On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Steven M. Dodier wrote:
Hi Alexander,
Even though I am still on RHEL 4 and SRSS 4.0, I wanted to pass these
fixes I have done for xemacs and font issues:
Changing the LANG setting in
/etc/sysconfig/i18n from "en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" to "en_US"
Fixes a font error in xemacs about "Can't get fontset reource"
xemacs isn't available in RHEL5 - it is removed, deliberately. I'm trying
to get the tarball to work, but it is painful. Sometimes I wish I had real
power and would set the policies at Red Hat and SUN, then these things
would never happen :)
Also, what you are suggesting is going from UNICODE/UTF-8 to
ASCII/ISO-8859-1 again - this is not an option for us. We made full
UNICODE transition around 2004, and I surely don't wanna go back now just
because RHEL5 messed up a couple of fonts.
We are an International research institute, we mix Swedish, scandinavian,
french, german and english all the time - ASCII just doesn't cut it for
us.
Also, just touching this file:
/etc/opt/SUNWut/ut_disable_glyphcache
Fixes a font issue in xemacs where the text is sometimes unreadable, and
also a RHEL font issue on the login and unlock screens.
I know, somebody told me this some time ago - To bad these hints aren't
available in documentation.
Sorry if I'm ranting today, but I worked a lot past weeks with many things
that just doesn't work.
-- Alexander
I know there can be many version differences, but maybe this will help
you with your emacs font problem.
Good luck,
Steve D.
Alexander Koponen wrote:
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Detlev Habicht wrote:
Hi all,
is there a recommended way to patch Linux?
I am working normally more with Solaris, so i
have some knowhow problems
with Linux.
My problem in one example:
When i want to use Sun Ray Software 5 and Sun Ray
Soft Client 1.0 Early Access 1 (EA1), i
see as platform Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 U3.
When i install RHEL 5.3 and start package update
(or in the past up2date) i will
get all patches and then i am running RHEL 5.4
now.
So, what can i patch? Can i patch the kernel or
can i only use the kernel coming
with 5.3? When i use the initial kernel from 5.3,
can i patch all the other packages?
I usually do default install of latest RHEL server
Then i update it (i used to run SRSS 4.0 on RHEL 4u6)
(Right now I'm using RHEL-server 5u3 + all updates and SRSS
4.2 EA1)
Then i install the packages SRSS need
Then i install srss (reboots and stuff)
--
I run system updates now and then.
If I forget GDM I'm usually stuck, sometimes I reinstall
If the kernel is updated I usually loose sound and USB
but then I run this:
1. update kernel
2. reboot
3. run this:
#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/src/SUNWut
cd utadem
make
make install
cd ..
cd utdisk
make
make install
cd ..
cd utio
make
make install
cd ..
/sbin/depmod -a
/etc/init.d/utsyscfg start
and then it works again - like new!
--
I'm still experimenting with SRSS 4.2 EA1 and RHEL 5
I just put it in production - I have lot's of problems,
mostly with RHEL 5 being less mature than RHEL 4.
I miss having fonts in emacs but I don't miss the lack of
Firefox 3 in RHEL 4
When I'm done with my experiments I will as usual put out a
complete howto on my SRSS-linux page.
-- Alexander
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