what is eating dircolors?
by Michal Jaegermann
I failed to notice when precisely this happened but most likely
as a side effect of recent updates (and this is not include
'dircolors', i.e. coreutils package which was installed on the
box in question on Sat 17 Jul 2004). The gist of the problem
is that if you are in X and in terminal window you type
'dircolors --sh', or 'dircolors --sh /etc/DIR_COLORS', or similar
then an output is
LS_COLORS='';
export LS_COLORS
but if you do that on a console then you will get what you expect.
I tried 'gnome-terminal' and 'xterm' so this does not seem to
be an "improvement" in 'gnome-terminal'.
This is actually quite painful because if you do now
'ssh some.other.machine' then you will get the same deal.
In /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh you will find a code which says:
eval `dircolors --sh "$COLORS"`
[ -z "$LS_COLORS" ] && return
so these aliases:
alias ll='ls -l --color=tty' 2>/dev/null
alias l.='ls -d .* --color=tty' 2>/dev/null
alias ls='ls --color=tty' 2>/dev/null
are never defined so depending on if you logged from an "older"
Linux machine and/or from a console or a terminal window you are
getting an enviroment which looks and behaves differently.
I would hate trying to explain that to my users.
I would file a bug but I am not really sure what is really
responsible for that "great feature". So far I failed to notice
where this may be even documented but something tells me that
TERM=gnome may be responsible. If this is really the case then
alias dircolors='TERM=xterm \dircolors'
all over the place would work around that but this still does
nothing to older Linux hosts where you may want to login unless you
do that there as well. '[ "$TERM" = gnome ] && export TERM=xterm'
seems like a more radical solution. Hm, maybe in an alias for ssh,
with a TERM replacement like above, instead. OTOH 'dircolors'
documentation does not mention anything that its output may be
TERM dependent. Another bug?
Michal
19 years, 11 months
vanishing fam-2.6.10-11
by Michal Jaegermann
Accidentally I noticed that 'fam' disappeared (likely) from all
mirrors. Last time I looked there was something like
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS...
but if you would try to retrieve that you would get "404: Page not
found" instead. No recompiled binaries in "development".
At least the current nautilus version depends on fam so, unless
some deep nautilus rewrite is coming, that vanishing act seem
to be a result of some hiccup.
Michal
19 years, 11 months
Cron Errors in Root's Mail
by Bob Chiodini
The following is showing up in root's mail box every 10 minutes:
Message 1:
From root(a)solaria.ksc.nasa.gov Thu Jul 29 07:00:02 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:00:01 -0400
From: root(a)solaria.ksc.nasa.gov (Cron Daemon)
To: root(a)solaria.ksc.nasa.gov
Subject: Cron <root@solaria> root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
/bin/sh: line 1: root: command not found
This is apparently from the sysstat job found in /etc/cron.d:
# run system activity accounting tool every 10 minutes
*/10 * * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1
# generate a daily summary of process accounting at 23:53
53 23 * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A
What does the "root" parameter do (or not do)? It looks like crond was
updated on 26 July.
Bob...
19 years, 11 months
Missing deps on the latest updates
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
libcroco.so.2 is missing and is required for nautilus, gnome-games and
gdm, while the dependancy error for php and xine-ui (needs updating for
libcurl.so.3) is still there.
Any chance of fixing these?
TTFN
Paul
FC3t1, 2.6.7-1.499 kernel
--
"Look. If you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you
ever wanted. One moment to capture or would you just let it slip?" -
Marshall Mathers III (Lose Yourself)
19 years, 11 months
FC3T1 - Prelink - System Hang every night c 04:30
by richard mullens
My system (Duron 850) hangs every night at about 04:30.
System doesn't respond to mouse movement, keystroke, Control alt
anything or PING.
The time in the botton right hand of X display is the same as (or 1
minute later than) the timestamp of /var/log/prelink.
(Frozen) top shows "makewhatis" and prelink running recently.
Last message in /var/log/prelink always (so far):-
"warning /usr/lib/lib???.so??? has undefined non-weak symbols.
This problem doesn't affect an other machine I have running FC3T1, and
perhaps, tonight,
now that I have shut the case and added an extra fan, it will go away.
However,I'd be interested
to know the purpose of this nightly activity - and the consequences were
I to inhibit it.
19 years, 11 months
FC2 Bug: /etc/lynx.cfg is broken
by Janina Sajka
As always, I need someone's help posting a bug report on this as
Bugzilla has not yet been made eyes-free accessible ...
The default /etc/lynx.cfg contains the following caution:
# Please don't edit this file directly (it is updated with every Red Hat
# Linux update, overwriting your changes). Instead, edit
# /etc/lynx-site.cfg.
Unfortunately, editing /etc/lynx-site.cfg does no good, as directives
placed there are disallowed, by default, in /etc/lynx.cfg. If one tries,
lynx will not run at all.
--
Janina Sajka, Chair
Accessibility Workgroup
Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina(a)freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
19 years, 11 months
Fwd: only one bash prompt?
by charles f. zeitler
Message: 11
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:25:27 -0600
From: Michal Jaegermann <michal(a)harddata.com>
Subject: Re: only one bash prompt?
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "charles f. zeitler" <cfzeitler(a)yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20040725172527.A19867(a)mail.harddata.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 02:50:35PM -0700, charles f.
zeitler wrote:
> when i try to open
> a second terminal,
> or a second term tab,
> the bash prompt
> never appears.
A bit too long for a haiku, but ... Maybe it can be
improved. :-)
Anything similar to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127048
How about ownership and permissions on /dev/pts ?
Michal
/dev --- root,755
/dev/* -- current user,640
Message: 9
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:16:40 -0500
From: Harry Putnam <reader(a)newsguy.com>
A litte more info is needed here for anyone to be
helpful.
Which OS?
fedora core 3, test1
Is it up to date?
i have had problems with updates
Are you running bash?
yup.
Which version of bash?
2.05b-42
This happens in X or in console mode or both?
x
If in X which desktop and terminal
gnome
gnome term
output of `echo $TERM'
xterm
`echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
env
Contents of .bashrc and .bash_profile
# .bashrc
# User specific aliases and functions
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# User specific environment and startup programs
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH
unset USERNAME
Fill that stuff in and someone can help you.
thanks for the pointers, guys,
but this seems to be load related.
cfzeitler
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19 years, 11 months
nautilus irregularity
by Harry Putnam
My setup:
*--
Software:
Linux kernel 2.6.7-1.494 Architecture i686
Fedora Core release 2.90 (FC3 Test 1)
nautilus-2.6.0-6
Hardware:
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
cpu MHz : 1994.632
*--
Maybe a bug in nautilus but thought I'd see if others see it first.
Setting edit/preferences foler view to list and default resolution or
size to %25, results in, when newly starting nautilus, showing %100 view.
However setting the default to %50 works as expected.
In other words, the %25 setting won't stick as default.
Do others see this behavior?
19 years, 11 months
Security Level
by David Bentley
Hi
Just a quick note
After the last round of updates on the 30th of July I
have been checking if anthing is broken and have found
that the Security Level applet nolonger functions
(only checked using the Gnome environment) all you get
is a quick flash of something happening then the keys
symbol appears or if not logged in as ROOT you get
asked for the root password and when it is supplied
nothing happens.
Also a similar situation applies to all the Open
Office applications which I see has been noted already
previously in the list.
19 years, 11 months
USB problems
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
I seem to be having a problem with my USB system.
While ehci is loaded on boot up, /dev/usb/lp0 cannot be found until I
remove the existing printer and set it up again. My webcam cannot be
found either until I modprobe ohci and the other usb driver.
Is there something I should add into /etc/modprobe.conf to ensure both
the webcam and the printer works? The printer is important as the wife
gives me hell if it doesn't work!
TTFN
Paul
--
"Look. If you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you
ever wanted. One moment to capture or would you just let it slip?" -
Marshall Mathers III (Lose Yourself)
19 years, 11 months
