gettext vs automake
by Tim Waugh
The automake we have in Fedora development no longer provides
mkinstalldirs, but the gettext m4 macros and Makefile.in.in still want
to use it. The same goes for glib-gettext.m4.
Are these things that we need to fix before release? I guess they'll
prevent maintainers from being able to release packages using Fedora
Core 2..
Or is it only me seeing it?
Tim.
*/
20 years, 3 months
GNOME 2.5 desktop broken? :-)
by Mark Mielke
I'm at fedora-devel-latest, and the panel and icons are very much
screwed up... This has been the case for the last week or so,
and no updates have solved this problem...
If this is going to be fixed up by packages released in the next
few days, that is fine by me. I can wait.
If I'm the only person experiencing this, please offer me a way make
the problem more obvious, or suggest ways to fix this.
If it is a known issue, and it is going to be a week or more, I'll try
to back down to GNOME 2.4 and see what happens...
Cheers!
mark
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20 years, 3 months
strange TCP problems w/ RawHide
by Alexander L. Belikoff
I wonder if anyone observed the same weirdness I have. I've installed RawHide
over FC1 through constant yum'ming. Currently, I'm running kernel 2.6.1-1.63.
Unfortunately, TCP doesn't seem to work:
- ICMP does work (I can ping yahoo.com)
- TCP does reach the router (I can access it's web interface)
- And that's it - TCP doesn't go beyond that point. Dumps show that my SYN
packet never gets answered.
This is all on a laptop w/ PCMCIA cards - I've tried it both with wired and
wireless ones. As I have two partitions, one w/ FC1, one w/ RawHide, I made
sure that it is not the router or any other issue. It seems to be specific to
RawHide.
So could anyone shed some light to this problem? I'm willing to help w/ trace
and dumps and add'l troubleshooting if it is required.
Thanks,
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20 years, 3 months
rawhide: install from ISO image segfaults
by Alexander L. Belikoff
Got a segfault while trying to install from boot.iso (dated 02/01/04 10:31). I
used 'linux askmethod'. The installer crashes after I select the language
(English) with the message:
install exited abnormally -- received signal 11
Oh, just checked - this happens when using the default boot method as well.
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20 years, 3 months
epic IRC package question
by Michael Schwendt
Inside the spec file for the "epic" package one can read
# wserv is just not very useful
rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libexecdir}/wserv
in the %install section. However, that binary seems to be required by the
"/WINDOW create" command, which spits out an error about not being able to
exec /usr/libexec/wserv.
So, how is above spec file comment to be understood correctly?
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20 years, 3 months
Possible bug in NPTL in handling pthread_attr
by Abhijeet Bisain
Hi,
I just installed fedora core 1 and all the updates and am running the
kernel 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.
In order to compare context switch times in Linuxthreads vs NPTL, I wrote
a small program to create a thread at a certain real time priority by
setting the schedpolicy and sched_param in the pthread_attr that I pass to
the pthread_create. In the created thread, i check the sched_param to make
sure its priority and schedpolicy are set correctly.
To my surprise, the policy and priority were both set to 0, even though I
had set them to SCHED_FIFO and 20 respectively. Has anyone else seen this?
Can somebody please explain if I am doing something wrong? I used
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to switch between linuxthreads and NPTL. Linuxthreads
seems to pass this test.
Here's the code. This code when compiled prints that the policy and
priority are both 0.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#define HI_PRI 20
//
// Wrapper function to initialize pthread_attr, set the priority and create
a thread
//
int taskSpawn( int prio, void *(*start_routine)(void *))
{
pthread_t spawner_id;
pthread_attr_t spawner_attr;
struct sched_param spawner_sched_param;
if ( pthread_attr_init(&spawner_attr) != 0 )
{
perror("attr_init:");
return -1;
}
if(pthread_attr_setschedpolicy( &spawner_attr, SCHED_RR) != 0)
{
perror("setschedpolicy:");
return -1;
}
if(pthread_attr_getschedparam(&spawner_attr, &
spawner_sched_param) != 0)
{
perror("getschedparam:");
return -1;
}
spawner_sched_param.sched_priority = prio;
if(pthread_attr_setschedparam(&spawner_attr, &spawner_sched_param) != 0)
{
perror("setschedparam ");
return -1;
}
if (pthread_create(&spawner_id, &spawner_attr, start_routine, NULL) != 0)
{
perror("pthread_create locker");
return -1;
}
return spawner_id;
}
//
// This is the thread routine which checks the schedparam for the sched
policy and priority
//
void * high(void *tmp)
{
struct sched_param hisched_param;
int policy;
if ( pthread_getschedparam(pthread_self(), &policy, &hisched_param) != 0 )
{
perror("pthreadschedparamhi:");
return NULL;
}
printf("Thread's priority = %d, policy = %d\n",
hisched_param.sched_priority, policy);
}
int main()
{
pthread_t spawner_id;
spawner_id = taskSpawn(HI_PRI , high);
if( pthread_join(spawner_id, NULL) != 0 )
{
perror("pthreadjoin:");
}
}
___________________________________________________________________
Thanks,
Abhijeet
20 years, 3 months
gdm XDMCP and file descriptor fixing
by Warren Togami
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110315
GDM miscounts current sessions
I was looking at this problem for a while, and yesterday copied George
Lebl's solution in gdm-2.5.90.0 of recounting. I did not test it fully,
but it also seems to avoid the file descriptor leak described in this
below bug. This patch is a bit of a hack and inefficient, but copied it
anyway since it seems to work and it was from upstream.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113154
GDM leaking file descriptors
The link to GNOME bugzilla indicates a similar problem to #110315 above.
Then today Bart Martens posted a much simpler patch that should fix
both the file descriptor and XDMCP session counter issue. I did not yet
test this patch.
Please help me to verify which patch is more correct.
Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com
20 years, 3 months
How to debug crash on laptop with no serial port
by Denis Hennessy
I'm trying fedora on an IBM X31 laptop which has no native serial
port*. I've tried various kernels including 2.4.22-1.2135.nptl,
2.4.22-1.2149.nptl and 2.6.1-1.53. After running for somewhere between 3
hours and 2 days, the machine will lock up hard. X will freeze and
nothing short of a power cycle will get any response. Sometime, the caps
lock light will be flashing.
The only other wierdness (I'm not sure it's related) is that
applications will occasionally exit for no reason. This frequently
happens with mozilla although it may be mozilla bug for just because I
spend a lot of time using it.
When this happened on different computers, I was able to set up a serial
console to capture the crash details but I'm at a loss for what to do
with this machine. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Denis
* The laptop itself has no serial port but the docking station does. I
don't know how the docking station port should appear in linux (I'm
pretty sure it's not /dev/ttyS0).
[root@lemming root]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller
(rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2) (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB2 (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM Ultra ATA Storage Controller
(rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio
Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility
M6 LY
02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev aa)
02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev aa)
02:00.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller
(rev 02)
02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini
PCI Adapter (rev 04)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BD PRO/100 VE (MOB)
Ethernet Controller (rev 81)
[root@lemming root]#
20 years, 3 months
From release notes: Anaconda not ejecting CDROM
by Michel Alexandre Salim
indexhtml-1.90-1 , /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html has this to say:
Note
Anaconda currently does not eject CD-ROMs (both when switching
from one CD-ROM to another, and when the installation is
complete); this will be fixed in a future test release of Fedora
Core.
How would this pan out with notebook users: Does this mean we can still
go to a console and run eject /dev/cdrom or does it mean I have to get
ready a long needle to prick the emergency eject button?
I can imagine the look on the face of an eager beaver testing an install
on a secluded beach when he realized he's stuck with a half-installed
system :)
- Michel
20 years, 3 months