GConf changes in F12
by Matthias Clasen
I've committed patches to GConf and intltool that change the way schema
translations are handled.
Previously, translations were merged by intltool from .po files into
schemas files and then copied by gconftool from the schemas file into
the database.
Now, translations are kept in .po files, and intltool only copies the
gettext domain into the schemas, and further into the GConf database.
The only tool that ever uses these translations, gconf-editor, knows how
to get them from the message catalogs.
The big advantage of this change is that schemas shrink radically, which
should help a lot with the 'slow updates due to GConf' problem. It also
reduces the redundancy of storing the schema translations in three
places, which should help with live cd size.
Since the changes are somewhat involved, I'd like to ask for feedback in
case something appears odd or broken wrt. to GConf schemas and their
translations in the near future.
Thanks, Matthias
14 years, 11 months
just lost my pipe
by Christoph Höger
Hi,
as you might know, on german keyboards, the | symbol is created by
pressing AltGr and the key right to the shift key.
In my last session on my f11 thinkpad (r61) I just lost that symbol.
AltGr - <ANYOTHERKEY> worked, so did < and > on that key. Only | was
gone. Reboot fixed that.
Any idea what subsytem (kernel, X) to blame for that? Any idea what I
can do to dig deeper into this?
regards
christoph
14 years, 11 months
FESCo Meeting Summary for 20090424
by Kevin Fenzi
== Members Present ==
* Jon Stanley (jds2001)
* Kevin Fenzi (nirik)
* Dan Horak (sharkcz)
* Josh Boyer (jwb)
* Brian Pepple (bpepple)
* David Woodhouse (dwmw2)
* Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore)
== Members Absent ==
* Bill Nottingham (notting)
* Jarod Wilson (j-rod)
== Sponsor request - mmahut ==
This request was approved.
== Sponsor request - s4504kr ==
This request was approved.
== Sponsor request - peter ==
This request was approved.
== Sponsor request - jussilehtola ==
This request was approved after some discussion about what changes are
appropriate to make for a reviewer in a Merge review.
== Provenpackager request - lennart ==
This request was approved.
== PulseAudio regression handling ==
Long and contentious discussion about concerns with the VolumeControl
feature. FESCo decided to get gnome-alsamixer packaged and added to the
default desktop live/install spins to allow users whos use cases are
not covered currently by VolumeControl to have a GUI way to adjust
mixer settings. Hopefully this will be dropped/revisited in F12.
== IRC LOG ==
Log posted at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:FESCo-2009_04_24
14 years, 11 months
Fedora 11 Preview Release announcement
by Seth Vidal
Memorandum of Intent to Release a Distribution of Understanding
Things this email is about:
- Fedora 11 Preview release
- Where to get it
- How to test it
- Where to report problems
Things this email is not about:
- If there are too many sliders on a volume control
- If there are not enough sliders on a volume control
- Grumpiness
Agenda Items:
- Release Fedora 11 Preview Announcement
- Tell everyone how to obtain the Preview Release
- Tell everyone how to file bug reports
Hidden Agenda:
- Joy
- Peace
- Occasional fun-loving snarkiness
Body:
This is the Fedora 11 Preview release, we're just a short time from
releasing the full shebang. Therefore we need the most testing we can
possibly get on this one. On the torrent sites you'll find live images for
testing:
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org and http://spins.fedoraproject.org
Everyone has been focused on fixing and closing their remaining bugs since
the Fedora 11 Beta Release. Please use Bugzilla
( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report ) to report any
problems you find (after making sure that somebody else hasn't already
reported the issues). The Preview release notes which can be found at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11preview/ will help you
with any other details.
Thanks and happy testing!
-sv
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14 years, 11 months
Orphaning azureus
by Conrad Meyer
I'm orphaning azureus in all non-EOL release branches (F-9, F-10, F-11) as
well as devel.
It's a steaming pile of crap, I don't use it personally, and I don't have the
time to do a proper job hammering it in to shape for Fedora. As a warning to
any would-be takers, version 4.2 has been released for a while now (the
version in CVS is 4.0.0.4). The package could use a lot of work and now is a
great time to do another review request (if someone wants to maintain it) for
the name change (Azureus -> Vuze).
Regards,
--
Conrad Meyer <konrad(a)tylerc.org>
14 years, 11 months
X becomes non-responsive after a while when running f11 preview inside a VM (F10 host)
by Julian Sikorski
Hi,
I've been experiencing the following issue with rawhide and now f11
preview for a good while. Namely, after some time from login, the
desktop will stop responding in a really strange way:
- windows already present on the desktop will keep refreshing their contents
- cursor will continue to move
- it is no longer possible to move windows around or start new applications
- it is possible to switch consoles
Restarting the X helps, at least for a short while. I was not able to
find anything useful in the logs. Is there a way I can figure out what
the hell is going on so that I could submit a meaningful bug report?
Thanks,
Julian
14 years, 11 months
F10: something broken with lvm
by Gerry Reno
We just upgraded a number of machines to F10 and after a few weeks I've
noticed something wrong with lvm. Some of our inhouse scripts are
breaking that deal with lvm. When I look at /etc/fstab and mount I see
entries what used to look like:
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 / ext3 defaults 1 1
getting changed to this:
/dev/dm-3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
Where does this '/dev/dm-3' device come from? I don't find it
referenced in any of the lvm tool outputs. Whatever caused this change
to happen please revert this back to just listing lv's in normal lvm
parlance please. These mysterious changes are breaking things and are a
complete nuisance. How do we go about undoing these changes and how do
we prevent this from happening again?
Regards,
Gerry
14 years, 11 months
F11 Preview Hard Lock
by Andy Lawrence
F11 Preview.i368 with all updates as of 30 minutes ago! Everytime I visit
www.wthitv.com (with firefox) my computer hard locks with only mouse
movement. CTRL+ALT+F1 etc do nothing. I first tried without flash then
also with flash, no difference.
/var/log/messages now only shows output since the most current boot? No
older data, new behaviour? Only relevant hardware I can think of would be
the graphics card, Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML
Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03).
Anyone confirm before I BZ it?
--
projecthuh.com
All of my bits are free, are yours? Fedoraproject.org
14 years, 11 months
rpm-4.6 and brp-python-bytecompile?
by Carl D. Roth
I noticed this wierdness with rpm-4.6 (f10) and rpm-4.7 (f11)... When I
build packages including Python scripts, sometimes the .pyc and .pyo
files are included in the package manifest, and sometimes, they are not.
The script that does the .pyc and .pyo generation is 'brp-python-
bytecompile', part of the '%__os_install_post' macro. Here are the
various (inconsistent) results I get on different systems:
F9:
$ rpm --eval '%__os_install_post'
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip /usr/bin/
objdump
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-bytecompile
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-python-hardlink
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-java-repack-jars
F10 (x86_64):
$ rpm --eval '%__os_install_post'
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip /usr/bin/
objdump
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-bytecompile
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-python-hardlink
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-java-repack-jars
F10 (i386):
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-static-archive
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note
F10 (i386) -- in an i386 mock chroot:
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip /usr/bin/
objdump
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-bytecompile
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-python-hardlink
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-java-repack-jars
F11 (i386):
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-static-archive
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note
F11 (i386) -- in an i386 mock chroot
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip /usr/bin/
objdump
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-bytecompile
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-python-hardlink
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-java-repack-jars
Why does the %__os_install_post macro vary in these examples? It's a
little frustrating, since a spec file that works outside of a mock chroot
may not work inside, and vice-versa.
C
14 years, 11 months
