > - service network start > - service sshd start > - connect via ssh from another syste

Re: Yum update chnages BIOS setting

2012-11-27 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 27, 2012 7:34 AM, "Ralf Corsepius" wrote: (snip) > 2. dmesg reports this (Here: Fedora 16): > > [ 26.904380] ata_id[762]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument Many - most? - USB to SATA bridge chips don't pass through these kind of requests. I suspect you would find

Re: QQ

2012-11-06 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 6, 2012 4:29 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > > On 11/06/2012 11:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> >People that want to try Fedora can do so via live cd/dvd/usb or in a vm and those that dont need to reformat/repartition and reinstall windows and then install Fedora assuming that they ha

Re: HEADS UP several very old sysconfig files are being deprecated

2012-10-26 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 26, 2012 8:01 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > > On 10/27/2012 01:43 AM, Pete Travis wrote: >> >> >> On Oct 26, 2012 7:27 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: >> > >> > Just a bit of heads up about the recent changes taking place in systemd

Re: HEADS UP several very old sysconfig files are being deprecated

2012-10-26 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 26, 2012 7:27 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > > Just a bit of heads up about the recent changes taking place in systemd ( 195 ) for F18+... (snip) > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test Thanks for the writeup, Jóhann. There's a lot of good info here. Do you mind if I

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-17 Thread Pete Travis
On Apr 17, 2012 9:41 AM, "Adam Williamson" @ redhat.com > wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 19:42 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > > I just dug in. You can use the "disks" utility in gnome3 to mark your > > partitions/drives as automount. This also lets you specify where you > > want to mount them, pro

Re: root= for Fedora 17 pxeboot?

2012-02-27 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 26, 2012 11:00 AM, "Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R" wrote: > > I have been using the following for the "default" file in tftpd. > It has worked until Fedora 17, which needs a root= phrase. > However I can find no information on what that phrase should be. > What should it be changed to? > > p

Re: Fdora 16 beta log me out random

2011-10-22 Thread Pete Travis
I don't think SELinux has any bearing on the driver's ability to properly work with switchable graphics. Suggesting the OP turn it off is akin to suggesting a user run a segfaulting program as root. It addresses a problem that may not be relevant, and does so with complete overkill. IIRC, Linux