[rhelv6-beta-list] off to a slow start: was: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta Now Available - Testers Wanted

[Jon Stanley]

All of your feedback I'm sure would be welcomed at
https://access.redhat.com/site/discussions?title=&product=25&category=All&tags=All&sort_bef_combine=last_updated+DESC
- though I agree that a mailing list would be better. However, it
seems to be an annoying Red Hat strategy to me to drive everything
through to the portal.

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Marco Shaw <marco.shaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the past, the mailing lists were always up a day or so before the release.
>
> A sign of the times?  I seem to see less and less traffic on these lists. Is it just me that thinks this medium of communication is dying?
>
> Marco
>
>> On Dec 20, 2013, at 6:19 PM, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Engineering Partner Management wrote:
>>>
>>> Today marks an exciting milestone for Red Hat as we share
>>> news of the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
>>> Since its introduction more than a ...
>>
>> Since this announcement, 9 days ago, no mailing list
>> specific for the 7 beta has been set up.  I get a bounce at
>> the expected address:
>>    rhelv7-beta-list-request at redhat.com
>> when seeking to subscribe, which I have mentioned here before
>>
>> ==================
>>
>> I do not see a way to upstream 'abrt' reports for beta
>> testers, other than manually filing bugzilla reports (I
>> manually confirmed one earlier today as to systemd)
>>
>> ===============
>>
>> I am getting build errors in rebuilding the 7 sources, after
>> manually supplementing the missing -devel files
>>
>> ===============
>>
>> The genesis of the following is 'createrepo'
>>
>> [root at precision380-64-kvm abrt]# ls
>> last-ccpp        Python-2013-12-20-02:04:25-9014
>> Python-2013-12-20-15:08:56-27559
>> last-via-server  Python-2013-12-20-02:09:35-27703
>> [root at precision380-64-kvm abrt]# pwd
>> /var/tmp/abrt
>>
>> ========================
>>
>> The abrt GUI tool is missing a requirement, and is not working
>> through X-forwarding
>>
>> [root at precision380-64-kvm ~]# /usr/bin/abrt-applet
>>
>> ** (abrt:1511): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility
>> bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-BWHesIzK24:
>> Connection refused
>> abrt-applet: Failed to open connection to session manager:
>> 'SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined',
>> notification may reappear on the next login
>>
>> ------------
>>
>> The other emits error noise
>>
>> [root at precision380-64-kvm ~]# /usr/bin/system-config-abrt
>>
>> ** (system-config-abrt:4087): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to
>> accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket
>> /tmp/dbus-BWHesIzK24: Connection refused
>>
>> ** (system-config-abrt:4087): WARNING **: Failed to load
>> config for 'report-gtk'
>>
>> ** (system-config-abrt:4087): WARNING **: Failed to load
>> config for 'abrt-applet'
>> [root at precision380-64-kvm ~]#
>>
>> [root at precision380-64-kvm ~]# rpm -qa abrt\*
>> abrt-addon-vmcore-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> abrt-libs-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> abrt-addon-ccpp-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> abrt-addon-pstoreoops-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> abrt-cli-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> abrt-addon-xorg-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> abrt-gui-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> abrt-gui-libs-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> abrt-addon-python-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> abrt-dbus-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> abrt-tui-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> abrt-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> abrt-desktop-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
>> [root at precision380-64-kvm ~]#
>>
>> ===============
>>
>> On a headless box,. I am regularly getting these
>>
>> [249921.425368] xprobe_gas_x863[28621]: segfault at 211c422c
>> ip 00000000004006cc sp 00007fff211c4228 error 4 in
>> xprobe_gas_x8632[400000+1000]
>> [249923.960606] traps: xprobe_3dnow[29030] trap invalid opcode
>> ip:400926 sp:7fff161ce7f8 error:0 in xprobe_3dnow[400000+1000]
>>
>> =============
>>
>> An obsoleted interface seems to be being used (by the kernel?)
>>
>> [198995.115308] nr_pdflush_threads exported in /proc is
>> scheduled for removal
>>
>> ==============
>>
>> and another
>>
>> [189429.031965] cat: The scan_unevictable_pages
>> sysctl/node-interface has been disabled for lack of a
>> legitimate use case.  If you have one, please send an email to
>> linux-mm at kvack.org.
>>
>> ========
>>
>> We have PCI hardware detection errors with multi-port ethernet
>> cards that worked in prior RHEL derived servers
>>
>> ========
>>
>> Disabling the firewalld 'breaks expectation' by also disabling
>> networking !!  ouch
>>
>> ===============
>>
>> As I was typing this, I get:
>>
>> [253197.534025] conftest[1249]: segfault at 7ffff5f71f90 ip
>> 00000036a324cb95 sp 00007ffff5f71e90 error 6 in
>> libc-2.17.so[36a3200000+1b6000]
>>
>> ===============
>>
>> Anyway, it seems like this program is getting off to a slow
>> start.  If there is a program manager watching this list,
>> perhaps some 'look in' is needed
>>
>> -- Russ herrold
>>    614 488 6954
>>
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