Fedora 16 instabilities

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

> - Changing UID's to start at 1000 instead of 500 is just annoying.

Yes it is, but that's easily fixed with a one-time script. I can send 
you a sample perl script if you need one.


> - With earlier kernels, skype was merely unreliable, sometimes with no
>    microphone, sometimes no sound, sometimes no video.  The popup that
>    announces an incoming call fails to appear - sometimes.  Despite its
>    non-open status, skype is a critical utility.  Some way must be found
>    to support it so it is reliable.  Making changes to the kernel that
>    destroy it is not acceptable.

Shrug. It's closed source, how can kernel developers possibly support 
it? If it's closed, only Skype can fix Skype problems, no matter how 
critical you feel it is...


> - Some programs fail at random, unpredictible and unrepeatable times.
>    Qtstalker occasionally simply stops working.  It's window can be
>    deleted, but a zombie remains.
...
>
> - Libreoffice insists on making files inaccessible via nfs.
>    A workaround is to edit /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice to
>    comment out these two lines:
>      ## SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1 ## export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING
>    but this must be redone whenever a new update comes along.

That's been an issue for a long time, well before F16 - are you using nfsv3?

I think open/libre-office work directly with nfsv4 (could be wrong).

However, I found nfsv4 to be unusable as a home-folder-server in F16 - 
it was a huge source of instability. gluster is problematic too in F16. 
I've settled on moosefs as a file server. It works extremely well with 
F15 and F16 clients.

Life with Fedora is all about bleeding-edge surprises...

- Mike