Re: firefox - X server crash

2009-02-12 Thread John Summerfield
Gasser Marc wrote: Hello SL users, Can anyone reproduce the X server crash with firefox-3.0.5-1 when following the link below on a SL46 or SL51 system? I think I don't want to know. However, firefox 3.0.5 is definitely flaky on Windows. It regularly crashes while my back's turned (most

TESTING - security kernel for SL5

2009-02-12 Thread Troy Dawson
Hello, There is a new security kernel out for SL5. It is based off the new kernel from Update 3, and hense, has all it's changes, including driver updates. I'm still a little nervous about pushing this out, so I'd like it to be tested a bit more. One of the new changes that it has is updated

Re: TESTING - security kernel for SL5

2009-02-12 Thread Steven Timm
I would be interested if anyone else with an iwl4965 driver tries the new driver/firmware and sees their machine lock up from time to time. In the presence of certain wireless access points (mostly in Fermilab's Feynman Computing CenteR) my machine locks up after about 10 minutes, unless I turn

Re: TESTING - security kernel for SL5

2009-02-12 Thread Troy Dawson
Hi Steve, Which driver and firmware are you using? Is it this kernel and firmware I just pushed out? Troy Steven Timm wrote: I would be interested if anyone else with an iwl4965 driver tries the new driver/firmware and sees their machine lock up from time to time. In the presence of certain

Re: TESTING - security kernel for SL5

2009-02-12 Thread Steven Timm
It's the same firmware but one version less of the kernel, 128 rather than 128.1, will upgrade to 128.1 and see if it is any better. Steve Timm On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: Hi Steve, Which driver and firmware are you using? Is it this kernel and firmware I just pushed out? Troy

Re: TESTING - security kernel for SL5

2009-02-12 Thread Steven Timm
Now I am up at the latest kernel too, will notify if rogue wireless points take me down again. Steve On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Steven Timm wrote: It's the same firmware but one version less of the kernel, 128 rather than 128.1, will upgrade to 128.1 and see if it is any better. Steve Timm On

Re: TESTING - security kernel for SL5

2009-02-12 Thread Troy Dawson
Troy J Dawson wrote: Hello, There is a new security kernel out for SL5. It is based off the new kernel from Update 3, and hense, has all it's changes, including driver updates. I'm still a little nervous about pushing this out, so I'd like it to be tested a bit more. One of the new changes

rebuilding kernel rpms

2009-02-12 Thread Ken Teh
A simple question: I'd like to rebuild the current kernel rpm with minor mods to the config. The procedure I'm following is what's documented for RHEL 4, that is, install the src.rpm do an rpmbuild -bp cd to /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-vers/linux-vers/ make menuconfig to create the custom

Re: rebuilding kernel rpms

2009-02-12 Thread Ken Teh
Excellent! Thank you very much Akemi. I was browsing through the spec file and encountered all those sections that you wrote up in the wiki. I did not wish to dig through all those details to figure out how to spec file works. Your recipe is exactly what I need! Thanks! A short followup: