Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-23 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Rodd Clarkson r...@clarkson.id.au wrote: I've already tried this kernel and doesn't fix things for me. I'm now having (what I suspect are) the same suspend issues in both f13 and f14. It's being tracked here:

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs. / Every OS sucks!

2010-09-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/12/2010 05:00 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Actually, I suspect it's a result of this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630490 until the fix for that gets pushed, in F14, if you use systemd and 'disable' NetworkManager.service, NM will still get started up by bus

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs. / Every OS sucks!

2010-09-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 23:55 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 16:23:12 -0500, John Morris jmor...@beau.org wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 00:14 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs. / Every OS sucks!

2010-09-09 Thread John Morris
So now I lost the only kernel package where everything worked. And of course Fedora doesn't have it anymore. You can pick the original package or the current update. Triple crap! If anyone has a pointer to kernel-2.6.31.12-174.222.x86_64.rpm I'd really appreciate it! Google,

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs. / Every OS sucks!

2010-09-09 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 00:14 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 23:18:00 -0500, John Morris jmor...@beau.org wrote: And of course Network-Manager isn't optional anymore. Oh no, you can't You can still run the network service. You use chkconfig to turn it on. If you

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs. / Every OS sucks!

2010-09-09 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 04:23:12PM -0500, John Morris wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 00:14 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 23:18:00 -0500, John Morris jmor...@beau.org wrote: And of course Network-Manager isn't optional anymore. Oh no, you can't You can

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-08 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Jan Wildeboer jwild...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/07/2010 02:45 PM, drago01 wrote: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=193772 This one addresses some suspend issues so it is worth testing. Bingo! Suspend/resume now works again. (Still have

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs. / Every OS sucks!

2010-09-08 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 23:18 -0500, John Morris wrote: Sorry everyone, time to vent. Bah. This is why I just blocked kernel updates in the first place. Tried updating now things are worse due to a bad combination of Fedora policy multiplied by my own stupidity. I KNEW you were supposed

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs. / Every OS sucks!

2010-09-08 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:18:00 -0500 John Morris jmor...@beau.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 23:05 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:23:01 -0500 John Morris jmor...@beau.org wrote: In my case I reported #573135 back in March and stopped taking kernel updates. In

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-07 Thread drago01
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Rodd Clarkson r...@clarkson.id.au wrote: , there's no way in hell that anything with ~10,000 unreviewed patches Err they aren't unreviewed as upstream did review them, it just does not make sense to review every single patch downstream too (besides obviously

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 23:10 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: If they don't have time to look at everything, then maybe they should stop shipping kernels they haven't looked at! Really, people who needed 2.6.34 could snip rant this is not on topic for this list. please participate in the

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 13:25 -0400, Jan Wildeboer wrote: In my case (F13, x86_64 on a Lenovo X200) the .34 kernel made suspend fail. On laptops I think working suspend/resume should be blocker for release. It It isn't. We can't possibly guarantee suspend/resume will work on all laptops in

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-07 Thread Jan Wildeboer
On 09/07/2010 02:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: It isn't. We can't possibly guarantee suspend/resume will work on all laptops in anything like a reasonable timeframe. if we set this as a release criterion, we would likely never release. So we don't. Understood. It is however a royal PITA ;-)

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-07 Thread drago01
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Jan Wildeboer jwild...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/07/2010 02:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: It isn't. We can't possibly guarantee suspend/resume will work on all laptops in anything like a reasonable timeframe. if we set this as a release criterion, we would likely

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 14:36 +0200, Jan Wildeboer wrote: On 09/07/2010 02:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: It isn't. We can't possibly guarantee suspend/resume will work on all laptops in anything like a reasonable timeframe. if we set this as a release criterion, we would likely never

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-06 Thread Richard Ryniker
In my case (F13, x86_64 on a Lenovo X200) the .34 kernel made suspend fail. On laptops I think working suspend/resume should be blocker for release. It worked before, hence it is a regression. F13 was released with a .33 kernel, therefore the question of blocking the F13 release for this reason

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-06 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:19:04 +1000 Rodd Clarkson r...@clarkson.id.au wrote: Might I ask what great good has come from this? Here's a list of bugs that were fixed by the 2.6.34 update and not by any specific fixes added by Fedora: 611123 - 2.6.33.5-124 on Dell E521 does not work with OCZ

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-06 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:23:01 -0500 John Morris jmor...@beau.org wrote: In my case I reported #573135 back in March and stopped taking kernel updates. In another month or so I'll boot a live USB stick of F14 and see if the bug was fixed and just didn't get closed. Then it is either suck it up

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-06 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:10:11 -0400 Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: If they don't have time to look at everything, then maybe they should stop shipping kernels they haven't looked at! Really, people who needed 2.6.34 could pull it from updates-untested and the rest of us could have

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-05 Thread Richard Ryniker
Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: If they don't have time to look at everything, then maybe they should stop shipping kernels they haven't looked at! Really, people who needed 2.6.34 could pull it from updates-untested and the rest of us could have working systems. Back in the FC3-4-5-6

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-05 Thread Jan Wildeboer
In my case (F13, x86_64 on a Lenovo X200) the .34 kernel made suspend fail. On laptops I think working suspend/resume should be blocker for release. It worked before, hence it is a regression. Note that I am not running rawhide. Just plain F13 with its support promise. Suspend/Resume failing

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:12 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: It is however, perfectly reasonable to expect that having tried a kernel at the request of a fedora developer on fedora-test-list and then having filed a bug against said kernel reporting problems, that someone

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-04 Thread Antonio Olivares
- Original Message From: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com To: For testers of Fedora development releases test@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Sat, September 4, 2010 10:10:11 PM Subject: Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs. Adam Williamson wrote: On

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread Matthias Runge
On 02/09/10 03:58, Adam Williamson wrote: Because there are always suspend issues, kernel team doesn't consider suspend problems a blocker for release. This is really sad; just a few Fedora releases suspended and resumed fine right of the box on my T43 Thinkpad, F 13 belonged to them. I really

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:55 PM, pbrobin...@gmail.com pbrobin...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Rodd Clarkson r...@clarkson.id.au wrote: My system suspends and resumes fine on f13 with the 2.6.33 kernels, so it isn't unreasonable to expect this functionality to continue on a

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread Matthias Runge
On 02/09/10 08:29, Rodd Clarkson wrote: Anyhow, what a waste of time all around. I spend a couple of painful hours booting and rebooting my system to try and isolate this bug and the developers couldn't take two minutes to mention that they needed to post the kernel and that they would

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread Rodd Clarkson
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Matthias Runge mru...@matthias-runge.dewrote: Although I think, this is the wrong way, putting exclude=kernel-* in your /etc/yum.conf will exclude the kernel from updating. Thanks Matthias, I don't like excluding kernels either, but I don't need to be adding

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread Andre Robatino
Rodd Clarkson rodd at clarkson.id.au writes: Ah, and here I guess lies the problem.  The email from the fedora engineers (some weeks ago) quite clearly stated not to give this kernel karma points so that it didn't get pushed until they were sure it wouldn't cause issues, so I haven't been

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread Dennis J.
On 09/02/2010 04:18 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:12 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: It is however, perfectly reasonable to expect that having tried a kernel at the request of a fedora developer on fedora-test-list and then having filed a bug against said kernel reporting

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread cornel panceac
2010/9/2 Dennis J. denni...@conversis.de On 09/02/2010 04:18 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:12 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: It is however, perfectly reasonable to expect that having tried a kernel at the request of a fedora developer on fedora-test-list and then

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread drago01
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Rodd Clarkson r...@clarkson.id.au wrote: Anyhow, what a waste of time all around.  I spend a couple of painful hours booting and rebooting my system to try and isolate this bug and the developers couldn't take two minutes to mention that they needed to post the

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/02/2010 09:56 AM, Dennis J. wrote: I think the question is how regressions are prioritized. For me the issue is that my Radeon card has been working perfectly on F11 but had a major performance regression with F12 that makes the system too slow for regular use. I filed a bug with lots

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread Dennis J.
On 09/02/2010 12:35 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: To actually see the extent and identifying problem(s) and regressions ( you could notice reporting trends with components ) and deal with it accordingly we need to gather and make public bugzilla stats for components. Making those stats

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread drago01
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Dennis J. denni...@conversis.de wrote: 2. Regressions can be easier to fix because you have a known to work case you can use as a comparison. If bugs could be flagged as regression then developers you potentially look at these first right after the regressions

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread cornel panceac
2010/9/2 drago01 drag...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Dennis J. denni...@conversis.de wrote: 2. Regressions can be easier to fix because you have a known to work case you can use as a comparison. If bugs could be flagged as regression then developers you potentially look at

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread drago01
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:27 PM, cornel panceac cpanc...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/9/2 drago01 drag...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Dennis J. denni...@conversis.de wrote: 2. Regressions can be easier to fix because you have a known to work case you can use as a comparison. If

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread Dennis J.
On 09/02/2010 02:39 PM, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:27 PM, cornel panceaccpanc...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/9/2 drago01drag...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Dennis J.denni...@conversis.de wrote: 2. Regressions can be easier to fix because you have a known to work

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread Scott Doty
On 09/02/2010 11:16 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: There's no guarantee the bug will get closed even if the problem is fixed, unless someone else has the same hardware as you and is testing. A fix may come down from upstream without being recognized specifically as a fix for this particular

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:09 -0700, Scott Doty wrote: Anyway, I could say more -- but I've probably already shown how bananas my ideas can be. It's not bananas, it's just a lot of work that no-one's done yet - well, actually, it's implemented quite well in Launchpad, but most things don't use

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-02 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 14:17 +0200, Dennis J. wrote: What I would like to see is a distinction between regressions and other bugs. There are a least two reasons why this might be worthwhile: 1. Regressions break functionality that has been known to work previously and the users already

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-01 Thread Gerry Tool
On 09/01/2010 09:12 PM, Rodd Clarkson wrote: On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:00 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: Hi all,

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:12 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: It is however, perfectly reasonable to expect that having tried a kernel at the request of a fedora developer on fedora-test-list and then having filed a bug against said kernel reporting problems, that someone might actually have a

Re: Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

2010-09-01 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Rodd Clarkson r...@clarkson.id.au wrote: On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:00 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: Hi all, Why was kernel-2.6.34.x pushed to updates in f13 when three people had