Remaining debuginfo packages without sources (ocaml, haskell, erlang, etc)
by Ville Skyttä
Hi,
The remaining set of packages with unknown status that have debuginfo packages
without sources are somewhat unusual ones. In particular, there's a bunch of
Java packages but I suppose those are more or less because of bug #472292.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Scop/DebugInfoProblems
Could people who have a clue about the following languages/packages check if
the packages are compiled with the appropriate $RPM_OPT_FLAGS and/or could be
modified to produce a usual debuginfo package (one with sources, that is):
Ocaml related packages: why, mediawiki, zenon, hevea, planets
Haskell related packages: curry
Erlang related packages: wings
Others: GtkAda, elice, lostlabyrinth, mono-debugger
15 years
[RFC] Increase default ulimit nofile
by Jon Masters
Folks,
While digging through a fault in GNOME and Rhythmbox this evening, I
happened upon this nugget. By default, we're still living in 1970:
[jcm@tonnant ~]$ ulimit -n
1024
Now. This might be great for a honking great shared UNIX server from the
days of yore, but it's not remotely appropriate for a modern desktop.
Especially not one layered with so many per-user daemons and layers of
abstraction as we have on modern Linux systems.
I suggest /etc/security/limits.conf be modified to include something
like the following, along with advice for sysadmins:
* - nofile 8192
Discuss.
--- background to discovering this problem ---
I like podcasts. A lot. I also like rhythmbox (mostly). I've been
wondering recently why I would occasionally not be able to download
podcasts in rhythmbox. It seemed to be related to when I was connected
to a particular VPN and so I had dismissed it as being network DNSness
weirdness. But then it started happening much more often. Tonight, I
decided it was probably more than occasional network weirdness.
So I decided "I'll just fire up gdb on rhythmbox". Many debuginfo
packages, cscopes, hacked up source, etc. later on, I discover the
"problem" is in abstraction layer number 2 - totem-pl-parser. So I
download the source to this package also, rebuild and hack it up. I
eventually discovered that various GError objects were happily telling
me that the maximum number of open files had been exceeded, but totem
never exposes this to rhythmbox, and the latter just has no idea what
the heck is causing it to fail. Some serious fail happening there.
Jon.
15 years
Packages not signed?
by Dimi Paun
OK, that's the deal here?
[root@dimi dimi]# yum update nfs-utils
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package nfs-utils.i586 1:1.1.5-6.fc11 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Updating:
nfs-utils i586 1:1.1.5-6.fc11 fedora 310 k
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 1 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total size: 310 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Package nfs-utils-1.1.5-6.fc11.i586.rpm is not signed
--
Dimi Paun <dimi(a)lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.
15 years
Where to post an experimental package? (java-1.7.0-openjdk)
by Lillian Angel
Hi,
On May 21, Sun plans on releasing a preview of JDK7[1]. We (the OpenJDK
team) would like to create a java-1.7.0-openjdk package for experimental
and testing purposes. A few options were we create the fedora rpms and
submit them to rpmfusion (or similar), host them on a my personal fedora
page, or get the package into Fedora.
I am wondering what some other acceptable options are. I am not keen on
getting this package pushed into Fedora since java-1.6.0-openjdk already
exists, and jdk7 will not be stable until sometime after Feb 2010[1].
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Lillian
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/milestones/
15 years
rawhide report: 20090521 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Thu May 21 06:15:04 UTC 2009
Updated Packages:
DeviceKit-disks-004-3.fc11
--------------------------
* Tue May 19 2009 David Zeuthen <davidz(a)redhat.com> - 004-3.fc11
- Avoid checking whether device is ATA SMART capable if the device reports
removable media (#494932)
e2fsprogs-1.41.4-10.fc11
------------------------
* Wed May 20 2009 Eric Sandeen <sandeen(a)redhat.com> 1.41.4-10
- Fix minimum resize calculation and enforce it (#499452)
fedora-logos-11.0.6-1.fc11
--------------------------
* Mon May 18 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 11.0.6-1
- drop "lowres" image, saves a small amount of diskspace
kernel-2.6.29.3-155.fc11
------------------------
* Wed May 20 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle(a)redhat.com> 2.6.29.3-154
- disable e820 backports, causes problems in some places, bz#499396.
linux-2.6-e820-save-restore-edi-ebp.patch
linux-2.6-e820-acpi3-bios-workaround.patch
linux-2.6-e820-guard-against-pre-acpi3.patch
* Wed May 20 2009 <krh(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.29.3-155
- Add drm-intel-i8xx-cursors.patch to fix cursors on i8xx desktop
chipsets (#488980).
- Add drm-intel-vmalloc.patch as part of the fix for #498131.
* Tue May 19 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle(a)redhat.com> 2.6.29.3-151
- net-revert-forcedeth-power-down-phy-when-interface-is.patch: revert only
hunks that powered down the phy. fixes rhbz#501249.
* Tue May 19 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle(a)redhat.com> 2.6.29.3-153
- drm-intel-gem-use-dma32-on-pae.patch: Force GEM allocations to be DMA32
when using PAE. This should fix bz#493526. Leave the gfp flags for every
other chipset (radeon, really...) unset so we don't fribble the flags.
- agp-set_memory_ucwb.patch: comment out rejecting hunk that's no longer
necessary (forcing gem on with highmem64g.)
* Mon May 18 2009 Josef Bacik <josef(a)toxicpanda.com>
- fix page_mkwrite in btrfs
* Mon May 18 2009 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes(a)redhat.com>
- xen/blkfront: fix warning when deleting gendisk on unplug/shutdown. BZ# 499621
- xen/blkfront: allow xenbus state transition to closing->closed when
not connected
* Mon May 18 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle(a)redhat.com>
- increase-MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES.patch: suck in upstream fix
d80c19df5fcceb8c741e96f09f275c2da719efef
* Mon May 18 2009 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes(a)redhat.com>
- Disable GB pages for Xen guests BZ# 499592
* Mon May 18 2009 Adam Jackson <ajax(a)redhat.com>
- Expose whether VGA devices were active at boot or not in sysfs.
* Mon May 18 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle(a)redhat.com>
- drm-intel-include-965gme-pci-id.patch: add patch patch from git head to
treat 965GME like 965GM.
module-init-tools-3.7-9.fc11
----------------------------
* Tue May 19 2009 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 3.7-9
- Move /etc/modprobe.d/anaconda if it exists (#496261)
* Mon May 11 2009 Jon Masters <jcm(a)redhat.com> - 3.7-8 (pre9)
- Rename /etc/modprobe.conf to /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf on upgrade (#488768)
nautilus-2.26.3-1.fc11
----------------------
* Tue May 19 2009 Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek(a)redhat.com> - 2.26.3-1
- Update to 2.26.3
pungi-2.0.15-1.fc11
-------------------
* Tue May 19 2009 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.15-1
- Split media on demand rather than via guess work.
selinux-policy-3.6.12-39.fc11
-----------------------------
* Wed May 20 2009 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 3.6.12-39
- Allow fprintd to access sys_ptrace
- Add sandbox policy
* Mon May 18 2009 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 3.6.12-38
- Add varnishd policy
* Thu May 14 2009 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 3.6.12-37
- Fixes for kpropd
* Tue May 12 2009 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 3.6.12-36
- Allow brctl to r/w tun_tap_device_t
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.1.0-7.fc11
-----------------------------------
* Tue May 19 2009 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer(a)redhat.com> 1.1.0-7
- Update synaptics-1.1.0-nograb-fail.patch: bad return value led to
non-synaptics devices to be treated as synaptics devices (#499792)
* Mon May 18 2009 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer(a)redhat.com> 1.1.0-6
- synaptics-1.1.0-synclient-accel-max.patch: update synclient's maximum
value for AccelFactor to 1.0.
Summary:
Added Packages: 0
Removed Packages: 0
Modified Packages: 9
Broken deps for ppc64
----------------------------------------------------------
cabal2spec-0.12-1.fc11.noarch requires ghc > 0:6.10.1-7
15 years
Sound doesn't work, again!
by Dimi Paun
Folks,
Yesterday I had to reboot -- this is highly stressful experience
for me, as *every* time I do that something doesn't work, especially
something to do with sound.
Sure enough, I can no longer turn the sound loud enough, despite
fscking around with alsamixer, and a myriad of other sliders all
over the place.
Guys, I am using _standard_ hardware, I am running a _standard_
F11 install. I am doing nothing special! And yet, I can not get
more than 24h of reliable sound out of my system!!!
Newsflash! It is 2009! Sound Just Doesn't Work (TM)!
How is a regular user supposed to use this system? I have spent *tens*
of hours trying to get it to work, It just doesn't! I filed bug reports,
investigated, etc. Lennart is very helpful, I appreciate it.
Yet, basic sound output is a _total_ nightmare:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501122
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500657
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497550
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493788
I have more Linux experience than 99.99% of all Linux users, and it
managed to almost break me. Is a "normal" user to have a better
experience? If so, I'd love to know how. I really do.
Guys, please understand: I love all the tricks that I can do with PA.
They are really neat. But they mean _zero_ if basic sound just doesn't
work! Even controlling volume is a nightmare (bug 501122).
Does anybody care that in AD 2009 we ship a system where getting basic
sound of one's computer would make a grown man cry?
--
Dimi Paun <dimi(a)lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.
15 years
LiveCD install and PAE kernel
by Jonathan Underwood
Hi,
I installed the i686 from the Preview Release LiveCD image
(specifically F11-Preview-i686-Live-KDE.iso). This image booted the
non PAE kernel, and when I installed to hard disk, it installs the non
PAE kernel. This is on an Atom N280 netbook. If I understand the
feature list correctly, actually the installer should have installed
the PAE kernel on this hardware. Or does that just refer to DVD
installs? i.e. does the LiveCD have any mechanism for chosing
PAE/non-PAE or is that just the DVD?
If not, then it might be worth detailing in the Release Notes how to
install the PAE kernel following a LiveCD install.
Cheers,
Jonathan.
15 years
latest f11 kmail update eating email?
by Jarod Wilson
Uhm... So yeah. I installed the latest kmail update in the f11 tree (via
kdepim-4.2.3-1.fc11), and one by one, emails in my inbox started
disappearing. Opened up Thunderbird instead, and the emails are
definitely gone. Uh. WTF?!?
--
Jarod Wilson
jarod(a)redhat.com
15 years
