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About Fedora bugs
by Bill Davidsen 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

We were talking the other day, people were mentioning the bugs they got back from bugzilla recently marked as: Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. People were saying that the same problem got the same message a year ago, but it said "Fedora 11" that time. So I have a suggestion, if no one in the support group looks at a bug in 180 days, close it with a DONTCARE status and tell the submitter that no one could be bothered to even look at the bug in half a year. And do the same thing if a bug sits in NEEDINFO for six months, if no one responds in that length of time they probably no longer care. Users have this unrealistic view that there is a queue of bugs and they get fixed in the order submitted. The truth is that if you don't hear in a month you probably won't ever hear unless someone else reports it and triage catches that they are dups. That doesn't always happen, one of the bugs I had with FC10 was reported as WONTFIX at EOL, and when I tried to reproduce it found that it had been fixed months before and no one bothered to update the bug. Finally, if someone reports a bug in an app, and the tester finds that it's supposed to work that way, if the documentation says it works some other way don't change it to NOTABUG, change it to a documentation bug. If the conflicting documentation is mentioned in the bug report, take a minute and get it resolved. Please? My occasional rant when I look at all the time I wasted reporting bugs... -- Bill Davidsen<davidsen(a)tmr.com> We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010

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Minimal Kernel Config for a F14 KVM guest
by David Quigley 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hello, I will be teaching a one day class in a few weeks and I am going to have the students do some kernel programming. Since it is only a one day course I need to pack as much info into it as possible so I would like to minimize the build times as much as possible. The modifications that they will be making will be touching core kernel headers so it will have to rebuild almost all of the kernel every time. Because of this I'd like to get a kernel config that can get F14 booting (the minimal install) in KVM with the shortest build time possible. I've gotten the build down to 9 minutes and 55 seconds but I would like it sub 5 minutes. Does anyone have or know of a place where I can find a bare minimum config. I've been working on trimming down the stock F14 kernel but there is so much to go through I'm thinking it might be best to build it up from an allnoconfig instead. Dave

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howto download i686 kernel on x86_64 box
by Mike Wright 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi all, I'm running f14-x86_64 but have a need for a f14.i686 kernel package (kernel-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686). I'd also like to unpack it but not into its default locations. That leaves me with two questions: How do I download it without installing it? How do I unpack it into a safe location (such as /test)? Been fiddling with yum and had no luck. TIA, Mike Wright

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updating initrd.img file of the pxe installation files
by Eric Doutreleau 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi i m trying to install f13 on a computer with cobbler and pxe but when i boot the network card is not detected. i would like to update the initrd image file with updated modules Does anybody have a pointer on how to do that? Thanks in advance for any help -- Eric Doutreleau

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How to enable build a debuginfo package using rpmbuild locally on Fedora 14?
by yang.y.yi＠gmail.com 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi, i need to build a rpm package with debuginfo, this is the default result on my Fedora 10, but on Fedora 14, rpmbuild didn't build a debuginfo package, it is invalid to put "%define debug_package 1" in spec file, anybody knows how to enable this? Thank in advance.

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grub on raid1 cannot mount filesystem
by Pavel Lisy 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Hello I've found strange problem in new Fedora 15. I suppose it should work. It's maybe fdisk or grub problem. Normaly I have this (working) multiboot solution on my home PC: On first small (100MB) partition are grub1 files only with this config (grub is installed to MBR): --- cut --- title Fedora 15 root (hd0,2) chainloader +1 title Fedora 14 root (hd0,4) chainloader +1 title Ubuntu root (hd0,5) chainloader +1 --- cut --- Grub of linux distributions is installed into their partitions I want make the same on mirrored environment 2 HD in mirror (raid1): size id OS/SW FS 1. part 200MB fd grub ext4 2. part 8GB 82 SWAP swap 3. part 10 GB fd fedora 15 ext4 4. part extended 5. part 10 GB fd fedora 14 ext4 6. part 10 GB fd ubuntu ext4 ... last part rest. of disk - LVM I've installed Fedora 15 on /dev/md0 (/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1) /boot /dev/md1 (/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3) / grub was in MBR and everything worked. THIS WORKS: grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) When I want put grub of Fedora 15 to start of /dev/sda3 grub is complaining: THIS DOESN'T WORK: grub> root (hd0,2) grub> setup (hd0,2) Error 17: cannot mount selected partition Without mirror (raid1) it works. With raid1 it works only on first partition. Can you explain me why? Thanks in advance Pavel

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Where do yum downloaded package go
by shailesh 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

when we do yum install vlc then first it download packages and then install it...please tell me where(in which folder)it download these packages???

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Wine fonts makes html rendering on firefox and chrome much worse
by Fernando Lozano 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Hi there, Please someone help me find out how to solve this problem: for some weeks I have been experiencing problems with fonts on Firefox and Chrome when acessing two different webmail systems. At first I though the problem was caused by remi RPMs I used to install Firefox 4 on Fedora 14. I installed Fedora 15 and everything was fine for a while, and then fonts became strange again. When firefox started having font problems, Google Chrome started also. The problem was: Bold fonts and regular fonts look almost the same. Bold fonts had a wider average character width, but were not thicker. So I got another computer, installed Fedora 15 from scratch, and compared the results. Everything fine. Updated all packages, including rpmfusion ones. Also fine. Then I noticed the new system was missing some packages I use, I guess they come from rpmfusion: gnome-mplayer and wine. After installing those, the font problem in Firefox and Chrome was back again. But this time I saved the output of rpm -qa at each step, then I compared the latest working state with the one that wasn't. I noticed there are a number of wine-*-fonts packages, and removed then (I also had to remove wine itself). Problem solved! Can anyone explain why either wine itself (or wine fonts) interfere with web browser page rendering? And how can I re-install wine without messing up with web page fonts? []s, Fernando Lozano

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