Buggy network connection causes very low system responsiveness
by Martin Sourada
Hi,
first, I am not entirely sure this the right list for this kind of
issue, so I apologise in advance in case it isn't. And now for the
problem:
At home I am connected to home network, most of the time wireless, but
when wired the issue seems to be same. The connection of the home
network to outside is quite buggy and traffic drops quite often to zero
or near zero values, and sometimes the connection is even lost (it's via
wifi, unfortunately with low visibility to the router we connect to).
What bugs me is that when the connection is in its near-dead state my
Fedora is very low responsive. For example I tried to open terminal (via
key shortcut) and it didn't pop up at least for ten seconds, and then
instantly when I disabled my network connections. This low
responsiveness happens whenever the traffic drops to zero or near zero
(and a lot of packets is lost). CPU load is at normal during the 'lags'.
Also already loaded applications seems to behave decently.
My question is:
Is this behaviour to be expected or is it a bug? I don't know exactly
how these things work, but I fail to imagine how can network problems
affect system responsiveness...
Thanks for your thoughts,
Martin
Versions of the components I think might be relevant to this issue:
kernel-2.6.24.3-34.fc8
NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8
Gnome 2.20.3
12 years, 11 months
Orphaning bchunk package
by Michael Schwendt
I've orphaned "bchunk", which is a tiny (11K C source) .bin/.cue converter
with a very small target group, IMO, nowadays.
http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/bchunk
There is one ticket, opened a few days ago, for a bug that was found and
reported at Debian in 2004. Still, in almost four years, the patch (or an
alternative fix) has not found its way into any new upstream release.
Same applies to other issues tracked at Debian.
http://bugs.debian.org/bchunk
12 years, 11 months
[Guidelines Change] Even More Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway
In a special session this week, the Fedora Packaging Committee has
gotten even more changes done.
Specifically:
New guidelines describing how to package Java software can be found
here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java
*** This lifts the hold on Java Packages ***
New guidelines describing how to deal with GCJ compilation in Java
packages can be found here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/GCJGuidelines
New guidelines describing how to package Eclipse plugins can be found
here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/EclipsePlugins
New guidelines describing how to deal with SysV-style Initscripts can be
found here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SysVInitScript
The Fedora Package Naming Guidelines have been updated to reflect the
new guidelines for package naming (EclipsePlugins). For details, please see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines
Also, the main Fedora Packaging Guidelines have been updated with links
to the new guidelines for specific package types (Java, EclipsePlugins), as
well as cleanups regarding Initscripts:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines
Last but not least, Scriptlet Snippets has been simplified to point to the
new SysVInitScript guidelines:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC) and ratified by FESCo.
Many thanks to Andrew Overholt, Ville Skyttä, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Nicolas
Mailhot, all of the other Java helpers I've forgotten, and all of the members
of the FPC and FESCo, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these
guidelines.
A reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you
find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can
suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
Thanks,
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12 years, 11 months
Fedora Windows Migration Tool
by nikhil bharadwaj
I have an idea of importing all the Windows documents,files,etc. into the Fedora partition during the installation. Also, maintaining a sync of all the files in both the OS's.
A detailed overview and concept of the idea is in the given link:
http://nikhilbharadwaj.wordpress.com/fedora-project-soc-2008/
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You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.
12 years, 11 months
updated cross-gcc rpm
by Aron Griffis
[sorry for the dups, third try w/ fedora-devel-list subscribed]
Hi Lennert,
Referring to your post at
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-October/msg00045.html
Thanks a lot for posting those rpms. I was able to use those with
--define='cross_target ia64-linux-gnu' to build a cross-compiler that
builds xen-unstable.hg including the userland tools. I posted that
information today to the xen-devel mailing list, see
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-01/msg01105.html
I had to make some changes, first to build the gcc rpm successfully on
x86_64 targetting ia64, and second to include some files that were
missing. The missing files were due to %ifarch tests which were
looking at the build arch instead of the target arch. I came up with
a solution for that... though I wouldn't be surprised if you're able
to come up with something more elegant.
The patch is below. Thanks again for your work which enabled me to
get this running.
Aron
diff -r 8c95cc711df2 SPECS/gcc41.spec
--- a/SPECS/gcc41.spec Fri Jan 18 08:51:45 2008 -0500
+++ b/SPECS/gcc41.spec Wed Jan 30 02:56:35 2008 +0000
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
%if "%{?cross_target}" == ""
%define gcc_target %{_target_platform}
+%define target_arch %{_arch}
%define isnative 1
%else
%define gcc_target %{cross_target}
+%define target_arch %{expand:%%(echo "%{cross_target}" | sed 's/-.*//')}
%define isnative 0
%define cross %{gcc_target}-
%define crosspost -%{gcc_target}
@@ -12,6 +14,8 @@
%define __find_requires %{nil}
%define __find_provides %{nil}
%endif
+
+%define inlist() %{expand:%%(case '%* ' in (%{1}*' '%1' '*) echo 1 ;; (*) echo 0 ;; esac)}
%define DATE 20070925
%define gcc_version 4.1.2
@@ -1234,6 +1238,7 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/%{_lib}/
rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/%{_lib}/{libffi*,libiberty.a}
rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{_lib}/{libffi*,libiberty.a}
rm -f $FULLEPATH/install-tools/{mkheaders,fixincl}
+rm -f $FULLPATH/install-tools/mkheaders.conf
rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/lib/{32,64}/libiberty.a
rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/%{_lib}/libssp*
rm -f $FULLPATH/libssp*
@@ -1428,8 +1433,7 @@ fi
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/include/syslimits.h
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/include/unwind.h
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/include/omp.h
-%if %{isnative}
-%ifarch %{ix86} x86_64
+%if %{inlist %{target_arch} %{ix86} x86_64}
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/include/mmintrin.h
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/include/xmmintrin.h
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/include/emmintrin.h
@@ -1439,14 +1443,13 @@ fi
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/include/mm_malloc.h
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/include/mm3dnow.h
%endif
-%ifarch ia64
+%if %{inlist %{target_arch} ia64}
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/include/ia64intrin.h
%endif
-%ifarch ppc ppc64
+%if %{inlist %{target_arch} ppc ppc64}
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/include/ppc-asm.h
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/include/altivec.h
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/include/spe.h
-%endif
%endif
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/include/README
%{_prefix}/libexec/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/collect2
@@ -1458,8 +1461,7 @@ fi
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/libgomp.spec
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/libgomp.a
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/libgomp.so
-%if %{isnative}
-%ifarch sparc ppc
+%if %{inlist %{target_arch} sparc ppc}
%dir %{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/64
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/64/crt*.o
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/64/libgcc.a
@@ -1473,7 +1475,7 @@ fi
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/64/libmudflap.so
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/64/libmudflapth.so
%endif
-%ifarch %{multilib_64_archs}
+%if %{inlist %{target_arch} %{multilib_64_archs}}
%dir %{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/32
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/32/crt*.o
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/32/libgcc.a
@@ -1487,12 +1489,13 @@ fi
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/32/libmudflap.so
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/32/libmudflapth.so
%endif
-%ifarch sparc sparc64 ppc ppc64
+%if %{inlist %{target_arch} sparc sparc64 ppc ppc64}
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/libmudflap.a
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/libmudflapth.a
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/libmudflap.so
%{_prefix}/lib/gcc/%{gcc_target_platform}/%{gcc_version}/libmudflapth.so
%endif
+%if %{isnative}
%dir %{_prefix}/libexec/getconf
%{_prefix}/libexec/getconf/default
%endif
12 years, 11 months
FYI CuneiForm OCR now opensourced under BSD license
by Peter Lemenkov
Hello All!
For those who not afraid russian - here is a press release:
http://www.linux.org.ru/view-message.jsp?msgid=2631717
For those who afraid - CuneiForm is one of major OCR ystens in late
1990ies. It could compete with FineReader in the field of speed and
accuracy but since 1990s it lags in terms of usability and integration
with modern office suites.
Unlike to Tesseract/Ocropus it offers complete OCR base but with tight
win32-integration (authors promise that will be some work in
compatibility direction and one of their goals will be porting to
Linux).
I know this is OffTopic, but maybe someone missed this news :)
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With best regards!
12 years, 11 months
[Guidelines Change] Many Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway
Over the last month, the Fedora Packaging Committee has been busy adding
and amending the Fedora Packaging Guidelines.
Specifically:
New guidelines describing how to package OpenOffice.org extensions can
be found here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/OpenOffice.orgExtensions
New guidelines describing how to package Tcl/Tk addons can be found
here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Tcl
The OCaml Packaging Guidelines have been updated:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/OCaml
The Perl Packaging Guidelines have been significantly fleshed out:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Perl
The Fedora Package Naming Guidelines have been updated to reflect the
new guidelines for package naming (OpenOffice.org and Tcl/Tk). In
addition, all Fedora packages must be named using a specified subset of
ASCII characters. For details, please see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines
Also, the main Fedora Packaging Guidelines have been updated with links
to the new guidelines for specific package types (OpenOffice.org,
Tcl/Tk):
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC)
and ratified by FESCo.
Many thanks to Caolan McNamara, Michael Thomas, Richard Jones, and all
of the members of the FPC and FESCo, for assisting in drafting,
refining, and passing these guidelines.
A reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you
find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can
suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
Thanks,
~spot
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12 years, 11 months
Importing .ps files into something! (OOo question)
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
I have a number of files that I've managed to rescue from an old machine (uses
a totally different OS and very old software) by printing the docs to a file.
The .ps files work fine, can be printed, converted to pdf and even imported
into Scribus. I've hit some problems though.
1. I can't edit them. OpenOffice won't import them, neither will kword or
gnome-office. Scribus will import them, but will only export as svg or a
scribus document.
2. If I convert them to a pdf and then use pdf2html the images come out ok,
but the text in the html files is completely garbled. It doesn't matter which
backwards version flag I use, I get rubbish out. The -c(omplex) flag also
produces nothing. I have all of the ghostscript fonts and bits installed.
Is there anything out there that I can import the .ps files into and then
export as an OpenOffice compatible file which will allow me to edit the text?
TTFN
Paul
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12 years, 11 months
Re: Importing .ps files into something! (OOo question)
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
It looks like there may be a problem somewhere on my system!
If I use pdftohtml or pdftotext the output file is garbled. Example output
from pdftotext is below.
Any ideas on why my font system should be that screwy?
-->
!,:43843 $. 59 !
7,3.0289757,.9., 00
$9,0472,94341,3,4/0
%857,.9.,-:/8:5439047.,770/4:93008
39,9 9889,0
090570;4:889,08 706:7094:8090574/:.92,/0174290570;4:8 00
2
%0,2419889,08942,0,3,4/0,3/908990708:9-90:804193,07
.742,947,5 8, .425,7843 ,
8,250,84-09,031742, .40,:08,4 /0,3/854990/,438/0243
%0#0,.943
7 , ,6
7
3,594 ,6,
7
<--
Euw!
TTFN
Paul
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12 years, 11 months
CUPs and Samsung ML2250 printer
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
Not sure what the problem is here, so I'm open to suggestions.
When I print to my ML2250 (picked up and configured automatically by s-c-p and
hal), I have to hit the print button twice. Once doesn't cut it, but twice does.
Any ideas?
Supplemental bonus question...
If a print job goes wrong and I restart the printer, all I get is page after
page of either nothing or rubbish (random characters). Clearing the print jobs
via 127.0.0.1:631 and pulling the plug on the printer do nothing; it carries
on printing rubbish. The only way to reset things correctly is to restart the
machine.
Any ideas for this as well?
TTFN
Paul
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