Totem hangs on AVI playback

After the upgrade to Fedora12 for some files totem hangs at startup. This is a bug in the gstreamer framework related to subtitles. It happens when you have the 'Automatically load subtitle files when movie is loaded' selected and there is an SRT file in the directory of your movie.
Quick workaround is to disable the option and load the subtitle manually.

The fix is already included in the next gstreamer update for fedora (0.10.25.1-2), but if you can't wait you can download the packages gstream, gstream-tools and the gstreamer-plugins-base from the koji build server.

Ubuntu's Karmic Koala has the same issue, the launchpad entry is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10/+bug/441396

Fedora 12 PreUpgrade

The issue I had with insufficient diskspace in /boot while using preupgrade is now caught by preupgrade, for more information see preupgrade update info at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2009-11536 and the fedora wiki at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade

F12 systray / panel spacing

After the upgrade, the spacing between the icons in the systray area was way too large. Apparently it's a 'feature'. *sigh*

Fix with:

$ gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/panel/applets/systray/prefs/padding 0