Off Topic: where I can see how I translate old gdm conf files to new ones?
by casimiro barreto
Hello,
After upgrading to Fedora Rel 9 I've had trouble to drop the
-nolisten in the Xserver (old defaults.conf is not working anymore)
and I need to set the command=/usr/bin/X ...
Gdm was shipped without proper documentation (no man pages, nothing
for the missing gdmsetup and other programs...
Best regards and sorry for the inconvenience...
Casimiro Barreto
15 years, 5 months
Help! XFCE event sounds in Rawhide -- make it stop!
by Matthew Miller
My rawhide system has always had some sound oddities ever since the
pulseaudio switch -- it really needs a reinstall. But in the last couple of
days, something has been driving me crazy: there are suddenly loud,
obnoxious sound effects when I open or close windows. There doesn't seem to
be an XFCE control panel that has anything to do with this, and changing the
gnome one has no effect. Help! Help!
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Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
15 years, 5 months
NetworkManager-pptp
by Mat Booth
I was pleased to see this package hanging out in Koji today. Thanks
Dan for packaging it, I've been looking forward to seeing this in
Fedora.
I've installed the x86_64 package from Koji to try it out on my F9
machine. Am I being too eager? :-)
Anyway, I've configured up my VPN connection but I can't get it to
work. Whatever I try, I always get the following:
Aug 30 16:05:40 sd NetworkManager: <info> Starting VPN service
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp'...
Aug 30 16:05:40 sd NetworkManager: <info> VPN service
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' started
(org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 6587
Aug 30 16:05:40 sd NetworkManager: <WARN> vpn_service_watch_cb(): VPN
service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' exited with error: 1
Aug 30 16:05:45 sd NetworkManager: <info> VPN service
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' did not start in time,
cancelling connections
Currently, I connect to the VPN with this script (login details
censored, obviously):
http://www.matbooth.co.uk/lwd/start-vpn
Which works reasonably well. How can I make NetworkManager-pptp
connect using the settings I use in that script? What's the best way
to go about debugging this?
Regards,
Mat
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Mat Booth
www.matbooth.co.uk
15 years, 5 months
Evolution junk failures
by Mike Chambers
On an F9 system upgraded to Rawhide, it seems evolution shows (not sure
if all the time, or at certain times/conditions) a "Check junk mail"
failed message when emails arrive. And this worked just fine on F9,
using bogofilter as my spam program.
Also, (not sure this is evo though), as I am typing this, I can see the
whole email (body and signature) flashing in 2-3 different places on my
screen in the body of the email. Below is a URL with a screenshot of
it....
http://www.miketc.net/Screenshot.png
Any ideas?
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Mike Chambers
Fedora Project - Ambassador, Bug Zapper, Tester, User, etc..
mikec302(a)fedoraproject.org
15 years, 5 months
Interested in Fedora on Smaller Machines?
by Jeremy Katz
Smaller form-factor machines such as the Asus eeePC have gotten a fair
bit of the tech press spotlight of late. Have you bought one with the
idea of running Fedora on it? Or have you thought about doing so?
I'm trying to gauge the interest in starting a SIG with the purpose of
making distribution changes to make running on these devices more
streamlined and have more work "out of the box". This will involve both
the necessary work to just get the hardware working well with Fedora of
today as well as possibly a spin that is explicitly targeted at some of
the constraints of the hardware down the line[1].
If enough people are interested, I'd like to find a time later this week
or next week to have an initial meeting to kind of figure out what
bounds we want to tackle things in for the first pass. Hardware that I
think definitely falls into the scope would be: netbooks, UMPCs, MIDs,
maybe the XO? I've started up a page on the wiki
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeremyKatz/Netbooks) that people can edit
and then we can go from there
Jeremy
15 years, 6 months
Re: rpms/git/devel .cvsignore, 1.63, 1.64 git.spec, 1.70, 1.71 sources, 1.63, 1.64
by Todd Zullinger
James Bowes wrote:
> Log Message:
> git 1.6.0.1
[...]
> Index: git.spec
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/extras/rpms/git/devel/git.spec,v
> retrieving revision 1.70
> retrieving revision 1.71
> diff -u -r1.70 -r1.71
> --- git.spec 24 Jul 2008 14:03:40 -0000 1.70
> +++ git.spec 28 Aug 2008 12:16:58 -0000 1.71
> @@ -132,6 +132,7 @@
> %build
> make %{_smp_mflags} CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" \
> ETC_GITCONFIG=/etc/gitconfig \
> + gitexecdir=%{_bindir} \
> prefix=%{_prefix} all %{!?_without_docs: doc}
> make -C contrib/emacs
>
> @@ -140,6 +141,7 @@
> make %{_smp_mflags} CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT \
> prefix=%{_prefix} mandir=%{_mandir} \
> ETC_GITCONFIG=/etc/gitconfig \
> + gitexecdir=%{_bindir} \
> INSTALLDIRS=vendor install %{!?_without_docs: install-doc}
> make -C contrib/emacs install \
> emacsdir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/emacs/site-lisp
I almost hate to ask, but why are we differing from upstream here by
setting gitexecdir=%{_bindir}? Moving the git-* commands out of the
path has been on the agenda for git-1.6.0 for a long time. If distros
like Fedora and others just set gitexecdir like this we've effectively
negated upstream's intent to present less binaries in the users path.
For those folks that want to continue using the git-* form, the simple
solution is to add $(git --exec-path) to PATH.
If we want to not break anyone's scripts by default in the update to
git-1.6.0, we could add that to the PATH in the package rather than
keep all the git binaries in %{_bindir}. At least that way, those who
do not want or need all the extra commands there could just remove it
from their PATH. (Personally, I'd prefer to not even do that and
install git as closely to upstream as possible.)
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Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp
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Never argue with an idiot. First, they drag you down to their level,
then beat you with experience.
-- Ben Adams
15 years, 6 months
FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-08-13
by Brian Pepple
=== Members Present ===
* Brian Pepple (bpepple)
* Kevin Fenzi (nirik)
* Josh Boyer (jwb)
* Jon Stanley (jds2001)
* Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore)
* Karsten Hopp (kick_)
* Jarod Wilson (j-rod)
=== Members Absent ===
* Bill Nottingham (notting)
* David Woodhouse (dwmw2)
== Summary ==
=== Upstart Status Update ===
* Casey Dahlin (sadmac2) and Scott James Remnant (Keybuk) gave an update
on the status of Upstart for F10. It was planned that with Upstart 0.5,
Fedora would begin converting large parts of the system to the "upstart
way of doing things". Keybuk pointed out that several very core use
cases, pertaining to the mounting of file systems, instance jobs, etc,
are poorly served by current Upstart. So, until these issues are
resolved upstream, we will hold off on converting to the "upstart way of
doing things".
=== Revert curl change made for flash ===
* After a contentious discussion of whether to use an empty shared
library linked to libcurl.so.4 (proposal #1), or to make a compat
sub-package for libcurl.so.3 (proposal #2), FESCo approved proposal #1.
* Proposal #1: jds2001, Kick_, nirik, bpepple
* Proposal #2: jwb, dgilmore
* Abstain: j-rod
=== Features ===
* FESCo approved the following feature for F10:
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApplianceTools
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApplicationInstaller
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Eclipse34
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FirstAidKit
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GNOME2_24
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PythonNSS
* FESCo held off on approving the 30 Second Startup(1) feature, since
they had some questions regarding it.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/30SecondStartup
IRC log can be found at:
http://bpepple.fedorapeople.org/fesco/FESCo-2008-08-13.html
Later,
/B
--
Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bpepple
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15 years, 6 months
Fedora 10 Beta Freeze coming soon
by Jesse Keating
The Fedora 10 Beta freeze is scheduled for the 19th of Aug, one week and
one day away. I know it hasn't been very long since the Alpha release,
but that's how we roll here in the land of 6 month release cycles.
Beta freeze also marks the Feature freeze, so it is very important that
you get your features into working, testable shape by then, or be
prepared to try your feature again for Fedora 11.
We'd like to treat rawhide as a slushy freeze at this point, we'll be
doing full composes against rawhide to test for various things and be
ahead of the curve come actual freeze time, so we'd like you to not land
any really dangerous changes without extensive testing first, and
notification to the Fedora lists about your scary change. If we all
work together we can get through the beta freeze period quickly and be
on to the bugfixing mode after beta releases.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule is the current
schedule, although releng/Fesco/Board has the ability to change the
schedule as needed. This week's meetings of the various boards, sigs,
groups, etc.. should focus on Beta readiness. It would be good to take
a moment to see what state your area of interest is in, and how likely
it would be that said area of interest will be in a "testable" shape by
the Beta freeze. If more (reasonable) time is needed, now is the time
to let the project know so that we can effectively manage the remainder
of our release schedule.
Thanks for all your hard work in making Fedora 10 great!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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15 years, 6 months