Hi Mike,
 
Thanks for the reply, but please be a bit more specific. In the link you provided me, at what section of the page I am supposed to look for the solutions to the problems I encountered ? Please tell me, I really want to learn.
 
And, as you can see from my post, I own two different set of systems (a Desktop PC and a Lenovo laptop) which can be used for testing purposes, so can I be of any assisstance to the Fedora Developer team ? As a novice, this is the best way I can participate in the development of FC and learn in the process too.
 
As far as my educational background is concerned, I completed B-Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (CSE)in 2006, an equivalent to US based four year BS Computer Engineering program. I am good at programming in C and core Java. I am currently applying for MS Computer Science program in US Universities for the Fall 2008 session.
 
I really want to learn and apply my creative skills effectively. So, if I can in any way participate in the development of Fedora Core, please let me know. Thanks and regards,
 
Cyberbob
 
Alt. Email: cyberbob24@indiatimes.com 

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  1. I am having a peculiar problem (Cyber Bob)
  2. Re: I am having a peculiar problem (Mike McGrath)
  3. FC6 guests (Luke Macken)
  4. Re: FC6 guests (Matt Domsch)
  5. the syncmail script (Mike McGrath)
  6. Re: the syncmail script (Jeremy Katz)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Cyber Bob" <cyberbob24@gmail.com>
To:  fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 02:43:25 +0530
Subject: I am having a peculiar problem
Hi,
 
I am an user of Fedora Core since 2003, and I've used versions 1.0 and 6.0. Though I've used both versions for quite some time now, I would still like to consider myself to be a novice, since Linux is still like a mysterious lady to me :).
 
I am facing three peculiar problems with FC6 in two systems:
 
1. I own an Intel D865GBF based PC running an Intel 2.8 GHz processor with 512 MB MB (dual channel) DDR RAM. It houses two Seagate Baracuda 80 GB HDDs. FC6 was installed in a dual boot environment with WinXP, FC6 was installed in three primary partitions in the second HDD. Now the problem was that, whenever I tried to boot into FC6, system hanged at the "loading udev" line. I traced the source of this problem to be kernel-xen; since the problem vanished as soon as I unchecked the "Virtualisation" segment in all of the fresh installations post problem. I observed that it installed only "kernel" and not "kernel-xen". Can anyone please tell me whether my observations are correct or not, and whether there exists any solution to the problem with "kernel-xen" ?
 
2. I own a Lenovo 3000 Y500 notebook with 512 MB DDR RAM and 120 GB HDD. FC6 is installed in a dual boot environment with Win Vista that came preloaded. As soon as I update kernel, from the next boot onwards, the updated kernel is unable to detect the laptop keyboard whereas the default kernel works fine. The problem persisted even after updating hal, cups, seliux-policy targeted and  xorg-x11. Am I doing something wrong ? The same setup seems to work fine in my PC.
 
3. Even after installing the latest JDK and JRE, the latest version of OpenOffice.org components fails to start even after giving a "installation success". I didn't installed the following bundled products: OpenOffice, Java, Java runtime, eclipse, firefox and thunderbird. I installed the latest releases of the above mentioned softwares from their respective sites. Any solutions ?
 
Please give me a reply as soon as possible. I am eager to become a part of the FC6 Developers team, but before doing so I need to upgrade myself from novice status. For now, I would like to observe things and explore the way things work here. Wish me luck.
 
Wishing you all a very happy prosperous new year, regards,
 
Cyberbob (A)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:20:58 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: I am having a peculiar problem


On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Cyber Bob wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am an user of Fedora Core since 2003, and I've used versions 1.0 and 6.0.
> Though I've used both versions for quite some time now, I would still like
> to consider myself to be a novice, since Linux is still like a mysterious
> lady to me :).
>
> I am facing three peculiar problems with FC6 in two systems:
>
> 1. I own an Intel D865GBF based PC running an Intel 2.8 GHz processor with
> 512 MB MB (dual channel) DDR RAM. It houses two Seagate Baracuda 80 GB HDDs.
> FC6 was installed in a dual boot environment with WinXP, FC6 was installed
> in three primary partitions in the second HDD. Now the problem was that,
> whenever I tried to boot into FC6, system hanged at the "loading udev" line.
> I traced the source of this problem to be kernel-xen; since the problem
> vanished as soon as I unchecked the "Virtualisation" segment in all of the
> fresh installations post problem. I observed that it installed only "kernel"
> and not "kernel-xen". Can anyone please tell me whether my observations are
> correct or not, and whether there exists any solution to the problem with
> "kernel-xen" ?
>
> 2. I own a Lenovo 3000 Y500 notebook with 512 MB DDR RAM and 120 GB HDD. FC6
> is installed in a dual boot environment with Win Vista that came preloaded.
> As soon as I update kernel, from the next boot onwards, the updated
> kernel is unable to detect the laptop keyboard whereas the default kernel
> works fine. The problem persisted even after updating hal, cups,
> seliux-policy targeted and  xorg-x11. Am I doing something wrong ? The same
> setup seems to work fine in my PC.
>
> 3. Even after installing the latest JDK and JRE, the latest version of
> OpenOffice.org components fails to start even after giving a "installation
> success". I didn't installed the following bundled products: OpenOffice,
> Java, Java runtime, eclipse, firefox and thunderbird. I installed the latest
> releases of the above mentioned softwares from their respective sites. Any
> solutions ?
>
> Please give me a reply as soon as possible. I am eager to become a part of
> the FC6 Developers team, but before doing so I need to upgrade myself from
> novice status. For now, I would like to observe things and explore the way
> things work here. Wish me luck.
>
> Wishing you all a very happy prosperous new year, regards,

Sorry Cyber Bob, you want:

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       -Mike




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Luke Macken <lmacken@redhat.com>
To: fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:23:25 -0500
Subject: FC6 guests
So, we still have a handful of FC6 guests lying around in PHX.
After a quick look, it seems that we're using them for the following
services.

   publictest1
   - pkgdb-dev
   - ns-slapd
   - mysqld
   - postgres
   - wevisor
   publictest2
   - my mash/bodhi playground
   publictest4
   - asterisk
   test1
   - security irc bot / xmlrpc.

Please feel free to chime in with any services / guests I'm missing.

With regard to publictest2, this guest can go away and not come back.
I'd be fine doing mash/bodhi testing on any guest that has a couple gigs
of RAM and read-only access to /mnt/koji.

So, in order to get this ball rolling, we need to determine which guests
we want to upgrade / destroy, what OS we want to upgrade them to, and if the
services are currently able to run on that OS.  Also, when would the best time
to upgrade be?


luke




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:26:59 -0600
Subject: Re: FC6 guests
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:23:25AM -0500, Luke Macken wrote:
> So, we still have a handful of FC6 guests lying around in PHX.
> After a quick look, it seems that we're using them for the following
> services.
>
>     publictest1
>     - pkgdb-dev
>     - ns-slapd
>     - mysqld
>     - postgres
>     - wevisor

I use pt1 for some mirrormanager hacking, but that can be done on any
system now, and I have nothing valuable on there, so it can go away at
any time from my POV.

Thanks,
Matt

--
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mike McGrath < mmcgrath@redhat.com>
To: fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:29:43 -0600 (CST)
Subject: the syncmail script
I know there's a lot of history around the syncmail script, does anyone
know why we don't just stick a & at the end and fork it?

I'm refering to the ctl+c to skip notifications issue.

       -Mike




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeremy Katz < katzj@redhat.com>
To: fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:39:41 -0500
Subject: Re: the syncmail script
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 10:29 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> I know there's a lot of history around the syncmail script, does anyone
> know why we don't just stick a & at the end and fork it?
>
> I'm refering to the ctl+c to skip notifications issue.

>From what I remember, we tried this and it didn't work

Jeremy



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