RFE as to list settings, and more: was: Re: system-config-printer adding Windows printer via Samba

2018-04-27 Thread R P Herrold
an earlier send of this may have been 'eaten' as the list as an addressee was in a CC. I do not see it in the archive Adam (that 'well-known poster to this list' has decloaked, so I send along my half of the conversation as well) mentioned my prior communication with him, which is set out as

RFE as to list settings, and more: was: Re: system-config-printer adding Windows printer via Samba

2018-04-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Michael Schwendt wrote: > test@ list must be popular. No replies since April 10th > despite a clear subject! What other list these days would > have drawn the attention of someone with interest in > Fedora's printing functionality? Oh -- I don't know -- for reasons unclear

Re: Live CD creator

2018-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Adam Williamson wrote: > http://weldr.io/lorax/livemedia-creator.html heh > [adamw@adam tmp]$ rpm -qf `which livemedia-creator` > lorax-28.8-1.fc28.x86_64 so the sources would seem to now reside at: https://github.com/weldr/lorax Thank you -- Russ herrold _

Re: Live CD creator

2018-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Adam Williamson wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Livemedia-creator-_How_to_create_and_use_a_Live_CD > provides some help with using it. Good luck! The Documentation link at that page returns a 404 > Documentation > >Important > >https://rhinstaller.github.io/l

report on the Firefox / Electrolysis induced failures

2017-07-21 Thread R P Herrold
This came up in Fedora's most recent testing cycle, but the failure mode was not reliably reproducable, and so did not rise to the level of a blocker. I think I have some insight It looks like there is a missing SELinux ruleset problem, causing the hang ups in Firefox, but not all of them, fo

Getting "error: db5-error(5) from dbenv->open - In/Out-error"

2017-06-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, Jon Ingason wrote: > I just installed Fedora 26 Beta 1.4 Gnome Workstation from > Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-26_Beta-1.4.iso. Then I did "sudo dnf > update" in terminal window: > > $ sudo dnf update --refresh > Fedora 26 - x86_64 - Test Updates 5.4 MB/s | 23

Re: F21 emergency.target when root pw isn't set

2014-12-19 Thread R P Herrold
Chris had contacted me off list yesterday, and surfaced his reply to the list earlier today. This was my response to that piece -- R (Russ speaking, outside of the '>' markers) On Thu, 18 Dec 2014, Chris Murphy wrote: > I'm not sure what this means. I wanted to document in the ML threa

Re: F21 emergency.target when root pw isn't set

2014-12-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014, Chris Murphy wrote: > However, after changing the root password, the command > reboot is not found. And exit causes a kernel panic! WHen I hit the 'systemd wants a root password' issue, I loop mounted the image I wished to boot, and set the root PW in /etc/shadow to a blan

Re: How to calculate priority for missing tests or %check

2014-02-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Adam Jackson wrote: > > Btw the URL field in the spec file should be updated to > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libpciaccess/ > > Oh yes, another useless rpm feature, I'll be sure to make that my top > priority. sneer at it if you wish, but this is a feature of RPM

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

2013-12-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Akshay Vyas wrote: > If we can do every QA stuff without being a part of QA group then > what's the use of creating a QA group How do you STOP people from doing QA, and reporting stuff either to bugzilla or the mailing list? But I think the issue is that at least one eleme

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

2013-12-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > The game is to treat QA volunteers like other contributors. > That way they don't have to also become packagers (or > something else) in order to participate in Fedora Elections > or make use of resources limited to people who are in more > than ju

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

2013-09-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: Really... Let's run a simple query against bugzilla for bugs in the status NEW ( as in not looked at ) and find out the oldest report from our reporters ... What does a count of the number of bug reports have to do with the bug tracker us

Re: Draft terminal application test case

2013-07-31 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: How do you define a terminal as a crucial app for any desktop? Let alone at alpha when the user can always boot into the multi-user target for a terminal and F2? and that keystroke sequence works in a VM across a TLS protected connection,

Really big software installation dialog: Bug or Feature ?

2013-02-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Robert M. Albrecht wrote: I'm running rawhide on a system attached to a 27" display with 2560x1440 pixels resolution. Some application like the package manager or firstboot are running within a maximized window which is really huge, inconvenient and wastes a lot of screen

Re: Spamd won't listen to spamc

2013-01-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: ]: spamd: unauthorized connection from omen.com [70.89.176.169] at port 55566 at /usr/bin/spamd line 1271. Jan 21 02:03:51 omen spamd[25898]: prefork: child states: II :0fw |spamc ... As has been the case for the last 6+ years, the c

Package set

2012-09-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Bill Nottingham wrote: Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) said: Often? Citation appears to be needed. Quick search pulls: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674771 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742618 and for virtualization https://bugzilla.

Anaconda and network-attached storage devices

2012-07-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Petr Schindler wrote: It is a big problem. Lot of things will be broken (won't be in new anaconda for F18, but should be again in next releases, hopefully). ... ... and I hope that the discussion within this threads will lead to some action - for me it would be better to

Re: fc18 Nightly LiveCD / 20120619

2012-06-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Amit Saha wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:09 AM, R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Bruno Wolff III wrote: # rpm -qf `which livemedia-creator` lorax-17.26-1.fc17.x86_64 I tried using livemedia-creator a while back and ran into a number of issues [1]. If you

Re: fc18 Nightly LiveCD / 20120619

2012-06-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Bruno Wolff III wrote: # rpm -qf `which livemedia-creator` lorax-17.26-1.fc17.x86_64 thank you -- Russ herrold -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: fc18 Nightly LiveCD / 20120619

2012-06-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Dennis Gilmore wrote: do note that livecd-tools are no longer supported. f18 will be using livemedia-creator to make the livecds i susoect you wont see the old tools fixed. I do not see a package for: livemedia-creator in bugzilla, nor does my local mirror of RawHide disc

F17: wvdial crash

2012-04-15 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012, Pedro Francisco wrote: wvdial is crashing when trying to start a connection. Modem = /dev/ttyACM0. $ sudo wvdial --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.61 --> Cannot get information for serial port. this looks ominous ... is there a SElinux intercept from some need to re-