playing with xen...
by Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Hi,
I've been trying out xen... some info that might (or not) be useful:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf got rewritten.
Now, I'm not using rhgb.
My xen environment is, basically, booting into run level 3 (to reduce
complexity), and trying to test it, so there's no X anywhere.
When I finish being frustrated for not having net yet (must be some
quirk between xen and natsemi or something it depends on) I reboot to
get my default desktop.
A script running on 5 moves /lib/tls.disabled back into /lib/tls
Since xen is starting to be integrated, I understand there are weird
things until the kernel can stabilise, but the xorg.conf file being
rewritten puzzles me.
Regards, Rui
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+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?
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19 years, 3 months
rawhide report: 20050124 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
NetworkManager-0.3.3-1.cvs20050112.4
------------------------------------
* Mon Jan 24 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 0.3.3-1.cvs20050112.4
- rebuilt against new wireless tool
dump-0.4b39-1
-------------
* Mon Jan 24 2005 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com. 0.4b39-1
- Updated to dump 0.4b39
- Updated the experimental patch.
ethereal-0.10.9-1
-----------------
* Wed Jan 19 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal(a)redhat.com> 0.10.9-1
- release fixes the following security-related issues:
- The COPS dissector could go into an infinite loop. (CAN-2005-0006)
- The DLSw dissector could cause an assertion, making Ethereal exit
prematurely. (CAN-2005-0007)
- The DNP dissector could cause memory corruption. (CAN-2005-0008)
- The Gnutella dissector could cause an assertion, making Ethereal
exit prematurely. (CAN-2005-0009)
- The MMSE dissector could free static memory. (CAN-2005-0010)
- The X11 protocol dissector is vulnerable to a string buffer
overflow. (CAN-2005-0084)
- (#145482)
* Tue Jan 18 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal(a)redhat.com> 0.10.8-4
- plugins are back
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal(a)redhat.com> 0.10.8-3
- fixed spec file, removed libs renaming
file-4.12-3
-----------
* Mon Jan 24 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal(a)redhat.com> - 4.12-3
- core64 patch fixing output on core files (#145354) <kzak(a)redhat.com>
- minor change in magic patch
gimp-2:2.2.3-1
--------------
* Mon Jan 24 2005 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com>
- version 2.2.3
- remove exifmarkerlength patch (improved version applied upstream)
kdenetwork-7:3.3.2-0.3
----------------------
* Mon Jan 24 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 7:3.3.2-0.3
- rebuilt against new wireless tools
kernel-2.6.10-1.1109_FC4
------------------------
* Sun Jan 23 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Updated periodic slab debug check from Manfred.
- Enable PAGE_ALLOC debugging again, it should now be fixed.
- 2.6.11-rc2-bk1
libxfce4mcs-4.2.0-1
-------------------
* Sun Jan 23 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4.2.0-1
- update to 4.2.0
libxfce4util-4.2.0-1
--------------------
* Sun Jan 23 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4.2.0-1
- update to 4.2.0 release
libxfcegui4-4.2.0-1
-------------------
* Sun Jan 23 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4.2.0-1
- update to 4.2.0
reiserfs-utils-2:3.6.19-1
-------------------------
* Sun Jan 23 2005 Florian La Roche <laroche(a)redhat.com>
- 3.6.19
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20050124
---------------------------
xfce-mcs-manager-4.2.0-1
------------------------
* Sun Jan 23 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4.2.0-1
- update to 4.2.0
19 years, 3 months
Alien Night vs ksh (was: rawhide report: 20050121 changes)
by Dax Kelson
> Removed package ytalk
This is a shame. On a multi-user boxes communicating at the command line
via ytalk is the way to go. Much much better than regular "talk".
> Removed package pdksh
We have a large tutorial that introduces and explorers the features of
various shells that includes coverage of pdksh. I also know of quite a
few gray beards that swear by ksh.
Having ksh or a ksh clone has pretty much been a given on any Unix or
Linux box for a couple decades now. Breaking this expected behavior now
would be extremely unfortunate. Doesn't seem worth it save ~350kb.
If you want to save 350kb, then pick one of the following and ditch it
instead:
/usr/share/wallpapers/alien-night.jpg
/usr/share/wallpapers/kiagara.jpg
/usr/share/wallpapers/Island-of-Elba.jpg
20 years of tradition or alien night?
When brining it back, please consider replacing pdksh with the official
ksh?
http://www.kornshell.com/
It is licensed under the CPL 1.0 which is an OSI approved license.
Dax Kelson
Guru Labs
19 years, 3 months
FTP-Download of the FC3 DVD-ISO with firefox
by Joachim Backes
Hi,
did somebody already try to download the DVD iso of FC3, using firefox
or mozilla for downloading? The problem is that during the download,
(before download is almost done), suddenly the browsers show weird
sizes of the from-file (mixed with minus signs).
on the other hand, wget runs perfectly.
I can reproduce this behaviour under FC3 itself (mozilla/firefox,
started in WinXP, show a similar behaviour).
--
Regards
Joachim Backes
Joachim Backes <backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>
University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center,
High Performance Computing,
D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany
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Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056
http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html
19 years, 3 months
environment (/etc/profile) and X
by Jonathan Underwood
Dear All,
Firstly apologies if there is already perceived wisdom on this matter,
and I've missed it despite googling fairly extensively.
I recently noticed that in FC3 in a gnome-terminal or xterm that the
delete key didn't work and just produced a tilde. Having checked that
the correct escape string was being returned, I realised that it was
because /etc/inputrc was not being read and so readline wasn't set up
correctly in bash, and that the reason for this is because INPUTRC is
set in /etc/profile which is never read one one launches a terminal from
within X as these start a non login shell ... it's really a
manifestation of the fact that logging in via xdm/gdm/kdm starts a
session which never invokes a login shell, and so /etc/profile is never
read - opening a terminal in Gnome etc starts an interactive non-login
shell and so /etc/bashrc and $HOME/.bashrc are read but not /etc/profile
or $HOME/.bash_profile. At least that's my understanding.
Googling around a bit, this situation has quite a history, and there was
even a time when /etc/profile was even sourced twice at login. This has
been discussed at length lately by debian people here:
http://tinyurl.com/6mlw8
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&threadm=27Sa...
I myself am unsure about what the right way to deal with this is, but my
feeling is that at somepoint during login, the appropriate shell login
file should be read i.e. /etc/profile for bash.
Thoughts?
Jonathan.
19 years, 3 months
rawhide report: 20050123 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
gcc-3.4.3-16
------------
* Sat Jan 22 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.4.3-16
- fix PRs middle-end/19551
* Tue Jan 18 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.4.3-15
- add gcc-gnat and libgnat on ppc, x86_64 and ia64 again
- fix Ada bootstrap problems on 64-bit architectures (PR ada/13470)
- run ACATS tests under expect, so that if they hang, they'll be timed
out
* Fri Jan 14 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.4.3-14
- update from gcc-3_4-branch
- PRs bootstrap/18033, target/18987, target/18720, rtl-optimization/19012,
rtl-opt/13299, rtl-opt/10692
- fix PRs c++/19263, rtl-optimization/16104, c/17297, middle-end/19164,
rtl-optimization/15139, rtl-optimization/19348, middle-end/19084,
java/17255
gcc4-4.0.0-0.21
---------------
* Sat Jan 22 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 4.0.0-0.21
- update from trunk
- fix PRs middle-end/19551, c/18946, c/19342
- allow REFERENCE_TYPEs in place of POINTER_TYPEs in builtins.c
koffice-4:1.3.5-2
-----------------
* Sat Jan 22 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4:1.3.5-2
- Apply patch to fix CAN-2005-0064
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20050123
---------------------------
yum-2.1.12-3
------------
* Sat Jan 22 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.12-2
- allow multiple kernel-devel packages to be installed
19 years, 3 months
Power off
by Tyler Larson
I ran into a problem (bug?) that I would like to help solve, but I'm at
a loss as to where to go next. My laptop (Dell C400) used to run Linux
just fine, dual boot with Windows. In the past few months, I've
installed XP SP2 on the Windows side, reinstalled Windows a few times
(it happens), and updated by BIOS image. I somehow managed to trash my
partition table attempting to put GRUB back as my bootloader, then had
to reinstall everything all over again (windows and Linux). I've since
downgraded the BIOS to the previous known-good version to try and fix
the thing. Windows works fine, but on the Linux side....
The computer powers itself off without warning--no matter what is, or
isn't, running. Certain things seem to trigger it, and it may be tied to
high CPU load. I can trigger the shutdown fairly reliably by running
aircrack on a packet capture file. To rule out any background services
as being the culprit, I booted with init=/bin/bash, ran aircrack, and
sure enough, it powered off after about 90 seconds. This behavior has
continued no matter what kernel I use--I'ved tried with both the
original FC3 kernel and the most recent one. In fact, the machine
powered itself down a number of times while I was running off the
install CD. It took 10 tries before I got it to complete the install
process.
So, my question to you all is--how can I possibly get some useful
information to start diagnosing this problem? There's nothing in the
logs on disk, of course. There's no warning, no panic, no nothing. Just
a quick *plink* and it's gone.
19 years, 3 months
Re: further package removals/potential package removals
by Xose Vazquez Perez
hi guys,
> Removed and orphaned:
> asp2php - does not show any history of usage, not really a core package
>
> Suggested for removal:
>
> xloadimage
> - there are better apps for displaying images (ImageMagick,
> eog, gthumb, kview, etc)
> - there are better apps for setting the root window (xsri)
> - it's *ancient* code that doesn't even support PNG
> nedit
> - legacy interface (motif)
> - doesn't support Unicode
> jed
> - doesn't support Unicode
>
> Opinions?
I think that it's easiest to pick the core packages
that to select it one by one to be in extras.
the right question is: *What's CORE* ?
19 years, 3 months
Fedora Core 4
by Bill Nottingham
A Fedora Core 4 proto-schedule is available at:
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/
Generally, it's 3 4-week test releases, with a release in early/mid May.
So, what's planned for Fedora Core 4? Here's what we're looking
at from the Red Hat side of things:
- GCC 4, if it's ready
We're not planning on holding for it, but if it's out in a
reasonable time, sure. Failing that, we're looking at making
more of the FORTIFY_SOURCE and other gcc & glibc security extensions
integrated, if at all possible.
- The usual new stuff - GNOME 2.10, KDE 3.4, Xorg 6.8.2,
OpenOffice 2.0 (maybe), etc.
- Xen and Virtualization
This starts by integrating the Xen kernel stuff, and going
from there.
- SELinux Episode III: Revenge of the AVC
Yet more targets in the targeted policy.
- Faster boot
Eliminating redundancy and old cruft in the bootup process,
starting GDM early if possible, using newer and faster
udev codebases, and other related tweaks.
- Java
More native-compiled GCJ stuff. Including Eclipse.
- Package management
GUI integration of system-config-packages, yum, and friends.
- more networking changes
Further integration of NetworkManager
- PPC support
For your brand spanking new MiniMac, or the p655 under your
desk.
- Extras at launch time. Or else.
Hopefully, self explanatory. Could coincide with the move
of some bits from Core to Extras. In fact, some of the
stuff on this list of features may *be* in Extras.
Probably other stuff that I'm forgetting in here. I'm sure
more people can remind me.
Bill
19 years, 3 months
