yum very slow
by Richard Hally
Yum seems to be very slow in resolving dependencies. I'm sitting here
watching my rawhide test box take over an hour to do the dep resolution
for todays updates from rawhide. This is on a box that has a 2.5ghz P4
and nothing else running on the machine. this has been occurring for at
least a few weeks(or longer). What should I do to get useful information
concerning this problem?
Thanks
Richard Hally
19 years
FC4 release 1290 build fails with ARCH=xen
by Jeffrey Buell
The regular FC4 release 1290 build is fine on my i686 box, but building with
ARCH=xen (with the xen0 config file included with the source) fails. The
file asm/synch_bitops.h does not exist but is needed by asm-xen/evtchn.h.
Similarly, asm/hypercall.h does not exist but is needed by
asm-xen/hypervisor.h. Header files with these names are in asm-xen/asm-i386
but using these leads to compile errors involving the structs evtchn_op_t and
physdev_op_t. Is this a known problem and are there any workarounds? The
only change I made was to remove SOURCES/kernel-2.6.11-i586-smp.config in
order to get rpmbuild to work.
Jeff
19 years
Re: rpmbuild problem in FC4 release 1290
by Jeffrey Buell
>
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 13:08 -0700, Jeffrey Buell wrote:
> > I have used rpmbuild several times with recent releases,
> but have never seen
> > this problem before. I'm using release 1290 (1288 did
> something similar).
> > The tail end of the output of
> >
> > rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec
>
>
> which architecture is the host ?
i686.
I just figured out the workaround: removing
SOURCES/kernel-2.6.11-i586-smp.config. Apparently I don't need this, but
still rpmbuild shouldn't choke on it.
Jeff
19 years
any help on NISTnet emulators
by avni thacker
a small problem have any body of u heard of NISTnet emulator? Who ever had heard pls let me know how to configure it, i m using FC1 and what all changes would be required
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19 years
Converting UNO packages to .rpm format?
by M. Fioretti
Greetings,
there is a discussion going on at discuss(a)openoffice.org about how, in
general, OO.o add-ons should be packaged for Linux: UNO format,
.rpm/deb/ etc... and who should do it. In that context, I asked how to
distribute add-ons (macros, templates, clip-art, patches, whatever) in
such a way that they can be directly used by others to create native
Linux packages in whatever format.
Among other comments, I got the following comments:
>I think Linux distributors should figure out if there is anything that
>provents them from wrapping UNO packages into native packages. I would
>imagine that to be rather simple.
and:
>The UNO package manager is documented in the UNO developers guide
><http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html>
Before going further on this track, I wanted to know if there already
is some Fedora developer/packager who has studied this in detail, and
has comments on this. Specifically, does anybody already has
experience in converting (automatically) those packages to .rpm for
Fedora, and integrating them in the whole system?
TIA,
Marco F.
--
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wear their climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly
spring up in the middle of the machine room.
19 years
Thunderbird maildir manipulation error
by Gianluca Sforna
Hi,
I am going to submit a bug for thunderbird and, since I have not
installed anything newer than FC3, I would like to ask your help for
testing this in FC4test and/or rawhide.
The bug is related to maildir manipulation (using Dovecot IMAP
server); here are the steps to reproduce:
1. create a "test" folder
2. create a "test2" subfolder inside "test"
3. try to move test2 to the top level
With the installed thunderbird-1.0.2-1.3.2 I got this error:
The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Mailbox exists..
just to be sure this problem was not related to the server, I tried
with evolution (evolution-2.0.4-4) and it works as expected, that is,
the folder is successfully moved.
I will report this against the FC3 version of thunderbird unless
someone can confirm the same error appears in more recent versions.
Cheers
Gianluca
19 years
rawhide report: 20050512 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
booty-0.53-1
------------
* Wed May 11 2005 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> 0.53-1
- Make partition installs of grubs first stage behave right.
* Wed May 04 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 0.52-1
- add enablecdboot, enableofboot, and enablenetboot to yaboot.conf
- try to detect mac os x and set up dual boot on pmac
* Mon May 02 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- add handling for sx8 device names
gaim-1:1.3.0-1.fc4
------------------
* Tue May 10 2005 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 1:1.3.0-1
- 1.3.0 many bug fixes and two security fixes
long URL crash fix (#157017) CAN-2005-1261
MSN bad messages crash fix (#157202) CAN-2005-1262
libtiff-3.7.1-6
---------------
* Fri May 06 2005 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 3.7.1-6
- Fix a stack overflow
mkinitrd-4.2.14-1
-----------------
* Tue May 10 2005 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 4.2.14-1
- Better init argument handling (no uninitialized args)
* Fri May 06 2005 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 4.2.13-1
- allow for lvm VGs to be in the /dev/mapper/$VG-$LV format (#154767)
nautilus-2.10.0-4
-----------------
* Wed May 11 2005 David Zeuthen <davidz(a)redhat.com> 2.10.0-4
- Fix default font for zh_TW (#154185)
xscreensaver-1:4.21-4
---------------------
* Wed May 11 2005 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 1:4.21-3
- Allow configuration gui to support hacks with absolute paths
(bug 157417).
19 years
rpmbuild problem in FC4 release 1290
by Jeffrey Buell
I have used rpmbuild several times with recent releases, but have never seen
this problem before. I'm using release 1290 (1288 did something similar).
The tail end of the output of
rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec
is:
scripts/kconfig/confdata.c: In function 'conf_get_default_confname':
scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:62: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1
of 'conf_expand_value' differ in signedness
scripts/kconfig/confdata.c: In function 'conf_read':
scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:88: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1
of 'conf_expand_value' differ in signedness
.config:2477: trying to assign nonexistent symbol NETDUMP
CONFIG_X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DELKIN
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IT821X
CONFIG_SCSI_LPFC
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_AIRPRIME
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_HP4X
make[1]: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 6
make: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.22022 (%prep)
RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.22022 (%prep)
The .config file doesn't even have NETDUMP in it. The other parameters
listed are all not set. Any known problems with rpmbuild or am I missing
something?
Jeff
19 years
I'm experimenting with Kernel Preemption
by Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
(I posted this in fedora-list and Rahul Sundaram suggested I post it
here instead)
Not on Fedora's kernel sources, but with 2.6.11ac7. I based my config on
/boot/config-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 and dealt with the additional options with
"make oldconfig". Then I browsed the configuration with "make
menuconfig", just for fun.
I saw kernel preemption was turned off, so I turned on. Afterwards, I
notice the system is noticeably faster. Bootup is faster. Shutdown is
faster. The Red Hat manu on GNOME pops up WAY faster. OpenOffice.org
loading is faster. I suspect other things are faster too, but I'd have
to time them.
So my question is: why isn't preemption enabled in the FC3 packaged
kernel? Does it conflict with something I haven't encountered yet? maybe
some esoteric hardware combination? My hardware data is below.
Another thing: what crucial patch, if any, am I missing by using
2.6.11ac7 instead of the FC3 packaged kernel?
[jcastro@ws06 ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1991.906
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse pni syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3948.54
[jcastro@ws06 ~]$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset
Host Bridge00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
(rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3
UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01)
19 years
