Re: Expanding the list of Hardened Packages

2013-04-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Steve Grubb wrote: On Monday, April 15, 2013 09:12:57 AM Richard W.M. Jones wrote: which I interpret to mean that after using -fstack-protector-all and removing prelink, SELinux would become obsolete because no executable can be exploited. I would say there is a place for SE Linux even if we

Re: Rawhide boot problems

2012-08-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Jerry James wrote: I've got two Rawhide VMs, one x86_64, one i686, both otherwise identical. I last booted them yesterday and did a yum repo-sync. Today, neither of them will boot. First, systemd complained about being unable to find systemd-journal-flush.service. Sure enough, it wasn't in

make distcheck is exploitable: get a fixed automake

2012-07-13 Thread Jim Meyering
If you run make distcheck (the rule generated by automake), be sure that it is safe. Until a few days ago, running that rule in a directory readable by others would put you at risk from a local attacker. It can be exploited reliably. It's fixed in the latest, automake-12.2

fix common misspellings -- mostly mechanically

2012-06-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Even in mature projects full of nit-picky reviewers, it seems there are always a few misspelled words in comments, documentation, etc. Here's a recipe for correcting those. Hook this up as a make check dependent rule to prevent recurrence. First, get this http://github.com/lyda/misspell-check

MALLOC_PERTURB_: everyone should set this envvar

2012-06-04 Thread Jim Meyering
I posted about MALLOC_PERTURB_ about a year ago, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/132690 but it is clear that not everyone is setting the variable, so for those who didn't take the time last year, or who are new to the subject, do yourself a favor and set

Re: MALLOC_PERTURB_: everyone should set this envvar

2012-06-04 Thread Jim Meyering
John Reiser wrote: # http://udrepper.livejournal.com/11429.html export MALLOC_PERTURB_=$(($RANDOM % 255 + 1)) For supportability (and to help remind you to turn it off before performance tests), then also consider adding a line such as: echo 12 MALLOC_PERTURB_=$MALLOC_PERTURB_

Re: sys/sysctl.h and bits/sysctl.h in rawhide/f18?

2012-05-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Kaleb Keithley wrote: About a week ago I did a scratch build of one of my packages that includes sys/sysctl.h and it built successfully. Today I did another scratch build and it broke with: ... Making all in src CC fuse-helpers.lo CC fuse-resolve.lo CC fuse-bridge.lo

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Michal Schmidt wrote: On 05/14/2012 10:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Miloslav Trmač wrote: I'm pretty sure that naming conflicts in /usr/bin have happened before in Fedora, I'm not sure how they were resolved. Even in a relatively minimal system, I see many programs installed in both /sbin

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary greg.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands lid is also the same as an existing command

Re: rawhide ext4/virtio FS performance hit (10x slower) ?

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Josh Boyer wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Today I noticed that some tests from coreutils' test suite were taking far longer than they used to on rawhide. For example, run this command in an empty directory:  seq 20|env time xargs touch

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary greg.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands lid is also the same as an existing command, though installed in a different place.  id-utils has /usr/bin/lid, while libuser has

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 05/11/2012 09:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary greg.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands lid is also the same as an existing command, though installed

rawhide ext4/virtio FS performance hit (10x slower) ?

2012-05-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Today I noticed that some tests from coreutils' test suite were taking far longer than they used to on rawhide. For example, run this command in an empty directory: seq 20|env time xargs touch it takes 5s on F17 3.3.4-1.fc17.x86_64 ext4/sdb8/SSD, yet it takes 47s on rawhide

Re: rawhide ext4/virtio FS performance hit (10x slower) ?

2012-05-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Josh Boyer wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Today I noticed that some tests from coreutils' test suite were taking far longer than they used to on rawhide. For example, run this command in an empty directory:  seq 20|env time xargs touch

F17: gcc not usable without glibc-devel.x86_64 -- %{?_isa}, again?

2012-04-12 Thread Jim Meyering
I built another x86_64 rawhide VM yesterday and was surprised to find that its gcc was unusable: $ printf 'int main(){return 0;}' k.c; gcc k.c /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.7.0/../../../libc.so when searching for -lc /usr/bin/ld: skipping

Re: SELinuxDenyPtrace: Write, compile, run, but don't debug applications?

2012-04-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Mark Wielaard wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 10:58:43AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: I thought I made this clear in my blogs and the feature page that I wanted this on deny_ptrace on by default. [...] We did have a bug in Alpha where it was turned off. Now that people are actually seeing it

rawhide vs. protected multilib versions

2012-04-05 Thread Jim Meyering
I installed x86_64 F17 from the netinst.iso yesterday, selected a minimal install, and immediately upgraded to rawhide. Worked like a charm. However, now that I try to use the resulting system and need a few packages, I find that installing them is um, ... challenging. For example, yesterday I

Re: rawhide vs. protected multilib versions

2012-04-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Colin Walters wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 14:40 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: I installed x86_64 F17 from the netinst.iso yesterday, selected a minimal install, and immediately upgraded to rawhide. Worked like a charm. However, now that I try to use the resulting system and need a few

Re: rawhide vs. protected multilib versions

2012-04-05 Thread Jim Meyering
James Antill wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 14:40 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: I installed x86_64 F17 from the netinst.iso yesterday, selected a minimal install, and immediately upgraded to rawhide. Worked like a charm. [...] Packages skipped because of dependency problems: gcc-c

Re: /tmp on tmpfs

2012-04-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Daniel J Walsh wrote: ... I have been running with a tmpfs /tmp for years, without a problem. I have found the having /tmp be anything else that a tmpfs has caused me pain over the years with mislabeled files or files with the wrong UID. Change to use a confined user or change the UID of a

Re: [Help Wanted]Build error on aplus-fsf

2012-03-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Jochen Schmitt wrote: Hallo, I have some issues to build aplus-fsf via mock for the master branch. Because I don't have any idea to selve the existing issues, I have uploaded the build.log, the SPEC file and a patch to http://www.herr-schmitt.de/pub/aplus-fsf/ It will be nice, if anyone

Re: Possible to access Koji build directory?

2012-03-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:00:59AM +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:45:22 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I suspect the answer is 'no', but is is possible to access or download the build directory of a failed build, on the Fedora Koji servers?

Re: Possible to access Koji build directory?

2012-03-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:00:59AM +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:45:22 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I suspect the answer is 'no', but is is possible to access or download the build directory of a failed build

Re: Possible to access Koji build directory?

2012-03-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:16:51 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: That works very well. However, the base64 output in my first log was corrupt, due to some asynchronous output (stderr about job completion) that was emitted in the middle of the big base64 block. Adding the sync

FAT and HFS/HFS+ file system resizing restored in parted-3.1

2012-03-03 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, I released parted-3.1 yesterday, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10790 In addition to pretty many bug fixes, This is to announce parted-3.1, a bug fix release that also reintroduces a minimal subset of the file system resizing capability that was removed

Re: Some fedora projects are still not using transifex (properly)

2012-02-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Kévin Raymond wrote: I've managed to get the whole list of transifex.net projects who appears dead, here they are: ... [D] iwhd I deliberately switched iwhd from transifex to http://translationproject.org because the latter provides anonymous rsync access, while transifex requires that one

Re: /usrmove? - about the future

2012-02-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Matthew Garrett wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 07:23:24PM -0500, Steve Clark wrote: On 02/15/2012 05:19 PM, mike cloaked wrote: I use bash completion all the time every single day - I guess I have become a corner case! No you haven't. All the developers I have worked with since the early

Re: /usrmove and path ordering

2012-02-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.02.2012 13:43, schrieb Martin Langhoff: On Feb 15, 2012 6:16 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: there is no single reason for a feature like /usrmove which in fact nobody NEEDS at all and definitly not now to press it into

Re: /usrmove and path ordering

2012-02-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Simo Sorce wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 13:22 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: ... Prior to F17, I've always put /usr on a partition separate from /. $ df -hT / /usr Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 ext4 11G 7.3G 3.2G 70% / /dev/sda6

Re: Does anyone still need to create legacy HFS filesystems?

2012-02-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Matthew Garrett wrote: There's various issues with the hfsplus utilities we ship at the moment, including the fact that fsck.hfsplus crashes on 64-bit. I'd like to Glad you're looking at this. I noticed that recently, too. I wanted to use fsck.hfsplus in a test to verify that parted's

Re: Does anyone still need to create legacy HFS filesystems?

2012-02-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 02:56:51PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: Can you point me to the latest upstream sources? git://cavan.codon.org.uk/hfsplus-tools.git - it needs clang to build. Thanks. I built it, and when using that version of fsck.hfs, my new parted test passes

Re: Does anyone still need to create legacy HFS filesystems?

2012-02-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 3, 2012, at 6:56 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: There's various issues with the hfsplus utilities we ship at the moment, including the fact that fsck.hfsplus crashes on 64-bit. I'd like to Glad you're looking at this. I noticed that recently, too

Re: SELinux-related Rawhide breakage today

2012-02-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 01/31/2012 12:07 PM, Jerry James wrote: After installing today's Rawhide updates on an x86_64 VM, I started having troubles running programs. Nothing linked with libselinux.so.1 could actually open that library; the programs were getting EACCESS on the attempt. I

FYI: new rawhide boot failure

2012-01-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Just a heads up. I usually update a rawhide VM daily and reboot at least once or twice a week. Today space was getting a little low on the parent partition, so I stopped the VM in order to run virt-sparsify on its image. Nice: that saved 3GB. Booting again, however, there were numerous

Re: FYI: new rawhide boot failure

2012-01-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 01/13/2012 11:42 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 01/13/2012 06:59 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 13/01/12 11:46, Jim Meyering wrote: Just a heads up. Ran into it yesterday: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2012-January/105084.html Thought it was systemd

Re: FYI: new rawhide boot failure

2012-01-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 01/13/2012 01:17 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 01/13/2012 11:42 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 01/13/2012 06:59 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 13/01/12 11:46, Jim Meyering wrote: Just a heads up. Ran into it yesterday: https://lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Results of a test mass rebuild of rawhide/x86_64 with gcc-4.7.0-0.1.fc17

2012-01-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 07:03:44PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: I have just tried to build iwhd on F16 using a pretty recent gcc-4.7.x (built manually: 4.7.0 20111202), and it worked fine, so I'm not quite sure why iwhd is on the list. Maybe the gcc-4.7.x that Jakub used

Re: Results of a test mass rebuild of rawhide/x86_64 with gcc-4.7.0-0.1.fc17

2012-01-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Denis Arnaud wrote: Hi Jim, 2012/1/3 devel-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org Is there some sort of reminder service that could be configured to nag the maintainers of a package in a situation like this? Personally, I would appreciate it, and I think Fedora would benefit if we

Re: Results of a test mass rebuild of rawhide/x86_64 with gcc-4.7.0-0.1.fc17

2012-01-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Nils Philippsen wrote: ... I've attached a list of packages and (co)maintainers, to easily find if one of your packages is affected or not. ... iwhd: meyering - clalance,zaitcev Thank you for the list. I have just tried to build iwhd on F16 using a pretty recent gcc-4.7.x (built manually:

Re: epel 6 fedpkg build or koji scratch builds failing — I'm stumped

2011-11-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 03:01:03PM +, Paul Howarth wrote: http://marc.info/?l=pptpclient-develm=132102054518031 This is indeed rather unexpected behaviour of make! BTW I think your patch is incomplete, since it will create an incomplete config.h if the disk

Re: epel 6 fedpkg build or koji scratch builds failing — I'm stumped

2011-11-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: ... Perhaps there's some extra fedpkg flag I should be using for epel builds? Perhaps try without parallel make? Yes, that makes it work. Thanks for the tip. When running make from the command line, I always use -j$N, for 1 N. But of course, I rarely type the -j

Re: [Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 16.

2011-11-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/08/2011 10:18 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Fedora 16 is not science fiction. It is here right now: http://get.fedoraproject.org Hmm, no jigdo downloads any more? Yes. Would be nice to have this back. It is not a big burden. Is it? I have used them, too.

low-memory *printf deadlocks with latest glibc in -testing and rawhide

2011-11-14 Thread Jim Meyering
So far I've only noticed it via a test, but everyone uses *printf, and malloc is implicated due to recent arena-related changes: malloc deadlock makes *printf hang http://bugzilla.redhat.com/753601 With glibc-2.14.90-15.2.x86_64 (f16-testing and rawhide), this hangs: ( ulimit -v

Re: Differences between koji and mock rawhide environments?

2011-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Tom Lane t...@redhat.com wrote: postgresql is currently failing to rebuild in rawhide: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3499379 This seems quite repeatable, in koji, but the package builds fine on my workstation under

Re: BEWARE: a problematic glibc made it to stable (F16)

2011-10-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Adam Williamson wrote: ... The only breakage in one which was approved was to do with compiling things - which, sure, is a pain in the ass, but it's not the kind of problem critpath was introduced to deal with in the first place. The problem is bigger than it first seemed, and still not

Re: BEWARE: a problematic glibc made it to stable (F16)

2011-10-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: ... The only breakage in one which was approved was to do with compiling things - which, sure, is a pain in the ass, but it's not the kind of problem critpath was introduced to deal with in the first place. The problem is bigger than it first

BEWARE: a problematic glibc made it to stable (F16)

2011-10-19 Thread Jim Meyering
I spent too many hours debugging this today, so feel obliged to warn about this. Plus, I feel a little guilty for giving it positive karma initially. Today's -1 was too late. glibc-2.14.90-12.999, which has just made it to stable provokes a hard-to-diagnose (for me at least) problem. While

Re: BEWARE: a problematic glibc made it to stable (F16)

2011-10-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Simo Sorce wrote: On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 20:51 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: ... To recover an F16 system that works better, I ran this: yum downgrade glibc glibc-static glibc-devel glibc-common glibc-headers \ glibc-utils nscd What did you downgrade to ? AFAIK Several people had

openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Jim Meyering
darrell pfeifer wrote: Fails for me too, with the same error. Thanks for confirming that. I don't mean to be rude or inflammatory, but do have to wonder how such a fundamentally-broken package was released -- even to rawhide. In the fedora openssh release process, isn't there some sort of

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Frank Murphy wrote: On 11/09/11 09:33, Jim Meyering wrote: darrell pfeifer wrote: Fails for me too, with the same error. Thanks for confirming that. I don't mean to be rude or inflammatory, but do have to wonder how such a fundamentally-broken package was released -- even to rawhide

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 09/11/2011 02:13 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: Is not rawhide the sanity check, even if used productively by many? Not many and I think the branch being less fragile would certainly help. If I know my system will still boot and I can access the network and my browser is

ssh-to-rawhide hangs (uninterruptible) for 2 minutes, then fails

2011-09-10 Thread Jim Meyering
I cannot ssh to my rawhide VM today: $ date; ssh r; date Sat 2011-09-10 19:55:35 +0200 Write failed: Broken pipe Sat 2011-09-10 19:57:35 +0200 Note the two-minute delay. I was unable to interrupt it, nor suspend. Very annoying. Using the console, I see nothing in

rm --no-traverse-mount-points [Re: stop rm at same-dev bind mounts

2011-09-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Thomas Moschny wrote: having a rm command accidentally removing 3/4 of my system yesterday, I am starting to wonder whether it is possible to have rm reliably stop at bind mounts. I know there is a --one-file-system option, but it is not working when the bind mount points to the same device:

Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs (uninterruptible) for 2 minutes, then fails

2011-09-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Kevin Fenzi wrote: See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735970 Seems to just be broken in the 5.9 series. ;( Thanks. I've marked mine as a duplicate of that one. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

FYI, rawhide makes /usr/bin/install (matchpathcon) segfault

2011-09-07 Thread Jim Meyering
I was getting ready to release coreutils-8.13, after two pre-release snapshots, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.general/1554 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.general/1631 when I went to make sure its tests all pass also on rawhide. I test that regularly,

Re: FYI, rawhide makes /usr/bin/install (matchpathcon) segfault

2011-09-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: ... $ touch a $ env -i /usr/bin/install a b zsh: segmentation fault env -i /usr/bin/install a b [Exit 139 (SEGV)] Rich Jones found that updating to libselinux-2.1.5-2.fc17.x86_64 made it so he too sees the above failure. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/736259

Re: FYI, rawhide makes /usr/bin/install (matchpathcon) segfault

2011-09-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 01:44:36PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: ... $ touch a $ env -i /usr/bin/install a b zsh: segmentation fault env -i /usr/bin/install a b [Exit 139 (SEGV)] Rich Jones found that updating to libselinux-2.1.5

Re: FYI, rawhide makes /usr/bin/install (matchpathcon) segfault

2011-09-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Daniel J Walsh wrote: ... Grab libselinux-2.1.5-3.fc17 out of koji, should fix the problem. Thanks. That solved it for me. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH] macros: Globally add --disable-silent-rules to configure

2011-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:45:15 +0200, Matthew Garrett wrote: If a package fails to build in a mass rebuild because -Werror was enabled then that's additional work for several people to fix something that may not have ever actually been broken. 99% of warnings will not

Re: [PATCH] macros: Globally add --disable-silent-rules to configure

2011-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/13/2011 10:51 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Whether to invest in enabling -Werror for all packages in a mass rebuild however is another question. Pardon, but this is not a question, this is beyond reason and foolish. There will be many build failures, and some

rawhide openssh-server update kills sshd

2011-07-26 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, I've just yum-updated my rawhide VM to the latest (but not from the console) and was surprised to lose the connection while it was happening. Again. It happened to me last week, too. I got back in via the console and tried to reinstall it via yum reinstall openssh-server. That failed

Re: rawhide openssh-server update kills sshd

2011-07-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: On 07/26/2011 12:22 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: snip service ssh restart Would that be: service sshd restart Yes, thanks. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Rawhide: selinux: Unable to get valid context for username

2011-06-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Anyone seeing this error? Unless I boot with enforcing=0, I see this error when I try to log in as any user: Unable to get valid context for username It seems like it's just started happening, since I upgraded something within the last 1-2 weeks. Hi Rich, I'm

Re: Linux kernel 3.0 + SELinux problem

2011-06-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 09:19:43PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 17:01:07 -0600, Jerry James loganje...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Tom London seli...@gmail.com wrote: See

F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Just a quick FYI: If you haven't already gotten Fedora 15's latest glibc-headers package, you may want to wait for 2.13.90-11. Here's why: glibc-headers-2.13.90-10.x86_64 no longer includes any of the /usr/include/rpc/*.h files. Contrast with glibc-headers-2.13.90-9.x86_64, where there are 18:

Re: resolved [Re: heads up: new rawhide kernel doesn't boot for me

2011-04-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Harald Hoyer wrote: Am 08.04.2011 12:38, schrieb Jim Meyering: So maybe there *is* a bug to report after all: With TMPDIR pointing to a directory with context not like /tmp, the kernel's initramfs-building code fails and gives a diagnostic (calling it Non-fatal), but lets

resolved [Re: heads up: new rawhide kernel doesn't boot for me

2011-04-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 04/07/2011 07:46 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: I updated my rawhide VM today (on F15 host), but it failed to reboot using the new kernel, vmlinuz-2.6.39-0.rc1.git5.0.fc16.x86_64 I got a failure (VFS diagnostic complaining that the UUID-specified root

heads up: new rawhide kernel doesn't boot for me

2011-04-07 Thread Jim Meyering
I updated my rawhide VM today (on F15 host), but it failed to reboot using the new kernel, vmlinuz-2.6.39-0.rc1.git5.0.fc16.x86_64 I got a failure (VFS diagnostic complaining that the UUID-specified root partition was not available), then panic. Two subsequent attempts to reboot failed because

Re: heads up: new rawhide kernel doesn't boot for me

2011-04-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 04/07/2011 07:46 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: I updated my rawhide VM today (on F15 host), but it failed to reboot using the new kernel, vmlinuz-2.6.39-0.rc1.git5.0.fc16.x86_64 I got a failure (VFS diagnostic complaining that the UUID-specified root partition

Re: gcc-4.6.0-0.11.fc15.x86_64 breaks strcmp?

2011-03-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Compiling libguestfs using gcc-4.6.0-0.11.fc15.x86_64 gives lots of: error: assuming signed overflow does not occur when changing X +- C1 cmp C2 to X cmp C1 +- C2 [-Werror=strict-overflow] These seem to be associated with code that does 'if (strcmp (s1, s2) == 0)'

Re: gcc-4.6.0-0.12.fc15.x86_64 breaks strcmp?

2011-03-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Adam Jackson wrote: On 3/7/11 10:35 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Below is how the failure line expands(!) Thanks, I needed a laugh this morning. If I do this as a minimal testcase: --- #include string.h #include stdio.h int do_rm_rf (const char *path) { int r; char *buf,

Re: fail to install gcc on fresh rawhide-from-F15

2011-02-23 Thread Jim Meyering
James Antill wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 22:38 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: With some effort, and help from the guys on #anaconda@freenode (thanks!), today I finally installed a bare-metal F15 system (part of the complication was my existing partitions). Then I updated it to rawhide. However

Re: fail to install gcc on fresh rawhide-from-F15

2011-02-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Andreas Schwab wrote: Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net writes: --- Package glibc.x86_64 0:2.8.90-11 will be a downgrade Where did you get that ANCIENT package? It's almost 3 years(!) old. I have *no* idea. As I said, I installed F15 (into existing partitions, but told anaconda to format

fail to install gcc on fresh rawhide-from-F15

2011-02-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Hi, With some effort, and help from the guys on #anaconda@freenode (thanks!), today I finally installed a bare-metal F15 system (part of the complication was my existing partitions). Then I updated it to rawhide. However, the whole point of this was to be able to compile and test some things,

Re: Plans for BTRFS in Fedora

2011-02-22 Thread Jim Meyering
[...btrfs and read-only root,/etc...] Music to my ears. Glad you're working on this. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

rawhide woes

2011-02-03 Thread Jim Meyering
TL;DR if you have a working rawhide system, you may want to refrain from updating it for a little while. I have been maintaining a headless rawhide system for more than two years, updating every 1-4 days. There have been a few hassles, but nothing terrible. Today however, after an update and a

use MALLOC_PERTURB_ ... or lose

2010-05-05 Thread Jim Meyering
If you are into development on glibc-based systems and do not set MALLOC_PERTURB_ to a nonzero value, then you are missing an easy opportunity to detect subtle bugs early. Sure, you can use valgrind, and it will detect whatever a MALLOC_PERTURB_ setting would have caught, and more, but it's far

Re: use MALLOC_PERTURB_ ... or lose

2010-05-05 Thread Jim Meyering
H. Guémar wrote: This is useful enough that it is worth considering for inclusion in /etc/profile. during development cycle: +1 for stable/production release: not so much (users would hate us for that) It's definitely not suitable for everyone. My suggestion was intended to be provocative

Re: use MALLOC_PERTURB_ ... or lose

2010-05-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Michal Schmidt wrote: On Wed, 05 May 2010 17:30:29 +0200 Jim Meyering wrote: I propose (seriously, now) to add this to /etc/profile, or to some always-sourced file like /etc/profile.d/glibc.sh: # Enable glibc's malloc perturbing feature in Rawhide. # http://udrepper.livejournal.com

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-26 Thread Jim Meyering
James Antill wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 15:52 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: I've just realized that I had a list of all packages/versions that were installed as of a few weeks ago (April 5). In case it helps: Yah - the history sqlite file you

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Frank Murphy wrote: On 22/04/10 22:01, Jim Meyering wrote: There was only one: history-2010-03-08.sqlite BZ-attached here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/584997 Read up on: yum-plugin-protect-packages if your going on autopilot. Thanks. Installed. IMHO, one should always be able to run yum

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Seth Vidal wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: On 22/04/10 22:01, Jim Meyering wrote: There was only one: history-2010-03-08.sqlite BZ-attached here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/584997 Read up on: yum-plugin-protect-packages if your going on autopilot

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Seth Vidal wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: Seth Vidal wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: On 22/04/10 22:01, Jim Meyering wrote: There was only one: history-2010-03-08.sqlite BZ-attached here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/584997 Read up

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Seth Vidal wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: I hope it's just me... but I was very dismayed to find that today's F13 update (which pulled in a lot of changes) hosed my laptop. It removed almost everything from /boot, and removed or emptied /sbin, /bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/bin

Re: F-13 Branched report: 20100402 changes

2010-04-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Branched Report wrote: ... Removed package 4ti2 Removed package bakefile Removed package cppi ... Why has cppi been removed? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F-13 Branched report: 20100402 changes

2010-04-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Wolff III wrote: ... Removed package cppi ... Why has cppi been removed? Probably the f12 version was being inherited into f13 stable. Currently there is an f13 version in f13 testing. The maintainer can push this to f13 stable if they want it in the release. Oh, ok. Thanks. --

Re: How to become someone's sponsor when they are already sponsored

2010-03-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Jim Meyering (FAS username: meyering) was sponsored by Warren Togami. It seems that Jim can no longer set the fedora-review flag on packages that he's reviewed, and this may be connected with Warren leaving Red Hat for new pastures yesterday. In any case I've agreed

Re: How to become someone's sponsor when they are already sponsored

2010-03-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Dan Horák wrote: Richard W.M. Jones píše v Čt 18. 03. 2010 v 12:01 +: Jim Meyering (FAS username: meyering) was sponsored by Warren Togami. It seems that Jim can no longer set the fedora-review flag on packages that he's reviewed, and this may be connected with Warren leaving Red Hat

Re: How to become someone's sponsor when they are already sponsored

2010-03-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Jim Meyering (FAS username: meyering) was sponsored by Warren Togami. It seems that Jim can no longer set the fedora-review flag on packages that he's reviewed, and this may be connected with Warren leaving Red Hat for new pastures yesterday

Re: How to become someone's sponsor when they are already sponsored

2010-03-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Mamoru Tasaka wrote: ... My recognition is that if you change your email in FAS it may take about an hour or so for RH bugzilla database to recognize it. Thank you. I will be patient ;-) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: How to become someone's sponsor when they are already sponsored

2010-03-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Dan Horák wrote: Jim Meyering píše v Čt 18. 03. 2010 v 13:24 +0100: Dan Horák wrote: Richard W.M. Jones píše v Čt 18. 03. 2010 v 12:01 +: Jim Meyering (FAS username: meyering) was sponsored by Warren Togami. It seems that Jim can no longer set the fedora-review flag on packages

caution: avoid unpatched automake [CVE-2009-4029]

2010-02-10 Thread Jim Meyering
There was a nasty flaw in _every_ automake-generated Makefile.in until recently[*]. When making releases, most of us who maintain automake-using packages run make dist or make distcheck. Even if you don't, your users may. The flaw put all of us at risk. With a Makefile.in file generated by

Re: caution: avoid unpatched automake [CVE-2009-4029]

2010-02-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: There was a nasty flaw in _every_ automake-generated Makefile.in until recently[*]. When making releases, most of us who maintain To clarify, the vulnerability affects the distdir commands that appear only in so-called top-level Makefile.in files. Note however, that some

Re: caution: avoid unpatched automake [CVE-2009-4029]

2010-02-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Jon Masters wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 10:58 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: There was a nasty flaw in _every_ automake-generated Makefile.in until recently[*]. When making releases, most of us who maintain automake-using packages run make dist or make distcheck. Even if you don't, your users

Re: disk woes: revive w/o-reboot after SATA START_STOP FAILED?

2010-01-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: Hello, I've just returned one relatively new disk drive[*], and hope I'm not about to return another... [*] It was a 1TB Samsung ecogreen, and some strenuous testing would reliably provoke I/O errors which would apparently damage the disk enough to force