RE: Unofficial FAQ
by Vanco, Don
fedora-test-list-admin(a)redhat.com wrote:
> Just to let everybody on the list know, I've written an
> Unofficial FAQ
> for Fedora, that answers questions that people have most commonly, and
> solves various issues that they have.
>
> It's at <http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/>
>
> I wrote it because we were getting an incredible volume
> of questions on
> #fedora during the first few days of the release, and a FAQ
> was the only
> way to deal with it. It's been really helpful in the channel -- maybe
> it will be helpful to the list, too.
>
> If you have something that you think should be added,
> post the question
> (preferably with a solution) on <http://fedora.artoo.net/forum/>
>
> I hope this helps some people out.
My only comment would be on the sample yum.conf - it could use a bit
more of a detailed description of the channels, and I personally would
comment out the unstable and testing trees..... The assumption here being
that relative "yum n00bs" are going to be the ones glomming the file....
Don
20 years, 6 months
Request for hard to get screenshots and a little bit more
by John Munsch
Some people saw the previous version of the Fedora Core Getting Started
guide I did a while back. I'm working on the next generation of the
document (http://www.johnmunsch.com/articles/FedoraCoreGettingStarted/)
and I need both comments and some help.
Specifically I'd like to have more detail in the installation section.
I'd like to show the text screens which show up right at the beginning
of the install process.
1: The first screen with its mixture of text and graphics that you see
when CD1 of the install first boots up.
2: The text screen for checking your disks.
3: The Grub boot screen.
4: The new graphical boot (one without details open and one with).
I don't have VMWare but I know some people are installing under it (or
perhaps other virtual machine software) and I'd really love it if
someone sent me those images for inclusion.
Also, and this is very important, is there an ETA for k3b on Fedora Core
1? It was available for 0.95 (aka beta 3) and I was going to recommend
it as the best solution for replacing Nero or Roxio's CD burning
software on Windows. It really seems significantly more user friendly
and attractive than any other offering I've tried so far but I can't
recommend it to beginners until they can install it.
Thanks,
John Munsch
20 years, 6 months
up2date behavior
by Law Horne
Several people on this list have commented about registering with red
hat for Fedora. Now when I click on the up2date applet it ask me if I
want to register but never really does. It just goes through the motion
of checking for updates on the configured channels I have.
Now my understanding is that it is supposed to do just that. No
registering with red hat it just checks the configured channels. Yum or
Apt whatever they might be. Now I know you can uncomment a line in the
source file and it will actually connect to rhn(hopefully most people
know what I'm talking about). But why does it continually ask if I want
to register when that line is not uncommented? And for that matter why
is the ability even there in the first place?
Even if the ability for it to connect to rhn is because it is for
development purposes it should not just register some fedora uses out of
the blue, or even just ask if you want to register. Are there plans to
fix this? It seems strange to ask if you want to register with red hat
every time you start up2date when it is not intended for this OS to be
registered. And that it is just a function that has not as of yet been
removed. I would think this would cause some confusion with some people
new to the distro. Or ones who have yet to fully understand what red hat
has done and why.
20 years, 6 months
Add and remove packages after ftp install
by Wiley Terronova
how do tell the package manager to use the ftp site instead of asking for a
CD?
I installed using the ftp installation medthod but now I can't add any
additional packages because its asking for a CD.
any ideas?
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20 years, 6 months
kernel 2.6test8 and LVM??
by Henk Breimer
I have a fully updated T3 system
kernel 2097
initscripts 7.38-1
mkinitrd-3.5.14-1
modutils-2.3.25-13
kernel-2.6.0-0.test8.1.60 at boot:
..
..
vgscan --LVM driver not loadaed?
..
Error: /bin/vgscan exited abnormally
..
vgchange --ERROR: "/etc/lvmtab" doesn't exist:please run vgscan
..
Kernel panic
Seems test8 has a problem with vgscan?
henk
20 years, 6 months
Fedora Core 1 Update: grep-2.5.1-17.1
by Bill Nottingham
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-003
2003-11-12
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Name : grep
Version : 2.5.1
Release : 17.1
Summary : The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities.
Description :
The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches
through textual input for lines which contain a match to a specified
pattern and then prints the matching lines. GNU's grep utilities
include grep, egrep and fgrep.
You should install grep on your system, because it is a very useful
utility for searching through text.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
* Tue Nov 11 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 2.5.1-17.1
- Fixed man page bug (bug #106267).
- Turn on multibyte efficiency patch again.
- Fixed a multibyte efficiency bug.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/
SRPMS/grep-2.5.1-17.1.src.rpm
md5 sum: c5cdb084c6e3d7cd21aaf587aa336b13
i386/grep-2.5.1-17.1.i386.rpm
md5 sum: a141bfe8eb07e7dcebed5d284ad5c66d
i386/debug/grep-debuginfo-2.5.1-17.1.i386.rpm
md5 sum: a7356dad49118e1b4aaee87ac783ba04
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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20 years, 6 months
Fedora Core 1 Update: redhat-config-packages-1.2.7-1
by Jeremy Katz
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-007
2003-11-12
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : redhat-config-packages
Version : 1.2.7
Release : 1
Summary : Package manager
Description :
redhat-config-packages is the package manager for Fedora Core. It
supports installation of interesting packages from CD.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Update Information:
This update fixes problems with trying to use RedHat/RPMS instead of
Fedora/RPMS on Fedora Core CDs with redhat-config-packages.
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* Fri Nov 07 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.2.7-1
- follow discid path everywhere (#109276)
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/
SRPMS/redhat-config-packages-1.2.7-1.src.rpm
md5 sum: 125d4f8ccfb5b656546b5d856a0fdca8
i386/redhat-config-packages-1.2.7-1.noarch.rpm
md5 sum: df685bef62a8d4c15823f683239ebd69
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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20 years, 6 months
Fedora Core 1 Update: redhat-config-packages-1.2.7-1
by Bill Nottingham
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-007
2003-11-12
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : redhat-config-packages
Version : 1.2.7
Release : 1
Summary : Package manager for
Description :
redhat-config-packages is the package manager for Red Hat Linux. It
supports installation of interesting packages from CD.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
* Fri Nov 07 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.2.7-1
- follow discid path everywhere (#109276)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/
SRPMS/redhat-config-packages-1.2.7-1.src.rpm
md5 sum: 125d4f8ccfb5b656546b5d856a0fdca8
i386/redhat-config-packages-1.2.7-1.noarch.rpm
md5 sum: df685bef62a8d4c15823f683239ebd69
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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20 years, 6 months
OpenOffice.org 1.1.0-6.1
by Jakub Jelinek
Hi!
The prelink friendly binary unfortunately is not the default in FC1,
but you can speed up OOo start by:
ln -sf soffice2.bin /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin
as root.
ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/openoffice.org/
contains openoffice.org-1.1.0-6.1 packages which differ from 1.1.0-6 as
present in FC1 in 2 things:
a) soffice2.bin is the default, so you don't have to run the above
command to speed it up
b) it has been compiled with -Os. This seems to save 9MB on allocated
library size and e.g. when running oowriter should cut the total
size of libraries loaded from around 71MB to ~ 66MB (by ~ 5.25MB).
In theory this should speed up OO.o startup time especially when
caches are cold (ie. when running oowriter the first time after boot).
I've tried to measure some numbers with time(1):
cold are after running cat 2.8GB file > /dev/null, hot are 3rd up to 5th
invocations of the program, each measurement repeated 3 times.
The first numbers are from the default 1.1.0-6 oowriter,
second with 1.1.0-6 after ln -sf soffice2.bin /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin
and third with 1.1.0-6.1 default. Dual PIII, 651MHz.
Measuring with time is of course very inaccurate.
oowriter soffice1.bin openoffice.org-1.1.0-6 prelinked
cold
real 0m21.010s 0m18.963s 0m22.451s
user 0m4.390s 0m4.350s 0m4.360s
sys 0m0.560s 0m0.580s 0m0.500s
hot
real 0m5.003s 0m4.991s 0m5.000s
user 0m4.190s 0m4.290s 0m4.260s
sys 0m0.360s 0m0.250s 0m0.270s
oowriter soffice2.bin openoffice.org-1.1.0-6.1 prelinked
cold
real 0m18.445s 0m17.709s 0m20.787s
user 0m2.950s 0m3.000s 0m2.940s
sys 0m0.450s 0m0.450s 0m0.590s
hot
real 0m3.773s 0m3.757s 0m3.766s
user 0m2.880s 0m2.810s 0m2.810s
sys 0m0.270s 0m0.370s 0m0.280s
oowriter soffice2.bin openoffice.org-1.1.0-6.1 prelinked
cold
real 0m18.273s 0m17.501s 0m19.459s
user 0m2.930s 0m2.940s 0m2.780s
sys 0m0.400s 0m0.430s 0m0.670s
hot
real 0m3.356s 0m3.392s 0m3.740s
user 0m2.830s 0m2.890s 0m2.860s
sys 0m0.270s 0m0.240s 0m0.260s
Jakub
20 years, 6 months
