My Take On The Graphical Boot
by Robert L Cochran
I like the graphical boot to a small extent, but it has a nasty habit of
freezing up for some seconds (the progress bar stops moving and the
small messages in the window disappear.) Then to my relief the progress
bar resumes.
The small messages ought to be in a much larger font size. Sheesh, it's
hard to read the things.
I'm very accustomed to watching the kernel and service startup messages
to make sure some service doesn't get a 'FAILED' result and it is not at
all clear whether the Graphical Boot will warn me of a failed service,
however small it is. And there's a lot of them out there.
Bob Cochran
20 years, 9 months
Low Memory Warning During Installation
by Robert L Cochran
I'm installing Severn to /dev/hdb on my test machine. This is an NFS
install which I started by booting off CD #1, typing 'linux askmethod',
selecting 'NFS image' when prompted, and then pointing the installer at
the NFS partition.
On the installation machine /dev/hda has a modified version of Red Hat 9
running a 2.5.x kernel, so I want to dual-boot two Red Hat versions.
Got a low memory warning right after autopartitioning of hdb. What I
did:
*select autopartition
*de-select hda as an allowable drive
*edit /boot to change it from the 100 Mb default to 400
I notice that swap on hda was selected for formatting, but decided to
let this go.
When I clicked 'next' after editing the size of /boot, a window came up
warning that I have low memory and swap needs to be formatted and
activated immediately. It asked me for an okay to do that. I've agreed.
This machine has 512 Mb memory, so I'm rather puzzled that it needed any
swap whatsoever.
Comments, anyone?
Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
20 years, 9 months
detachable menus
by Féliciano Matias
Gimp (gtk 1) has detachable menus.
It's a bug, but since I like this, I don't bugzilla it.
Is there someone to tell me how to have this feature with gtk 2
applications ?
--
Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias(a)free.fr>
20 years, 9 months
Tartoon?
by Mark Hutchinson
So what is Tartoon?
Anyone know?
Mark
--
"Computers are like air conditioners:
They stop working properly if you open windows."
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20 years, 9 months
Re: ntfs
by Daniel Huettl
If you read the comments at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65749
you will see that nobody knows what the legal reasons for not shipping
an ntfs module could be. After all, the code is (i) present in the
kernel source and (ii) objections with regard to "reverse engineering"
either do not apply or should apply in the cases of rdesktop & samba as
well. Not shipping ntfs.o on legal grounds seems inconsistent to me.
Furthermore, saying that NTFS (read!) support does not work or works
only partially or is dangerous is nothing but FUD. It has been working
perfectly well for over a year now.
It seems to be the case that ntfs.o continues to be excluded out of
laziness/force of habit or sheer predjudice.
-- doh
20 years, 9 months
Batch mode for adduser
by Ethan Bonick
I would like to request a newusers like program that will take plain text
passwords and encrypt them so the program could be useful. Newusers
leavesthe password in plaintext which is not secure at all. I have created
a script that does this same kind of function but it only works on RedHat
because other distro's dont compile with the same options. Check it out on
www.networkinggeeks.com/scripts.html If anyone knows how to rewrite
newusers to crypt the password it would be a wonderful addition. In my
Linux classes we went over the newusers command but deemd it useless
because it wont crypt the passwords. Does anyone else feel this would be a
very useful utility?
--
Ethan Bonick
etbonick_AT_networkinggeeks.com
http://www.networkinggeeks.com
20 years, 9 months
Reiserfs support in 2.4.21 stock redhat kernel
by Eduardo Silva
I've just installed the latest Severn Beta, and have noticed that the compile
kernel included in that distro kernel-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl doe snot have
reiserfs support included. As I have my /home partition in resiserfs it is a
problema for me.
As a temp solution I have installed the 2.4.20-19.9 Redhat 9 kernel which is
compiled with reiserfs, and also installed the kernel source for the
2.4.21-20 kernel to try to recompile reiserfs support.
Is the fact that these new stock kernels from Redhat does not support reiserfs
a move from Redhat away from support of this fs type, or is this just a
product of being a beta kernel (also the rawhide kernel also does not have
reiserfs support)?
Also, what is the best way to recompile the kernel using the kernel sources?
I've tried:
* copy configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686.config to .config
* This config to my surprise already has reiserfs module support (I thought
Redhat used this configs to do every kernel)
* then do a make rpm
The make rpm is failing due to some modules compile, such as :
make[4]: *** [libata.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.2120.1.2024.2.1.nptlcustom/drivers/scsi'
make[3]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.2120.1.2024.2.1.nptlcustom/drivers/scsi'
make[2]: *** [_subdir_scsi] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.2120.1.2024.2.1.nptlcustom/drivers'
make[1]: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.2120.1.2024.2.1.nptlcustom'
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.56165 (%build)
RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.56165 (%build)
make: *** [rpm] Error 1
By enabling and disabling certain drivers I can get around that issue (before
it was failing due to the I2C driver, disbled that in .config and now it's
this), but I wonder whether this is the best option, as I would presume that
Redhat's .config and kernel source should give no issue at all...
Anyways, thanks a lot for any help,
BR,
--
Eduardo Silva
20 years, 9 months
No reiserfs module for 2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptlsmp kernel?
by Hoyt
I may be going crazy, but I don't see _any_ reiserfs module in /lib for the
2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptlsmp kernel. The kernel source for it is there in
/usr/src and the appropriate kernel .config file shows that it should have
been compiled as a module, but where is it?
--
Hoyt Duff
20 years, 9 months
Taroon mirrors
by Kevin d
Are there any open mirrors yet? I keep getting permission denied. I take
it this is where subscribing comes into play ;-)
20 years, 9 months