Boot up problem in xen
by Dan Track
Hi
I installed rhel 3 using a cdrom in the normal way but without
installing the bootloader. The problem is that it won't boot up. Below
is the bootup messages, as you can see it only goes as far as freeing
unused memory, then it stops. Any ideas on this?
xen_blk: Initialising virtual block device driver
xen_net: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 256 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 49152 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
Thanks
Dan
18 years, 10 months
bad practice: services that are automatically re-enabled
by Florin Andrei
Something that absolutely needs to be fixed in future FC versions is
services that "misteriously" re-enable themselves.
I'm sure it happened to everyone, so my story is surely not news.
I install a fresh system, remove unnecessary packages, disable services
that are not used at the moment but will be used after a while. All is
good and the system is doing exactly what's supposed to do.
But when I verify with chkconfig the list of enabled services a few
weeks after that... surprise! Many services somehow managed to re-enable
themselves!
I suspect there are two causes:
1. When updating certain packages, the service will mark itself enabled,
regardless of the current status. That is disgusting. This practice must
stop immediately.
2. I think there are certain weekly or monthly crontabs or something
like that that have a nasty habit of thinking themselves smarter than
the sysadmin and make their own decisions of re-enabling services that
were knowingly disabled by the aforementioned sysadmin. This sneaky,
surreptitious, nasty habit must disappear.
Any script, any piece of software, whatever, should not blindingly re-
enable services. The current status of the service (enabled / disabled)
should be checked and the script/software/whatever should not change it.
This goes for the Fedora Core components proper, the Extras, and all the
other independent repositories as well.
There should be some guidelines or a policy for building RPM packages
that contain system services, or daemons, whatever, with regard to
actions taken during install, update and periodic cron jobs - all things
that might change the enabled/disabled status of a service.
Anyway, I will be very happy to follow said policy, since myself I'm
guilty of building RPM packages that do stupid things with chkconfig. I
hereby repent and publicly admit my sinful ways, and I ask everyone to
work together and come up with a clear, better way of dealing with this
class of problems.
Otherwise... you know, software that thinks itself smarter than its
users - that's so Microsoft.
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
18 years, 10 months
rpmdb-fedora
by Curtis Doty
I must have been sleeping when rpmdb-fedora got removed. But what was
the reasoning?
../C
18 years, 10 months
rawhide report: 20050615 changes
by Build System
New package cairo
A vector graphics library
Updated Packages:
4Suite-1.0-9.b1
---------------
* Sun Jun 12 2005 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 1.0-9.b1
- Ship COPYRIGHT file
- Use bdist_install like upstream does, instead of patching the build scripts
audit-0.9.5-1
-------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> 0.9.5-1
- interpret socketcall & ipc based on a0 in ausearch
- change call sequence to make user space messages faster
- update return val for auditctl
device-mapper-1.01.03-1.0
-------------------------
* Mon Jun 13 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 1.01.03-1.0
- Reinstate selinux support.
doxygen-1:1.4.3-1
-----------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.4.3-1
- 1.4.3
hplip-0.9.3-4
-------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.9.3-4
- Conflicts: hpijs from before this package provided it.
- Conflicts: system-config-printer < 0.6.132 (i.e. before HPLIP support
was added)
jakarta-commons-collections-0:3.1-2jpp_1fc
------------------------------------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> - 0:3.1-2jpp_1fc
- Remove jarfiles from the tarball.
* Wed May 25 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> - 0:3.1-2jpp
- Do not fetch stuff from sun.com during javadoc generation.
- Add build dependency on ant-junit.
jakarta-commons-el-0:1.0-4jpp_1fc
---------------------------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> - 0:1.0-4jpp_1fc
- Remove build-depencency on log4j.
* Thu May 26 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> - 0:1.0-4jpp
- Don't bundle servletapi sources (which weren't used anyway).
kdebase-6:3.4.1-0.fc4.1
-----------------------
* Mon Jun 13 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.4.1-0.fc4.1
- 3.4.1
- update pam configuration for the new audit system #159333
* Tue May 03 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.4.0-7
- fix broken kde-essential.menu
* Tue Apr 19 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.4.0-6
- apply kdebase-3.4.0rc1-konsole-keymap.patch to change backspace key
to ASCII-DEL, thanks to j.w.r.degoede(a)hhs.nl
libsoup-2.2.3-4
---------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 2.2.3-4
- add patch for NTLM domains (#160071)
* Sun Apr 24 2005 Florian La Roche <laroche(a)redhat.com>
- rebuild for new gnutls
lvm2-2.01.12-1.0
----------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 2.01.12-1.0
- New version upstream with a lot of fixes and enhancements.
* Wed Apr 27 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 2.01.08-2.1
- Add /etc/lvm
* Wed Apr 27 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 2.01.08-2.0
- No longer abort read operations if archive/backup directories aren't there.
- Add runtime directories and file to the package.
lvm2-cluster-2.01.09-5.0
------------------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 2.01.09-5.0
- Couple of fixes to clvmd file descriptor closing.
- Fix potential spin loop in clvmd.
- Add lvmconf binary to enable/disable clustering.
m2crypto-0.13-5
---------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 0.13-5
- Better fix for #159898, by Dan Williams
openoffice.org-1:1.9.109-5.2.0.fc5
----------------------------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Caolan McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.9.109-5
- drop unnecessary openoffice.org-1.9.103.oooXXXXX.installation.disable-epm.fix.patch
- add simple crash report output, not that there are any crashs you understand
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Caolan McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.9.109-4
- add Bengali langpack
- make a stable /usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0 dir
- make openoffice.org-1.9.108.ooo9290.goodies.epstoepdf.patch paranoid
- enable failure on rpmbuild test for executable stack
- drop integrated openoffice.org-1.9.89.ooo46912.setjmpoutsidenamespace.binfilter.patch
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Caolan McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.9.109-3
- add openoffice.org-1.9.108.oooXXXXX.pyuno.pushrpath.patch
- rejig build to use current splashscreen
- readd openoffice.org-1.9.88.NONE.gcc3gcj4.patch
- add openoffice.org-1.9.108.ooo9290.goodies.epstoepdf.patch for rh#142535#
qt-1:3.3.4-15
-------------
* Tue May 24 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1:3.3.4-15
- add better fix for #156977, thanks to trolltech
- apply patch to fix keyReleaseEvent problem #156572
regexp-0:1.3-2jpp_2fc
---------------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 0:1.3-2jpp_2fc
- Remove jarfile from the tarball.
selinux-policy-strict-1.23.18-6
-------------------------------
* Mon Jun 13 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.23.18-6
- Further cleanup of user separation patches from Ivan
sysreport-1.4.1-3
-----------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.4.1-3
- don't include sensitive data #159502
- collect exim/nis/cluster/inittab/maillog/shell/ipcs/nscd/udev
18 years, 10 months
rawhide report: 20050616 changes
by Build System
New package bsf
Bean Scripting Framework
New package concurrent
Utility classes for concurrent Java programming
New package geronimo-specs
Geronimo J2EE server J2EE specifications
New package jacorb
Free Java implementation of OMG's CORBA standard
New package jakarta-commons-codec
Jakarta Commons Codec Package
New package jakarta-commons-discovery
Jakarta Commons Discovery
New package jakarta-commons-httpclient
Jakarta Commons HTTPClient Package
New package jdom
Java alternative to DOM and SAX
New package jonathan-rmi
Subset of javax.rmi for building against
New package jrefactory
JRefactory and Pretty Print
New package mockobjects
Java MockObjects package
New package tanukiwrapper
Java Service Wrapper
New package velocity
Java-based template engine
New package werken.xpath
XPath implementation using JDOM
New package xdoclet
XDoclet Attribute Orientated Programming Framework
New package xjavadoc
The XJavaDoc engine
Updated Packages:
NetworkManager-0.4-30.cvs20050615
---------------------------------
* Wed Jun 15 2005 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> - 0.4-30.cvs20050615
- Update to latest CVS
ant-0:1.6.2-3jpp_10fc
---------------------
* Wed Jun 15 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> 0:1.6.2-3jpp_10fc
- Add the bsf subpackage since we now ship bsf.
- Remove gcj workaround (not correct, so assume not necessary).
- Remove jarfiles from the tarball.
* Mon Jun 06 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com>
- Make the javah task fall back to executing javah if
com.sun.tools.javah.Main cannot be found.
curl-7.14.0-1
-------------
* Thu Jun 16 2005 Ivana Varekova <varekova(a)redhat.com> 7.14.0-1
- rebuild new version
hplip-0.9.3-5
-------------
* Wed Jun 15 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.9.3-5
- Use static IP ports (for SELinux policy).
kdepim-6:3.4.1-0.fc4.1
----------------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.4.1-0.fc4.1
- update to 3.4.1
- remove kdepim-3.4.0-long.patch, it's included in new upstream
kernel-2.6.11-1.1383_FC5
------------------------
* Mon Jun 13 2005 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com>
- Reenable fixed ipw drivers.
* Mon Jun 13 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.12-rc6-git5
libgsf-1.12.1-1
---------------
* Wed Jun 15 2005 Caolan McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> 1.12.1-1
- bump to latest version
openoffice.org-1:1.9.109-6.2.0.fc5
----------------------------------
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Caolan McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.9.109-6
- drop unnecessary Require
- rh#160302# skip fontconfig for symbol font processing
pilot-link-1:0.12.0-0.pre4.1
----------------------------
* Wed Jun 15 2005 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 0.12.0-0.pre4.1
- 0.12.0-pre4
- remove pilot-link-0.12.0-pre3-buffer.patch, it's included in new upstream
selinux-policy-strict-1.23.18-7
-------------------------------
* Wed Jun 15 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.23.18-7
- Fixed for new cups domain hplip
struts-0:1.2.4-2jpp_1fc
-----------------------
* Wed Jun 15 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> - 0:1.2.4-2jpp_1fc
- Make workaround for #157205 specific to libgcj.
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com>
- Remove jars, wars and classes from the tarball.
* Fri May 27 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> - 0:1.2.4-2jpp
- Build with servletapi5.
- Add build dependency on ant-nodeps.
system-config-netboot-0.1.20-1
------------------------------
* Wed Jun 15 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com> 0.1.20-1
- fix addendum to bugs 149000/135411: updateDiskless:
Do not create SELinux xattr labels in the initrd filesystem
xalan-j2-0:2.6.0-3jpp_1fc
-------------------------
* Wed Jun 15 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> 0:2.6.0-3jpp_1fc
- Remove jarfiles from the tarball.
* Fri May 27 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> 0:2.6.0-3jpp
- Add NOTICE file as per Apache License version 2.0.
- Build with servletapi5.
xerces-j2-0:2.6.2-5jpp_1fc
--------------------------
* Wed Jun 15 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> 0:2.6.2-5jpp_1fc
- Upgrade to 2.6.2-5jpp.
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> 0:2.6.2-5jpp
- Remove the tools tarball, and build xjavac from source.
- Patch xjavac to fix the classpath under libgcj too.
xml-commons-0:1.0-0.b2.7jpp_2fc
-------------------------------
* Wed Jun 15 2005 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> - 0:1.0-0.b2.7jpp_2fc
- Remove all prebuilt stuff from the tarball.
yum-2.3.3-1
-----------
* Wed Jun 15 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.3.3-1
- update to 2.3.3
18 years, 10 months
What next?
by Elliot Lee
Maybe it's time to start the brainstorming for Fedora Core 5 and Fedora
Extras 5 - what major features are you willing to put effort into?
Best,
-- Elliot
18 years, 10 months
Re: rawhide report: 20050610 changes
by Horst H. von Brand
Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Rodd Clarkson (rodd(a)clarkson.id.au) said:
> > > kernel-2.6.11-1.1381_FC5
> > > ------------------------
> > > * Thu Jun 09 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
> > > - 2.6.12-rc6-git3
> > > - Temporarily disable the ipw drivers until I sort them out.
> > What's up with these drivers? What's to sort out?
> Broke with the gcc in the FC5 tree.
I've been compiling 1.0.4 against Linus' git tree almost daily on FC4t3
onwards. No problems seen up to here (but no fancy setup either).
--
Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org
Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239
Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
18 years, 10 months
Re: "I plan to work on..." for FC5
by David Woodhouse
I plan to work on...
Top of the list would probably be NetworkManager. It's quite nice now,
but needs to learn about Bluetooth networking and dialup so it can
actually handle _all_ the common connectivity requirements for my laptop
rather than only some of them.
I'll also try to make something mergeable out of the hacks I have at the
moment to effectively authenticate via Bluetooth at boot time -- I have
gdm set to autologin, and my GNOME session checks via Bluetooth for the
presence of my phone and runs 'xscreensaver -lock' if it's not found.
I'll probably make this happen on resume from sleep too, which is
probably more useful since the laptop spends far more time asleep than
it does turned off.
--
dwmw2
18 years, 10 months
nfs-utils rpcsvcgssd and nfs init script redundancy?
by Wesley Harrell
According to the changelog in nfs-utils-1.0.6-52 the developer
"Changed the nfs.init script to bring rpc.svcgssd up and down,
since rpc.svcgssd is only needed with the NFS server is running."
However the rpcsvcgssd init script is still added via chkconfig during install
*and* is started before nfs. Is this a mistake, or is there a reason the
rpcsvcgssd continues to be started through its own init script?
18 years, 10 months