Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 04:48 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/29/2009 12:37 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 13:43 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: With all due respect to fedoraunity and you. To me it is a serious Fedora management and rel-eng mistake causing major harm to

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 08:34 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 08:12 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 21:42 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: On 07/25/2009 08:56 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Fortunately I had read in this list that upgrading breaks Yum so I did a fresh

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 08:34 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Anecdotal evidence means very little. It may be news to you, but a single negative result invalidates a whole series of positive tests ;) This is not remotely true. If we work for 99 people and not for 1, we're doing a much better job

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 13:50 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: The worst about it: Unless rel-eng finally releases updated Fedroa 11 isos, the shameful situation about F11 installs will not see much improvements, because anaconda being FIXED UPSTREAM/RAWHIDE doesn't help FC11 users. That would

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 15:37:18 -0700, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 13:43 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: With all due respect to fedoraunity and you. To me it is a serious Fedora management and rel-eng mistake causing major harm to fedora's and RH's

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-28 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 18:30 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: The first step should be getting anaconda updates in released versions. That at least allows people to make their own custom spins. If that process works smoothly, then later people might look at whether it is worth the time for Fedora

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 13:50 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: The worst about it: Unless rel-eng finally releases updated Fedroa 11 isos, the shameful situation about F11 installs will not see much improvements, because anaconda being FIXED UPSTREAM/RAWHIDE doesn't help

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-28 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/29/2009 12:37 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 13:43 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: With all due respect to fedoraunity and you. To me it is a serious Fedora management and rel-eng mistake causing major harm to fedora's and RH's reputation to not provide updated media, thus

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 07:33 AM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread drago01
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 07/26/2009 09:28 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread David Cantrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/27/2009 07:33 AM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 11:26 AM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/27/2009 07:33 AM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 11:25 AM, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 07/26/2009 09:28 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: all of my system has a

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread drago01
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 07/27/2009 11:25 AM, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de  wrote: On 07/26/2009 09:28 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Seth Vidal
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Bill McGonigle wrote: On 07/26/2009 09:06 AM, Seth Vidal wrote: can you tell me even one such distro+release when this happened? it's never happened with any of the redhat, fedora, rhel releases. fc1-fc2 fc6-fc7 rhel4-rhel5 It's not new. Is this where we branch to

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:38:09 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: No, some people (me included) use tmpfs for /tmp , so this would result into reboot, no packages found (if it did not hit a space problem either). Your problem, if you are using a non-reboot persistant /tmp I'd think that

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread drago01
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Ralf Ertzingerfed...@camperquake.de wrote: Hi. On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:38:09 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: No, some people (me included) use tmpfs for /tmp , so this would result into reboot, no packages found (if it did not hit a space problem either).

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 03:39 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: * Ralf Corsepius [27/07/2009 13:49] : Your problem, if you are using a non-reboot persistant /tmp Although data stored in /tmp may be deleted in a site-specific manner, it is recommended that files and directories located in /tmp be deleted

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread David Cantrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/27/2009 11:26 AM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/27/2009 07:33 AM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Farkas Levente
On 07/26/2009 03:06 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Farkas Levente wrote: who think about that his system will not working after doing everything as it has to be. can you tell me any other distro (including windows!) where the system installer not working after upgrade? It

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Farkas Levente wrote: fc1-fc2 fc6-fc7 rhel4-rhel5 It's not new. just to be correct neither fc6-fc7 nor rhel4-rhel5 break any system tools! and i don't remember to fc1-fc2. fc6-fc7 had a couple of fun metadata breaks rhel4-rhel5 upgrades are neither supported

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 04:30:55PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Farkas Levente wrote: fc1-fc2 fc6-fc7 rhel4-rhel5 It's not new. just to be correct neither fc6-fc7 nor rhel4-rhel5 break any system tools! and i don't remember to fc1-fc2. fc6-fc7 had a couple

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 04:30:55PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Farkas Levente wrote: fc1-fc2 fc6-fc7 rhel4-rhel5 It's not new. just to be correct neither fc6-fc7 nor rhel4-rhel5 break any system tools! and i don't

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 21:42 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: On 07/25/2009 08:56 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Fortunately I had read in this list that upgrading breaks Yum so I did a fresh install instead, and only had to spend a few days getting all the configuration back into shape. Sound

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 08:12 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 21:42 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: On 07/25/2009 08:56 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Fortunately I had read in this list that upgrading breaks Yum so I did a fresh install instead, and only had to spend a few days getting all the

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread drago01
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de wrote: It may be news to you, but a single negative result invalidates a whole series of positive tests ;) No, that means that they are bugs / problems but not that the feature is broken in general. -- fedora-devel-list

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Farkas Levente
On 07/26/2009 08:12 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 21:42 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: On 07/25/2009 08:56 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Fortunately I had read in this list that upgrading breaks Yum so I did a fresh install instead, and only had to spend a few days getting all the

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 10:40 AM, drago01 wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de wrote: It may be news to you, but a single negative result invalidates a whole series of positive tests ;) No, that means that they are bugs / problems but not that the feature is

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Björn Persson
oleksandr korneta wrote: on 07/25/2009 11:46 AM Chuck Anderson wrote: I don't even upgrade anymore. I just keep two partitions (Logical Volumes actually)--one for Fedora N and one for Fedora N+1. interesting idea. Do you keep the same home for both? I have two root partitions and two

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread arvind iyer
I too have a half-upgraded system at my workplace, tried pushing a long jump from Fedora8 to edora11 (and i think I fell in the ditch between them). I will sit one of this afternoons and simply reinstall afresh, the only way out, i think. On my laptop however , I have three partitions Fedora n

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Seth Vidal
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main reason I don't think preupgrade is actually safe to use yet.

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Farkas Levente
On 07/26/2009 02:38 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Björn Persson wrote: Fortunately I had read in this list that upgrading breaks Yum so I did a fresh install instead, and only had to spend a few days getting all the configuration back into shape. Sound started working after I

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Seth Vidal
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Farkas Levente wrote: ohhh, come on!!! it's not an answer! it's just a proof that it's the worst release ever. who dare to put a newer yum into f10-updates than in f11 iso? Here's what happened. I was delaying updating yum in f10-updates, on purpose. We slipped F11

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Farkas Levente
On 07/26/2009 02:57 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Farkas Levente wrote: ohhh, come on!!! it's not an answer! it's just a proof that it's the worst release ever. who dare to put a newer yum into f10-updates than in f11 iso? Here's what happened. I was delaying updating yum in

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Seth Vidal
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Farkas Levente wrote: who think about that his system will not working after doing everything as it has to be. can you tell me any other distro (including windows!) where the system installer not working after upgrade? It happens all the time on lots of systems. I've

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main reason I don't think

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Björn Persson
Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread John Poelstra
Ralf Corsepius said the following on 07/26/2009 11:35 AM Pacific Time: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 07/26/2009 09:06 AM, Seth Vidal wrote: can you tell me even one such distro+release when this happened? it's never happened with any of the redhat, fedora, rhel releases. fc1-fc2 fc6-fc7 rhel4-rhel5 It's not new. Is this where we branch to debate a release-number super-epoch? -Bill

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 07/25/2009 03:15 PM, oleksandr korneta wrote: But I dont complain, kind of got used to the idea that fedora is not made for upgrades. I haven't had the best of luck with anaconda/preupgrade, but yum + human works pretty well. I've got a machine here doing my SOHO tasks that was installed as

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 09:28 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box by

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 09:34 PM, John Poelstra wrote: Ralf Corsepius said the following on 07/26/2009 11:35 AM Pacific Time: Are there bug numbers for these issues? I filed some BZs for which I couldn't find as already filed by others (some already were):

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread David Cantrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly

fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, first of all i use linux since '94 so i've seen a few releases. and learned to wait a few weeks before upgrade. now i try to upgrade from a few fully update f10 to f11. it's a nightmare! on a 5 years old hardware with raid1 system and boot partition anaconda crash with dmraid error while i

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Alan Cox
on a 5 years old hardware with raid1 system and boot partition anaconda crash with dmraid error while i don't use dmraid just mdraid:-( and since preupgrade also crash with the same error there is no way to properly upgrade from the latest release to the next release! not even with nodmraid

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:41:53PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: md /boot is definitely broken, has been for ages and the bugs don't seem to have been touched. It's also obvious nobody bothered to actually test that case because the error paths in the install code don't actually work for that case

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Farkas Levente
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main reason I don't think preupgrade

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Farkas Levente
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Chuck Anderson c...@wpi.edu wrote: Fortunately the usual updating fedora-release, yum upgrade approach worked on my boxes. I'd avoid preupgrade anyway it seems to like breaking systems and leaving them half upgraded so you have to rescue the mess by hand.

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Ben Boeckel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Farkas Levente wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Brad Longo
I wouldn't say Fedora 11 is that bad, but it has certainly has been problematic for me as well. I have to agree with Alan Cox that all of your issues were caused by preupgrade. The best thing to do is to create a separate partition for your home folder, then replace the operating system for

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Björn Persson
Fortunately I had read in this list that upgrading breaks Yum so I did a fresh install instead, and only had to spend a few days getting all the configuration back into shape. Sound started working after I deleted ~/.pulse. The primary reason why Fedora 11 is the worst ever for me is a badly

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Alan Coxa...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main reason I don't think preupgrade is actually safe to use yet. My first thought

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/26/2009 12:41 AM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Alan Coxa...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main reason I don't think preupgrade is

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Farkas Levente
On 07/25/2009 06:37 PM, Brad Longo wrote: I wouldn't say Fedora 11 is that bad, but it has certainly has been problematic for me as well. I have to agree with Alan Cox that all of your issues were caused by preupgrade. The best thing to do is to create a separate partition for your home folder,

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Farkas Levente
On 07/25/2009 08:56 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Fortunately I had read in this list that upgrading breaks Yum so I did a fresh install instead, and only had to spend a few days getting all the configuration back into shape. Sound started working after I deleted ~/.pulse. and if you is broken then

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Björn Persson
Farkas Levente wrote: it was a mistake to mention preupgrade. i use dvd to upgrade my system only after the dvd installer crash i try preupgrade which also crash. As it's Anaconda that does the work with both Preupgrade and the DVD, it's not surprising that it crashed the same way both times.

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread drago01
Well I upgraded two systems from F10 to F11 using anaconda (booted the DVD), run a yum update after that and it works just fine. One of this systems have been running Fedora since FC4 and got updated to F/FC N+1 using the same method and still works. (FC4-FC5-FC6-F7-F8-F9-F10-F11) Seems like

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread oleksandr korneta
on 07/25/2009 11:46 AM Chuck Anderson wrote: I don't even upgrade anymore. I just keep two partitions (Logical Volumes actually)--one for Fedora N and one for Fedora N+1. interesting idea. Do you keep the same home for both? I don't do upgrades either, since the time rh9 to fc1 didn't

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:15 PM, oleksandr korneta wrote: on 07/25/2009 11:46 AM Chuck Anderson wrote: I don't even upgrade anymore.  I just keep two partitions (Logical Volumes actually)--one for Fedora N and one for Fedora N+1. I took this one step forward. I keep 3 partitions Fedora N,