Hey gang,
I just upgraded weather3.admin.niu.edu from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat 7.3. So
far, no LDM problems. Here are some glitches that I have seen.
1. When firing up Mozilla, it attempts to convert your Netscape 4.7
profile into Mozilla. But then Mozilla crashes when it tries to do this
(you have to go to the command window and hit CTRL-C to break out of it;
it hangs). Netscape 4.79, which comes with Redhat 7.3, works fine.
2. Mailman software wipes out some Majordomo links. You'll have to erase
mailman (rpm -e mailman), then reinstall majordomo (but you don't have to
back up the lists or aliases file in /etc/aliases). Majordomo for Redhat
is at ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/en/powertools/i386/ , and works fine
under RH 7.3 (personally tested and confirmed to be OK).
3. It assumes your machine has 4 GB of RAM, so the default kernel uses
the "bigmem" configuration. This is murder on your hard drive upon first
boot as it is swapping to disk frequently (gee, imagine that). Since I use
LILO to boot my kernels, I simply adjusted it to use the one of 3
installed that didn't have that option; I did a "lilo -v" after adjusting
the lilo.conf file. Rebooted the machine, then it was fine. Kernel version
with this release to begin with is 2.4.18-3.
4. Most annoying: your XF86Config file no longer works. Using
Xconfigurator didn't recognize all the possible resolutions at 24 bit the
first time I did it; doing it the second time fixed it. But at least this
version of Xconfigurator works (the unpatched version in 7.2 does not!).
Otherwise, it seems to be running fine, and it seems as though 7.3 is the
big bugfix sorely needed after 7.2. I'll keep y'all posted if anything
else is noted to be broken, but if you don't hear from me, everything else
is working well. BTW, the machine used is a PII 450 MHZ machine, single
processor. The dual processor (weather.admin.niu.edu) gets upgraded
tomorrow if I see no more hangups. And, if all goes well, Monday
afternoon, I will do weather2.admin.niu.edu, which is where I've asked
all my assigned users to use as primary. I'll send out an email Monday
morning if it looks good to do this.
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Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University ****
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