User switching is broken
by nodata
User switching between different users on X is broken.
It's not just broken for me, everyone I have asked has experienced the
same problem:
Clicking "Switch user" will often or sometimes lead to a hung screen.
The switcher doesn't show the correct virtual terminal. Killing the
switcher with ctrl+alt+backspace is one solution, the alternative is
manually switching virtual consoles.
Reporting this on Bugzilla doesn't help.
Mentioning it here hasn't helped.
The bug does exist, but everyone knows how to workaround it. Everyone
who doesn't know how to workaround it doesn't use Bugzilla? Abrtd isn't
catching this because it isn't a crash?
What does the list recommend?
12 years, 2 months
why are is subversion 1.7 for F16/F17 removed
by Reindl Harald
working since many motnhs with:
subversion-1.7.0-2.fc15.x86_64
subversion-libs-1.7.0-2.fc15.x86_64
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=752
all the 1.7 packages are removed for F15/F16 now
so after distro-sync to F16 downgradded to
subversion-1.6.17-5.fc16.x86_64
and now?
WHY are they removed from koji?
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to be part of a Subversion 1.7 or greater working copy. Please upgrade your
Subversion client to use this working copy.
12 years, 2 months
Adjustment to deprecated package policy approved by FESCo
by Tomas Mraz
On the FESCo meeting today the deprecated package policy was adjusted.
We agreed on the following proposal:
Packages may be unretired without review up to 2 weeks after
retirement providing that the package has ever previously been
reviewed.
--
Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
Turkish proverb
12 years, 2 months
Schedule for today's FESCo Meeting (2012-03-12) Note the time change in US!
by Tomas Mraz
Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FESCo
meeting today at 18:00UTC (1:00pm EST, 2:00pm EDT) in #fedora-meeting on
irc.freenode.net.
Links to all tickets below can be found at:
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/report/9
= Followups =
#topic #699 Proposal to remove the package "tzdata" from Critical Path
.fesco 699
#topic #800 Feature Freeze exception: JBoss AS 7
.fesco 800
= New business =
#topic #820 Feature Freeze exception: Mingw-w64 cross-compiler
.fesco 820
#topic #707 Updates to language on FESCo Election page
.fesco 707
#topic #819 Please review our determination of IPv6 issue blocker status
.fesco 819
#topic #808 Unretiring policy (or Fedora policies in general) needs a "common sense" clause
.fesco 808
= Open Floor =
For more complete details, please visit each individual ticket. The
report of the agenda items can be found at
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/report/9
If you would like to add something to this agenda, you can reply to
this e-mail, file a new ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/fesco,
e-mail me directly, or bring it up at the end of the meeting, during
the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until
the following meeting.
12 years, 2 months
Need help with GNOME ?
by Nelson Marques
Is there anything I can help (main packaging related or triage/bug
fix) regarding GNOME in Fedora?
--
Nelson Marques
// I've stopped trying to understand sandwiches with a third piece of
bread in the middle...
12 years, 2 months
NSS update to 3.13.3 coming soon
by Elio Maldonado
NSS 3.13.3 has been relessed and it's built for Rawhide/F-17-alpha/F-16/F15.
A push to update-testing for f17 will be coming shortly - to f16/f15 som time later.
You can find the new features and bug fixes in NSS 3.13.2 and 3.13.3 with these Bugzilla queries:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=1496878&resolution=FIXED...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=1496878&resolution=FIXED...
and fixes for NSPR 4.9 with this query:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=1496878&resolution=FIXED...
When we updated nss last, from to nss-3.13.1, a notable change was: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665814
The NSS upstream announcement stated:
A defense against the SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 CBC chosen plaintext attack
demonstrated by Rizzo and Duong (CVE-2011-3389) is enabled by default.
to set the SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV SSL option to PR_FALSE to disable it.
This caused breakage connecting to various servers, due to servers temselvs and some client applications
We opted to reverse the sense of the fix's default and stated tht it was off and that if desired you
could set the SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV SSL option to PR_TRUE to enable it.
This was done for the stable branches, F-16/15, while Rawhide had fix on by default.
Since then several fedora maintainers have either patched affected procts downstream or submitted
patches that were accepted by their respective upstreams. Some patches have yet to be accepted.
The last time I checked such was the case with OpenSSSL. Others we don't know yet.
Since F-17 is now Alpha and I have set the default to off like it is on F-16/15, Rawhide (f18) still has it on.
We would like to find what additional products will still break with this fix. If you can, could you set the
SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV SSL option to PR_TRUE and try it and send us feedback on remaining sites or apps that syill break?
Thank you in advance,
Elio Maldonado
12 years, 2 months