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On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:55:33 -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
The origin of (a) I believe comes from the fact that historically
there was a one-to-one mapping between email addresses and usernames
and since email addresses are not case sensitive, usernames that only
differ by case cause email
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 03:26:05 -0500, Build System wrote:
- use an assigned uid/gid, do not loop over user ids looking for a
free one
I have often wondered why useradd does not have built in support for
stuff like this. From time to time I'd like to do something like
add a user, I do not
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On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:27:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Useradd has -r and groupadd has -r and -g options in Fedora/RHEL to
do similar things. check the man page for them for additional
details. Does that serve your purpose?
This is not exactly about system accounts. Looking though
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Every one in a while the problem of repository scoring comes up (maybe
under a different name, but I chose this one): The wish of users to
give different RPM repositories different rights with respect to the
packages that can be installed from the various sources, mostly to prevent
third
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:14:17 +0100, Florian La Roche wrote:
I also got problems if the HWADDR is not specified.
This is because the network scripts identify the card by HWADDR, and
then rename it to the real (ethX) network device name.
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:59:57 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
to grab the fedora-release package from the FC5 release instead. If
you want to keep testing and helping to develop things for Fedora
Core 6, expect for some fun to pop up as always.
Sooo... what are we going to break first?
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:36:33 -0500, Ray Strode wrote:
I think installing gconf schemas got slower with the gconf backend
changes. This may have something to do with things, not sure.
If that is a significant cause of the slowdowns, we can partially
alleviate the problem, by changing
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As I don't have the time to maintain audacious any more I'm orphaning the
following packages:
audacious
audacious-plugins
libmowgli
mcs
The last two are dependencies which, as far as I am aware, are used by
nothing else.
There is an accompanying package in the Voldemort Repository which
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On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:09:27 +0100, Paul wrote:
Any ideas on getting this to work again?
On my system all sound files (/dev/snd) were owned by root instead of the
user logged into X. Don't know who's responsible for fixing that.
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On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:54:00 -0500, Adam Miller wrote
1) Cisco VPN
I don't use this myself but I was told it just needs these rules, so I
don't see a big issue here:
$IPT -A FORWARD -i $IF -o $INIF -p udp --dport 500 -m state --state
NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
$IPT -A FORWARD -i
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On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:58:52 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote
I wanted to draw your attention to a feature I've proposed for Fedora
12, mysteriously called Extended Life Cycle.
Is it that time of the year again?
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On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:16:12 +, Rawhide Report wrote:
prelink-0.4.1-1.fc12
* Sun Jul 05 2009 Jakub Jelinek ja...@redhat.com 0.4.1-1
- add support for STT_GNU_IFUNC on i?86/x86_64 and
R_{386,X86_64}_IRELATIVE
- add support for DWARF3/DWARF4 features generated
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On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:04:31 -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
Perhaps I wasn't clear in my last post. You two need to take this
offlist, or simply let this thread stop by agreeing to disagree. This
is the last friendly warning I'm giving before triggering the hall
monitor/moderation
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On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:42:32 +, Rawhide Report wrote
glibc-2.10.90-3
---
* Wed Jul 08 2009 Andreas Schwab sch...@redhat.com 2.10.90-3
- Reenable setuid on pt_chown.
That glibc explodes on my x64 laptop (everything segfaults), reverting
to -2 fixes that.
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On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:01:15 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote
Jakub Jelinek's comments suggesting how to recover worked for me:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509655#c13
In order to upgrade prelink (or glibc, in my case) without
sinking the whole system do the following:
a)
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:58:33 -0700, John Poelstra wrote
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayPort
Am I right in thinking this feature is about DisplayPort sinks
on DisplayPort sources? Because I use a monitor (albeit via a
DisplayPort/DVI adapter) on my G45 based desktop, and it
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:42:58 -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote
Yes, it is particularly bad at the moment.
For these cases (I have updated to current rawhide, but not restarted
yet, and so far everithing still works) I have resorted to keeping
a root fs with the last stable release (F11 in this
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On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:38:09 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
No, some people (me included) use tmpfs for /tmp , so this would
result into reboot, no packages found (if it did not hit a space
problem either).
Your problem, if you are using a non-reboot persistant /tmp
I'd think that
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On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:39:14 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
But whatever. Just please stop imposing pulseaudio on those who don't
want to use it. For the record, I'm still considering leaving Fedora
because - as a GNOME desktop - it's becoming unusable without
pulseaudio.
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:12:25 +0200, nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote:
GNOME has been broken in rawhide for a week now
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-July/msg01500.html
Works for me. Well, almost all of the icons are gone, but I blame
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:07:03 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote
Maybe you are seeing effect of:
[1]
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/libgnome/commit/?id=3af3f24488fd467472f1f8cc3622481ea48003bf
[2]
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/libgnome/commit/?id=c7ac044820d119ce927b405d0586c5db8291cb82
in GNOME
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On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:13:40 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote
Indirectly, probably yes. There's a workaround for that known problem
posted on rawhidewatch - restart notification-applet (or whatever the
exact name is) until you get the icons instead of the boxes (can take
over 20 tries, for
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On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:11:58 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote
No, we wouldn't consider it blocking the Alpha per the criteria (we
consider only bugs that break the critical path - booting into X,
getting a network connection and updating the system - as blockers for
the Alpha, pretty much).
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On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 12:38:37 -0700, Tom London wrote
Similarly, I can recover the NetworkManager applet by running
'killall nm-applet; nm-applet', also from a terminal
That used to work, these days it works better to restart NetworkManager
itself.
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:32:48 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote
Sorry, I had no idea somebody else was referring to them. Next time,
kindly tell me if you want to reuse something that I put up with the
explicit warning that it will be removed shortly after the test day
that it was intended
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:51:26 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote
Errr. wouldn't that be tomorrow, technically?
No, my isos were for the Fit and Finish test day that happened
yesterday.
Well, they're referenced on the wiki page regarding the NM test
tomorrow.
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:27:05 +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
sharkcz:BADURL:xa-2.3.5.tar.gz:xa
site doesn't like wget, download from browser works
Probably a good idea in general to have the check script fake
it's user agent.
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On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:43:00 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote
You might be referring to PPP which some (IMO only crappy ISPs do
this for DSL) DSL providers require you to use.
PPP is pretty much standard for broadband access because it allows
for some very useful tricks.
Please note that I
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On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:19:36 +0200, Fabian Deutsch wrote
Maybe users won't be aware of the risk or what might happen with their
data.
I'd also tend to say - like John does - that linking a non-anonymous
bugzilla account/email with a smolt profile might be somewhat .. too
much.
So I
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On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:24:18 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
I also think that the reason xinetd came into existence in the first
place has long since passed. The original intent was to save memory
by not having half a dozen servers running. (Remember the early
1990's systems.) Today we have
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On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:41:19 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote
As reported by Jesse Keating and me, currently live CD builds - since
20090918, 20090917 was the last working one - appear to be entirely
broken. Boot fails with 'no root device found', booting from CD or
USB. This will be a
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On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:08:25 +, Colin Walters wrote
In this particular case it seems to me we want it to be a dynamic
property; e.g. if I start an update while on my mobile broadband card,
suspend in the middle of downloading, go to an office where I have a
local mirror, well ideally
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On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:36:28 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote
I'm not clear on how the existing encrypted partitions get unlocked
but I think perhaps dracut does it? I get prompted for the encryption
password during boot.
I have a similar, but slightly different question. I have used an
encrypted
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On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:06:48 -0400, Ray Strode wrote:
Right, showing an unexpected password dialog at boot with no prompt is
a serious bug. It's the bug in dracut I think we need to fix.
Just for my information, do I read this correctly that dracut/plymouth
is supposed to show a
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On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:18:37 -0400, Ray Strode wrote:
Just for my information, do I read this correctly that
dracut/plymouth is supposed to show a graphical password prompt to
unlock encrypted partitions at boot time?
Yes, if you have modesetting enabled and get a graphical splash
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On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:29:11 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote
Surely the way to do this is to know what your workload is doing,
and not do live migration to random hardware?
Redetection of CPU features in a live system is complete madness.
The virt-infrastructure has to make sure that the
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On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 19:10:28 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote
If it's possible to write programs and shared library loaders so that
redetection can be performed mid-execution, then prefer that method
over one which only detects hardware when the program starts up.
I have no qualms
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On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:48:47 +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote
Well, I already know one, cyrus-imapd most probably requires mail rw.
Is there anything else?
Cyrus is running it's own mailspool.
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On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:17:13 +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote
Yes, but you should make the dump with the dump utility of the new
release to which you want to update.
So version x.y+1 is unable to read a dump created by version x.y?
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I was wondering the other day how much space the file information (i.e. the
stuff that rpm -V checks against) takes up in an RPM file. And, going from
there, how much space we would waste over the years if we kept this
information for every RPM ever built by koji.
The idea would be to have a
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:20:17 +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
What would this be good for? Actually for some files it would be a
known bad file hashes because these files (binaries or scripts) would
contain known vulnerabilities and so knowing that you have a file
that was once included in
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:20:17 +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
What would this be good for?
To expand on the motivation for this:
The idea is to have a list of known good file hashes to test your local
files against, if you have reason not to trust your local RPM database
(which may have been
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:18:03 +0300 (EEST), Panu Matilainen wrote:
To make any use of that data you'll obviously need the file names
too, so:
[pmati...@localhost Packages]$ rpm -qap --qf [%{filedigests}
%{filenames}\n] *.rpm |wc
430716 804104 47467960
That has to be databased
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:00:50 -0400 (EDT), Seth Vidal wrote:
You could, of course, just have koji keep the pkgs and then you could
use the existing metadata to grab the header from the pkgs and access
the information that way.
That would be a solution, of course, but keeping the files
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:37:39 +0200, nodata wrote
It sounds like a solution looking for a problem to me.
Well, the problem is being able to determine whether the files on
your system have been compromised, which seems like a sensible idea
to me.
Here's a better idea:
* Host the config
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:40:46 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
In most cases, you can get that information from the original RPM
compared to the system... if you have the RPM :).
rpm -Vp package_file_goes_here
Which is pretty much what I want, just pulling the data from an external
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:39:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Steve Dickson ste...@redhat.com writes:
Because the mount command will try NFS v4 first, mounts to older
Linux servers will start failing like:
What happens with a mount to a UDP-only server? (or actually /net
automount is what I
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:49:17 -0800, John Reiser wrote
Also, it is only recently that a Mac might boot from USB2.0 at all;
Firewire (IEEE 1394) was required for most of Apple history.
My old iBook G3 booted from USB. That was USB1.1, though, which may
or may not be significant.
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:23:31 -0600, King InuYasha wrote:
1: Date/Time stamp, Unix time doesn't work in 32-bit past 2038 (not
really affecting us much, most of us will replace our PCs long before
then)
As much as I am in favour of 64 bit, but that is a red herring. 32bit
systems are
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On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:39:13 +, Richard Hughes wrote:
No, that won't work either. In PackageKit parlance installing a
package is installing a package that does not already exist on the
computer. You can't downgrade (or upgrade) packages using the
PackageKit InstallPackages() method.
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On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:13:39 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote
The 4GB limit is only on processes. Most recent 32-bit Intels can
address 32GB of system memory.
PAE is no fun at all.
Not necessarily relevant, but a win
for Linux (Microsoft never figured out how to make this work :).
Rather MS
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On 28.11.2009 12:29, nodata wrote:
X is *really* slow to me until the desktop has finished loading. So slow
I can't select a username from the login screen unless I wait for a
while. This didn't happen in F11.
Could that be the same as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541878
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On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:11:52 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
manually. Does this mean that the Fedora officially Supports
upgrades now?
Were upgraded installs not always supported, as long as the upgrade
did not take place within the running system?
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On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:35:27 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
The only time my systems have run 32 bit code in several years is for
the Flash plugin (since the open-source plugins don't seem to be able
to keep up and since the 64 bit Adobe plugin doesn't seem to get the
security updates)
It
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On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:21:19 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
In my effort to create a proof of concept for using git to manage our
package source control, I have completed what I am calling phase one,
that is taking our current dist-cvs and converting it into git format.
That's just the
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On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:43:05 +, Ikem Krueger wrote
That's doable? o.O
The copyright holder can relicense the code however they see fit.
What they cannot do is retroactively remove the GPL license from
old versions.
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On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:03:59 +, Adam Williamson wrote
Are you sure this is the case? There are a wide variety of intel
graphics chipsets and not all behave the same. If they were all
broken - especially in F12 - I would have expected to hear a much
larger stink by now.
It
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