Re: Looking for pointers how to set up lzma stream using xz-devel

2010-01-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 13:37:17 -0800, John Reiser jrei...@bitwagon.com wrote: On 01/04/2010 10:18 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:57:54 -0600, Jon Cieslal...@jcomserv.net wrote: I've actually come across this WRT UPX as well. https://bugzilla.redhat.com

Re: Looking for pointers how to set up lzma stream using xz-devel

2010-01-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:57:54 -0600, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net wrote: I've actually come across this WRT UPX as well. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501636 From what I can tell. . .we may be stuck unless someone wants to write some docs. I am going to get

Re: How did I end up as the package owner for emacs?

2010-01-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 22:53:26 +0100, Karel Klic kk...@redhat.com wrote: Nonetheless, I am also interested in how to change the owner to certain person from the list of package maintainers. I think the right way to fix this is to file a ticket with infrastructure. -- fedora-devel-list

Looking for pointers how to set up lzma stream using xz-devel

2010-01-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
I am working on getting squashfs-tools 4.1 in rawhide. It has wrapper functions that are set up to use streaming compression/uncompression from the LZMA SDK 4.65 library. Currently the LZMA SDK 4.32 library is in Fedora, but is no longer supported upstream and is not compatible with 4.65. I

Re: Installation plays hardball

2010-01-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 20:10:37 +1030, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: The only advantage I found for using LVM on my laptop was encryption. I could have the encompassing LVM volume encrypted, and as many partitions as I liked, and only have to unlock the outer container. Using

Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 05:09:21 -0700, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: Actually, I found these to be rather easy to handle when I set up my own repositories using mrepo and each computer was installed via kickstart which configured it to use the local repo(s) which also included

Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 18:12:03 -0600, Robert E. Martin, VCM Network rob...@vcmnetwork.com wrote: I am somewhat confused. I thought that as an open sourced OS, it was a free license, which included the applications in the repositories. What am I missing? Some things are supported by free

Re: Fedora 11 network share browsing using Natuilus with Samba - Fixed?

2010-01-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 18:54:13 -0500, KC8LDO kc8...@arrl.net wrote: Anybody care to comment about this? You can also run your own caching resolver. Less ISPs mess with DNS packets than have bogus resolvers. It not just returning bogus addresses instead of nxdomain, but also bogus TTLs

Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 13:33:24 -0600, The hurdle is that Linux usage is very foreign to the average consumer and SMB. Linux is an entirely different system to navigate and administrate. The layout, description and deployment of applications is in whole different paradigm. Fedora has many

Re: rawhide report: 20091231 changes

2009-12-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 13:16:18 +, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:52:49PM +, Rawhide Report wrote: [...] I got half way through doing these yesterday, but a combination of being distracted and a mistake in my script means I forgot some. One

Re: GRUB2?

2009-12-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 22:43:57 +0100, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: The upstart directory of 9.10 is /etc/init (whereas it was /etc/event.d in 9.04 as it is in Fedora). Note this has changed in rawhide and no auto conversion is done. So if you have custom upstart scripts they will

Re: Disk druid within gnome?

2009-12-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 08:42:18 -0500, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: Is disk druid available for partitioning (and formating) a USB attached drive while running fedora? I didn't find it doing a yum search for druid. I have a 120Gb drive in a USB housing and I want to delete

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 08:00:13 -0600, Dave Ihnat dih...@dminet.com wrote: It's only marginally harder on a Linux system; just boot with the distro disk. Provided you know the password for the luks device / is on. And that you know the bios password to let you boot off alternate media or

Re: What to install to get a BCM4312 up and running on F12

2009-12-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 15:18:31 -0500, Randy Yates ya...@ieee.org wrote: I'm trying to help someone get their netbook wireless up. Is there a package(s) that would accomplish this? Also, is there a how to on this somewhere that's up-to-date for F12? Have you tried it? Some broadcom chips

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora 12 Live CD creation error : Unable to run ['/usr/bin/passwd', '-d', 'root']!

2009-12-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 19:33:30 +0530, Nirmal A nirmal@gmail.com wrote: I'm using Fedora 12 and I'm trying to create a liveCD using the following command (logged in as root user) *livecd-creator -c fedora-live-base.ks* Following error is seen. Installing: perl-Digest-SHA1

Re: realtex 8172 / 8192

2009-12-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:10:42 -0500, Mail Lists li...@sapience.com wrote: As posted on fedora-list (sorry for x-post) A friend of mine has a lenovo with a RT 8172 wireless ... neither ubuntu 9.10 nor f12 seems to support this. Seems its available in 2.6.32 ... Ok - so

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Pointers to live usb using super floppy format

2009-12-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:50:37 +, Marc Herbert marc.herb...@gmail.com wrote: Have a look at makebootfat. Something like this maybe (some details and options skipped for clarity) I ended up making superfloppies for the gifts. That didn't work for hp 8200s (though there is a firmware

Re: How many people need to use the proprietary nvidia driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

2009-12-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 07:28:56 -0700, Greg Woods wo...@ucar.edu wrote: At work, I have an old Dell monitor that doesn't do EDID, and I can't get nouveau to do anything better than 1024x768 on it even if I use system-config-display to tell it that the monitor is a 1920x1080 flat panel

Re: New covenant published

2009-12-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 15:14:40 -0600, Sir Gallantmon ngomp...@gmail.com wrote: Then I guess we shouldn't have AJAX either, since Microsoft developed one of the core technologies behind AJAX. And for the running foreign code on your machine adds extra risk above just running a complicated

Re: Kernel security update required or not?

2009-12-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:56:26 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7...@cox.net wrote: does adding nomodeset to kernel parm line in grub.conf work? It gets me back to the other problem. So yeah it does seem like we are seeing the same thing. I update the bug to mention this. --

Re: dist-git help wanted: write me a regex!

2009-12-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:12:19 -0500, James Cassell fedoraproj...@cyberpear.com wrote: On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:57:16 -0500, Garry Williams gtwilli...@gmail.com wrote: The grammar described in RFC 822 is surprisingly complex. http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html yeah,

Re: Issue after updating a Fedora 11 system to Fedora 12

2009-12-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 18:30:55 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II mi...@kuentos.guam.net wrote: I have a server that I just upgraded from Fedora 11 to Fedora 12 using the net CD and the DVD image on another server. After the initial update, there were 170 FC11 files still listed in the rpm

Re: formating usb

2009-12-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:04:25 -0800, Morisso Buffalo mangu...@yahoo.com wrote: how do i format a flash disk in FAT32 You can use mkdosfs. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: Release Milestones for the Masses

2009-12-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:32:18 -0800, John Poelstra poels...@redhat.com wrote: Great idea. I need someone from the Spins SIG to tell me what those dates are. It would also be really helpful to have a link to a wiki page explaining the process I can give out when questions arise. I

Re: Release Milestones for the Masses

2009-12-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:04:32 +, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: The ambiguity of the spins process threw me somewhat in F-12 with Moblin being very new to all the process (well having seen it and never participated) as I couldn't find anything that really outlined it

Re: Request for Input on Creating Linux Courses...

2009-12-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:31:33 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II mi...@kuentos.guam.net wrote: The installing of the OS is just a one class session event, and just goes thru the process of install the various linux version as a single OS on a system, or dual boot with Windows. It also

[Fedora-livecd-list] Pointers to live usb using super floppy format

2009-12-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
I have some older computers that don't seem to be able to boot off of liveusb devcies formatted like hard drives and am looking to see if they will work with ones formatted as superfloppies (no partition table and no MBR). Since the bios' setup options suggest that they will boot off of some usb

Re: Kernel security update required or not?

2009-12-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:33:23 +1100, Bojan Smojver bo...@rexursive.com wrote: According to this: http://lwn.net/Articles/367443/, latest kernel updates have security fixes (the second one appears on the 2.6.31.9 list). Is this something that has been backported to current F-12 kernels

Re: Kernel security update required or not?

2009-12-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 21:17:46 -0500, Mail Lists li...@sapience.com wrote: On 12/20/2009 08:34 PM, Bojan Smojver wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 19:16 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: There is a 2.6.31.9 build in Koji. Yeah, I've seen it. But, it's not in updates. Hence the question

Re: Kernel security update required or not?

2009-12-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:34:06 +1100, Bojan Smojver bo...@rexursive.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 19:16 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: There is a 2.6.31.9 build in Koji. Yeah, I've seen it. But, it's not in updates. Hence the question. I didn't see any of the recent previous spec file

Re: Kernel security update required or not?

2009-12-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 16:02:20 +1100, Bojan Smojver bo...@rexursive.com wrote: I understand what I can do. That is not the issue. The question is, should Fedora get a security update or not - you know - for all the users out there that are unaware of Koji etc. I'm sure Fedora kernel

Re: dist-git help wanted: write me a regex!

2009-12-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 00:25:06 -0500, James Cassell fedoraproj...@cyberpear.com wrote: This should do it:

Re: Pulseaudio problem with xine, xmms and mplayer

2009-12-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 18:33:38 +, Paul p...@all-the-johnsons.co.uk wrote: Whenever I try to run xine, xmms or mplayer from the command line, I keep getting an error from pulseaudio Assertion 'pthread_mutex_unlock(m-mutex) == 0' failed at pulsecore/mutex-posix.c:108, function

Re: fc12 and grubconf

2009-12-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:15:03 +, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: So vim does this as well? Such behavior is the only thing I absolutely *hate* in emacs. It is completely nonintuitive to word-wrap the text but not cursor movement. When one presses the down arrow, one

Re: Fedora 12 not seeing floppy disk controller

2009-12-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 20:03:55 -0600, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: For some reason my F-12 system is not seeing my floppy disk controller at boot time. If I manually run modprobe floppy the controller is recognized (FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077) and the drive works. Any

Re: Sunbird Calendar Broken

2009-12-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 00:32:55 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: I have just installed the latest sunbird, namely sunbird-1.0-0.11.20090715hg.fc11.x86_64 When started, it shows two error boxes and no calendar information. The error boxes read: Take a look at:

Re: Wiki Feature Dashboard Additional Category

2009-12-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 20:45:36 -0800, John Poelstra poels...@redhat.com wrote: You have an interesting idea about tagging feature pages needing an owner. In reality that pretty much represents all the pages in 'Category:FeaturePageIncomplete' If they had an active owner or developer

Re: MariaDB and Fedora

2009-12-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 21:30:50 +0100, Benny Amorsen benny+use...@amorsen.dk wrote: That will give you an installation with quite reasonable defaults including Unix-socket connectivity. Of course then you discover all the PHP toys written for MySQL which can't be told to connect a) by

Re: non-screen-oriented install of Fedora-11

2009-12-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 19:43:08 -0700, Reg Clemens r...@dwf.com wrote: We get as far as formatting the disk, which is already formatted the way I want it, but they DONT bring up that visual formatter that I usually use to EDIT a partition table to make one partition root ('/'). The text

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Persistent root / filesystem

2009-12-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 13:32:22 +0100, Vasilis Vlachoudis vasilis.vlachou...@cern.ch wrote: Hi all, I have remastered the Fedora Live CD to run through Virtual Box and to mount automatically the ext3 virtual partitions. My problem is, when I install an additional package or modify a file

Re: F11 iptables can't disable

2009-12-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:46:44 -0600, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Running service iptables stop just removes the it from the table that starts iptables on the next boot. iptables still runs. That is incorrect. service iptables stop makes an immediate change to the firewall

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:11:25 -0500, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Your treatment of redhat/fedora users with over a decade of use has finally reached the quitting point. You refuse to fix openssh, hoping that would force me to install F12, and when I do and have

Re: MariaDB and Fedora

2009-12-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 19:02:55 -0200, Henrique Junior henrique...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, Monty is asking for some Help saving MySQL [0]. Monty can just go and fork it. The only limitation is that he won't be able to dual license it any more. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)

2009-12-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 16:19:54 -0600, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: That would be AMD that fixed it, not Intel. Intel tried to push everybody to a new architecture (Itanium), while AMD revised and extended i386 to 64 bits. After Itanium failed to catch on in the marketplace,

Re: x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)

2009-12-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 00:32:15 +, John5342 john5...@googlemail.com wrote: Actually i think the reason AMDs approach worked was because it was backward compatible with ix86 so instead of having to have an OS ready up front and people having to migrate wholesale customers could start

Re: MariaDB and Fedora

2009-12-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 19:27:42 -0500, Tom Lane t...@redhat.com wrote: Monty thinks it's impossible to make money off open source unless he can dual-license it. Setting aside various existence proofs to the contrary, the fact remains that he already SOLD the rights to dual-license MySQL,

Re: softraid-aware partition editing

2009-12-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 23:26:29 -0500, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: 1) Does an ext3 partition running on top of a RAID-1 layer look any different on disk than a native ext3 partition? There's obviously a raid flag shown by parted, that comes from somewhere, but from

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 13:08:32 -0500, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: So the Mint8 installers update-grub comes a heck of a lot closer to getting it right than the fedora grub2 version. Can this be fixed asap, before the plug on F10 is completely pulled? The deadline for

[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd enforcing mode issue

2009-12-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
In F12 (at least) it looks like selinux is denying livecd-creator from changing the root password of the image. I'll file a bug on this when infrastructure is back up. Here is the audit record: audit.log.1:type=USER_CHAUTHTOK msg=audit(1260601250.607:153622): user pid=17278 uid=0 auid=500 ses=26

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] livecd enforcing mode issue

2009-12-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
This was already in bug 538496. I added the audit entry and copied Dan on the bug, since it is likely there should end up being a policy change to allow this. -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list

Re: Fedora release criteria completely revised

2009-12-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:53:40 -0500, James Laska jla...@redhat.com wrote: Not sure if this has been raised yet, but are we specifying when in the release that packages should be signed with a valid signature? I believe packages are signed at all release milestones, but I'd like to

Re: upstart-0.6.3 in rawhide, tomorrow 2009-12-10

2009-12-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:32:18 -0800, darrell pfeifer darrel...@gmail.com wrote: I updated from my machine from koji (yes, I know, even more insane than from rawhide) I do that from time to time. A cherry pick koji builds regularly. But when rawhide is frozen (or composes are broken) for a

Re: Request for Input on Creating Linux Courses...

2009-12-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 19:25:00 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II mi...@kuentos.guam.net wrote: The Ideal is to over a beginning Linux course, and an second level course as a start. In the networking class, I have one 4 hour section where the students go thru the installation of various

Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 14:12:51 -0500, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: When ALSA first came out the channels could be changed in a GUI, now one must be root and edit text files to accomplish the same thing. And in a world where laptops are more common all the time, and better

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 06:51:59 +0100, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: Seems to me, as if some people in Fedora's leadership don't want to understand that being able to deploy Linux on old or recycled hardware used to be one big selling point in Linux. I think the question is

Re: kernel update highly recommended

2009-12-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:20:02 -0700, Nathanael D. Noblet nathan...@gnat.ca wrote: This a rawhide only issue or F12 as well? It affects F12. You want the -166 kernel. However right now it is still building. (I didn't check to see if some arches are done already.) The updated kernel for

Re: kernel update highly recommended

2009-12-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:23:50 -0600, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:20:02 -0700, Nathanael D. Noblet nathan...@gnat.ca wrote: This a rawhide only issue or F12 as well? It affects F12. You want the -166 kernel. However right now it is still

Re: rawhide and tagging requests

2009-12-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 18:15:53 -0800, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 06:43 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: All the broken deps preventing a compose attempt have been cleared out. However the new rpm build was busted in a way that it made the compose fall

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 00:33:24 +0100, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: The Fedora devs must have patched grub1. One of the big selling points of grub2 is that it can boot from an ext4 /boot, as well as from an lvm or mdraid /boot. My understanding is that Redhat/Fedora grub is

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] lzma + squashfs should be easy to use in livecd-tools

2009-12-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 20:04:55 -0600, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: I am going to take a look at building the updated squashfs locally by the end of the weekend. (Maybe yet tonight.) If the patches get accepted, I'd like to get the new squashfs-tools into rawhide. (I have asked

Re: Listing obsolete installed packages

2009-12-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 14:14:39 -0600, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: I'd like to make a list of currently installed packages that are not present in any currently enabled repo. Anyone know a straightforward way to do that? Note that obsolete packages can still be in a

[Fedora-livecd-list] lzma + squashfs should be easy to use in livecd-tools

2009-12-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
Phillip Lougher posted lmza+squashfs patches to lkml yesterday and today as a followup he posted a message indicating how to build / use the new sqaushfs-tools to build or read squashfs file systems. (http://marc.info/?l=linux-embeddedm=126029628723357w=2) The short description is that to use

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] lzma + squashfs should be easy to use in livecd-tools

2009-12-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 20:45:48 -0500, Jeremy Katz ka...@fedoraproject.org wrote: The biggest question as far as whether or not it's feasible for F13 in my mind really is whether or not the code gets accepted upstream. The progress of squashfs patches into the kernel has historically not

Re: Radeon HD 5770. Is there a better driver than VESA?

2009-12-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:38:39 -0500, wmj...@aol.com wrote: I understand that the Radeon HD 5770 is part of the Evergreen chip series which is not yet supported by the X.org radeonhd driver. Should I try using it just the same? Currently my Fedora 12 configuration defaults to VESA.

Re: suggested upgrade path from fc8 to fc12 *OR* isolated kernel upgrade from 2.6.23 to 2.6.32

2009-12-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 23:05:06 -0500, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: I think that happened before F8, but you need to double check. If this happened in F9, I would suggest piecemeal updates. I'm sure you will still easily find F9 images to download and install, the after

Re: Problem with screen resolution after installing F12

2009-12-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 17:12:16 +0800, Dick Roark linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: After installing Fedora 12 I am having problems setting up 1280x1024 screen resolution. Only 640x480 and 800x600 are available. I was using F11 at 1280x1024 on this hardware before upgrading to F12. After that,

Re: Fedora 12 KDE live CD Password

2009-12-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 17:26:14 +0530, Rahul Tidke ra...@excelize.com wrote: Hello, I was eager to try F12 live CD; but I am unable to login to fedora 12 KDE live cd (i686). What is the password for user liveuser? Why does a live CD requires username password? It shouldn't. Did you try

Re: fc12 - wehere to get latest STABLE kernel from?

2009-12-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:30:32 +0100, Michal rabbi...@tenbit.pl wrote: Hallo Fedora Users fedora repos contain: 2.6.31.6 (Thursday, December 03 2009), rawhide contains git, but where to find latest stable kernel?? The final 2.6.32 kernel got rebuilt last night but didn't make the

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 17:58:24 -0500, Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I tested it on our backend to be sure. getting the complete pkglist goes from taking 5 minutes to take 30s. yes, I said 5 minutes. Have you tried any of the tunning knobs to have the directory cache be

Re: OT: Linux Malware is possible? if it is :(

2009-12-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 00:06:29 +, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: If /bin gets compromised, *everyone's* data gets compromised. /bin is better protected from you than your home dir because you may not be the only user on the machine. While it is impossible to protect your

Re: OT: Linux Malware is possible? if it is :(

2009-12-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:07:25 +1030, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Windows... proving that it's the thought that counts... Self extracting archives are another great feature. shar files went away on unix systems years ago. I have had discussions with people about the sanity of

Re: F12 32-bit Repos F12 64-bit Repos: Equal Amount of Apps?

2009-12-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 22:11:26 -0600, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: Greetings, I am currently back to using Fedora (and very happy I might add) and running 12/32. Would it be a safe statement to say that a large portion (better then 80%) of the apps in the 12/32 repos will also be

Re: Fedora Talk Follow-up Meeting Wed or Thurs?

2009-12-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:48:57 -0800, John Poelstra poels...@redhat.com wrote: Would folks be available at 3 PM EST this Wednesday or Thursday to do a check-in to see where we are at and what to tackle next? We might also want to think about possible things to work on at FUDCon. Given

Re: Fedora Talk Follow-up Meeting Wed or Thurs?

2009-12-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 17:12:27 -0500, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:24:54AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: One thing to watch for is if when turning recording it breaks the service for people who are already connected. This happened once

Re: RPM installation order

2009-11-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:29:31 -0700, Jerry James loganje...@gmail.com wrote: This works great when the main gcl package is installed first, followed by the gcl-selinux package. However, sometimes RPM installs them in the other order. When that happens, the fixfiles invocation fails

Re: RPM installation order

2009-11-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:00:49 -0700, Jerry James loganje...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Mamoru Tasaka mtas...@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp wrote: Ah, rather gcl package has Requires: gcl-selinux = %{version}-%{release}, so currently I am not sure what you want. Ah,

Re: Across Lite for F12 32-bit, an i686 vs i386 issue?

2009-11-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 13:41:26 +, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: The NYT publishes its puzzles in Across Lite format, and there's a proprietary app (acrossl) which runs on Linux. Unfortunately it's getting really old and is binary-only. It worked under F11 but now

Re: How to install Fedora-12?

2009-11-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 14:35:03 +, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: My ancient Pentium Pro (Asus P2B-LS) desktop does not appear to support booting from a USB stick, although it does have USB sockets. Is there any easy way to use my USB stick with F-12 on it to install

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 08:12:05 +1000, Dave Airlie airl...@redhat.com wrote: Why do you think 3D should be working in 2009 as opposed to any previous years btw? I'm interested in the logic that leads to this point. I think one thing that is changing expectations is ATI providing

Re: Looking for testers: RPM 4.8 pre-release snapshots available

2009-11-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:41:17 -0800, John Poelstra poels...@redhat.com wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule Is there a calendar page for that that sunbird can use? I remember running across one for F12, but I don't remember where I found it. -- fedora-devel-list

Re: F12 installation stalled

2009-11-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:16:36 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: Trying to do a darned near Everything 32-bit installation on an old Thinkpad A22p with 1GHz P-III/M and 512MB. Several hours in things appeared to stall during the wesnoth-data RPM. I'm still seeing a

Re: F12 KDE - slow response when clicking task bar items

2009-11-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 21:33:17 -0700, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: Since I upgraded to F12, I have noticed that it is very slow to respond to clicks in the task bar - i.e., a long delay if I click the 'fedora' start button or any of the applications in the 'Task Switcher'

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 17:09:14 +, Terry Barnaby ter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: I really want to help and get a stable release and present bug reports and even fix them if I can. But, the current short term release schedule, and no focus on testing and fixing graphics issues, does not inspire

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 13:46:54 -0600, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: mesa-experimental-drivers and update xorg-x11-drv-ati. This won't get you That should be: mesa-dri-drivers-experimental -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 20:16:54 +, Terry Barnaby ter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: I have tried out F12 on 4 different systems, 2 with different ATI graphics and two with different Intel based boards. Only the last one appears to be able to run Blender. You mention Airlie has continued

Re: Improve the way rpm decides what is newer

2009-11-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 22:41:52 +0100, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:59:20 -0500, Przemek wrote: Especially during freeze of the development dist that's to be released as N+1. That's the time when packagers make N and N-1 move ahead of N+1 because

Re: Creating a trusted sha256sum.exe binary for verifying *-CHECKSUM files on Windows

2009-11-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:33:16 -0500, Todd Zullinger t...@pobox.com wrote: What I'm here for is to gather ideas for how to properly go about building the mingw32-sha256sum and keeping it around so that when I extract the sha256sum.exe and upload it to fedoraproject.org we will have the

Re: Omega 12?

2009-11-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:12:43 +0530, Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Well for this release, I have been planning to target 1 GB thumb drives and including Openoffice.org etc out of the box. Live CD is kinda getting too cramped to be useful at this point. Note there is a

Re: livecds in the future

2009-11-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 03:37:42 +0530, Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 11/24/2009 03:39 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: The netinst.iso would involve less downloaded content than the 700M live image. How would it not fit their needs? Perhaps net installation can be

Re: Security policy oversight needed?

2009-11-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 08:48:56 -0500, Simo Sorce sso...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 03:42 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: On 11/20/2009 02:21 AM, Rudolf Kastl wrote: there are also inconsistencies between gui clickery and shell usage... simple example: click shutdown in

Re: Issue with F13 dracut/kernel/selinux

2009-11-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:04:44 -0500, Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote: On 11/17/2009 04:12 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: I just went to rawhide over the last day and am not able to boot into kernel 2.6.32-0.48.rc7.git1.fc13 unless selinux is disabled. (permissive isn't good enough

Re: Question about internal hard drives

2009-11-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 15:31:50 -0500, Kevin O'Neil ke...@kevinslair.com wrote: Greetings, I have a question. Is it better to have multiple hard drives or will just one be ok? I have a box that can have up to 2T...should I use two 1T or 4 500Gb? Pros, cons welcomed. More spindles will

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 23:18:28 +0530, Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 11/18/2009 11:19 PM, nodata wrote: Thanks. I have changed the title to: All users get to install software on a machine they do not have the root password to .. if the packages are signed

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 17:45:26 +, Bastien Nocera bnoc...@redhat.com wrote: Once we get the new user management stuff into F13 [1], we'd probably tighten that rule so that only admins are given the option, or all users but with the need to authenticate as an admin. This seems pretty

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 13:05:31 -0500, Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: like I said in another email - I think of installing things on servers as 'barest minimal' and then adding things I require. Nothing else. Maybe I'm in the minority. I don't like the idea of packages

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 13:22:03 -0500, Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: If there are pkgs which run daemons which are defaulting to ON when installed or on next reboot - then we should be auditing those pkgs. Last I checked we default to OFF and that should continue to be the

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 19:20:42 +, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/18 Casey Dahlin cdah...@redhat.com: By the admin's first opportunity to change the settings the box could already be rooted. I'm not sure how you can root a computer from installing signed content

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 13:31:49 -0600, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: (what is pulse/proximity-helper? why is nspluginwrapper/plugin-config setuid root?) I already filed a bug (491543) about that. It does bad things, but the maintainer doesn't seem to want to change it. Firefox

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 14:44:20 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev i...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Okay, so someone managed to get local shell via firefox. How does installing trusted packages further their nefarious purposes? There are nuances to trust. Just because you trust a repository to not

Re: nouveau KMS + custom modelines

2009-11-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:49:07 +0100, Martin Jürgens m...@jgs-wg.de wrote: Hi, I am using a very old 17'' TFT (1280x1024) which does not provide any autodetection data. Thus, only the resolution of 800x600 is autodetected. I'd like to provide KMS a custom modeline at boot up so that it

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