Totem/GStreamer and Fedora
by Ronald S. Bultje
Hi,
Today, the GStreamer team has released new versions of their GStreamer
core and plugins. Also, Bastien Nocera has released a new version of
Totem, which features a largely rewritten GStreamer backend, amongst
others. There has been a news posting about this on gnomedesktop.org.
We're convinced that the current combination of these is the best
legally shippable playback application that has been created so far. It
might not match mplayer yet, but it's pretty, stable, extensible [1],
fits well with the rest of the GNOME desktop and, not unimportant, it
will playback quite a few movies and webstreams by default already
(Ogg/Theora, in particular). Also, it's actively developed and
maintained by a large amount of developers (look at the GStreamer
plugins contributor list, for example).
How would you guys feel about including this in Fedora Core? It would
add a missing piece to the desktop. We're also considering to propose
Totem for inclusion in GNOME 2.10.
Ronald
[1] for some formats (e.g. divx, xvid and so on), you'll also want to
install gst-ffmpeg. Latest pre-releases are available from
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-ffmpeg/pre/.
--
Ronald S. Bultje <rbultje(a)ronald.bitfreak.net>
19 years, 7 months
Stateless Linux: errors in scripts
by Petr Kolar
Hello
When trying to install diskless stations with Stateless Linux I discovered
the Python scripts from stateless-*0.20-1 (e.g. stateless-clients.py) have
errors in calls of getopt.getopt, so the scripts don't accept arguments of
long command-line options. Therefore users must find and use short option
names.
I'm not familiar with Python, but it seems it is necessary to add
an `=' character to the end of every option with long name, which takes an
argument (e.g. "configuration=" and "snapshot=" in stateless-clients.py) in
getopt.getopt call to correct the scripts.
My question: Where to set information about NFS location needed in
statelessGenPXEConfig.py?
With regards
--
*** Petr Kolar ***
Department of Applied Informatics, Technical University of Liberec
Halkova 6, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic
Phone: +420-48-535-3673 Fax: +420-48-535-3696
E-mail: Petr.Kolar(a)vslib.cz http://www.kai.vslib.cz/~kolar/
19 years, 7 months
Broken dietlibc-signalhandling with recent FC2 kernel
by Enrico Scholz
Hello,
the following small program segfaults on the latest FC2 kernel:
| #include <signal.h>
| void handler(int s) {}
| int main()
| {
| signal(SIGUSR1, handler);
| kill(getpid(), SIGUSR1);
| }
| $ diet gcc test.c -Wa,--execstack -Wl,-z,execstack
| $ strace /tmp/a.out
| execve("/tmp/a.out", ["/tmp/a.out"], [/* 27 vars */]) = 0
| rt_sigaction(SIGUSR1, {0x80480d4, [USR1], SA_NOMASK}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
| getpid() = 736
| kill(736, SIGUSR1) = 0
| --- SIGUSR1 (User defined signal 1) @ 0 (0) ---
| --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
| +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Things are fine with:
* the latest stable kernel (2.4.27),
* the FC1 kernels,
* the FC2 kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2,
* the vanilla 2.6.8.1 kernel.
where I get the expected
| execve("/home/ensc/tmp/a.out", ["/home/ensc/tmp/a.out"], [/* 43 vars */]) = 0
| rt_sigaction(SIGUSR1, {0x80480d4, [USR1], SA_NOMASK}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
| getpid() = 22642
| kill(22642, SIGUSR1) = 0
| --- SIGUSR1 (User defined signal 1) @ 0 (0) ---
| sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
| _exit(0) = ?
The segfault has been seen on the 2.6.8-1.521 kernel only; rawhide kernels
were not tested yet. Tricks like executing through 'setarch i386', with
'LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5', putting '0' into /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield' or
removing the '-W[al]' options above do not help. Issue has been verified
with both the shipped dietlibc-0.24-4 and a vanilla dietlibc-0.27.
Am I missing a way how I can use dietlibc with FC2?
Enrico
19 years, 7 months
No direct rendering with booting init 5
by Louis Garcia
I mentioned this before, when booting in init 5 I don't get direct
rendering support with my radeon 7500. However when I boot in init 3 and
startx direct rendering is present. I've tried to search bugzilla with
no luck. Is anyone else seeing this?
--Thanks
19 years, 7 months
Re: Default browser of FC3?
by Rick Stout
Please excuse my ineptitude for clicking options in my email client. No
more HTML posts, I promise. ::sheepish grin::
Rick Stout
Rick Stout wrote:
> I think we need to look at the browser situation from a different angle.
> Perhaps a browser tightly integrated into gnome and used for Internet
> surfing may be a bad idea. Aren't the biggest problems related to MS,
> security, and stability the fact that the browser is synonymous with the
> UI? Now while I understand that these problems aren't exactly the same,
> but what's to stop it from going in that direction? Personally, I like
> the fact that my browsing experience is separated from the desktop, and
> I use Firefox on win32 because I don't have to worry about the browser
> bringing down the desktop. I think it would be more beneficial to have a
> small footprint html rendering engine built into the UI for simple tasks
> (help, external calls, etc..), and leave the full-on Internet surfing to
> a dedicated browser. Besides, what good is it to have two main gtk
> browsers based on the same rendering engine? It leads to forked ideas
> and halved resources, as well as less acceptance.
> Mozilla was the standard, but the project team did say that Mozilla
> should not be used as a browser. Mozilla was just to be a base, and
> since Firefox was their choice for the frontend of the engine, it is
> fitting that we should support it as the default. As for choice, does
> that mean that *every* browser be installed by default? Choices are only
> truly made once there is an understanding, and for new users, we should
> point them in the direction of the biggest acceptance, as well as where
> the majority of the support lies.
>
> Rick Stout
19 years, 7 months
USB flashdisk rescue image for FC3
by Paul Ionescu
Hi,
Is it possible to have a rescue image for USB flash disks for FC3 ?
We already have the possibility to boot an FC2/3 install image from an USB
disk in size of few megs (5-6M), so I think there is no reason not to
have an additional rescue image for USB disks.
It is very common now to have an 128M usb flash disk or greater, so it
would fit on it.
19 years, 7 months
fsck.ext3 in FC2
by Michael A. Peters
[root@devel root]# e2fsck LABEL=/
e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
e2fsck: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) (/)
e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck!
[root@devel root]#
(note - this is from LABEL=/1 currently being mounted on /)
Can we can an e2fsck package for FC2 that fixes this?
I always like to run two installs - one version old on my scsi disk -
as a stable backup in case I bork my system, and current version on my
main IDE drive.
But the backup "1 version old" install has to be able to mount / from
the current install so that I can use symlinks to have the same /var/
spool/mail/mbox files.
I've wiped FC1 off of my scsi drive, put FC2 on it, and am now running
FC3test on the IDE drive - and came into this problem.
So by the official FC3 release date, will we have an "official" update
to fsck on FC2 pushed through yum, or will I need to update it myself?
I would prefer not to "roll my own" anything on the scsi (one version
old) install, it's suppose to be stock stable that works.
19 years, 7 months
xpdf and lynx translated config files in /etc
by Andrew Farris
xpdf includes several translated sample xpdfrc files in /etc. It would
be much cleaner to give xpdf a directory and symlink the
primary /etc/xpdfrc (english as default) to the english version in the
directory, or to modify xpdf to read this from the directory instead.
xpdf and lynx are the only packages that are dumping multiple
translation config files into my /etc at this moment, it appears to be
the exception rather than the rule. If this continues with more
packages then /etc will become a cluttered mess.
Is there a preferred practice on this? Should these two packages be
changed?
19 years, 7 months
rawhide report: 20041009 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
bc-1.06-17.1
------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 1.06-17.1
- added BuildRequires for readline-devel (#134699)
curl-7.12.1-1
-------------
* Wed Oct 06 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> 7.12.1-1
- upgrade to 7.12.1
- enable GSSAPI auth (#129353)
- enable I18N domain names (#134595)
- workaround for broken ProFTPD SSL auth (#134133). Thanks to
Aleksandar Milivojevic
epiphany-1.4.3-0
----------------
* Thu Oct 07 2004 Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg(a)redhat.com> - 1.4.3-0
- Remove mozilla 1.7.3 compatibility patch
- Do not disable the nautilus view, it has been removed upstream
ethereal-0.10.6-3
-----------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Radek Vokal <rvokal(a)redhat.com> 0.10.6-3
- spec file changed, dependencies fixed (#134942)
firefox-0.10.1-1.0PR1.9
-----------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 0:0.10.1-1.0PR1.9
- Fix compile issues (#134914)
- Add patch to fix button focus issues (#133507)
- Add patches to fix tab focus stealing issue (b.m.o #124750)
flim-1.14.7-1
-------------
* Sat Oct 09 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 1.14.7-1
- update to 1.14.7 release
- flim-1.14.6-mel-u-tempfile.patch no longer needed
gnome-bluetooth-0.5.1-5
-----------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.1-5
- buildrequire pygtk2-devel (bug 135032)
- fixed gnome-bluetooth-manager script for 64bit (bug 134864)
- fixed segfault on file receive (bug 133041)
gnome-session-2.8.0-4
---------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 2.8.0-4
- Add g-v-m to default session since it wasn't already (?).
- Remove g-v-m from default session on s390
gnome-vfs2-2.8.1-8
------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> - 2.8.1-8
- Backport some new fixes from cvs.
gphoto2-2.1.4-7
---------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 2.1.4-7
- devel sub-package requires libexif-devel (bug #135058).
grip-3.2.0-3
------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 3.2.0-3
- add a passel of buildreqs (#135045)
initscripts-7.90-1
------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 7.90-1
- fix portname for LCS devices
jisksp14-0.1-16
---------------
* Sat Oct 09 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 0.1-16
- added BuildRequires xorg-x11-font-utils. (#135064)
kdebindings-3.3.0-3
-------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.3.0-3
- add buildrequires on ruby and ruby-devel #135053
kdegames-3.3.0-2
----------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.3.0-2
- fix buildrequire on automake
- disable ksokoban
kdegraphics-3.3.0-3
-------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 7:3.3.0-3
- fix typo in buildrequires #135007
kudzu-1.1.93-1
--------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.93-1
- fix crash when there's no modprobe.conf/modules.conf
libbtctl-0.4.1-3
----------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.de> 0.4.1-3
- buildrequires pygtk2-devel
mikmod-3.1.6-30
---------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 3.1.6-30
- add texinfo buildreqs (#135088)
nautilus-2.8.0-3
----------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> - 2.8.0-3
- Backport more fixes from cvs
* Mon Oct 04 2004 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> - 2.8.0-2
- Backport various bugfixes from HEAD
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> - 2.8.0-1
- Update to 2.8.0
nautilus-cd-burner-2.8.3-4
--------------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> - 2.8.3-4
- Add patch to unmount if needed (#107544)
ntp-4.2.0.a.20040617-3
----------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 4.2.0.a.20040617-3
- improved postsection
- BuildRequires readline-devel
- PreReq grep
quagga-0.97.0-1
---------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com> 0.97.0-1
- New upstream version. This obsoletes the -lib64 patch.
* Wed Oct 06 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com>
- Change the permissions of /var/run/quagga to 771 and /var/log/quagga to 770
This closes #134793
rpm-4.3.2-11
------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)redhat.com> 4.3.2-11
- honor inherited SIG_IGN when establishing rpmdb signal exit (#134474).
rpmdb-fedora-2.92-0.20041009
----------------------------
sed-4.1.2-4
-----------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 4.1.2-4
- fix up make check to run sed --version with LC_ALL=C
in the environment (#129014)
selinux-policy-strict-1.17.29-4
-------------------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.29-4
- Change allow_ypbind to be a boolean.
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.29-4
---------------------------------
* Thu Oct 07 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.29-4
- Make allow_ypbind into a boolean
setup-2.5.36-1
--------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 2.5.36-1
- fix duplicate alias
* Tue Sep 28 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 2.5.35-1
- add /etc/environment
* Mon Sep 27 2004 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com> 2.5.34-2
- mark /etc/services config(noreplace) (#133683)
system-config-keyboard-1.2.5-1
------------------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.5-1
- Firstboot fix for xorg.conf
system-config-samba-1.2.19-1
----------------------------
* Sat Oct 09 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.19-1
- fix dialog when share name is missing (#135119)
system-config-securitylevel-1.4.8-1
-----------------------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> 1.4.8-1
- Firstboot bug fix
system-config-services-0.8.11-1
-------------------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> 0.8.11-1
- fix gtk.main*() related DeprecationWarnings (#134978)
system-config-users-1.2.23-1
----------------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.23-1
- try to fix 32bit uids/gids (#134803)
- fix gtk.main*() related DeprecationWarnings
- byte-compile python files in "make install"
- updated translations
thunderbird-0.8.0-4
-------------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 0.8.0-4
- Add patch to fix button focus issues (#133507)
- Add patch for fix IMAP race issues (bmo #246439)
udev-034-2
----------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 034-2
- check for /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info existence in check-cdrom.sh
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 034-1
- new version udev-034
- removed patches, which went upstream
- pam_console.dev link renamed to 05-pam_console.dev
- MAKEDEV.dev links renamed to 10-MAKEDEV.dev
vim-6.3.030-1
-------------
* Fri Oct 08 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 6.3.030-2
- patchlevel 30
19 years, 7 months
gnome-volume-manager blank CD defaults
by John (J5) Palmieri
I wanted to get the Fedora communities opinion on popping up a burn://
folder when a blank CD is inserted into the drive. Right now we pop it
up which makes sense because if you pop in a blank CD most likely you
want to burn to it. Problems come in when a user is using browser mode
in Nautilus. If you pop the CD in and out a couple of times you get a
bunch of burn:// folders. Since you get a CD icon on the desktop which
you can double click to open up the burn:// folder I am wondering if I
should turn this off by default. I am of no opinion either way so I
want to see how everyone else feels.
--
John (J5) Palmieri
Associate Software Engineer
Desktop Group
Red Hat, Inc.
Blog: http://martianrock.com
19 years, 7 months
