darrel barton wrote:
I want to upgrade all my systems from 8 (Psyche) to the latest most
supported version, but I've had two problems (bugs actually) in Red
Hat 8 and I'd like to know that they've been CORRECTED in later versions.
The first problem is the launching of applications. After the system
is booted and initialized, all the applications from the menus
(Nautilus and Gnome) run fine. But at some point later (days later)
the menu functions simply won't launch -- for example, you can
navigate TO "Users and Groups" but when you click on it, it won't
launch. Nautilus or Gnome, same problem. Same with network
settings, etc. A reboot clears this. I've never seen documentation
ON this problem, so I have no idea if it's been fixed.
Never heard of this. But then RH 8.0 is several years back. Why not try
Fedora Core 5?
The second problem is, in my opinion, a HEINOUS omission or bug in the
kernel, one that someone should die over:
standard input is closed: Value too large for defined data type
The Linux kernel (at least in 8.0 Psyche) will allow an application
such as CPIO to CREATE an archive larger than the kernel can READ
BACK. No if's and's but's about this one - this is a CRIMINAL error
on someone's part. If even ONE person on this planet ever lost data
because the kernel refused to open a file that the kernel made, then
Torvalds himself should be made to go there and manually key in all of
the user's lost data.
HAS THIS PROBLEM BEEN FIXED?
Kernel? Don't think so. The kernel don't care about your archive file.
It's a hole in the archive file, rather.
Like so:
http://archives.devshed.com/forums/unix-linux-135/rescue-damaged-tar-file-1680796.html
Best regards,
-- David
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