Fedora-infrastructure-list Digest, Vol 20, Issue 8

Wed Jan 9 14:54:55 UTC 2008

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply, but please be a bit more specific. In the link you
provided me, at what section of the page I am supposed to look for the
solutions to the problems I encountered ? Please tell me, I really want to
learn.

And, as you can see from my post, I own two different set of systems (a
Desktop PC and a Lenovo laptop) which can be used for testing purposes, so
can I be of any assisstance to the Fedora Developer team ? As a novice, this
is the best way I can participate in the development of FC and learn in the
process too.

As far as my educational background is concerned, I completed B-Tech in
Computer Science & Engineering (CSE)in 2006, an equivalent to US based four
year BS Computer Engineering program. I am good at programming in C and core
Java. I am currently applying for MS Computer Science program in US
Universities for the Fall 2008 session.

I really want to learn and apply my creative skills effectively. So, if I
can in any way participate in the development of Fedora Core, please let me
know. Thanks and regards,

Cyberbob

Alt. Email: cyberbob24 at indiatimes.com

On Jan 8, 2008 10:30 PM, <fedora-infrastructure-list-request at redhat.com>
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>   1. I am having a peculiar problem (Cyber Bob)
>   2. Re: I am having a peculiar problem (Mike McGrath)
>   3. FC6 guests (Luke Macken)
>   4. Re: FC6 guests (Matt Domsch)
>   5. the syncmail script (Mike McGrath)
>   6. Re: the syncmail script (Jeremy Katz)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Cyber Bob" <cyberbob24 at gmail.com>
> To: fedora-infrastructure-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 02:43:25 +0530
> Subject: I am having a peculiar problem
> Hi,
>
> I am an user of Fedora Core since 2003, and I've used versions 1.0 and 6.0.
> Though I've used both versions for quite some time now, I would still like
> to consider myself to be a novice, since Linux is still like a mysterious
> lady to me :).
>
> I am facing three peculiar problems with FC6 in two systems:
>
> 1. I own an Intel D865GBF based PC running an Intel 2.8 GHz processor with
> 512 MB MB (dual channel) DDR RAM. It houses two Seagate Baracuda 80 GB HDDs.
> FC6 was installed in a dual boot environment with WinXP, FC6 was installed
> in three primary partitions in the second HDD. Now the problem was that,
> whenever I tried to boot into FC6, system hanged at the "loading udev" line.
> I traced the source of this problem to be kernel-xen; since the problem
> vanished as soon as I unchecked the "Virtualisation" segment in all of the
> fresh installations post problem. I observed that it installed only "kernel"
> and not "kernel-xen". Can anyone please tell me whether my observations are
> correct or not, and whether there exists any solution to the problem with
> "kernel-xen" ?
>
> 2. I own a Lenovo 3000 Y500 notebook with 512 MB DDR RAM and 120 GB HDD.
> FC6 is installed in a dual boot environment with Win Vista that came
> preloaded. As soon as I update kernel, from the next boot onwards, the
> updated kernel is unable to detect the laptop keyboard whereas the default
> kernel works fine. The problem persisted even after updating hal, cups,
> seliux-policy targeted and  xorg-x11. Am I doing something wrong ? The same
> setup seems to work fine in my PC.
>
> 3. Even after installing the latest JDK and JRE, the latest version of
> OpenOffice.org components fails to start even after giving a "installation
> success". I didn't installed the following bundled products: OpenOffice,
> Java, Java runtime, eclipse, firefox and thunderbird. I installed the latest
> releases of the above mentioned softwares from their respective sites. Any
> solutions ?
>
> Please give me a reply as soon as possible. I am eager to become a part of
> the FC6 Developers team, but before doing so I need to upgrade myself from
> novice status. For now, I would like to observe things and explore the way
> things work here. Wish me luck.
>
> Wishing you all a very happy prosperous new year, regards,
>
> Cyberbob (A)
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com>
> To: fedora-infrastructure-list at redhat.com
> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:20:58 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: Re: I am having a peculiar problem
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Cyber Bob wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am an user of Fedora Core since 2003, and I've used versions 1.0 and
> 6.0.
> > Though I've used both versions for quite some time now, I would still
> like
> > to consider myself to be a novice, since Linux is still like a
> mysterious
> > lady to me :).
> >
> > I am facing three peculiar problems with FC6 in two systems:
> >
> > 1. I own an Intel D865GBF based PC running an Intel 2.8 GHz processor
> with
> > 512 MB MB (dual channel) DDR RAM. It houses two Seagate Baracuda 80 GB
> HDDs.
> > FC6 was installed in a dual boot environment with WinXP, FC6 was
> installed
> > in three primary partitions in the second HDD. Now the problem was that,
> > whenever I tried to boot into FC6, system hanged at the "loading udev"
> line.
> > I traced the source of this problem to be kernel-xen; since the problem
> > vanished as soon as I unchecked the "Virtualisation" segment in all of
> the
> > fresh installations post problem. I observed that it installed only
> "kernel"
> > and not "kernel-xen". Can anyone please tell me whether my observations
> are
> > correct or not, and whether there exists any solution to the problem
> with
> > "kernel-xen" ?
> >
> > 2. I own a Lenovo 3000 Y500 notebook with 512 MB DDR RAM and 120 GB HDD.
> FC6
> > is installed in a dual boot environment with Win Vista that came
> preloaded.
> > As soon as I update kernel, from the next boot onwards, the updated
> > kernel is unable to detect the laptop keyboard whereas the default
> kernel
> > works fine. The problem persisted even after updating hal, cups,
> > seliux-policy targeted and  xorg-x11. Am I doing something wrong ? The
> same
> > setup seems to work fine in my PC.
> >
> > 3. Even after installing the latest JDK and JRE, the latest version of
> > OpenOffice.org components fails to start even after giving a
> "installation
> > success". I didn't installed the following bundled products: OpenOffice,
> > Java, Java runtime, eclipse, firefox and thunderbird. I installed the
> latest
> > releases of the above mentioned softwares from their respective sites.
> Any
> > solutions ?
> >
> > Please give me a reply as soon as possible. I am eager to become a part
> of
> > the FC6 Developers team, but before doing so I need to upgrade myself
> from
> > novice status. For now, I would like to observe things and explore the
> way
> > things work here. Wish me luck.
> >
> > Wishing you all a very happy prosperous new year, regards,
>
> Sorry Cyber Bob, you want:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
>
>        -Mike
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com>
> To: fedora-infrastructure-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:23:25 -0500
> Subject: FC6 guests
> So, we still have a handful of FC6 guests lying around in PHX.
> After a quick look, it seems that we're using them for the following
> services.
>
>    publictest1
>    - pkgdb-dev
>    - ns-slapd
>    - mysqld
>    - postgres
>    - wevisor
>    publictest2
>    - my mash/bodhi playground
>    publictest4
>    - asterisk
>    test1
>    - security irc bot / xmlrpc.
>
> Please feel free to chime in with any services / guests I'm missing.
>
> With regard to publictest2, this guest can go away and not come back.
> I'd be fine doing mash/bodhi testing on any guest that has a couple gigs
> of RAM and read-only access to /mnt/koji.
>
> So, in order to get this ball rolling, we need to determine which guests
> we want to upgrade / destroy, what OS we want to upgrade them to, and if
> the
> services are currently able to run on that OS.  Also, when would the best
> time
> to upgrade be?
>
>
> luke
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com>
> To: fedora-infrastructure-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:26:59 -0600
> Subject: Re: FC6 guests
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:23:25AM -0500, Luke Macken wrote:
> > So, we still have a handful of FC6 guests lying around in PHX.
> > After a quick look, it seems that we're using them for the following
> > services.
> >
> >     publictest1
> >     - pkgdb-dev
> >     - ns-slapd
> >     - mysqld
> >     - postgres
> >     - wevisor
>
> I use pt1 for some mirrormanager hacking, but that can be done on any
> system now, and I have nothing valuable on there, so it can go away at
> any time from my POV.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> --
> Matt Domsch
> Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
> linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com>
> To: fedora-infrastructure-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:29:43 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: the syncmail script
> I know there's a lot of history around the syncmail script, does anyone
> know why we don't just stick a & at the end and fork it?
>
> I'm refering to the ctl+c to skip notifications issue.
>
>        -Mike
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>
> To: fedora-infrastructure-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:39:41 -0500
> Subject: Re: the syncmail script
> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 10:29 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > I know there's a lot of history around the syncmail script, does anyone
> > know why we don't just stick a & at the end and fork it?
> >
> > I'm refering to the ctl+c to skip notifications issue.
>
> >From what I remember, we tried this and it didn't work
>
> Jeremy
>
>
>
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