Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
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9:43 am - Help figure out the debug slowness
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As mentioned in the FUDCon kernel talk, we are trying to figure out exactly what causes the massive slowdown for some people with debug kernels. At this point, debug is completely off in the rawhide kernel. Every update this week will turn on more debug options until we find out which one is causing the slowdown. For this to work, we need people testing rawhide proper (not rawhide-nodebug). So please, if you can update daily and give us feedback when you hit a wall, we would really appreciate it. Feedback should be sent to kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org
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Saturday, January 12th, 2013
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9:15 am - Fedora 18 kernel 3.7.2
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Kernel 3.7.2 is making its way into updates-testing to make a zero day update. We would love to see as much testing as possible, and we need your help. Give it a spin and let us know how things work out. Let us know what you find. Thanks!
For those curious about the baserelease of 201, it came up in the community kernel meeting on Friday. To facilitate upgrade path, F17 will start baserelease at 101, F18 at 201, F19 when it branches will start at 301. This will help ensure that the upgrade path is maintained.
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
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10:09 am - 3.7.1 kernel in the rawhide-nodebug repository
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As Josh pointed out yesterday, the 3.7 kernels are in a holding pattern for Fedora until the Fedora 18 release. There are good reasons for this, and I won't rehash them here. For those who want to run 3.7 kernels, I have put the 3.7.1 update in the rawhide-nodebug repository. Rawhide is holding on 3.7 until 3.8 the merge window is closed, and with the vacation season starting next week, probably through the remainder of the year. I will continue updating the 3.7 stable kernels in rawhide-nodebug until rawhide starts moving forward with 3.8 kernels.
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Thursday, November 8th, 2012
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12:24 pm - Announcing the rawhide kernel nodebug repository
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It has been discussed in the past that we should have a repository of
the rawhide kernels with debug turned off to encourage more users to run
the latest upstream snapshots. That repository now exists. You can enable
it by dropping fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug.repo into /etc/yum.repos.d
and doing a yum update. This will contain the (almost) daily rawhide updates
built with debug turned off.
Bugs against this kernel should be filed in bugzilla against the rawhide
kernel. Any questions or comments about the repository itself should be
sent to the fedora kernel list.
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Thursday, August 9th, 2012
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4:43 pm - August 14th Kernel Regression Test Suite Virtual FAD
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The kernel team is hosting a Virtual Fedora Activity Day to get the ball
rolling faster on the kernel regression test suite and we need your
help! We are looking to get new tests written, possible framework
improvements, and generally make the test suite more robust.
When: Tuesday August 14th
Where: #fedora-kernel on freenode IRC
Source: git://git.fedorahosted.org/kernel-tests.git
All details are available at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelRegressionTesting_Virtual_FAD_20120814
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Friday, June 15th, 2012
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2:34 pm - Bodhi and down karma...
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Don't downkarma an update because your bug isn't fixed if the bug is not listed as fixed in the update. You are just keeping users who's bugs *are* fixed from getting their fixes. If the current stable contains the bug, and it is still present in the update, that is not a regression. All of the bugs that are fixed actually make it a better package than the one currently in stable. We push out updates fairly regularly. Those updates typically fix several bugs. If I could put together an update and fix every bug we had, I would do it in an instant! In the meantime do not be so selfish as to try to keep others from getting their bug fixes installed just because your bug is still there.
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
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9:43 am - Uverse gone wrong
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Yesterday morning I woke up to find that my internet service was no longer working. Go U-verse. It seems it went down around 4AM, and wasn't coming back. I called to have them reboot the box since I couldn't log into the router myself, and tried a hard reset. It wasn't working. They scheduled someone to come out that day, and eventually they arrived. After replacing my router, it still wasn't coming back. They replaced parts all over the neighborhood to try and fix things. Eventually he did a full reset, which made service come up for about 30 seconds, then it pulled an update and did not come back. After a bit of back and forth, and a lot of time, they finally got me working. This alone was annoying, it cost me several hours of my time, but it gets much worse.
For a bit of background, I have had my home network set up on 10.13.66/255 since 1998. The reasons that netblock was chosen no longer exist, and haven't in a decade, but I also didn't have much reason to change it. A few years back, I set up a DHCP server, though lots of pieces on my network were still on static addressing (again, no reason to change it at the time). This includes a lot of appliances (squeezeboxes, my aquarium) which don't have keypads for addressing. I have scripts written/used which go by address instead of name, I can tell you the IP of any box in my house as easily as I can tell you the name. It's a practice I have moved away from, but 10+ years of cruft that was working, I didn't bother changing.
The latest firmware for U-verse disables 10. networks from their "default dhcp configuration" Again, no big deal, I don't use their dhcp service since I can't set it for pxe, I use my own. I just go into manual configuration and set the router to 10.13.66.1 and I am done. Except that I can't. Their firmware now states that 10. addresses are not allowed for the router. Now, on top of my hours of downtime because the service wasn't up at all, I have to readdress my entire network. I was given no warning that this was coming, no time to prepare for it, if I wanted things working, I had to either put another router in front of that one, or readdress everything. Thanks again AT&T. I finally have everything working, but I have to ask why such a change would be made, with no notification to customers that it was coming. Why was I given a firmware in the first place that would brick my box? This wasn't the networking, as the reset put it back to 192.168.1 addressing and when it updated, it still bricked.
The last of the mess hit me this morning. I have a script that backs up lots of important things from my file server. I do not keep the backup mounted, just as an extra precaution. The script mounts, backs up, unmounts. I have been doing this for years as well. Laziness prevailed and I never bother to check that the mount was successful before I started the backup. This has worked for years, so I never thought anything of it. Ooops, forgot to readdress the nas frontend for backup, so my / filesystem was full on my mail/file server this morning instead. On the bright side, the script now checks for the mount before doing the backup, and emails me if the mount is unsuccessful.
Today I am hoping for a much less frustrating day.
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
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12:26 am - Fedora 16 Cloud Test Day
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
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5:08 pm - Fedora 16 Beta images for EC2 are available
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Just a quick note to let people know that Fedora beta images for EC2 are available, and we would love any testing you might have time for. A list of the beta AMIs as well as all other supported Fedora AMIs is maintained by the Cloud SIG here. Bookmark it as it will point to final images for Fedora 16 as well as all future supported releases. Feedback on these images is welcome:
Through IRC on Freenode: #fedora-cloud
Through the email list: cloud@lists.fedoraproject.org
Also, mark your calendars, the Cloud SIG has a test day coming up on Thursday 10/20. More info will be coming across soon!
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
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4:18 pm - Fedora 16 Virtualization test day tomorrow (September 15th)
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Just a reminder that this Thursday (tomorrow) Sept 15th is Virt test day. Test cases and information are available on the Fedora Wiki. We will be hanging out in #fedora-test-day on freenode IRC. If you have any cycles to come help out, we would greatly appreciate it.
Should this message reach you after the 15th, your tests are still valid. Any bugs we can squash before release help out!
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
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9:22 pm - Fedora 15 EC2 Test Day Tomorrow
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This is a little later than originally planned, but the Fedora 15
(yes, Fedora 15 – not a typo) EC2 test day will be on this Thursday
2011-08-04 [1].
Fedora 15 AMIs are available for testing and are listed on the test
day wiki page [1]. The tests are designed to ensure basic functionality
for the AMIs (MTA, httpd, yum etc.).
Since these tests require an Amazon AWS account, we are offering some
compensation (up to US$5) for the first 10 people to go through the EC2
test cases. This will be done on a first come, first served basis -
make sure that you contact rbergeron to verify that you are one of the
10 people or you may not get the credit.
Tim
PS – If you have the means to pay for the EC2 time or a free account,
please use that. We’re just trying to make sure that everyone who wants
to participate can.
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-08-04_Cloud_SIG_Fedora_EC2
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
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4:40 pm - Fedora 15 Virt Test Day Tomorrow (April 14)
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Just a reminder that tomorrow is Fedora Virtualization Test Day. Test plans and more information for the event can be found on the Fedora Project Wiki. IRC for the event is on freenode in #fedora-test-day.
Please do come along and help out with the testing, 'cause we've got plenty to test! :-)
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
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3:05 pm - Fedora 14 Virt Test Day!
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Just a reminder that tomorrow is Fedora Virtualization Test Day. Test plans and more information for the event can be found on the Fedora Project Wiki. IRC for the event is on freenode in #fedora-test-day.
Please do come along and help out with the testing, 'cause we've got plenty to test! :-)
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
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8:02 am - It's Fedora Virtualization Test Day
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Just a reminder that today is Fedora Virtualization Test Day. Even if you don't have a Fedora 13 pre-release system to run some tests on, we provide livecd images. IRC for the event is on freenode in #fedora-test-day.
Please do come along and help out with the testing, 'cause we've got plenty to test! :-)
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
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4:52 pm - fudcon 2009 Toronto
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I am back from Toronto and it was much warmer there than Dallas today. Fudcon was a great conference, even though the wireless infrastructure was not up to the task at the hotel or the conference site. Some points of interest:
- Attendance was great, and a massive number of talks were pitched for the barcamp.
- It was nice to get some face time with a number of people I don't normally see, and meet quite a few new people.
- There was a healthy interest in virtualization in general.
- Getting Fedora releases on EC2 is a priority, and there are a number of people excited to both use Fedora on EC2, and help us get it there.
- We have a lot of work to do for F13.
- Cynar (artichoke liqueur) is just as bad as it sounds.
All in all, the event was a success, with a great turn out and discussion. Thanks to those who put in a lot of time and effort to organize things and make sure it ran as smoothly as possible.
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
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11:18 pm - PCI-Express or USB sound card for Linux
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Dear Lazyweb,
What options are there for a sound card with both analog and digital output, capable of unmolested 96kHz/24bit playback in either PCI-Express or USB, and that are supported with current alsa? A while back I switched my main workstation box. The new box doesn't have PCI slots, so my M-Audio had to go. While the onboard sound card is functional, it just does not compare.
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
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9:16 am - Nice touch, better than a camera phone...
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Sunday night I went to see The Legendary Pink Dots at the Granada theater (great show!). I don't go to too many shows there, but it is a very nice venue. Since they usually sell tickets direct, they have the email address of everyone who purchased tickets online. This morning I received an email from them with several professional photos from Sunday nights show.
One thing you see at almost all shows these days is people trying to take pictures of the bands with their camera phones. They tend to turn out about as well as you would expect from a camera phone in low light, basically a waste of electrons. It is a very nice change to have the venue send you good quality pictures from the show you attended. Sometimes the little things can go a long way. Maybe other venues will take note.
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
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1:16 pm - Linux Plumbers Conference
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I am back from Linux Plumbers Conference in Portland last week. I have to say that I was really impressed with the conference. Generally speaking for Linux conferences, the talks are interesting and the hallways conversations are productive. With LPC the talks were really more working sessions, and they were productive in and of themselves. I think a lot came out of LPC and I certainly hope to see the conference continue. A big thanks to all of the organizers and sponsors.
As a result of the sessions and much work outside of the sessions, I think Foresight will see some significant speed up in boot time. As a side effect, certain configurations will "just work" with less hassle than was previously required. I will provide more updates once the plan begins to fall into place.
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
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10:30 pm - New rPath Linux 2.6.26.3 kernels available for testing.
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2.6.26.3 kernels are available for testing on rPath Linux 1 and rPath Linux 2 systems. Please test and report any issues to rITS. To test these kernels with your systems for rPL 1, please run conary update 'kernel=kernelbits.rpath.org@rpl:1 --keep-existing' For rPL 2, please run conary update 'kernel=kernelbits.rpath.org@rpl:2 --keep-existing' These kernels can be tested in your groups or images by including kernel=kernelbits.rpath.org@rpl:1 or kernel=kernelbits.rpath.org@rpl:2
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
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9:30 pm - Something about the Riverwalk...
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I have been coming to San Antonio for as long as I can remember. Even before there was Sea World, or a reason(s) to "see Shamu", the River Walk was a nice little weekend getaway. Every trip to San Antonio has included dinner on the river at Casa Rio. Tonight we decided to stop by after the day at Sea World with the kids and it was wonderful. Beautiful night out, kids feeding the ducks (tortilla races!), eating delicious Mexican food, sipping a margarita, with the sound of bagpipes in the air... Wait, what?!? Yes, bagpipes. There is a street piper playing on the corner just above Casa Rio, he has been there for at least a year now. It somehow went well with the rest of the night. Next time you find your self in San Antonio, check him out.
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