/var/log/messages is making me dizzy ...

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Jan 19 14:07:23 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:19 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I've just been reading /var/log/messages
> on the laptop I put Fedora-8 on yesterday.
> (Never got PXEboot to work - whatever I did,
> it said there was a conflict between the F-8 ISO
> and "base data", whatever that is.
> In the end I just installed the KDE Live CD,
> and ran "yum groupinstall" on the package groups I like -
> as listed by "yum grouplist".)
> 
> But /var/log/messages is full of such strange things.
> I feel there should be a Fedora doctor one could sent it to,
> and she will tell you how to cure all your ills.
> 
> Here are a few lines:
> --------------------------------------
> Jan 19 11:51:49 mary acpid: client connected from 2400[68:68]
> Jan 19 11:51:53 mary acpid: client connected from 2555[0:0]
> Jan 19 11:51:55 mary kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> Jan 19 11:51:55 mary kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor
> 0
> Jan 19 11:53:57 mary pulseaudio[2701]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
> Jan 19 11:53:57 mary pulseaudio[2701]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
> Jan 19 11:54:11 mary gconfd (tim-2782): starting (version 2.20.1), pid 2782
> user 'tim'
> --------------------------------------
> 
> acpid - who is this client, and what does she want?
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hardware integration
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> 
> drm - I thought that was something to do with stealing DVDs?
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?
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> pulseaudio - isn't that the think Karl is worrying about?
> What is it, anyway?
> Can I live without it?
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it is the future of audio daemons - so say the packagers. Seems to work
rather well actually. I think Karl was singularly focused on problems
between pulseaudio and skype which probably has yet to catch up and not
a Fedora package
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> gconfd - do I really need this?
> gconf seems to take up acres of space.
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gnome stuff...probably need to keep it or it gets recreated
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> Do I really need it?
> I always assumed it was something to do with Gnome?
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yes

Craig




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