Description of problem: The default date for system-autodeath on Fedora 14 is too soon. autodeath cripples the machine. Crippling a machine is a very very serious act and should only be undertaken with significant amounts of notice. Even so, the date for crippling should be long long after Fedora 14 is EOL. The period of warning concerning when the machine will be crippled should be far far longer than 7 days. Maybe 30 or even 90 days is reasonable here. $ cat /etc/sysconfig/system-autodeath.conf DEATHDATE=2010-12-15 Suggestions for notice: a)_echo 'system-autodeath is present' | Mail root b) wall 'system-autodeath is present' c) echo 'system-autodeath is present' >> /etc/motd d) zenity --notification --text='system-autodeath is present' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-autodeath-0.3-1.fc12.noarch $ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) How reproducible: very Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install system-autodeath 2. 3. Actual results: ... a crippled machine as of 3AM Expected results: ... an operable machine until at least F14 EOL+generous_generous_grace ... beyond F16 Additional info: $ sudo yum reinstall --downloadonly --downloaddir=. --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo='fedora' system-autodeath Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, downloadonly, keys, langpacks, presto, : refresh-packagekit Adding en_US to language list Found 5 installed debuginfo package(s) Enabling fedora-debuginfo: Fedora 14 - i386 - Debug Setting up Reinstall Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package system-autodeath.noarch 0:0.3-1.fc12 set to be reinstalled --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Reinstalling: system-autodeath noarch 0.3-1.fc12 fedora 13 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Reinstall 1 Package(s) Total download size: 13 k Installed size: 20 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Processing delta metadata Package(s) data still to download: 13 k exiting because --downloadonly specified $ rpm2cpio system-autodeath-0.3-1.fc12.noarch.rpm | cpio --extract --make-directories ./etc/sysconfig/system-autodeath.conf 42 blocks $ find etc/ etc/ etc/sysconfig etc/sysconfig/system-autodeath.conf $ find etc/ -type f | xargs cat DEATHDATE=2010-12-15
Q: Dude, how is that you got system-autodeath installed and yet you didn't know it was there? A: The package list for the machines affected was "copied" from some older machine which had a "nice selection of useful packages" ssh $oldermachine rpm -q -a | strip-off-version-numbers | sudo xargs install -y This has the effect of "porting" the package selection across generations of machines. On the downside if something unpleasant creeps in then on gets surprises like this one. Perhaps system-autodeath was a default install circa F10, F11?
system-auto-death was NEVER in the default install. NEVER. I thought I had updated the EOL dates but apparently I haven't. Thanks - I'll get it fixed.
system-autodeath-0.3-2.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/system-autodeath-0.3-2.fc14
system-autodeath-0.3-2.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/system-autodeath-0.3-2.fc13
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt lists the EOL dates for various releases, if that would help... [Fedora 10 (Cambridge)] stable=True preupgrade-ok=True version=10 mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-10&arch=$basearch installmirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/$basearch/os eol-date=20091217 (it's a bug that the current file being handed out has pretty stale data... I should investigate that...)
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
system-autodeath-0.3-2.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
system-autodeath-0.3-2.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.