Recent rawhide instability

[Richard Hughes]

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 19:04 -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 18:22 -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote:
> >> * gnome-power-manager crashes and takes hald with it. 
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214090
> > ...
> >> * When I insert a USB pendrive, hald segfaults.  I can't find a core file.  How 
> >> do I generate a backtrace for this?  No bz yet.
> > 
> > Known bug[1]. HAL needs to be updated to CVS head to work with the
> > latest DBUS (the one in rawhide). You can find *experimental* HAL rpms
> > in my repo[2].
> 
> Thanks for the info.  I notice you had only i386 packages, so I downloaded the 
> source rpm.  Unfortunately I ran into some dependency issues building the x86_64 
> rpm.

Yup.

> [root at osprey SPECS]# rpmbuild -bp --target $(uname -m) hal.spec
> Building target platforms: x86_64
> Building for target x86_64
> error: Failed build dependencies:
>          PolicyKit >= 0.2 is needed by hal-0.5.9-0.20061111.hughsie6.x86_64

This you will have to rebuild and install from my repo.

>          libvolume_id-devel is needed by hal-0.5.9-0.20061111.hughsie6.x86_64
>          parted-devel >= 1.7.1 is needed by hal-0.5.9-0.20061111.hughsie6.x86_64
>          libusb-devel >= 0.1.10a-1 is needed by hal-0.5.9-0.20061111.hughsie6.x86_64

You can get these from fedora, as you would any other package.

If things break, you get to keep both bits. It might be better to just
wait for rawhide to sync with a cvs snapshot (with PolicyKit turned off)
unless you are comfortable with mucking about with random packages. :-)

Richard.