FC2 kernel quality
Enrico Scholz
enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Thu Sep 30 19:11:00 UTC 2004
alan at redhat.com (Alan Cox) writes:
>> - 'cdrecord' refuses to work as non-root which breaks nearly every GUI
>
> Not a bug, security fix. 2.6.9 works towards having a policy that is
> better.
Ok, will tools like 'xcdroast' work again?
>> * there is a bug when opening new PTYs; a symptom is EIO when accessing
>> /dev/ptmx. This bug breaks application like screen or ssh.
>
> Yep a few people are seeing this.
I found ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/people/viro/ptmx-delta which seems to
fix it.
>> * SELinux can not load the policies anymore because the tools can not
>> handle SELinux versions above 17 but the kernel has 18
>
> SELinux was never supported in FC2 final,
Sorry, I disagree here because it is explicitly mentioned in the
release-notes, and it worked before the 2.6.7 errata kernel afair. It
is somehow annoying that the next update-kernels broke it suddenly.
Enrico
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