a different point of view to "etiquette"
by Reindl Harald
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/58049/focus%3D1525074
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel.stable, gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2013-07-15 18:17:06 GMT (19 hours and 12 minutes ago)
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Sarah Sharp
<sarah.a.sharp <at> linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> However, I am serious about this. Linus, you're one of the worst
> offenders when it comes to verbally abusing people and publicly tearing
> their emotions apart.
Yes. And I do it partly (mostly) because it's who I am, and partly
because I honestly despise being subtle or "nice".
The fact is, people need to know what my position on things are. And I
can't just say "please don't do that", because people won't listen. I
say "On the internet, nobody can hear you being subtle", and I mean
it.
And I definitely am not willing to string people along, either. I've
had that happen too - not telling people clearly enough that I don't
like their approach, they go on to re-architect something, and get
really upset when I am then not willing to take their work.
Sarah, first off, I don't have that many tools at hand. Secondly, I
simply don't believe in being polite or politically correct. And you
can point at all those cultural factors where some cultures are not
happy with confrontation (and feel free to make it about gender too -
I think that's almost entirely cultural too). And please bring up
"cultural sensitivity" while at it. And I'll give you back that same
"cultural sensitivity". Please be sensitive to _my_ culture too.
Google "management by perkele".
Do you really want to oppress a minority? Because Finns are a minority
compared to almost any other country. If you want to talk cultural
sensitivity, I'll join you. But my culture includes cursing.
And some of the above is written tonge-in-cheek, but all of it is also
serious. I really fundamentally believe that being honest and open
about your emotions about core/process is good. And because it's damn
hard to read people over email, I think you need to be *more* honest
and *more* open over email. I'm generally nicer in person. Not always.
And yes, I'll happily be part of the discussion at the KS. But I think
you also need to be aware that your "high horse" isn't necessarily all
that high.
Linus
10 years, 8 months
VirtualBox wont run -
by Bob Goodwin
This is an updated F-19/64 XFCE computer.
No matter what I have done I can't seem to satisfy the following error
messages:
[root@box10 bobg]# journalctl -xn
-- Logs begin at Tue 2013-07-09 15:18:12 EDT, end at Tue 2013-07-30
11:34:55 EDT. --
Jul 30 11:34:32 box10 su[2535]: (to bobg) bobg on none
Jul 30 11:34:32 box10 su[2535]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for
user root by bobg(uid=1000)
Jul 30 11:34:54 box10 systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules...
-- Subject: Unit systemd-modules-load.service has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit systemd-modules-load.service has begun starting up.
Jul 30 11:34:54 box10 systemd-modules-load[2570]: Failed to find module
'vboxdrv'
Jul 30 11:34:54 box10 systemd-modules-load[2570]: Failed to find module
'vboxnetflt'
Jul 30 11:34:54 box10 systemd-modules-load[2570]: Failed to find module
'vboxnetadp'
Jul 30 11:34:54 box10 systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: main
process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 30 11:34:54 box10 systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
-- Subject: Unit systemd-modules-load.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Documentation:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog/be02cf6855d2428b...
--
-- Unit systemd-modules-load.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Jul 30 11:34:54 box10 systemd[1]: Unit systemd-modules-load.service
entered failed state.
Jul 30 11:34:55 box10 fprintd[2536]: ** Message: No devices in use, exit
[root@box10 bobg]# locate vboxdrv
/etc/udev/rules.d/90-vboxdrv.rules
/usr/lib/modules/3.9.9-302.fc19.x86_64/extra/VirtualBox/vboxdrv.ko
[root@box10 bobg]# locate vboxnetflt
/usr/lib/modules/3.9.9-302.fc19.x86_64/extra/VirtualBox/vboxnetflt.ko
[root@box10 bobg]# locate vboxnetadp
/usr/lib/modules/3.9.9-302.fc19.x86_64/extra/VirtualBox/vboxnetadp.ko
It looks like the modules are available but are not used ...
Suggestions please?
Bob
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box10 Fedora-19 Linux/XFCE
10 years, 8 months
WordPress permissions
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
A user on my box has Wordpress installed under a virtualhost.
He has other users uploading photos to different directories using
Wordpress' interface. The concern is that these directories are
defaulting/need to be setup to 777 permissions for the uploads to be
successful.
Any advice on how to change this to more secure directory permissions?
Much thanks,
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
10 years, 8 months
RE: VirtualBox wont run -
by Alan Gagne
> [root at box10 <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users> bobg]# ll /etc/sysconfig/modules/VirtualBox.modules
> ls: cannot access /etc/sysconfig/modules/VirtualBox.modules: No such
> file or directory
>
> The directory contains only one file, nothing for virtualbox.
>
> [root at box10 <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users> bobg]# ll /etc/sysconfig/modules/
> total 4
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 96 Jul 23 11:36 bluez-uinput.modules
>
> So it will just have to wait for the updates to come through.
>
> Bob
VirtualBox in not dependent on kernel version at install time.
The modules are built for whatever kernel you are currently running.
You might try to yum remove VirtualBox and then yum install.
Since you have dkms installed. It should register the modules with dkms so
with future kernel updates the modules will get compiled.
Currently the VirtualBox version is the same from either
rpmfusion-free-updates or virtualbox repos.
[root@knucklehead ~]# yum info Virtual*
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
Name : VirtualBox-4.2
Arch : x86_64
Version : 4.2.16_86992_fedora18
Release : 1
Size : 143 M
Repo : installed
From repo : virtualbox
Summary : Oracle VM VirtualBox
URL : http://www.virtualbox.org/
License : GPLv2
Description : VirtualBox is a powerful PC virtualization solution allowing
: you to run a wide range of PC operating systems on your Linux
: system. This includes Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, OpenBSD
: and others. VirtualBox comes with a broad feature set and
: excellent performance, making it the premier virtualization
: software solution on the market.
Available Packages
Name : VirtualBox
Arch : x86_64
Version : 4.2.16
Release : 1.fc19
Size : 26 M
Repo : rpmfusion-free-updates/19/x86_64
Summary : A general-purpose full virtualizer for PC hardware
URL : http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox
License : GPLv2 or (GPLv2 and CDDL)
Description : A general-purpose full virtualizer and emulator for 32-bit and
: 64-bit x86 based PC-compatible machines.
Alan
10 years, 8 months
Fedora crash
by Martin S
Would you expect a crash in this situation?
I brought my laptop to work for some reason and left it running on battery. I
also had Banshee running, albeith on low volume. I had to leave my place for a
bit and when I got back the laptop had gone into hiberantion.
Then when getting home, I booted it and found Banshee playing, and the screen
all scrambled impossibly to see anything (large sheets of colourful squares).
The only way to get out of this mess was to open a console and enter reboot as
root. Is it some bad handling in Banshee/KDE/Fedora or something?
/Martin S
10 years, 8 months
How does one get a clean installation of Fedora?
by lee
Hi,
how does one get a clean installation of Fedora? "Clean" means that
only those packages are installed that are actually needed and only
those services are running that are actually needed.
--
Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)
10 years, 8 months
Don't mount luks partition at boot but with gdm login.
by Cor Legemaat
Hi all:
I try to get a Fedora 18 laptop with an encrypted home partition to not
mount at start up but when the user log into gdm with pam_mount. The
encrypted partition is created during install by anaconda, just created
an partition and set the mount point to the user's home directory with
the option to encrypt the partition.
What I tried in order to eliminate the requirement for the password at
boot without success:
1) Via the gui disks utility in gnome and set it to not mount at start up.
2) Commented the relevant entry in /etc/fstab
3) Commented the entry in /etc/cryptab
I see the pam mount options are also not added automatically to the
files in /etc/pam.d/ but that's not a problem for me, that was also the
case on my Gentoo system, will use that as guide. For now I only need to
eliminate the password request at boot, any ideas?
Regards:
Cor
10 years, 8 months
32/64 Query
by Jonathan Allen
Dear List,
Apologies is this not the right place to ask this, but is the AMD E350 a
32 or 64 bit processor? I have one that is (currently) loading F19/32
- albeit rather slowly - but won't load F19/64. It gets the first menu,
but then complains that secure boot is not enabled which, as the F9/32
is booting, seems odd.
Jonathan
10 years, 8 months
compton for fedora
by Ranjan Maitra
Does anyone know if the following is available for Fedora 19?
I don't think it is in the repos, but perhaps it is in some other
auxiliary repo?
Thanks,
Ranjan
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F19 Authentication
by Jonathan Allen
All,
I'm having problems getting to the firewall on a new F19 install. I
have my (non-root) user defined and, of course, root. So logged
into normal graphics session, I click the firewall button, it starts
and asks me to authenticate. I whack in the root password and it
says that it doesn't authenticate. Can anyone explain why that is so?
Jonathan
10 years, 8 months
