WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4

Steven W. Orr steveo at syslang.net
Tue Jul 12 00:22:49 UTC 2005


Am Montag, den 11.07.2005, 19:39 -0400 schrieb Steven W. Orr:
> The problems with it are a mile long and I'm very disappointed that I 
> upgraded my home machine.
> 
> * I run Majordomo2 which is a great mailinglist manager. Not all my
>    mail is getting delivered and I'm getting messages with blank
>    bodies. No one else seems to be having this problem. I'm not sure
>    what I can do now. It could be perl, or worse, it could be gcc
>    which was used to build perl.

=I doubt that gcc has something to do with it. 


> 
> * I have a Palm IIIc connected on a serial port. pilot-link woks ok
>    but all software that uses pilot-link (jpilot, kpilot, gnome-pilot)
>    are all unable to connect to the device. No one knows why. I
>    suspect gcc.

=I suspect either Selinux or udev. Btw last week was a bank robery.
=Nobody knows who is responsible. I suspect gcc also for that.

Look, I'm doing the best I can. Things are badly broken and it causes a 
huge amount of trouble.

=What does STRACE tell you? What GDB?

Absolutely nothing. 

Selinux is disabled. udev is not the culprit. I'm on a serial port and the 
udev entry works fine for creating my symlink to /dev/pilot

> * I have a Dell Dimension 4700 at work. The upgrade went fine from
>    Core 3 to 4. Afterwards, I went to start X and it failed. The
>    xorg.conf file was identical both before and after the upgrade,
>    including after running system-config-display --configure. The fix,
>    after a team of people poured 6 hours into it was to not use the
>    VESA driver that it used before. The correct choice is to use the
>    i810 driver. The writeup for it is here:
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162699
> 

=Sure that is a major critical bug! Let us all burn our FC4 cds. 

Depends if it's your machine or not.

> I've had good and bad upgrade experiences before, but this is
> killing me. My home machine is my domain server and it's been pretty
> badly crippled because of the mail problems. I can still use my palm
> but it's a new experience in being crippled.

=Come on, be specific. I cannot use my Washing Machine at all. So now let
=us blame Fedora for it.

Tell me what you need and I will be happy to supply it.

=What does /var/log/audit/audit.log tell you? Is Selinux offline? 

523 > ls -l /var/log/audit/audit.log
ls: /var/log/audit/audit.log: No such file or directory
524 >

526 >  selinuxenabled 
527 > echo $?
1
528>
(even though the manpage for selinuxenabled says to expect a *minus* 256. 
:-)

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