FC4 hangs after "ata2: disabling port"
by mukund jampala
Dear FC4 devels & Users,
The Fedora C4 hangs when trying to boot exactly after "enabling the
swap space [ok] ".
I guess swap space is enabled properly with 'OK' message.
The system has 2 SATA disks. I have installed FC4 on /dec/sdb2 (part 2
of disk2).
I suspect there is some problem that the following kernel message is
trying to tell:
ata2: disabling port
INIT: version 2.85 booting
Can some one please elobarate on what exactly could be the problem?
Regards,
Mukund Jampala
18 years, 3 months
RPM Packaging and Python Eggs
by Jeff Pitman
Hi,
Just wanted to share this. As the Python Eggs concept proliferates,
there is an option to bypass the whole mess: --old-and-unmanageable.
This could be used as an alternative to patching setup.py to point to
the old distutils.
So:
%{__python} setup.py install --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
Becomes:
%{__python} setup.py install --old-and-unmanageable --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
Obviously, this breaks if it's a regular distutils setup.py. And, what
makes it more fun is that Py2.2 doesn't work. So, patching might be
the best when you care about that. If you're guaranteed that the spec
is only forward moving (ie extras and rawhide), then the option above
will work and make the spec cleaner.
While I've written off Eggs as a way to manage system-level python lib
packages, it may be useful for managing pkgs in $HOME for multi-user
systems. Thoughts?
--
-jeff
18 years, 3 months
Re: Random X crashes: fact or fiction?
by Bojan Smojver
Just had another crash. Same scenario: kernel compile, browsing, e-mail
etc.
BTW, I have two pointers: Synaptics touchpad and a PS/2 mouse. Is it
possible for X to go haywire if it can't talk to its CorePointer
(touchpad)? Maybe under heavy load things become "slow" on that front
and X interprets that as no pointer?
X does get confused when the mouse is plugged in while X is starting and
then it won't run at all. It claims that CorePointer isn't there.
Weird...
--
Bojan
18 years, 3 months
rawhide report: 20051228 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
GFS-kernel-2.6.14.1-20051219.162641.FC5.5
-----------------------------------------
* Tue Dec 27 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
cman-kernel-2.6.14.1-20051219.162641.FC5.4
------------------------------------------
* Tue Dec 27 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Mon Dec 19 2005 Chris Feist <cfeist(a)redhat.com>
- Updated upstream sources.
* Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
dlm-kernel-2.6.14.1-20051219.162641.FC5.4
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* Tue Dec 27 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
gnbd-kernel-2.6.14.0-20051108.134753.FC5.12.27
----------------------------------------------
* Tue Dec 27 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
kernel-2.6.14-1.1788_FC5
------------------------
* Tue Dec 27 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.15-rc7-git1
selinux-policy-2.1.6-17
-----------------------
* Tue Dec 27 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.1.6-17
- Fix library specification
- Give kudzu execmem privs
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18 years, 3 months
udev makes /dev/raw1394, but no module
by sean darcy
I've been setting up dvgrab to get some dv off my camcorder. I kept
getting an error message raw1394: no such device.
But /dev/raw1394 did exist, as did dv1394.
The problem was that neither the raw1394 nor dv1394 modules were loaded.
udev should be loading the modules, correct? But why is it creating the
/dev entries if it's not loading the modules? Is this a feature, or a
bug? Does udev only create the dev entries, and the user is supposed to
load the modules?
sean
18 years, 3 months
rawhide report: 20051227 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
scim-tables-0.5.5-2
-------------------
* Mon Dec 26 2005 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.5-2
- remove the Japanese and Korean tables and their subpackages
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18 years, 3 months
rawhide report: 20051226 changes
by Build System
New package elilo
ELILO linux boot loader for EFI-based systems
New package gnu-efi
Development Libraries and headers for EFI
New package libpfm
a performance monitoring library for Linux/ia64
New package libunwind
An unwinding library for ia64.
New package pfmon
a performance monitoring tool for Linux/ia64
New package prctl
Utility to perform process operations
New package salinfo
SAL info tool.
Updated Packages:
dmidecode-1:2.6-1.14
--------------------
* Fri Apr 15 2005 Florian La Roche <laroche(a)redhat.com>
- remove empty scripts
* Wed Mar 02 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Update to upstream 2.6
* Tue Mar 01 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Rebuild for gcc4
kernel-2.6.14-1.1786_FC5
------------------------
* Sun Dec 25 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.15-rc7
- bah humbug.
rgmanager-1.9.31-3
------------------
* Thu May 05 2005 Chris Feist <cfeist(a)redhat.com>
- Cleaned up .spec file.
* Thu May 05 2005 Chris Feist <cfeist(a)redhat.com>
- Added patch to disable starting up the init scripts.
* Mon Dec 20 2004 Chris Feist <cfeist(a)redhat.com>
- Rebuild with new sources.
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18 years, 3 months
Debugging kernel hangs
by Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi,
what is the proper way to analyze kernel hangs? I'm getting hit by this
almost on a daily basis ever since moving to the 177x kernels and now I'm
trying to get down to what the actual problem is. I only have one machine
available so a method to get debugging information as a dump in a core file
would be preferred but I could get a second machine attached to get that
information via the serial console if necessary, I just can't keep the
second machine around all the time.
Regards,
Dennis
18 years, 3 months