On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 22:35, David Walser wrote: > MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: > > Maybe must is too strong of a word. That's just what I did. I'm not an > > expert, nor claim to be. What version of the kernel are you trying to > > compile? > > I've tried 2.5.69 as well as 2.5.67 and 68.
I too have been trying the 2.5 series of kernels. It is starting to look really good (2.5.70-mm9). The startup is faster and the desktop is more responsive. Unfortunately I have a few problems since 2.5.67: 1) gnome-terminal still only works as root. I have tried to compare the strace outputs but It's not obvious and I think this one requires someone stepping through it with a debugger. Other terminal programs such as Eterm work. 2) xosview still freezes (reading /proc/*) -This is because the format of the output from various /proc entries has changes. There is a patch for this on the kernel mailing list. I can post if required. 3) rmmod still not working -"Can't open 'analog': No such file or directory". I presume this is fixed by Andrey's recent fixes. 4) xlock and xscreensaver fail to accept the password. Need to hit ctrl-alt-backspace and re-login. This is the most annoying problem as a desktop user. Still unresolved. Someone hinted this might be a PAM bug fixed in a recent red-hat release. 5) My Evolution groups (left-hand icon bar) have gone missing. This happens when switching from 2.4 to 2.5 and is repeatable. It is ultimately an Evolution bug. Now that 1.4 is released, it might be fixed, but I wouldn't hold my breath. 6) from /var/log/messages: /sbin/mingetty[2583]: /dev/tty4: cannot open tty: Inappropriate ioctl for device. 7) from dmesg: process `named' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT. This is a cosmetic bug and I believe, it is a trivial fix pointed out on the Kernel mailing list. Again, I can post the fix to whom it may concern. I have mailed these problems to the kernel mailing list and got some replies (included above). But many issues remain unresolved. I made the assumption that they must be kernel bugs (2.5 should be compatible with 2.4), but given the length of time these have remained problems and some of the replies from the kernel mailing list, I think many of them are application bugs that the new kernel exposes. Does anyone know if there are recent fixes that might solve some of these problems? Is anyone seeing the same issues? What I would really like to see is Mandrake update packages for 9.1 that makes 9.1 compatible with the 2.5 kernel. The two biggies are the module tools and screen-saver password problems. Ed-T.
