PackageKit Password Prompt on Fedora 36

2022-04-16 Thread Mark Bidewell
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Building Kernels in Fedora 32

2020-03-10 Thread Mark Bidewell
black screen. Normal Fedora kernels work and I have disabled UEFI secure boot. Kernels I build in a QEMU VM with a BIOS work so I think this is related to UEFI. Any ideas how to debug? -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell ___

Re: Fedora 32 Wifi Loss

2020-02-24 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:59 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2/24/20 5:51 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > Looks like an issue with firmware: > > > > Feb 24 20:32:51 precision7530-lan kernel: iwlwifi :6e:00.0: no > > suitable firmware found! > > Feb 24 20:32:51 preci

Re: Fedora 32 Wifi Loss

2020-02-24 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 4:27 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2/24/20 1:02 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > Sorry if this is the wrong list for this, but since this refers to > > Fedora 32 I figured I would start here. I updated to the Fedora 32 > > Branched release and my Wifi no

Fedora 32 Wifi Loss

2020-02-24 Thread Mark Bidewell
show does not show the card. Leftover kernels from F31 still work fine with Wifi. My card is an Intel Wireless AC 9260 Any suggestions on how to debug? -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell ___ devel mailing list -- devel

Re: Stop please

2016-01-08 Thread Mark Bidewell
/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Unfortunately GMail's web interface does not seem to recognize those headers :(. So a fair number of uses will have issues. BTW thats a great tip on the headers, never know about them until today -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk)

2013-07-26 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:02 AM, drago01 wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: > >> > >> No one said that stuff should change "unexpectedly" (and that's not > >> what currently happens either). > >> Actually it

Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk)

2013-07-26 Thread Mark Bidewell
apps separation is fundamentally flawed is incorrect. I would say the separation allows for more robust upgrades ( user-installed software doesn't taint the system tree) and more rapid upgrades of apps (a Libreoffice update should have to wait on the Kernel). -- Mark Bidewell h

Fedup Performance

2013-07-02 Thread Mark Bidewell
I am doing an upgrade from F18 to F19 using fedup network and performance is very slow - 3+ hours on a 20 Mbit connection. There seems to be about a 10-15 second delay between package downloads. Is there a reason for this delay? -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell

Re: RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

2013-03-07 Thread Mark Bidewell
/www.happyassassin.net > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/devel<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel> > Are there any records of these FUDCon discussions? Creating defined core of fun

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Bidewell
ponents could easily create problems. KDE however is a tested desktop which I would love to see as the default (or as others have proposed a "no default"). In my opinion Fedora ships the best KDE around. Although early signs seem to point to Kubuntu 13.04 really improving

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 12/07/2012 08:26 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > > > It underscores the need for the base OS or core to be absolutely as > small as possible. FreeBSD provides a good model, small installed system > customize

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Mark Bidewell
er layers to avoid the API issues you mention. Changes within a layer should be independent. I would propose change rates of: Level 1 - 12-18 mos Level 2 - 6-12 mos Level 3 - release as soon as stable packages are available. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mai

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-07 Thread Mark Bidewell
o FreeBSD/Ports. "Core" should be primarily OS kernel, shell utilities and C compiler. Maybe X as well. Extras should be anything not required for an operational system even if installed by the initial install. My biggest beef with Linux packaging has been that, by and large, all packages have to be upgraded in sync if you want to have a supported system. Battle for Wesnoth shouldn't be tied to kernel updates. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-07 Thread Mark Bidewell
;> >> > So what if we actually do .. but in a different way - eg. we would ensure > that we have stable API, no feature breakage in a release for a package > that do belong to "core" and allow faster turnaround for packages in > "extras" .. it's not like locking it down as it used to be but defining > more strict rules for certain set of packages. > > > R > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/devel<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel> > +1 -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-06 Thread Mark Bidewell
y model is that it becomes I want a new version of Libreoffice so now I have to upgrade my entire system from the Kernel on up (and by upgrade I mean clean install) to avoid issues. SC would help decouple system and userland apps which would do wonders for usability. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Yum Package Remove Order

2012-12-01 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 17:24 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le Ven 30 novembre 2012 15:11, Mark Bidewell a écrit : > > > I have been working on packaging software into RPMs for my company. > These > > > RP

Re: Yum Package Remove Order

2012-11-30 Thread Mark Bidewell
s on it, they will be properly removed > when the last > RPM that owns them go away. > > Regards, > Fernando > > ----- Original Message - > > From: "Mark Bidewell" > > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" < > devel@lists.fedoraproj

Yum Package Remove Order

2012-11-30 Thread Mark Bidewell
dependent packages run, they may fail due to files and directories being missing that they expect from the main package leaving things in an inconsistent state. Is this a bug or known behavior we need to account for in some way? Thanks. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell

Re: New release cycle proposal (was Rolling release model philosophy (was ...))

2012-11-06 Thread Mark Bidewell
_mbfshfloal1rpdotto1_**1280.jpg<https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbfshfloal1rpdotto1_1280.jpg> >>> >>> >> > > -- > > @jasonbrooks > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject

Re: Proposal: changing development cycle

2012-11-05 Thread Mark Bidewell
t; Fedora 18.1 >> >> >> |~|------|--| >> >> Fedora 18.2 >> >> >> |~|--|--| >> >> .. >> >> >> How do you think? >> >> Regards, >> Paolo Leoni ~ www.paololeoni.eu >> >> > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Bidewell
QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > The bug is reported here: https://bugzilla.r

Re: Fedora 18 Release name voting and Poll for whether to continue naming releases

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Bidewell
. However, given that each name has a relationship to the one before, there is a linkage. But to your point Jules Verne -> Hot dogs? Not exactly clear. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 18 Release name voting and Poll for whether to continue naming releases

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Bidewell
do with the names as anything else. Ubuntu names are short and easy. Fedora names tend to be more obscure "Lucid" or "Precise" makes more sense than "Zod" or "Beefy" (forget the fat distro connotation...). Also the Ubuntu pattern is clear and wellknown (Ad

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Bidewell
ora > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Given that installing GNOME desktop and Base X via yum yields a functioning desktop, I would assume that the dri

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-19 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:29 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > The VM I used had 1GB of memory. > > It's pretty much impossible for us to just guess why the installer drops > to text mode. You should be able to get X

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-19 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: > >> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Mark Bidewell wrote: >> >> However, no GUI for installation is less than userfriendly >>> >> >> did you g

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-18 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > However, no GUI for installation is less than userfriendly >> > > did you give the VM 768MB or more RAM? > > It might not really need it anymore, but last I checke

Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-18 Thread Mark Bidewell
install (no 'less'). -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Bidewell
iso, the x86_64 is broken. > > > On 03/06/2012 03:43 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: > >> Last night I attempted an install of F17 Alpha on VMWare Fusion. >> 1) My first attempt was using the install DVD. I was redirected into a >> text installer, I was not prompted to sele

Re: F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

2012-03-06 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Martin Stransky wrote: > Try i686 iso, the x86_64 is broken. > > > On 03/06/2012 03:43 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: > >> Last night I attempted an install of F17 Alpha on VMWare Fusion. >> 1) My first attempt was using the install DVD. I wa

F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

2012-03-06 Thread Mark Bidewell
ow on what since the boot screen was up). Has anyone else seen this? -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Torvalds:requiring root password for mundane things is moronic

2012-02-29 Thread Mark Bidewell
o be arguably be more secure than sudo as processes don't run with root permission therefore root privileged cannot be gained by exploiting a program. Another situation where having a group based security would be nice is access to privileged ports. Try running JBoss as

Re: Apple will use LLVM

2012-02-16 Thread Mark Bidewell
this when we > contribute to it" turns it into a thicket) > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel In addition, FreeBSD is working to ensure that the base system can be compiled without gcc so that will add to

Re: Linux Questions Desktop Environment of the Year - interesting result

2012-02-12 Thread Mark Bidewell
most of the "bling" enhances usability. I wish KDE didn't use 5-10% of my CPU at idle. IMO, the DE should attempt to consume as few resources as possible. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

2012-02-07 Thread Mark Bidewell
e is technically closer to the original intent of the filesystem hierarchy standard. /usr/bin is for non-critical system binaries (on some Unix installations, /usr/bin is mounted readonly via NFS). /usr/local and /opt would then be used to hold optional packages. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:12 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: >> I just had a conversation which I believe sheds some light on the >> problem which a rolling release is trying to solve. > > You didn't state how a rolling re

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:15:01 -0500 > Mark Bidewell wrote: > >> I just had a conversation which I believe sheds some light on the >> problem which a rolling release is trying to solve. The example is >> Ubuntu bu

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 26/01/12 17:43, Mark Bidewell wrote: >> >> >> Since he was using Ubuntu I will say distro-supported, but if he was >> using Fedora it would be Fedora supported.  Ruby does not maintain >> distro specif

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 26/01/12 17:15, Mark Bidewell wrote: > >> >> My coworker wants to use Ubuntu LTS for development on Heroku.  He >> wants the stability of an LTS, but he needs a later version of Ruby to >> run the Heroku tool

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Bidewell
about dependencies?" However, if Linux is to succeed we need to be able to be able to work with cases like this one which OS X are fine with i.e. where only one or two packages out of an entire system need to be upgraded leaving the rest of the system alone. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linke

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-24 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 01/24/2012 08:21 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: > >> >> Recommended Cycles for major upgrades for each group: >> 1) User - As soon as possible. >> 2) System - 6 months. >> 3) Core - 12-18 months. > >

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-24 Thread Mark Bidewell
operate these packages should move with utmost caution (Examples: kernel, gcc, glibc, shell). A somewhat stable kernel ABI would help, but that is not happening. Recommended Cycles for major upgrades for each group: 1) User - As soon as possible. 2) System - 6 months. 3) Core - 12-18 months. -- Mark

Re: Security updates for Firefox 4 in F-15

2011-06-27 Thread Mark Bidewell
ackaging cycles changing might it be time to revisit the decision to merge Fedora Core and Extras? Creating separate repos with different goals might be wise. I apologize for the long rant. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Mark Bidewell
ics support there is also the fact that GNOME3/Unity will only run with accelerated graphics which only VirtualBox supports. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

mandb behavior

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Bidewell
, directories specified in the MANPATH environment variable seem to be ignored. Are these intended? Thanks -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Mark Bidewell
ow for this or will we be back to Windows with only one VNC session per computer. Linux/Unix is designed around multiuser/multisession, I believe we would be amiss to remove those capabilities from the OS. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

i686/x86_64 dual install media

2010-10-24 Thread Mark Bidewell
2-bit laptop would be quite nice. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: clutter on F13 - nvidia graphics card

2010-05-12 Thread Mark Bidewell
listinfo/devel > I don't know if this helps but here is a thread on gnome-games (uses clutter) issues: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-April/134957.html -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Mark Bidewell
       Kevin Kofler > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > I'm sorry to hear this as well. Fedora KDE has made great strides and is in my opinion the premiere KDE distro. Thanks for your work! -

Re: Gnome Games Clutter/OpenGL issues

2010-04-20 Thread Mark Bidewell
try to get more details on. is that some are reporting the bug when using nouveau (which I assumed was accelerated). -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Gnome Games Clutter/OpenGL issues

2010-04-20 Thread Mark Bidewell
VirtualBox but has been reported on real HW. The bugs are: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615630 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/561734 -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman