Fairly significant problems with rpm/package tool
by Mike
I have come across a few issues
1. rpm and dependency info
when I do rpm -q --whatprovides <packagename> all I get is the name of
the package eg: gnome-panel,epiphany
2. Config tool
wierd dependency info - eg: selected KDE-libs and got epiphany selected
in addition, this seems bizarre
No way to add packages in various groups (gnome/kde) except via list
view, which means you cant see what they do.
20 years, 9 months
Bring back configurability in expert mode
by Dax Kelson
The installation has gotten "simpler" for desktop installs.
Please re-add those options when starting anaconda in "expert" mode.
This should make both camps happy.
Dax Kelson
Guru Labs
20 years, 9 months
New Website
by Ethan Bonick
What happened to the rhl.redhat.com website? It redirects back to redhat
community page. Makes it hard to get download links. And read about it.
20 years, 9 months
Graphical boot
by Féliciano Matias
Sorry for my poor English. If i boring you, tell me, i can understand.
When i have learned that Severn has a graphical boot i think : great !
Now i see this "feature" in action.
For me a graphical boot is something like windows : start the computer
and everything is graphic until the you switch off the power.
What we have in Severn is "strange".
Start your system :
- grub (cool)
- ugly messages from the kernel
- some text : "Press 'I' to enter intera..." oh shit, too late
- clack (the sound of my monitor changing resolution)
- a black screen
- a X
- a hourglass
- a splash screen with a little window in the center (1024x768)
- some strange messages like : "Probing hardware", "starting portmap",
etc, etc
- sometimes no message during some seconds and i think : "Oh my god, my
system freeze and i don't know where !"
- a progress bar (Good point!)
- clack
- a black screen (return in text mode)
- some text. One second only. It seems i see a prompt login of a virtual
console (not sure).
- clack
- a black screen (in 1280x1024, yet another resolution)
- a X
- a hourglass
- and TATA.
This is not the graphical boot i have expected ! It's a bad movie.
Time to shutdown the system :
- clack
- return to the text mode and some incomprehensible messages.
This is 20 % of Windows and no more. We can beat Windows or Apple in
this game.
I understand that the current startup (RH9 for example) is not
"user-friendly". But what we have, at the present time, is not serious,
not "professional". This give a bad brand image of GNU/Linux.
GNU/Linux deserves to have a good graphical boot AND shutdown. But
severn is not good in this point.
I am sure that RedHat engineers can do better only by using a text
console.
Imagine :
- boot
- kernel message
- clear screen (add an option in grub to avoid this and keep kernel
message).
- print the title : "Starting RedHat Linux"
- a progress bar (the same as e2fsck for example)
- all messages in another console (or more simply store in
/var/log/message)
- If a service make too much time (more than 20 seconds), print 'waiting
for "probing hardware"'.
- report only thing that goes wrong : "probing hardware failed, see
/var/log/message".
- before starting X, print "Completed".
- wait 10 seconds before launching /sbin/login to not show the prompt
login of the virtual console.
For the shutdown, we can use some thing similar.
I am not a hacker, and i don't know if my proposal is feasible.
I am sure, RedHat people do their best are honest and there is not
"marketing" here. But i also honest, and for me, the current graphical
boot is "bad" and i prefer the RH9 starting (until we have something
better :-)).
--
Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias(a)free.fr>
20 years, 9 months
Anaconda+small-mem+lvm-swap crash
by Barton, Christopher
FWIW -- Anaconda crashes for me when I install over NFS on a box with 256
Mb of memory & place swap on LVM. The installer says that it needs to
activate swap space in order to continue, and then reports a problem and
quits.
When I place swap on a primary partition (instead of LVM), the install of
Severn completes without any trouble.
20 years, 9 months
perl modules missing?
by Michel Alexandre Salim
I get the following while trying to install Mono packages for RH9 on
Severn. AFAIR they installed fine on a stock RH9 setup - but I could not
remember exactly if Ximian Desktop 2 was installed at the time.
In any case it should not matter, since XD2 does not include Perl. Has
there been a major overhaul of RH's Perl packages between RH9 and
Severn? FYI I have all packages from 3 CDs installed.
Regards,
Michel
[root@bushido i386]# rpm -Uvh /home/michel/Downloads/Mono/*
error: Failed dependencies:
perl(XML::LibXML) is needed by gtk-sharp-gapi-0.10-1.ximian.6.1
perl-XML-LibXML is needed by gtk-sharp-gapi-0.10-1.ximian.6.1
perl-XML-LibXML-Common is needed by
gtk-sharp-gapi-0.10-1.ximian.6.1
perl-XML-NamespaceSupport is needed by
gtk-sharp-gapi-0.10-1.ximian.6.1
perl-XML-SAX is needed by gtk-sharp-gapi-0.10-1.ximian.6.1
gtkhtml3.0 is needed by monodoc-0.5-1.ximian.6.1
20 years, 9 months
Network install failure
by Matt Whiteley
I have tried to use the network install many times. This is an attempt
with the .iso files. Whenever I put them in a web or ftp directory, the
installer will not find them and pecularly returns to the screen with
extra slashes in the address box. Such as cannot find
http://192.168.1.112//redhat/stage2.img . I hope this is somewhat close
as I am taking it from memory. Am I making some stupid mistake? What
is the deal?
thanks,
--
Matt Whiteley <matt-whiteley(a)comcast.net>
20 years, 9 months
Question about loading cs4232 sound modules
by Mike Martin
I have a question thats been bugging me for the last few releases of
RH
I have a cs4237 based isa soundcard.
On bootup kudzu recognises the soundcard and apparently configures
it.
However the module does not load on bootup
What confuses me is is I do modprobe cs4232 it loads fine
Anyone any idea what I need to do to get it loaded at startup
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