Re: Delay in updates-testing kernel package reaching the mirrors?

2012-11-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:29:46 + > mike cloaked wrote: > > > I have been waiting for the following package to reach the mirrors for > > updates-testing: > > > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/upda

Delay in updates-testing kernel package reaching the mirrors?

2012-11-23 Thread mike cloaked
I have been waiting for the following package to reach the mirrors for updates-testing: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-18691/kernel-3.6.7-4.fc16 However it's about two days after being listed as "pushed" and nothing has appeared. Does anyone know if there is a problem with t

Re: Bind updates?

2012-10-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >>>>>> "mc" == mike cloaked writes: > > mc> Any chance of builds of patched versions of bind for >=F16 to fix > mc> the CVE quoted in https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00801 ? > > There w

Bind updates?

2012-10-10 Thread mike cloaked
Any chance of builds of patched versions of bind for >=F16 to fix the CVE quoted in https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00801 ? Thanks -- mike c -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: KDE 4.9 F16?

2012-08-20 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Karel Volný wrote: > have you noticed those three characters ":-)" just after the > sentence? Yes I did see the smiley but it was a baiting comment. > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Philosophy > > Releases of the Fedora distribution are like releas

Re: KDE 4.9 F16?

2012-08-20 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Arnav Kalra wrote: > It took me 3 days to install arch and even after that I was not able to use > wifi, so I gave up on it. I may try again but fedora is much better. > > How do I get to know which person is maintaining x package? I would like to > request packag

Re: KDE 4.9 F16?

2012-08-20 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Arnav Kalra wrote: > I agree with mike upgrading can be very tedious. But I do not think that > installing archlinux is less tedious. The initial install of the first attempt at an archlinux install takes longer than an initial install of Fedora - however once yo

Re: KDE 4.9 F16?

2012-08-20 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Karel Volný wrote: > yes, it's a shame that someone is unwilling to upgrade to F17 :-) > > K. That is a pretty snotty remark and very unwarranted. F16 is a currently supported version of Fedora until about November. If you are the owner of a single machine then

Re: KDE 4.9 F16?

2012-08-18 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: > mike cloaked wrote: > >> Does anyone know the plans for packaging kde 4.9 in anything other >> than F18? 4.8.5 is in testing for F16 and F17 - and yet I have been >> running 4.9 in arch linux from its stable [core] rep

KDE 4.9 F16?

2012-08-17 Thread mike cloaked
Does anyone know the plans for packaging kde 4.9 in anything other than F18? 4.8.5 is in testing for F16 and F17 - and yet I have been running 4.9 in arch linux from its stable [core] repository for a week or so without any problems at all. It would be nice to see 4.9 in F16 and F17 too? -- mik

Re: kernel-3.5.0-4.fc17: interesting blog on http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1596293#post1596293

2012-08-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 01:25:26PM +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > > Hi testers, > > > > I posted this morning an email about unusable kernel-3.5.0-4.fc17, and > > now I found an interesting blog on: > > > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/sho

Re: [Test-Announce] Proven tester status

2012-02-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 18:20:38 -0800, >  Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> As noted there, and as discussed at meetings and with FESCo, I'm hopeful >> we'll be able to make use of proven tester status again once Bodhi 2.0 >> hits. Therefore I

Re: unable to run tests requiring

2012-02-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: > Never mind, I found that the "convert" command can convert XWD to PNG (see > http://inspirated.com/2007/04/02/howto-use-xwd-for-screenshots for example) > so I > can do "xwd | convert xwd:- file.png" instead. I compared sizes in a specific >

Re: Suggestion for bugzilla component - help please

2012-01-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 15/01/12 10:53, mike cloaked wrote: >> >> >> I would appreciate it is someone could point to a procedure to find >> more diagnosis info to add to a report, and also what component I >> should report th

Suggestion for bugzilla component - help please

2012-01-15 Thread mike cloaked
I have an odd problem with a particular left-handed user with the xfce desktop in f16  -  the machine is running x86_64 f16 fully up to date - one user out of several on the machine needs to have the mouse set to left-handed and all users are running xfce as the desktop. Everything works beautiful

Re: retracing server issues

2012-01-05 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Michal Toman wrote: >> >> I've just updated the server so that it either generates the backtrace >> correctly or displays a better error message. Hope this helps. > > > Thanks. Whatever you did made backtrace generation work though. One

Re: updates testing report kind of broke

2011-10-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 10/09/2011 11:39 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> >> Or as intended, because the older reports became less readable due to >> updates containing N>1 packages. Also see >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-October/103410.

Re: Another issue with install and GPT

2011-09-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > I accidentally sent this through a different address, so I think it's > just going to come back to me.  If it turns out to be a double post, > please forgive me. > > > > I'm not sure if this is a bug, or a one time fluke.  I don't have tim

Re: Mock/pungi build failure - help please? - Solved

2011-06-20 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> By the way the same technique used to build an i386 f15 install iso >> worked fine for me in my f14 build machine, so I did not alter the >> basic technique between the two. >> >> I am puzzled getting the failed build - if anyone else is

Re: Mock/pungi build failure - help please?

2011-06-19 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:26 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > I have a fully updated f15 x86_64 system in which I have mock installed. > > I set up a mock chroot for building f15 x86_64 which appeared to work > normally, and then inside the chroot I installed spin-kickstarts as > usual wh

Mock/pungi build failure - help please?

2011-06-19 Thread mike cloaked
I have a fully updated f15 x86_64 system in which I have mock installed. I set up a mock chroot for building f15 x86_64 which appeared to work normally, and then inside the chroot I installed spin-kickstarts as usual when preparing to do a build. I then set up a fairly standard f15 x86_64 pungi b

Re: info new testers

2011-06-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:53 PM, lobo wrote: > Hi All, > > I was wondering what is the best way to get in to testing Fedora as a > proven tester, I did raise I ticket on trac  (#194) a few weeks back but > got no reply yet. Is this an open group or you need referrals or similar > things? I realise

Re: F15 "services" can't enable nfs or vsftpd

2011-06-08 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> And starting and stopping the sysv init script works just fine >> > >  Yes - it works fine to start by hand - the bug is that it fails to > start at boot. YMMV. Thats why some are starting in rc.local after the > machine is up and running.

Re: Mock/pungi error - stumped!

2011-05-27 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:37 PM, James Laska wrote: >> However I have a problem with the build that I can't resolve. >> The machine running the build is f13 up to date, and the command I use >> to run pungi is as follows: >> pungi --nosource --nodebuginfo -G -C -B -I --flavor Fedora --name >> Fed

Re: Mock/pungi error - stumped!

2011-05-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:09 PM, James Laska wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 18:56 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:55 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> >> > Attaching the root.log from the chroot. >> >> And additionally the versions of l

Re: Mock/pungi error - stumped!

2011-05-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:55 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > Attaching the root.log from the chroot. And additionally the versions of lorax and pungi within the chroot are: lorax-0.4.6-1.fc15.i686 pungi-2.5-2.fc15.noarch Any additional hints on a way forward would be appreciated. -- mik

Re: Mock/pungi error - stumped!

2011-05-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:38 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:37 PM, James Laska wrote: > >> Hmm, no idea off-hand.  You probably already did this, but double check >> the versions of pungi and lorax being used inside the chroot.  They have >> change

Re: Mock/pungi error - stumped!

2011-05-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:37 PM, James Laska wrote: > Hmm, no idea off-hand.  You probably already did this, but double check > the versions of pungi and lorax being used inside the chroot.  They have > changed recently, so make sure you are using the latest versions of > each.  Are you able to u

Mock/pungi error - stumped!

2011-05-21 Thread mike cloaked
I have been trying to build f15 from the development/f15 plus f15 updates repos using pungi from a mock chroot. I have been doing this process since f11 days. I use a standard .cfg file to create the chroot with the mock -r command as user with only changes to the repo definitions, and then run

Re: Building iso using mock/pungi but replace one rpm - how?

2011-05-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:04 PM, James Laska wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 17:40 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:58 PM, James Laska wrote: >> >> > I use the compose_tree.sh script included in AutoQA... >> > >> > $ git c

Re: Building iso using mock/pungi but replace one rpm - how?

2011-05-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:58 PM, James Laska wrote: > I use the compose_tree.sh script included in AutoQA... > > $ git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/autoqa.git > $ autoqa/tests/compose_tree/compose_tree.sh -a x86_64 -r fedora-15 -e > lorax-0.4.5-1.fc15 > > This test pulls down provided updates

Re: Fedora 15 Final Release Candidate 2 (RC2) - GRUB problem [solved]

2011-05-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: > Here is what I do: > 1. Download DVD iso image > 2. Use livecd-iso-to-disk to copy to USB > 3. Boot from USB to install on laptop > 4. Select all default option except disk partitioning: >  - custom >  - I create 3 partitions: / & /home ex

Building iso using mock/pungi but replace one rpm - how?

2011-05-13 Thread mike cloaked
I build my own Fedora DVD install isos - and currently I have a need to build an F15 DVD install isp using the latest version of the lorax rpm that is in updates testing, but not yet in stable. Does anyone know how to run a pungi build based on a standard development/f15 mirror repo, but to use a

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: manager is a port of Metacity to Clutter    You call it tablet oriented > but I dont think the UI will  work well on a tablet and GNOME developers > haven't targeted it towards tablets either.   If you want to use a > different DE or WM, go ah

Re: GNOME 3 != KDE 4 (was Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...)

2011-04-26 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > That's not really true, but often what's said is misrepresented as this. > GNOME 3 has a powerful extensions mechanism, and major future plans for > development. A lot of things 'missing' in GNOME 3 compared to GNOME 2 > aren't going to be

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-25 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 04/25/2011 12:35 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 04/25/2011 12:19 PM, drago01 wrote: >> >>> "If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster >>> horse.” – Henry Ford > > >  Far more likely ... if they had been asked

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > This is the case with pretty much any desktop. They're fundamentally > sufficiently complex that you can either have very discoverable (but > inefficient) or efficient (but not so discoverable), and all desktops > I've ever seen end up be

Re: F15 beta rc2 gnome and keyboard issues

2011-04-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> > s-c-k has always worked for me, it may need a reboot to take effect >> > within GNOME. >> >> Might be a tad tricky when running a livecd! > > try a log out / log in, then :) I have a feeling I did - I will have some other tasks to keep

Re: F15 beta rc2 gnome and keyboard issues

2011-04-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 09:26 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > >> I don't know if there is a simpler way of switching to the UK keyboard >> but that seems awkward and user unfriendly - maybe I just missed the >> o

Re: F15 beta rc2 gnome and keyboard issues

2011-04-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:21 PM, James Laska wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 20:19 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:05 PM, James Laska wrote: >> >> >> If I go into system-settings and try to change region I can select >> >> English(U

Re: F15 beta rc2 gnome and keyboard issues

2011-04-12 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:21 PM, James Laska wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 20:19 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:05 PM, James Laska wrote: >> >> >> If I go into system-settings and try to change region I can select >> >> English(U

Re: F15 beta rc2 gnome and keyboard issues

2011-04-12 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:19 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:05 PM, James Laska wrote: > >>> If I go into system-settings and try to change region I can select >>> English(UK) - and when I logout and back in that sticks - but whatever >>>

Re: F15 beta rc2 gnome and keyboard issues

2011-04-12 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:05 PM, James Laska wrote: >> If I go into system-settings and try to change region I can select >> English(UK) - and when I logout and back in that sticks - but whatever >> I do I cannot get a UK keyboard! >> >> I also looked for settings in gdm ahead of login to see if

F15 beta rc2 gnome and keyboard issues

2011-04-12 Thread mike cloaked
I just tried the rc2 live image on a laptop as a test this evening. It boots, and Gnome 3 loads up - and I can connect to wireless. I yum updated the main gnome* and xorg* packages as well as the libgnome* package set - and then set about seeing gnome 3 behaviour. However I have a UK keyboard - w

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Beta RC2 Available Now!

2011-04-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:38 AM, John Keller wrote: Would it be possible to make full DVD ISO in a similar way to the > netinst or livecd ISOs, so that it can be booted off a USB key easily? I > know it's possible to make a bootable USB by cherry-picking files off > the DVD ISO and running some co

Re: since last update system does not boot any more

2011-04-01 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > systemd's native concept is 'targets'; graphical.target is roughly > equivalent to runlevel 5 and multi-user.target is roughly equivalent to > runlevel 3. rescue.target is roughly equal to runlevel 1, and there's > emergency.target that's m

Re: gnome 3 delayed

2011-04-01 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: > mike cloaked gmail.com> writes: > >> Great one!  Yes April 1st is a day to be careful taking in news >> stories!  Any other nice pranks been discovered yet? > > http://skynet.kernel.org and possibly http:

Re: gnome 3 delayed

2011-04-01 Thread mike cloaked
2011/4/1 Michał Piotrowski : >>> Gnome release team has rescheduled gnome 3 for September 2011 >>> (http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2011-04-gnome-3.0-rescheduled.html) >> >> The fact that thois delay was announced on April 1st didn't make you >> think? ;-) > > Some users believes that releasin

Re: Screensaver

2011-04-01 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I already posted a link here to > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Desktop_Beat#GNOME > > I am keeping it updated. I must have missed that - and thank you - that is going to be very useful (it is already!). -- mike c -- te

Re: Screensaver

2011-04-01 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > For changing the font settings,  install gnome-tweak-tool > It seems that there is a sub-culture building up for knowledge to those facilities that many of us would like to know about for "tweaking" gnome 3 - is there a single place where

Re: faced 4 issues with F15 nighty compose 20110311.07.iso

2011-03-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> 2) The user-switch panel doesnt have options "restart" , or "shut >> down".. refer the screenshot : >> http://goo.gl/r9XZG > > This is intentional. If you hold down Alt, a 'Shut Down' option appears > in place of suspend. Restart is consi

Re: Running abrt-cli in live isos for graphics test days?

2011-02-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: > The retrace server is being deployed for F15 right now. This process can > take a few hours, so we will send an update (with links to required > tools) as soon as it finishes. Btw even when the server is up&running it > will be probably slo

Re: Running abrt-cli in live isos for graphics test days?

2011-02-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> There's a script linked from the wiki page which you can just download >> and run and should work, I think. All you really need to do on the >> client end is send the traceback to the server, all the complex stuff >> happens on the server

Re: Running abrt-cli in live isos for graphics test days?

2011-02-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> Is there a pointer/url to using it that I can access? > > There's a script linked from the wiki page which you can just download > and run and should work, I think. All you really need to do on the > client end is send the traceback to th

Re: Running abrt-cli in live isos for graphics test days?

2011-02-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > What we really want is to use the retrace server: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RetraceServer > > I should test using that and document it. Maybe I am a bit dim but I can't find any documentation on this apart from the wiki a

Re: Running abrt-cli in live isos for graphics test days?

2011-02-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> > However when I run abrt-cli -r xxx where xxx are the first few >> > characters of the uuid it wants to download 94 debug files - is there >> > any way I can get a shorter way to a crash report from abrt-cli? >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> >>

Re: Running abrt-cli in live isos for graphics test days?

2011-02-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:50 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > It may be possible to try to run the live iso but mount a partition on > the HD (not normally mounted when running the live iso), and then link > it from /var/cache or /var/spool in some way that will give sufficient > memory

Re: Running abrt-cli in live isos for graphics test days?

2011-02-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:00 PM, James Laska wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 20:18 +0000, mike cloaked wrote: >> I am trying to get a backtrace or abrt report from a laptop which >> cannot get to the gnome3 desktop due to bz 677842. >> >> I am able to use yum to instal

Running abrt-cli in live isos for graphics test days?

2011-02-22 Thread mike cloaked
I am trying to get a backtrace or abrt report from a laptop which cannot get to the gnome3 desktop due to bz 677842. I am able to use yum to install packages into the running live system - and I can install abrt-cli - and I can get a list of crashes using abrt-cli -l However when I run abrt-cli -

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Alpha TC2 Available Now!

2011-02-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > Great. What I usually do is just plug in another USB key and write error > logs out to that. You can mount a USB key just fine when booted live. True - I would have liked to write to the same mounted key running the live image but of cour

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Alpha TC2 Available Now!

2011-02-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:12 PM, mike cloaked wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678418 -- mike c -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Alpha TC2 Available Now!

2011-02-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:59 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> Simplest test would be to boot to runlevel 3, log in as 'liveuser' (no >> password), and run startx. If that fails, it looks like that crasher in >&

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Alpha TC2 Available Now!

2011-02-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > Simplest test would be to boot to runlevel 3, log in as 'liveuser' (no > password), and run startx. If that fails, it looks like that crasher in > mutter is your problem and you should report that (it may turn out to be > a graphics card i

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Alpha TC2 Available Now!

2011-02-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:49 PM, John Watzke wrote: >    What you are testing is TC and not even Alpha so you should expect a lot > of broken things.  Total System Quality doesn't come straight from the > developers themselves.  It gets tested and sent back to the developers to > fix.  The testin

Re: Tried nightly f15 desktop build from today

2011-02-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Good day, > > I am trying same download.. 20110212 > > It refuses to get past auto login..flashing in endless loop. > > Please. Is there some key strokes that I can do to get past this > flashing or whatever? What I did was to use ctrl-al

Tried nightly f15 desktop build from today

2011-02-13 Thread mike cloaked
I downloaded the latest nightly desktop live image and booted it a short while ago - in my test machine it booted but then initially failed to allow graphical login - the greeter was flashing the splash image and no user was listed, and it seemed to be cycling in an odd manner a few times per secon

Re: openssh 5.8

2011-02-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >  I am definitely interested - there have been quite a lot of changes in > the last year almost since 5.5 (april 2010 was release date of 5.5p1) > >  So it would certainly be of interest to get an update to the current > version - > >   Sinc

Re: openssh 5.8

2011-02-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 02/09/2011 09:46 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> >> OK - just thought maybe this would be of interest to more than just me > > Possibly.  A RFE on bugzilla can be posted to the mailing list as well. OK - I have emaile

Re: openssh 5.8

2011-02-09 Thread mike cloaked
2011/2/9 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" : > On 02/09/2011 12:10 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> Is there likely to be a build of openssh 5.8 in F15?  Will it be >> backported to f14? >> >> http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-5.8 >> > > You have better luck ask

openssh 5.8

2011-02-09 Thread mike cloaked
Is there likely to be a build of openssh 5.8 in F15? Will it be backported to f14? http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-5.8 -- mike c -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: rawhide report: 20110127 changes

2011-01-27 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Rawhide Report (rawh...@fedoraproject.org) said: >> Compose started at Thu Jan 27 08:15:33 UTC 2011 > > Please ignore any and all errors from this message; there was a failure > in creating the repository repodata, which led to the assorted

Re: kernel in rawhide (f15) : crash

2011-01-26 Thread mike cloaked
2011/1/26 Bruno Wolff III : > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 08:26:36 +, >  "\"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\"" wrote: >> >> So nigthly spins are out for me until kernel-2.6.38-0.rc2.git3.2.fc15 >> ends up on the nightly spins seriously those nightly spins need to be >> composed of whatever are the latest bi

Re: What has happened to desktop icons in rawhide?

2011-01-25 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Rahul Sundaram (methe...@gmail.com) said: >> > But it doesn't make any sense. gnome-panel does *not* require >> > gnome-shell. We really shouldn't just go around abusing dependencies to >> > make upgrades 'work', even if it is convenient. >

Requests to join proventester group - not following procedure

2011-01-20 Thread mike cloaked
I note that there are 5 requests current in FAS to join the proventester group, but without any corresponding QA Trac ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ The rules for entry require a ticket in the latter to start the process (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Proven_tester for the curre

Re: FIXED! -- Re: Fedora install support for netbooks -- small screen size

2011-01-12 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I just installed F14 on my Asus 701ee and ALL the screens I encountered > during the installation fit nicely on the 800x480 screen size. > > I would like to thank the developers that decided this was worth doing. > > I will note, however,

Re: NetworkManager connection priority - a question

2011-01-08 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: >> Maybe, maybe not. If you aren't testing it, how would you know? If you >> want to bring up a long-standing issue with NM's functionality, which >> affects users of current versions as well as (possibly) future ones, the >> appropriate place

Re: NetworkManager connection priority - a question

2011-01-08 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 15:28 +0000, mike cloaked wrote: >> As I understand it NetworkManager makes connections according to the >> following priority order (but correct me if I am wrong!): > [...] > > Is this

NetworkManager connection priority - a question

2011-01-08 Thread mike cloaked
As I understand it NetworkManager makes connections according to the following priority order (but correct me if I am wrong!): Highest priority is given to a functioning wired connection. If (1) is not available, then connection is made to a wireless AP that is defined or that has been connected t

Re: Request for Fedora QA Group

2010-10-29 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:41 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > conditions for joining the group. If you confirm, via the same ticket > and via this list, that you have satisfied the requirements, then the > mentor will sponsor your request once an application to join the That was a type and

Re: Request for Fedora QA Group

2010-10-29 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Sawrub wrote: > Ok thats too is fine, so how can i join/ be a member of proven testers. > Filing a ticket as mentioned http://tinyurl.com/2czpxok does not seem to > work [please change if not applicable ]. > Besides all please approve my request for the proven tes

Re: QA:Testcase Anaconda User Interface serial console

2010-10-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Kamil Paral wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_User_Interface_serial_console > > Does this work for you? > > "When using upstart (Fedora9), you may confirm that the serial device is > configured for login by examining the output of initctl

Re: Having looked at the real pungi, what do y'all use to make kickstart files?

2010-10-21 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > Hving given up on Revisor, I looked at pungi.py and stuff and see that it > really wants a kickstart file? > > Are these the kickstart files in the spins-ks package (whatever its real > name is)? > > Is there currently a tool to make kicks

Re: Testing f14 anaconda

2010-10-19 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 05:17:05PM +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >> Then I used the script from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bcl >> i.e. the file "upd_bootiso" referenced from that web page, and >> execut

Re: Revisor - I give up :-(

2010-10-18 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > >> On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 12:31 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: >>> 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 g

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

2010-10-18 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > I'd  like to see your setup instructions again. > Here is a copy of a set of notes I created some a months ago - you may well need to adapt for your own use: "These notes relate only to using mock/pungi for Fedora install iso builds, no

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

2010-10-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > I've tried both f13 and F14 (without chroots) running against a local mirror > of > rawhide.  Just did a "yum install revisor" as root and going forward. > > For some reason, the .discinfo file is either not being copied or is simply > mi

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

2010-10-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Gregory Woodbury 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 out with a missing .discinfo file. > > Is there a simple missing step to generate this file? > I'm

Re: Testing f14 anaconda

2010-10-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > What we usually do with anaconda is put it in the ISOs before it's > actually gone to stable, because it's difficult to test it without > someone making images. But obviously you figured out how, thanks a lot > for that :) I felt it was w

Re: Testing f14 anaconda

2010-10-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Bob Cochran wrote: >  I'll try doing this this evening on an x86_64 system. I already > grabbed the DVD iso (thank you, FIOS!) > > It seems a fun project! What size USB key did you use? > > Bob I use an 8GB key which is plenty - it is likely that a 4GB might be to

Testing f14 anaconda

2010-10-16 Thread mike cloaked
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 repo so that it is included in the F14 builds ahead of release. I tested tc1.1 f

Fwd: [Fedora QA] #144: Proventester Mentor Request by Sandro "red" Mathys

2010-10-14 Thread mike cloaked
-- Forwarded message -- From: Fedora QA Date: Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [Fedora QA] #144: Proventester Mentor Request by Sandro "red" Mathys To: Cc: test@lists.fedoraproject.org #144: Proventester Mentor Request by Sandro "red" Mathys -

Re: [Fedora QA] #142: Request to join the proven testers and requesting a mentor

2010-10-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Testing Lab wrote: > I have read and understand the instructions, and will follow the Please will you go back to the original ticket entry in qa trac and confirm the items as a reply rather than via this list. I will then be able to progress your request. -- mik

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 ON_QA Blocker bugs needing verification

2010-10-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:50 PM, James Laska wrote: > Sure, very possible.  If a yum repo isn't available that has the exact > mix of packages you desire, you'll need to provide one. > > So for anaconda-14.19-1, you could download it and create a local yum > repo for pungi > >        # mkdir /tmp

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 ON_QA Blocker bugs needing verification

2010-10-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:20 PM, James Laska wrote: > I was attempting just that earlier this week following instructions at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_build_a_Rawhide_ISO_image_for_testing > > I had success creating the ISO files, but they failed to boot due to > 'unable to find /in

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 ON_QA Blocker bugs needing verification

2010-10-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> Still in >> 'updates-testing' >> (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-14.19-1.fc14) so the >> install images on mirrors won't yet be using anaconda-14.19.  However, the >> posted

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 ON_QA Blocker bugs needing verification

2010-10-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:37 PM, James Laska wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 12:49 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> > I believe we can't really test the ones in anaconda until images with >> > anaco

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 ON_QA Blocker bugs needing verification

2010-10-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > I believe we can't really test the ones in anaconda until images with > anaconda 14.19 are available - TC1? I checked this morning and 14.19 is not yet in the repo for development/14/ Do we know when this will a) hit the mirrors, and b)

Re: Slightly unusual test install case for f14 beta on a laptop

2010-10-05 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > AIUI this is mostly a documentation issue, because the behaviour of > nautilus is intentional (it's meant to truly 'eject' the device, i.e., > completely remove it as far as the kernel is concerned). Yes indeed, but it should be presented

Re: Slightly unusual test install case for f14 beta on a laptop

2010-10-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:16 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > >> This presumes the key is already formatted with a boot flag set. The >> documentation is just not clear enough to be easily understandable >> even by exp

Re: Slightly unusual test install case for f14 beta on a laptop

2010-10-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:16 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > I have now had the chance to try out another install from usbkey as a > source of the install iso. I have reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639718 -- mike c -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.

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