Rawhide mass udpate (64bit) status as of 03/02

Eric Paris eparis at redhat.com
Mon Mar 2 13:34:12 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 05:13 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> Did the major rawhide update (was already running rawhide) last night
> after most of the packages were finally updated and out to mirrors.  So
> have noticed 3 things..
> 
> 1 - Latest kernel oopses when trying to start gdm.  I think I see/saw
> something about drm and nouveau in my logs.  An automatic oops report
> was sent to kerneloops.org as well.
> 
> kernel-2.6.29-0.159.rc6.git3.fc11.x86_64 (This kernel boots)
> kernel-2.6.29-0.176.rc6.git5.fc11.x86_64 (Newest kernel that oopses)
> 
> 2 - This may be related to top but when viewing web pages, some of the
> fonts are HUGE (sometimes they take up the whole screen) but not all.
> Maybe part of using older kernel but newer other packages (not sure that
> made sense LOL)?

Fixed this by downgrading to nspr-4.7.3-2.fc10.i386.rpm

> 3 - Like others mentioned, red highlights in xterm along with characters
> as well when you type.  I believe even files/dir's are shown as red on
> red even though profile says differently.

Fixed this by downgrading to vte-0.19.4-3.fc11.i386.rpm




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