Xorg-X11 (or kernel?) problems.
by Konstantin Ryabitsev
Hello, all:
Something that's been biting me ever since I switched to xorg-x11: my
USB mouse seems to stop working after a period of inactivity. Every
morning when I come in, I can no longer use it -- the cursor won't move.
If I try to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, X will forever hang, even disregarding
kill -9 from a remote ssh session. Rebooting is the only thing that
helps (and then again, eth0 won't come up unless I boot to 1 first, and
ifup eth0 from there, then init 5).
I'm not sure if it's xorg-x11, or the kernel -- they have been upgraded
at the same time. The only thing indicating that this might be the
kernel is the fact that when I insert my usb-key after the same
inactivity, the little bulb on it shows no reaction, while usually after
a fresh boot it will go into a frenzy of blinking while kernel is
setting up usb-scsi and all.
Anyone has similar problems?
Regards,
--
Konstantin ("Icon") Ryabitsev
Duke Physics Systems Admin, RHCE
I am looking for a job in Canada!
http://linux.duke.edu/~icon/cajob.ptml
20 years
bug submitting policy regarding missing/non-sufficient BuildRequires
by Kir Kolyshkin
Hello,
Are FC developers interested in bug reports that tells about missing or
not sufficient BuildRequires in source packages from FC-devel? I mean,
should I file them or not? I am rebuilding some packages from src.rpms
on a mixed ASPLinux-9/FC-1/FC-devel box and sometimes catch some such
situations.
(Real) examples of such bugs could be (in short form):
gstreamer-0.8.0-1 should 'BuildRequire' gettext >= 0.11.5, but spec just
specifies gettext without any version.
rhythmbox-0.6.8-2 should 'BuildRequire' gstreamer-devel >= 0.8.0, but
spec doesn't specify that.
Regards,
Kir.
20 years
install.log errors
by Chuck Anderson
I just did an Everything install of 200403191323 and these errors
appear in install.log:
Installing urw-fonts-2.1-6.1.noarch.
opendir: No such file or directory
--
Installing ttfonts-ja-1.2-34.noarch.
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6308: line 19: 2195 Segmentation fault
/usr/bin/ttmkfdir -d /usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType -o /usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType/fonts.scale
--
Installing ttfonts-zh_CN-2.14-4.noarch.
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.10458: line 19: 5090 Segmentation fault
/usr/bin/ttmkfdir -d /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType -o /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType/fonts.scale
Installing ttfonts-zh_TW-2.11-26.noarch.
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.41125: line 21: 5100 Segmentation fault
/usr/bin/ttmkfdir -d /usr/share/fonts/zh_TW/TrueType -o /usr/share/fonts/zh_TW/TrueType/fonts.scale
--
Installing ttfonts-ko-1.0.11-32.1.noarch.
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.44347: line 21: 5227 Segmentation fault
/usr/bin/ttmkfdir -d /usr/share/fonts/ko/TrueType -o /usr/share/fonts/ko/TrueType/fonts.scale
--
Installing postfix-pflogsumm-1.1.0-2.i386.
warning: user bhcompile does not exist - using root
warning: group bhcompile does not exist - using root
warning: user bhcompile does not exist - using root
warning: group bhcompile does not exist - using root
(Why is a src.rpm being installed?)
20 years
udev
by Jurgen Botz
Right now udev as configured out-of-the-box manages /udev which
isn't actually used by anything. Is there an intent to change
this to have udev actually manage /dev by FC2?
:j
--
Jürgen Botz | While differing widely in the various
jurgen(a)botz.org | little bits we know, in our infinite
| ignorance we are all equal. -Karl Popper
20 years
Computers never lie
by Scott Sloan
# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Development series
Server: Evolution Devel Snaps
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
retrygrab() failed for:
ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/core/development/
i386//headers/XFree86-Mesa-libGL-0-4.3.0-64.i386.hdr
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/core/
development/i386//headers/XFree86-Mesa-libGL-0-4.3.0-64.i386.hdr
[Errno 6] ERROR: Url Return no Content-Length - something is wrong
Anyone else getting the same error? If not, idea for fix.
--
Scott Sloan
------------
"I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious" -- Einstein
20 years
rawhide and subversion
by Volodymyr M. Lisivka
Can anybody provide access to rawhide repository through subversion?
Subversion can store deltas between binary files, so traffic will be
much lower than just downloading a complete packages.
To produce efficient deltas, you need to mangle rpm first (just
uncompress compressed payload part of the RPM).
See http://toast.debian.net/~may/rpmdelta/ for rpmmangle and
rpmunmangle.
PS.
Can anybody at least produce deltas between RPM's from FC1 and FC2test?
I want to test support of Ukrainian locale and translations in FC2test
but I can't download 650Mb just for testing (transatlantic traffic is
not so cheap as local ;) ).
--
Best regards, Volodymyr M. Lisivka
icq#14549856
20 years
rawhide report: 20040320 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
fedora-release-1.91-1
---------------------
fedora-release-1.91-2
---------------------
policy-1.9-6
------------
* Thu Mar 18 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.9-6
- Fix kerberos with su problem
rpmdb-fedora-1.91-0.20040320
----------------------------
ttmkfdir-3.0.9-11
-----------------
* Fri Mar 19 2004 Yu Shao <yshao(a)redhat.com> 3.0.9-11
- set default encoding size to DEFAULT_SIZE, bug #118713
20 years
Self-Introduction: Neil Thompson
by Neil Thompson
Full legal name: Neil Russel Thompson
Country, City: South Africa, Johannesburg
Profession or Student status: Linux systems administrator
Company or School: EDS
Your goals in the Fedora Project
* Which packages do you want to see published?
None in particular (yet). I just want a body of trusted packages.
* Do you want to do QA?
Yes - that's why I'm getting involved.
* Anything else special?
Nope.
Historical qualifications
* What other projects have you worked on in the past?
No open source projects.
* What computer languages and other skills do you know?
370 assembly, ICL SFL, ICL S3, C, Perl, Cisco router admin
* Why should we trust you? <--- too blunt?
You shouldn't completely, yet.
GPG KEYID and fingerprint
pub 1024D/2934701D 2004-03-20 Neil Thompson <abraxis(a)metroweb.co.za>
Key fingerprint = AA0A 9CF7 DC1F A594 699A 94F2 B807 AA1F 2934 701D
sub 2048g/27388B37 2004-03-20
20 years
Re: CD burning in FC2 - is it easier?
by Marius Andreiana
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 16:11, Dan Williams wrote:
> I
> battled last week with SELinux on Fedora Core 2, which won't currently
> let you burn CDs unless you're root. That's a bug though that the
> SELinux guys are working on.
thanks. I knew kernel 2.6 doesn't require scsi emulation anymore (and
therefore no root password). But I guess applications (like gtoaster)
have to be adapted to use this?
--
Marius Andreiana
Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania
http://www.galuna.ro
20 years