Yum broken = no testing
by Seth Nickell
Yum in rawhide has been broken by Python changes (caused by Python 2.4.0
brokenness, I believe) for the past 2+ weeks. Ordinarily a broken
package shouldn't be a cause for list discussion, but in this case the
breakage has been going on for a while and effectively halts the testing
of other packages. Can we please resolve this one way or another so
Fedora development can continue?
Relevant bug is:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138535
Sorry for the fuss...
-Seth
19 years, 5 months
Killer apps/"selling" points of FC and GNU/Linux
by Kyrre Ness Sjobak
All of us trying hard to convert friends etc to Linux - what are the
arguments used?
Mainly curious, but - why should people drop Windows (which they know,
most of their programs often only runns there etc) and swich to Linux?
Kyrre
19 years, 5 months
rawhide report: 20041127 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20041127
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system-config-date-1.7.13-1
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* Fri Nov 26 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> 1.7.13-1
- enable Gujarati and Tamil translations (#140881)
19 years, 5 months
FC3 memory usage problem
by Peter Arremann
I just upgraded my laptop from FC1 to FC3 a few days ago and since then I'm
seeing terrible memory usages. The laptop has 1GB plus 1GB swap but I've ran
it out of memory by simply using openoffice, mozilla and a few other smaller
kde apps. Nothing similar has ever happened to me before and I checked
everything I can come up with without result.
Example Mozilla:
Just after starting mozilla I see this:
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep mozilla
mozilla-bin 97084 29392
After just visiting /. for a few stories the memory usage has grown to
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep mozilla
mozilla-bin 142016 44528
Example OpenOffice:
Starting OpenOffice
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soffice
soffice.bin 143976 51996
Opening a 9 page document with very simple layout (25000 characters)
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soffice
soffice.bin 157708 68780
After typing the word hert and the rightclicking to get corrections:
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soffice
soffice.bin 323336 234440
Example Kmail
Starting Kmail:
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail
kmail 44352 24276
After viewing 15 emails from ebay:
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail
kmail 49796 30760
After viewing 100 random emails (about 30% html)
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail
kmail 69144 47132
Viewing the same 100 emails one more time:
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail
kmail 78956 53624
I'm a little suprised to see such memory usage within 15 minutes of booting my
laptop. If I keep going, I'm running my laptop out of memory within about a
day.
Anyone got an idea?
Peter.
19 years, 5 months
missing posts
by Nate Bradley
Why are my posts not showing up in fedora-list. I have a question for
the list.
19 years, 5 months
sshd: it is permit to login with a Empty Password
by Dario Lesca
On a standard installation of FC1 and FC2 (and FC3?) is permit to login
with a user with a empty password ... is this correct?
[root@igloo root]# man sshd_config
> PermitEmptyPasswords
> When password authentication is allowed, it specifies whether the
> server allows login to accounts with empty password strings. The
> default is “no”.
[root@igloo root]# grep PermitEmptyPasswords /etc/ssh/sshd_config
#PermitEmptyPasswords no
[root@igloo root]# useradd nopasswd
[root@igloo root]# passwd -d nopasswd
Removing password for user nopasswd.
passwd: Success
[root@igloo root]# ssh nopasswd@localhost
nopasswd@localhost's password: <type ENTER>
Permission denied, please try again.
nopasswd@localhost's password: <type "x" then ENTER>
[nopasswd@igloo nopasswd]$ id
uid=505(nopasswd) gid=507(nopasswd) gruppi=507(nopasswd)
[nopasswd@igloo nopasswd]$
How to disable this "feature"?
Many thanks
--
Dario Lesca <d.lesca(a)solinos.it>
19 years, 5 months
XDM||GDM||KDM LDAP Auth
by Patricio Bruna V
so i was googling about it, and found a lot of people having the same
problem.
So my question is when it will be fixed?
--
Patricio Bruna http://www.linuxcenterla.com
Ingeniero de Proyectos Mariano Sánchez Fontecilla 310, piso 2
Red Hat Certified Engineer Las Condes, Santiago - CHILE
Linux Center Latinoamerica Fono: +56 2 2745000, Fax : +56 22747075
19 years, 5 months
X/GDM steps
by Patricio Bruna V
Hi, im trying to authenticate my users against a LDAP server
(eDirectory) but GDM does not let me in.
If log in a console (init 3) a then do startx it works ok.
So im wondering what are the steps when i login in gdm?
thx
--
Patricio Bruna http://www.linuxcenterla.com
Ingeniero de Proyectos Mariano Sánchez Fontecilla 310, piso 2
Red Hat Certified Engineer Las Condes, Santiago - CHILE
Linux Center Latinoamerica Fono: +56 2 2745000, Fax : +56 22747075
19 years, 5 months
OT: Help Kyrre with his LDAP authentification headatches :)
by Kyrre Ness Sjobak
After reading to many pages on screen and on dead wood, asking (with no
results) on forums, never receiving sign-up confirmation for the
padl.com pamldap list, getting my post rejected at other LDAP mailing
lists, and generally banging my head against the monitor for way to much
time, i am hoping for a merciful harbor here. Please? If for nothing
else, to save the forests from my printer?
I am trying to set up a login-system based on LDAP - with a Debian
(sarge) box as LDAP (and NFS) server, and Fedora Core 3 machines as
clients.
So far, no luck. (not for 2 months...). After finally getting the server
to *start*, and adding what i (think is) an appropriate directory basic
layout using phpldapadmin (running on an apache server on the same box),
i still can't login.
If i try to login (using su - *username*) from root, all i get is "user
does not exist". I know the client is okay - if i direct it to an
(older) ldap-running box, it works mountainously.
I have a structure where all the user accounts are put in
ou=People,dc=valler,dc=vgs,dc=no (as "PosixAccount" and "PosixGroup"
according to phpldapadmin). This does work on the before mentioned box
(if i have "copied" the setup right using gq to read it, and
phpldapadmin to edit the new servers directory.)
If i try to connect to the server using directory administrator, I can
see all users/groups. Trying to change the user password gives an error,
and if i try to create a new user i get "object class violation".
Anybody who can help me? I am quite inexperienced when it comes to LDAP,
and does now think i have spent way to many hours reading dead threes/on
screen documentation of varying quality and relevance.
I shall post any material you ask for.
Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk
19 years, 5 months
