Suggestion to cutoff "EFI GUID Partion Support" in the kernel so that Ipod & others will be mountable
by Jerone Young
Before I think about filing a bug I'd though I would start a
discussion on this. EFI GUID Partition support is currently only
supported on IA-64. Intel is eventually supposed to support this on
future platforms. But today it is causing havoc, and I would very much
like this off in FC3.
The Apple Ipod (4th Generation) , Ipod Mini, as well as some USB and
Firewire drives are no longer mountable under Linux with this option
on. The 37th post at this link gives a good explination.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=213012...
Seeing how nothing today or foreseeable in the next year is using
this, I don't see why this cannot be cut off for both the X86, X86_64,
and PPC kernels.
Just in case the link breaks here is cut and paste job of the post below:
Okay, I've been following this thread and I've been having the same
problem. I have a mini iPod. It works really well with my desktop
maching running redhat-9 (2.4 kernel). I recently got a new laptop
running SUSE 9.1 (2.6 kernel) and on the laptop I have the problem
described by others in the thread: when plugged-in the kernel will
find the device but quickly have an I/O error and the device is
unreadable at that point:
code:
Sep 24 21:14:26 t42p kernel: usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using address 4
Sep 24 21:14:26 t42p kernel: usb 4-3: Product: iPod mini
Sep 24 21:14:26 t42p kernel: usb 4-3: Manufacturer: Apple
Sep 24 21:14:26 t42p kernel: usb 4-3: SerialNumber: 0000008638BA
Sep 24 21:14:26 t42p kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Sep 24 21:14:26 t42p kernel: Vendor: Apple Model: iPod
Rev: 1.61
Sep 24 21:14:26 t42p kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Sep 24 21:14:27 t42p kernel: SCSI device sda: 7999488 512-byte hdwr
sectors (4096 MB)
Sep 24 21:14:27 t42p kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
Sep 24 21:14:27 t42p kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 24 21:14:27 t42p kernel: sda:end_request: I/O error, dev sda,
sector 7999480
Sep 24 21:14:27 t42p kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical
block 999935
Sep 24 21:14:27 t42p kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 7999480
Sep 24 21:14:27 t42p kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical
block 999935
Sep 24 21:14:27 t42p kernel: sda1 sda2
Sep 24 21:14:27 t42p kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi2,
channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
Sep 24 21:14:27 t42p kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 4
In my case I'm using a mini iPod with USB2, but the same problem (and
solution) probably applies to the firewire interface or newer
generation large iPods, but I don't have either of these to test.
To make a long story short, you can solve the problem by disabling the
feature CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION in your kernel and rebuilding the kernel.
This problem could potentially happen with both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.
A longer story follows and perhaps someone can come up with a more
sensible solution for the long run.
The iPod looks like a removable disk drive to the host computer. When
it is attached to the computer, the mini iPod reports a capacity of
7999488 512-byte sectors (or about 4GB). This turns out to be wrong
for whatever reason. The mini iPod only really has 7999376 sectors and
it exaggerates by 112 sectors. The other quality of the iPod is that
if the computer attempts to read a sector greater than the actual
capacity but less than the reported capacity, the iPod will dutifully
report an I/O error, but it won't respond to any future requests until
you unplug/plug the iPod.
This creates a fragile situation where the host computer can croak the
iPod by reading one of these 112 tacitly illegal sectors. If you ask
me, this is an Apple bug (or maybe a bug of their disk supplier or
firewire/USB interface supplier), but a bug nonetheless.
So, when a new disk is presented to the linux kernel, linux first goes
out and tries to find the partition table for the disk. Usually this
is the first sectors of the disk (traditional microsoft partition
table we've been using for 20 years), but there are also a number of
other types of partition tables. The kernel uses a heuristic to look
for different types of partition tables and the kernel configuration
specifies which partition types are attempted.
The "EFI" partition table is a new type of partition table that is
part of the "extensible firmware initiative", this is a good thing for
the future. I don't know anything about EFI partition tables, except
that as part of looking for an EFI table linux goes out and reads the
last few sectors of the disk (sector 7999480 in the case of a mini
iPod). The kernel looks for an EFI partition before looking for an old
fashioned MSDOS partition table and this croaks the iPod. If you
disable support for EFI partition tables (CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION) the
mini iPod will work fine. I don't know of a quick fix short of
rebuilding the kernel.
Of course, once it's working, previous advice about setting up hotplug
correctly and having the right /etc/fstab entries and such apply, but
the iPod is just great under linux and gtkpod is a fantastic program
for managing the iPod.
19 years, 7 months
Re: Hotplugging, usb mass storage devices, and mountpoints...
by Kyrre Ness Sjobak
I will. But first there is a need to find the bug wich removed every
single removable storage from my fstab ;)
CC'ing to fedora-devel, since there is where the discussion started...
I have now created a bug report on the new problem - that every
removable storage thing is nuked. When that is fixed, ill see if i can
reproduce the original error.
Maybee ask for imput from fedora-test-list? There might be somebody who
has had the same troubles.
Kyrre
man, 27.09.2004 kl. 14.16 skrev Jeff Spaleta:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:30:48 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
> <kyrre(a)solution-forge.net> wrote:
> > => probably not a gnome problem.
> >
> > How the fstab etc. looked when i had 3 floppy disks, i dont know. But
> > since it seems like gnome is telling the truth, i think there must have
> > been 3 fstab entries.
>
> That is an absolutely horrible assumption to make. I have run into
> bugs with gamin in the past which left devices listing in my computer
> even though fstab was being propoerly updated. You need to attempt to
> reproduce this and you need to narrow it down for the bugreport to
> have any meaningful value.
>
> -jef
>
19 years, 7 months
rawhide report: 20040927 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
MagicPoint-1.11b-1
------------------
* Mon Sep 27 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 1.11b-1
- New upstream release.
VFlib2-2.25.6-23
----------------
* Mon Sep 27 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 2.25.6-23
- VFlib2-2.25.6-fix-gcc-warnings.patch: applied to fix the gcc warnings (#133400)
apel-10.6-3
-----------
* Mon Sep 27 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 10.6-3
- rebuilt
dos2unix-3.1-19
---------------
* Sun Sep 26 2004 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com> 3.1-19
- safer conversion w/ mac2unix (fix from bz #57508)
firefox-0.10.0-1.0PR1.1
-----------------------
* Fri Sep 24 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 0:0.10.0-1.0PR1.1
- Add a BR for desktop-file-utils
- Update default configuration options to use the firefox mozconfig (#132916)
- Use Red Hat bookmarks (#133262)
- Update default homepage (#132721)
- Fix JS math on AMD64 (#133226)
- Build with MOZILLA_OFICIAL (#132917)
hwbrowser-0.17-1
----------------
* Mon Sep 27 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> 0.17-1
- enable Arabic translation (#133723)
jisksp14-0.1-15
---------------
* Mon Sep 27 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 0.1-15
- rebuilt
jisksp16-1990-0.1-16
--------------------
* Mon Sep 27 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 0.1-16
- rebuilt
kappa20-0.3-15
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* Mon Sep 27 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 0.3-15
- rebuilt
knm_new-1.1-15
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* Mon Sep 27 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 1.1-15
- rebuilt
mew-3.3-3
---------
* Mon Sep 27 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 3.3-3
- rebuilt
rpmdb-fedora-2.91-0.20040927
----------------------------
system-config-services-0.8.9-1
------------------------------
* Mon Sep 27 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.9-1
- enable Arabic translation (#133722)
19 years, 7 months
rawhide report: 20040917 changes
by Build System
Removed package raidtools
Updated Packages:
ImageMagick-6.0.7.1-3
---------------------
* Tue Sep 14 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 6.0.7.1-3
- move *.mgk files (#132007, #131708, #132397)
* Sun Sep 12 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 6.0.7.1-1
- update to 6.0.7 Patchlevel 1, fixes #132106
MAKEDEV-3.13-1
--------------
* Tue Sep 14 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 3.13-1
- excise all architecture-specific logic and configuration data -- udev knows
no arch-specific details, so they should be irrelevant now
- remove build conflicts on older RPM, unnecessary now that dev is gone
- remove dev's %post fstab munging
- add a short-circuit test for the common non-match cases
* Tue Sep 14 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 3.12.2-1
- add the vcsa user and floppy group in the MAKEDEV package now
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 3.12.1-1
- nuke the "dev" subpackage
NetworkManager-0.2-3
--------------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 0.2-3
- Update from CVS
anaconda-10.0.2-4
-----------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 10.0.2-4
- add patch for system without a dev package
- add patch to fix syntax of mdadm.conf
* Thu Jun 03 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- require system-logos and anaconda-help, obsolete anaconda-images
* Fri Apr 30 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- Update description, remove prereq on stuff that was only needed
for reconfig mode
arts-1.3.0-4
------------
* Wed Sep 15 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.3.0-4
- fix multilib problem #132576
authconfig-4.6.4-3
------------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 4.6.4-3
- corrected package dependencies #132411
- regenerated glade.strings.h #132369
compat-db-4.1.25-5
------------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com>
- return of db1 to compat-db
- remove: db-3.1, db-3.2
- remove: c++, tcl sublibraries
dasher-3.2.11-3
---------------
* Tue Sep 14 2004 GNOME <jrb(a)redhat.com> - 3.2.11-3
- fix schemas file and crasher.
desktop-backgrounds-2.0-23
--------------------------
* Thu Sep 09 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 2.0-23
- Really update the default background.
* Wed Jul 07 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 2.0-21
- Change background for FC3test1
* Thu May 06 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.0-20
- background from Garrett for FC2
desktop-file-utils-0.8-2
------------------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 0.8-2
- Fix RH #131983 (annoying log message about "entries != NULL")
dhcpv6-0.10-6
-------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com> - 0.10-6
- fix bug 132468 for bug 125712: invoke change_resolv_conf
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 0.10-5
- don't run by default
- add chkconfig prereqs, postun script, etc.
exim-4.42-2
-----------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 4.42-2
- update to sa-exim-4.1: fixes spamassassin's new score= string (#131796)
glibc-2.3.3-53
--------------
* Tue Sep 14 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-53
- restore temporarily old definition of __P()/__PMT()
for third party apps
* Tue Sep 14 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-52
- update from CVS
- nscd bi-arch fix
- remove all uses of __P()/__PMT() from glibc headers
- update and reenable nscd SELinux patch
- remove libnss1* and libnss*.so.1 compatibility NSS modules
on IA-32, SPARC and Alpha
gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-43
------------------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.4.1.2.90-43
- don't package db1 libs
gnome-speech-0.3.5-2
--------------------
* Tue Sep 14 2004 GNOME <jrb(a)redhat.com> - 0.3.5-2
- require festival, as we're useless without it
gtk2-2.4.9-8
------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.9-8
- bring expanders back to their old size
hwdata-0.131-1
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* Thu Sep 09 2004 Kristian Høgsberg <krh(a)redhat.com> 0.131-1
- Add pci ids and cards for new ATI, NVIDIA and Intel cards
jwhois-3.2.2-6
--------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 3.2.2-6
- Recognize more redirections at whois.arin.net (#116423)
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 3.2.2-5
- Update config file for .de (#132362, by Robert Scheck)
libselinux-1.17.12-1
--------------------
* Tue Sep 14 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.12-1
- Update from NSA
* Add matchmediacon
* Tue Sep 14 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.11-1
- Update from NSA
* Merged in matchmediacon changes.
* Fri Sep 10 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.10-1
- Update from NSA
* Regenerated headers for new nscd permissions.
net-snmp-5.1.2-6
----------------
* Wed Sep 15 2004 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 5.1.2-6
- Split out libs package for multilib compatibility
pam-0.77-56
-----------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Tomas Mraz <t8m(a)centrum.cz> 0.77-56
- #75454 fixed locking when changing password
- #127054
- #125653 removed unnecessary getgrouplist call
- #124979 added quiet option to pam_succeed_if
* Mon Aug 30 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 0.77-55
- #126024 /dev/pmu console perms
policycoreutils-1.17.5-2
------------------------
* Thu Sep 09 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.5-2
- Add Steve Grubb patch to cleanup log files.
qt-3.3.3-5
----------
* Tue Sep 14 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1:3.3.3-4
- update new immodule patch
- fix multilib problem #132516
rpmdb-fedora-2.91-0.20040917
----------------------------
samba-3.0.7-3
-------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com> 3.0.7-3
- Upgrade to 3.0.7, which fixes CAN-2004-0807 CAN-2004-0808
This obsoletes the 3.0.6-schema patch.
- Update BuildRequires line to include openldap-devel openssl-devel
and cups-devel
selinux-policy-strict-1.17.16-2
-------------------------------
* Wed Sep 15 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.16-2
- Cleanup patch
* Wed Sep 15 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.16-1
- Update to match NSA Policy
- Added proc_fs attributes
* Tue Sep 14 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.15-3
- More nscd fixes
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.16-2
---------------------------------
* Wed Sep 15 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.16-2
- Cleanup patch
* Wed Sep 15 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.16-1
- Update to match NSA Policy
- Added proc_fs attributes
* Tue Sep 14 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.15-3
- More nscd fixes
sysreport-1.3.13-1
------------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.3.13-1
- add support dkms #122194
- get rid of dmidecode
system-config-packages-1.2.16-2
-------------------------------
* Tue Sep 14 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.16-2
- fix invocation of update-desktop-database to have the right path
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.16-1
- call update-desktop-database in %post
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.15-1
- can't require comps, that breaks during installation
- don't traceback on headless (#132241)
- update for new MIME setup
- replace & with & (#131523)
system-config-users-1.2.18-1
----------------------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.18-1
- use F1 instead of Ctrl+H as accelerator for Help/Contents (#132163)
- use "mkdir -p" to fix make install glitch
- use absolute paths in *.glade to fix pygtk/pyglade subtleties
* Sun Sep 05 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.15-1
- add manpage (Chris Spencer, #115316)
system-logviewer-0.9.8-1
------------------------
* Fri Sep 10 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> 0.9.8-1
- Deprecated methods
- i18n desktop
tftp-0.38-1
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* Mon Sep 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 0.38-1
- Update to new version fixes #131736
udev-030-26
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* Mon Sep 13 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 030-26
- require a 2.6 kernel
- prereq instead of requires MAKEDEV
- obsolete and provide dev
- add a trigger for the removal of /dev so that we set things up
* Fri Sep 10 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> - 030-25
- Use matchmediacon
umb-scheme-3.2-35
-----------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com>
- regenerated slibcat for slib 3a1 (#132290)
up2date-4.3.38-1.1
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* Wed Sep 15 2004 Adrian Likins <alikins(a)redhat.com> 4.3.38
- fix a error with accounts with no entitlements that
try to use them anyway
* Tue Sep 14 2004 Adrian Likins <alikins(a)redhat.com> 4.3.37
- more firstboot flow issues
- even more firstboot registration fixes
- now with 30% more firstboot registration flow fixes
- new high protein low card firstboot short username fixes
- work around a server bug with entitlement issues
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Adrian Likins <alikins(a)redhat.com> 4.3.31
- fixes for #132475, #132473, #132472
(firstboot flow issues)
usbutils-0.11-6.1
-----------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 0.11-6.1
- added missing BuildRequires for libtool (#132406)
xfig-3.2.4-5
------------
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.4-5
- fix desktop file #131983
xorg-x11-6.8.0-4
----------------
* Tue Sep 14 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 6.8.0-4
- buildrequire redhat-rpm-config, use brp-compress from that (fixes file conflicts)
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Kristian Høgsberg <krh(a)redhat.com> - 6.8.0-3
- Fix typo in test for xorg.conf (#127711).
* Mon Sep 13 2004 Kristian Høgsberg <krh(a)redhat.com> - 6.8.0-2
- Add with_wacom_driver option and set it to 0 (#132438, #132440).
zlib-1.2.1.2-1
--------------
* Sun Sep 12 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)redhat.com> 1.2.1.2-1
- update to 1.2.1.2 to fix 2 DoS problems (#131385).
19 years, 7 months
FC3 Bug Week - HELP WANTED
by Rik van Riel
The Fedora Core 3 freeze is coming soon, so it's time again for the
frantic activities of a Bug Week. This time with community participation.
The idea is to fix as many bugs as possible in the week from Sunday,
September 26th till Friday, October 1st. Yes, it starts this weekend...
The goal of Bug Week is to fix as many of the annoying bugs out there
as possible, so Fedora Core 3 ends up being a nice distribution without
rough edges. We're going for quantity here, trying to fix all the
easily fixable bugs that annoy users. Of course, if you have a fix for
a harder to resolve problem, you're more than welcome to contribute it!
Developers: you can help by fixing bugs and reviewing the proposed
fixes that other people mail to the fedora-patches-list,
or that get attached to bugzilla. Packaging bugs are
another category where we can use your help.
Testers: you can help by verifying whether old bugs are still present
in rawhide, as well as by testing proposed fixes sent in by
developers.
Bug triagers: you can help by gathering information on NEEDINFO bugs, as
well as by helping assess the importance of bugs.
Everybody: this is a chance to get the bugs fixed that you care about!
Developers from all engineering groups in Red Hat are standing by
to fix bugs together with you, to apply submitted bug fixes and to
make test RPMs available on the Bug Week repositories.
To participate in Bug Week, you can use the normal channels of
communication:
- For discussion: fedora-devel-list, fedora-tools-list, fedora-test-list
- For proposed patches: fedora-patches-list (so others have a chance
of reviewing the proposed patches and verifying that they are ok)
- For verified patches: bugzilla (to keep track of the patch)
- IRC: #fedora-bugweek on irc.freenode.net
If you want to nominate a bug for being fixed this Bug Week, please
send an email to me (riel(a)redhat.com) and the owner of the bug that
you want to nominate for the Bug Week must-fix list. Note that bugs
will only be accepted for the Bug Week must-fix list if there is a
realistic chance of fixing them this week.
More information will be available soon, on:
http://bugweek.fedora.redhat.com/
Developers, remember to subscribe to fedora-patches-list:
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-patches-list
You can track our progress on the FC3 Bug Week Tracker bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=FC3BugWeekTracker
19 years, 7 months
Hotplugging, usb mass storage devices, and mountpoints...
by Kyrre Ness Sjobak
Just wondering about something:
When i plugged in my camera (which is a usb mass storage device),
mountpoints are automatically created (one for /dev/sda and another for
/dev/sda1), and /dev/sda1 is mounted. (so why is sda1 created? sda is
nothing...) Great work. (but why are they named floppy? My camera isn't
a floppy - and who hotplugs scsi floppy disks using the mass storage
driver on the usb port?!?)
But then, when i decide "enough", i pull the plug (which is ok, since it
is mounted with "sync"), and it gets umounted. So far, so good.
But the mountpoints are still there - so according to gnome's "my
computer" - i now have tree floppy discs.
So i decided to upgrade hal and dbus, just to see if anything happens.
"yum upgrade hal" and "yum upgrade dbus". Done. Log in (i was doing this
over ssh) to see the effects. Quite astonishing - it had "cleaned up"
all of my removable media stuff - ie. my cdrom, floppy, and all the
extra floppys are gone. Okay... So i try to "hotplug" a cd into the
drive. It spinns up for about a minute, and nothing happens. I then try
to connect the camera. The usb activity light flashes a bit, but no new
mountpoints... Thats... bad.
Maybe kudzu could make a difference. So i start kudzu. And all it tries
to do, is to remove the printer which are conected to the paralell port
(it is switched of. I hate that behaviour - made me deactivate kudzu in
the past. But it has'nt pestered me during boot due to the printer been
switched off. Thats good!)
So what to do? "yum update kudzu" is the answer. Or not. Reboot then,
and see what happens. No. No luck... And no dbus/hal messages in the
console when plugging in the camera - just that the device was found and
identified.
Arg. I smell bugs...
Kyrre
19 years, 7 months
gqview removed from rawhide
by Christopher Aillon
Just a note that gqview just got removed from rawhide. It has the same
mission statement as gthumb and uses raster code internally. Yes, I
know there are people who use it still. I suggest this can move over to
Fedora Extras if people really want it.
19 years, 7 months
Which component is buggy when dns isn't working right?
by Kyrre Ness Sjobak
I have always before been able to run dnsmasq on my smoothwall, and if i
then put a host in its /etc/hosts, all (Linux - it has never worked for
my fathers laptop, so he has to use ip adresses...) computers wich use
that as a dns-server will get it.
F.ex. i have a host called "kyrre". If i want cups to be able to print
to the printer shared on that machine, i have to have a dns lookup for
"kyrre" - either on the local /ets/hosts, or in DNS. So the smoothwalls
hosts file look like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.1 smoothwall
192.168.0.200 kyrre
And it works great. On all my fc2 (and earlier) linux-computers, i am
able to f.ex type "ssh kyrre", and it looks up kyrre from dns, dnsmasq
on the smoothwall reads the hosts file on the smoothwall, and returns
"192.168.0.200". And i am able to start my evolution over encrypted X,
or print my document (much printing today :-) ) from the laptop.
But with fc3t2, which has a hosts and resolve file which are identical
to the fc2 laptops, this dont work. That means - "host kyrre" returns
the correct IP, but "ssh kyrre" or printing on kyrre dont work
(acctually, hitting "print test page" in the cups web-interfafe just
gives me a google seach for "kyrre").
I would call this a bug. But where should i post it? Which component
does handle DNS lookups?
Kyrre
19 years, 7 months