Firefox font rendering
by Gordon Messmer
When I load this URL in firefox-3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11.x86_64, all of the
text is as boxes with numbers, like Unicode for which there is no font.
Before I file a bug report, can anyone confirm that Firefox behaves
the same for them?
15 years
rawhide report: 20090603 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Wed Jun 3 06:15:03 UTC 2009
Updated Packages:
anaconda-11.5.0.59-1.fc11
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* Tue Jun 02 2009 Chris Lumens <clumens(a)redhat.com> - 11.5.0.59-1
- Do not show disabled repos such as rawhide during the install (#503798).
(jkeating)
Summary:
Added Packages: 0
Removed Packages: 0
Modified Packages: 1
Broken deps for ppc64
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cabal2spec-0.12-1.fc11.noarch requires ghc > 0:6.10.1-7
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Re: swap partitions are type 83?
by Allen Kistler
Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> On Monday 01 June 2009 14:09:35 James Laska wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 01:57 -0500, Allen Kistler wrote:
>>> It's really late to notice this, I know, but F11 anaconda is creating
>>> swap partitions as type 83 instead of as type 82.
>>>
>>> I know F11 has discarded the concept that partitions must begin and end
>>> on cylinder boundaries, but has it also discarded the concept that swaps
>>> are a separate partition type from file partitions?
>>>
>>> BZ 503457
>>
>> Nice catch! I've confirmed the behavioral change between F10 and F11
>> and added some data to the bug report.
>
> It may be a change between F10 and F11 but it really matter. IIRC, for a
> number of releases now, Fedora Linux looks at the "signature" for a swap file
> and ignores the 82/83 type.
>
> Yes, it is a change but ... so what?
"So what" is kind of my question, too, but maybe with a different
inclination. I recognize that Fedora works okay with swaps as type 83, but:
1. Has that been a conscious design choice?
Well, no, apparently it wasn't. It simply resulted because anaconda
switched in F11 to using parted for partitioning. How much anaconda
should do vs. how much parted should do is being discussed among the
maintainers. The rest of us get to wait and watch.
2. Does it introduce inter-operation problems with other distros
(i.e., dual-boot, etc.) and non-Fedora apps?
On that, no one seems to know for sure, but there is concern
that it might. From the comments in the bug, I'd say type 82 is
likely to make a return. Whether it does so by F11 GA is another
matter.
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slightly OT - X performance benchmark
by David L
My f11 system seems extremely slow when running
some 2D gtk/cairo apps. Is there a benchmark
suite that is yum installable for testing X performance?
If there is such a suite, it there a way to compare my
results with typical results for similar graphics cards
(maybe something like smolt but with benchmark
results)?
I'm mostly interested in 2D performance.
Thanks,
David
15 years
Re: RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen
----- "Bill Davidsen" <davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
> Everyone seeds for people, the server should not be seeding more than
> 1-2
> clients, who then seed other, and others, leaving the server to do
> only bookkeeping.
>
As long as people will "re-seed" in a example case distributing Fedora Unity's Re-Spins showed this did not happen enough.
> I get the impression that jigdo is out of favor for some reason, but
> it does
> what I had in mind, allow the end user to create an install media as
> often as
> needed, and just upgrade the jigdo file and go. If the jigdo control
> file
> created a dated ISO image, it could be updated very regularly. And if
> editing
> the jigdo file were easier people could add their own list of
> non-default
> packages if they were creating a 8.5GB image.
>
> It appears to be as easy as updating the jigdo file, which may be done
> already
> if you do internal daily (or frequent) install media creation for
> testing.
>
> There, that didn't take a wiki page, all it needs is a comment on the
> state of
> the tools needed.
>
Jigdo is out of favor for many reasons. NIH, was written in the debian camp with competent debian users as the target consumer from what I can tell. Former debian users now in the Fedora community saying "debian users do not even use jigdo any more" because we all know that debian is the baseline that determines if something is useful or not. Upsteam that is not interested in improving or adding functionality. The GUI does not work, you have to use jigdo-lite, oh no the horrors of the command line. The list really goes on and on, The Fedora Unity team has been working on a python rewrite of jigdo, pyjigdo, for a while off and on. Jigdo has been working very well when distributing the Fedora Unity Re-Spins.
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| Robert 'Bob' Jensen || Fedora Unity Founder |
| bob(a)fedoraunity.org || http://fedoraunity.org/ |
| http://bjensen.fedorapeople.org/ |
| http://blogs.fedoraunity.org/bobjensen |
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15 years
How to report bugs page revised
by Adam Williamson
Hi, guys. I just made some revisions to the 'how to report bugs' page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests
probably the most significant - I cleaned up this bit:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests#Tips_by_Type_of_Bug
to link to external pages for each component that has specific guidance
on what information to include when filing bugs. It was getting unwieldy
to have several components just have the information written directly
into that page.
It'd be great to have this information available for more packages, and
expanded for those that are already there. Especially those of you who
are triaging actively, when you get tips from the maintainers about
information that would be useful to include in reports for your
components, either add it to the existing page on the component, or
create a new page (along the lines of one of the existing ones) for your
component and link it from that page. thanks all!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
15 years
f11 X "hang"
by David L
I'm having a strange problem where X is kinda sorta
hanging... I can move the mouse and the keyboard
is responsive to changes in caps lock, but I can't
switch workspaces or select a new window or do
anything useful from my X session. The way I'm
getting into this state is to do this:
strace ekiga
When I do this, I see a bunch of strace output
but the ekiga window never pops up and I can't
do anything until I ssh into the system and kill
ekiga. The last thing I see in the strace is this:
poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=13, revents=POLLIN}])
read(13, "\34\3\263\0\4\0
\6f\1\0\0C\202\f\r\0\365l\n\240\303]\tLA\374\277\n\0\0\0"..., 4096) =
32
read(13, 0x93f4218, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=13, revents=POLLOUT}])
writev(13, [{"\31\0\v\0\3\0\340\2\0\0\0\0!
\0\0\3\0\340\2\33\1\0\0C\202\f\r\0\0\0\0\4"..., 48}, {NULL, 0},
{""..., 0}], 3) = 48
poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1
It's not that big a deal... I don't really need to
strace ekiga. I was just doing that to get a
clue where it might be reading user preferences
from. But it's a weird problem that I thought
I'd throw out there to see if anybody knows
what's going on.
Thanks...
David
15 years
A Modest Suggestion to make SElinux usable.
by Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
Add a menu choice to the SElinux avc denial popup
that tells SElinux: "Let it do that".
--
Chuck Forsberg caf(a)omen.com www.omen.com 503-614-0430
Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications
Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software"
10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 FAX 629-0665
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