RFE as to list settings, and more: was: Re: system-config-printer adding Windows printer via Samba

2018-04-27 Thread R P Herrold
an earlier send of this may have been 'eaten' as the list as an addressee was in a CC. I do not see it in the archive Adam (that 'well-known poster to this list' has decloaked, so I send along my half of the conversation as well) mentioned my prior communication with him, which is set out as

RFE as to list settings, and more: was: Re: system-config-printer adding Windows printer via Samba

2018-04-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Michael Schwendt wrote: > test@ list must be popular. No replies since April 10th > despite a clear subject! What other list these days would > have drawn the attention of someone with interest in > Fedora's printing functionality? Oh -- I don't know -- for reasons

Re: Live CD creator

2018-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Adam Williamson wrote: > http://weldr.io/lorax/livemedia-creator.html heh > [adamw@adam tmp]$ rpm -qf `which livemedia-creator` > lorax-28.8-1.fc28.x86_64 so the sources would seem to now reside at: https://github.com/weldr/lorax Thank you -- Russ herrold

Re: Live CD creator

2018-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Adam Williamson wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Livemedia-creator-_How_to_create_and_use_a_Live_CD > provides some help with using it. Good luck! The Documentation link at that page returns a 404 > Documentation > >Important > >

report on the Firefox / Electrolysis induced failures

2017-07-21 Thread R P Herrold
This came up in Fedora's most recent testing cycle, but the failure mode was not reliably reproducable, and so did not rise to the level of a blocker. I think I have some insight It looks like there is a missing SELinux ruleset problem, causing the hang ups in Firefox, but not all of them,

Getting "error: db5-error(5) from dbenv->open - In/Out-error"

2017-06-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, Jon Ingason wrote: > I just installed Fedora 26 Beta 1.4 Gnome Workstation from > Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-26_Beta-1.4.iso. Then I did "sudo dnf > update" in terminal window: > > $ sudo dnf update --refresh > Fedora 26 - x86_64 - Test Updates 5.4 MB/s | 23

Re: F21 emergency.target when root pw isn't set

2014-12-19 Thread R P Herrold
Chris had contacted me off list yesterday, and surfaced his reply to the list earlier today. This was my response to that piece -- R (Russ speaking, outside of the '' markers) On Thu, 18 Dec 2014, Chris Murphy wrote: I'm not sure what this means. I wanted to document in the ML

Re: F21 emergency.target when root pw isn't set

2014-12-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014, Chris Murphy wrote: However, after changing the root password, the command reboot is not found. And exit causes a kernel panic! WHen I hit the 'systemd wants a root password' issue, I loop mounted the image I wished to boot, and set the root PW in /etc/shadow to a

Re: How to calculate priority for missing tests or %check

2014-02-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Adam Jackson wrote: Btw the URL field in the spec file should be updated to http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libpciaccess/ Oh yes, another useless rpm feature, I'll be sure to make that my top priority. sneer at it if you wish, but this is a feature of RPM that I

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Akshay Vyas wrote: If we can do every QA stuff without being a part of QA group then what's the use of creating a QA group How do you STOP people from doing QA, and reporting stuff either to bugzilla or the mailing list? But I think the issue is that at least one

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Bruno Wolff III wrote: The game is to treat QA volunteers like other contributors. That way they don't have to also become packagers (or something else) in order to participate in Fedora Elections or make use of resources limited to people who are in more than just

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Really... Let's run a simple query against bugzilla for bugs in the status NEW ( as in not looked at ) and find out the oldest report from our reporters ... What does a count of the number of bug reports have to do with the bug tracker

Re: Draft terminal application test case

2013-07-31 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: How do you define a terminal as a crucial app for any desktop? Let alone at alpha when the user can always boot into the multi-user target for a terminal and ctrlaltF2? and that keystroke sequence works in a VM across a TLS protected

Really big software installation dialog: Bug or Feature ?

2013-02-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Robert M. Albrecht wrote: I'm running rawhide on a system attached to a 27 display with 2560x1440 pixels resolution. Some application like the package manager or firstboot are running within a maximized window which is really huge, inconvenient and wastes a lot of screen

Re: Spamd won't listen to spamc

2013-01-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: ]: spamd: unauthorized connection from omen.com [70.89.176.169] at port 55566 at /usr/bin/spamd line 1271. Jan 21 02:03:51 omen spamd[25898]: prefork: child states: II :0fw |spamc ... As has been the case for the last 6+ years, the

Anaconda and network-attached storage devices

2012-07-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Petr Schindler wrote: It is a big problem. Lot of things will be broken (won't be in new anaconda for F18, but should be again in next releases, hopefully). ... ... and I hope that the discussion within this threads will lead to some action - for me it would be better to

Re: fc18 Nightly LiveCD / 20120619

2012-06-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Dennis Gilmore wrote: do note that livecd-tools are no longer supported. f18 will be using livemedia-creator to make the livecds i susoect you wont see the old tools fixed. I do not see a package for: livemedia-creator in bugzilla, nor does my local mirror of RawHide

Re: fc18 Nightly LiveCD / 20120619

2012-06-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Bruno Wolff III wrote: # rpm -qf `which livemedia-creator` lorax-17.26-1.fc17.x86_64 thank you -- Russ herrold -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: fc18 Nightly LiveCD / 20120619

2012-06-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Amit Saha wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:09 AM, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Bruno Wolff III wrote: # rpm -qf `which livemedia-creator` lorax-17.26-1.fc17.x86_64 I tried using livemedia-creator a while back and ran into a number

F17: wvdial crash

2012-04-15 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012, Pedro Francisco wrote: wvdial is crashing when trying to start a connection. Modem = /dev/ttyACM0. $ sudo wvdial -- WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.61 -- Cannot get information for serial port. this looks ominous ... is there a SElinux intercept from some need to