Outage Notification - 2008-05-03 14:00 UTC (fwd)
by Mike McGrath
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is:
2008-05-03 14:00 UTC
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:54:17 -0500 (CDT)
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Subject: Outage Notification - 2008-05-03 14:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2008-05-03 14:00 UTC, which will last
approximately 5 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2008-05-03 14:00 UTC'
Affected Services:
Websites
CVS / Source Control
Buildsystem
Database
Mail
All auth systems
Unaffected Services:
Torrent
DNS
fedorapeople.org
planet
Ticket Link:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/519
Reason for Outage:
The network guys will be performing a number of upgrades during this
outage window which is expected to last 5 hours. Systems will be up and
down during this time. Some will be off during the duration of the time
for safety / data protection. Some systems we'll be moving to alternate
sites.
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to
track the status of this outage.
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16 years, 2 months
Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!
by Jesse Keating
After some minor delays (like all rawhide flights grounded for a few
days of repair...), the Fedora Project is proud to announce the release
of Fedora 9 Preview!
This is a Preview release, it is fairly close to what the final product
will be like. This is the most critical release for the Fedora
community to use and test and report bugs on. This is the last major
public release before the final GOLD Fedora 9 release on May 13th (we
hope).
For this Preview release, we will be doing a staged offering. The first
stage, available now, will be via bittorrent. The second stage, which
should be available early next week, will be via our world wide
mirroring system, and will include jigdo.
Live images, KDE Live images, CDs and DVD options are available.
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org has a section marked "F9-Preview".
Please us bugzilla to report any problems you find (after making sure
that somebody else hasn't already reported the issues).
Thanks again for all the great testing work that the greater community
does throughout our development cycle! You make Fedora possible. You
are Fedora!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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16 years, 2 months
very common kernel modules slow down the boot process
by Harald Hoyer
Compiling these modules, which are loaded on nearly every PC, in the kernel cuts down my boot time from 42s to
32s on my computer:
ata_generic
ata_piix
cdrom
dm_mirror
dm_mod
dm_snapshot
dm_zero
ehci_hcd
ext3
floppy
i2c_core
jbd
libata
mbcache
ohci_hcd
parport
parport_pc
pata_acpi
scsi_mod
sd_mod
sg
snd
snd_mixer_oss
snd_page_alloc
snd_pcm
snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq
snd_seq_device
snd_seq_dummy
snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_oss
snd_timer
soundcore
sr_mod
uhci_hcd
16 years, 2 months
Re: F9 and critical Firefox bug 429903 (bmo)
by Peter Gordon
Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> This should probably be tracked closely and any pending fix be incorporated
> into the F9 release if possible.
I've been seeing this with Epiphany (built against XULrunner), too. In
my case, it's swfdec and Ephy's AdBlock extension. It's definitely a pain.
:-(
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16 years, 2 months
packages without internet source in fedora
by Patrice Dumas
Hello,
The issue of upstream disappearing is somewhat common (some examples in
mind, former vixie-cron, dos2unix, libnet), maybe we could have a policy
about it. There are also some packages fedora is upstream for, covered in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SourceURL#head-413e1c297803cfa9de...
and some that are not really packages, like redhat-rpm-config.
I think that we really should avoid having any package packaged in a
srpm only (which is the case for package with missing upstream and
packages fedora is upstream for), and try to use systematically version
control system for the packages fedora is upstream for, even packages
that are not really independent packages, like redhat-rpm-config.
I think that the 2 cases should be handled differently:
* fedora specific: on https://fedorahosted.org/
* missing upstream: I think that fedorahosted is not right, a distro
neutral place should in my opinion be better. I also think that it
should be coordinated with other distros. In my opinion discussing
about it on the new distributions list and announcing on that list
should be interesting. And once things are settled, I think that there
should be an obligation for the fedora maintainers to use that new
hosting (or another, but this one would be the classical one).
What do you think?
--
Pat
16 years, 2 months
CVS Outage
by Jesse Keating
In order to mass branch packages for F-9, we are enacting an outage of
the CVS system. We sincerely apologize for not having any advanced
warning of this outage. Delays in Fedora 9 Preview release made the
scheduling of the mass branch uncertain.
There will be an outage starting at 2008-04-19 18:00 UTC. Initial
estimates show that 30 hours will be needed to complete the branching,
however this may drastically be reduced during the full run.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2008-04-19 18:00 UTC UTC'
Affected Services:
Fedora CVS
Unaffected Services:
Everything that is not Fedora CVS.
Reason for Outage:
Mass branch for F-9. We need to disable change mail and ACL lookups
to make the branching happen as fast as possible.
Contact Information:
Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)fedoraproject.org>
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email
to track the status of this outage.
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Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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16 years, 2 months
Fedora 9 Preview issues
by Mark Bidewell
I apologize if some of these have been mention previously but here are some
issue I ran into with the F9 preview.
1) Shortly after using gnome nautilus crashed X after opening a browser
window ( I had switched off spatial nautilus). ctrl+alt_backspace was
needed to exit.
2) GDM does not honor any settings changes in /etc/profile (is there another
location?)
3) When using KDM, the first login works but if I logout KDM no longer
accepts keyboard input. Restarting the X server resolves this.
4) Networkmanager and bridged networking. I am trying to setup a Xen style
bridge setup. Network manager overrides this configuration, however
disabling networkmanager at
startup left me with no network. A manual network restart resolves
this.
I don't know if this is related but I am using the Beta Nvidia drivers with
experimental xorg 1.4 support (does anyone know how to control the GPU fan
without using the binary drivers?).
Mark Bidewell
16 years, 2 months