Re: tk not installed with FC2?, and a couple minor bugs/issues

From: Paul Bramscher (brams007_nospam_at_tc.umn.edu)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:53:27 -0500

Martijn wrote:
> "Paul Bramscher" <brams006_nospam@tc.umn.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>Last, there appears to be a bug with add/remove applications. If it
>>prompts for a Fedora CD which is not currently in the drive -- and you
>>insert it -- it reports that it cannot access the CD. It fails every
>>time. I abort the add/remove applications tool, leave the CD in the
>>drive (which is now mounted, and appears on the desktop) and then re-run
>>add/remove applications. This time it does not fail.
>
>
> I can't help you with tk, but i'm aware of the CD bug.
> When it can't found the cdrom, open a terminal and type:
>
> umount /mnt/cdrom
>
> Then press the ok button again and it will mount the cdrom and
> it will work.
> You have to do this thrick every time fedora asks for another cdrom,
> which is (beware!) a lot of times depending on the packages you selected.
> It keeps switching from disk1 to disk2 all the time, so a lot of patience
> is requiered :)
>
> My advice: quit Fedora Core 2, it really sucks.
> Can't believe this used to be redhat, it's buggy like hell.
>

To clarify: I solved the TK problem myself. I just went to fedora main
FTP site and located the tk rpm. Downloaded it and rpm'd manually into
my system. Somewhere in the FC2 release notes was something to the
effect that tcl/tk have been separated from one another.

But yeah, I'm not overly impressed with QA on this. At the very least,
the CD install bug ought to have been detected. Fortunately, I have a
main linux box that I keep stable, and an older PC to screw around with.
  Not sure I'll be junking SuSE and going to FC2 any time on the main box.

Other oddity is that I've been running SETI@Home on that machine since
RH 5.2. I moved over to SUSE 6.x, 7.x and then RH9, FC1, and now FC2.
It seems with each new kernel, the average time to compute a work unit
increases. As I recall, it was around 28 hours with FC1. It's up to
34-35 hours with FC2. Note that this is not my main S@H work unit box
today -- but it's an interesting way to benchmark not just hardware, but
also linux kernels. FC2's kernel seems to be the slowest of the bunch.