Re: F20 Beta TC1 strange naming

2013-10-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 3 October 2013 12:23, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 11:20 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > > > > > > On 3 October 2013 08:47, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > > Shouldn't the Fedora ISOs be named: > > Fedora-2

Re: F20 Beta TC1 strange naming

2013-10-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 3 October 2013 08:47, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > Shouldn't the Fedora ISOs be named: > Fedora-20-Beta-TC1-x86_64-DVD.**iso > rather than: > Fedora-20-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso > > I notice that the spin and live ISOs are all named "Beta-TC1" rather than > just "Beta" > > Yes, I know, a nit. >

Re: A different way of installing Fedora

2013-09-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 28 September 2013 08:39, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: > On 09/27/2013 09:53 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:49:51PM -0500, dkrawchuk wrote: >> >>> I agree. I find these digressions interesting and informative. >>> >> >> They _really do_ keep coming up. What if we create a F

Re: Hwisenbug NFS FLAG DAY

2013-09-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 24 September 2013 01:07, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: > After upgrading from Korora 19 to Heisenbug,the following line > in /etc/exports no longer exports an NFS share that SCO Openserver 5 > can mount. > > /u > 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0(rw,**async,insecure)

Re: howto do test update?

2013-07-31 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 31 July 2013 12:53, Neal Becker wrote: > I see emacs has been updated to 24.3. I'm pretty sure I don't want it. I > have > built/installed 24.3 earlier, and found some problems. Specifically, tramp > doesn't seem to work (hangs), and I need it. > > Any thoughts on how I might be able to do

Re: user list

2013-07-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9 July 2013 20:30, John Morris wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 10:58 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > See, GNOME _does_ listen :-) And yes, this is new in F19. > > They do listen. They don't always care. :) > > And for the record, HATE the new login screen. Impossible to login with > only

GNOME-desktop initial setup

2013-05-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
So I have installed Beta-TC4 five times today and the only issue I keep running into is that the request to connect my accounts (eg GMAIL, Facebook, etc) only showed up 2 times as far as I can tell. What should I look at to see if its dieing for some reason or not? Thanks. -- Stephen J Smoogen.

Re: Fedora-19-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.iso will not boot on VMWare Fusion

2013-04-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 27 April 2013 10:57, Jay Finger wrote: > I'm contacting this list per instructions on > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F19_Alpha_release_announcement. I'll > gladly file a bugzilla for this if you send me pointers... > > I run VMWare Fusion on a MacBook Pro (2011 model). Fusion says "Version

Re: [Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 19 Alpha!

2013-04-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 23 April 2013 08:15, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/23/13 21:49, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > The Fedora 19 "Schrödinger's Cat" alpha release has arrived with a > > preview of the latest fantastic, free, and open source technology > > currently under development. Take a peek inside: > > > > http://fed

Re: Fed19 test days and test day pages

2013-04-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 23 April 2013 08:45, Alexander Volovics wrote: > Dear QArs, > > I would think that having serious minded users of Fedora participating > in the test days would be appreciated. > > The actual testing itself is no problem but reporting the results > seems to require a 'certificate' (log in with

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 19 Alpha Release Candidate 4 (RC4) Available Now!

2013-04-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 19 April 2013 12:25, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > 2 things: > 1) Does the CPU actually have VT in it. The BIOS can enable disable to its > hearts content, but if the CPU does not have it, then there isn't much that > can be done. > 2) See if you have BIOS updates that

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 19 Alpha Release Candidate 4 (RC4) Available Now!

2013-04-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
y to go (at least as far as we know from that info)? > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> On 19/04/13 10:04 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 19 April 2013 03:58, moshe nahmias >> <ma

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 19 Alpha Release Candidate 4 (RC4) Available Now!

2013-04-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 19 April 2013 03:58, moshe nahmias wrote: > I checked the sha and it matches the one on the site, so I guess thats not > the problem. thanks for the try. > > I just installed libvirt-daemon-kvm and qemu-kvm and still can't work with > kvm. > It says that KVM is not available. What should I ins

Re: UEFI testing of F19 Alpha RC2 requested

2013-04-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Tested on ASUS laptop. Box got through install til final section. Uploaded data as bug 949786 On 10 April 2013 15:26, Adam Williamson wrote: > On 10/04/13 12:03 PM, Pete Travis wrote: > > I have such a machine. What kind of media should I test - usb, disc, >> pxe, all of the above? Should I r

Re: headless installation of Fedora 19 Alpha TC5

2013-04-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 10 April 2013 15:30, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 04/10/13 23:20, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > On 04/10/2013 09:15 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> (... resending after subscribing to the list...) > >> > >> I have a workstation with > >> - ethernet connection, > >> - serial connect

Has there been a change in the timeout for decrypting drive for F19?

2013-03-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Hi I have gotten F19 installed on my laptop to do day to day testing of programs and such. One thing I have noticed is that if I don't get to the initial decrypt password within 30 seconds I get dumped to a shell. I don't seem to have this with my F17 laptop so I am not sure if this is a new item,

Re: Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?

2012-12-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 1 December 2012 14:15, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2012, at 1:10 PM, drago01 wrote: >>> >> >> Well the point seems to be that the partitioning screen isn't really >> obvious to him .. tbh it is kind of awkward, but it is to late to fix >> that for F18. > > This is why I've stopped all co

Re: Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?

2012-12-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 1 December 2012 13:51, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012-12-01 17:16 (GMT-0700) Stephen John Smoogen composed: > >> if Tom or others would like to get the dev's attention, here is a way to >> do so... > > > You really think Joe Casual Tester suffering through that m

Re: Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?

2012-12-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 1 December 2012 13:04, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012-12-01 12:47 (GMT-0700) Stephen John Smoogen composed: > >> Tom Horsley wrote: > > >>> In many many years of installing all kinds of linux distros, >>> I have never encountered a more baffling and crypti

Re: Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?

2012-12-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 1 December 2012 12:31, Tom Horsley wrote: > In many many years of installing all kinds of linux distros, > I have never encountered a more baffling and cryptic screen > than the one I ran into when I made the attempt to install > Fedora 18 Beta from the DVD image: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.co

Re: RC1 live desktop checksum mismatch

2012-11-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 20 November 2012 21:19, Chris Murphy wrote: > I've downloaded it twice, and I'm getting the same SHA 256 checksum, which > does not match the published one. What url are you getting it from? > I get: > > 42598cdbddf6b5b2c280adbaccee55bc34541d1547f7a5bcfb390372b40fe7df > > Published: > > 3625

Re: Anaconda and Yum Update break Dnsmasq

2012-11-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 17 November 2012 15:40, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > Today's yum update changed something that caused dnsmasq to fail > to start up. Apparently dnsmasq now gets HOSTNAME from a file > anaconda creates. In the case of the omen.com server, Anaconda > did not set a hostname. Now all o

Re: TC6

2012-10-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 20 October 2012 22:03, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > On 10/20/2012 04:56 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: >> >> Net install failed on libstdc++ >> >> 18.19 anaconda would not install to with non empty HD >> DVD install failed to set time zone. >> DVD install resulted in a system

Re: Latest F18

2012-10-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8 October 2012 18:01, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > > On 10/08/2012 04:53 PM, Dave Jones wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 04:29:18PM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R >> wrote: >> >> > Noveau still fails now and then. Until we get a reliable Noveau we >> should >> > make it e

Re: Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 1 (TC1) Available Now!

2012-10-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 5 October 2012 08:29, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 10/05/2012 02:19 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> I had this with a new system last year so I expect it still happens. >> The "fix" was a BIOS update afterwords.. but I wouldn't ha

Re: Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 1 (TC1) Available Now!

2012-10-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 5 October 2012 07:44, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 10/05/2012 01:37 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> No the one in the installer is usually more useful than the one in >> Firstboot. There is still a lot of buggy hardware out there where the >>

Re: Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 1 (TC1) Available Now!

2012-10-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 5 October 2012 03:53, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 10/04/2012 10:49 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: >> >> my only >> nitpick is that time defaults to local and there doesn't seem a way to >> choose during installation--Ubuntu does the same thing, though they choose >> to set it to UTC. (That i

Re: firewalld this doesn't seem right....

2012-10-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 30 September 2012 23:09, Ed Greshko wrote: > I just started playing around with firewalld and I found something that > doesn't seem right to me. > > If any user starts firewall-applet and then selects "Block all network > traffic" it will do as asked without any prompt for root's password or

Re: Release criterion proposal: upgrade methods

2012-09-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 26 September 2012 01:10, drago01 wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 23:01 -0400, Richard Ryniker wrote: >> >>> Maybe someone with more fortitude (intellectual honesty? discipline?) >>> than I will kill upgrade, and make the world a better

Re: Release criterion proposal: upgrade methods

2012-09-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 24 September 2012 17:06, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 21:52 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > >> Do you know if we keep log in our infrastructure that shows how many are >> actually upgrading on which version they do it from? > > I don't know that, no. I don't think we d

Re: When will the mirrors be updated?

2012-09-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 20 September 2012 10:12, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > yum update is up to rc6 on the kernel, but > > mirrors1.kernel.org::fedora/development/18/x86_64/os > > is only at rc2. When will the development tree be updated? mirroring is a pull technology not a push technology. EG we can

Better educating about what Alpha, Beta, Release means

2012-09-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
I am seeing a LOT of confusion about what Alpha, Beta and Release levels. Several people saw the world GOLD and thought that it meant this was the final release.. other people saw Alpha Release Candidate and got the same impression. Some of this may be user education and some of this is our naming

Re: The new installer

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 10 September 2012 15:07, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. > Something in one of the selections I made had a > missing dependency (or whatever). Missing dependencies > are a part of developmental installs. > > What was most frustrati

Re: Heads up packaging preset feature got accepted by FESCO

2012-07-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 24 July 2012 13:29, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 07/24/2012 04:33 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> Fedora is a Red Hat project with lots of community involvement. I am >> not sure how you keep thinking it is some sort of outside project that >>

Re: Heads up packaging preset feature got accepted by FESCO

2012-07-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 24 July 2012 05:19, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 07/24/2012 10:28 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >> >> - Original Message - >>> >>> We need to pay special attention to the half implementation of the >>> preset feature [1] that Red Hat club that FESCO is, decided should >>> take >>> p

Re: New Anaconda UI initial testing

2012-07-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 5 July 2012 23:50, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hey, folks. So, I've been keeping in touch with Chris about testing the > new anaconda UI, and we think it's at the point now where QA can > probably contribute some useful testing. However, it still requires > handling with kid gloves. So I've tried

Re: How to install some software that requires Python 2.6 and rejects 2.7?

2012-04-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 13 April 2012 09:58, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > Richard Shaw wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> > of which http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/rpms/ maintains Fedora RPMs for here >> > http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/rpms/scribes-0.4-0.bzr2017r1032.1.el6.noarch.

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-04-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 1 April 2012 09:49, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 16:39:56 -0500, >>  Michael Hennebry wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>> Can they be booted without media? >> >> >> Possibly, but I am not sure how t

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-03-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 29 March 2012 11:25, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Has F17 been tested to see whether it will install on a Pentium 4? > Recently I installed F15 because I could not get the F16 installer to boot. > I can get the F13, F14 and F15 installers to boot without media. > The F16 installer was a no go, bot

Re: Pxeboot still broken.

2012-03-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Well more info would be needed for it to be. Can anyone duplicate. What does the error look like etc etc smooge On Mar 3, 2012 2:33 PM, "Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R" wrote: > I noticed a new initrd.img in the pxeboot directory > so I copied it anc vmlinuz to my tftpd directory. > It still fails

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 16 February 2012 21:42, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Just kidding ... sort of. > > I'm willing to bet that I wouldn't be getting a "NameError: global name > 'BRFSError' is not defined" traceback if it were.  (BTRFSError anyone?) > Would writing it in pypy count :)? -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core sk

Re: Emacs "yank" behavior change

2012-02-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 1 February 2012 10:27, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > So I finally got around to updating the Rawhide system after my last round > of travel.  When yum informed me that there were 1300 packages to update, > I got a little worried.  But things actually mostly work, modulo a suspend > problem that I wa

Re: proposal for naming blocker and NTH bugs

2011-11-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 29 November 2011 18:51, Andre Robatino wrote: > The current naming scheme for naming blocker and NTH bugs is irregular - for > example, > > F17Alpha > F17Alpha-accepted > F17Beta > F17Beta-accepted > F17Blocker > F17-accepted > > The word "Blocker" is in only one of the three blocker bugs. I al

Re: Is there a need for more Xen test cases for Fedora?

2011-11-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 29 November 2011 17:40, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hey, folks. I'm working through the f16 QA retrospective, and one of the > suggestions is: > > "might need improved / more Xen test cases" > Does this mean various DomU tests or Dom0 tests? -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators

Re: No more cpuspeed in F16

2011-11-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 17 November 2011 13:43, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 12:06 +0100, drago01 wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Adam Williamson >>> wrote: >>> > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 00:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> > >>> >> Pe

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Final Release Declared GOLD!

2011-11-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 4 November 2011 13:06, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:55:00 -0700 > Adam Williamson wrote: > >> On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 11:53 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> >> > > I am concerned with the process as executed not matching the >> > > documentation. I'd just like to see a change codified

Re: Release criteria proposal: downgrade some kickstart delivery methods from Beta to Final

2011-10-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 19:44, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hey, folks. So, currently the Beta criteria state: > > "The installer must be able to use all kickstart delivery methods" > > This is probably over-ambitious for Beta. We have some pretty odd > kickstart delivery methods: > > https://fedorapr

Re: Unable to install Fedora 16 beta on 32-bit machine with XP dual boot

2011-10-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Oct 7, 2011 9:58 AM, "Al Dunsmuir" wrote: > > Folks, > > I have a 32-bit test machine (Dell GX270, 1TB SATA, 2GB RAM) running XP > (SP3) where I had successfully installed the Fedora 15 beta last release > (500 MB boot, no LVM), and continued to use (in GNOME compatibility mode, > the Ra

F16 Beta XFCE problem

2011-10-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
So I installed F16 Beta on a low end box and deselected GNOME and selected XFCE in the installer. System installed but gdm does not complete its startup. Looking in the error messages in /var/log/gdm I see a lot of repeating error messages: ** (gnome-settings-daemon:1125): WARNING **: Connection f

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Beta Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Available Now!

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:23, Andy Lawrence wrote: > > > I have tried every possible option, after installation my Thinkpad T520 will > not find anything bootable.  I've attempted with only legacy boot in the > BIOS and only UEFI. > I've tried with the normal lvm standards, custom, etc.  My boot

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 16:06, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 16:01 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 15:48, Adam Jackson wrote: >> > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:43 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> >> On Thu, 22 Sep 201

Re: Some notes from fallback mode

2011-09-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 15:48, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:43 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:05:28 +0200 >> Michael Schwendt wrote: >> >> > IMO, it could be much more productive if you also >> > evaluated Fedora 16 development instead of Fedora 17 devel

Re: F16 slowness

2011-09-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:06, Mike Chambers wrote: > Welp, I reported before when had KDE installed that my system was slow > to respond when opening programs, maneuvering through emails, browsing, > etc... > > Well I installed the Live desktop spin from 9/04 with gnome this time, > and it was wor

Re: Release criteria: kickstart

2011-08-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 16:20, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 14:35 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 14:25, Chris Lumens wrote: >> >> kickstart is a very broad area; you can write extremely complex >> >> kickstart

Re: Release criteria: kickstart

2011-08-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 14:25, Chris Lumens wrote: >> kickstart is a very broad area; you can write extremely complex >> kickstart files that do a lot of stuff. So broadly what we'd need to do >> is define a subset of kickstart functionality that we expect to work, >> and then possibly divide that

Re: F16: CPU peaks all 20 seconds

2011-08-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 09:43, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, > > in an almost empty system (only running gnome-shell), I see CPU peaks all 20 > seconds (kernel-3.1.0-0.rc3.git0.0.fc16.x86_64). It seems that gnome-shell > is busy all 20 secs (similar effect like yesterday with > kernel-3.1.0-0.rc2.gi

Re: Oh No! Not grub2?!?

2011-08-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 15:50, Tom Horsley wrote: > I noticed to my horror in another thread today that > fedora 16 is going to switch to grub2. This is widely off-topic and not written in a manner that really allows for either a conversation or a poor response. Here is a better way of stating

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Alpha Release Candidate 4 (RC4) Available Now!

2011-08-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 08:06, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: > On 08/15/2011 11:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 21:38 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: >> >>> >>> Still not installable for me.  Bzs 727966 and 723167 apply and both >>> should be alpha blockers. >> >> 727966 requires cus

Re: Release criteria proposal: stop caring about text mode firstboot

2011-08-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 17:18, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hey, folks. So, Athmane noticed that text mode firstboot doesn't really > happen in Fedora 16, as it's 'expected' to in the new base test case: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_base_firstboot > > we did a bit of investigation and

Re: Any hope for system-config-services ?

2011-07-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 16:10, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 07/21/2011 10:26 AM, agraham wrote: >> On 07/20/2011 09:31 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> On 07/20/2011 11:53 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Since F15 this does not seem able to enable httpd or anything as far as I can tel

Re: freopen() broken in Fedora 15

2011-06-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 22:48, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > The standard IO freopen function stopped working on or about > the time I installed 64 bit Fedora 15 on the omen.com server. > > The attached program is derived from the 1977 Bill Joy version. > It does not display any text when

Re: Heads up: impending IPv6 Test Day

2011-05-31 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:28, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hey, folks. If you follow the trac ticket notifications on test@ you may > have noticed this already, but I know it's easy to tune those out, and > I'm CCing devel@ so people following that list know about this too. > > We're planning a Fedor

Re: F15 - status of /run/user, /dev/shm, and potential for a DoS attack

2011-05-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:41, JB wrote: > > Is Fedora's policy to ship a product that has a known, proven, and discussed > DoS attack venue with this potential implication ? Is this a strawman question or some other rhetorical device. But to answer the strawman then the answer would be yes and

Re: Release criteria updates: desktop question

2011-05-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
2011/5/17 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" : > On 05/18/2011 12:21 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> FESCo, and I believe spins sig also believes it should have a say. >> >> QA does indeed provide services to the entire distro, but our >> responsibility is to provide the best QA we can for the things the >> pro

Re: Release criteria updates: desktop question

2011-05-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
2011/5/17 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" : > On 05/17/2011 11:29 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:17 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >>> On 05/17/2011 10:40 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Finally, I have a new proposal for the issue of 'supported' desktops, which is block

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:55, wrote: > I have to admit, this is the most painful Fedora installation I have ever > done. (And I have used them all.) > > The networking came up as IPv6 *only*. My router does not do IPv6 and my > ISP (Qwest) does not know when their network ever will. In order to

Re: abrt retrace server

2011-05-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 13:51, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Is the abrt retrace server supposed to work? > > I ask because, well, it didn't seem to work for me. I let it sit > "Analyzing" for a good 30 minutes and nothing happened. I've tried it > twice now with the same result. The server is work

Re: Gnome3: how to do it?

2011-03-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 22:15, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 03/21/2011 08:56 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: >> How can I get just gnome3? > > There is no more Gnome 2. Gnome 2 is deprecated in favor of Gnome 3. > Fedora 15 will only contain Gnome 3.0. > > No one will maintain or distribute any

Re: systemd memory footprint

2011-03-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 13:05, Adam Pribyl wrote: > I just checked memory consumption of init versus systemd in F15. It seems > at the moment systemd is taking 4-5 times more memory compared to init > (1.5-3MB vs. 600kB). May we expect the final release to be somewhat > smaller? I know the "top" v

Re: Who are QA?

2011-03-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
2011/3/18 Jóhann B. : > On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:07 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> Actually for the entire email as it comes across very rambling and >> unfocused. Could you rewrite and resend? > > Take three all put together hopefully clearer.. > > There was

Re: Who are QA?

2011-03-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 13:25, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:09:41 +, Jóhann wrote: > >> There was a recent topic raised on [1] with regards it was difficult to >> find information how Fedora is governed and there has been lot of QA >> decided this QA voted that in our histo

Re: Adventures with F15 Alpha et al.

2011-03-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Sorry I missed what is not working. The desktop is showing, but you can't run certain commands or something. Does a shell work or change to console show what might be running? Anything in the .xsession-errors or other logs? On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:11, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > I re

Re: F15 appearance/fonts

2011-03-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 17:12, Mike Chambers wrote: > This may have been discussed, but are the fonts and/or appearance of the > apps that run gonna be changed or get better?  Just seems the fonts are > not even close to what F14 looks like.  Seem dull, not to bright, and > not real thick either. >

Updated: Outage: Ibiblio/ipv6 servers - 2011-03-02 14:00 UTC

2011-03-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
ode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 13:13, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > Tomorrow the services at ibiblio will be moved to a new physical location > > ibiblio01.fedoraproject.org >  app05 >  backup02 >  ns02 >  pr

Infrastructure Outage Notification: 2011-03-02 1200 UTC -> 1500 UTC

2011-03-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Tomorrow the services at ibiblio will be moved to a new physical location ibiblio01.fedoraproject.org app05 backup02 ns02 proxy04 smtp-mm03 torrent01 -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University

Re: F-15 fails to install on Dell 340, but F-14 is OK

2011-02-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 15:47, Larry Vaden wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> How much ram do you have. I think at the moment for F-15 you need at >> least 768Mb due to an anaconda bug. > > 512 MB ECC.  If this report is redundant, it can be disregarded; > otoh,

Re: F15-Alpha...

2011-02-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 15:12, Rob Healey wrote: > Greetings: > > This is probably a bad question because I think I know the answer already, > will gnome*2.91.90* make it into F15 Alpha Release??? > Well lets see what is in the tree at the moment: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/dev

Re: Some IPv6 issues

2011-02-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:46, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:19, A.J. Werkman wrote: >> Ugh. I really need to stop sending unhelpful emails. My apologies to everyone. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not fai

Re: Some IPv6 issues

2011-02-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:19, A.J. Werkman wrote: > > When installing F15 ALPHA TC2 in a IPv6 only environment I encounter some > problems. > > Same as F14 where I already have filed bug 633815, anaconda stops when it > can't find a IPv4 DHCP lease, altough it as a perfect IPv6 address. As I > kn

Re: CR-48

2011-01-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 09:58, Timothy Davis wrote: > I don't mean to brag (but I will) but has anyone gotten Fedora on a Google > Chrome Notebook. I know Ubuntu has been installed on it and there are plenty > of howtos on the "that" particular subject but can those instructions be > modified to f

Re: F14, fresh install catapi-common

2010-11-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 15:36, Scott Robbins wrote: > I figure I'll see if this is a Just Me issue.  I probably won't have > time to follow up on a bug report, since this is a machine I use for > work. Fresh install? Updated install? Using an ldap or something similar for authentication? > I wen

Re: What is this mega-dvd-test?

2010-10-31 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 16:33, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > Bruno, > > I think I found at least part of the problem here. The Downloads > directory in my home folder is bind mounted to an NFS filesystem on an > RHEL5 server. For some reason the iso file is being severely truncated > by that NF

Re: no modue named yum

2010-10-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 01:20, cornel panceac wrote: > after upgrading with x86 dvd (f14 rc1) from f13 to f14, i had several issues > but the worst is that yum is no longer working. the error is: > > "no module named yum" > > after reading the yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq page, i've checked the rpms a

Re: SSH keys broken?

2010-09-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 00:17, Steven Haigh wrote: > In the last couple of days I've noticed that any host that I usually > connect to via SSH with a shared key authentication still prompts me for > a password. 1) Are permissions ok? Home directory needs to be 755 and .ssh needs to be 700. Second

Re: What do consumers wishing to use systemd in F14 need to do?

2010-09-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
2010/9/15 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" : >  On 09/15/2010 08:44 PM, Horst H. von Brand wrote: >> Matthew Miller  wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:41:36AM -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Is this all I need to do in order not to regress my system? I wish to continue to use systemd in F14

Re: QA recommendations for F-14

2010-06-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 08:05 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:48 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: >> >> > > I'd really rather not, it's still necessary in quite a lot of cases. My >> > > laptop, fr'instance, where intel or no