Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
then a single keypress to get you to that advanced startup mode/target. The startup chime on Apple hardware is done by the firmware. It happens regardless of the OS installed. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:31 PM, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:24:28 -0600 Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: If the bioses and systems years ago had been opaque we wouldn't have gotten this far. Please elaborate on this, and define this far

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
, with Fedora 18, Recovery options in the Advanced submenu are now suppressed. So users need to know how to edit GRUB entries to get to single user, emergency or rescue modes, as a troubleshoot method. This is obscure. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Every text editor crashed

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
, the basics, see what's working correctly and not. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
they need to find it. Their trouble is brief. There is zero information in the GRUB menu that conveys kernel fallback as a troubleshooting method. It's completely non-obvious until you learn it (from a source other than the GRUB menu). Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2013, at 8:45 AM, john.flor...@dart.biz wrote: From: Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com Kernel update breaks system. User ignorant of hold-down key approach is stuck. Menu at least advertises possibility of alternative. This logic doesn't work. The user ignorant

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 12.03.2013 17:32, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 12, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Jiří Eischmann eischm...@redhat.com wrote: New kernels bring a lot of regressions and we don't have enough test coverage to avoid them

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
heals' by automatically falling back to a prior kernel in case that'll help resolve the problem. With btrfs snapshots before updates, more than just the prior kernel can be fallen back to. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Adams
(and Fedora, especially with GRUB2, makes it difficult to do that, since you have to know how to edit the kernel command line to add rescue). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
! It's a fuzzy variation of if you don't like it in this country, get the f out! It's so warm and cuddly! Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
shouldn't have nearly as many kernel induced problems upon release, and if it does it's likely a VM or bare meta and boy wouldn't it be nice if it did fallback on its own? Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
, and file systems of all things, never having a single chance of seeing such things? They weren't merely hidden from me. They didn't even exist. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: f19 mass branching

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Adams
branch?). There should be some safety check that no more than X% of files get removed in a push (where X is probably small). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Murphy
suppressing the GRUB menu by default. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Murphy
is rejected just in case the video is garbled. Perhaps something similar can be leveraged for a one time boot, just to ensure at least video is functioning? Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org said: Worse than that, having grub check for a held key will significantly slow down the boot process even if there's no key being held. How long is significantly? How hard is it to check for a keypress? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Adams
installing, there's no obvious way to boot back to their normal Windows install. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com said: On 03/13/2013 02:33 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Also, dropping the boot loader menu might be okay for single-OS systems (I'm not convinced, but whatever). What about dual-boot? If I tell someone running Windows to try Fedora to see Linux

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Murphy
, in this brave new fast boot world, how is one expected to get to the BIOS or firmware set-up programs? Firmware specific. F1 and F2 are very common. HP and some Toshibas are Esc. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Is there a reason we do not turn on the file system hardlink/symlink protection in Rawhide?

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Adams
it (but nobody else could), or root could create a symlink in /tmp that everybody could follow. I didn't find a detailed description of the hardlink protection right off, however it did apparently break existing programs, so it was disabled by default. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org said: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 01:28:36PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org said: Worse than that, having grub check for a held key will significantly slow down the boot process even

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Adams
, etc. Unless you have a 100% fail-proof method of detecting failed boots, you're just setting up a system where a stuck boot is unrecoverable without additional resources (such as a rescue CD). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org said: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 02:52:23PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: That doesn't seem all that significant to me; I guess we have different measures (to me significantly slow down the boot process would be something on the order of 5-10

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 13, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Mike Pinkerton pseli...@mindspring.com wrote: On 13 Mar 2013, at 14:51, Chris Murphy wrote: By the way, in this brave new fast boot world, how is one expected to get to the BIOS or firmware set-up programs? Firmware specific. F1 and F2 are very common

Re: Is there a reason we do not turn on the file system hardlink/symlink protection in Rawhide?

2013-03-14 Thread Chris Adams
, but damage is averted at the last possible moment. That is for symlink protection I believe. There's no way to do any hardlink protection at lookup time. Basically, these are two very different things being lumped together, and they should be addressed individually. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-14 Thread Chris Adams
care about Windows 8 hardware (and apparently, neither does much of the computer market), so that is hardly a useful measuring stick. If this is all about optimizing for Windows 8 hardware, then IMHO that's a waste of time. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: Is there a reason we do not turn on the file system hardlink/symlink protection in Rawhide?

2013-03-14 Thread Chris Adams
), if you can't trust the boot environment, you are already hosed. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Is there a reason we do not turn on the file system hardlink/symlink protection in Rawhide?

2013-03-14 Thread Chris Adams
of the standard sysctl settings are in the file /usr/lib/sysctl.d/00-system.conf, which comes from initscripts. I see no reason to create another file, just to add a couple more defaults. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: Is there a reason we do not turn on the file system hardlink/symlink protection in Rawhide?

2013-03-15 Thread Chris Adams
testing. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: fedora release name problem

2013-03-18 Thread Chris Murphy
in the French Quarter where there's always room for one more. And is fixing this apostrophe issue going to have some clear benefit anywhere else? It's 2013, this is the 19th release of Fedora, and this is the first time it's come up? Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: fedora release name problem

2013-03-18 Thread Chris Murphy
distribution only, but I'm skeptical. For a public project I don't think it's appropriate. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: fedora release name problem

2013-03-19 Thread Chris Adams
with non ASCII alphanumeric characters is chosen). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: fedora release name problem

2013-03-19 Thread Chris Adams
on it now for F20. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Keeping old versions of packages

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Adams
scanning across 5 packages 100GB on a SAN. It would also have a significant impact on the mirror servers' disk space (speaking for a mirror that is running low on disk and no $$ to upgrade). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: Keeping old versions of packages

2013-04-10 Thread Chris Adams
. Your only practical choice for distribution is HTTP; rsync has much higher server overhead and only available on some mirrors. If you want anything other than the full download, it'll have to be in the form of additional repodata files generated as part of the push. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net

Re: UEFI testing of F19 Alpha RC2 requested

2013-04-10 Thread Chris Adams
mirror, or do I need to download the full DVD? Alternately: is it sufficient to just boot from the images in my local development/19 mirror (so I don't have to download anything new)? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

2013-04-15 Thread Chris Adams
in the last 3 years and there have been security issues (where %changelog entries might be the only documentation that issues have been fixed). Certainly no entries that mention CVEs should be auto-removed if the package version hasn't changed. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: Another UEFI testing request

2013-04-16 Thread Chris Adams
don't have anything current on the drive, so I chose not to preserve anything. I tried a minimal install; no problems up to the bootloader, which gave me an unknown error. Also, I tried to report the failure to BZ or save it, and I got another unknown error. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems

Re: Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

2013-04-17 Thread Chris Adams
or how many). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Expanding the list of Hardened Packages

2013-04-18 Thread Chris Adams
is not possible in another non-C language. eg. Passing a libvirt virDomainPtr from (Perl) Sys::Virt to Sys::Guestfs. Why do you say that? I'm pretty sure you can. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself

Re: Expanding the list of Hardened Packages

2013-04-18 Thread Chris Adams
object/library/module/etc. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Expanding the list of Hardened Packages

2013-04-18 Thread Chris Adams
able (or not) to pass pointers. That's the API of the two modules not supporting what you want to do. I'm pretty sure the APIs of the modules could be changed to support this, assuming the underlying libraries support it. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

Re: Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

2013-04-19 Thread Chris Adams
and other security fixes. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Another UEFI testing request

2013-04-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net said: The system is a Zotac Zbox nano AD10. I downloaded the image from the above URL and put it on an SD card and did a UEFI boot. I don't have anything current on the drive, so I chose not to preserve anything. I tried a minimal install

Re: F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

2013-05-02 Thread Chris Adams
to designate the directory dir for the particular image. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

2013-05-02 Thread Chris Murphy
computers, went with two DVD's for a period, even though they had hardware that supported DVD/DL. There's precedent. If it's going to cause aneurisms figuring out what to drop, just use two images. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

2013-05-02 Thread Chris Murphy
such as the bigger apps, from the local media. Or LiveDVD iso remains DVD/SL for both current and older hardware. And the install DVD (not-live) moves to DVD/DL. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-05-01)

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Adams
to first explicitly state that release names must be encoded in UTF-8, and second list the forbidden glyphs with their codepoint number (to avoid ambiguities). I don't think so, because I don't think the shell recognizes anything but the 7-bit characters as special. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net

Re: F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Adams
?). That still has the dependencies problem though. I don't know if all of that is worth the trouble. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Adams
already.) At this point, why is there a source RPM ISO? Does anybody actually use it to get source RPMs? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel

Re: F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to said: On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:12:09 -0500, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: At this point, why is there a source RPM ISO? Does anybody actually use it to get source RPMs? I suspect it is mainly for GPL compliance. It has

Re: F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Adams
to choose Gnome desktop, network server, etc. I would say that sounds like there was something wrong with your repo. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 3, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that this is a major security risk and that this is a new UI change going forward and this is not a bug. Do you think this is a good idea? No. I think it's a bug, and a bug should be filed on it. Chris Murphy

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Murphy
their password entry.) Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Adams
is that passwords are not displayed on the screen. Many people look down at the keyboard to type and would not necessarily look up as they are typing the password. So, they probably won't know the password is displayed in the clear on their screen until they are done. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net

Re: F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

2013-05-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Mike Pinkerton pseli...@mindspring.com said: On 3 May 2013, at 15:07, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Mike Pinkerton pseli...@mindspring.com said: Does anaconda check package signatures for the netinstall? I believe so. Checksums are definately checked (RPM won't

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Chris Murphy
this means. On my MBP these characters are printed in all applications including in anaconda's plaintext password field. I've yet to experience the behavior you describe on any Mac. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Murphy
is a common cross platform behavior. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Adams
validation _during_ install, not prior to install. How many people compare the ISO checksum and the signature on the checksum file? AFAIK there is not automated tool to do that, so it is a bunch of manual steps. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet

Re: Adding open-vm-tools to core group

2013-05-07 Thread Chris Adams
for the system to be functional, so open-vm-tools does not belong in @core. It's only a little disk space is not a valid reason for it to be in @core; that path leads to dozens of it's only a little disk space in @core (which would add up to a lot of disk space). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-09 Thread Chris Adams
of debate, especially on-line where it is easy to review the thread before posting. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Murphy
userspace hit on the startup time where the kernel takes 1.9 seconds. Off hand this doesn't seem reasonable, especially sendmail. If the time can't be brought down by a lot, can it ship disabled by default? Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com said: In sendmail's defense, the time is about the same on F18. (It's consistently a bit faster in an F19 VM running on the same F18 system as host.) When sendmail takes that long, there's a configuration problem (which could

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 14, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com said: In sendmail's defense, the time is about the same on F18. (It's consistently a bit faster in an F19 VM running on the same F18 system as host.) When sendmail

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 14, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Jeffrey Bastian jbast...@redhat.com wrote: I wonder if there are other oddities like this that are skewing the statistics reported by systemd-analyze. It's not just a statistical skewing, I'm getting 30+ second delays before I can ssh into the system. Chris

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com said: The only things related to networking I change is setting a hostname from localhost to f18s, f19s or f19q; and occasionally adding the b43 firmware if I decide to go wireless. Do you add the changed hostname to /etc/hosts

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Murphy
chris@f19q.local Whereas if I change the hostname to f19q.localdomain, to ssh into the system now I have to use a non-obvious, nonstandard: ssh chris@f19qlocaldomain So the addition of localdomain doesn't seem like the right fix. sendmail is just being stupid in my view, and not failing

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 14, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com said: The only things related to networking I change is setting a hostname from localhost to f18s, f19s or f19q; and occasionally adding the b43 firmware if I decide

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Murphy
on other platforms so I don't understand the advantage of it being needed on Fedora. And if I use it, I end up with worse problems in that more services have long delays rather than just sendmail and sm-client, and I can no longer do ssh chris@f19q.local but rather I have to type chris@f19qlocaldomain

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Murphy
in that more services have long delays rather than just sendmail and sm-client, and I can no longer do ssh chris@f19q.local but rather I have to type chris@f19qlocaldomain. I know you said that, but as I wrote in the bug, I can't reproduce that at all. I use foo.localdomain hostnames, I don't

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-15 Thread Chris Adams
a connecting socket to wait for that). Maybe that could be done with a separate firstboot-like service that gets disabled once run? -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Default-installed MTA (was Re: MTA virtual provides craziness)

2013-05-15 Thread Chris Adams
that these are insurmountable issues, just that that's where things stand today (to my knowledge). -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-15 Thread Chris Adams
on a human scale rather hundreds per second), is there a disadvantage to socket activation beyond a very slight delay in the first access? Well, SSH connection rate is on human scale until your system is the target of a scan, which can result in at least dozens per second. -- Chris Adams li

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-15 Thread Chris Adams
smaller... The difference is that when sshd is running as a traditional daemon, it can do all of its start-up processing once (parsing config files, loading host keys, etc.), instead of for each connection. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 15, 2013, at 4:49 AM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Tue, 14.05.13 17:58, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: Static hostname: f19q.localdomain Takes 1.5 minutes before I can ssh into the VM, but the sendmail.service is now about 2 seconds instead

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 15, 2013, at 9:53 AM, Jeffrey Bastian jbast...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 05:58:42PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: And avahi doesn't play nice with the localdomain extension anyway. Without the extension I ssh into boxes just like I do from Windows or OS X: ssh chris

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Murphy
on a fresh install if it is enabled? That result was from a fresh install in a qemu-kvm VM. Fresh installed (wipefs -a the F19 partitions, then remove the partitions with fdisk, reinstall) on bare metal, and on the fifth reboot I get: 17.495s restorecond.service Chris Murphy

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Murphy
component to file a bug against? I guess I have to find the package that caused these .service files to be installed? Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Murphy
, but 10 seconds seems like a lot of time, but is it? Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Adams
seem to me like a good idea to see if there is some underlying issue at work here. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 16, 2013, at 12:57 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 12:51 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: And I missed one other I don't understand, which is a top 3 offender: 9.855s accounts-daemon.service # We pull this in by graphical.target instead

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 16, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Heiko Adams heiko.ad...@gmail.com said: My top 6 of extreme long starting services are: $ systemd-analyze blame 27.652s NetworkManager.service 27.072s chronyd.service 27.015s avahi

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 16, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: I wonder if wireless connectivity is related? When I reboot with and without a wired connection attached, I get the same result. But maybe wireless is causing delays just by being configured, even if a wired

wired ethernet disabled between reboots, was: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 16, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: OK well this isn't right. On every reboot, wireless is activated and connected to. But the wired connection is disabled. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963952 The most relevant line I'm finding

Re: wired ethernet disabled between reboots, was: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Murphy
deleted the VM. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: wired ethernet disabled between reboots, was: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Murphy
on the Live media, which works on every boot. Flummoxed. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: wired ethernet disabled between reboots, was: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 16, 2013, at 3:36 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: Rebooted. I still have the problem. Wired connection is Off on each reboot. This happens even if I regress to the 3.9.0 kernel that's used on the Live media, which works on every boot. Flummoxed. I found part

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 16, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: But maybe wireless is causing delays just by being configured, even if a wired connection is available? Not really. The one improvement is in NetworkManager-wait-online.service which with a wired connection instead

Re: wired ethernet disabled between reboots, was: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 16, 2013, at 10:49 PM, Dan Williams d...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 15:44 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On May 16, 2013, at 3:36 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: Rebooted. I still have the problem. Wired connection is Off on each reboot. This happens even

Re: when startup delays become bugs (dmraid)

2013-05-17 Thread Chris Adams
, it becomes more difficult (like Windows) to deal with any problems, hardware upgrades, etc. down the road. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 17, 2013, at 2:38 PM, Ric Wheeler rwhee...@redhat.com wrote: On 05/16/2013 02:39 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 16.05.13 12:20, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: There have been no crashes, so ext4 doesn't need fsck on every boot: 4.051s systemd-fsck

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 17, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Eric Sandeen sand...@redhat.com wrote: On 5/17/13 3:58 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Seems some extra complexity is needed anyway since the way to deal with file system problems differs with the various fs's. XFS and Btrfs fsck's are noops. XFS needs xfs_repair run

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 17, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Eric Sandeen sand...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 16.05.13 12:20, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: There have been no crashes, so ext4 doesn't need fsck on every boot: 4.051s systemd-fsck-root.service 515ms systemd

Re: wired ethernet disabled between reboots, was: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Murphy
this way for WiFi. It's inconsistent. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: wired ethernet disabled between reboots, was: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 21, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 21.05.2013 22:02, schrieb Chris Murphy: Maybe someone can explain to me the use case for ONBOOT= where its value isn't tied to the current network state. I wasted an inordinate, unreasonable amount of time

Re: wired ethernet disabled between reboots, was: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 21, 2013, at 2:08 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 14:02 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: 1. Connect Automatically may work as designed, but it's a flawed design. It makes no sense to have an admin user enable a network through the Gnome shell toolbar

Re: wired ethernet disabled between reboots, was: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 21, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 21.05.2013 22:25, schrieb Chris Murphy: On May 21, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 21.05.2013 22:02, schrieb Chris Murphy: Maybe someone can explain to me the use case for ONBOOT

Re: wired ethernet disabled between reboots, was: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 21, 2013, at 2:51 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 14:33 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On May 21, 2013, at 2:08 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 14:02 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: I'm just trying to figure out

Re: wired ethernet disabled between reboots, was: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 21, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Dan Williams d...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 14:02 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Automatically may work as designed, but it's a flawed design. It makes no sense to have an admin user enable a network through the Gnome shell toolbar icon (Network icon

Re: wired ethernet disabled between reboots, was: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 21, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Dan Williams d...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 14:33 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Is Gnome Settings Network leveraging Network Manager? If so, it's using a different naming convention than systemd, and it seems the two are involved in some non

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