Major kernel and Firefox releases coming to FC5
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Jul 27 10:11:00 UTC 2006
On Thursday 27 July 2006 00:47, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
>Hey gang,
>
>I noticed some folks hving trouble with Firefox 1.5.0.4. Mozilla just
>released 1.5.0.5 with major security and other issues fixed. I put in a
>bugzilillillilla report, so hopefully that will hit a "yum update" near
>you pretty quickly.
firefox-1.5.0.5 has crashed several times since it was automaticly
installed by 1.5.0.4 yesterday, at one point leaving nearly 20 copies
running and requiring a ctl-alt-backspace kill of x.org to restore
response of any kind to a mouse click. However, since the X restart, it
has not repeated that bit of unpleasantness.
>Also, MANY fixes were released with kernel 2.6.17.7 today. I know it's
>coming to a yum update near you, and it fixes a TON of stuff, including
>some issues that people have been reporting here. If you want a sneak
>peek:
>
>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.7
>
>That first bug might have even caused one of my machines to crash for the
>first time ever. And, for those who can't get your computers to "wake
> up":
>
>Date: Sat Jul 8 17:37:31 2006 +0200
>
> pdflush: handle resume wakeups
>
> 2.6.16 needs this. It was merged into 2.6.18-rc1
>
>So hang in there, folks, fixes are on the way!
>
>*************************************************************************
>****** Gilbert Sebenste
> ******** (My opinions only!)
> ******
> ************************************************************************
>*******
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Cheers, Gene
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