Fedora Core 1 Status Update
by Bill Nottingham
The Fedora Steering Committee proposes to transfer Fedora Core 1 to the
Fedora Legacy Project at the point Fedora Core 3 Test 2 is released. This
is currently scheduled for September 13, 2004.
This represents a one month extension from the original timetable but an
extension we hope will enable the Fedora Legacy Project to receive
considerably better quality access to the codebase.
For more information on the Fedora Legacy Project, or if you wish to join
the team please see http://fedoralegacy.org/.
19 years, 8 months
Bash prompt change
by Mike Chambers
Anyone notice/see their prompt change to [mike@scrappy ~]$ after the
latest rawhide updates? It seems to show the proper dir's when you
switch out of home, but it shows ~ (yes I know that means your home dir)
when you first change to a user and their home dir.
--
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
"It's only funny until someone gets hurt...Then it's hilarious!"
19 years, 8 months
Today's dependency problems
by Gerry Tool
I managed to get all but two of the packages currently in the update
queue installed. The remaining two, libcroco and librsvg2 both refuse
to install with a warning
Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
gimp 2.0.3-1 requires libcroco.so.2
gnome-games 2.6.2-1 requires libcroco.so.2
nautilus 2.6.0-6 requires libcroco.so.2
This situation has persisted for several days. How can I resolve this?
Thanks.
Gerry Tool
19 years, 8 months
FC3T1 Gnome Errors
by Mike Klinke
After downloading the latest batches of updated files yesterday and
today I find that I'm getting error messages from the "Gnome Settings
Daemon" whenever I boot up into FC3T1 as follows:
========== Error Message Box ======
There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things,
such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work
correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. The last
error message was:
Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred
GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log
in.
==========
>From the system.log:
--------- /var/log/messages --------
Aug 2 20:12:22 localhost gconfd (root-2627): starting (version
2.6.0), pid 2627 user 'root'
Aug 2 20:12:23 localhost gconfd (root-2627): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config
source atposition 0
Aug 2 20:12:23 localhost gconfd (root-2627): Resolved address
"xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position
1
Aug 2 20:12:23 localhost gconfd (root-2627): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config
source at position 2
---------
and indeed, changing themes ultimately led to the following error
messages:
Changing to bluecurve:
========== Error Message Boxes (2) ======
The Application "wnck-applet" has quit unexpectedly.
You can inform the developers of what happened to help them fix it.
Or you
can restart the application right now.
The "Window List" applet appears to have died unexpectedly.
Do you want to reload this applet?
(If you choose not to reload it at this time you can always add it by
right
clicking on the panel and clicking on the "Add to Panel" submenu)
=========
Also an error box concerning "window switcher" with same verbage as
above
=========
If I simply log out and log back in, I don't get the initial error but
the system log does contain:
--------- /var/log/messages --------
Aug 2 21:26:30 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[2518]: session opened for user
root by (uid=0)
Aug 2 21:26:31 localhost gconfd (root-2891): starting (version
2.6.0), pid 2891 user 'root'
Aug 2 21:26:31 localhost gconfd (root-2891): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config
source at position 0
Aug 2 21:26:31 localhost gconfd (root-2891): Resolved address
"xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position
1
Aug 2 21:26:31 localhost gconfd (root-2891): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config
source at position 2
Aug 2 21:26:31 localhost bonobo-activation-server (root-2902): iid
OAFIID:BrokenNoType:20000808 has a NULL type
--------------------------------------
Anyone else seeing this?
Regards, Mike Klinke
19 years, 8 months
Problems building (anything)
by Mike old
I have two machines with full build environments with FC3T1, the work
machine is fine (1400 duron)
However my home machine wont build anything, it bails with an error
"internal compiler error - illegal instruction"
As an example building the kernel, this occurs on make menuconfig on
scripts/basic/fixdep (ie immediately, so would not appear to any broken
hardware isues)
The only thing I can think of is that my home box is a K6/2 ie: i586
19 years, 8 months
Re: FC3-test1 agpgart warning on boot and very slow
by Simon Sedgwick
>Simon Sedgwick wrote:
>> I've just installed FC3-test1 on a spare box I've got laying >about.
This
>> was a clean install onto a disk that previously had FC1 on it and
>ran
>> fine. I chose a straight workstation install and performance >during
the
>> install process was okay.
>>
>> After it had finished installing I rebooted the machine and
>everything
>> was fine until the kernel had decompressed the it came up with >the
>> following error: (dmesg)
>>
>> agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset, but could not find the
>> secondary device.
>> agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset.
>> agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
>> agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
>>
>> Anything obvious spring to mind chaps?
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>
>What is the second card that you have setup? I have a system with >an
>Intel 815 video card that is working fine.
>
>With another Dell computer with an Intel 828 656 card (810 driver) >I
get
>2 hours out of X before the following process die. I thought >rd-bomb
was
>some 2 hr timer before I found out that it was a screensaver.
>
>This is an agpgart error also.
>[drm:i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* space: 131052 wanted 131064
>
>Hopefully this problem will be gone for FC3T2.
>
>Jim
Well I don't have a secondary graphics adaptor in it. I tried installing
FC2 and that does the same. Install goes fine but on first boot up it
runs like a dog. I've just reinstalled FC1 to make sure it's not a
hardware problem and thats running sweet. Shame because I was just
getting into this whole spacial Nautilus thing :-(
Simon
19 years, 8 months
HP Tape Changer and Linux
by Mark A. Hoover
I've got a friend of mine offering me an HP C1553A 24/48
Autoloading Tape Drive. I've done a few Google searches
concerning this device.
HP says it's Linux compatible.
Most mailing list references (rather dated) says it's not
supported by the kernel (although these are mostly 2.2.x
references).
The Amanda website references tapes for the device, but
I didn't see anything referencing the device itself.
It's possible I'm not searching on the right terms, but I
figured I'd ask the list and see if anybody is currently
using one of these things and with what sort of
configuration.
19 years, 9 months
2.6.7-1-501 kernel
by Nave, Ronald
I just upgraded FC3 Test1 from 2.6.7-1.499 to 2.6.7-1.501 kernel.
The latest NVIDIA-6016 driver will no longer load.
19 years, 9 months
NVIDIA driver with 2.6.7-1.501 kernel
by Nave, Ronald
I earlier reported that the NVIDIA-6106 driver did not work with the latest
2.6.7-501 kernel. on FC3- test 1
I have inspected the nvidia installation log and Xorg log , but do not see
any obvious explanation of the problem.
The log files are enclosed
<<nvidia-installer.log>> <<Xorg.0.log>>
19 years, 9 months