Re: Hole in 64-bit Linux kernel provides root rights

Further story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/15/linux_kernel_regression_bug/ This is a very serious problem which puts multiuser 64-bit Linux systems absolutely at the mercy of their least responsible users. I have filed a bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635675 Prio

Boot warning message

I am getting the following warning message while booting the latest Fedora 13 kernel No kdump initial ramdisk found.[WARNING] Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686.PAEkdump.img Starting kdump:[FAILED] However the system seems to boot normally past this point. Is there any reas

Re: Latex format file bugs in Fedora 13

On Sun Jun 13 00:01:06 UTC 2010 Patrick O' Callaghan wrote: > Has it been reported to Bugzilla? If not, you should do so. > Yes, it has: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603380 It was previously reported in Fedora 9, 10 and 11: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447062 but noth

Latex format file bugs in Fedora 13

This is a long standing bug in Fedora dating back to at least version 9, which not only hasn't been fixed, but has gotten worse in Fedora 13. The problem is that texlive does not install Tex format files in a system-wide accessible directory. Rather it creates these format files in each users

perl-libapreq2 is broken in Fedora 13

This package provides the perl module Apache2::Request. When you attempt to use you get a linkage error: perl -MApache2::Request generates the error Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/auto/APR/Request/Request.so' for module APR::Request: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/APR/Request/Request.so: undefined symbol: apr

Copying F12 systems between disks

I fell a little behind in updating my Fedora system and was running Fedora 10 on my laptop until a couple of weeks ago. Then I decided to try running Fedora 12 off an external USB disk, to make sure that I wouldn't run into any glitches, in particular that some legacy applications I compile fr

Mount point for Windows shares?

When I connect to a Windows share via the Places->Connect to Server menu, I can see the share in Gnome, but I can't find it anywhere in the file system from a terminal window. Where is the mount point for such a share? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chan