Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Rick Stevens
just isn't any guarantee (at release) that the OM would actually boot and one could squawk it if it didn't and not be poo-poo'd about it. I might be able to survive that, assuming that the fixes for the unbootability (is that a word?) were timely. I'm sorry for opening such a stor

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 9/20/18 12:59 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/20/18 12:30 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 9/20/18 12:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >>> +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip >>> CDs and DVDs ;-) >> >> There are still som

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Rick Stevens
to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ >> >> >> +1 to dropping the optical media >> criterion------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigita

Re: Release criteria proposal: installing / removing software

2018-07-17 Thread Rick Stevens
emove or update)..." Language and statistics are akin to a bikini...what they reveal is suggestive, and what they conceal is vital! Just my $0.02 (in US dollars) -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734

Re: Release criteria proposal: installing / removing software

2018-06-13 Thread Rick Stevens
software" - so > I'm trying to think of another way to put it. How about: "The installed system must be able to install and remove packages, and apply updates to installed packages using the default console tool for the software involved. It must also support downloading packages f

Re: Missing DRPMs for F26

2017-08-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/25/2017 11:50 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 08/25/2017 09:41 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Hi, guys. >> >> I don't know if this is the correct forum for this, but over on the >> users' list people have been talking about the fact there haven't been >&

Missing DRPMs for F26

2017-08-25 Thread Rick Stevens
many people do have these limits and this could present a big issue for them. As I said, I don't know if this is the correct place to mention this or if it should be brought up on the infrastructure list. ---------- - Rick Stevens, Syst

Re: Last released kernel

2017-03-01 Thread Rick Stevens
ible right now I think. Fedora 24 > and 25 are still on 4.9 kernels, they haven't rebased to 4.10. So > there is no repo with 4.10 in it, and in fact 4.10.1 has not been > built yet. Fedora 25 is indeed on the 4.9 kernels (latest release is 4.9.12-200).

Re: gnome-software no notifications, but pending updates

2016-12-29 Thread Rick Stevens
ding the old packages optional (with "purge" being the default) or doing something like dnf's "installonly_limit" thing. Not everyone has huge disks to hold masses of outdated content. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldi

Re: QA group joining process: new members cannot subscribe to list until approved

2016-08-05 Thread Rick Stevens
s. Thanks everyone! Uh, wouldn't the addition of a "captcha" on the signup page make joining up without requiring additional group memberships easier and more bot-proof? That would also prevent the sponsors having to deal

Re: Fedora rawhide compose report: 20160527.n.1 changes

2016-05-27 Thread Rick Stevens
, although "even handling" of a calendar is a good thing, too! :-) ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340

Re: Latest state of Rawhide

2016-04-29 Thread Rick Stevens
t those blocked operations. I can't give details about what has been blocked in the past. I've lost track of the records. I do recall a lot of it had to do with networking operations. This issue seems somehow related. -----

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 23 Final Release Candidate 9 (RC9) Available Now!

2015-10-29 Thread Rick Stevens
runch factor? What are they like? Sounds nice! ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - -

Re: The most recent kernel: Plague of Fives, and fatally inefficient networking

2015-09-28 Thread Rick Stevens
d and what you haven't or what order they're listed in in your grub configs. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - -

Re: Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords

2015-02-05 Thread Rick Stevens
letting them configure the system THE WAY THEY WANT IT CONFIGURED! ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734Yahoo: origrps2 - -

Re: Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords

2015-01-30 Thread Rick Stevens
in what I can do and nannied constantly, I'd use Windows or a freaking Mac. Sheesh! -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734Yahoo: origrps2 - -

openssh linked against old openssl

2015-01-09 Thread Rick Stevens
ssl.so.7 # ln -s libcrypto.so.1.0.1j libcrypto.so.7 I can now run my system, but I'm not comfortable with doing this hack. It looks like something got missed. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigita

Re: fedup failure from F19->F20

2014-04-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/28/2014 04:15 PM, Samuel Sieb issued this missive: On 04/28/2014 03:42 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Prior to that, I get a ridiculous amount of package conflict errors, most invoving perl: perl-Params-Classify-0.013-7.fc19.x86_64 requires perl-4:5.16.3-266.fc19.x86_64 That looks more

Re: fedup failure from F19->F20

2014-04-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/28/2014 03:49 PM, Adam Williamson issued this missive: On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 15:42 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: Thanks again for the help. I may be back for more. I hope not, but the way my luck goes... Well, as suspected, it crapped out again. I get this at the end of the fedup

Re: fedup failure from F19->F20

2014-04-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/25/2014 04:30 PM, Rick Stevens issued this missive: On 04/25/2014 02:54 PM, Adam Williamson issued this missive: On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 11:49 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 04/25/2014 11:42 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: Yup, I have yum-plugin-local installed. I'll kill it off and remove the

Re: fedup failure from F19->F20

2014-04-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/25/2014 02:54 PM, Adam Williamson issued this missive: On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 11:49 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 04/25/2014 11:42 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: Yup, I have yum-plugin-local installed. I'll kill it off and remove the /var/lib/yum/plugins/local RPMs. Now, assuming I clea

Re: fedup failure from F19->F20

2014-04-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/25/2014 10:59 AM, Samuel Sieb issued this missive: On 04/25/2014 10:44 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: I did a "yum clean" which completed with no errors. There is no /var/tmp/system-upgrade directory that I can find (a lot of old systemd stuff though, so I purged that). /var/tmp/fedo

Re: fedup failure from F19->F20

2014-04-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/25/2014 10:25 AM, Samuel Sieb issued this missive: On 04/25/2014 10:12 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: I'm afraid this machine is now in a very sick state and I'm petrified that, should I lose power or something else happens that will cause it to reboot, it's going to be dead.

fedup failure from F19->F20

2014-04-25 Thread Rick Stevens
e machine, but jeeze! Any ideas on what to do? I'm posting this to the test list because this seems to be more of a potential issue for future upgrades. If I should post this to the other lists, please let me know. Thanks for any assistance you can offer!

Re: efibootmgr ignores \'s

2013-11-22 Thread Rick Stevens
in a shell and "\E" is the same as "E". To insert an explicit backslash, you have to double it ("\\"). ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2

Re: A different way of installing Fedora

2013-09-26 Thread Rick Stevens
of me, but isn't this what things like puppet and its kin are for? We do a lot of deployments using puppet. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226

Re: gnome settings unexpected values

2013-09-25 Thread Rick Stevens
s an entry in there for 127.0.0.1 referring to oldmac.localdomain. Also keep in mind that a number of the utilities do reverse DNS lookups instead of using the hostname bits so you may be seeing a DNS artifact here. ------ - Rick Stev

Re: Has anybody else seen a delay in xfce?

2012-10-08 Thread Rick Stevens
e the button but continue to move the mouse the window still follows the mouse and ends up in a place that I didn't intend. So I'm getting closer and will continue to experiment. Any thoughts or suggestions greatly appreciated. -

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Rick Stevens
for you. I know the type. 'I use Linux so I'm ten feet tall and bullet proof'. You forgot "and invisible." ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: the

Re: is the name ok (my reply a bit long)

2012-04-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/06/2012 11:54 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 04/06/2012 11:36 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 06/04/12 18:24, george2 wrote: of the release name will not offend women, parents, and many who are spiritual or profess a religion? No mater how liberal a guy I might be, this expresses a concern for

Re: is the name ok (my reply a bit long)

2012-04-06 Thread Rick Stevens
sense should be the guiding factor, but common sense is rapidly becoming such a rare commodity now I doubt you can find it in some places. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-17 Thread Rick Stevens
, don't we? Neural networking sounds about right to fill the bill. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734

Re: Anaconda .25 and 3TB Drive Oops

2011-11-04 Thread Rick Stevens
t's not letting you go on. Sorry if this has been addressed earlier in the thread. I tuned in late. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ri...@nerd.com - - A

Re: USB Flash Drive fs chk...

2011-10-04 Thread Rick Stevens
vice it is, then unmount it and "fsck device-name" where "device-name" is the device containing the filesystem. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ri...@nerd.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2

Re: Multiple F15Beta bugs in under an hour

2011-04-20 Thread Rick Stevens
RHEL release based on F15 and this sort of idiocy to fly with their customer base, do they? Seriously? -- Rick Stevens -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Rawhide web server error

2010-12-16 Thread Rick Stevens
ich should ultimately be /var/run/httpd). Do an "ls -l" on /etc/httpd/run and make sure it's not a broken link. In other words, make sure that /var/run/httpd exists, is owned by root:apache and has 710 (rwx--x---) permissions. -------

Re: Anybody has problems too with totem in F14?

2010-09-30 Thread Rick Stevens
y're too "glib". Running your mouth off often results in the curious condition called "foot-in-mouth-disease." :-) -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting

Re: dkms package not available for F13

2010-09-01 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/01/2010 11:00 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: >> Are there plans afoot to release a dkms package for F13? I ask because >> there seems to be none available for F13 although the database shows it >> as being approved. Should I simply force-insta

dkms package not available for F13

2010-09-01 Thread Rick Stevens
? -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ri...@nerd.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734Yahoo: origrps2 - -- - The Theory of Rapitivity: E=MC Hammer

Re: f-e-k improvement discussion continued

2010-07-19 Thread Rick Stevens
r > countries. Jeeze, looks like I started something evil here! But I DO so love to roil the normally placid waters of certain lists (he says with a sinister cackle!) -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ri...@nerd.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22

Re: f-e-k improvement discussion continued

2010-07-19 Thread Rick Stevens
Some other names for it are "hash" and Americans sometime call it a "pound sign" (yes, I'm an American). The "!" being called "bang" is sort of self-evident to anyone wh

Re: Proven tester wiki love

2010-07-07 Thread Rick Stevens
positive karma before the kernel is blessed? The idea is that most bugfixes are just that--fixes. Otherwise it'd be silly to release it, not so? It's just a thought. It's the criteria I use when I release code.