May07

Rawhide weekly 2013-05-07

by nirik on 2013/05/07 at 6:04 pm
Posted In: fedora, linux, rawhide

So, this last week in the world of rawhide:

The 3.9.0 kernel came out, and quickly was replaced with 3.10.0 git snapshots. So far they have been all running just fine here, although there was a few there that had some problems with wired ethernet.

Xfce 4.10.1 updates came out. These are just bugfix/translation updates for the existing 4.10.x Xfce stable stream. The more important fixes we were already carrying as backported patches, so there’s nothing too thrilling here. Updates are out for f18 and f19, please do karma them up if they work for you. Rawhide had the packages monday.

There was some yum breakage last thursday. Luckily for me I didn’t update early in the day so I saw the reports and was able to update the fixed yum from koji before applying my daily updates. This is another nice way to be on rawhide and a bit more conservative, just wait and update late in the day so others will hit the big problems before you do and provide solutions. (It’s also another great reason to be on the test list to see those kinds of things).

Ran into an odd dig core dump issue (try: “dig fedoraproject.org +sigchase +topdown” and see the cores pile up). Unfortunately, abrt didn’t want to file it for me, so I will have to do a bit more digging and make sure it’s filed.

A fedora community member on g+ whipped up (pun intended) a rawhide wallpaper thats pretty cool: https://plus.google.com/116680320767812371369/posts/JTy5m3YhPAJ is the post.

Until next week… move em up.

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Apr30

rawhide week for 2013-04-30

by nirik on 2013/04/30 at 5:15 pm
Posted In: fedora, linux, rawhide

A final rawhide post for April.

Another pretty dull week here in rawhide land. The updates flow has been pretty heavy, but breakage has not been.

There’s a very likely fix to a xfce4-session crash that some folks had been seeing in f19/rawhide. It was quite an anoying bug to deal with (you would be using your desktop and then, bam, back to lightdm). I really hope it’s fixed. If not, please do file it or note it on one of the open bugs.

Kernel 3.9.0 final was released, and rawhide has moved on to 3.10. :)

Looking forward to some more quiet weeks.

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Apr24

This week in rawhide 2013-04-23 edition

by nirik on 2013/04/24 at 9:17 am
Posted In: fedora, linux, rawhide

Just a tad late on this post this week. ;)

The lvm2 issue I ran into last week with /home not mounting on boot was quickly answered by lvm2 maintainers. I had a workaround quickly and then a real fix landed in a few days. The issue also affected f19, so the fix landed there too. Good work. :) See bug 952782 for more info.

I continue to see a strange systemd bug where when I update systemd packages, it forgets about the inhibits from xfce4-power-manager. The net effect is that if I do a systemd package update, closing my laptop lid starts suspending (which I really really dislike). See bug 928962 to follow along on that one.

Otherwise again, pretty smooth sailing.

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Apr16

Rawhide week in review, 2013-04-15 edition

by nirik on 2013/04/16 at 4:10 pm
Posted In: fedora, linux, rawhide

Another week of rawhide rolling along and only one really interesting bug hit:

Some recent change, likely in lvm2, has caused my encrypted /home lv to not be activated right on boot. Root and swap come up fine and the encrypted volume is unlocked, but for some reason /home doesn’t get activated. As a work around you can add a timeout to /etc/fstab: “defaults,x-systemd.device-timeout=30″ and then when the mount times out, you login to the emergency shell and ‘vgchange -ay’ and ‘mount /home’ and then control-d to continue boot. I’ve filed a bug on this, so hopefully it will get fixed up soon.

Otherwise pretty boring stream of updates this last week… and rawhide keeps rolling along.

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Apr09

This week in rawhide 2013-04-09 edition

by nirik on 2013/04/09 at 4:11 pm
Posted In: fedora, linux, rawhide

Oh look, a this week in rawhide post on tuesday again. :)

A pretty boring week in rawhide again.

webkitgtk was updated to 2.0.0 after a bit of tweaking on banshee. With 2.0.0, webkitgtk switches to using gstreamer1 packages instead of the old gstreamer-0.10 versions. Banshee was linking against webkitgtk and old gstreamer (which would result in crashes). Luckily there were patches porting it to newer gstreamer and folks were able to get those all working.

There’s still a number of broken deps in the rawhide and branched reports. I sure wish maintainers would be quicker about dealing with them.

Nothing else really leaps to mind, it’s been pretty smooth sailing…

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