FC5 Test2 : Kadischi can't pass through the mighty partitioning body

I created my first ever patch and it was for anaconda-10.91.9-1, because anaconda rejects the FC4 anaconda patch of Kadischi.
diff -Naur /usr/sbin/anaconda /home/chitlesh/anaconda > /home/chitlesh/anacondafc5t2.patch
Once Ive announced it on the mailing list , JasperHartline reminded me of his post fc5 test 2 patch rejections.

Hence my patch is useless. Jasper also pointed that rootpath's definition is useless in Kadischi's FAQ which I removed.

Afterwards, I managed to launch the graphical interface of anaconda, but I landed on with the partitioning of my disk. Im stuck now.

FC5 Test2: Im impressed

Finally, I installed FC5 Test2 on my laptop Packard Bell H5300 series. And finally, I got rid of those dependencies :) . Its quite sad that Nvidia has not yet come out with a solution for the
"Error: Unable to build the Nvidia Kernel module"

[root@goorah kadischi]# locate anaconda
locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory
Solution: [root@goorah kadischi]# updatedb

fp:ChitleshGoorah

Ok Today, Ive decided Ill definitely drop Gnome for KDE. Though I log in Gnome once in a month or during Fedora promotions parties :)
I created a web shortcut on Konqueror for fedoraproject.org.
So how do it actually work?
When I type
fp:ChitleshGoorah
on Konqueror it will search for a wiki page ChitleshGoorah in the fedoraproject.org
How to configure it?
Launch Konqueror: Settings > Configure > Web Shortcuts .
Click on "New"
* add "fedoraproject" to Search Provider name.
* add "http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/?action=fullsearch
&context=180&value=\{@}&titlesearch=Titles" to Search URI
* add "fp,fedora" to URL shortcuts
once done, click on "ok". Select "fedoraproject" in the list and finally click on apply.

Browser: webstandards

Today, I conducted my personal webstandards acid2 test on firefox, konqueror and opera.
The following screenshot shows clearly that the winner is Konqueror. Here are the standings
1. Konqueror (kdebase-3.5.0-1.2.fc4.kde)
2. Opera-8.51-20051114.6
3. Firefox-1.5-4
I've compared my test to this rendering reference


Updated : 16 June 2006
Alexendre Franke shared the screenshot of IE version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp.050622-1524 (on Windows XP SP2)tested with Acid2

Kadischi: First Weekly Report

After one week of coordination of the Kadischi Project with the help of the contributors, I've launched today (16/01/2006) the first Kadischi Weekly Report. After seeking advice from RahulSundaram, we (he and I) started the Weekly reports.

My submission of Kadischi Screenshots to Chris Haney (osdir.com) was accepted and can be browsed here.

updating kernel = removing old ones

Finally my problem while updating from 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 to 2.6.15-1.1824_FC4 was solved.The problem was that when I started updating the kernel with yum-2.5.0-5, it would wipe the previous kernels and replace by the new one.
It was a yum feature of installonlyn plugin. There is a setting that installs the newest kernel and removes all old ones.
$ gedit /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf &

[main]
enabled=1
# this sets the number of package versions which are kept
tokeep=2

change to
enabled=0
and did
$ yum update kernel*

Kadischi : Get it working

#001 No build dir defined. Please, edit config file option BUILDDIR.

gedit /etc/kadischi/build.conf &
And set BUILDDIR variable. BUILDDIR=/tmp

#002 anaconda: command not found

*** running anaconda ***
sh: anaconda: command not found
*** Fatal error: anaconda returned non zero (32512) exit code. Aborting execution.
Cleaning up temporary files...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/share/kadischi/kadischi.py", line 224, in ?
run ("anaconda %s --rootpath=%s --method=%s --livecd" % (anaconda_args, sysdir, method), builddir)
File "/usr/local/share/kadischi/lib/functions.py", line 115, in run
cleanup (builddir)
File "/usr/local/share/kadischi/lib/functions.py", line 104, in cleanup
shutil.move (normalize_path([builddir,'.buildstamp']), '/tmp/product/.buildstamp')
NameError: global name 'shutil' is not defined

It might be because you are using sudo. Try with su - instead.

#003 Error bad argument --livecd: unknown option

*** running anaconda ***
Error bad argument --livecd: unknown option
: *** Fatal error: anaconda returned non zero (65280) exit code. Aborting execution.
Cleaning up temporary files...
Done.

Recompile Kadischi from source. read #001 again
$ patch -b /usr/sbin/anaconda /usr/local/share/kadischi/patches/anaconda.patch
$ patch -b /usr/lib/anaconda/flags.py /usr/local/share/kadischi/patches/flags.py.patch

#004 --livecd unknown option

The --livecd unknown option is a clear indication you have not patched anaconda.

Rawhide: gpg: Segmentation fault caught ... exiting

For some reason, everyone needs to get a gpg key. I needed one too. A howto can be found here. But through
$ gpg --gen-key
, konsole landed on:
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
gpg: Segmentation fault caught ... exiting
Segmentation fault

This have been filed in bugzilla.
$ sudo rpm -q gnupg
gnupg-1.4.1-3
Warren adviced me to update my glibc (which was of version 2.3.90-25) to 2.3.90-26. But he also cautioned that "latest rawhide glibc will BLOW UP with kernel < 2.6.9".
After updating from the development repos (dependencies: glibc-common,glibc-devel,glibc-headers: 23Mb) gpg shines :).

FC4 & KDE 3.5 = Platform not supported ! (Part Two)

Following my first post about the KDE 3.5 and FC4, I tried 2 updates versions (minor) of KDE 3.5 on my FC4. The first one is 3.5.0-0.2.FC4 Red Hat. Here is its screenshot: The other one is 3.5.0-4.0.fc4.kde. It's screenshot: Two screenshots show the absence of "Network Settings" under "Local Network Chat". But this post clearly shows its presence in 3.5.0-1.2.fc4.kde.

New Year Install : results

Being a rawhide user, everyday I keep on updating my packages, until I updated the alsa & co packages where yum needed to solve the udev-0.78-3 dependency. On reboot, my kernel 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 was too old to meet compatibilities with the udev-0.78-3.

Starting udev Kernel is too old for this udev version [failed]

Troubleshooting it demanded lots of effort, I opted for another clean install. So I called it “The New Year's install”.

For the first time of my life, i finally had backups before another new Fedora Core install. Spontaneously FC5 Test 1 was the first choice for another install. Luckily, this time I didn't need to type garbage before the install to bypass the FC4 kernel panic bug. There is a bug with the choice of “French (pc)” keyboard configuration. It didn't configure properly as expected. I have not seen the SELinux install request at all before the installation of the packages. Maybe its just a test release that I didnt get any further details about the packages I'm going to install, compared to FC4 install. Unfortunately, it was a failure. Every time, an Exception error occurred with the installation of package shadow.

Finally, FC4 was installed again. I had a 686Mb update with # yum update