Are you being heard?
by Anne Wilson
You've often heard me say that KDE developers do give as much time as they
can, and that feature requests should be reported on bugzilla. Well, it
seems we've reached the situation where there has been a flood of reports,
some genuine bugs, some wishes reported as bugs, and some straightforward
feature requests reported. That means that triage has got completely out of
hand, so a new experiment is being tried. Take a look at
http://brainstorm.forum.kde.org
The idea is that you can submit your ideas, features requests. The moderators
will filter out spam, rants and duplicates of ideas, and if your idea has
passed that test it goes onto the forum for discussion by other users. This
should achieve two things. It should give a place where you can make a clear
statement of your wants and needs and the developers know where to look for
feedback about them. The feedback submitted in comments will also help
developers see how many people actually would use the idea if it is coded.
This does not mean that every idea will eventually be carried out. There can
be many reasons why the idea is not feasible. Maybe there simply isn't time
to do it, if it's a big undertaking. Maybe no developer would use it, so
motivation is low when time is short. Maybe there already is some other way
of doing the same thing. Maybe even realising the idea would break other
things. In the end it must be the decision of the developers, but this
initiative should be really valuable. Let's use it.
Do remember that crashes or unexpected program behaviour is still a bug, and
must still be reported on bugzilla. Also, being fairly new and very recently
overhauled, so you may find bugs there too. Deal with them in the usual way,
through bugzilla.
Many people say "I can't code, so I can't help!" - this is a way that everyone
who cares about KDE can help without writing a line of code ;-)
Anne
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14 years, 9 months
F10 SElinux issues
by Steve Blackwell
Ever since I upgraded from F9 to F10 when F9 went EOL I've been having
lots of SElinux warnings. Here's one. I get at seemingly random times,
ie not when I log in.
Aug 3 09:06:50 steve setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing
polkit-read-aut (polkit_auth_t) "write" to /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log
(xserver_log_t). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l
a4a0ec72-1ae8-46af-a27c-441b4a5f1cdb
setroubleshoot suggests restorecon -v '/var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log'
# ls -lZ /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log
-rw-r--r-- gdm gdm
system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log
# restorecon -v /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log
]# ls -lZ /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log
-rw-r--r-- gdm gdm
system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log
ie no change
# tail /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log
Warning: No symbols defined for <I228> (keycode 228)
Warning: No symbols defined for <I230> (keycode 230)
Warning: No symbols defined for <I248> (keycode 248)
Warning: No symbols defined for <I249> (keycode 249)
Warning: No symbols defined for <I250> (keycode 250)
Warning: No symbols defined for <I251> (keycode 251)
Warning: No symbols defined for <I252> (keycode 252)
Warning: No symbols defined for <I253> (keycode 253)
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message
with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1200022 (Login Wind) Window manager
warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the
pager needs to be fixed.
This computer is on a 2 machine home network, the other machine being a
Vista laptop and I have them connected via Samba. Is some client trying
to login from the laptop?
# rpm -qa | grep selinux
selinux-policy-3.5.13-67.fc10.noarch
libselinux-devel-2.0.78-1.fc10.i386
selinux-policy-targeted-3.5.13-67.fc10.noarch
libselinux-2.0.78-1.fc10.i386
libselinux-utils-2.0.78-1.fc10.i386
libselinux-python-2.0.78-1.fc10.i386
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Steve
14 years, 9 months
scripting doubts
by Arthur Meeks Meeks
Hi guys,
I'm trying to create an script to verify some databases and their
privileges.
I have all of them in some files with the following format:
server1
server2
server3
server4
Being all of them MySQL servers and the first one the master and the rest of
the just the slaves.
I only want to check the privileges in the slaves and I've created the
following statement:
for i in `cat file1_cluster`; do echo -n $i: && mysql -h$i -uroot -pwhatever
-e"show grants for 'user'@'10.10.%.%';" | grep -i "REPLICATION CLIENT" | wc
-l ; done > /tmp/privs
Keep in mind I just want to know the slaves which doesn't have the
REPLICATION CLIENT privileges, just that.
So that will write in /tmp/privs something like:
server1:0
server2:1
server3:0
Being the value 0 a machine which doesn't have REPLICATION CLIENT privilege
and 1 being the value which mean it does.
The thing is, how can I do the "for" loop to avoid reading the first line of
the file: file1_cluster, file2_cluster etc...cause the master will never
have replication client privileges.
After reading the /tmp/privs with another for, I will use cut -d ":" -f to
look for values distinct from 0 and do a mail -s to the admins.
Any help will be more than appreciated.
Thanks a lot
A
14 years, 9 months
Re: security updates causing firefox trouble?
by Jackson Byers
Sam Varshavchik responded
>>jackson byers writes:
>> is it safe to :
>> --quit firefox?
> Yes.
>> --kill the 8024 python.....yum process?
> No. Don't do that.
Ok, i have quit firefox and restarted it, and i can now go to other sites
but I still have that security updates process running, seemingly stalled
And I still see intermittent jumps in firefox %cpu to 10-15% range.
here is current
[root@f10 ~]# ps ax |grep -i firef
8024 ? SN 1:05 /usr/bin/python
/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py update-packages
firefox;3.0.13-1.fc10;i386;updates&gnome-python2-extras;2.19.1-33.fc10;i386;updates&gnome-python2-gtkhtml2;2.19.1-33.fc10;i386;updates&gnome-python2-libegg;2.19.1-33.fc10;i386;updates&kernel-devel;2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10;i686;updates&kernel-firmware;2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10;noarch;updates&kernel-headers;2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10;i386;updates&kernel;2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10;i686;updates&xulrunner-devel;1.9.0.13-1.fc10;i386;updates&xulrunner;1.9.0.13-1.fc10;i386;updates&yelp;2.24.0-12.fc10;i386;updates
15138 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.13/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.13/firefox
15165 ? Sl 2:55 /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.13/firefox
15394 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep -i firef
how can i tell if this update is finished or stalled or whatever?
I have never before seen this seemingly stalled response to doing
security updates.
Sam's advice was to not kill the python-- yum process.
What other options do I have?
Thanks for help
Jack
14 years, 9 months
Where is whats new setup?
by Tom Horsley
Whenever I start firefox for the first time after an update,
it jerks me off to this (or a similar) web page:
http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.2/whatsnew/
Anyone know where this first time run nonsense is setup?
I'd like to run firefox via a script that clobbers it
before starting firefox :-).
Come to think of it, I'd also like to clobber the
"firefox closed abbynormally, restore windows?" dialog
as well, anyone know where the previous session
nonsense is stashed so I can remove it?
14 years, 9 months
Digital TV & Totem
by Mike Adolf
Greetings
Totem has the menu selection "Movie/Watch Tv on DVB adapter 0". When
making this selection I get the message.
-----------------
Totem cannot play this type of media (Digital Television) because you do
not have the appropriate plugins to handle it.
----------------
Does anybody know what "appropriate" means in this message??
Mike
14 years, 9 months
Re: security updates causing firefox trouble?
by Jackson Byers
Stan responded
>You are trying to update firefox while it is running. While this is
>theoretically possible, it is also possible that firefox has locked a
>component that the update process needs to access. In other words, get
>out of firefox until the updates complete.
>If you leave firefox down and the process doesn't complete in a half
>hour, kill the update process.
>I use yum from command line. Would then do,
[snip]
Stan, thanks for explanation, and that detailed list
of yum commands. I will do them, if i cant get that
old process awakened.
[root@f10 ~]# yum info yum\*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 8024.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 102 M RSS (122 MB VSZ)
Started: Wed Aug 5 13:19:19 2009 - 22:18:17 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 8024
so, it is "Sleeping"
Any way to wake it up?
I had firefox off for 40min? no help, the process stayed
in its sleeping state.
thanks
Jack
14 years, 9 months
GParted missing from Fedora Live.
by Grzegorz Witkowski
Hi,
I followed a threat about GRUB on the list and I found mentioned there
that GParted is missing from Fedora Live CD. I haven't tried live yet,
using other distro as live. Eventually it would be nice to use both live
and installed the same distro. It sounds a little "weird" to download
GParted every time you want to use it from live CD. What if you do not
have net access?
Can anyone explain why Fedora decided do not include such a useful
utility in Live CD?
Regards,
Gescape
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Grzegorz Witkowski <geslinux(a)gmail.com>
14 years, 9 months
