Civileme a écrit :
> I set up a system specifically to test two things, Reiserfs and FontDrake
>
> The reiserfs installed normally though measurably slower than ext2fs. I was
> planning to test the integrity with a series of loads and random resets but I
> didn't get that far.
>
> One of the first things I did is what I supposed any newbie would do.....
>
> Opened up FontDrake from a user desktop and gave it the root password then said
> install all the windows fonts (I had set up a '98 partition specifically for
> this).
>
> Result: It appeared to install normally then restarted X and restarted X and
> restarted X .... Ctrl-Alt-F2 plus ctrl-alt-del put me back into X after a
> restart, but with xfs dead.
should be fixed
>
>
> And then any attempt to start netscape resulted in a hard-lock...
applications that attempted to load fonts with xfs down hang up.
> no response
> to webmin or telnet, nothing. Removing the ~/.netscape directory after a
> restart usually cures these ills, but not so.
It won't solve anything
> The font server was being
> killed as it was started in the boot-up messages.
>
> 7.0 apparently had a symlink to a directory or two in /tmp and it was possible
> to kill the font server by removing the files with a formatting of the /tmp
> partition (so the symlinks pointed to somthing nonexistent) but this seems to
> be a new category of exploit....
no it's not. However, drakfton don't use /tmp anymore, but /root/tmp.
> /tmp was not separate and I did not scrub
> /tmp with each reboot as was allowed in the expert install options.
>
> So, I hope you can reproduce and fix this one....
That's the deal. working on it.
> I will pore through
> documentation a little more to see how it works and what I may be able to
> suggest.
You're welcome
> This definitely suggests that the final offering should have this
> fixed or be shipped without fontdrake.
>
I agree
dam's
PS : drakfont, not fontdrake.
>
> Civileme
