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There have been noted issues with users of JFS during shutdowns utilizing certain services that sort of hang oddly, and when /(root) is remounted in read-only. I've actually experienced this myself when using sysstat once during a system evaluation. When shutting down the system for a reboot/halt, /(root) claimed a service was still active and that /(root) remount could not be released. This turned about to be sysstat still running.
I actually wrote a small edit here in a topic about a shutdown issue with rc.6. It might still be here somewhere.
Why? I'm sure ZFS is a nice filesystem, but it's not something that I see Slackware users begging to have.
Sounded like you know us all :-) Well, Slackware user here, not begging but suggesting: +1 for zfs (suggestions, that's why you opened the thread don't you?). As for zfs is far more then a nice filesystem, is a great filesystem with very desirable functions (snapshots, compression, data scrubbing, simple administration, Hybrid SSD storage pools, deduplication and so on). Thank you very much for your work on Slackware!
Honestly Robby I meant no ill will with my post. Somethings might be useful for testing stuff, but if we don't need them, then no loss to anyone.
As far as anything like KDE/Plasma using Wayland, doesn't using Wayland require libinput be installed to utilize the libevdev stack for universal input rather than xf86-input-evdev used by traditional X?
Also, to everyone, while ZFS is nice, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Slackware would first need to contact the proper people to make sure ZFS being included would be allowed. That hasn't happened yet, and only Patrick has the authority to ask. While I too am a +1 for ZFS, this is something that will have to happen in time, but at least if people speak up on it and ask, you never know.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but is it a good idea to standardize on GCC-4.9.x after Linus' rant about it? Would it be wiser to stick with 4.8.x or try 4.10 AKA 5.0?
Also, will you be releasing a build script into /testing for kernel 4.0 and/or 4.1 (when it hits)? I may be needing some of the new drivers soon that were introduced in those.
Thanks, Mike
P.S. Thanks for finally fixing the hwclock problem!
Perhaps I'm missing something, but is it a good idea to standardize on GCC-4.9.x after Linus' rant about it? Would it be wiser to stick with 4.8.x or try 4.10 AKA 5.0?
Also, will you be releasing a build script into /testing for kernel 4.0 and/or 4.1 (when it hits)? I may be needing some of the new drivers soon that were introduced in those.
Thanks, Mike
P.S. Thanks for finally fixing the hwclock problem!
he was talking about 4.9.0
and than it turned out that 4.8.3 had the same problem, hups,
I'm going to pawn off the sip and related to alienBOB, as he handles the KDE-related stuff.
I have no idea re baloo/nepomuk, so again, I'll defer that to alienBOB.
An update to sip was not needed for KDE 4.14.3 therefore I let it slip, but if it gets updated, so should PyQt.
The baloo/nepomuk question: Baloo took over from nepomuk for the desktop search, therefore you do not need nepomuk anymore, that is true.
However KDE 4.14.3 comes with a migration wizard to help you transition from nepomuk database to baloo database (a one-time automatic process when you start your upgraded KDE desktop for the first time) and that migration wizard needs nepomuk.
a4z, tyvm for info on GCC 4.9.2, I'll take your advice and not worry and be happy, lol!
However, something else has come up, a request I've had for a while but I've held my peace until now: including -nomodeset and friends into the default LILO config to prevent the frame buffer from stealing the console on boot-up. Default config, if the hardware isn't supported properly, can result in a blank/dead console. Like commenting out "compact", I think adding this to the default config can solve a lot of problems before they occur and can be removed manually if someone wants it (booting directly into X, for example).
a4z, tyvm for info on GCC 4.9.2, I'll take your advice and not worry and be happy, lol!
However, something else has come up, a request I've had for a while but I've held my peace until now: including -nomodeset and friends into the default LILO config to prevent the frame buffer from stealing the console on boot-up. Default config, if the hardware isn't supported properly, can result in a blank/dead console. Like commenting out "compact", I think adding this to the default config can solve a lot of problems before they occur and can be removed manually if someone wants it (booting directly into X, for example).
What do you guys think?
No matter if you boot directly into X or start it later, using the nomodeset option prevents most, if not all, of the open source drivers from providing any acceleration (2D/3D/video).
FreeRDP would be great. The upstream packaging quality is questionable but KRDC switched completely from rdesktop to FreeRDP between 4.10 and 4.14 so if you want RDP to work out of the box with KRDC we would need FreeRDP (preferably 1.1.x it seems, and old versions have problems with cmake 3.1+, I personally use 1.1.0_770c67d340 from git)
With a working version (recent git) SBo slackbuilds is OK for me.
BTW, another one I needed after upgrading was gst1-libav (to play mp3 with amarok/phonon/gstreamer) though I'm not sure if it's legally possible to include it in main repo.
(Since other backends than gstreamer were removed, see my other thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...nt-4175540508/ for qt that needs patching to play sound on KDE in -current for me)
OProfile-1.0.0 has been out for a while and I had an issue compiling version 0.9.7 with gcc-4.9.2 that seemed related to obsolete powerpc symbols (cannot replicate now because I have upgraded with 1.0.0 instead).
diff --git a/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh b/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh
index 16893b0..169c185 100755
--- a/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh
+++ b/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ function add_usb_keyboard() {
# Determine what USB Host Controller is in use
function add_usb_hcd() {
local USBMOD
- for i in $(ls -Ld /sys/module/*_hcd/drivers/*); do
+ for i in $(ls -Ld /sys/module/*_hcd/drivers/* 2>/dev/null); do
if ls -L $i | grep -q "[0-9a-f]*:" ; then
USBMOD=$( echo $i | cut -f4 -d/ | tr "_" "-")
[ -n "$MLIST" ] && MLIST="$MLIST:$USBMOD" \
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ if [ -z "$KVER" ]; then
KVER="$(uname -r)"
fi
fi
-if [ ! -d /lib/modules/$KVER ]; then
+if [ `find /lib/modules/ -name "${KVER}"` ]; then
echo "Modules for kernel $KVER aren't installed."
exit 1
fi
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(other distros put in the gnu-readline anyways...)
