Re: Fedora 16 instabilities

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- Changing UID's to start at 1000 instead of 500 is just annoying.

Yes it is, but that's easily fixed with a one-time script. I can send you a sample perl script if you need one.


- With earlier kernels, skype was merely unreliable, sometimes with no
   microphone, sometimes no sound, sometimes no video.  The popup that
   announces an incoming call fails to appear - sometimes.  Despite its
   non-open status, skype is a critical utility.  Some way must be found
   to support it so it is reliable.  Making changes to the kernel that
   destroy it is not acceptable.

Shrug. It's closed source, how can kernel developers possibly support it? If it's closed, only Skype can fix Skype problems, no matter how critical you feel it is...


- Some programs fail at random, unpredictible and unrepeatable times.
   Qtstalker occasionally simply stops working.  It's window can be
   deleted, but a zombie remains.
...

- Libreoffice insists on making files inaccessible via nfs.
   A workaround is to edit /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice to
   comment out these two lines:
     ## SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1 ## export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING
   but this must be redone whenever a new update comes along.

That's been an issue for a long time, well before F16 - are you using nfsv3?

I think open/libre-office work directly with nfsv4 (could be wrong).

However, I found nfsv4 to be unusable as a home-folder-server in F16 - it was a huge source of instability. gluster is problematic too in F16. I've settled on moosefs as a file server. It works extremely well with F15 and F16 clients.

Life with Fedora is all about bleeding-edge surprises...

- Mike
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