Minimal installation
by Carlos Rodrigues
Hi!
I've tried to do a minimal installation of FC3, only to find that it
really isn't that minimal... So, my suggestion is: would it be possible
to have a really minimal installation option? I was thinking something
like the base installation of the BSDs.
Carlos Rodrigues
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url: http://tudo-sobre-nada.blogspot.com
19 years, 4 months
LZW and legal stuff
by Michael A. Peters
LZW patent is no longer valid, according to Unisys themselves.
What are the chances (I guess lawyers need to get involved etc.) of
using LZW packages with Fedora?
For example - giflib, lzw compression kit for libtiff, etc.
It does look like the version of gd that ships with Fedora Core has gif
functionallity added back into by the upstream developer, and Fedora
did not patch it out - is that just an oversight or are you comfortable
with lzw compression now that the Unisys patent has expired?
If there are no *other* legal issues, I think lzw compression kit for
libtiff would definitely be good, the new version of gimp apparently
has better support for raw images from various digital cameras, and lzw
compressed tiff is a good way to share tiff images between operating
systems at a small filesize (IE sending images to stock photo company)
19 years, 4 months
2.6.10-1.737_FC3 kernel panic
by Dax Kelson
Note that I've created a bugzilla bug for this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144905
Thought I'd toss it out here to see if anyone else is seeing the same
thing.
My kernel is not tainted.
-------------------------------
(transcribed from a cell phone camera picture)
(jpeg here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?
id=109677&action=view)
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process udevd (pid: 1501, threadinfo=f744e000 task=f7ae0bb0)
Stack: f7ffb110 f7fffac0 f77e3000 f7ffb110 f7ffe2c0 c0145b0b 0000000c f7ffb100
f7ffb100 f77e3000 f7ffb110 00000286 c0145d43 f7b78750 f7b78750 00000000
f70ad22c c0118679 f7b78750 c011c696 f7b707fc f7b78750 00000000 0000ea00
Call Trace:
[<c0145b0b>] cache_flusharray+0xc8/0x144
[<c0145d43>] kfree+0x3b/0x49
[<c0118679>] free_task+0xb/0x18
[<c011c696>] release_task+0x1b1/0x1c0
[<c011ec4f>] wait_task_zombie+0x650/0x66b
[<c011fed4>] do_wait+0x173/0x403
[<c0117643>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
[<c0117643>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
[<c015dc77>] vfs_read+0xb6/0xe2
[<c011f6f7>] sys_wait4+0x27/0x2a
[<c011f70d>] sys_waidpid+0x13/0x17
[<c0103337>] syscalll_call+0x7/0xb
Code: 40 24 39 fd 0f 0d 99 00 00 00 0b 04 24 0b 15 10 0e 3f c0 8b 0c a8 8d 81 00 00 00 40 c1 e0 0c c1 e0 05 8b 5c 10 1c 0b 53 04 8b 03 <89> 50 04 89 02 31 d2 2b <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: mm/slab.c:2202: spin_lock(mm/slab.c:f7fffb04) already locked by mm/slab.c/2202
19 years, 4 months
kernel builds for ppc
by Ralf Ertzinger
Hi.
Before I go off and file a bug about it: is there a reason that no new kernel
builds for ppc have shown up for quite a while?
--
"Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I am delighted to say
that I have no grasp of it whatsoever." -- Baron Munchausen
19 years, 4 months
Problems with ldap authentication (gdm)
by Dimitrie O. Paun
It looks like there is (again?) an authentication problem with gdm.
Namely, when I'm trying to use LDAP authentication, both
local login on a regular console and slogin work like a charm,
but gdm fails with the error:
"cannot set your user group, you will not be able to log in, please contact your system administrator"
Now, this is what I get in /var/log/messages:
Jan 12 01:03:16 saturn gdm[2847]: Cannot set user group for bugger
Jan 12 01:03:53 saturn gdm[2847]: Cannot set user group for bugger
I've done my homework, but I can't seem to find anything useful.
Now, I did find a _very_ similar bug reported (strangely enough)
exactly one year ago:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-January/msg00726.html
but that didn't help much either.
Any hints would be much appreciated!
--
Dimi.
19 years, 4 months
Wanted: A really easy to setup&use small network file server
by Kyrre Ness Sjobak
After having my strugles with LDAP/NFS/etc, i have seen a need - a need
for a really good "set'n'forget" Linux-based directory server, that
would allow authentification of users and mounting of homedirs.
Something that you could thrust the average person to setup, that would
be "insert cd, in anaconda chose LAN file server, install. Add users.
Connect clients. Have fun". A really no-fuzz kind of thing.
I know this is a short descriptions, i could probably gone to great
lengths about this, but i think you get the point. So i just throw out
the idea, hoping that somebody caches it...
Kyrre
Btw. i couldn't not notice that bluecurve window borders around the maps
on the control terminal of some new tsunami warning system... I am
really relieved they at least did get the OS choice right! Seriously!
Now i migth acctually thrust it...
(BLUESCREEN: Lost contact with bouy due to earthquake.)
19 years, 4 months
console caracteres
by Patricio Bruna V
im having some troubles with the caracters display in gnome-terminal.
for example it can't show the accents and instead shows weird things.
PS: i write here because im using fedora devel, and im not sure if its a
bug, or a missconfiguration
--
Patricio Bruna http://www.linuxcenterla.com
Ingeniero de Proyectos Mariano Sánchez Fontecilla 310
Red Hat Certified Engineer Las Condes, Santiago - CHILE
Linux Center Latinoamerica Fono: 2745000
19 years, 4 months
rawhide report: 20050111 changes
by Build System
New package cpuspeed
CPU Frequency adjusting daemon.
New package dmidecode
Tool to analyse BIOS DMI data.
New package enchant
An Enchanting Spell Checking Library
New package hardlink
Create a tree of hardlinks.
New package irqbalance
IRQ balancing daemon.
New package longrun
Utility to change processor speed on Transmeta CPUs.
New package microcode_ctl
Tool to update x86/x86-64 CPU microcode.
New package readahead
Read a preset list of files into memory.
New package rng-utils
Random number generator related utilities
New package salinfo
SAL info tool.
New package smartmontools
Tools for monitoring SMART capable hard disks.
New package x86info
x86 processor information tool.
Removed package kernel-utils
Updated Packages:
alsa-lib-1.0.7-3.devel
----------------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Martin Stransky <stransky(a)redhat.com> 1.0.7-3.devel
- fix #144518 - stack protection control
dhcpv6-0.10-10
--------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com> - 0.10-10
- Fix bug 144585: dhcp6c wasn't writing radvd.conf in prefix delegation mode
* Sun Jan 09 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com> - 0.10-10
- Add Relay Agent support. Thanks to Brian Bluesker<bbuesker(a)qualcomm.com>
- for the patch to add relay support to the server and for submitting the
- patch originally contributed by Cristian Cadar of NEC Europe to
- DHCPv6-developer mailing list.
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com> - 0.10-9
- fix bug 143728: SEGV core on resolv.conf + radvd.conf update -
- yywrap()'s must return 1
glade2-2.6.8-1
--------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.8-1
- Update to 2.6.8
glib2-2.6.1-1
-------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.1-1
- Upgrade to 2.6.1
gpdf-2.8.2-1.3
--------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg(a)redhat.com> 2.8.2-1.3
- Update to 2.8.2
- Remove patches, they are upstream
gphoto2-2.1.5-2
---------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 2.1.5-2
- 2.1.5 (bug #143141).
gstreamer-0.8.8-2
-----------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.8.8-2
- Updated gstreamer-0.8.8-lib64.patch which does not rename
tools such as gst-launch to e.g. gst-launch-i686.
* Mon Jan 03 2005 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.8.8-1
- Update to 0.8.8
- Remove upstreamed escape-uris patch
- Readd redirection of register output to /dev/null
* Tue Nov 09 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.8.7-6
- Add initial lib64 patch.
gtk2-2.6.1-1
------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.1-1
- Upgrade to 2.6.1
- Drop no longer needed fixes
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-0:1.4.2.0-33jpp
-------------------------------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim(a)redhat.com> - 0:1.4.2.0-33jpp
- Bump release number for FC4.
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim(a)redhat.com> - 0:1.4.2.0-32jpp
- Add symbolic JRE Provides.
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim(a)redhat.com> - 0:1.4.2.0-31jpp
- Bump release number.
jpilot-0.99.7-4
---------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Ivana Varekova <varekova(a)redhat.com>
- fix part of bug #142520 - problem with Go to Today
kernel-2.6.10-1.1076_FC4
------------------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Update to -bk13, reinstate GFP_ZERO patch which hopefully
is now fixed.
net-tools-1.60-43
-----------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal(a)redhat.com> 1.60-43
- don't report statistics for virtual devices (#143981) <kzak(a)redhat.com>
- fixing translation headers - content type format
- kill bitkeeper warning messages
policycoreutils-1.20.1-2
------------------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.20.1-2
- Fix restorecon segfault
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20050111
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selinux-policy-strict-1.20.1-1
------------------------------
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.20.1-1
- Start using typeattribute
- Implement allow_samba_home_dirs
selinux-policy-targeted-1.20.1-1
--------------------------------
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.20.1-1
- Start using typeattribute
- Implement allow_samba_home_dirs
subversion-1.1.2-3
------------------
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 1.1.2-3
- update to 1.1.2
- disable swig bindings due to incompatible swig version
* Wed Nov 24 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 1.1.1-5
- update subversion.conf examples to be SELinux-friendly
talk-0.17-27
------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 0.17-27
- patch to handle input in UTF-8 from Miloslav Trmac (#143818)
xen-2-20050108
--------------
* Sun Jan 09 2005 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
- grab newer snapshot, that does start up
- add /var/xen/xend-db/{domain,vnet} to %files section
xinetd-2:2.3.13-5
-----------------
* Sat Jan 08 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com> 2:2.3.13-4
- Added patch committed to upstream CVS to fix bz#140084
(error logging accidentally using one of [012] as the syslog
descriptor)
* Fri Jun 18 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com> 2:2.3.13-3
- Add patch to fix #126242: banner's don't work
* Thu Jun 17 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com>
- Remove the configuration for the no-longer-present "services" service.
Closes #126169
19 years, 4 months
