Unofficial FC4.1 i386 isos
by Hans Kristian Rosbach
After the recent discussion "FC4 state of affairs and FC5"
on fedora-devel about the possibility of making updated
installation iso images I gave it a try and actually
managed to put it together nicely.
(Can't say I liked the anaconda build utils, but ohwell)
So, if you feel like testing a potentially dangerous
unofficial release of updated FC4 install images I have
put them up on a server.
It's only i386, only cd, only torrent.
Feedback appreciated!
Please don't bug Fedora developers with FC4.1 specific bugs.
http://fedora.isphuset.no
-HK
18 years, 7 months
SATA performance drop from FC4 to rawhide..?
by Thomas M Steenholdt
Hi all,
I was wondering if anybody have seen or even can explain what i'm seeing
here.
I recently installed an FC4, complete with all updates. Everything works
fine. My SATA disk is known as /dev/sda and hdparm t /dev/sda gives me
around 56MB/sec. Then I decided to make this machine a rawhide test
thingy so i disable all my repos and enable development and updates the
whole thing...
Now my disk is called /dev/hda and hdparm -t /dev/hda gives ~3MB/sec.
My system is ICH5 based and loads the libata, ata_piix drivers.
Any feedback is welcome!
I did open a bug on this a few days ago, but it hasn't gotten any
attention yet.
Thanks in advance
/Thomas
18 years, 7 months
multilib paths and packaging for processor-specific extensions
by Quentin Spencer
I'm working on packaging ATLAS (speed-optimized version of BLAS/LAPACK)
for Fedora Extras, and I've run into some questions that haven't been
satisfactorily answered yet on the extras mailing list, and don't appear
to be well documented, so I'm trying here. Before I ask my questions,
let me answer in advance the anticipated question about the necessity of
processor-specific libraries in this particular case. Using a simple
test case, I was able to measure approximately a 3x speedup over the
base BLAS libraries using the base atlas i386 libraries, and a 10x
speedup using sse2 extensions (there is some hand-coded assembly
involved to achieve some of these gains).
My first question is regarding multilib paths for processor-specific
extensions (SSE, etc). I see that gmp installs some libraries in
/usr/lib/sse2, and my system picks them up automatically. If a library
(ATLAS in this case) can be compiled for SSE and 3Dnow as well, what are
the correct paths for those (/usr/lib/sse, /usr/lib/3dnow)? I can't find
any examples to help me here (other than gmp), so if someone can point
one out, that would be helpful. Also, if a library is found in
/usr/lib/sse2 and in a different path listed in /etc/ld.so.conf.d, which
one takes precendence? Is any of this documented anywhere?
My second question is what are people's opinions about including all
architecture-specific libraries in a single i386 package vs. separating
them into subpackages. A base set of atlas libraries is a 5 MB package
(and bigger installed of course), part of the reason I think that the
Debian packages for atlas are all separated into subpackages (atlas-sse,
etc).
Thanks,
Quentin
18 years, 7 months
anaconda segfault in rawhide 20050917 x86_64 nfs install
by Willem Riede
I guess there's progress, but not much :-)
With Saturday's (17th) rawhide on my opteron I get a segfault a couple of
seconds into anaconda using nfs mount of the x86_64 rawhide tree.
<Alt-F3> last three lines are:
Display mode = g
Method = nfs://mnt/source/.
_Fedora is only installclass, using it
<Alt-F4> reveals:
audit(1127046737.776:2): avc: denied { associate } for pid=733 \
comm="anaconda" name="rpm" scontext=system_u:object_r:root_t:s0 \
tcontext=system_u:object_r:root_t:s0 tsclass=filesystem
loader[733]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaab3019f0 \
rsp 00007ffff8f7d58 error 4
Does anybody else see this?
Regards, Willem Riede.
18 years, 7 months
Re: Anaconda fault modes
by G.Wolfe Woodbury
I add my voice to Willem's
Anaconda is a major componenet in getting the system installed, it
should "Just work"(TM)
I uderstand that there is major work being done on it now, and I hope
that the anaconda folks are reading the fedora-test-list where I will be
posting the results of my continuing attempts to do installs of rawhide.
I have plenty of time to spend on this now, and a decent test machine to
use, so I'm back in the fold of testers on a regular basis.
See my epistle to the test-list for the latest anaconda problems.
BTW, thanks to Willem for reminding me of the alternate windows once
anaconda starts for finding more information.
--Wolfe
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18 years, 7 months
Extras bugzilla?
by Rodd Clarkson
Hmmm,
Where do I file bug reports for extras-development.
I just tried to yum install seahorse and got the following output:
[rodd@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install seahorse
Password:
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
extras-development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.0 MB 00:20
developmen: ################################################## 3747/3747
Added 19 new packages, deleted 19 old in 6.17 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for seahorse to pack into transaction set.
seahorse-0.7.9-1.fc5.i386 100% |=========================| 21 kB 00:01
---> Package seahorse.i386 0:0.7.9-1.fc5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libpixman.so.1 for package: seahorse
--> Processing Dependency: libgpgme.so.11(GPGME_1.0) for package: seahorse
--> Processing Dependency: libgpgme.so.11 for package: seahorse
--> Processing Dependency: libcairo.so.1 for package: seahorse
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for gpgme to pack into transaction set.
gpgme-1.0.2-3.fc4.i386.rp 100% |=========================| 5.8 kB 00:00
---> Package gpgme.i386 0:1.0.2-3.fc4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libpixman.so.1 for package: seahorse
--> Processing Dependency: gnupg2 >= 1.9.6 for package: gpgme
--> Processing Dependency: libpth.so.20 for package: gpgme
--> Processing Dependency: libcairo.so.1 for package: seahorse
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for gnupg2 to pack into transaction set.
gnupg2-1.9.18-9.fc5.i386. 100% |=========================| 9.1 kB 00:00
---> Package gnupg2.i386 0:1.9.18-9.fc5 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for pth to pack into transaction set.
pth-2.0.4-3.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 4.6 kB 00:00
---> Package pth.i386 0:2.0.4-3 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libpixman.so.1 for package: seahorse
--> Processing Dependency: libksba.so.8(KSBA_0.9) for package: gnupg2
--> Processing Dependency: libksba.so.8 for package: gnupg2
--> Processing Dependency: pinentry >= 0.7.1 for package: gnupg2
--> Processing Dependency: libcairo.so.1 for package: seahorse
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for libksba to pack into transaction set.
libksba-0.9.12-1.fc5.i386 100% |=========================| 4.2 kB 00:00
---> Package libksba.i386 0:0.9.12-1.fc5 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for pinentry to pack into transaction set.
pinentry-0.7.1-4.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 4.6 kB 00:00
---> Package pinentry.i386 0:0.7.1-4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libpixman.so.1 for package: seahorse
--> Processing Dependency: libcairo.so.1 for package: seahorse
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libpixman.so.1 is needed by package seahorse
Error: Missing Dependency: libcairo.so.1 is needed by package seahorse
[rodd@localhost ~]$
R.
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18 years, 7 months
Rawhide anaconda SELinux problem
by Keith Sharp
Hello,
I am trying to install Rawhide into VMWare 5.0 from my local mirror
using either NFS or HTTP. When the install attempts to start anaconda
it exits immediately:
Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer - please wait...
install exited abnormally
and then shuts everything down for a reboot.
The only information I can see on any of the virtual consoles is an avc
message (hand copied so please excuse any errors) on VC 4:
<5>audit(1127063851.592:2) avc: denied { associate } for pid=512
comm="anaconda" name="rpm" scontext=system_u:object_r:root_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:root_t:s0 tclass=filesystem
Is this a known issue? I looked in bugzilla, but I couldn't see
anything that looked relevant.
Keith.
18 years, 7 months
Anaconda buildinstall: "latest: command not found"
by Kenneth Porter
So where do I find the command "latest"? I'm guessing this figures out the
latest release of the installed kernel, but I want to confirm. From my
invocation of buildinstall:
Running buildinstall...
/tmp/FCBASE/fc4/i386/buildinstall.tree.21763 /tmp/FCBASE
/tmp/FCBASE
Going to run buildinstall again
Building images...
Assembling package list...
/tmp/FCBASE/fc4/i386/buildinstall.tree.21763/upd-instroot: line 50: latest:
command not found
I'm also posting here:
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135493>
Has anyone outside Red Hat successfully built a FC4 installation CD with a
custom kernel? All I want to do is add support for an older megaraid
controller by adding its PCI ID's to the driver's internal table. (It's an
"i4 100" IDE RAID controller.) I've got the custom kernel RPM built and now
need to integrate it into the installer image. (I tried loading just the
new module from the stock "linux rescue" boot but the new megaraid_mbox.ko
refuses to insmod and I get no error message.) More on that issue here:
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167541>
18 years, 7 months
No USB with 1555 kernel
by Ralf Ertzinger
Hi.
Before filing a bug I'd like to ask if anyone else sees this.
I brought my iBook up to speed with Rawhide yesterday, pulling in the
1555 kernel. The system boots fine, but USB seems to be hosed. The
OHCI driver is loaded, the USB file system is mounted, but inserting
devices does not cause hotplug events, and the /proc/bus/usb
directory is empty.
18 years, 7 months
segfault updating rawhide kernel
by Steve G
Hello,
I was updating my x86_64 machine and got this:
Downloading Packages:
(1/3): kernel-2.6.13-1.15 100% |=========================| 14 MB 02:51
(2/3): checkpolicy-1.27.1 100% |=========================| 196 kB 00:02
(3/3): bogl-0.1.18-8.i386 100% |=========================| 119 kB 00:01
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Updating : bogl ######################### [1/5]
Installing: kernel ######################### [2/5]
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.42992: line 1: 6974 Segmentation fault
/usr/sbin/module_upgrade
Updating : checkpolicy ######################### [3/5]
Cleanup : checkpolicy ######################### [4/5]
Cleanup : bogl ######################### [5/5]
Installed: kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.13-1.1558_FC5
Updated: bogl.i386 0:0.1.18-8 checkpolicy.x86_64 0:1.27.1-1
Complete!
Not much else info to collect.
-Steve
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18 years, 7 months