Re: charmap info from locale?

2002-08-20 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:29:23AM +0200, Miloslav Trmac wrote: Probably nl_langinfo (CODESET). AFAIK there is no guarantee that the returned name can be used for iconv, but I hope that glibc is sane enough. glibc is sane enough, but there are no guarantees that the return of

Re: Detecting number of Physical CPUs in Intel Hyperthreaded CPU systems

2002-05-18 Thread Matt Wilson
To really do this you need ACPI. Outside of ACPI there's no way to tell if the logical CPUs are coming from one physical processor or not. Cheers, Matt On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 07:15:54PM -0700, Ken Sheppard wrote: Does anyone know how I can determine the number of physical processors on a

Re: LVM support for anaconda

2001-12-10 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:22:47PM +0100, Jérôme Tournier wrote: I am sorry to come back on this but we want to port the LVM support to anaconda. I can't find any CVS server for this project. Do we need to start from the begining, or is it possible to have a look at any developpement that

Re: SEG fault on RH 7.1 *** runs fine on RH 6.2 **** kindly help !!!!!

2001-11-13 Thread Matt Wilson
Where are you getting this /usr/local/lib/libpthread.0? That is probably incompatible with the symbols from glibc's pthread. Matt On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:39:38PM -0500, Madan Mohan Jampani wrote: Hello, I am having a problem with running my C++ program on RH 7.1. The program

Re: Installer / driver disk problem

2001-10-25 Thread Matt Wilson
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:25:28PM +0200, Ole Gjerde wrote: So what I was really wondering is how to stop the installer from loading the i2o_block (including i2o_core and i2o_pci) drivers. Any clues? Try specifying linux noprobe dd at the boot: prompt

Re: mount ext3 failed on upgraded 7.2

2001-10-24 Thread Matt Wilson
Do you have a initrd/ directory in /? Matt On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:03:05PM +0200, Angelo Neacsu wrote: This is my /boot/grub/grub.conf title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10enterprise) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10enterprise ro root=/dev/sda6 initrd

Re: mount ext3 failed on upgraded 7.2

2001-10-24 Thread Matt Wilson
What's the output of: mkinitrd -f -v /boot/initrd-2.4.7-10enterprise.img 2.4.7-10enterprise Matt On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:29:02PM +0200, Angelo Neacsu wrote: yes, and it is empty. The initrd-2.4.7-10.img it is in /boot ___ Redhat-devel-list

Re: python-2.2 in 7.2?

2001-10-15 Thread Matt Wilson
Python 2.2 isn't released yet - the latest is 2.2 Alpha 4. We wouldn't ship that as mainline Python in any version of Red Hat Linux. All of the 7.x series will use the same major number on major components like Python to maintain compatibility. Rawhide does not reflect any shipping product -

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-10 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:16:03AM +0200, Martin Maèok wrote: = http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/ ... Appendix D - Known bugs ... * No image (black image) in RGB 15/16bpp (x11,dga,fbdev,svga) playing MPEG or OpenDivX files: Problem: gcc 2.96 bug Workaround:

Re: scsi_info

2001-04-28 Thread Matt Wilson
cat /proc/scsi/scsi Matt On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 10:24:30AM -0700, Keith Todd wrote: I need to parse the information returned by scsi_info, for a jukebox program I am writing. But scsi_info will only run as root. Is there way to get this information otherwise ?

Re: krb5 update cause stat error (maybe?)

2001-03-29 Thread Matt Wilson
Yes, we discovered that the krb5 package oddly grew this stat symbol in a global context in 7.0. This was a bug in the krb5 package. But when compiled aginast kerberos, the LPRng package used this symbol provided by krb5-libs instead of the glibc stat. Corrected LPRng packages should be

Re: Installing FrameBuffer

2001-03-28 Thread Matt Wilson
use "vga=789" (0x315 in decimal) Matt On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:35:47AM -0600, Carlos Proal wrote: Hi all, anyone can help with this ?? im trying to install framebuffer support because i saw that Wolverine installation based on fb works fine with my laptop so i think must install

Re: Rebuilding Anaconda creates a bad loader file

2001-03-14 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:58:39PM -0700, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote: Does anyone hav an idea? The dynamic loader grew some more symbols. This will be fixed in next rawhide. Matt ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list

Re: newt-0.50.20-3 bug

2001-02-26 Thread Matt Wilson
A Buildrequires: python-devel will be added. Matt On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:14:12AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Shouldn't newt depend on perl, see below? Also, one Makefile is referring to python2.0, not python1.5 as included in rawhide-20010206. rpm --rebuild --target=i686

Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Wolverine

2001-02-23 Thread Matt Wilson
resending - seems to not have made it through any list but redhat-watch-list Announcing... Red Hat Linux "Wolverine" (a beta release) Red Hat, Inc. presents a beta release of Red Hat Linux for your hacking pleasure. First, the

Re: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Wolverine

2001-02-23 Thread Matt Wilson
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:39:40PM -0500, Chuck Byam wrote: Whatis the status of Cardbus? Fisher has worked well and I'd like to try a beta on a notebook, but without cardbus support it'd be pointless. It Mostly Works. Basically cardmgr and hutplug support are in conflict at the moment.

Re: gcc 2.96 on redhat 7 bug?

2001-02-11 Thread Matt Wilson
It's not hard to shut gcc up... add "-w" to the flags passed to the compiler. Matt On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 12:17:03PM +, Mark Cooke wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Matt Wilson wrote: I wouldn't say this is a bug. Header files that are incomplete, that is that continue a class

Re: gcc 2.96 on redhat 7 bug?

2001-02-11 Thread Matt Wilson
Have him send it to me. Matt On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 08:36:41PM -0500, Frank Liu wrote: Suppose you know what you are doing, should gcc at least give an option to turn off those warnings? Actually the openh323 maintainer said he has the patch and sent in three times, but no one is

Re: Adding a new keymap to Anaconda.

2001-02-10 Thread Matt Wilson
Basically you want to place the keymap file into /lib/kbd/keymaps and run "make i386" from the keymaps directory. This will give you keymaps-i386. This can be placed in /etc/keymaps.gz on the installer's initrd. Matt On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 07:28:27PM -0700, William F. Acker WB2FLW

Re: gcc 2.96 on redhat 7 bug?

2001-02-10 Thread Matt Wilson
I wouldn't say this is a bug. Header files that are incomplete, that is that continue a class definition in another header file such that the header file ordering makes such drastic changes in working/not working is a really really bad way to code, IMHO. Cheers, Matt On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at

Re: aacraid driver from fisher

2001-02-02 Thread Matt Wilson
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:40:38PM +0700, Supasin Sae-heng wrote: It means 2.4.0 does not support WRITE request that larger than 64K, or the method to write is not compatible with the driver. And can we fix this?, such as edit the value It means that the kernel's SCSI subsystem _does_

Re: please someone patch aacraid SCSI driver for 2.4.0

2001-01-25 Thread Matt Wilson
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:47:04AM -0500, Jason Ford wrote: I find it interesting that someone at adaptec was "working" on this module about 4 months ago on the test kernels (as posted in linux kernel mailing lists). Does it really take that long to put together a driver for a product that

Re: apt

2001-01-22 Thread Matt Wilson
Coming soon... The problem is that the package may require dependencies on more than one CD. Then you're going to be in trouble... Matt On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:31:57PM +0100, Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsrd) writes: up2date is better than apt at

Re: release schedule

2001-01-22 Thread Matt Wilson
We don't publically disclose release schedules - but much can be inferred from previous release patterns. Cheers, Matt On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:31:17AM -0200, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote: is there a release schedule for redhat linux 7.1?

Re: java and related files

2001-01-21 Thread Matt Wilson
It is because we cannot ship a JDK without licensing problems. Shipping a JRE on powertools may be an option if there is some other part of powertools that needs a JRE. Sun's stance on Java licensing still makes it a license prohibitive technology as far as Open Source/Free Software goes, at

Re: Coping with package splits and name changes (Was: Latest Raw Hide missing packages)

2001-01-17 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 04:21:19PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: "PS" == Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS I haven't done this myself, but wrapping up some magic that'd fetch all PS the headers and check for Obsoletes: field might work. Is that the method that the upgrader

Re: reiserFS in RH7.1?

2001-01-15 Thread Matt Wilson
Uh... what "official" kernel are you looking at? You know about the heinous bug in reiserfs found last week, right? Cheers, Matt On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:57:35PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote: Now that ReiserFS is part of the official kernel, is there support for creating and installing onto

Re: reiserFS in RH7.1?

2001-01-15 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:05:26PM -0500, Matt Wilson wrote: Uh... what "official" kernel are you looking at? You know about the heinous bug in reiserfs found last week, right? That is, pre-patches != official kernel. Cheers, Matt

Re: Dial-up scripts need to restart/reload nscd if nameservers change

2001-01-09 Thread Matt Wilson
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 02:26:51PM +, Bill Crawford wrote: I'm not sure which component to Bugzilla this under :) $ rpm -qf /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp initscripts-5.49-1 Thanks for the report. Matt ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing

Re: Compiling kernel under 7.0 fully updated PROBLEMS!

2001-01-06 Thread Matt Wilson
make mrproper first. Matt On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 04:26:17PM -0500, Michael Shiels wrote: I still can't seem to get a kernel to compile under 7.0. I am using a pristine installation, and the kernel sources etc from the install, NOTHING ADDED/CHANGED. But I get the following

Re: The comment in latest Kernel Traffic

2001-01-04 Thread Matt Wilson
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:48:36PM -0800, Thornton Prime wrote: I'm not disputing your claim though Bill. I think RedHat is very proactive about getting developer import by making rawhide available and having a public bugzilla. I would like to see the contrib program resurrected and made

Re: voodoo2+X4+kernel2.4/2.2?

2001-01-02 Thread Matt Wilson
This is the list for discussing the development of Red Hat Linux. You would be better off going to the mailing last for the version of Red Hat Linux you're using, such as guinness-list or zoot-list. Matt On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:48:49AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: No response so far,

Re: Where did anaconda go?

2000-12-18 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 02:59:57AM -0500, Chris Kloiber wrote: Looks like I'm stuck until the instimage directory reappears. Future versions will be using 2.4 kernels, which can mount filesystems over loopback when the backing file is on a NFS device. That means that we can package all of the

Re: tracking memory use

2000-12-16 Thread Matt Wilson
The 'memprof' program shipped in the newer versions of Red Hat Linux have a memory profile view. Matt On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:06:00PM +0100, Ingo Luetkebohle wrote: Hiya, how can I find out how the memory of an application is spent with the aim to optimize that usage? Regards --

Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-10 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:37:13PM +0100, Mario Torre wrote: Yes, there is a way to avoid that? Yes. run "man console.perms" and change the definition of a "console user". Matt ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-09 Thread Matt Wilson
You should only be able to poweroff if you are sitting at the console, or if you are logged into the console as well as accessing the machine remotely. In this case, you could just reach down and hit the power switch anyway, so how is this less secure? Matt On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:04:37PM

Re: [Fwd: ghostview has problems with s3virge driver]

2000-11-09 Thread Matt Wilson
: On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Matt Wilson wrote: Huh? The X server *is* running as root, Xwrapper runs it that way. Adding a setuid bit would do the same thing. Actually, in order for me to get X 4.0.1 (using XFree86 and not Xwrapper) to run when starting it as a non-root user, I had to chmod +s

Re: [Fwd: ghostview has problems with s3virge driver]

2000-11-08 Thread Matt Wilson
"which X server to use" is considered part of individual system configuration. Xwrapper executes /etc/X11/X, and is pamified such that remote users can't start X servers. Matt On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:14:25PM +0300, Alex Kanavin wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Kevin Brosius wrote: Oh,

Re: [Fwd: ghostview has problems with s3virge driver]

2000-11-08 Thread Matt Wilson
Huh? The X server *is* running as root, Xwrapper runs it that way. Adding a setuid bit would do the same thing. Matt On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 07:26:35PM +0300, Alex Kanavin wrote: Yes. But Xwrapper SHOULD NOT be used to launch 4.0.1 X server. Not because XFree developers say so (they do),

Re: Creating integrated-errata RH7 ISOs

2000-10-29 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 03:04:43PM -0800, Jeremy Katz wrote: genhdlist supports the fact that there are multiple cds; put the updates for packages from disc1 on disc1 and similarly for disc2 and then run /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/gendhlist --withnumbers disc1/ disc2/ You have to give the

Re: Migration to Linux

2000-10-23 Thread Matt Wilson
As far as I can tell, the inventory is a SGI specific hardware management interface. In irixinv.c there is a static table that has dummy devices in it to maintain IRIX binary compatibility. This isn't an interface that Linux uses; you'll have to find a Linux interface to do what you want to

Re: looking for devel list for Red Hat distro

2000-10-22 Thread Matt Wilson
Nope, you're in the right place. There's just a bit of OT discussion... Matt On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 10:23:47PM -0700, Zack Brown wrote: Hi, I've been looking for a Red Hat development mailing list, like debian-devel, where the distro is actually created and improved. It looks like

Re: looking for devel list for Red Hat distro

2000-10-22 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 02:40:30PM +0400, Alex Kanavin wrote: Oh, and don't forget forums at http://www.redhat.com/devnet/ If you want a developer at Red Hat to read something, the web forums aren't the place to go at the moment. It's right here. Matt

Re: looking for devel list for Red Hat distro

2000-10-22 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 11:32:09AM +0200, Stanislav Meduna wrote: Zack: there is an invitation-only list that requires a NDA for not to leak deadlines and precise content of distribution. Looks like this might be the place to monitor/influence the development. I don't know - I was invited,

Re: about 7.0 and gcc 2.96

2000-10-12 Thread Matt Wilson
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:58:21AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: What I find unsettling it the number of packages reshipped already; the fact so many problem packages have been found already suggests to me there are lots more to be found. Not just obscure packages that hardly anyone uses

Re: RH7 and gcc

2000-10-10 Thread Matt Wilson
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:12:38PM -0400, Chuck Byam wrote: C compiles OK, but most of my C++ projects do not. Has anyone installed an older version successfully without breaking other dependencies. the C++ compiler from egcs 1.1.2 is still there, in the compat packages. If you install any

Re: 7.0 will not install

2000-10-10 Thread Matt Wilson
Sure, I can whip some up... If you want to do it yourself: mkdir boot mount -o loop boot.img boot zcat boot/initrd.img initrd.nogz mkdir initrd mount -o loop initrd.nogz initrd mkdir updates mount updates.img updates mkdir initrd/tmp/updates cp updates/* initrd/tmp/updates umount initrd gzip -9

Re: 7.0 will not install

2000-10-10 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:48:42PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: I presume that's the install-time "insert update disk" routine that I'd rather avoid when I create my updated CDs. Right, the "insert update disk" simply takes the files on the floppy and loads them into /tmp/updates on the

Re: RH 7.0 and libc-5

2000-10-09 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:39:31PM +0200, Anne POSSOZ wrote: Question: apparently there is no incompatibility with these rpms so why are they not provided together with redhat 7? And it seems to fully solve the problem. In the 6.2 RELEASE-NOTES: Deprecated features and packages -- The

Re: getting user input in %post section

2000-10-08 Thread Matt Wilson
stdin is closed during script running. What if the user is using a GUI frontend to install the package like GnoRPM? Or if they are installing a package remotely via a management service? Matt On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 10:46:13PM -0700, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Hi guys, I'm trying to get user

Re: rawhide: kernel vs glibc

2000-10-08 Thread Matt Wilson
You're getting this kernel out of the preview/ directory? Any glibc package with ".2.4" at the end of the release is built without any support for kernels older than 2.4. This makes glibc faster, as it does not have to figure out what kernel is running to determine which kernel interfaces to

Re: gcc-2.xx

2000-10-07 Thread Matt Wilson
We are supporting the compiler we shipped in Red Hat Linux 7. If you can add a bugzilla report with trimmed down test case of the code that causes the error, we will do our best to get it fixed. Follow the instructions at http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html but enter the bug in bugzilla at

Re: gcc-2.xx

2000-10-07 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 12:44:42PM -0500, Chris Abbey wrote: Matt, in other words you do not expect 7.0 to be used for production purposes, correct? No, I'm saying that the C side of the compiler is quite good, but the ABI for C++ is not. If you are developing proprietary software and you are

Re: Where is the split-distro program?

2000-09-09 Thread Matt Wilson
Such a thing has never been in the anaconda package. To make 2 cds, just start with the whole distribution in a directory called "i386-disc1" and do: # mkdir -p i386-disc2/RedHat/RPMS # mv i386-disc1/RedHat/instimage i386-disc2/RedHat then mv i386-disc1/RedHat/RPMS/foo-1.0-1.i386.rpm

Re: anaconda information?

2000-08-30 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:24:13AM -0500, Chris Garrigues wrote: Where would I find documentation on anaconda? I need to do kickstart network installations and the older installer which I've been using is now failing me thanks to RPM4.0. The docs on kickstart are in the manual:

Re: rpm and AMD K6

2000-08-28 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 01:09:25AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: Sorry... I couldn't find that in the nonexistant RPM manual. ;o) Actually.. it probably is in Maximum RPM even though it's outdated, so I'll shut up now. ;o) Maximum RPM, index: "rpmrc, locations of: 368" On page 368:

Re: Weird filenames in %post of KickStart

2000-08-28 Thread Matt Wilson
You're using MS-DOS formatted text files (CR+LF). Matt On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:40:21AM -0600, Jeff Pitman wrote: Hi there, Anyone know why a '?' is appended to the outputted filenames? For example if I do, %post echo "Does this run in Upgrade mode?" /etc/jeff I will find

Re: rawhide: upgrading rusers and procps

2000-08-27 Thread Matt Wilson
The right solution: # rpm -Uvh procps-2.0.7-2.i686.rpm rusers-server-0.17-5.i386.rpm Something that concerns me about RPM users is that the don't realize that they can satisfy co-dependencies by upgrading to packages at once. I think we need a good packaging tool to help fix this. Matt On

Re: rpm and AMD K6

2000-08-27 Thread Matt Wilson
NO NO NO! /etc/rpm/macros and /etc/rpm/rpmrc are for local changes! Matt On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 10:22:18AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: Edit /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc... it is more or less self explanatory. This begs a question... Why is rpmrc in /usr/lib/rpm/? Should it not make more

Re: up2date license

2000-08-26 Thread Matt Wilson
from main.py: # Copyright (c) 1999,2000 Red Hat, Inc. # Red Hat Update Agent is licensed under the GPL. Matt On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 12:24:40PM -0400, Atul Pokharel wrote: Hi, Is up2date GPL'd? Since it doesnt come with a copy of the GPL, I just want to make sure before I change anything.

Re: rawhide: Xconfigurator-4.3.45-1 fails to compile

2000-08-24 Thread Matt Wilson
I think your kudzu and kudzu-devel packages are out of date. On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:17:00AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: Compile fails for root, non-root and i386, i686: ... cc -Wall -I/usr/include/kudzu -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVERSION=\"4.3.45\" -DCARD_DATABASE_FILE='"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards"'

Re: rawhide: compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2.src.rpm fails to compile

2000-08-24 Thread Matt Wilson
compat packages have to be built in the environment that they prodive compatibility for. In this case, compat-glibc-6.2 has to be built on a 6.2 system. As for the other stuff, you have some strange mix of a pinstripe and a rawhide, it seems. Pick one or the other, install Everything. All

Re: redhat kernel

2000-08-23 Thread Matt Wilson
I'd be interested to know what you're coding that would behave differently depending on the running kernel. You shouldn't #ifdef this, you should use runtime checks using the uname() function. Matt On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:35:23PM -0500, Frank Liu wrote: Since redhat kernel is a

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-08-22 Thread Matt Wilson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:15:12AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't remember but apparently the guy had benchmarked it. About crashes, since both gcc 2.95.2 and gcc 2.96 are crashing (and gcc 2.95 built fine in 6.2) I would point to glibc. If it builds for you and not for me then

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-08-21 Thread Matt Wilson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:32:53AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the gcc people tell that gcc 2.96 generates slower code than gcc 2.95.2. And I have found that it can't recompile itself in pinstripe (it core dumps). This could be due to glibc since when I replaced it with gcc 2.95.2

Re: Where to tell RPM to put initscripts?

2000-08-19 Thread Matt Wilson
You could define it as a build time determined macro: %define initrddir %([ -d /etc/init.d ] echo /etc/init.d || echo /etc/rc.d/init.d) ... %files %{initrddir}/caudium Matt On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 12:56:37AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: Instead of this mess: %config %attr(0755, root,

Re: Alpha Install errors

2000-08-15 Thread Matt Wilson
We've installed on pws500a boxes with no problems -- but try going to srm and using aboot. Matt On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:37:46PM -0400, Christopher Medalis wrote: Greetings. I have been wroking with a DEC Alpha personal workstation (pws500a) trying to install Red Hat 6.2, and we are using

Re: anaconda 7 bug

2000-08-10 Thread Matt Wilson
What kind of problems? Matt On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:46:08PM +0200, XosÉ Vázquez wrote: hi, anaconda 7 (redhat beta 7) has problems with the Xserver (savage_4) on the IBM Netfinity 4500R. Redhat 6.2 is ok. ___ Redhat-devel-list

Re: anaconda's code

2000-08-05 Thread Matt Wilson
You're reading the wrong file. The important ones are fairly well commented. Also, people unfamiliar with Python sometimes have trouble getting used to some of the constructs... If you're used to reading Python, the anaconda code is pretty self explanatory. What are you having trouble

Re: older redhat installers (before anaconda)

2000-08-05 Thread Matt Wilson
From 4.0 to 6.0 the code was in C. From 6.1 - current it's in python. We switched to Python for several reasons: 1) it's dirt easy to debug -- errors raise exceptions that can easly be written to disk, we include the tiny pdb debugger so you can drop right in to a debugging

Re: running anaconda to test it.

2000-08-05 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 05:49:26PM -0400, Frank Hale wrote: This starts up and gives me the RedHat logo but then craps out with some error which doesn't really give me any information See, this may not look like information to you, but it can tell me exactly what is wrong. One thing I hate

Re: anaconda's code

2000-08-05 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 07:42:42PM -0400, Frank Hale wrote: So I should get anaconda-7 and use it instead of the one which comes with 6.2? Well, more bugs are fixed in the 7 code, but if you're shooting for a 6.2 based CD, you may as well take the least invasive approach and use the 6.2

Re: running anaconda to test it.

2000-08-05 Thread Matt Wilson
cat /etc/resolv.conf -- are there any lines with only one word on it? When anaconda reads /etc/resolv.conf, it knows that the loader (the C part of the installer that lives on the boot disk) has written /etc/resolv.conf - so it knows what the format will look like. What's your resolv.conf say?

Re: running anaconda to test it.

2000-08-05 Thread Matt Wilson
Nuke the first and last line... #resolv.conf - domain worldnet.att.net search worldnet.att.net nameserver 204.127.160.2 nameserver 204.127.129.2 nameserver ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RedHat boot disks

2000-08-05 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 09:01:30PM -0400, Frank Hale wrote: ./upd-instroot: chroot: command not found It gets to ./upd-instroot and sits there, then I have to ctrl-c and kill it. Anyone know whats wrong? Make sure /usr/sbin is in your $PATH Matt

Re: running anaconda to test it.

2000-08-05 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 09:03:35PM -0400, Frank Hale wrote: Yes using -t. So I can just run through the partition screen as normal (but nothing will happen) and go on through the installation? Would I just run throuh it as normal but it just doesn't execute the actual install process? It

Re: NE2000 COMPATIBILITY SOS!!!!

2000-08-04 Thread Matt Wilson
This will be fixed in the next release of Red Hat Linux. Matt On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:35:28PM +0100, Adrian Browne wrote: I'm trying to get rid of NT and 95 form 10 workstations and can't roll out Redhat6.2 as NIC's dont appear to ne2000 compat. Does anyone know about the kingston cards

Re: rpmdb conversion?

2000-08-04 Thread Matt Wilson
It seems that you have some db 3.0 databases -- you must have been caught in the middle of the db1 - db3.0 - db3.1 thing. To migrate to db 3.1, you'll need to change your database back to a db1 database, then upgrade the rpm and db3 packages to db3.1, then migrate from db1 back to db3. Here's

Re: Monitor specs

2000-08-01 Thread Matt Wilson
You can go ahead and send them now, but open a bugzilla report against Xconfigurator too. Matt On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:39:40AM -0600, Craig Kelley wrote: Where do I send in the frequency numbers for my new monitor (so they can be included in the distribution)? -- The wheel is

Announcing Red Hat Linux Pinstripe - a Beta release

2000-07-31 Thread Matt Wilson
Announcing... Red Hat Linux "Pinstripe" a Beta release Red Hat. Inc. presents a beta release of Red Hat Linux for your hacking pleasure. First, the regular drill: This is a beta release of Red Hat Linux. It is not intended for mission

Re: Announcing Red Hat Linux Pinstripe - a Beta release

2000-07-31 Thread Matt Wilson
Of course, I forgot something in the announcement: There is a mailing list for discussing pinstripe. To join, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject of "subscribe". I'm looking forward to much discussion there! Cheers, Matt

Re: Downgrade of guile in latest Rawhide

2000-07-25 Thread Matt Wilson
Things broke - gnucash didn't like 1.4, for example. Matt On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:26:51AM -0300, Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote: What is the reason for not keeping the latest guile release (1.4) on Rawhide, as it was in the previous Rawhide release, and moving back to guile-1.3.4?

Re: MySQL..

2000-07-15 Thread Matt Wilson
It was either the day of or the day after, yea. But it didn't work until recently as it was miscompiled by g++. That's been fixed now, though. s/RedHat/Red Hat/g Matt On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 06:09:27PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: YEAH! RedHat is just TOO fast. Mysql is in rawhide

Re: XFree86-4.0.1-30.src.rpm

2000-07-09 Thread Matt Wilson
That file is now in the Xconfigurator package. On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:25:13PM +0200, Piotr Majka wrote: Welcome :) This package make XFree86 4.0.1 without one enough important file - /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards --- :) -- Piotr "Charvel" Majka | PGP GPG Public Key: finger [EMAIL

Re: Itanium and RedHat

2000-07-07 Thread Matt Wilson
Did you type "eli" at the efi prompt? You should subscribe to ia64-list by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "subscribe" in the subject line (from the README). Matt On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:53:13AM -0400, Michael Waite wrote: I just got two Quad Itanium systems from Intel this

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-03 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 07:44:33PM +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: SuSE did NOT GPL their installer (It's license basically says "you may read the source, but you may not use it in other projects"). Caldera's installer used to be proprietary; I think they've published the source only

Re: zip/unzip

2000-07-02 Thread Matt Wilson
The packages you want are shipped in Red Hat Linux. Install the 'zip' and 'unzip' RPM packages. Cheers, Matt On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 08:22:07PM +0200, Inetconsult AG Dani Ammann wrote: I need to install zip/unzip programms to create und extract winzip compatiple *.zip archives. Could

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-01 Thread Matt Wilson
I'd say that our key areas in heavy development are: * kernel - raid (Ingo) - vm (Igno, Ben, sct) - filesystem work (sct) - VFS (Al Viro) - sparc (Jakub Jelinek and Dave Miller) - networking (Dave Miller, Ingo) - everything under the sun (Alan Cox. :) - SCSI (aic7xxx), processor

Re: rawhide: Small patch for gpm

2000-06-29 Thread Matt Wilson
We already had this in the gpm-1.19.2-8 package. Matt On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:41:31AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: Adding linux/limits.h in special.c enables the package gpm-1.19.2-1.src.rpm to build. Environment: gcc-2.96-21, glibc-2.1.90-17, binutils-2.9.5.0.46-1 gcc

Re: kickstart

2000-06-29 Thread Matt Wilson
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 03:01:42PM +0200, R.I.Pienaar wrote: It all works great but i have run into a bit of a problem, in the base in the comps file i have chkconfig and other needed stuff, but for some or other reason it doesnt install the base prior to other rpms. My apache rpm for eg.

Re: boot: linux update ?

2000-06-07 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 02:09:24PM -0400, Andrew Park wrote: I'm burning a RH6.2 CD with the updates in it (especially I'm concerned about installer updates). I'm just wondering whether putting the updated .img in the /images is sufficient. (or is there updated anaconda source?) Thank

Re: boot: linux update ?

2000-06-07 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 03:51:17PM -0400, Andrew Park wrote: Gotcha. I guess I don't HAVE TO update the boot.img, bootnet.img, pcmcia.img when burning the updated CD though? It sounds like (from the updates website) they're provided to allow loader to understand 'updates' flag during the

Re: rawhide: we know it's broken

2000-05-30 Thread Matt Wilson
You get both pieces. Or at least send patches (not whole spec files). Matt -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Q's about glibc-2.1.90 vs 2.1.3-16

2000-05-25 Thread Matt Wilson
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 08:56:29AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: Hello, After installing glibc-2.1-90-11.i686 (and devel,profile,nscd i386) together with db1 and db2 as needed some applications are behaving strange: For example man and slocate are setgid programs. When running them as

Re: Anaconda install bugs, update doesn't fix

2000-04-20 Thread Matt Wilson
What install method are you using? I'm guessing hard drive. Make sure you copied all the RPMS - it looks like you're missing at least the indexhtml package. Matt On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 01:54:40PM -0700, Tyler Smith wrote: Hello, I am trying to install RH 6.2, and after nearly 10 tries and

Re: rawhide: some packages does not build

2000-04-18 Thread Matt Wilson
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 11:36:39AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: The following packages in rawhide-2412 does not build: The build environment in 7.0 isn't nearly complete yet, so these packages haven't been rebuilt. Don't worry, all the packages will build in time, but don't expect them to

Re: RedHAt's SU the mother of all trojan horses

2000-03-25 Thread Matt Wilson
Use 'su -'. Matt On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 04:37:24PM +0100, JF Martinez wrote: Caldera does this a bit better, it resets environment so they don't have this security problem, but not completely right as that means losing the contents of the DISPLAY and HOME variables (the loss of the later

Re: Fixing KDE in 6.2 beta

2000-03-25 Thread Matt Wilson
Get KDE from rawhide. Matt On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 04:41:41PM +0100, JF Martinez wrote: Whenever you start a KDE application in RedHat 6.2 beta it will be started inside an xterm despite KDE apps not needing it. Does anyone know there is needed to fix this problem (besides reconfiguring

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Matt Wilson
Everything that was removed will be on a 3rd "Documentation CD," and also available for download. Matt -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Cleaning RedHat 6.2

2000-02-29 Thread Matt Wilson
No - that's not what the description says at all: Elm is a popular terminal mode email user agent. Elm includes all standard mailhandling features, including MIME support via metamail. Elm is still used by some people, but is no longer in development. If you've used Elm before and you're

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