Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
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9:16 am - Nice touch, better than a camera phone...
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Sunday night I went to see The Legendary Pink Dots at the Granada theater (great show!). I don't go to too many shows there, but it is a very nice venue. Since they usually sell tickets direct, they have the email address of everyone who purchased tickets online. This morning I received an email from them with several professional photos from Sunday nights show.
One thing you see at almost all shows these days is people trying to take pictures of the bands with their camera phones. They tend to turn out about as well as you would expect from a camera phone in low light, basically a waste of electrons. It is a very nice change to have the venue send you good quality pictures from the show you attended. Sometimes the little things can go a long way. Maybe other venues will take note.
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
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1:16 pm - Linux Plumbers Conference
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I am back from Linux Plumbers Conference in Portland last week. I have to say that I was really impressed with the conference. Generally speaking for Linux conferences, the talks are interesting and the hallways conversations are productive. With LPC the talks were really more working sessions, and they were productive in and of themselves. I think a lot came out of LPC and I certainly hope to see the conference continue. A big thanks to all of the organizers and sponsors.
As a result of the sessions and much work outside of the sessions, I think Foresight will see some significant speed up in boot time. As a side effect, certain configurations will "just work" with less hassle than was previously required. I will provide more updates once the plan begins to fall into place.
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
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10:30 pm - New rPath Linux 2.6.26.3 kernels available for testing.
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2.6.26.3 kernels are available for testing on rPath Linux 1 and rPath Linux 2 systems. Please test and report any issues to rITS. To test these kernels with your systems for rPL 1, please run conary update 'kernel=kernelbits.rpath.org@rpl:1 --keep-existing' For rPL 2, please run conary update 'kernel=kernelbits.rpath.org@rpl:2 --keep-existing' These kernels can be tested in your groups or images by including kernel=kernelbits.rpath.org@rpl:1 or kernel=kernelbits.rpath.org@rpl:2
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
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9:30 pm - Something about the Riverwalk...
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I have been coming to San Antonio for as long as I can remember. Even before there was Sea World, or a reason(s) to "see Shamu", the River Walk was a nice little weekend getaway. Every trip to San Antonio has included dinner on the river at Casa Rio. Tonight we decided to stop by after the day at Sea World with the kids and it was wonderful. Beautiful night out, kids feeding the ducks (tortilla races!), eating delicious Mexican food, sipping a margarita, with the sound of bagpipes in the air... Wait, what?!? Yes, bagpipes. There is a street piper playing on the corner just above Casa Rio, he has been there for at least a year now. It somehow went well with the rest of the night. Next time you find your self in San Antonio, check him out.
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
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2:54 pm - New kernels for testing
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New test kernels for rPL 1 based on 2.6.22.2 are available. Anyone who would like to test these kernels can do so by installing kernel=conary.rpath.com@rpl:1-devel. Please report any issues to Jira.
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
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12:41 pm - New kernels for testing
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New test kernels for rPL 1 based on 2.6.20.15 are available. Anyone who would like to test these kernels can do so by installing kernel=conary.rpath.com@rpl:1-devel. Please report any issues to Jira.
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
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8:33 am - Xen is officially in the distro...
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Many of you have been following the Xen work in rtao, and wondering when Xen support would be officially in rPath Linux... Well, it is officially here! And having this inside the distro makes things much easier. Now most people cooking their groups with [xen,domU] can automatically get a xenified group ready for images, with no extra effort :) If you have your own kernel modules things get a bit more tricky, you will need to build the modules for the xen kernel as well.
Next I will be putting a 2.6.18 based xen kernel in conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel and should have libvirt and virt-manager available in rtao soon.
current music: Ask Last.fm
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
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3:39 pm - Test driving xen
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A few people have asked about test driving xen as it stands in rtao, these are testing snapshots and the process will become much easier once 3.0.3 is released. In the meantime here are some simple instructions for testing on x86:
Starting from rPath Linux 1:
Verify that you have bridge-utils installed with conary q bridge-utils
If it is not installed, conary update bridge-utils should install it for you
next we add the xen dom0 bits:
conary update kernel=rtao.rpath.org@rpl:1[xen,dom0]
conary update xen=rtao.rpath.org@rpl:1
mkdir /var/lib/xen (this should go away soon, it is a packaging bug that has been fixed but not pushed)
And if running x86:
conary update glibc=rtao.rpath.org@rpl:1[xen]
At this point you can reboot into the xen kernel and should have a running dom0. Verify by running xm list as root
Once that is working you can add your domU instances. As examples I have created a basic network server image and a basic text mode development environment. I will walk you through the setup of these images as domUs below. We have to make a couple of assumptions here, xen needs to know the path to your image file, the amount of memory you wish to give your image and the name for your domU. For these examples we will assume you wish to place your images in /srv/xen/ and you wish to give your domU instances 256MB each.
First we will set up the net-server:
cd /srv/xen/
wget http://www.rpath.com/rbuilder/downloadImage/6769/rtao-domU-netserver-0.95.img.gz
gzip -d rtao-domU-netserver-0.95.img.gz
create a file /etc/xen/netserver with the following content:
name = "netserver"
memory = "256"
disk = [ 'file:/srv/xen/rtao-domU-netserver-0.95.img,xvda,w' ]
vif = [ '' ]
bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"
on_reboot = 'restart'
on_crash = 'restart'
now start your new domU nestserver with xm create -c netserver
You should see the domain booting, there is no root password on this image, so create one and use the system as you wish. To exit the virtual console, use ctrl-] To view all running xen domains on the system you can use xm list, and to reattach the console you can use xm console domID where domID is the number in the ID column from xm list
To set up the text development environmnet you would:
cd /srv/xen/
wget http://www.rpath.com/rbuilder/downloadImage/6797/rtao-0.95-x86.img.gz
gzip -d rtao-0.95-x86.img.gz
create a file /etc/xen/netserver with the following content:
name = "textdevel"
memory = "256"
disk = [ 'file:/srv/xen/rtao-0.95-x86.img,xvda,w' ]
vif = [ '' ]
bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"
on_reboot = 'restart'
on_crash = 'restart'
now start your new domU development environment with xm create -c textdevel
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
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4:23 am - Kernel 2.6.17 is available...
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For those of you interested in 2.6.17, kernels have been cooked into kernelbits. 'conary update kernel=kernelbits.rpath.org@rpl:1' should give you what you need. As usual, if there are any problems, let me know.
current music: Last.fm knows
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
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1:02 am - New kernels...
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The 2.6.16.1 kernels have been cooked into conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel for those of you interested. Lots of goodies in these and worth a spin. For the less adventerous, 2.6.15.7 has been cooked into conary.rpath.com@rpl:1. This includes a few bug fixes and one relatively minor security update. Let me know if you run across any issues with either of these kernels.
current music: last.fm knows
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
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12:38 am - Pay no attention to that flood of commit mail :)
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Over the course of the day, those of you following distro-commits have probably noticed a massive amount of email. Those would be the round 1 devel rebuild which is finally done. Group cooks and such to make it more managable will be happening tomorrow, and then devel will slow to a smaller trickle until the next major rebuild. Today's commits are around gcc-3.4.4, but include kde 3.5.1. Gcc 4.1 and gnome 2.14 will be coming soon to a repository near you :) I will also build 2.6.16 into :devel before the weekend is over.
current music: Conjure One
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Friday, December 16th, 2005
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1:55 pm - Get your goodies here...
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Lots of new goodies in the conary.rpath.com@rpl:1 repository today:
- kernel 2.6.14.4: On top of the long list of upstream updates I went ahead and restored the sata_sil/Seagate quirks for Sil 3114. Upstream disabled this for 3114 in 2.6.14 because the problem the work around was written for does not effect the 3114. Unfortunately another problem does, and this was hidden (worked around) by the code being used on the 3114. Basically this means Sil 3114 users with Seagate drives should work as well as they did on 2.6.13 and earlier.
- MySQL 5.0.16 (woohoo, MySQL 5)
- Postgresql 8.1.1
- curl and perl security fixes.
And of course the things that build against MySQL and Postgresql so that everything still works (PHP, Perl-DBD, qt)
current music: My last.fm page
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
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3:53 pm - udev/hotplug/MAKEDEV updates on :1
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Currenty new versions of udev, hotplug, and MAKEDEV are being commited to conary.rpath.com@rpl:1. The update on this is just a little bit tricky because of the way udev works. Basically the /dev/ on your running system is a bit different from the /dev/ which was installed by the dev package. To properly handle this update you should run one of the following:
- If you have not yet updated udev, as root mkdir /tmp/dev; mount --move /dev /tmp/dev; conary update MAKEDEV dev; mount --move /tmp/dev /dev; rmdir /tmp/dev; conary update hotplug udev; /sbin/start_udev . This will delete all of the no longer needed dev nodes and update your hotplug and udev accordingly.
- If you have already run the update before you noticed this message, never fear, nothing is broken. To clean up all of the old unnecessary files and get things running again you can run as root mkdir /tmp/dev; mount --move /dev /tmp/dev; find /dev | grep '/dev/' | grep -v '(MAKEDEV|zero|null|console)' | xargs rm -rf; mount --move /tmp/dev /dev; rmdir /tmp/dev; /sbin/start_udev and all will be well.
Of course without running these snippits, your system should still run fine, you will just have a lot of unnecessary /dev entries. If you have missing devices you might need to run /sbin/start_udev or reboot.
current music: Marlene Dietrich's Favorite Poem
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Monday, December 5th, 2005
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9:05 am - fire!
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This weekend I decided to introduce my 2 yr old to the time honored tradition of roasting marshmellows. Perhaps the big marshmellows are not a great introductory tool, since he took a good bite of the first one and spent the next 10 minutes getting the rest of the white sticky mess all over himself, but it was cute. He particularly enjoyed blowing out any marshmellows caught ablaze, and spearing the fresh ones for us. He seemed to enjoy the whole process.
I have always enjoyed the cold weather, as cold as it gets in TX anyway, but these days not as much as I used to. Getting dark early means I cannot take my kids to the park in the evenings when it is warm enough, and some days it is really just too cold. We had a lovely time outside on Saturday, but Sunday had just gotten cool enough that the park was not comfortable.
In rPath news, users of rpl:1 will find Openoffice.org 2.0 and Firefox 1.5 are both in the repository now. Unfortunately openoffice.org introduces a large number of new build reqs, and for x86_64 users it means group-compat32 jumps from 310MB to 900MB. It does look like the roadmap for Openoffice.org puts a 64bit clean release at 2.0.2, so things are in the works, and we can run an office suite without an extra 750MB of support libs. Of course one of the nice things about conary, is installing 32bit deps is easy, since :lib components are nearly always multilib safe by default.
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Thursday, December 1st, 2005
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2:26 pm - rpl:1 kernel reversion
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It seems that a couple more errors have popped up in the 2.6.14 kernels which were enough to bring a reversion to 2.6.13.4 up again on rpl:1. Essentially there are instances in 2.6.14 where disks will appear to be corrupt, or even worse will cause a kernel panic. This has been observed on a Sil SATA controller using an older Seagate SATA disk, which has been a troublesome combination in the past. As a result, the distro kernel on conary.rpath.com@rpl:1 has been rolled back to 2.6.13.4. For those of you who wish to continue running with 2.6.14, never fear, you can conary update kernel=conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel --keep-existing to get the latest kernel (currently 2.6.14.3)
For those of you running 2.6.14.2 from rpl:1 right now, if you start to see disk errors, you might consider a conary update kernel before you reformat, repartition, or replace the disk all together. Hopefully this will all be fixed soon.
current music: Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
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10:50 am - rPath Linux and labels
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For those of you who installed rPath Linux 0.60 or 0.70, or those who manually updated older releases to use the conary.rpath.com@rpl:rpl1 label, now would be a great time to move over to the conary.rpath.com@rpl:1 label. As part of the move with our 0.99.0 release we have moved our beta label to rpl:1 and will continue maintaining the repository on this label. The conary.rpath.com@rpl:1 label was created by cloning the binaries from the rpl:rpl1 label, so there will not be significant changes in the initial update, but it will allow you to keep track of updates provided to the beta releases. To facilitate his change, you simply need to replace conary.rpath.com@rpl:rpl1 with conary.rpath.com@rpl:1 in your /etc/conaryrc (and any user specific .conaryrc files) and run conary update group-os=conary.rpath.com@rpl:1
Background on the reasoning for the change is available in This post from Michael
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
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12:52 pm - kernel 2.6.14.2 PCI woes
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For those of you who are following the rPath :rpl1 label you might notice that yesterday we had a 2.6.14.2 kernel as the head, and today we have reverted to 2.6.13.4. While most of our testing was great with 2.6.14.2, we found one system confirmed and one other (unconfirmed) which will fail to bring up any network interfaces. This appears to be a PCI issue, and so far only seen on Nvidia x86_64 chipsets. I am working to figure out the cause (and fix) for this issue, but in the meantime we felt it best to put the working kernel back on head so that we dont actually break anything new. If you are looking for some of the nifty new features in .14 or just like to test things and feedback, feel free to 'conary update kernel=2.6.14.2 --keep-existing' and let me know if you run into problems. There are no known corruption issues, you just might not have network interfaces or other PCI devices present. Rebooting into the old 2.6.13.4 kernel will bring them back if they disappear.
current music: I'm Afraid Of Americans
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Monday, September 19th, 2005
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12:01 am - Avast ye Land lubbers!
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
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9:38 pm - It's a boy!
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Not that everyone didnt know that part, but Aidan Joseph was born at 5:10PM. He weighed in at 8 lbs 5 oz, and was 21" tall. Both Aidan and Mommy are doing quite well.
current mood:  excited
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Monday, August 1st, 2005
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11:57 am - Email outage
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So it seems comcast had a mail problem over the weekend. I am not sure if it effected multiple users or not, but it seemed to have killed all of mine and Jessica's accounts. So if you sent something, you might want to send it again.
current music: Beyond The Scale Of Comprehens
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