FC5: GFS-kernel-xenU - where is it ?
by Thomas Kofler
Hi,
I tried to setup GFS within a xenU domain under FC5T2
But the package GFS-kernel-xenU is missing. Under Fedora Core 4 it was
available.
Why is the package no longer available ?
Regards,
Thomas
18 years, 3 months
Base group not requiring Core group
by Gawain Lynch
After doing a `yum groupinstall Base` I notice that several packages
such as rootfiles are missing. On further investigation it appears
that Core is no longer a required group in Base.
Should I file a bug against comps in bugzilla?
Take care,
Gawain
18 years, 3 months
Re: FC5T2 ready for even a test release?
by Fulko.Hew@sita.aero
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)redhat.com> on 01/23/2006 10:27 AM added:
>>>
>>> Please explain what is good about the everything installation option.
>>> Dont throw around vague notions.
>>>
>>>
>> It saves me time when selecting packages to install.
>
>Which ones?
All of them. Thats the whole point.
>> It saves me time to not have to install packages individually.
>
>What are you using your system for?. Is it a
>desktop/workstation/server/development system?. Doesnt it fit into one
>of these profiles?
Correct, It doesn't fit. My usage profile (like many others on this
list) is a superset of those categories.
I've found that none of the existing profiles suits my needs.
They each have something missing. My laptop is:
- a desktop,
- a workstation,
- a server
- a development system.
Because I use the 'desktop' of my 'workstation' to 'develop' 'server'
applications.
Actually, given your attitude against the 'all' profile,
you can't really justify having a 'workstation', or server', or
any other arbitrary profile either. Given your rationalization,
they whould all be removed too!
>> I don't have to download packages (via yum or whatever) that have
>> already been downloaded in the isos.
>
>You cant work with them using the current tools provided anyway.
The point is, as has been mentioned a million time already in this thread,
Its a great inconvienience to have to push every button manually.
Especially in light of the fact that this feature:
_used_ to exist,
_was_ being used by a lot of people.
and has been _removed_.
Its not as if we are asking for a 'new' feature,
we just want our 'old' feature back.
> Thats
>what we are trying to fix already. If you dont use yum to keep yourself
>updated installing everything is dangareous since it brings in potential
>security issues with packages you wouldnt even use.
Yup, and I/we are willing to risk that, and deal with the issues.
>> I don't need a kickstart file.
>
>> I don't need to waste space on disk with rpms when I already have the
>> package installed from the initial installation.
>
>You waste disk space by installing packages you wouldnt use. You will to
>keep packages updated. Performance would do down with deamons and other
>session programs. You would be installing tons of world languages which
>you wouldnt be using and so on.
Yup. wasting disk space is _our_ choice, not yours. You select the
packages you want to install, and we get to select the packages _we_ want
to
install.
Performance issues... yup. we will live with it.
world languages... yup, we will live with it.
The bottom line, is its _our_ choice as the installers, not yours.
While I've been reading this thread, there seems to be a whole lot
of people who are addemant about having this bug (where the everything
option
appears to now be missing) fixed.
You have received a lot of feedback and justification for having it
re-instated,
but you seem to be reluctant to accept the fact that:
"PEOPLE WANT IT BACK".
It seems to me that there are more people, with more justifications that
want
it back, than you and your rationalizations.
(Please note that I _am_ trying to be civil about this.)
18 years, 3 months
FC5T2 ready for even a test release?
by Linux Counter (li.counter.org) #386711
I just ftp'd the 5 disks, and put it on my system. Firstly, the
installer sucks. Graphical only displays the top left corner of the
screen, showing none of the useful information. I had to use text,
which was completely garbled. Then, I got to the package selection
screen. I know that they're still working on it, but come on! With no
'everything' option,I got very minimal packages. I decided to use
add/remove packages. This crashed pretty much immediately. I'm stuck
with a pile of minimal non-working crud. FC4T2 was SOOOO much better.
Hope to see you in final.
poly-p man
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18 years, 3 months
Fedora Core 4 Test Update: module-init-tools-3.2-0.pre9.0.FC4.1
by Harald Hoyer
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-074
2006-02-02
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : module-init-tools
Version : 3.2
Release : 0.pre9.0.FC4.1
Summary : Kernel module management utilities.
Description :
The modutils package includes various programs needed for automatic
loading and unloading of modules under 2.2 and later kernels, as well
as other module management programs. Device drivers and filesystems
are two examples of loaded and unloaded modules.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Update Information:
This version blacklists the framebuffer modules, so they
will not be modprobed automatically with udev > 071.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
* Thu Feb 2 2006 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 3.2-0.pre9.0.FC4.1
- FC4 version with fb modules blacklisted
* Tue Jan 24 2006 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 3.2-0.pre9.2
- ghost /etc/modprobe.conf (#130603)
* Fri Dec 9 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Sun Nov 6 2005 Florian La Roche <laroche(a)redhat.com>
- update to 3.2pre9
* Fri Sep 9 2005 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 3.2-0.pre7.3
- don't escape '-' in module names for module.alias
---------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/
2b916b517654aa8103e930055e2b902d8898b29b SRPMS/module-init-tools-3.2-0.pre9.0.FC4.1.src.rpm
4688f661d24dc4eb47c00c784400b86489fbdfc3 ppc/module-init-tools-3.2-0.pre9.0.FC4.1.ppc.rpm
ce5c30d2692740bf2b1a6a4e5b0bde7ee73e135d ppc/debug/module-init-tools-debuginfo-3.2-0.pre9.0.FC4.1.ppc.rpm
7fe70ff7e0b87da2b4ce90e83f4190c6250237d5 x86_64/module-init-tools-3.2-0.pre9.0.FC4.1.x86_64.rpm
127eee01a596f2e9c06d896cfce89446da765eaa x86_64/debug/module-init-tools-debuginfo-3.2-0.pre9.0.FC4.1.x86_64.rpm
31f7f6e2ad6b17f2df8a58d5c0a771c4a1407a71 i386/module-init-tools-3.2-0.pre9.0.FC4.1.i386.rpm
101f303102a5bbc0fdc46134f85657526dde0317 i386/debug/module-init-tools-debuginfo-3.2-0.pre9.0.FC4.1.i386.rpm
This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
18 years, 3 months
CVS snapshot of amaroK for rawhide?
by Miles Lane
Hello,
I noticed today that rawhide includes a snapshot of rhythmbox. Could
we have a snapshot of amaroK, too? amaroK is a fantastic music player
and now supports reading and writing ID3 tags in m4a files (AAC
compression). This enables me to play my Apple iTunes files (where
all my music is stored). I found a transcoder for m4a to ogg, but I
had to run it under Wine and I couldn't figure out how to batch the
processing. Also, I didn't want to lose audio quality in the
conversion. Ripping all my music to ogg would take a very long time,
because I have a few thousand CDs. I understand that rawhide won't
have mp3/m4a audio file support, but maybe I could find the required
packages in some other respository?
All the best,
Miles
18 years, 3 months
Kernel 2.6.15-1.1884_FC5 crashes on boot on Dell Inspiron 8600
by Steven Haigh
When booting off kernel-2.6.15-1.1884_FC5 the system sets the clock,
tries to start udev, then dies.
The crash output states:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f8000022
printing eip:
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
last sysfs file: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/ide0/0.0/modalias
-- snipped a heap of modules to do with sound, network and wifi --
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<f8000022>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.15-1.1884_FC5)
EIP is at 0xf8000022
eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000020 ecx: 0000000 edx: f88875fa
esi: 0000142d edi: 12000021 ebp: 00001432 esp: f74ebd30
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process modprobe (pid: 688, threadinfo=f75b1000 task=f750a000)
Stack: <0>00001437 12000023 0000143c 00000024 00001441 F7000025
00001446 00000026
0000144b 00000027 00001450 00000028 00001455 f7000029 0000145a f700002a
0000145f ff00002b 00001464 0000002c 00001469 0000002d 0000146e 0000002e
Call Trace:
Code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Bad EIP value.
The system then attempts to boot after 120 seconds, but doesn't get
very far before falling in a heap. Anyone got any ideas on this one?
--
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Email: netwiz(a)crc.id.au
Web: http://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0412 935 897
18 years, 3 months
Windows Key works as a single key instead of a modifier
by Thomas J. Baker
Can anyone use the windows key as a modifier (like shift or alt). Mine
always works as a single key, Meta_L. Under which component would I file
a bug?
tjb
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18 years, 3 months
Re: Latets yum thoroughly hosed?!
by George R Goffe
Howdy,
My two cents.
I'm having the same yum problem that everyone is/was having. I have
run these commands:
rpm -e sqlite-devel-3.3.3-1.i386 \ rpm-devel-4.4.2-13.i386
net-snmp-devel-5.3-3.i386
and then this one:
rpm -Uvh --oldpackage sqlite-3.3.2-1.i386.rpm
All appears to be cool now except that libneon is causing(?) a
missing dependency:
Error: Missing Dependency: libneon.so.24 is needed by package kdesvn
Error: Missing Dependency: libneon.so.24 is needed by package
openoffice.org-core
Not provided by any rpm?
The question about what's killing the yum process might be answered
by the presence of a "new" (new to the later 2.4 kernels anyway)
kernel option (I forget the exact terminology) "oom killer?". I
think it's either this "feature" (that made it into the 2.6 kernels
as a permanent fixture) or the system just running out of memory and
killing the process as part of a recovery. I let my system run for a
while (completely disabled apparently) when the "killed" message
appeared. On subsequent attempts to use yum I watched xosview and it
showed a steady increas in paging and swap and memory usage which
you might expect given the previous reports. I have a "strace -xvf
yum update" output file that shows what's happening. Of course you
have to have strace installed, apparently it does NOT come with a
"default" system install, whatever that is. Yum(?) or someone is
looping on a brk system call. I haven't analyzed the trace yet.
Regards,
George...
p.s., This group is GREAT!
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18 years, 3 months