Just a quick note for pommed users, we have switched over to Alioth now, so if you have a working copy of the svn repository, you may want to svn switch it:
svn switch --relocate \
http://svn.technologeek.org/repos/mbpeventd/trunk \
svn://svn.debian.org/pommed/trunk
If you have a login on Alioth, you can of course use svn+ssh://.
A couple of weeks ago, ftpmasters decided to reject arm uploads that aren’t signed by either a buildd or one of the blessed arm porters.
Yesterday they decided to do the same thing for alpha.
So, dear ftpmasters, are you slowly implementing source-only uploads, or are you only preventing Debian Developers from doing their work (which would obviously violate the Constitution) ?
The server hosting this blog just suffered what can only be described as catastrophic hardware failure, thanks to the crap that are Maxtor hard drives, Dell CERC 1.5 RAID controllers and the Linux driver for those (aacraid).
So, the machine got shut down for a moment on thursday night, just the time to move the rack around in the datacenter, and one of the disks did not come back in one piece.
But it did come back online after a reboot, prompting an array rebuild by the controller which took 12.5 hours for 250 GB (RAID 1). And the drive failed again 10 minutes after the rebuild was completed, confusing both the controller and the driver. At that point I could still log into the machine, but any command would trigger nice I/O errors all over the place.
Fortunately, the FS got shut down by XFS automatically on I/O errors and I haven’t lost a single bit of data. The machine came back just fine with the faulty drive removed.
And you thought a RAID controller would help in this case. Obviously this one doesn’t. I need to mention that we’ve observed this behaviour on another machine before this incident, we have another machine suffering from a faulty drive in just the same way, so this isn’t an isolated case and it’s reproducible.
Daniel Baumann writing a packaging & sponsoring guide, advertising it on -mentors just after having demonstrated his gaps in basic packaging knowledge on the very same list (not even mentioning the kqemu debacle on -release a couple of days ago).
Somebody please tell me it’s only a bad dream. Wait, if this was a dream, I could have kicked his ass already. Damn.
I’ve just released pommed v1.1, which adds support for (some) PowerBook laptops. If your laptop is not supported, send us the content of /proc/device-tree/model and we’ll send you a test-tarball.
gpomme received some improvements in this release:
The original tarball (available on Alioth, pommed project) contains an alternate theme for gpomme, named Tango. It’s not included in the Debian package because the Tango icons from FreeDesktop.org are licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 which we don’t consider DFSG-free. It’s a nice, clean theme for gpomme which you’ll probably prefer over the default one. Copy it to /usr/share/gpomme/themes and run gpomme -t Tango to use it.
If anybody knows where to find the SVG sources for the Crystal icon theme, I’m all ears.
Thanks to Eduardo Bellido Bellido for the spanish translation and the multiple head patch for gpomme. Thanks to Daniel G. Siegel for the Tango theme.