Fedora Core 5 common issues and bugs

[dragoran]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:24:29PM -0500, Richard Hally wrote:
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>> Below are two older buggs about CD problems that are worked around by 
>> using "linux ide=nodma" to start an install. I needed to use this to 
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> It is random whether ide=nodma helps for disk checks. The only current solution
> and one I've recommended since FC1 is to remove that feature from the 
> distribution entirely.
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is this some kind of joke?
whe have a bug in progamm x... how should we fix it?
just drop the feature o.O ???
>> install FC5 test3 on one of my boxes. It apparently is a kernel problem 
>> that has been hanging around for quite a while.
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> 2004, but nobody cares. If you want to fix it go ahead. If not my guess is
> that someone will have to fix it for the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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>> Would this be appropriate for that Common Bugs page?
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> Yes but the recommendation should be "never use the disk check feature"
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see above...
> Alan
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