Re: A question about allow_unconfined_mmap_low in f11 amd selinux

2009-11-10 Thread Mike Cloaked
Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com writes: definitely still getting the error with any Wine application with mmap_low_allowed set to 0. selinux-policy-3.6.32-41.fc12.noarch The name has changed between RHEL5 - allow_unconfined_mmap_low and F12 - mmap_low_allowed The meaning

Re: A question about allow_unconfined_mmap_low in f11 amd selinux

2009-11-10 Thread Mike Cloaked
Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com writes: The name has changed between RHEL5 - allow_unconfined_mmap_low and F12 - mmap_low_allowed The meaning has also changed in RHEL5 unconfined domains are allowed to mmap_low if the boolean is set. vbetool and wine are allowed whether or

Re: A question about allow_unconfined_mmap_low in f11 amd selinux

2009-11-05 Thread Mike Cloaked
Mike Cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com writes: Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com writes: On 11/04/2009 10:23 AM, mike cloaked wrote: By moving forward do you mean that one can, in f11, reset the original boolean and set boolean mmap_low_allowed instead, in a forthcoming

Re: Re: A question about allow_unconfined_mmap_low in f11 amd selinux

2009-11-04 Thread mike cloaked
Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com writes: You can run with SELinux in enforcement. mmap_low_allowed is the name of the boolean moving forward. By moving forward do you mean that one can, in f11, reset the original boolean and set boolean mmap_low_allowed instead, in a forthcoming policy

A question about allow_unconfined_mmap_low in f11 amd selinux

2009-11-03 Thread Mike Cloaked
For people running wine or Crossover and using MS Office 2003 and related codes it is necessary to do: # setsebool -P allow_unconfined_mmap_low 1 To prevent AVC denials. However there is recent publicity at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/ which highlights that

How can I get a response on a specific bz report concerning sane-backends?

2009-10-19 Thread Mike Cloaked
Two weeks ago I reported https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527137 Since this could well affect quite a few people with scanners of various flavours I though that some response to the report might have been seen on the above link by now. Am I barking up the wrong tree or is my diagnosis

Re: How can I get a response on a specific bz report concerning sane-backends?

2009-10-19 Thread Mike Cloaked
Mike Cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com writes: How does one know if the maintainer concerned has seen the report, and if there is no action following up on the bz, how does one ask for a second maintainer to have a look at it? I was not aware the maintainer was away - this is now answered

Re: Thunderbird 3.0rc1

2009-10-19 Thread Mike Cloaked
Mike Cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com writes: Will a build of Thunderbird 3.0rc1 be pushed to updates-testing for F11 when it is released? From MozillaWiki I note that the plan is: Start build: 3rd November (est 10th Nov) so this will likely be around 3 weeks away. I just started

Re: Thunderbird 3.0rc1

2009-10-19 Thread Mike Cloaked
Julian Sikorski belegdol at gmail.com writes: Will a build of Thunderbird 3.0rc1 be pushed to updates-testing for F11 when it is released? What makes you think it won't? Julian I did wonder what the process would be after all the kerfuffle with TB3.0b4 I presume that it will go out

Status of touchpad support in F12 for kdm?

2009-10-18 Thread Mike Cloaked
In F11 every laptop I installed had support for the touchpad under Gnome, but in order to have touchpad tap action at the greeter stage in kdm I need to put in place a suitable hal/fdi file. Is touchpad support in kdm going to be available by default in F12? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: Status of touchpad support in F12 for kdm?

2009-10-18 Thread Mike Cloaked
drago01 drago01 at gmail.com writes: No, tapping is disabled by default distrowide, there's nothing KDM can or should do about this. This is an intentional decision by the upstream Well it can enable it via input properties (configuration interface for xorg input drivers). Using the

Re: Status of touchpad support in F12 for kdm?

2009-10-18 Thread Mike Cloaked
Matěj Cepl mcepl at redhat.com writes: I have no experience with KDE, but in Gnome I have it set in the Gnome configuration (not sure whether it works in gdm). Otherwise /etc/hal/fdi file is your safest bet. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration has some more information

Thunderbird 3.0rc1

2009-10-18 Thread Mike Cloaked
Will a build of Thunderbird 3.0rc1 be pushed to updates-testing for F11 when it is released? From MozillaWiki I note that the plan is: Start build: 3rd November (est 10th Nov) so this will likely be around 3 weeks away. Thanks -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-16 Thread Mike Cloaked
Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com writes: Anyway, by PackageKit we really mean kpackagekit and gnome-packagekit, as the PackageKit bits are already usable, e.g. * Enable this testing repo * Get the updates from this repo * Install them * Wait a week * Ask user for feedback, and point

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-14 Thread Mike Cloaked
Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org writes: problems was known then reversing the release was not really an option. Why not? The maintainer says it is a option and it is definitely feasible to release a update that disables these couple of features by default rather than make

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-14 Thread Mike Cloaked
Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com writes: I hope a thunderbird update is being prepared, to make 2 config tweaks for F11? And a warning / release note for F12 users, noting that a __lot__ of additional disk space is required in ~/.thunderbird. Jeff Hopefully the default will be

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-14 Thread Mike Cloaked
Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org writes: Anyway, this debate is essentially over at this point since a update with the defaults changed is being pushed out. http://mether.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/thunderbird-problem-gets-fixed/ Rahul OK - I hope this runs smoothly and

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-14 Thread Mike Cloaked
Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com writes: And that's a people problem more than a process problem. If nobody tests it in updates-testing, then how is the maintainer to know that it is problematic? Certainly not solvable with even more repos for testing content... You let me know

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-13 Thread Mike Cloaked
Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com writes: The UI change was obvious, but as it was upstream's decision, and we follow upstream, didn't think much of it. In retrospect, we should have considered undoing that change. We are looking into that now. Not everyone had issues with the

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-13 Thread Mike Cloaked
Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org writes: The general attitude in this thread (not you) and elsewhere that it was ok to cause problems was worrying me. Thanks for looking into this problem. Rahul I am not sure that there is evidence for that! I think that some people were

Thunderbird 3.0pre?

2009-09-27 Thread mike cloaked
Is there any chance there will be a build of Thunderbird 3.0PRE in Koji soon? It would be nice to see a build for F11 and F12 as I believe there are significant fixes compared to 3.0beta 4 in the 3.0pre build. -- mike -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Re: Thunderbird 3.0pre?

2009-09-27 Thread mike cloaked
Drag01 wrote like? Well someone I know has had dreadful problems with the x64 version of b4 build for F11 from updates-testing - with huge memory usage and never completed the re-indexing process - in the end it hung the machine completely. He took 3.0pre from the mozilla download site and it

Re: Graphics Test Week (ATI, NVIDIA and Intel graphics Test Days)

2009-09-09 Thread mike cloaked
Tomorrow - 2009-09-09 - is ATI/AMD Radeon graphics card Test Day (1). I have been trying to follow the procedure to get the liveusb key to boot - but changing the kernel line to either of root=live:LABEL=F12-Snap1-i686-Live to: root=live:LABEL=F12-i686 or to LABEL=LIVE won't work for me! I

Re: Re: Graphics Test Week (ATI, NVIDIA and Intel graphics Test Days)

2009-09-09 Thread mike cloaked
Bob Arendt wrote: Try using /sbin/dosfslabel or /sbin/e2label to read the actual label. Then use that for the label on the boot line. Bingo! That works - excellent - I think I will add this to the reference page - others will doubtless be bitten by this also. Now I hope I can test later this

Re: Re: Snapshot Label bug (was Graphics Test Week)

2009-09-09 Thread mike cloaked
Bob Arendt wrote: Glad it helped. I tried out the Snapshot 1 liveusb, and was puzzled when it didn't work; My original post to those bugs was based on /sbin/dosfslabel (it was a vfat stick). I'm curious - what *was* the label reported? How did you create your live boot? I'd used the

Re: Re: Snapshot Label bug (was Graphics Test Week)

2009-09-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:55 PM, mike cloakedmike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: The live usbkey was created with the livecd-iso-to-disk command as per the Fedora wiki, from within a running F11 system (up to date). I had previously labelled the stick using e2label (if I remember correctly!)

Re: bind-chroot in F11

2009-06-14 Thread mike cloaked
Mike Cloaked wrote: In F11 the contents contain /var/named/chroot and within this directory are /dev containing file null, random and zero and /etc containing file localtime and nothing else. This is surely a packing error since the bind-chroot package should install the proper chrooted directory

bind-chroot in F11

2009-06-13 Thread mike cloaked
I checked the contents of the bind-chroot package in both F10 and f11 - as I was puzzled about running bind-chroot since things seemed rather different to previous behaviour. In F11 the contents contain /var/named/chroot and within this directory are /dev containing file null, random and zero