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

HOWTO: Flooding wireless networks...

Recipe:

1 wireless network
1 part Fedora 12
1 part Pulseaudio gravy
1 foolish setting:


What do you get?! A nice flood towards your wireless network with empty 16-bit audio packets even when no application whatsoever is playing audio.

One thing I don't remember... if I ever activated that setting while playing with my VirtualGL / remote wine gaming setup.. or if it was an effect from the Fedora upgrade... either way, best to double check your own setting after upgrading, as the effect is a pretty dead wireless network at seemingly random times.

Boot failure

After the lastest kernel update on fedora, my box refused to boot since it was unable to mount the root filesystem. The old kernel still booted fine. My first thought was an issue with the initrd, so I first rebuild it to see if that resolved it. No change.
Therefor it was time to take a closer look.. after unpacking the initrd, I noticed the mkrootdev line was different.. and that's when I recalled that I had updated my /etc/fstab root entry and had added 'relatime' to the mount flags.
Apparently mkrootdev was failing on that flag. I'd figure it would be a simple thing to fix, so I checked out the repository and noticed it was fixed in version 6.0.76-1 (fedora 10 uses 6.0.71):

commit e993db4b1790d0328fcd76c0fd88ca2a82a931d5
Author: Jayson King
Date: Wed Feb 4 21:11:54 2009 +0100

Make nash mount support relatime (#296361)

Make nash mount support relatime (#296361).