On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Nicolas Mailhot<nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Le mercredi 29 juillet 2009 à 20:48 +0200, Lennart Poettering a écrit : >> On Wed, 29.07.09 20:20, Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> > Le mercredi 29 juillet 2009 à 17:49 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : >> > > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:42 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> > >> > > > Problem is... removing or disabling PA often -does- solve a problem. >> > > >> > > Rather, it works around it. The problems in the kernel drivers are >> > > usually still there... >> > >> > Before PA a sound problem didn't freeze the GUI (effectively bricking >> > the system for normal users). Now it can. In my case, a few months ago, >> > it was doing so because a new PA version could not parse a manual config >> > change advertised in Fedora's own "Glitch-free audio" feature page a >> > release before. >> > >> > Lennart stated that all this (PA being able to pull the GUI down, PA not >> > being able to parse what was a correct config file a version before, PA >> > rpm performing an unsafe upgrade) was NOTABUG. >> >> Twisting my words.... > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508436 well that one is easy to fix, just rename the config file in newer versions to config-default.pa (or anything else) which would result into old files not causing problems. Broken upgrade paths because of a config file changes like that is unacceptable. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
