DevHeads.net

Imho it is to complex, which scares potential contributor away.
Especially if only a comment and a karma value are required, the CLA is
way to complex to require it.

Regards
Till

http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/controlaltbackspace-shortcut-doe...

This case is a nice example demonstrating several defects in "applying
karma votes for QA":

1. The update package was sitting in "updates-testing" since 2010-02-22.

2. It did receive +3 karma points before being pushed to "updates"
c.f. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cyrus-sasl-2.1.23-6.fc12
=> There are people who claim to have tested it and not having noticed
anything unusual.

3. During today's update I was immediately "greeted" by the same error
message Mat cites above and BZ'ed it.
c.f. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572399

4.

1) I have a wireless enabled broadband DSL modem which has four Ethernet
ports.
2) I have Wi-Fi enabled laptop running on F!2 and I want to connect the
modem through wireless connection to access the internet.
3) The modem has SSID, network authentication is WPA-PSK. I am able to see
the available wireless networks from my laptop but I am not able to connect
one.

Please advise me.

thank you.

Kishore

Saw this in today's updates:

Cleanup : cyrus-sasl-2.1.23-4.fc12.i686
195/254
groupdel: group 'saslauth' does not exist
Non-fatal POSTUN scriptlet failure in rpm package cyrus-sasl
warning: %postun(cyrus-sasl-2.1.23-4.fc12.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 6

This looks benign, but I suppose it could check if the group exists
before attempting to delete it.

Let me start by saying this may or may not be a Fedora issue.

I recently purchased two Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboards and am
running F12 on them. The marketing for these boards say they support
SMBIOS 2.4 and DMI, yet dmidecode says:

[root at phoenix ~]# dmidecode
# dmidecode 2.10
# No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry.

What could be wrong? I've never seen a system that fails on this command
before, and now I have two of them? They also have a problem with the
on-board LAN and probably Firewire. Neither onboard NIC is working, the
first shows a MAC of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.

Hello All!

Recently I (re)started to package some big java application, and as
one of side effect of this work, I take a closer look on current state
of java packages in Fedora and I was disappointed with what I saw
here.

Quick summary - many java packages does not obey Fedora Packaging
Guidelines in case of owning a directories, already owned by other
packages.

As a result - some packages owns %{_javadir}, some - %{_javadocdir},
some - own directories with maven-related stuff.

After a round of bug reports and bug fixing I have a new pkgdb up in the
staging environment for testing. I do not know of any problems with this
version at the moment so I'd appreciate people who use the pkgdb to change
acls frequently or query it for data give it a try and see that everything
is working for them. If there's no reports of problems I'll be pushing this
to production soon. If I'm available for part of the weekend I'll push it
Friday.

It's that time again: blocker bug review meeting time! Tomorrow is the
first blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 13 Beta.

Here are the current bugs listed as blocking the Beta release.

This Thursday, 2010-03-11, is webcam Test Day [1]. It's really pretty
simple: if you have a webcam we want you to boot up a recent Fedora and
check if it works. There's detailed instructions on the Wiki page but
that's really what it boils down to - fire up your webcam, run Cheese or
something like it, and make sure it all works well. If not, let us know
about it! As always, the Test Day runs all Thursday in #fedora-test-day
on Freenode IRC.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-11_webcams

Today's yum update choked on ffmpeg2theora.

Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/man/man1/ffmpeg2theora.1.gz from install of
ffmpeg2theora-0.26-1.fc12.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
ffmpeg2theora-0.25-1.fc12.i686

Error Summary
I'm not sure why I have the i386 version and not the x86_64 version
but perhaps it came with one of the video applications I downloaded?

I guess I can try removing the i386 stuff and see if it will then
permit me to install the x86_64 version and then see if some other
app. dies.

Compose started at Wed Mar 10 09:15:11 UTC 2010

Broken deps for i386

Hello

List,

The installation of FC-12 went very smoothly. I removed all external devices and unnecessary seated cards, to do the install. Then, the reboot screen appeared. I clicked on the reboot button, and the computer rebooted. During the reboot procedure, the yaboot (the apple macintosh boot loader) screen appeared. The following options were presented:

l linux
x macosx
o openfirmware
n network
c cdrom

I entered an l, at the boot prompt, and the booting procedure continued to boot linux.

During the boot process, an Oops! machine check 7... occurred.

The last couple batches of updates have shown lots of apps with
the little round gray power button icon, like the one you click to shut
down, reboot, etc. And the initial box interprets it as meaning restart
(which seems generally to be spreading as a substitute for reboot).

But the message in the box after the update finishes says to log
out and back in.

Has there been a great change? Or has the message somehow gotten
bonkered?

I'm running Fedora 10 with the gnome desktop. I installed the mpd
(music player daemon) on my file server (where all the music lives) and
gmpc on my laptop. These things come from rpmfusion.
Every sound application on my machine is able to make noise except
gmpc. It doesn't have a config panel so there doesn't seem to be any
way to choose between sound systems or any such nonsense. It displays
all the files on the server so communication is established.

A newer version of gdbm (1.8.0->1.8.3) has been pushed into rawhide
(devel) branch. This version changes libgdbm soname, so all packages
using gdbm _must be rebuilt_.

The soname change is needed as the new version moves dbm and ndbm
routines to separate library gdbm_compat.

The new version fixes a memory leak.

Compose started at Wed Mar 10 08:15:05 UTC 2010

Broken deps for i386

I installed F12 on a desktop of a friend of mine.
She is experiencing freezing in particular during upgrades

Today during upgrades she got:

[root at Lella Lella]# yum-complete-transaction
Plugin caricati:presto, refresh-packagekit
No unfinished transactions left.
[root at Lella Lella]# yum clean all
Plugin caricati:presto, refresh-packagekit
Pulizia completa
0 delta-package files removed, by presto
[root at Lella Lella]# yum update
Plugin caricati:presto, refresh-packagekit
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
adobe-linux-i386/primary

I do not mind, if it is installed by default, but I am not sure,
whether this is a good idea. Users will still need a FAS account,
install packages from updates-testing and know that it exist to use it.

Regards
Till

Hi All, im running Fedora 10 and i want to configure the sending of email
both internal and external. can anybody email me the instructions on how to
do it at
<...> at gmail dot com as soon as possible.

Instead of worrying about the occasional brokenness caused by an update to a stable release, how about focusing on a mechanism to easily recover from it? As long as the update hasn't corrupted any critical files, my non-optimal solution is to head over to koji, grab the last version of the broken package set that worked for me, and install. If yum could be persuaded to stash the required deltas locally, and downgrade using those local deltas upon request, I'd be a very happy camper.

Starting with Fedora 12, RPM packages are compressed using XZ instead of
gzip. As a result, the F12 ISOs are smaller:

F11 DVD sizes (bytes):
i386: 3683829760
ppc: 4606894080
x86_64: 4268124160

F12 DVD sizes (bytes):
i386: 3204427776
ppc: 3738935296
x86_64: 3537600512

See

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XZRpmPayloads

I have a few systems on site which have common users installed with "wrong" UID
values from the rest of the machines, and particularly those installed from a
"live" CD which created one or more odd IDs when "install to disk" was used.

I remember using "UID mapping tables" to cause an NFS access from "joe" on the
client to use the UID of "joe" in the request sent to the NFS server. I can't
recall if that was in Linux, or some other OS, I was supporting Xenix, AIX,
Solaris, SunOS, and HP-UX at the time.

Fedora 12 x86_64
I've being trying to get 'about:plugins' to recognize these .so files
libflashplayer.so nphelix.so nphelix.xpt nppdf.so, I copied them from
.mozilla/plugins to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins,other .so's files are
recognized.
what am I doing wrong

I need help here too. The problem ist here the cmake don´t compile the
.pc file (pkgconfig file)
And upstream don´t will fix that :(.
I have talked about this with cwickert and he have said it is patchable
but he don´t have the time to make it.
Can any other please help me?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549051

All,

I'm curious why Fedora chose to include Zarafa as opposed to other (mostly) opensource groupware solutions?

Ones that come to mind: Scalix, Open-Exchange, Zimbra.

Thanks,
Brian

Hey all. I've got a Dell Latitude E1505 running Fedora F12. I just updated
to 2.6.32.9-67.fc12.i686 today and as soon as I rebooted my external LCD was
unreadable. It had wavy vertical lines all over it and appeared to have
less than the full vertical resolution. The laptop LCD looked fine.

After checking the cable, power-cycling the monitor and reseting its
settings, and rebooting a few times didn't help, I booted back
into 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.i686 and all was well again.

Need help with this FTBFS fife bug. It don´t find boost for compiling.
But with F-13 ist works not in devel (F-14)

Can anyone please help to find out why please?

We are talking a lot about update policies recently. While I do (mostly)
agree with those who suggested a more conservative approach, I wonder
what will then happen to packages that actually *need* regular updates.
Let me give you two examples:
1. openal-soft: Is under steady development and improves a lot.
From time to time, I guess once a month, the maintainer pushes
an update. Usually this updates fixes at least one bz issue, so
I don't think it should be a problem with the new policy. I just
want to make sure.
2.

Hi,

Since it is the fav season for proposals apparently, let me throw in my
Fedora/hat in the ring too. This only applies to updates to general
releases.

For critical path packages
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_Path_Packages) :

* Must go through updates-testing repository
* Only major bug fixes and security fixes.
* Must go through updates testing repository even for security fixes
Rationale: Expedited security fixes have caused some serious regressions
in the past (D-Bus, Bind, Thunderbird updates etc).

I have tethering enabled on my iPhone 3GS and it works fine with MacOS and
WinXP, both of which required virtually no setup. Has anyone done this
recently on Fedora 12?

Either USB or Bluetooth connections to the phone would suit.

TIA

poc

This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the
topics that were discussed.

Hello,
I am trying to enable serial console by editing GRUB boot loader.
What I want is to be able to view in the boot messages of a machine A
which is connected with a serial cable to machine B.

The Fedora 13 "Goddard" Alpha release is available! What's next for the
free operating system that shows off the best new technology of
tomorrow? You can see the future now at:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF13a

== What is the Alpha release? ==

The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 13 in a form that
anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps
us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta
release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and bears a very
strong resemblance to the third and final release.

Dear All,

When running the following function ( they are good for working in FC9 ) :
modprobe ip_tables
modprobe ip_nat_ftp
modprobe ip_conntrack
modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp

error output :
[]# modprobe ip_tables
WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files
belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.
FATAL: Module ip_tables not found.
[]# modprobe ip_nat_ftp
WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files
belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.
[]# modprobe ip_conntrack
WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files
belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.
FATAL:

Dear All,

Mine is Fedora 11...

[root]# rpm -qa | grep "sudo"
sudo-1.7.2p5-1.fc11.x86_64
[root]#

After config the sudo, then there is some of error :
[root@ ~]# visudo
visudo: Warning: unused User_Alias ADMINS
visudo: Warning: unused Cmnd_Alias DELEGATING
visudo: Warning: unused Cmnd_Alias DRIVERS
visudo: Warning: unused Host_Alias FILESERVERS
visudo: Warning: unused Cmnd_Alias LOCATE
visudo: Warning: unused Host_Alias MAILSERVERS
visudo: Warning: unused Cmnd_Alias NETWORKING
visudo: Warning: unused Cmnd_Alias PROCESSES
visudo: Warning: unused Cmnd_Alias SERVICES
visudo: Warning: unused Cmnd

Orphaning couple of packages:

- JSDoc (upstream has moved to competing project
http://code.google.com/p/jsdoc-toolkit/, so unless somebody needs this
package, I think it is ready for retiring from Fedora completely)
- python-urllib2_kerberos -- unsuccessful attempt to use this, lost any
interest in the package just a day after packaging it.

Both packages have released ownership, who wants to tenderly love them
so I don't have to coldly left them in the blizzard?

Matěj

Hello all,
My desktop machine does not log in under gnome using 2.6.32
kernel. No error in /var/log/messages or Xorg.o , just a complete hang
I need to reboot.
The previous 2.6.31 kernel is fine.

I can log in level 3, but with graphics mode, I get to type in username
and password and a few seconds later it freezes.

Any ideas?
Bill

Sorry to open a new thread, but i have not access to my mail :( and i
cannot continue this thread.
I am using webmail to write thsi message.
I have F11 and i have already enabled Nempomuk on

System Setting/Advanced/Desktop Search

some days ago, but Nepomuk keeps to complain always as ususal.

This morning kmail stopped, i restarted it but on notify icon does
apperas a message that roughly says: i cannot find mysql backend
database 'redland' and Nepomuk wil not started; for security reasons
and than it is impossible to read as another notify message cover this.

Contextually, if thsi

hi all,

i am using fedora 12 ... in my dell laptop..... i want to enable my web
cam ...

fedora for the fact that it is >>leading the way with the newer software and
that it has constant updates. (ie >>freedom,friends,features,first!) this
argument that most fedora users want a more stable system is not >>what the
fedora users i came across are after. tbh i think this whole identity crisis
is blown of of all >>proportion, you'd think that something like this would
have come with the fedora10 dbus probs or the >>'stabilisation cannot be
detected' not now with a little kde popup window :0

+1 for these comments.

This is the policy that I expect to be discussed during the Fesco
meeting tomorrow.

Hi, Fedora 12 was planned to have installation of packages without
users needing to enter root password.

How do I enable this feature via PolicyKit?

I read this article:
http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/polkit-and-package-kit-and-chang...
but even after doing that it is still the same and "yum install
package" asks for root password.

Cheers!

Hello all,
I would like to know about how to create ad hoc wireless
network on the Internet-connected computer in fedora-12.And How to add other
computers to this network.Please help me.

I would like to transfer ownership of the libedit package to Kamil
Dudka (kdudka). I am a bit wary of PackageDB transferring not letting
me select the new owner. Could someone please take care of it or
advise what I need to do about this?

I do not want to remain as a co-maintainer.

Thanks,
Debarshi

Start End Name
Thu 04-Mar Tue 09-Mar Stage & Sync Alpha to Mirrors
Tue 09-Mar Tue 09-Mar Alpha Public Availability
Tue 09-Mar Tue 23-Mar Alpha Testing
Fri 12-Mar Fri 12-Mar Beta Blocker Meeting (F13Beta) #1
Tue 16-Mar Tue 16-Mar Software: Start Rebuild all translated packages
Tue 16-Mar Tue 23-Mar Software: Rebuild all translated packages
Wed 17-Mar Thu 18-Mar Create Beta Test Compose (TC)
Thu 18-Mar Wed 24-Mar Test Beta 'Test Compose'
Fri 19-Mar Fri 19-Mar Beta Blocker Meeting (F13Beta) #2
Tue 23-Mar Tue 23-Mar End of Alpha Testing

Has anyone seen the following entries in /etc/mtab:

/etc/pki/dnssec-keys /var/named/chroot/etc/pki/dnssec-keys none rw,bind 0 0
/etc/rndc.key /var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key none rw,bind 0 0
/usr/lib/bind /var/named/chroot/usr/lib/bind none rw,bind 0 0

These entries was discovered when I was using gparted
to view the partitions of my drives and I noticed for my
F12 drive/partition, gparted was showing the following
under the 'Mount Point' column:

/, /var/named/chroot/etc/pki/dnssec-key,
/var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key,
/var/named/chroot/usr/lib/bind

It used to show only '/' before, b

Hi All,

I am looking at building a fedora package. I have been over guidelines
and taken a look at the build system. What I am not clear on is how I
maintain spec files for different distributions i.e., F12, F11, F10, or
even EPEL.

Do I have to branch and maintain each spec file separately or is there a
better way? Are there any tools that abstract the commonality? Do
people try to write spec files that work on any distro with conditionals?

Thanks for any wise words,

Matt.

please.......
don,t send me further any mail..........