I set up a system specifically to test two things, Reiserfs and FontDrake
The reiserfs installed normally though measurably slower than ext2fs. I was
planning to test the integrity with a series of loads and random resets but I
didn't get that far.
One of the first things I did is what I supposed any newbie would do.....
Opened up FontDrake from a user desktop and gave it the root password then said
install all the windows fonts (I had set up a '98 partition specifically for
this).
Result: It appeared to install normally then restarted X and restarted X and
restarted X .... Ctrl-Alt-F2 plus ctrl-alt-del put me back into X after a
restart, but with xfs dead.
And then any attempt to start netscape resulted in a hard-lock... no response
to webmin or telnet, nothing. Removing the ~/.netscape directory after a
restart usually cures these ills, but not so. The font server was being
killed as it was started in the boot-up messages.
7.0 apparently had a symlink to a directory or two in /tmp and it was possible
to kill the font server by removing the files with a formatting of the /tmp
partition (so the symlinks pointed to somthing nonexistent) but this seems to
be a new category of exploit.... /tmp was not separate and I did not scrub
/tmp with each reboot as was allowed in the expert install options.
So, I hope you can reproduce and fix this one.... I will pore through
documentation a little more to see how it works and what I may be able to
suggest. This definitely suggests that the final offering should have this
fixed or be shipped without fontdrake.
Civileme
