zero for severn
by Joe Smith
Wow, several showstoppers for me in Severn:
Wouldn't boot after install (just boots to grub prompt).
Boot floppy boots to firstboot, but mouse & keyboard are non-functional.
Ctrl-Backspace kills X; shutdown from gdm login.
Next attempt, firstboot comes up, I Ctrl-Alt-F1 to text login, then CAF7
back to firstboot, now mouse and keyboard are ok. Complete setup and
login through gdm.
CD (IDE burner/DVD combo, which worked fine for install) is set up wrong
and completely non-functional. Data cd's won't mount automatically or
manually and audio cds won't play.
Should I just Bugzilla these? I know the grub problem was in RH9,
because I had the same thing happen. The 'fix' was to downgrade grub to
the rpm from RH8, and I found this discussed on the net so I wasn't
alone. I checked Bugzilla yesterday and found three bugs under 'grub',
none of which were this one. I hate to contribute more noise when
things are known and I hate to spend my time on a bug report that's ignored.
Severn looks nice though ;-)
<Joe
20 years, 10 months
IEEE1394 harddrive hangs on bootup after loading SBP2 module
by Ben Hsu
Hello.
I have a ieee1394 hard drive enclosure. When I turn the enclosure on and
boot into Red Hat 9.1 my computer hangs after it loads the sbp2.o
module.
This happened when I booted the installation CD-ROM (MD5 checksums were
good, and the CD-ROM test in the installer itself passed). When I turn
the firewire drive off I was able to install, but I still need to keep
the firewire drive off to boot.
If I boot into my old kernel (stock 2.4.20) it runs okay.
To summarize:
(2.4.21 kernel AND firewire drive on) ==> (no boot from hard disk AND no
boot from CD-ROM)
Has anyone seen this before or does anyone have any idea how to get more
useful information?
Thanks in advance!
20 years, 10 months
Feasibility of including straw?
by Michel Alexandre Salim
This is a long shot, what with the beta process already ongoing, but
what is the likelihood that we could get Straw
(http://www.nongnu.org/straw) included, say in the next beta?
It is quite stable - RH9's version of pygtk2 had to be recompiled with
threading enabled but that is default since 1.99.16 - it does need adns,
adns-python and bsddb3 installed though (despite the name bsddb3 version
4.x compiles fine against db4)
I have them all packaged and roughly RedHat-ified sitting on my hard
drive if anyone is interested. The other alternative is to use
GtkSharpRSS (http://gtksharprss.sourceforge.net/images/GtkSharpRSS.png)
- which even has Dashboard (http://nat.org/dashboard) support, so it
will be in really good shape this time next year or so. GtkSharpRSS
requires Mono, of course, but it will be nice to have, say on the
Technology Preview directory RH used to have.
Thoughts?
Regards,
Michel
20 years, 10 months
Severn install summary
by Jack Bowling
Dumped Severn on one of my play boxes yesterday. Totally uneventful
install. Congrats to all the crew. Some chagrin at not being allowed to
set boot runlevel during the install but this release is newbie-ized to
the extreme so I can see the rationale.
One glitch is that (as with thr RH9 beta) the first reboot after the
install seems to hang on the kudzu probe. I booted rescue from the CD
and killed kudzu and it proceeded fine after that. IIRC from the RH9
beta, it really isn't hung but instead it is timing out on one of the
services. I think it was CUPS then and possibly is now, too. No relevant
feedback on the output VTs, sorry.
This may be an issue with those not patient enough to let things time
out rather than endlessly reboot after the install.
--
Jack Bowling
mailto: jbinpg(a)shaw.ca
20 years, 10 months
IO error during install
by Kevin d
Ok, Ive gone through this before with Linux installs but don't remember
how I solved it.
I have an asus A7N266-VM motherboard (yes I know not totally Linux friendly)
20 gig WD set to master on IDE 1
internal plextor 40x12x40 set to master on IDE 2
during install I get an IO error on F3 and can see hdc atapi reset
complete on F4 (not sure if thats exactly what it says, I'm at work right
now)
I think the last time I went through this I set the cd-rom to CS instead
of master. Can any one give me some advice on how to solve this (if
setting to CS doesn't fix it) or find out what is causing this. I do not
have any problems installing several different versions of that other OS.
Thanks for you help
20 years, 10 months
First impressions and bugs
by Michel Alexandre Salim
Hello,
A bit late joining in - dowloading 3 ISOs over a 20 KB/s cable modem
connection can be irritating at times! I'm happy to say Severn is the
first Red Hat version to support my notebook out-of-the-box - this time,
please don't take ACPI out for the final release :)
Graphical boot is nice, if a bit slow the first time - probably running
modprobe in the background? In any case it's only enabled in runlevel 5,
and I could always turn it off. A bit non-informative - would be nice to
have a minimised window tailing the console output for those curious.
And now for the more severe bugs. neat hard-froze the system when run
the first time if I did not run internet-druid first, which is bizarre.
I could replicate it three times but after running internet-druid, neat
now works fine on its own. Forgot to save kernel logs, sorry.
Mounting CD-ROMs from command line works, redhat-config-packages seems
to be having some real problems with it; when it tried accessing the
drive the CD icon popped up in Nautilus with the correct volume label,
but nothing shows up in /mnt/cdrom - and I keep getting prompted to
insert the right disc.
And trying to select Samba does not even work. I clicked in vain on the
'Install' button and nothing happened - Dependency checking should kick
in at this point, as it did when I tried installing Epiphany and kernel
sources (both failed, of course, since RCP could not get to the Red Hat
CD)
A bit rushed right now so I'll have to end it here. System is up-to-date
(no updated packages as yet) - please let me know if anyone intends to
submit / has submitted any of the above bugs to Bugzilla, otherwise I'll
make a report later today.
Oh, PS, fonts work marvelous! I don't know what you guys did but it
certainly looks much better than my RH9 desktop, even after installing
bitstream fonts by hand.
Now, when we get built-in ACL support in Nautilus...
Another thing - please update Gaim to 0.65, 0.64 has annoying little
bugs (like not being able to display my MSN nick with UTF characters
properly)
(and install Bogofilter... hmm, lots of RFEs to file tonight)
Thanks RedHat,
Michel
20 years, 10 months