No Joy From Attempted Hard Disk Install With T3

2006-03-16 Thread Janina Sajka
I just attempted to install FC5T3 via hard disk and got the complaint about repo data. Just to be sure I tried both from the DVD iso and the 5 disc iso set. Is it just me? Have others succeeded installing from iso files on another hd partition? It would be nice for this to be working whith the

Re: xen failure - xenstrore with 2.6.15-1.2009.4.2_FC5hypervisor #1 SMP

2006-03-16 Thread Naoki
Should have added the xen version sorry : xen-3.0.1-4 It's all latest rawhide. On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 16:31 +0900, Naoki wrote: I can't get xend to start, have not been able to for a couple of weeks, if not more actually. Using 2.6.15-1.2009.4.2_FC5hypervisor #1 SMP Log says this :

rawhide report: 20060316 changes

2006-03-16 Thread Build System
Updated Packages: (none) Broken deps for ia64 -- rgmanager - 1.9.31-3.ia64 requires ccs Broken deps for ppc64 -- avalon-logkit - 1.2-3jpp_3fc.noarch

Re: 2GB swap partition limit?

2006-03-16 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:20:54AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: On Sunday 05 March 2006 23:24, Émeric Maschino emeric.masch...@jouy.inra.fr wrote: My workstation has been upgraded to 6GB RAM. I let anaconda automatically manage the partitions on the disk. It created a 4GB swap partition in a

Building openoffice 2.0.2-5.2.2 fails

2006-03-16 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Hi All, When I build openoffice after hours and hours, during the install process I get the following: == + /var/tmp/openoffice.org-2.0.2-root//usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/configimport -e

Re: 2GB swap partition limit?

2006-03-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:51, Olivier Galibert galib...@pobox.com wrote: Incidentally such a large swap space will not do you any good in most usage scenarios. Three words: suspend to disk. Good point. How well does suspend to disk work nowadays? The reports I've heard in the past

Re: 2GB swap partition limit?

2006-03-16 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:18:11PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: Good point. How well does suspend to disk work nowadays? Not that good yet. The reports I've heard in the past have suggested that certain types of hardware could cause the machine to be in an uncertain state on resume so

Vim-7 Preview

2006-03-16 Thread Karsten Hopp
Hello, I've prepared vim-7 prerelease packages, they are available from http://people.redhat.com/karsten/ Most prominent new features are gvim with windows in multiple tab pages (:help tabpage), spell checking (:help spell) and omni-completion (:help new-omni-completion). A description of

Re: xen failure - xenstrore with 2.6.15-1.2009.4.2_FC5hypervisor#1 SMP

2006-03-16 Thread Andy Burns
Naoki wrote: Should have added the xen version sorry : xen-3.0.1-4 It's all latest rawhide. On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 16:31 +0900, Naoki wrote: I can't get xend to start, have not been able to for a couple of weeks, if not more actually. Using 2.6.15-1.2009.4.2_FC5hypervisor #1 SMP

which gstreamer versions in official fc5?

2006-03-16 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
ATM we have gstreamer-0.10.3-3 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.3-3 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.2-1 It seems in final gnome 2.14 the optimum is: gstreamer 0.10.4 and gst-plugins-base 0.10.5 (see thread http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2006-March/msg00126.html and for previous related

Re: 2GB swap partition limit?

2006-03-16 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
On Thu, March 16, 2006 11:18, Russell Coker wrote: On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:51, Olivier Galibert galib...@pobox.com wrote: Incidentally such a large swap space will not do you any good in most usage scenarios. Three words: suspend to disk. I use it for tmpfs

Re: Kernel 2054 breaks nvidia.ko loading

2006-03-16 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:28 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: In nVidia/ATI's defense, unlike previous FC/non-GPL problems (udev, 4K stacks, etc) the problem is not with the closed source drivers failing to follow the latest kernel trunk. Beside releasing their code under GPL (Which is a

Re: 2GB swap partition limit?

2006-03-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 17 March 2006 00:35, Mauro Mozzarelli mmker...@ezplanet.net wrote: Incidentally such a large swap space will not do you any good in most usage scenarios. Three words: suspend to disk. I use it for tmpfs There are situations where machines can perform very well with a tmpfs

Re: 2GB swap partition limit?

2006-03-16 Thread Leszek Matok
Dnia 17-03-2006, pią o godzinie 01:00 +1100, Russell Coker napisał(a): the 2*RAM advice originated when 16M of RAM was a big machine and that things are different now. Not really - iirc it appeared with Linux 2.4, which swaps more aggressively than 2.2. When 2.4 came out, 256 MiB of system

Re: Vim-7 Preview

2006-03-16 Thread Michael Weiner
On 3/16/06, Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:59 +0100, Karsten Hopp wrote: Hello, I've prepared vim-7 prerelease packages, they are available from http://people.redhat.com/karsten/ Most prominent new features are gvim with windows in multiple tab pages

Re: which gstreamer versions in official fc5?

2006-03-16 Thread Brian Pepple
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:44 -0500, Ray Strode wrote: I believe the plan is to upgrade in FC5 updates, within a few days of the FC5 release. Do you know if there is any plan to update libnotify to 0.3.2 for FC5? I've got a couple of packages (gossip, xchat-gnome) that don't work with 0.3.0 due

Re: which gstreamer versions in official fc5?

2006-03-16 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 16:28 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 22:22 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:44 -0500, Ray Strode wrote: It seems in final gnome 2.14 the optimum is: gstreamer 0.10.4 and gst-plugins-base 0.10.5 I believe the plan is

Re: which gstreamer versions in official fc5?

2006-03-16 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On 3/16/06, Jeremy Katz ka...@redhat.com wrote: Not everything got upgraded. It was basically a matter of looking at diffs and trying to decide what was safe. I don't think that anyone is 100% happy with how that process went. The plan is definitely to get the rest of the 2.14 final

ipw2200 net device's name issue

2006-03-16 Thread ZC Miao
$uname -r 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 $/sbin/ifconfig dev20354 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:35:38:65:96 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

Re: xen failure - xenstrore with 2.6.15-1.2009.4.2_FC5hypervisor#1 SMP

2006-03-16 Thread Naoki
2.6.15-1.2009.4.2.FC5hypervisor isn't latest rawhide, you should use 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5xen0 Now I feel like a right pillock :) Cheers Andy, will give it a go! Don't know why yum hasn't noticed a newer kernel though...

Re: 2GB swap partition limit?

2006-03-16 Thread Stephen J. Smoogen
On 3/16/06, Russell Coker russ...@coker.com.au wrote: On Friday 17 March 2006 02:23, Leszek Matok l...@lam.pl wrote: Dnia 17-03-2006, pią o godzinie 01:00 +1100, Russell Coker napisał(a): the 2*RAM advice originated when 16M of RAM was a big machine and that things are different now.

Re: ipw2200 net device's name issue

2006-03-16 Thread John W. Linville
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:14:44AM +0800, ZC Miao wrote: $uname -r 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 $/sbin/ifconfig dev20354 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:35:38:65:96 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX

speed up Firefox start by a factor of 3 on x86

2006-03-16 Thread John Reiser
The Firefox browser often takes 15 seconds to start because random placement of the vDSO page disrupts the pre-linking of the 133 shared libraries involved. (Fedora Core 5 Test 3, kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5, updated by yum to today, 1.1GHz Athlon Plain, 768MB RAM, ext3 UDMA100 local disk.) Similar

Re: ipw2200 net device's name issue

2006-03-16 Thread ZC Miao
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 20:34 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: This is almost always a problem w/ your ifcfg-ethX scripts. Please post their contents for analysis...thanks! $cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation