Re: glibc-headers-2.13.90-10.x86_64 missing /usr/include/rpc/netdb.h

2011-05-05 Thread Chris Adams
else obsoleted the RPC implementation, or if glibc devs decided RPC was obsolete, or what. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: freopen() broken in Fedora 15

2011-06-09 Thread Chris Adams
: the code you sent is broken - fix it. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Heads up: impending IPv6 Test Day

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Adams
(it strips the %br0 from the address before putting it in the Host: header). It would appear that the CLI/terminal web client support for IPv6 link-local addresses is lacking. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Alpha TC2 Available Now!

2011-02-15 Thread Chris Adams
/local partition. Or, on a FAT or NTFS partition?!?!? Hm, yeah, this is going to break koan as well, isn't it for systems with small /boot filesystems. Hmm, also what does this do to PXE booting. IIRC there is a (relatively low) limit on the size of the initrd loaded by pxelinux. -- Chris

Re: Applets

2011-02-27 Thread Chris Adams
. There seem to be a number of things missing from the new environment, and when the response to pointing out the missing functionality is essentially send patches or shut up, my response tends towards fine, I'll go somewhere else. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-23 Thread Chris Adams
it up in the Windows Classic theme so I get a plain interface that still looks largely like Win95. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- test mailing list test

Re: / must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an existing / is not allowed.

2011-10-18 Thread Chris Adams
1500M fdev lvm lvcreate -n swap -L 1000M fdev lvm vgchange -an %end -- 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: / must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an existing / is not allowed.

2011-10-19 Thread Chris Adams
) for later expansion. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: / must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an existing / is not allowed.

2011-10-20 Thread Chris Adams
and removed LVs), but on an empty VG, you'll get them that way. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https

Re: Partition labels containing a slash in their names

2011-10-28 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, John Wendel jwende...@comcast.net said: But, a partition label isn't a filename, is it? Just curious. No, but the entries in /dev/disk/by-label are. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody

Re: Release criteria proposal: 'support' /boot on RAID

2011-11-15 Thread Chris Adams
, I think BIOS-RAID (and of course hardware RAID) should be transparent and work fine. Old-grub also didn't support newer Linux-md metadata formats, so that should be explicitly mentioned (I don't know about grub2). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

Re: Grub2 mkconfig

2012-02-23 Thread Chris Adams
in the partition's boot sector and chainloading them from GRUB (which still works with GRUB2). That's what I used to do, but it didn't work for me with F16 and GRUB2. I get a warning that I shouldn't install GRUB2 to a partition and then an error about there not being enough space. -- Chris Adams

Re: Grub2 mkconfig

2012-02-23 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com said: On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 09:40 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: That's what I used to do, but it didn't work for me with F16 and GRUB2. I get a warning that I shouldn't install GRUB2 to a partition and then an error about there not being

Re: Notice: IPv6 breaking issues tentatively considered blocker for F17

2012-03-10 Thread Chris Adams
and other small networks. The only thing I'd be missing for v6-only would be the ability to set an equivalent for next-server for PXE booting, but I don't think the PXE stacks support v6 anyway, so it's a moot point. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Adams
is to boot a live system. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-13 Thread Chris Adams
the external USB drive MyBackupDrive will be hooked up as /media/MyBackupDrive no matter who's logged in when it's plugged in. Phooey. Yeah, is there a way to disable this behavior? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: yum update failed today with....

2012-04-25 Thread Chris Adams
to read-only in the filesystem package (haven't seen any notice/discussion about that, but maybe I missed it). The other issue would be: why is google-chrome-unstable (wherever you are getting that from) packaing the /usr/bin directory? It shouldn't do that. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net

Re: [criteria update] Rescue mode

2012-07-27 Thread Chris Adams
requirement for a functional rescue mode for this release? That's a pretty critical thing to have completely missing from a release; things that occasionally happen such as a broken boot loader would render an install virtually unrecoverable for many users. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net

Re: [criteria update] Anaconda and network-attached storage devices

2012-07-27 Thread Chris Adams
with a whole lot of installer functionality removed? Maybe F18 should wait until anaconda is ready. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- test mailing list test

Re: New Anaconda - BACK, BACK, BACK...

2012-09-13 Thread Chris Adams
the settings made on the current page. Or in other words, it should somehow indicate that it's a confirmation of the changes. Maybe Continue? -- 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: When will the mirrors be updated?

2012-09-20 Thread Chris Adams
). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 1 (TC1) Available Now!

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Adams
install (config file modification times, RPM database has package install times, etc.), and it is dumb that the installer essentially treats these as random numbers. At a minimum, the installer should at least _show_ what it thinks the time is after setting the timezone. -- Chris Adams cmad

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Chris Adams
was done with Upstart is pointless and irritating. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Chris Adams
of projects and unable to test lately). Again, the common uses (start, stop, restart, condrestart, reload, status) should be sufficient. -- 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: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-21 Thread Chris Adams
. TCP wrappers only kicks in after the socket is open, which is often not what you want. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F18 doesn't see full laptop screen resolution

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Adams
remember the defaults for them across boots). That way you're not writing two boot stanzas for every kernel, and it's more obvious that: [X] Disable accelerated graphics is something you should just uncheck. That would be nice. Another useful option would be rescue/single-user mode. -- Chris

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: p7zip-plugins and rar extraction.

2013-04-16 Thread Chris Adams
. Basically, the only documentation of the file format is in the unrar source code, and it is under a non-free license. I don't think anyone has tried to reverse engineer it to make a clean-room implementation. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

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: 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: Updates for f19?

2013-04-20 Thread Chris Adams
stable karma before it was pulled into a test repo) and a bunch of kde stuff that was in the test repo but isn't now. It looks like development/19 just got updated. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself

Re: F18, F19 webalizer problem?

2013-04-26 Thread Chris Adams
programming practice; it could have whitespace in it, in which case the non-quoted version would expand to multiple tokens (and again break). So, still today, the best defensive way is: [ z$WEBALIZER_CRON != zyes ] -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

Re: what in fedora rawhide replaces pdftk for extracting pages from PDF file?

2014-04-22 Thread Chris Adams
poppler), psselect (from psutils), and ps2pdf (from ghostscript). I think they should even work in a pipeline, like (to get pages 1,3,5): pdftops foo.pdf - | psselect -p1,3,5 | ps2pdf - foo-pages1,3,5.pdf -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Windows 8 EFI unbootable after F19-TC1 installation.

2013-06-06 Thread Chris Adams
in a system that boots from BIOS, and you can't see the EFI info from a BIOS boot. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

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

2013-09-24 Thread Chris Adams
believes that Fedora should be completely separated from Red Hat. Though he has not mentioned it in this discussion, I believe that is what is driving his desire to stop using RHBZ (even if there is no satisfactory replacement). -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- test mailing list test

Re: Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords

2015-01-30 Thread Chris Adams
for a vague better security bit. That will almost always cause a negative response from people that disagree. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords

2015-01-29 Thread Chris Adams
about this change, is there no recourse? Or do anaconda devs get to determine system policy now on their own? -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test