On 08/30/2010 04:52 PM, seth vidal wrote:
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:49 -0400, Leam Hall wrote:
> Nope, it needs:
>
> 1. To escape being put together by people that don't seem to understand
> that server people have to maintain more than one OS version.
not sure I understand this one.
"info" pages vs "man"
Changing the -l option to mean something other than "--one-file-system"
Using UIDs in /etc/fstab vice /dev/sdX
--although this one either seems fixed or I already "fixed" it manually.
Network Manager whacking /etc/resolv.conf.
--Actually, it took me a year to find one decent use for Network Manager
SElinux and iptables on by default. Both are useful but I've yet to see
someone actually fully use them in a production environment.
> 2. To escape RPM hell. I wonder if you still need to install Perl
to get
> PHP?
that's not what RPM hell means - but your issue is with the deps not
being constrained as much, I assume.
RPM Hell to me is having to install several dozens of unrelated packages
for one thing I want. I realize there's more than one level of this
particular hell. Thanks for what you've done to ease the pain.
> 3. People on the IRC that aren't nazis.
godwin's law so early? :)
Adolph's boys jumped into a bad stereotype. Godwin's wrong; Nazi is not
an issue but what the term communicates is fairly common across a lot of
cultures and is much shorter than "anal-retentive pinheads".
So a whlie back I'm on IRC and some bozo who seems to think they run the
channel threatens to boot me because I found an answer to someone's
issue on the Ubuntu forum and mentioned it.
> 4. To actually work. I'm on problem #15 with a straight F13
install. Of
> those, only one has been operator error.
do you have your list of those?
Not all, but here's some. It took me three or four days to do an
install. Part of me wants to re-do the install from scratch and see if
there were more op errs. Part of me is so tired of this Ubuntu is
looking very nice.
1. Install nfs-utils to be able to mount NFSv4 filesystems. Problems
with rpc.lockd that takes a reboot.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514427
2. Installing a Window Manager does not install other stuff required to
run X. Sort of the backwards image of rpm deps.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624890
3. Gnome panel requires evolution-server.
4. dd based directions to create a USB stick don't work.
5. Directions to use the program to write a USB stick, the name of the
program frustratingly escapes me at the moment, require Fedora and
several packages to run. Not good when the Fedora install you were doing
failed after wiping out the Fedora install you used to use.
6. User added in /etc/passwd. Logging in the WM is fine, the usual
desktop stuff is there. Opening a terminal drops me in "/" as it can't
read my home directory in /etc/passwd? Even running:
cd `grep <me> /etc/passwd | awk -F":" '{ print $6 }'` drops me in
the
right place but opening a terminal does not. Haven't logged a bug on
that one yet.
7. Installing on my IBM T30 in a docking station fails to utilize the
entire external screen when I finally do get X installed. I can't
remember how I fixed that one but it sort of works now. In return,
booting into init 3 only uses part of the screen.
Those are the ones off the top of my head.
Leam