setools update fails
by red_alert
hi
since setools devel version 1.2.1-7 updating fails. i hoped, it's only a
bad vintage or so...but 1.3-2 fails too.
The following packages will be upgraded
setools (1.2.1-6 => 1.3-2)
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/361kB of archives.
After unpacking 269kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Committing changes...
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error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/seuser: cpio:
lsetfilecon failed - Das Argument ist ungültig (means: The argument is
invalid)
W: Some errors occurred while running transaction
anyone knows if the package(s) is buggy or if anything went wrong on my
system?
regards
red_alert
20 years, 1 month
rawhide report: 20040418 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
booty-0.34-1
------------
* Tue Mar 16 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.34-1
- use vmlinuz for ppc now
* Mon Dec 01 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 0.33-1
- no ide-scsi with 2.6
* Fri Nov 28 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- add buildrequires (#111150)
rhpl-0.141-1
------------
* Thu Apr 15 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.141-1
- xserver.py: workaround libxf86config not writing out the monitor stuff
we tell it to (#120950)
* Wed Apr 14 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.140-1
- translate.py: one more try at string encoding madness (#119391)
* Tue Apr 13 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.139-1
- videocard.py: fixups for VESA handling on x86_64
- videocard.py, xserver.py: XFree86 -> Xorg changes
rpmdb-fedora-1.92-0.20040418
----------------------------
20 years, 1 month
ALSA in a 2.6 world
by Florin Andrei
I'll describe first the situation, and the actual question is at the
very end.
I'm speaking from the perspective of electronic musicians and sound
geeks - i'm using Linux to run sequencers and other MIDI software, JACK,
DAW applications, external synths and effect boxes interfaced via MIDI
and analog audio, etc.
And i'm running all that on Fedora.
For this kind of usage, up-to-date sound drivers are essential. ALSA has
been fixing bugs and adding new useful features at a steady and rapid
pace.
So far, on distributions based on kernel-2.4 (Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 1),
i was content to download the ALSA rpms from http://freshrpms.net/ ,
rebuild the src.rpm, install the binaries and i was good to go. Because
ALSA and the kernel were essentially decoupled, nothing prevented me
from keeping up with the newest ALSA (short of small occasional
incompatibilities between ALSA and the Red Hat modifications to the
kernel).
This helped me a lot with my work. It allowed me to get new improved
mixers when they were ready, it allowed me to squish bugs out of the
system, etc.
But i wonder about Fedora Core 2. That one will be using kernel-2.6,
which includes ALSA. Typically, a Red Hat / Fedora release does not
increment the kernel version during the release cycle. That means that
FC2 and beyond will get stuck with whatever ALSA version was available
at release time.
For anyone using Linux for sound / music work, that is not ok. If you
buy a piece of hardware (e.g. an expensive professional sound card such
as an RME Multiface) and an essential feature is only supported by ALSA
versions newer than what your distribution provides, then... well, it's
not the end of the world, but it's definitely not good.
Sure, one could compile a newer kernel, but that way the Red Hat changes
to the kernel (which are often good for demanding apps such as digital
recorders) will be lost.
Long story made short, is there any mechanism provided by Fedora Core 2
to allow users to painlessly upgrade to newer ALSA versions without
having to ditch the kernel bundled with the distribution?
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
20 years, 1 month
Module.symvers missing?
by Philip Balister
I am trying to build the ndiswrapper module on FC2, test2. This uses the Makefile in
/lib/modules/2.6.5-xxx/build. The compilation fails because
/lib/modules/2.6.5-xxx/build/Module.symvers is missing. I am using the
latest kernel from rawhide. It used to work with an older 2.6 in FC1.
Philip
20 years, 1 month
rawhide report: 20040417 changes
by Build System
New package ppc64-utils
Linux/PPC64 specific utilities
Updated Packages:
Canna-3.7p1-7
-------------
* Wed Apr 14 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 3.7p1-7
- updates cannadic-0.95b
* Sun Mar 21 2004 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de> 3.7p1-6
- apps owned by root instead of bin
* Wed Mar 17 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 3.7p1-5
- Canna-3.7p1-fix-duplicated-strings.patch: applied a backport patch from CVS.
when the characters like 'bbb...' is deleted, the preedit strings is
duplicated. (#117140)
GConf2-2.6.0-5
--------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.0-5
- Apply patch to move temporary directory creation into daemon,
needed for SELinux GConf policy
binutils-2.15.90.0.3-1
----------------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3
- update to 2.15.90.0.3
booty-0.35-1
------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.35-1
- allow booting windows from grub on x86_64 (#121005)
fam-2.6.10-8
------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Alex Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> 2.6.10-8
- re-enable fam since we disabled selinux
gedit-2.6.0-4
-------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 1:2.6.0-4
- Gnome.org #137825 Gedit crash on Find/Replace dialog close
when hitting escape
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.45
--------------------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.4-8.45
- update syscall numbers from latest kernel
- remove ia32.h and ia32_unistd.h on x86-64
htmlview-2.0.0-13
-----------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 2.0.0-13
- read http instead of unknown key
hwdata-0.117-1
--------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 0.117-1
- fix makefile
* Thu Apr 15 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 0.116-1
- move updfstab.conf here
- add wireless card (#116865)
- add laptop display panel (#117385)
- add clipdrive (#119928)
- add travelling disk (#119143)
- add NEXDISK (#106782)
* Thu Apr 15 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 0.115-1
- replace snd-es1960 driver with snd-es1968 in pcitable (bug #120729)
im-sdk-11.4-39
--------------
* Sat Apr 17 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 1:11.4-39
- add im-switch script to iiimf-x (Leon Ho)
- build iiimecf and put in iiimf-emacs subpackage
- buildrequire emacs and add iiimecf-init.el to site-start.d
- buildrequire gnome-panel-devel not gnome-panel
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 1:11.4-38
- gave %dir /usr/lib/im to the packages, which is needed.
- removed %dir /usr/lib/im from iiimf-server.
it no longer contains that directory.
- im-sdk-11.4-canna-ignore-ctrl.patch: applied to fix "should ignore Ctrl key"
issue. (#120484)
- im-sdk-11.4-hangul-ignore-ctrl.patch: applied to fix "should ignore Ctrl key"
issue. (#120484)
libgnomeui-2.6.0-3
------------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> 2.6.0-3
- Backport fixes from cvs
- fix fileselector crashes
- fix auth callback threadsafeness
- fix auth callback modal dialog bug
lvm2-2.00.14-1.1
----------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 2.00.14-1
- Use 64-bit file offsets.
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 2.00.13-1
- Avoid scanning devices containing md superblocks.
- Integrate ENOTSUP patch.
openldap-2.1.29-2
-----------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 2.1.29-2
- move rfc documentation from main to -devel (#121025)
patchutils-0.2.29-2
-------------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.2.29-2
- Fix no-newline handling in filterdiff.
perl-BSD-Resource-1.23-5
------------------------
perl-Bit-Vector-6.3-2
---------------------
perl-Compress-Zlib-1.33-4
-------------------------
perl-Crypt-SSLeay-0.51-2
------------------------
perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9003-4
-----------------------
perl-DBD-Pg-1.31-5
------------------
perl-DBI-1.40-4
---------------
perl-Date-Calc-5.3-8
--------------------
perl-Devel-Symdump-2.03-17
--------------------------
perl-Digest-SHA1-2.07-4
-----------------------
perl-Filter-1.30-5
------------------
perl-HTML-Parser-3.35-5
-----------------------
* Wed Mar 17 2004 Chip Turner <cturner(a)redhat.com> 3.35-2
- rebuild for fc1 update
perl-Inline-0.44-13
-------------------
perl-RPM2-0.66-5
----------------
perl-TermReadKey-2.20-16
------------------------
perl-Text-Kakasi-1.05-10
------------------------
perl-Time-HiRes-1.55-2
----------------------
perl-XML-LibXML-1.56-10
-----------------------
perl-XML-LibXML-Common-0.13-5
-----------------------------
perl-XML-Parser-2.34-2
----------------------
php-4.3.6-1
-----------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 4.3.6-1
- update to 4.3.6 (Robert Scheck, #121011)
policy-1.11.2-9
---------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.11.2-8
- Fix udev.
- Misc fixes
* Thu Apr 15 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.11.2-8
- Fix default contexts for root.
* Thu Apr 15 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.11.2-7
- fix atd
pyxf86config-0.3.18-1
---------------------
* Thu Apr 15 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> - 0.3.18-1
- Do not write out XkbRules line to config file, as it is unnecessary hard
coding the rules file, which has a built in default which should always
work. (#120858)
rhpl-0.142-1
------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.142-1
- more XFree86->xorg
rhythmbox-0.8.0-1
-----------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.0-1
- Update to 0.8.0
rpm-4.3.1-0.3
-------------
* Thu Apr 15 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)jbj.org> 4.3.1-0.3
- make peace with libtool-1.5.6.
- fix: follow current is_selinux_enabled() return (#121004).
rpmdb-fedora-1.92-0.20040417
----------------------------
setools-1.3-2
-------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.3-1
- Fix doc location
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.3-1
- Latest from TRESYS
* Tue Apr 13 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.2.1-8
- fix location of policy.conf file
slocate-2.7-9
-------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 2.7-9
- exlude usbdevfs (#113816)
ypserv-2.13-0
-------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Steve Dickson <SteveD(a)RedHat.com>
- Updated to 2.13
20 years, 1 month
kernel module packages for FC1 for ipw2100 (Intel Wireless Pro driver)
by Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi everyone,
I'd like to get some testers for the packages I made this weekend for
this network card. The two bugzilla entries relevant to this are
http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1019 (hostap)
http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1494 (ipw2100)
I built packages for three FC1 kernel releases (the base one, and the
two latest ones), for up and smp, and for i686 and athlon.
Don't forget to install the firmware file for this driver in
/etc/firmware
Ville, and other interested people, I'd really like us to move forward
on packaging kernel modules for fedora.us and developing some standard
for it. I have a simple template tarball working with autotools that
makes it really easy to package external kernel modules for 2.4, and
hope to extend this sometime soon to 2.6 too.
Thomas
Dave/Dina : future TV today ! - http://www.davedina.org/
<-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*->
what good are promises
if nobody honours them ?
<-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*->
URGent, best radio on the net - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.fm/
20 years, 1 month
Anaconda 100% CPU and stuck...
by Warren Togami
rawhide 20040416
rawhide 20040417
When I attempted to install from these two days onto my x86_64 box,
Anaconda just gets stuck in both GUI and TUI mode right after I tell it
that I want to run Disk Druid for manual partitioning. In VT2 top shows
that anaconda is using 100% CPU and appears stuck that way forever.
Is there any way I can debug this from VT2? I couldn't figure out any
way with the available tools there.
Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com
20 years, 1 month
Don't use "Requires(foo,bar): ..." notation
by Michael Schwendt
I'd like to call on everybody, who's maintaining packages, to no longer
use "Requires(foo,bar): ..." notation in spec files, because it can lead
to unexpected results due to two bugs. [1] [2] Details in the bugzilla
reports.
Instead, it should be split like this to work around those bugs:
Requires(pre): foo
Requires(post): foo
For instance, we here have a package with "Requires(post,preun): GConf2"
because gconftool-2 is needed and executed in the package's postinstall
and preuninstall scriptlets. However, the installed package does not seem
to depend on GConf2 when it is queried like this
$ rpm --query straw
straw-0.22.1-0.fdr.2
$ rpm --query --whatrequires GConf2 | grep straw
$
and actually one can erase the GConf2 package (provided that no other
installed package depends on it, of course, which makes this bug more
dangerous when less widely used programs are required in package
scriplets). A subsequent "rpm --erase straw" would fail in the
preuninstall scriptlet, since gconftool-2 is no longer available.
[1] Requires(pre,postun) screws up package ordering
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/118773
[2] Requires(pre,postun) is ignored for installed packages
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/118780
--
Fedora Core release 1.91 (FC2) - Linux 2.6.5-1.326
20 years, 1 month
Re: Kernel RPM question: What if...
by Bob Billing
> Any ideas of any kind in this vein would be greatly appreciated at this point...
If it's any use I've seen something similar, but always when an
X-terminal has been scrolling fast in the reverse direction, such as
when hitting the page up key, and when using very big screen resolutions
such as 1600x1200.
--
Robert Billing, Tanglewood,
01344-772849 64, Pinehill Road,
rbilling(a)tnglwood.demon.co.uk Crowthorne,
http://www.tnglwood.demon.co.uk/ Berks, RG45 7JR
20 years, 1 month
