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[security] crux-2.2/ports/opt/xine-lib/
by crux＠crux.nu 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

This is a notification of a security related commit in crux-2.2/ports/opt/xine-lib/: xine-lib: update to 1.1.2. Information regarding the security vulnerabilities can be found at http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=431057 Commit information: Author: sten Date: 2006-07-31 01:12:58 +0200 (Mon, 31 Jul 2006) URL http://crux.nu/svnweb/CRUX/revision/?rev=1660

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Grub quirks
by Bernd Eggink 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Line editing in the GRUB boot menu seems to be broken. If I press 'e' twice on a menu entry and type anything, only garbage appears on the screen. - Possibly a side effect of (according to documentation) "heavily patching"? Regards, Bernd

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bianual releases
by Han Boetes 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

The OpenBSD project introduced bianual releases with great succes. Since Crux is also a very evolutionary project using a binanual release cycle would be pretty easy. And I bet you can all come up with other advantages. The only disadvantage is that we've got to together more often and decide what to for the next cycle apart from updates and then insert a month of freezetime. What do you think? # Han -- http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/crux/

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Problems installing with USB CDROM
by Bernd Eggink 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

I'm trying to install Crux on an IBM Thinkpad. This notebook has a USB CDROM and no floppy drive. The Crux CD-ROM boots, but the kernel apparently doesn't support USB and therefore can't see the CDROM drive afterwards. What I did so far is: 1. Build a kernel with compiled-in USB (-CDROM) support. 2. Make a bootable CDROM (using mkbootfloppy), consisting of the original Crux CDROM, with the kernel replaced by the new one. Now I would expect the boot parameters "root=/dev/sr0" or "root=/dev/scd0" to work, but I still get the message "Cannot open root device XXX" and a kernel panic. Something appears to be missing. Can anybody help? Regards, Bernd -- Bernd Eggink monoped(a)arcor.de

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a little bit outdated networking stuff
by Mikhail Kolesnik 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

From CRUX Handbook: "The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries." Firstly, /etc/{services,protocols} are not up to date. I am suggesting using iana-etc[1]. Note, this will affect, for example, iptables rules with protocol names people are currently using. Ticket created, id: 94. Current core/netkit-base consists of the two files mentioned above (which hopefully can be updated), ping, inetd. Latest Changelog entry in netkit-base-0.17 is dated 24-Jul-2000. As I can see, modern distros prefer Iputils[1] which can provide at least more featured 'ping' command (just compare man pages). It is not a simple 'I want' but 'I need and many more people might need' features like 'ping -I eth1'. But Iputils is not a bleeding age project too (11/09/02). Nothing against inetd at this point. Of coarse, all above is IMHO. [1] http://www.sethwklein.net/projects/iana-etc [2] http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Iputils -- Mikhail Kolesnik ICQ: 260259143 IRC: mike_k at freenode/#crux, rusnet/#yalta Jabber: mike_k(a)jabber.lafox.net NIC handle: MKK83-UANIC

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boot floppy creation kit
by smagnuson＠forzani.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Used the boot floppy creation kit available from here: http://crux.nu/files/mkbootfloppy.tar.gz Had to make a few adjustments to get it to work. :cat mkbootfloppy #!/bin/sh # # mkbootfloppy - creates a 1.44Mb bootfloppy image # Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Per Liden <per(a)fukt.bth.se> # Version 1.2 # if [ "$1" = "" ]; then echo "usage: `basename $0` <vmlinuz>" exit 1 fi if [ "`id -u`" != "0" ]; then echo "you must be logged in as root to do this" exit 1 fi for file in ./lilo.conf ./message $1; do if [ ! -f $file ]; then echo "error: $file not found" exit 1 fi done dd if=/dev/zero of=boot.img bs=1k count=1440 losetup /dev/loop/4 boot.img mke2fs -qm0 /dev/loop/4 mount /dev/loop/4 /mnt cp ./message /mnt cp $1 /mnt/vmlinuz lilo -C ./lilo.conf umount /mnt losetup -d /dev/loop/4 # End of file Summary: Anything that was /dev/loop4 I needed to change to /dev/loop/4 dd command to write to the floppy I had to change from: dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 to dd if=boot.img of=/dev/floppy/0. You can find the original documentation here: http://crux.nu/Main/Handbook2-2#ntoc14 Curious to know if this is just my setup or if the docs need updating. thanks sig

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crux.nu website
by smagnuson＠forzani.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Is anyone else having troubles accessing it? www page won't open for me. Thanks Sig

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Is the CRUX web page down?
by Joe Gilmour 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Went to try and update ports and also tried to search ports, not connecting. Any ideas? HIA Joe

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Has the crux.nu website moved or is it just down for maintenance?
by Don Melton 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Hello, Has the crux.nu website moved or is it just down for maintenance? The HTTP server doesn't respond and the domain appears to be unreachable. It's been this way for a few days. Is there anything I can do to help? -- Don

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web site?
by Joel Brooks 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

hey guys, is the web site down? i can't reach it, and ports updates are failing... sorry if this is a known issue, just not sure where to go to check.. thanks! J

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