Latest rawhide may destroy /boot

2012-11-25 Thread darrell pfeifer
Last night on my rawhide laptop I installed kernel 3.7.0-0.rc6.git4.1.fc19. Upon reboot I got a grub shell prompt. Turns out my /boot was empty. I've been installing and using pretty much every recent kernel, including the nodebug ones. I notice that I also installed a newer version of dracut a

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-12 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.comwrote: On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 11:08 -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: Let Fedora help bring to market better hardware. Do not agree that Microsoft should have the Hardware Root Key on just about all x86 style computers for

Re: filesystem

2012-02-04 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 16:27, Harald Hoyer harald.ho...@gmail.com wrote: Am 04.02.2012 02:47 schrieb darrell pfeifer darrel...@gmail.com: c) the switch was pulled at a time when the main people who made the change were available rather than known to be away at a conference We are reading

filesystem

2012-02-03 Thread darrell pfeifer
As far as I've seen on the list, the /usr move stuff was supposed to be confined by tagging to f17-usermove so it wouldn't affect rawhide until the big switch was pulled. Trying to update from koji (which will appear in rawhide tomorrow) gives - Upgrade 2 Packages

Re: filesystem

2012-02-03 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 16:33, Jason L Tibbitts III ti...@math.uh.eduwrote: dp == darrell pfeifer darrel...@gmail.com writes: dp As far as I've seen on the list, the /usr move stuff was supposed to dp be confined by tagging to f17-usermove so it wouldn't affect rawhide dp until the big

Re: filesystem

2012-02-03 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 17:15, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 16:27 -0800, darrell pfeifer wrote: As far as I've seen on the list, the /usr move stuff was supposed to be confined by tagging to f17-usermove so it wouldn't affect rawhide until the big switch

Re: filesystem

2012-02-03 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 17:53, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 17:47 -0800, darrell pfeifer wrote: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 17:15, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 16:27 -0800, darrell pfeifer wrote

Re: SELinux-related Rawhide breakage today

2012-02-01 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 14:16, Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 But as long as we live in the Rawhide/Non Rawhide world things are going to be strange and mistakes are going to happen. Why anyone is on Rawhide and not trying out usrmove

system clock stuck on utc

2011-12-21 Thread darrell pfeifer
The latest rawhide/kernel leaves the system clock stuck on UTC. My local time shows up as what is really UTC. This has happened on two different systems I've updated. I'm using ntp which appears to be running just fine. Still looking for the cause. darrell -- devel mailing list

initramfs not being created for last couple of kernels

2011-12-16 Thread darrell pfeifer
The last couple of rawhide kernels (including the one from today) have failed to boot for me because there is no initramfs. There is no dracut log, the initrd line is missing from the grub2 paragraphs and there is no corresponding /boot/initramfs. Is there already a bugzilla entry for this?

Re: initramfs not being created for last couple of kernels

2011-12-16 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:22, Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:19 PM, darrell pfeifer darrel...@gmail.com wrote: The last couple of rawhide kernels (including the one from today) have failed to boot for me because there is no initramfs. There is no dracut

Re: koji rawhide broken

2011-10-22 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 05:30, Iain Arnell iarn...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone able to fix koji rawhide buildroot? DEBUG util.py:247: Error: Package: kernel-3.1.0-0.rc10.git1.1.fc17.i686 (build) DEBUG util.py:247: Requires: grubby = 8.3-1 DEBUG util.py:247:

grubby and the transition from grub to grub2

2011-10-16 Thread darrell pfeifer
How does grubby decide which boot loader is running? I have a system upgraded from grub to grub2. I've yum erased grub and grub-efi. I also move/renamed /boot/grub elsewhere. Is that sufficient for grubby to update the next kernel install via grub2? darrell -- devel mailing list

grub-efi replaces grub and grub2 along the way?

2011-10-14 Thread darrell pfeifer
I did an update which I thought was going to do everything but grub but this happened: # yum update --exclude=grub Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package grub.x86_64 1:0.97-79.fc16 will be

upgrading from grub to grub2

2011-10-04 Thread darrell pfeifer
The wiki at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Grub2 has instructions for upgrading from grub to grub2. Do these instructions still apply, or will 'yum install grub2' do the work in the post install script? darrell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 16 feels slow

2011-09-14 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 13:28, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 13:46:40 -0700, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: They weren't; see my numbers in the related bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735268 ). The debug overhead appears to

Re: What do rawhide testers want and expect?

2011-09-12 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 08:57, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.comwrote: In reading the long trash each other fest that accompanies pre-release jitters, could we start on a cleaner plate? What do the people who are using rawhide day-in/day-out expect out of the channel? What level of pain

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

2011-09-10 Thread darrell pfeifer
Jim, Fails for me too, with the same error. darrell On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:28, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: 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 -- devel

Re: Gnome borked?

2011-06-22 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 13:04, Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7...@cox.netwrote: On 06/20/2011 06:46 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: Hi, After doing a rather large update to my rawhide box, it seems that it no longer wants to play fair with Gnome giving a very unfriendly Something has gone wrong

Re: Gnome borked?

2011-06-20 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 04:41, Paul Johnson p...@all-the-johnsons.co.ukwrote: Hi Its both a black screen of death and a black box process. Very frustrating. In gnome 2 when the session crashed one could still run apps (add the term shortut to nautilus, right click on the desktop and

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 09:04, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: On 5/10/11 11:34 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: Things breaking in Rawhide are not a surprise; indeed, if it doesn't occasionally bite the hand that's feeding it, somebody probably isn't trying hard enough. But if it can

Re: xorg-x11 gone squiffy in rawhide?

2011-04-21 Thread darrell pfeifer
I had the same problem. I'm using the intel driver. Backed out xorg to a previous version. darrell On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 08:40, Paul Johnson p...@all-the-johnsons.co.ukwrote: Hi, Just done quite a big update to my rawhide box, performed a reboot and have been left without an x server. I

Re: xorg-x11 gone squiffy in rawhide?

2011-04-21 Thread darrell pfeifer
I'm running 1.10.0-5.fc16 (There were two 1.10.99 newer versions) darrell On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 08:48, Paul Johnson p...@all-the-johnsons.co.ukwrote: Hi, On 21 April 2011 16:45, darrell pfeifer darrel...@gmail.com wrote: I had the same problem. I'm using the intel driver. Backed out

Re: httpd and svn problems (rawhide)

2011-01-03 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 08:53, Paul F. Johnson p...@all-the-johnsons.co.ukwrote: First is httpd (apache). I can do /etc/init.d/httpd stop and the server stops, but when I try to start the server I get Starting httpd (via systemctl): Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for

Re: Nautilus still no go in rawhide

2010-09-26 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 09:30, Tom London seli...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:21 PM, darrell pfeifer darrel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:55, Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 14:04 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: (nautilus

Re: Nautilus still no go in rawhide

2010-09-25 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:55, Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 14:04 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: (nautilus:11408): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed Segmentation fault (core dumped) There also seem to be

Re: Rawhide x86_64: WiFi completely hosed, ditto GDM

2010-09-23 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 17:04, Horst H. von Brand vonbr...@inf.utfsm.clwrote: As of yesterday there simply is no way to get WiFi (iwlagn here) to work. Restarting NetworkManager, avahi-daemon, udevd, dbus has no effect. Restrarting nm-applet does nothing, no response to iwconfig ow iw. The

Re: CUPS problem

2010-09-09 Thread darrell pfeifer
Paul, The following is in BZ : 632042 I'm seeing this with my Samsung ML2250 (my box is using Rawhide, updated today 09/09/10) so it looks like the problem is not with hplip but with CUPS or CUPS/Gutenprint However, looking at koji, the last update to Cups was 20th Aug but I've seen no

Re: rawhide rocks! [was Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)]

2010-08-30 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 15:56, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:11:06PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: A typical developer wants the dependencies of the software they are working on to be _very_ up to date - probably not the upstream development version, but

Re: Fedora 14 has been branched!

2010-07-30 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:00, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/30/2010 06:00 AM, John Poelstra wrote: Jesse Keating said the following on 07/29/2010 09:03 PM Pacific Time: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: Fedora 14 has been branched!

2010-07-30 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:45, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us wrote: On Friday, July 30, 2010 12:24:06 pm darrell pfeifer wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:00, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/30/2010 06:00 AM, John

Re: Fedora 14 has been branched!

2010-07-30 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:45, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us wrote: On Friday, July 30, 2010 12:24:06 pm darrell pfeifer wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:00, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/30/2010 06:00 AM, John

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd is now the default init system in rawhide

2010-07-30 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 14:05, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 21:56 -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote: I also had the same problem with one core using 100% CPU, in my case for Xorg. I've filed a bug on this - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619889

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd is now the default init system in rawhide

2010-07-28 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 23:34, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: First it seems that my boot would fail. It was unable to find or run a 'default.target' and would hang. Unfortunately it advises you to check the logs, but since syslog isn't up yet and you can't do anything to look at dmesg

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd is now the default init system in rawhide

2010-07-28 Thread darrell pfeifer
I installed the latest systemd and added the appropriate symbolic link to graphical startup. My system hangs when almost complete at the plymouth throbber. In text mode it gets to the end of starting services and hangs. gdm never starts. In /var/log/messages, these seem to be the suspicious

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd is now the default init system in rawhide

2010-07-28 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 19:33, goinea...@aol.com wrote: Add init=/sbin/upstart to the end of the kernel line and it will boot up using upstart. Last lines in my boot read failing to load default.service and then failing to start default.service. Check one of the recent previous messages.

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd is now the default init system in rawhide

2010-07-28 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 21:20, goinea...@aol.com wrote: I found a fix on bugzilla: rpm -e --nodeps systemd-units yum install systemd-units Which created the symlinks and default.service which seemed to be missing, and allowed the boot to finish, but I may have been to quick to use it. One

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd is now the default init system in rawhide

2010-07-23 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 18:26, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.dewrote: Heya, I have just uploaded a new systemd and a new upstart package which make systemd the default init system for Rawhide. The scheme I followed makes sure that in case systemd actually breaks systems there is an

Re: possibly rough day in rawhide

2010-06-21 Thread darrell pfeifer
Thanks for the warning (they really are appreciated). I updated to koji from the last hour, just to be a bit insane. With all the gnome and glib changes in place, gnome gets to the point of displaying the desktop icons. The panel never appears and the three desktop icons keep flashing rapidly,

Re: rawhide report: 20100213 changes

2010-02-13 Thread darrell pfeifer
Mike, On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 17:00 +, Rawhide Report wrote: kernel-2.6.33-0.44.rc8.git0.fc13 * Fri Feb 12 2010 Chuck Ebbert cebb...@redhat.com 2.6.33-0.44.rc8 - 2.6.33-rc8 * Fri Feb 12 2010 Chuck Ebbert cebb...@redhat.com 2.6.33-0.43.rc7.git6 -

Re: rawhide report: 20100213 changes

2010-02-13 Thread darrell pfeifer
2010/2/13 Tomasz Torcz to...@pipebreaker.pl On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:35:53AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 09:27:59 -0800, darrell pfeifer darrel...@gmail.com wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562514 You may have to edit you grub.conf

update means only runlevel 1

2010-01-29 Thread darrell pfeifer
i did an update this morning that took my machine from current rawhide to a few koji updates. included were dracut, udev and i memory serves me right, a minor initscript cleanup. now i can't get any farther than runlevell 1. going to even runlevel 3 hangs. any suggestions of what might be

Re: Unable to start X

2010-01-25 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 14:29, Mike Chambers m...@miketc.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 13:04 -0800, darrell pfeifer wrote: There was some breakage recently with the graphic boot. Try hitting the escape key on boot to get the text startup instead. This an xorg-server issue