OOo - strange font replacement behaviour

2006-03-03 Thread Shlomo Solomon
This is an annoyance and not a real problem, but I'm curious if anyone has seen this. I have two boxes with the same versions on Mandriva 2006 and OOo 2.0.1. I have an OOo document that uses the Nachlieli font. On my wife's box it looks good and on mine it looks like shit. The solution was

Re: Kubuntu optimisation

2006-03-03 Thread Yosef Meller
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you'll have to forgive oleg for not understanding why you're bothered - he probably did not mess with gentoo and with its ebuild system. No, I haven't. But I still don't understand what the big deal is. Here is the memory usage on

Re: Kubuntu optimisation

2006-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 04:41:24PM +0200, Yosef Meller wrote: Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you'll have to forgive oleg for not understanding why you're bothered - he probably did not mess with gentoo and with its ebuild system. No, I haven't. But I still

Re: Kubuntu optimisation - Mystery solved

2006-03-03 Thread Yosef Meller
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 04:41:24PM +0200, Yosef Meller wrote: Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you'll have to forgive oleg for not understanding why you're bothered - he probably did not mess with gentoo and with its ebuild system. No, I

Why does this mlockall()+setuid(getuid())+setlocale() program crash?

2006-03-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! 1. Save the script that is attached to this message. 2. **As root**, run it in an empty directory. 3. As an under-privileged user, enter this directory and type ./prog. Result: the program segfaults before printing the Msg2. My question is - why? I should note that running the same

Re: Why does this mlockall()+setuid(getuid())+setlocale() program crash?

2006-03-03 Thread guy keren
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! 1. Save the script that is attached to this message. 2. **As root**, run it in an empty directory. 3. As an under-privileged user, enter this directory and type ./prog. Result: the program segfaults before printing the Msg2. My question is

Re: Why does this mlockall()+setuid(getuid())+setlocale() program crash?

2006-03-03 Thread Baruch Even
Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! 1. Save the script that is attached to this message. 2. **As root**, run it in an empty directory. 3. As an under-privileged user, enter this directory and type ./prog. Result: the program segfaults before printing the Msg2. My question is - why? I should

Re: Why does this mlockall()+setuid(getuid())+setlocale() program crash?

2006-03-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 04 March 2006 19:40, guy keren wrote: On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! 1. Save the script that is attached to this message. 2. **As root**, run it in an empty directory. 3. As an under-privileged user, enter this directory and type ./prog. Result: the

Re: Why does this mlockall()+setuid(getuid())+setlocale() program crash?

2006-03-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 03 March 2006 20:36, Baruch Even wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! 1. Save the script that is attached to this message. 2. **As root**, run it in an empty directory. 3. As an under-privileged user, enter this directory and type ./prog. Result: the program segfaults

Re: Why does this mlockall()+setuid(getuid())+setlocale() program crash?

2006-03-03 Thread Baruch Even
Shlomi Fish wrote: On Friday 03 March 2006 20:36, Baruch Even wrote: The thing to try would be strace and/or gdb to debug the program and see where it crashes or enable coredumps and gdb the resulting coredump. The problem is that when running under strace or gdb the program does not

Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

2006-03-03 Thread Omer Zak
Today, after few days, I upgraded the Debian Testing (Etch) installation on ThinkPad R40e laptop to have the most recent package versions. The laptop has few kernels - among them I have 2.6.15-1, 2.6.12-1 and 2.6.8-2. The 2.6.15-1 never worked for me, when I try to boot it, it locks up sometime

Re: Why does this mlockall()+setuid(getuid())+setlocale() program crash?

2006-03-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Baruch Even wrote: That's why I also added the coredump option, increase the coredump limit to unlimited and you'll get a coredump which is a memory dump of the process that gdb can use to look at the state of the program during the crash. Baruch It's a root suid program that is run as

Re: Why does this mlockall()+setuid(getuid())+setlocale() program crash?

2006-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 07:00:23PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! 1. Save the script that is attached to this message. 2. **As root**, run it in an empty directory. 3. As an under-privileged user, enter this directory and type ./prog. Result: the program segfaults before printing

Kernel compilation oddities

2006-03-03 Thread Aviram Jenik
Hi, On my previous laptop, I would compile the kernel once, and then if I need to compile the same kernel again (lets say I only changed something from being compiled-in to being a module) I would run make, and watch it skip the already-compiled parts quite quickly. That way, recompiling an