fedora 4 test 2 on ppc (dual proc g5)
by Joe.Hoot＠itec.suny.edu
I just downloaded the fedora core test2 for ppc. I rebooted my PPC Dual
G5. I was prompted by yaboot and hit enter to except the default kernel
"linux." The kernel starts to load and then dies. I shutdown the machine
and started it back up and at yaboot, typed linux nofb. It started to
load again and then died again. Here is the output when it stops booting:
opening display /pci@0,fd000000/NVDA,Parent@10/NVDA,Display-B@1... ok
copying 0F device tree...done
starting cpu /cpus/PowerPC,G5...failed: 0000000
Initializing fake screen: NVDA,Display-A
Calling quiesce ...
returning 0x01400000 from prom_init
Invalid memory access at SRR0: 00000000.01403b7c SRR1:
10000000.000083030
Apple PowerMac7,3 5.1.8f7 BootROM build on 10/26/04 at 16:30:32
Copyright 1994-2004 Apple COmputer, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Welcome to OPen Firmware, the system time and date is: 16:49:16 04/21/2005
To continue booting, type "mac-boot" and press return.
To shut down, type "shut-down" and press return.
Release keys to continue!
Any suggestions? Is this a problem with dual proc g5's? Is there any way
to disable SMP with a kernel parameter that can be passwed?
Thanks,
Joe
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19 years
Fedora Core 4 test3 freeze warning
by Elliot Lee
Fedora Core 4 test3 is set to freeze in a week. That's April 27. By then
all the broken dependencies need to be fixed, bugs fixed, etc. On the
installer side, upgrades are supposed to work! :-)
This is the last test release of the FC4 cycle so please make sure to put
as much effort as possible into finding and reporting bugs, doing test
installs/upgrades, etc.
Best,
-- Elliot
19 years
Speedying up the boot for Fedora
by Jean-Eric Cuendet
Hi,
To speed the boot of Fedora, the taken approach is to readahead the
files needed by the daemons/tools run during boot. This approach works
well but the actual approach is to pre-load some files from a static
defined file. (This is accomplished by /etc/init.d/readahead which reads
files from /etc/readahead.files)
There is IMHO at least 2 problems:
- When the boot process change, either by removing/adding services, the
fiels that must be readahead change. But the readahead.files don't.
- The readahead process don't read the files in the best order to
minimize the head movement on the hard disk
- The readahead process don't rearrange the files on disk so the
readahead process can be quicker.
Why not implement a dynamic mechanism to know which files need to be
read in readahead?
- End of kernel init
- Register a (KProbes or LSM?) hook that listen to which files are read
- Boot the system
- End of system boot, read the files that were read during boot itself.
- Update the readahead.files file so the readahead could be quicker.
A second step could be to rearrange the files so the readahead could
read them without too much head movemement on the HD. Perhaps with help
of e2fsdefrag?
Do you have any comment?
-jec
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19 years
Firefox update tool
by dragoran
Why is the firefox update tool also disabled for extensions?
I can understand the reasons why its disabled by why don't let the users
use it to update their extensions?
If I do right click->update on an extension nothing happens (in the FC
version).
19 years
Re: Speedying up the boot for Fedora
by Jean-Eric Cuendet
>> - When the boot process change, either by removing/adding services, the
>> fiels that must be readahead change. But the readahead.files don't.
>> - The readahead process don't read the files in the best order to
>> minimize the head movement on the hard disk
> this one is easy to fix btw; I wrote a small tool a while ago (and
> posted to the list) to sort the file in disk order
OK, fine, but I can't find it. Could you repost it?
And would you be interested in a kernel module that tracks the read
files during boot? Or do you find that useless? And you as a great
kernel hacker :-) , what would you use? LSM? KProbes? Else?
Thanks.
-jec
19 years
rawhide report: 20050421 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
MySQL-python-1.2.0-1
--------------------
* Thu Apr 21 2005 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 1.2.0-1
- Update to 1.2.0, per bug #155341
- Link against mysql 4.x not 3.x, per bug #150828
audit-0.6.12-1
--------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> 0.6.12-1
- Fixed bug where elf type wasn't being set when given numerically
- Added autrace program (similar to strace)
- Fixed bug when logs = 2 and ROTATE is the action, only 1 log resulted
cman-1.0-0.pre33.1
------------------
cman-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.112235.FC4.0
------------------------------------------
cvs-1.11.19-8
-------------
* Mon Apr 18 2005 Martin Stransky <stransky(a)redhat.com> 1.11.17-8
- add security fix CAN-2005-0753 (Derek Price)
dlm-1.0-0.pre21.2
-----------------
dlm-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.131626.FC4.0
-----------------------------------------
eclipse-changelog-1:2.0.1_fc-20
-------------------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon(a)redhat.com> 2.0.1_fc-20
- Fixed SDK symlink so Python parser will build
- Remove -DjavacFailOnError=false from java -cp command
emacs-21.4-3
------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 21.4-3
- add igrep.el and init file
fence-1.27-1
------------
filesystem-2.3.2-1
------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com> - 2.3.2-1
- add /etc/pki, a place to store keys and certificates
gdm-1:2.6.0.8-6
---------------
* Tue Apr 19 2005 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 1:2.6.0.8-6
- Add a throbber for early login
gnbd-1.0-0.pre13.1
------------------
gnbd-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.2
------------------------------------------
gnome-applets-1:2.10.1-4
------------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 1:2.10.1-4
- Use builtin copy of apmlib instead of adding an external dependency
(bug 155125)
iddev-1.9-19
------------
iiimf-1:12.1.1-16.svn2532
-------------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 1:12.1.1-16.svn2532
- update to latest trunk r2532
- Fixed a crash issue during preediting with iiimqcf (#154374)
- Fixed a crash issue when LE is switched on Qt applications (#155211)
iiimf-le-chinput-0.3-19
-----------------------
* Thu Apr 21 2005 Yu Shao <yshao(a)redhat.com> -19
- move /locale/zh_CN/* to /chinput
isdn4k-utils-3.2-27
-------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Martin Stransky <stransky(a)redhat.com> 3.2-27
- fix for large filesystems (#155441)
jpilot-0.99.8-0.pre8.2
----------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Ivana Varekova <varekova(a)redhat.com> 0.99.8-0.pre8.2
- rebuilt
kdesdk-3.4.0-3
--------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 2:3.4.0-3
- fix dependency issue
kernel-2.6.11-1.1253_FC4
------------------------
mgetty-1.1.31-5
---------------
* Thu Apr 21 2005 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec(a)redhat.com> 1.1.31-5
- support FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 in statvfs (#155440)
perl-3:5.8.6-6
--------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo at di.uminho.pt> - 3:5.8.6-6
- FCGI is not provided by perl (#148847).
- Drop the '.1' suffix from the perl-suidperl subpackage.
* Thu Mar 17 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com> - 3:5.8.6-5
- bug 151127: fix to use libresolv instead of libbind (perl-5.8.6-libresolv.patch).
* Tue Mar 08 2005 Chip Turner <cturner(a)redhat.com> - 3:5.8.6-4
- add patch to put site_perl and vendor_perl before core perl dirs, to
allow for overriding modules
perl-Convert-ASN1-0.19-1
------------------------
perl-Devel-Symdump-2.03-20
--------------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo at di.uminho.pt> - 2.03-20
- (#155463)
- BuildArch correction (noarch).
- Bring up to date with current Fedora.Extras perl spec template.
perl-Parse-Yapp-1.05-33
-----------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo at di.uminho.pt> - 1.05-33
- #155467
- Bring up to date with current Fedora.Extras perl spec template.
postfix-2:2.2.2-2
-----------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz(a)redhat.com> 2:2.2.2-2
- fix fsspace on large filesystems (>2G blocks)
pump-0.8.22-1
-------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.22-1
- add patch from Sean Dilda to support setting of MTU (#154726,
related to #155414/#151789)
* Tue Sep 21 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.21-1
- don't bring down the interface when getting a lease, should help with
some cases where switch negotiation takes a while. anaconda already
takes the interface down before getting a lease and then ensures that
the link is present (#131475, #110036)
* Tue Jan 06 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 0.8.20-1
- rebuild with vendor class id patch (#78843)
redhat-artwork-0.122-3
----------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 0.122-3
- add a throbber to the login screen for early-login
(these changes are also committed upstream, but I couldn't
get redhat-artwork to distcheck, therefore I patched them
in here; throbbers.tar.bz2 and the throbbers patch should
be removed with the next upstream redhat-artwork tarball)
selinux-doc-1.19.5-1
--------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19.5-1
- Update to NSA Release version
* Added Ubuntu SELinux link to README.
* Updated README.MLS.
* Merged README.HIERARCHY from Tresys Technology.
* Thu Apr 07 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19.2-1
- Update to NSA Release version
* Merged top-level Makefile from Andreas Steinmetz.
* Updated README.MLS to reflect recent changes.
selinux-policy-strict-1.23.12-1
-------------------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.23.12-1
- Fix dhcpc.te
- fix hostname.te for targeted domain
- Update from NSA
* Merged Dan Walsh's Netlink changes to handle new auditing pam
modules.
* Merged Dan Walsh's patch removing the sysadmfile attribute from
policy files to separate sysadm_t from secadm_t.
* Added CVS and uucpd policy from Dan Walsh.
* Cleanup by Dan Walsh to handle turning off unlimitedRC.
* Merged Russell Coker's fixes to ntpd, postgrey, and named
policy.
* Cleanup of chkpwd_domain and added permissions to su_domain
macro due to pam changes to support audit.
* Added nlmsg_relay and nlmsg_readpriv permissions to the
netlink_audit_socket class.
* Tue Apr 19 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.23.11-4
- Fix httpd_suexec_t to be able to creat log file
- Add auditctl_t
- Misc fixes
selinux-policy-targeted-1.23.12-1
---------------------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.23.12-1
- Fix dhcpc.te
- fix hostname.te for targeted domain
- Update from NSA
* Merged Dan Walsh's Netlink changes to handle new auditing pam
modules.
* Merged Dan Walsh's patch removing the sysadmfile attribute from
policy files to separate sysadm_t from secadm_t.
* Added CVS and uucpd policy from Dan Walsh.
* Cleanup by Dan Walsh to handle turning off unlimitedRC.
* Merged Russell Coker's fixes to ntpd, postgrey, and named
policy.
* Cleanup of chkpwd_domain and added permissions to su_domain
macro due to pam changes to support audit.
* Added nlmsg_relay and nlmsg_readpriv permissions to the
netlink_audit_socket class.
* Tue Apr 19 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.23.11-4
- Fix httpd_suexec_t to be able to creat log file
- Add auditctl_t
- Misc fixes
setools-2.1.0-2
---------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.1.0-2
- Fix requires line
system-config-network-1.3.26-1
------------------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 1.3.26
- CBCP_MSN added (bug #125710)
system-config-packages-1.2.24-1
-------------------------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.24-1
- handle groups of metapkgs (#154090)
- clean up some deprecation warnings
* Thu Dec 02 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.23-1
- more metapkg fixing (#138397)
* Wed Dec 01 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.22-1
- rebuild for translations (#141456)
xorg-x11-6.8.2-26
-----------------
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 6.8.2-26
- Re-enable xorg-x11-6.8.2-ati-radeon-disable-broken-renderaccel-by-default.patch
patch on FC3/FC4, until we have a new renderaccel patch to test.
- Delete Xprint manpage.
19 years
mounting external harddisk with fstab-sync as a non-root user
by Didier Casse
Hi everybody,
First of all I apologize for posting this
question here. I posted on the fedora-list but obtained no
satisfactory answer. :-(
I'll try not to repeat that.
I'm using
kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3
hotplug-2004_04_01-8.1
hal-0.4.7-1.FC3
The thing is when I plug an external harddisk on my laptop, Gnome
sets the mount points at /media/whatever and mounts the drives. Icons
even pop-up on the desktop. But when i try to view it as a normal user
(click on the drive icons), it says I don't have the correct
permission.
I realize that i can only read the external drive mountpoint ONLY as
ROOT! When i do an ls /media/whatever as a normal user, I get access
denied.
How to enable Gnome or fstab-sync to mount the drive so that a normal
user can read it?
This is silly that I have to become super user to see my Gnome-mounted
drives! When I set user permissions in fstab, it just stays there for
a while and are overwritten when I plug out and in again my external
USB harddisk. Thanks for any insight.
I hope in FC4, users would be able to just plug-in their harddrive
and read it on the spot. ;-)
--
Cheers,
Didier.
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Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS), 5 Research Link, Singapore 117603
Email: elprodigioREMOVE_THIS_ANTISPAM_MOJO(a)gmail.com|
Web: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg | GPG Key 1024D/B3C57D01 2004-06-23
19 years
VMWare
by Greg Martyn
Has anyone had any luck installing VMWare under FC4-Test2?
If this is the wrong mailing list for this question, please point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Greg Martyn
19 years
Yum Update
by Bob Jones
I must be stupid. I can't yum anything from development. .
Here is what I'm getting (last 4 of ~190)
----------------
Installing for dependencies:
gnu-crypto noarch 2.0.1-1jpp_2fc development 606
k
gnu-crypto-jce-jdk1.4 noarch 2.0.1-1jpp_2fc development 112
k
gnu-crypto-sasl-jdk1.4 noarch 2.0.1-1jpp_2fc development 31
k
pm-utils i386 0.01-1 development 25
k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 6 Package(s)
Update 190 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 395 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
unsigned package rhn-applet-2.1.17-3.i386.rpm
[root@mu /root#
Here is what I'm receiving (last 4)
:
.......
zlib-devel i386 1.2.2.2-3 development 98
k
Installing for dependencies:
gnu-crypto noarch 2.0.1-1jpp_2fc development 606
k
gnu-crypto-jce-jdk1.4 noarch 2.0.1-1jpp_2fc development 112
k
gnu-crypto-sasl-jdk1.4 noarch 2.0.1-1jpp_2fc development 31
k
pm-utils i386 0.01-1 development 25
k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 6 Package(s)
Update 190 Package(s)ot update any files/packages from the development
URL.
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 395 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
unsigned package rhn-applet-2.1.17-3.i386.rpm
[root@mu /root#
........
I've got all sorts of programs files/packages from the development URL.
that should be updated. but nothing works.
Does anyone have a clue to help me?
Thanks
Bob Jones
19 years
