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!!RedHat Linux Notes Just a few things to make life with RedHat more pleasant... !Glibc Bug This fault is particular to RedHat 8.0. There are several open bugs on bugzilla.redhat.com, but no "absolute" fix. The fault is thus: Whenever the total members of one group (including the group name and group id ) exceed a certain number of characters on that group line in /etc/group, the group fails. This number seems to vary depending on type of members, position in the file, etc. When the "magic number" is reached and a new user is added to that group, group functions no longer work. For instance, adding user "joebloggs" to group users at the "breaking point". Before you do this, all group related functions (groups, getent group, etc) work correctly, but after adding user "joebloggs": [[root@somebox etc]# groups joebloggs%%% id: cannot find name for group ID 100 All groups __after__ that line in /etc/group will fail also. The fix (unlikely as it seems) is to upgrade the glibc packages to those in RawHide. Yes. ''Even though'' the major version changes... I was dubious about doing this at first, but all has gone well. This fault nearly drove GreigMcGill insane. Many thanks to JohnMcPherson, PerryLorier, DanielLawson, and all the others on that stressful day on irc... !My [MP3]s don't work! One day, long ago, all was going quitely in Linux land. Suddenly, an [article|http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/27/1626241] appearen on Slashdot, claiming that all Music players that played [MP3] files had to pay a royalty fee to the developers of the [MP3] format to use the decoder. But was this the truth? Days later, another [article|http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/29/1633205&tid=17] surfaced, saying that free deocders had never had to pay a licencing fee and never would have to. But the damage had been done. RedHat, in their quest to not get sued, removed all [MP3] decoders from the music players in their distrubtion. To play [MP3] files on Xmms, you have to install an [MP3] plugin. The xmms [website|http://xmms.org] has rpm packages that you can download and install to bring your [MP3]s back. But we all know you should be using [Oggs | OggVorbis] anyway...... ! Ximian Desktop 2 If you are having problems with packages after install Ximian Desktop 2 see [XD2Notes] for a fix to a possible bug.
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