Here is a report of latest (rsync on proxad.net 1h ago) cooker:
First, it worked ! No more SCSI aicxx bug which hanged the installation
in the previous (2 days ago) version.
This is a development/expert install, installing everything exept games.
As I already said, my Elsa Gloria Synergy card is detected as a 3Dlabs
Permedia2, and I end up with a low resolution install :(
During installation, the progress bar at the top is never going to the
end of the box (no problem, but not nice), and the evaluated time started
from 16 minutes to end with 25 minutes, with a +1 every 3 minutes... It
is systematic, is there any way to have a more accurate estimation ?
Starting services: there are a lot of useless services (adsl, dhcp...)
that should not be checked by default as I answered "no" to the
corresponding configuration pannel (network). postfix and sendmail are
installed and both are checked for being automatically started (only
postfix should be enough). xinetd appears twice. Also, there are by
default 4 web servers (apache,boa,roxen,zope) launched at startup. Is it
really a good idea ??? :)
X-configuration: after selecting my card, I tried the "test again" button
and it didn't test anything, asking for starting X at boot and then going
on, just like if I said it was OK (maybe I missed the button and click a
little below the right entry, but I don't think so).
Booting...
Boot sequence is ok, but looks like any LM boot sequence. I thought I read
some messages about a new boot sequence ? (I used lilo)
rpm installed: all the locales as well as all the kde-i18n were
installed. Is it a feature ???
DrakConf complains about "can't find any program" (they are here, I can
launch them with command line).
There is an error rotating logs (been here for a long time) as
/var/log/sudo.log doesn't exist. An empty one could be created by sudo
rpm...
Next, I wanted to test exporting a ReiserFS on a Hardware RAID via NFS,
as this posed problem with my old LM7.1...
During a first transfer of a few 100Mb from an NFS client (LM 7.1) to the
RAID, the NFS server machine (the cooker one) blocked during about one
minute, screen fixed, no answer to ctrl-alt-F1, answering ping but not
telnet, ssh or any service. After a minute, the NFS transfer was finished
and everything went back...
I transfered again the same thing a few times and sometimes the same bug
occurs.
Then, I rebooted the NFS server while the transfer was being done (reset)...
The behaviour is much better than before, but not reproductible : instead
of filling the unfinished files with "\0", reiserfs just deleted them on
reboot once, and let them unfinished the second time. But it is still not
NFS compliant, as the client thinks the files have been transfered and
doesn't go on with unfinished files.
Is there an easy way to have ReiserFS on RAID NFS compliant ? It is
really important for me.
Everything else seems to work. Good job :)
--
Xavier
