Beta 2 - Evolution icon in panel
by Clifford Snow
Just a minor issue, but I noticed that evolution does not have a name in
properties. When you hover the mouse over the icon, "no name" appears.
Does anyone else see the same thing?
There doesn't appear to be a bug filled against this. Is this too picky
to submit a bug for? And if submitted, does it get submitted against
Evolution or gnome-panel or ??
Clifford
glass-art(a)comcast.net
20 years, 7 months
NUT configuration files permission problem
by Carlos Rodrigues
Hi!
I downloaded the nut 1.4.0 package from severn2 and built it on redhat
9. I found that I can't run commands on my ups (among other things)
because of the permissions of the configuration files, namely
/etc/upsd.users which upsd says it can't read (it shows in
/var/log/messages). Making it "-r--------" and owned by "nut:nut" fixes
all problems. Aditionally upsd warns about upsd.conf being world
readable (not an error though) and I changed the permissions to be the
same as upsd.users and it appears to work fine.
Although I'm seeing this in RedHat 9 I think the same thing may happen
in Severn2.
So the changes to the nut specfile are:
-%config(noreplace) %attr(444,root,root) %{_sysconfdir}/ups/upsd.conf
-%config(noreplace) %attr(400,root,root) %{_sysconfdir}/ups/upsd.users
+%config(noreplace) %attr(400,nut,nut) %{_sysconfdir}/ups/upsd.conf
+%config(noreplace) %attr(400,nut,nut) %{_sysconfdir}/ups/upsd.users
For the sake of consistency and considering this (in ups.conf):
# --- SECURITY NOTE ---
#
# If you use snmp-ups and set a community string in here, you
# will have to secure this file to keep other users from obtaining
# that string. It needs to be readable by upsdrvctl and any drivers,
# and by upsd.
I think that maybe ups.conf should also get the same permissions as the
above mentioned files (I changed ups.conf permissions too and had no
problems yet).
Anyways, just a suggestion.
--
Carlos Rodrigues
email: cer09566(a)students.fct.unl.pt
url: http://crodrigues.webhop.net
20 years, 7 months
Installation: redhat-config-packages program doesn't work properly
by Marcus White
G'day,
When using "redhat-config-packages" with the "--isodir" command-line to
install the "samba" packages the following error occured and failed to
instaell the packages.
------------------- cut here --------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/AddDialog.py", line 338, in
addDialogInstallButtonClicked
iter = self.model.iter_children(self.optional_iter)
AttributeError: 'AddDialog' object has no attribute 'optional_iter'
-------------------- end cut -------------------------
This occurred with Fedora Core 1 Beta 2. The installation program works
when more than just the required packages can be selected (ie KDE).
One other quirk is in the wording on the package install window. The tip
at the top of the window states that "A package group can have both
standard and extra package members. ..." Yet in the list window it shows
"Required packages" and "Optional Packages". This could possibly create
confusion to the uninitiated.
--
Marcus White <1midniterider(a)comcast.net>
20 years, 7 months
Problem with new zlib-devel-1.2.0.7-1.i386.rpm dated 09-23-2003
by Marc Schwartz
Greetings all,
Subsequent to the recent run of updates from the RHN Severn 0.94 Beta
Updates Channel, I had a problem compiling a new version of R
(http://www.r-project.org/), which is a GPL math/stats application.
After some review, with help from the R Core team, we have tracked down
the likely source of the problem to a change in /usr/include/zlib.h in
the new version.
The text which is at lines 31 and 32 of the recent version is:
#ifndef ZLIB_H
#define ZLIB_H
The prior version of the same file read:
#ifndef _ZLIB_H
#define _ZLIB_H
(Note the preceding underscores).
As a result, this breaks the code in the aforementioned application.
I searched Bugzilla and did not identify anything filed against this.
Can someone confirm that this is either a bug or an explicit change.
If the former, I will file a bug.
If the latter, can someone explain the change so I can pass it on to the
R Core folks since they will have to make a change on their end as a
result.
Thanks,
Marc Schwartz
20 years, 7 months
Stack traces?
by Leam Hall
Just hit a small bug and logged it in bugzilla. The responder was pretty
quick, especially for a Saturday, but said they couldn't do much without
a stace trace.
Are the Fedora packages compiled so that you can get a stack trace? How,
for those of us new here, does one do so? Pointers to a page are fine.
ciao!
leam
been there,
done that,
wrote a recovery procedure.
20 years, 7 months
screen resolution vs display
by Louis Garcia
Anyone know the difference between 'preferences/screen resolution' and
'system settings/display' capplets?
--Lou
20 years, 7 months
Compaq Laptop Installation
by Marcus White
G'day,
This may have been asked and answered earlier. I've installed Fedora
Core 1 Beta 2 on a Compaq Armada M700 laptop with 128Mb RAM and 400Mhz
CPU. After several attempts it installed via NFS image and the GUI
install. In text mode it bombed for various reasons and different
stages. Nothing consistent to pinpoint. At any rate, the problem I have
and it started with RedHat 9 is that during the GUI start up the
scroll/cap/num lock lights flash for about 1-2 minutes before the GUI is
presented. The logs indicate "Keyboard timed out". Is this a known
problem and is there a fix for it.
--
Marcus White <1midniterider(a)comcast.net>
20 years, 7 months
Re: laptop install - screen gets white
by Rainer Hattenhauer
Hello Michal,
>It would be interesting to know what will happen if you will try
>to add 'nofb' to your boot options. Than means that most likely
>at a boot prompt you have to type "linux nofb".
Great! That did the trick... you saved me for doing boring work (plugging
monitor in/out), cause I do reinstalls quite often, in fact every time a new
release version is out there ;-)
>I know that in RH9 this option is not documented but exists and it
>has an effect (see bug #89722). No idea what is a status of it in
>test2.
Exactly the same as in RH9, as you can see. Perhaps I was to lazy searching
for a solution, thank you
Greetings
Rainer
20 years, 7 months
fedora core 0.94: jade not terminating
by Peter Morgan
Hi,
I am using Fedora core 0.94, with all updates as of yesterday (kernel:
2.4.22-1.2082.nptl). I am running jade as part of a larger ANT based
Java (1.4.2-b28) build, to convert our SGML documentation into PDF/HTML.
The build works fine on my other RHL8 and RHL9 machines. However, on
Fedora, the build 'deadlocks' with jade taking ~90% CPU and never
terminates (even after several hours). The SGML input and HTML/PDF
output are both to a local disk.
Any ideas what this could be?
Regards,
Peter.
--
Peter Morgan
+44 7739 806 222
20 years, 7 months
Re: DRI missing!
by Lars G
try deleting the "/usr/X11R6/lib/tls" dir and then say ldconfig
the two gl libs in there are from the xfree-mesa-libgl package
you can test if its working with "glxinfo"
hope this helps,
lars
20 years, 7 months