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Re: /dev/uba errors
by Pete Zaitcev 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:37:11 +0100 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> wrote: > What on earth is /dev/uba? [...] It's a block device driver for USB storage which I wrote recently. Arjan enabled it in Rawhide, obviously to get reports such as yours. >[...] > Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 2 > end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 6 > Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 3 > end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 48 > etc. etc. For some reason hald sometimes loses its mind when it sees ub. I have no idea what is happening. I run FC2 with updates, everything seems operating normally when I debug ub. I did not see us shipping device nodes for ub, so if hald manages to open ub, it must be creating device nodes on the fly, by reading /proc/devices or /proc/partitions. Userland is some crazy stuff these days... -- Pete

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IRC server is hostile.
by Daniel Veillard 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

I should sit on #fedora-devel . I don't, for the very simple reason that the FreeNode server uses an authentication machanism for nicknames where my nick is "owned by someone else" , is "private" and there is no way apparently to get out of the situation except changing nick which I consider more than an annoyance. Can we find a way out: - have a contact to handle authentication conflict - drop the authentication mechanism - change server Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/

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Insomniac's FC gaim status report
by Warren Togami 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

While I am unable to sleep despite taking a sleeping pill, I might as well give the status update about gaim in Fedora Core. Late Wednesday night gaim-0.82 was released which resolves various security and crashing issues. It was a very good release, but unfortunately upstream discovered a nasty crash that would lead to 3 weeks of annoying duplicate reports and complaints. In an admittedly unwise move 18 hours later they replaced the gaim-0.82 tarball silently fixing that one issue. But I think they said it wasn't entirely fixed correctly. This of course can lead to all kinds of confusion for us distributors, as Fedora and other Linux distributions had already issued updates with the original 0.82. So we requested a 0.82.1 release which happened late Thursday. Rawhide now has 0.82.1-1 which should work very well. gaim-0.82-0.FCX released in updates has only one crash in the corner case of the user having open windows with buddy icons while they change the button display preferences. Most users will probably never run into this problem. In any case, I do not consider this issue to be reason enough to issue the already too frequent gaim updates. In the future I am hoping to help gaim upstream establish a better formalized testing procedure, perhaps with release candidates with automated distribution of binaries to an army of eager testers. It will take something like this in order to avoid many regressions that are always discovered after each gaim release. We the Fedora community are well equiped to provide valuable feedback. I will probably be announcing a more rapidly changing gaim side-repository along with testing/reporting methodology documents later in the next upstream gaim development cycle. I am also especially interested in hearing any suggestions from Fedora developers about ways to further integrate gaim into other desktop components, to provide a more smooth & cohesive desktop experience. One example that needs help is in gaim + evolution integration. Currently the plugin is included in rawhide gaim, but disabled by default since it has been unstable in my limited testing. Volunteer help is needed there to try it, and communicate with both gaim & evolution upstream to figure out how it can be fixed/improved. Ok... might be able to actually sleep now... Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com

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With udev, are dev and MAKEDEV still required?
by David Hollis 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

With udev now handling /dev and repopulating upon reboot, it seems that the dev and MAKEDEV packages are no longer relevant. However, they can not be uninstalled due to manual requirements for some packages: [root@dhollis-lnx i2c]# rpm -e dev MAKEDEV error: Failed dependencies: dev is needed by (installed) which-2.16-4 dev is needed by (installed) mod_ssl-2.0.50-4 dev is needed by (installed) kdelibs-3.3.0-1 dev is needed by (installed) mkinitrd-4.1.1-1 dev is needed by (installed) initscripts-7.67-1 MAKEDEV >= 3.0 is needed by (installed) raidtools-1.00.3-8 I'm not terribly concerned about these packages from a space perspective (especially since all of dev's files get blown away anyway!) but now rpm --verify dev blows up in all kinds of fun ways since all of its files are missing. With the active discussions about udev, I'm quite certain that it is not the only way to do things at this point and the dev and MAKEDEV packages will remain for those that prefer that method, but should these dependencies be investigated to see just how necessary they really are? -- David T Hollis <dhollis(a)davehollis.com>

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Detecting 64-bit Platforms
by Mike Barnes 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

In reference to this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122304 Just wondered if anyone had a good way to detect a 64-bit platform in the context of an RPM spec file. While building for the Alpha, we've come across similar situations a couple of times, where we turn up a bug that's already patched, but it's %ifarch-ed to x86_64 or whatever or, like in this case, just checking for "lib64" being used instead of "lib". Aside from just manually updating ifarch lists for patches, is there any good way to just pull in a patch on any system that happens to be 64-bit? Of course, if there's not, that's no big deal, but thought it might be worth mentioning in case someone comes up with something brilliant. :)

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/dev/uba errors
by Tim Waugh 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

What on earth is /dev/uba? I'm getting continuous kernel errors about it (I had to turn syslog off to stop the disk noise). ub: sizeof ub_scsi_cmd 60 ub_dev 1020 uba: device 3 capacity nsec 50 bsize 512 uba: made changed uba: device 3 capacity nsec 50 bsize 512 uba: device 3 capacity nsec 50 bsize 512 uba:end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 0 end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 2 Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 1 end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 4 Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 2 end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 6 Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 3 end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 0 end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 2 Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 1 end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 4 Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 2 end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 6 Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 3 end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 48 etc. etc. Tim. */

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rawhide report: 20040830 changes
by Build System 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Updated Packages: control-center-2.7.1-1 ---------------------- * Sun Aug 29 2004 Jonathan Blandford <jrb(a)redhat.com> 1:2.7.1-1 - new version hwdata-0.124-1 -------------- * Sun Aug 29 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 0.124-1 - Updates to pcitable/Cards for 'S3 Trio64 3D' cards. (#125866,59956) iiimf-le-chinput-0.3-6 ---------------------- * Sun Aug 29 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 0.3-6 - minor spec cleanup rpmdb-fedora-3-0.20040830 ------------------------- spamassassin-3.0-7.rc2 ---------------------- * Sun Aug 29 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - 3.0-7.rc2 - 3.0 rc2 wget-1.9.1-9 ------------ * Sun Aug 29 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 1.9.1-9 - more cleanups of the manpage (#117519) xcdroast-0.98a15-5 ------------------ * Sun Aug 29 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> - 0.98a15-5 - Actually apply the patch.

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enable the 256 colors support in xterm?
by Dan Nicolaescu 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Can the FC3 xterm be compiled with support for 256 colors enabled? (i.e. configure with --enable-256-color) This would enable applications to take advantage of a higher number of colors. For example, the next version of Emacs will have support for 256 color xterms. With that support, syntax coloring in emacs running in an xterm looks almost identical to emacs running in X11. This is great for using emacs over slow connections. As an illustration of this means, please look at: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dann/emacs-X11-256c-8c.jpg It shows (from left to right) 1 X11 emacs frame (with the toolbar and scrollbar turned off), 1 emacs running in a 256 color xterm and 1 emacs running in a classic 8 color xterm. font-lock-* are the colors emacs uses for syntax highlighting, observe that there's almost no difference between the colors used by the X11 emacs frame and emacs running in a 256 color xterm. (This support is not present in emacs-21.3 but it can probably be easily backported, if desired. It would probably be an ~200 lines patch -- elisp only). Thanks. --dan

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access to /dev/mapper/control
by Russell Coker 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

avc: denied { read } for pid=1482 exe=/sbin/nash name=control dev=dm-0 ino=735844 scontext=system_u:system_r:initrc_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:lvm_control_t tclass=chr_file Booting SE Linux with strict policy gives the above audit message. Why does nash need read access to this device node? nash will re-create it if necessary, but that doesn't require read access. What access does reading it really give anyway? -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page

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USB Soundcard.
by Naoki 29 Aug '04

29 Aug '04

Hi all, Since the 2.6.8 series kernels my Creative USB sound card has stopped working. system-config-soundcard says no cards detected. Any ideas? All modules seem loaded ok : snd_usb_audio 60961 1 snd_rawmidi 21605 1 snd_usb_audio snd_seq_device 6345 1 snd_rawmidi snd_pcm 82377 1 snd_usb_audio snd_page_alloc 8137 1 snd_pcm snd_timer 25029 1 snd_pcm snd 44453 7 snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 7457 1 snd

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