Now Seeking Guinea Pigs (Mentors)
by Patrick W. Barnes
Following recent discussions, the Mentors page on the wiki was created
recently. It did little more than list where potential contributors
might go. I have moved that information to the HelpWanted page, cleaned
it up, and created new content for the Mentors page. As part of doing
so, I have started the list of volunteer mentors on that page.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mentors
If you would be willing to mentor new contributors to Fedora, please
consider adding yourself to that list. Hopefully, having such an open
list will work out. This will be a list that curious contributors can
select mentors from. Please be careful and descriptive in your
listing. Please keep in mind that if you are bombarded with requests,
you are free to remove your name from the list, but we need to try to
manage requests to keep that from happening. As the list grows, if you
are getting more requests than you can handle, please try to pass
requests along to other, less-bombarded mentors rather than unleash your
wrath on new contributors.
I have posted this message to fedora-devel-list, fedora-extras-list,
fedora-marketing-list, and fedora-docs-list. Please don't shoot me, we
need all the mentors we can get from every facet of the Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mentors
--
Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
nman64(a)n-man.com
www.n-man.com
--
18 years, 8 months
dbus-qt
by Frederick Alexander Thomssen
hi,
once dbus-qt was removed from fedora because there was no use for it. but now
kde 3.4 supports dbus-qt for the media:/ protocol which indicated if a new
device was connected. so there now is a use for dbus-qt so i think it ought
to be included.
freddy
--
Frederick Alexander Thomssen
18 years, 8 months
Kernel/iptables conflict
by Kyrre Ness Sjobak
During yum update i have a conflict "kernel conflicts with iptables <
1.3.2-1", preventing me from updating the kernel. Has anybody else seen
this?
I would very much like to test a new kernel, since the last one to
install have no working ACPI suspend (older ones do), in order to test
if it was only a build mistake etc.
Kyrre
18 years, 8 months
Re: rawhide report: 20050813 changes
by Dave Jones
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:46:04PM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> On 8/13/05, Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:27:03PM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> Ok, cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/info does return
>
> acpi id: 1
> power management: yes
>
> I'll drop the output in bugzilla, should this be reported in
> rawhide/kernels\mkinitrd or a different category?
file it against fedora devel, kernel.
Dave
18 years, 8 months
Re: rawhide report: 20050813 changes
by Dave Jones
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:27:03PM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> On 8/13/05, Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:08:01PM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> >
> > > Swap on RAID devices *should* work, but is untested so far.
> > >
> > > I tested this on a box with a softraid/lvm "aic7xxx" controller and
> > > recieved a kernel panic. I just followed these steps
> > >
> > > echo platform > /sys/power/disk
> > > echo disk > /sys/power/state
> > >
> > > Should I have done something different?
> > >
> > > grep swap /etc/fstab
> > > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
> > >
> > > Would you like the output on screen from kernel panic?
> >
> > Yes please, drop it in bugzilla, and I'll take a look
> > (but probably not before monday)
> >
> > Thanks for testing.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> You know, this might sound stupid but I'm not actually sure if this
> box supports apic/apm, what ever the suspend is using. I really
> didn't see any options in the BIOS
It shouldn't need too much help from the BIOS. Of course the more
help the BIOS does give us the better. If you've got stuff in /proc/acpi/
(any x86 box built in the last 5 years will have it) then you should
be fine.
Dave
18 years, 8 months
Re: rawhide report: 20050813 changes
by Dave Jones
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:08:01PM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> Swap on RAID devices *should* work, but is untested so far.
>
> I tested this on a box with a softraid/lvm "aic7xxx" controller and
> recieved a kernel panic. I just followed these steps
>
> echo platform > /sys/power/disk
> echo disk > /sys/power/state
>
> Should I have done something different?
>
> grep swap /etc/fstab
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> Would you like the output on screen from kernel panic?
Yes please, drop it in bugzilla, and I'll take a look
(but probably not before monday)
Thanks for testing.
Dave
18 years, 8 months
Re: rawhide report: 20050702 changes
by Dave Jones
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:29:18AM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> > Rik was working on an update to a newer upstream Xen snapshot
> > last week, but this week is pretty much going to be nothing
> > but kernel-summit/OLS activities, so I wouldn't expect it
> > to start working for at least another week or so.
> Any word from Rik? I would like to get back to some Xen testing on my
> rawhide box's when I can.
One of the problems with rawhide & xen is that upstream only ever has
patches against the latest stable release (ie, 2.6.12), and with
rawhide on 2.6.13-rc6 right now, that's a pretty big delta.
I think Rik's current plan is to get the latest upstream drop working
against the FC4 kernel before forward porting, as there are some
issues with the latest Xen changes and exec-shield.
Dave
18 years, 8 months
rawhide report: 20050813 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
OpenIPMI-1.4.14-7
-----------------
* Fri Aug 12 2005 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 1.4.14-7
- Fixed the unwanted output of failed module loading of the initscript. Behaves
now like all our other initscripts (#165476)
* Fri Aug 05 2005 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 1.4.14-6
- Fixed build problem on 64bit machines
docbook-style-xsl-1.69.1-1
--------------------------
* Fri Aug 12 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.69.1-1
- 1.69.1.
ghostscript-8.15-0.rc4.1
------------------------
* Fri Aug 12 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 8.15-0.rc4.1
- 8.15rc4.
- Fixed lips4v driver (bug #165713).
iputils-20020927-25
-------------------
* Fri Aug 12 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal(a)redhat.com> 20020927-25
- fixed arping timeout (#165715)
kernel-2.6.12-1.1482_FC5
------------------------
* Fri Aug 12 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.13-rc6-git4
- Bump mkinitrd dependancy.
* Thu Aug 11 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.13-rc6-git3
* Thu Aug 11 2005 David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)redhat.com>
- Enable ISDN and CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE for PPC32
mkinitrd-4.2.20-1
-----------------
* Fri Aug 12 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 4.2.20-1
- fix a buglet in root vg finding
- support resume with swsusp
net-snmp-5.2.1.2-2
------------------
* Fri Aug 12 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal(a)redhat.com> - 5.2.1.2-2
- fix for s390x counter32 overflow (sachinp(a)in.ibm.com)
pm-utils-0.04-1
---------------
* Fri Aug 12 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.04-1
- add pm-hibernate
system-config-netboot-0.1.26-2
------------------------------
valgrind-1:3.0.0-3
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* Fri Aug 12 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.0.0-3
- fix amd64 handling of cwtd instruction
- fix amd64 handling of e.g. sarb $0x4,val(%rip)
- speedup amd64 insn decoding
* Fri Aug 12 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.0.0-2
- lower x86_64 stage2 base from 112TB down to 450GB, so that
valgrind works even on 2.4.x kernels. Still way better than
1.75GB that stock valgrind allows
* Fri Aug 12 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.0.0-1
- upgrade to 3.0.0
- x86_64 support
- temporarily obsolete valgrind-callgrind, as it has not been
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18 years, 8 months
0700 Perl directories
by Rudi Chiarito
Try the following command (as root or a regular user):
for d in /usr/lib*/perl5; do find $d -perm 700; done
or (as a regular user, cleaner):
for d in /usr/lib*/perl5; do find $d -printf ""; done
Should something be done to prevent this from happening in the future?
--
Rudi
18 years, 8 months