Fedora Core 5

byrdman · Post by **byrdman** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:15 pm

With only a couple hours of having it...how is it so far...Good, Bad, Ugly?

Void Main · Post by **Void Main** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:57 pm

Well I just got Evolution working (and updated the bugzilla reports). I had to use "username@domain.com" for my userid in the old version and the new version I have to only use "username". Works great now!

Regarding how is it so far, I think it might be shaping into a winner. When you want me to come over and plaster it on all your servers? :) I'll upgrade my voidmain.is-a-geek.net site tonight and see how the web server and databases work on the new stuff.

Void Main · Post by **Void Main** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:57 pm

voidmain.is-a-geek.net is now on FC5. Just trying to clean up the not working parts...

byrdman · Post by **byrdman** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:48 pm

Should be in a couple of weeks...our FC5 roll out. I am trying to get new machines for our SQl server so I can use the older dell 2650's for our mail and dns servers...oh, and can't forget about the phones database!! Right now I just snagged one of the bad-boy machines that our architechs use for autocad and rendering and stuff, and I am going to put FC5 on that once it d/l's...

Void Main · Post by **Void Main** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:26 pm

I got the DVD burned this morning.

Void Main · Post by **Void Main** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:02 pm

I couldn't find the apt/synaptic packages for FC5 built for freshrpms/dries/etc so I just built apt, created a patch to make synaptic compile and built RPMS for both :

Directory:
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/files/RPMS/apt/
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/files/RPMS/synaptic/

apt:
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/files/RPM ... m.i386.rpm
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/files/RPM ... 6.rpm.html
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/files/RPM ... vm.src.rpm

synaptic:
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/files/RPM ... m.i386.rpm
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/files/RPM ... vm.src.rpm

Void Main · Post by **Void Main** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:34 pm

Ok, had my first mini disaster when I fired up the laptop after getting home from work. I had built and installed apt today and before I left work I did a dist-upgrade. I remember it having a few packages to upgrade and a few to "remove". I was in a hurry to get out of there so I just said yes, do it. When I got home I went to log in and gnome wouldn't start. gdm was running but as soon as I tried to log in to my gnome desktop it would log me right back off with an error. I vaguely recalled a couple of those packages that were removed before leaving work were gnome packages. I looked through the /root/upgrade.log file that was created when I upgraded to see what packages were missing and saw that a couple of gstreamer related packages, gnome-volume-manager, gnome-media and a couple of other gnome packages were missing.

After reinstalling the missing rpms from the CD everything was back to normal. I went ahead and did another dist-upgrade and everything went fine this time. I'm not sure why it wanted to remove those packages before, maybe there was a repo problem. At any rate, if you do a dist-upgrade and it wants to remove some gnome packages, abort the upgrade and figure out the dependencies causing the need for the removal of those gnome packages.

insomnia · Post by **insomnia** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:29 am

Well, it gave me the same warnings. The package it was looking for is "gstreamer-tools", After installing this all went fine.

PS: Thanks

byrdman · Post by **byrdman** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:12 am

I am trying to install my nVidia dual head card and that seems to be failing. It says there is no kernel source. I have a fairly new video card and it worked with FC 4. did they put the kernel source in there and if so, where?

insomnia · Post by **insomnia** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:47 am

byrdman wrote:I am trying to install my nVidia dual head card and that seems to be failing. It says there is no kernel source. I have a fairly new video card and it worked with FC 4. did they put the kernel source in there and if so, where?

As posted on the first page, the kernel-devel package doesn't come with the CDs.
Just do:
yum install kernel-devel

The current Xorg package that comes with FC5 is not supported by the nvidia installer.
This should be fixed with a new kernel (but not yet available), if you can't wait (like me), you can install it like this (worked for me):
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-f ... tml#nvidia

Void Main · Post by **Void Main** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:48 pm

Glad to see there are ways to make the nVidia driver work. I might have to upgrade a couple more machines tonight. :)

byrdman · Post by **byrdman** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:04 pm

I am getting "Failed build dependencies:
kernel-smp-devel-i686 = 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by nvidia-kmod-1.0.8187-0.lvn.3.2.6.15_1.2054_FC5.i686

And I cant find the smp-devel source...

insomnia · Post by **insomnia** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:05 pm

byrdman wrote:I am getting "Failed build dependencies:
kernel-smp-devel-i686 = 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by nvidia-kmod-1.0.8187-0.lvn.3.2.6.15_1.2054_FC5.i686

And I cant find the smp-devel source...

Try:
yum install kernel-smp-devel

byrdman · Post by **byrdman** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:15 pm

Looks like that helped but now it won't do my dual monitor config...hmmm. Anyone try that part yet?

Void Main · Post by **Void Main** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:17 pm

Was it working with FC4? I have a 6600GT AGP that is dual monitor capable but I've never hooked two up to it. You wouldn't happen to have a couple 19" LCDs lying around I can have do you? :) My son is upgrading the desktop with the nVidia card in it as I type.

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