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Re: Minimal Install Option
by Mark A. Hoover 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

rhl-beta-list-request(a)redhat.com wrote: > > I don't know if this was ever discussed within RH and/or on the list, > but I was thinking maybe it would be fruitful to add a minimal > installation option, a la freebsd, into anaconda/the setup system. The > benefits of a minimal install option are great and would enable those > experimenting with RH systems to have more flexibility in their system > configuration. Those playing with SELinux and other security > configurations would have the option of not having 300 services (I'm > exaggerating) starting up at boot, and a trim installation overall. > This obviously isn't something for this beta or maybe even the next one > but maybe looking towards RHL 11 or 12. I'd absolutely love to see something like this. I take the minimalist approach to system administration where if it's not on the system, it's not something that can be used against you. As a result, I usually spend a good portion of time removing a lot of the packages that RH installs with their "Server" install. -- ----------------------------------------------------- Have Fun, Suffer and Survive, or Get Lost in the Net! Mark Hoover mahoover(a)ispaceonline.org

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2.6.0-0.test3.1.31, mice and acpi
by Joshua Legbandt 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

I've installed Arjan's 2.6.0-0.test3.1.31 kernel onto my laptop (a compaq presario 2715US) and it seems to be working almost flawlessly. I say almost because I have found 2 issues: 1st my PS/2 touchpad does not seem to be working. dmesg shows that it is found, but it is not working on the command line (with gpm) or with X. The relevant dmesg output is: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1 Firware: 5.8 Sensor: 29 new absolute packet format Touchpad has extended capability bits -> multifinger detection -> palm detection input: Synaptics Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1 My usb mouse works fine after modifying /etc/modprobe.conf after changing the alias for usb-controller from usb-uhci to uhci-hcd 2nd, the important acpi modules (battery, processor, thermal and ac) don't load, and I don't understand enough about modprobe.conf editing to make them work. With the 2.4 kernel + acpi patches, I had just compiled them into kernel, but if I can stick with an rpm'd kernel I'd be happier. After boot, I'm able to load the modules with the following commands: /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`/bin/uname -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.ko /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`/bin/uname -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/processor.ko /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`/bin/uname -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`/bin/uname -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko I've added the following to my rc.local to get them to work, but I think there should be a cleaner way of loading those modules: kern_maj_ver=`/bin/uname -r | /bin/awk -F. '{print $2}'` kern_ver=`/bin/uname -r` if [ "$kern_maj_ver" = "6" ] then echo "/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$kern_ver/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.ko" echo "/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$kern_ver/kernel/drivers/acpi/processor.ko" echo "/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$kern_ver/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko" echo "/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$kern_ver/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko" fi Anyone have any suggestions? -Josh -- Joshua Legbandt <jtlegbandt(a)earthlink.net>

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Red Hat Linux 3.3-14
by Michael Schwendt 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 $ gcc --version | head -1 gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030715 (Red Hat Linux 3.3-14) Taattaaaa! The version of the next final release has leaked. ;o) Who said it would become "Red Hat Linux 10"? Red Hat will be using completely unexpected version numbers from now on. - -- Honestly, I hope that version tag is only a temporary one. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Qj+u0iMVcrivHFQRAo+3AJ9TFNux3FlUpvLMQ9SGDMKiN9JG3wCfarkD +nXjzzy8l2rHoUdHedx5qhU= =mcTD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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rhn-applet-gui == Memory hog
by Nicholas Marsh 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Anyone else notice that rhn-applet-gui uses a large amout of %MEM (based on "top" output)? Further more, the longer the applet is open the more %MEM it uses? On my system it starts out using 5 %MEM but after a day or two, it hogs up 15 %MEM. nick marsh nmarsh1(a)mac.com

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unable to reboot or shutdown from the Gnome desktop.
by Elton Woo 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Whenever I select shutdown or reboot from the Gnome desktop, I only get logged out of the desktop, and _then_ I have to select "reboot" or "shutdown" from the gdm. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there or should there be a bug filed for this? Elton. -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_4504.html "You only live once, so let's make life EASIER for each other." LINUX Registered User #193975. AMD-K7 ATHLON CPU power on board.

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[severn] Intermittent object activation (Evolution) problems
by nosp 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Hi, Apologies in advance if this is the wrong list to use or an FAQ -- I have looked through archives & google and have not found any pointers. I just installed severn beta from ISOs today and have been having frequent problems when starting evolution. What seems extremely strange is that the problem occurs around four of every five times I run Evo. The fifth time Evo starts fine. The problem is that when I run Evo I get exactly four error dialog boxes saying "Cannot activate component OAFID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ShellComponent : The error from the activation system is: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0'". The four components mentioned in the subsequent dialogs are Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and Summary. Has anyone seen this before? Thanks, Martin

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RE: Modprobe.conf in Severn
by Glen Maeding 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Raxet- Heres my /etc/modprobe.conf: include /etc/modprobe.conf.dist alias eth0 e100 #alias usb-controller usb-ohci alias usb-controller ohci-hcd alias sound-slot-0 trident install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install sound-slot-0 && { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } remove sound-slot-0 { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove sound-slot-0 This is on a toshiba laptop satellite 1400-S151. * ** Glen Maeding * ** MIS Tech @ Kidspeace Inc. * ** Webmaster of MIS-comm, Pdangel.org, and others... * ** E-mail: gmaeding(a)kidspeace.org * ** Pager e-mail: goik(a)tmail.com -----Original Message----- From: raxet [mailto:maxer1@xmission.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 12:34 AM To: rhl-beta-list(a)redhat.com Subject: Modprobe.conf in Severn If anyone would like to share their modprobe.conf under 2.6.0 kernel, I would be interested in taking a peak. I have an Asus P4PE. Raxet -- Rhl-beta-list mailing list Rhl-beta-list(a)redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhl-beta-list

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RawHide Bluecurve theme problem: More Info
by Noah Silva [Mailing list] 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

Hi, I was trying to figure out the problem to the previously reported problem all morning, and wrongly thinking GAIM somehow caused the problem. In fact, the problem only occurs in windows with Japanese charicters in the title bar - somehow the hight is under-estimated in that case. I am using the "Bitstream Vera Sans" font, size 10 for the window captions. Using some fonts, like "Fixed", fixes the problem. Other fonts, like "Courier" show the same symptoms. Changing the size, interestingly enough, doesn't fix the problem at all. (again, the problem is illustrated in: http://aoi.atari-source.com/~nsilva/shots/20030818_rhl_bluecurve_ng_bug_scr… ) -- noah silva

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Re: Red Hat Linux 3.3-14
by Hank Maxwell 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote >>>It's no suprise. We've been publically calling it Red Hat Linux 10 development aka. "Cambridge" since the initial public announcement of the Red Hat Linux Project. The development and release schedule also is public info, being advertised in the installer screens during install. So if it becomes something other than "Red Hat Linux 10" in the end, it'll likely be discussed on these public lists before changing anyway. ;o)<<<<<< Hey why not RedHat Linux X or just RHX just a suggestion..

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Files get corrupted :(
by Martin 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

Hi *!*(a)*.*, I have a very strange problem with my Severn machine: A few days ago I moved 9 rar archives (6 Gigs) from my Win XP to my Severn machine using Samba. Yesterday I wanted to unpack the archives and had to find out that they all were corrupted. I found out that files get corrupted when they are written to the severn machine. I calculate the md5sum of a file on the XP machine and copy it to the Severn machine (I used Samba and FTP with the same result) and calculate md5 again which is always different. I managed to copy a 10 MB file without any problems but a 20 MB file gets corrupted. If I copy the corrupted file back to the XP machine and calculate the md5sum again I get the same hash as on the linux box which means that reading files works fine. I copied a 230 MB file from XP to Linux and back and compared the original and corrupted file. There were 9 differences in the file consisting of 4 to 20 bytes of different data. To find out if my file systems were corrupted I booted "linux rescue" from the Severn CDs and ran "fsck.ext3 -f /dev/hda1" hda2 and hdc1. No problems were reported there. It doesn't matter if I copy the files to hda or hdc they get corrupted on both drives and I don't think its a heat problem since files get corrupted after the system has been down for 10 hours and has been running again for 5 minutes. Since there is no newer kernel the 2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.ntpl that ships with Severn install discs on rawhide I thought I'll give arjan's kernel-2.6.0-0.test3.1.31.athlon.rpm a try. Same problem -Y files get corrupted :( I'm pretty sure that I didn't have these problems with RH 9.0. Maybe I'm going to install it again later today to find out if its working under 9.0. If anyone has an idea what could cause this please let me know. Cheers, Martin

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