[FredLUG] Re: Topic for Saturday?

[Peter Larsen]

> 
> 
> Why not throw out your issues on the mailing list, and we can all have a
> chance to chew on them before Saturday's meeting.  I won't be at the
> meeting (Boy Scout camp), but I'm happy to help out via the mailing list
> or even IRC.Sure - here's a handful

Here we go ....

* Multiple monitor support is not working any better (meaning not
working) than in F8. I cannot get the definitions to stick - and the
smallest monitor seems to win.
* Wireless - mainly firmware - is unstable at best. The last update
rendered the Intel Wireless useless on my system. Using wireless it
looses connectivity about every 5 or so minutes and causes TCP resets
all over. In other words, it's hard to rely on.
* SELinux policies (and yes I made sure it's using the latest policies)
seems to to have problems with .pid files and the /tmp file system. I
get quite a few alerts and standard things like dhcp clients would not
work properly until I "tweaked" it (it wouldn't really start - had to
kill all network and restart to just get a hardware active DHCP
connection).
* Remote Desktop (tsclient) doesn't support copy/paste or even
ctrl-alt-del. Doing admin on windoze from your tsclient is tough without
that.
* I have a laptop - there is a docking station. To manage sound, I have
to have two controls on my task bar - one for the sound on the docking
station one for the laptop. They are two different sound channels but it
cannot manage a master volume setting??
* Segfaults - I get 2-3 messages a day that a program (which one is
unclear - it looks like NetworkManager) has segfaulted and the "kernel
fault" has been reported to the fedora team. Segfault isn't a kernel
error? 
* Network Manager can create additional profiles - but when it starts up
it uses the system default one. I need to use it's own profile and it
doesn't seem to want to?
* Evolution is ... how can put this ... giving me a headache ;)  It
crashes pretty often and spends too long doing "filter jobs" and even
closing. Work requires use of exchange server - Evolution seems to have
that support but it's fluffy. Still trying to make it really work. If I
can't make that work, I'll have to run my mail on windows and that will
most likely cause me to switch primary desktop to Windows.
* Clicking - the mouse control is getting strange. I loose the ability
to click on items at time. At times the keyboard will even stop working
- I've had to hard-reset to fix it. Something I've NEVER done to Linux
before. Worst case alt-ctrl-backspace would always save me from a
reboot. But lately I loose mouse / keyboard control totally. I cannot
figure out what's causing it - nothing really in the X11 logfiles that
explains why.
* Upgrade to F9 was a nightmare. It simply doesn't work. Had to manually
go a "yum reinstall" most packages and groups to get a semi working
system back. The SELINUX issues may stem from that, but all SELinux
packages have been reinstalled.

That's what I can think of right now. I've had a lot of other issues
I've simply had to resolve and spend time on, and it's partly that
frustration that I'm battling here. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Smith <jared.voip at gmail.com>
Reply-To: fredlug at googlegroups.com
To: fredlug at googlegroups.com
Subject: [FredLUG] Re: Topic for Saturday?
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:25:56 -0400


On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 09:12 -0400, Peter Larsen wrote:
> If nobody has any generic subjects I have several "grievances" with
> Fedora9. 

Why not throw out your issues on the mailing list, and we can all have a
chance to chew on them before Saturday's meeting.  I won't be at the
meeting (Boy Scout camp), but I'm happy to help out via the mailing list
or even IRC.

-Jared




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