Scientific Linux "SL 5.9" for x86_64 Feb 5, 2013
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915resolution
915resolution is a tool to modify the video BIOS of the 800 and 900
series Intel graphics chipsets. This includes the 845G, 855G, and
865G chipsets, as well as 915G, 915GM, and 945G chipsets. This
modification is necessary to allow the display of certain graphics
resolutions for an Xorg or XFree86 graphics server.
915resolution's modifications of the BIOS are transient. There is
no risk of permanent modification of the BIOS. This also means that
915resolution must be run every time the computer boots inorder for
it's changes to take effect.
915resolution is derived from the tool 855resolution. However, the
code differs substantially. 915resolution's code base is much simpler.
915resolution also allows the modification of bits per pixel.
915resolution-0.5.3-6.el5
alpine
Alpine is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages.
Alpine is the successor to Pine and was developed by Computing &
Communications at the University of Washington.
Our version of alpine 2.00 has the following changes compared to
our 1.0 version
An /etc/alpine/pine.conf.sample file is installed, no longer overwriting
an existing pine.conf Therefore an existing pine.conf in /etc/alpine
will be left untouched even after the upgrade. For an installation from
scratch it is advantageous to copy the sample conf file to pine.conf,
but alpine works also without it.
Users are now able to use a .alpine.passfile
This version of alpine when it writes to a large old Unix mailbox format
email area can be very slow. The best solution to this is to convert
your old Unix mailbox files to "mix" format mail files.
More info can be obtained from
Evaluation of file formats:
http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2008-July/000971.html
Problem description:
http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2009-February/thread.html#1658
Conversion :
http://www.phwinfo.com/forum/comp-mail-imap/198358-mailutil-mix-file-size.html
alpine-2.02-2.el5
AUFS
Aufs is a stackable unification filesystem such as Unionfs,
which unifies several directories and provides a merged single
directory. Aufs is an entirely re-designed and re-implemented
Unionfs.
aufs-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5
* kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-348.el5-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-348.el5xen-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm
cfitsio
CFITSIO is a library of C and FORTRAN subroutines for reading and
writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data
format. CFITSIO is widely used in the astronomical community.
cfitsio-3.100-1.el5
cfitsio-devel-3.100-1.el5
dkms
This package contains the framework for the Dynamic
Kernel Module Support (DKMS) method for installing
module RPMS as originally developed by Dell.
* Updated dkms to the latest version from EPEL
* dkms-2.2.0.3-1.el5
dropit
dropit's intended purpose is to remove directories entries from a
PATH shell variable value, which has colon separated fields.
dropit is usable in sh, ksh, and csh shell script files.
dropit-1.2-1
fftw
FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier
Transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of both real and complex
data, and of arbitrary input size.
Part of scipy.
fftw3-3.1.2-5.el5.1
fftw3-devel-3.1.2-5.el5.1
FUSE
Is now provided by the Upstream Vendor and thus is included.
fuse-smb
fuse-Filesystem to fast and easy access remote resources via smb
With SMB for Fuse you can seamlessly browse your network neighbourhood
as were it on your own filesystem
fuse-smb-0.8.7-1.SL
fuse-sshfs
This is a FUSE-filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer
Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it
is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to do.
On the client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into
the server with ssh.
Newer versions are now in EPEL
fuse-sshfs-2.2-1.SL
gnuplot42
gnuplot42 is the 4.2 version of gnuplot. It has several functions that
were not available in the SL5 gnuplot 4.0 version.
gnuplot42-4.2.6-6.el5
gnuplot42-doc-4.2.6-6.el5
gnuplot42-latex-4.2.6-6.el5
Graphviz
Graph Visualization Tools
graphviz-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
graphviz-devel-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
graphviz-doc-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
graphviz-gd-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
graphviz-graphs-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
graphviz-guile-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
graphviz-java-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
graphviz-lua-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
graphviz-perl-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
graphviz-php-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
graphviz-python-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
graphviz-ruby-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
graphviz-tcl-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
icewm
A lightweight window manager for the X Window System.
icewm-1.2.37-1.2
icewm-l10n-1.2.37-1.2
imlib
Imlib is a display depth independent image loading and
rendering library. A dependency of icewm.
imlib-1.9.15-11.el5
imlib-devel-1.9.15-11.el5
Intel wireless firmware (ucode)
The firmware (ucode) provided in these packages are required to be
present on your system in order for the respective Intel? Wireless
drivers to be able to operate on your system.
On adapter initialization, and at varying times during the uptime of
the adapter, the microcode is loaded into the RAM on the network
adapter. The microcode provides the low level MAC features including
radio control and high precision timing events (backoff, transmit,
etc.) while also providing varying levels of packet filtering which can
be used to keep the host from having to handle packets that are not of
interest given the current operating mode of the device.
These packages contains all releases of the firmware up to the version
stated, as well as their respective README documents.
ipw3945 was removed in SL 5.4, it was replaced by iwlwifi and
it's 3945 ucode (firmware)
iwlwifi-XXXX-ucode was replaced with iwlXXXX-firmware in SL 5.7
This replacement was to be more inline with TUV.
ipw2100-firmware-1.3-10.noarch.rpm
ipw2200-firmware-3.1-3.noarch.rpm
iwl1000-firmware-128.50.3.1-2.el5.noarch.rpm
iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-4.el5.noarch.rpm
iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-8.el5.noarch.rpm
iwl5000-firmware-8.24.2.12-3.el5.noarch.rpm
iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-1.el5.noarch.rpm
iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-1.el5.noarch.rpm
ndiswrapper
* The previously bundled ndiswrapper package has been removed in SL5.9
* The package no longer built successfully against the current kernel.
* Current ndiswrapper kernel module and utility packages are avalible
* in external repos such as elrepo.
JAVA
* The closed-source Java 6 packages are end of life as of Feb 2013.
* They are not included in SL5 starting with SL5.9 . Openjdk 1.6 and
* 1.7 are included by TUV. It is believed that openjdk is an acceptable
* replacement.
* The closed-source packages can still be downloaded from
* http://java.sun.com/
kdeedu
Educational/Edutainment applications for KDE
kstars is part of this package
kdeedu-3.5.4-1.el5
kdeedu-devel-3.5.4-1.el5
lua
Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for
extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a
general-purpose, stand-alone language.
Dependency of graphwiz.
lua-5.1.2-1.el5
lua-devel-5.1.2-1.el5
Multimedia
gstreamer-plugins-extras-0.10.9-2.sl from SL4
gstreamer-plugins-fluendo-0.10-14.el5
k3b-extras-0.12.17-3.sl from livna Repository
These are dependencies of the above rpms.
lame-3.97-1.sl from RPMforge
lame-devel-3.97-1.sl from RPMforge
libid3tag-0.15.1b-3.sl from RPMforge
libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl from RPMforge
libmad-0.15.1b-4.sl from RPMforge
libmad-devel-0.15.1b-4.sl from RPMforge
taglib-1.4-1.2.sl from RPMforge
taglib-devel-1.4-1.2.sl from RPMforge
NumPy
http://numpy.scipy.org//
NumPy derives from the old Numeric code base and can be used as a
replacement for Numeric. It also adds the features introduced by
Numarray and can also be used to replace Numarray.
This package contains:
- a powerful N-dimensional array object
- sophisticated (broadcasting) functions
- basic linear algebra functions
- basic Fourier transforms
- sophisticated random number capabilities
- tools for integrating Fortran code.
numpy-1.2.1-1
OpenAFS
We have put in the 1.4.14 release of openafs.
openafs-firstboot-1.4-1.SL
openafs-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
openafs-authlibs-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
openafs-authlibs-devel-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
openafs-client-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
openafs-compat-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
openafs-debug-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
openafs-devel-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
openafs-kernel-source-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
openafs-kpasswd-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
openafs-krb5-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
openafs-server-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
* kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-348.el5-1.4.14-80.1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-348.el5xen-1.4.14-80.1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
perl modules
These perl modules have been added as they are useful.
Updated perl modules from EPEL
perl-DBD-XBase-0.241-6.el5
perl-MailTools-1.77-2.el5
perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.94-1
perl-SQL-Statement-1.15-5.el5
perl-TermReadKey-2.30-5.el5
perl-Text-CSV_XS-0.23-1
perl-Text-Template-1.44-5.el5
perl-Tk-804.028-3.el5
qemu
Added due to requirements for kvm.
This is for x86_64 only.
qemu-0.9.1-11.el5.x86_64.rpm
qemu-img-0.9.1-11.el5.x86_64.rpm
R
http://www.r-project.org/
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
R is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment
which was developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers and
colleagues.
R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some
important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered
under R.
R-2.13.1-1.sl5
R-devel-2.13.1-1.sl5
libRmath-2.13.1-1.sl5
libRmath-devel-2.13.1-1.sl5
Ralink wireless firmware
The firmware provided in these packages are required to be
present on your system in order for the respective Ralink? wireless
drivers to be able to operate on your system.
rt61pci-firmware-1.2-5.el5.noarch.rpm
rt73usb-firmware-1.8-5.el5.noarch.rpm
scipy
Scipy is open-source software for mathematics, science, and
engineering. The core library is NumPy which provides convenient and
fast N-dimensional array manipulation. The SciPy library is built to
work with NumPy arrays, and provides many user-friendly and efficient
numerical routines such as routines for numerical integration and
optimization.
scipy-0.6.0-6.el5
suitesparse
suitesparse is a collection of libraries for computations involving
sparse matrices.
Part of scipy .
suitesparse-3.1.0-1.el5
suitesparse-devel-3.1.0-1.el5
suitesparse-static-3.1.0-1.el5
SL_afs_no_dynroot-2.0-2.noarch.rpm
This package removes the -dynroot option from the openafs config
Restarting of afs is needed for this to take effect.
This rpm does not restart afs
SL_desktop_tweaks-5-4.noarch.rpm
This adds a terminal icon to the kicker panel for both KDE and GNOME.
This also changed the KDE startup background from red to black
Installed by default for both KDE and GNOME.
SL_enable_serialconsole-3.1-6.noarch.rpm
This script makes all the changes necessary to send
console output to both the serial port and the screen. This
also creates a login prompt on the serial port and allows users
to login at this prompt.
SL_no_colorls-1.0-3.noarch.rpm
Turns off "color" of ls. Not installed by default.
SL_password_for_singleuser-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Changes /etc/inittab to require the root password for
single user mode. Not installed by default.
This used to be SL_inittab_change
SL_rpm_show_arch-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
Adds arch to "rpm -qa" listing.
Now umask friendly
SL_sendmail_accept-1.1-3.noarch.rpm
Changes Sendmail config so that it allows incomming mail.
Not installed by default.
tidy
When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice if
there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up
sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup? Well now there is! Dave
Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for doing just that. It also
works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by
specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you
identify where you need to pay further attention on making your pages
more accessible to people with disabilities.
tidy-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5
libtidy-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5
libtidy-devel-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5
XFS
XFS is a highly scalable, high-performance journaling filesystem
that provides rapid recovery from system crashes.
Because the xfs driver is now in the kernel we are removing
kernel-module-xfs, xfs, xfs-filesystem
We are still providing the utilities needed to manage XFS
xfsdump, xfsprogs, dmapi
xfsdump-2.2.46-1.sl5
xfsprogs-2.9.4-1.sl5
xfsprogs-devel-2.9.4-1.sl5
dmapi-2.2.8-1.sl5
dmapi-devel-2.2.8-1.sl5
Yumex
Yumex is a graphical user interface for yum.
yumex-2.0.3-1.0.el5.noarch.rpm
yum-utils
yum-utils is a collection of utilities and examples for the yum
package manager. It includes utilities by different authors that
make yum easier and more powerful to use. Some utilities are
plugin's.
yum-installonlyn has been incorporated into yum
See comments in yum.conf on how to change settings for installonlyn
yum-utils has been updated to the version provided by TUV
TUV doesn't include all of the plugins the go along with
the yum-utils version they provide. We include all of
the plugins. This is the full list of the yum-utils packages
and utilities provided by yum itself.
yum-aliases
yum-changelog
yum-downloadonly
yum-fastestmirror
yum-filter-data
yum-keys
yum-kmod
yum-list-data
yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher
yum-priorities
yum-protectbase
yum-protect-packages
yum-security
yum-tmprepo
yum-updateonboot
yum-utils
yum-verify
yum-versionlock
yum-allowdowngrade-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-merge-conf-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-refresh-updatesd-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-tsflags-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-upgrade-helper-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
MISC
Added these rpms because they are important but upstream vendor did
not include them.
gv-3.6.2-2.sl5 from Stephan Wiesand
Pine has been replaced by alpine
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Changed RPMS compared to vendor
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Installer(anaconda)
* anaconda-11.1.2.259-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
* anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.259-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
XFS Utilities are now in the rescue image
x86_64 only: Can now boot off an xfs partition.
Brent Bates provided the XFS anaconda patches.
Removed code to verify that timezone is correct in kickstart
as it had bugs
Added kernel-module.py yum plugin during the install
Modified pkgorder with patches from CentOS
Modified installclasses/rhel.py to remove key request
Modified installclasses/rhel.py to include SL groups
sites support see sites/example
Note: Installing sites on a virtual machine
When installing a paravirtulized site, you have to point at the
site directory, such as 5rolling/i386/sites/example
When installing a fully virtulized site, you only have to point
to the base directory, like you usually would, such as
5rolling/x86_64/sites/example
comps.xml
Updated some group names and descriptions to work better internationally
In Update 1 The Upstream Vendor changed their comps.xml files to
reflect a different sorting structure, as well as clean up extra
files from their short term linux release.
In Update 2 The Upstream Vendor added more packages to their comps.xml
comps-sl.xml has been changed to incorporate most of The Upstream
Vendors changes. Since we have merged their various comps.xml
files, our comps.xml will never really look like theirs. But this
change brings ours more in line with their Update 2 versions.
In Update 4 The Upstream Vendor added packages, and changed their
x86_64 comps.xml to be different than their i386 version.
We have updated our comps.xml to reflect their changes in packages
and groups. We have also updated our comps.xml file to be friendly
to more languages.
In Update 5 The Upstream Vendor added the group "conflicts". This group
includes packages conflicting with @everything installation.
This group was added, as were the other minor changes TUV did.
There are minimal changes compared to the "vendor" release. We have
changed the "rpms" that are required to be changed. These changes are
defined by the "vendor".
logos, artwork & release
redhat-logos was changed to add the "photographs" shown during
the install
redhat-artwork-5.0.9-2.SL.4.i386.rpm
redhat-artwork-5.0.9-2.SL.4.x86_64.rpm
redhat-logos-4.9.16-2.sl5.6.noarch.rpm
sl-release changes the default mozilla and firefox bookmarks.
sl-release changes the default rhn configuration to use yum and
points this configuration to ftp.scientificlinux.org
sl-release removed the firstboot additional cd's question
* sl-release-5.9-0.sl.x86_64.rpm
* sl-release-notes-5.9-0.noarch.rpm
These rpm's are not required to be changed by the vendor, but
we felt
they needed to be changed
gdm
Changed the default theme from RHEL to EaseOfBlue
pirut
Removed "Requires: rhn-setup-gnome"
rhgb
Changed the colors.
buildsys-macros
A collection of macros for our build system
python-virtinst
virtinst is a module to help in starting installations inside of
virtual machines. It supports both paravirt guests as well as
fully virtualized guests. It uses libvirt (http://www.libvirt.org)
for starting things. Also contained is a simple
script virt-install which uses virtinst in a command line mode.
python-virtinst would understand a plain Scientific Linux install,
but it didn't understand sites. We have added a patch to allow it
to understand and install paravirtualized SL Sites.
* python-virtinst-0.400.3-13.sl5.noarch.rpm
yum
Yum version 2.4 and above has the kernel-module plugin that let's yum
understand how kernel-module rpm's are related to kernels. Because of
this updates dealing with kernel-module rpm's (such as afs) now work
yum-conf
priorities have been set on the repositories. But you have to have
yum-priorities installed for them to take effect.
metadata_expire variable was set to 20 hours to allow for normal users
to be able to use yum for those commands they can run
yum-conf has the following repositories in it
sl-base (enabled)
sl-security (enabled)
sl-testing (not enabled)
sl-fastbugs (not enabled)
atrpms (not enabled)
dag (not enabled)
Not all repositories are enabled by default.
To enable them for one time use, use the --enablerepo command, such as
yum --enablerepo=atrpms list mplayer
yum --enablerepo=dag install xine
If you want the repositories to be enabled all the time then you need
to edit the config files and change enabled=0 to enabled=1.
The config files are in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and are
named like
/etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo
NOTE1: Just because a yum repository exists does NOT mean
it is compatible with all other yum repositories. We have included
the repositories we did because they usually work well together.
But if there is a problem with one of the packages in a repository,
please contact that repository maintainer.
yum-autoupdate
yum-autoupdate has the check for a running yum in it, so that if
yum has been running for a long time (close to 24 hours), when the
yum.cron starts up, it will kill the old yum. This was changed
because we had reports that yum was hanging and we didn't want
this to interfere with updates.
yum-autoupdate checks to see how long the machine is been up
If it is up less than 20 hours, it doesn't wait, but does the update.
If it is longer than 20 hours, it waits a random time, up to 3 hours.
This uptime check was done to help laptops and other machines that
might not be on long enough to wait for the random time.
The random time was put it in so that servers arn't overwhelmed.
yum-cron is the yum-cron from epel. yum-cron has a different cron
script than is provided in yum-autoupdate.
yum-conf-5x was created for those users who want to be at the latest
stable release. It is always pointing at the 5x area. This means
that when we make new versions you will automatically be upgraded to
them.
* Starting with SL 5.9, yum-conf-5x is automatically installed.
* Users wishing for the historical behavior can remove the package
* with 'yum remove yum-conf-5x'
yum-conf-epel has been added so that people could use the epel yum
repository. This rpm requires both yum-provides and yum-fastestmirror
* yum-conf-elrepo has been added so that people can easily install the
* elrepo repository. This rpm requires yum-fastestmirror .
* yum-conf-adobe has been added so that people can easily install the
* adobe repository. This rpm requires yum-fastestmirror .
* yum-conf-59-1.sl.rolling.noarch.rpm
* yum-conf-5x-2-5rolling.noarch.rpm
yum-3.2.22-39.sl.noarch.rpm
* yum-conf-elrepo-5-1.noarch.rpm
* yum-conf-adobe-5-1.i686.rpm
* yum-conf-adobe-5-1.x86_64.rpm
yum-conf-epel-5-1.noarch.rpm
yum-cron-0.6-3.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-updatesd-0.9-5.sl.noarch.rpm
yum-autoupdate-1.2-1.SL.noarch.rpm
Apache
Changed index.html to not have Upstream Vendor info but to
have SL info.
* httpd-2.2.3-74.sl5
* httpd-devel-2.2.3-74.sl5
* httpd-manual-2.2.3-74.sl5
* mod_ssl-2.2.3-74.sl5
gdm
Change config file to include the "Last" option
Add theme "EaseOfBlue"
Changed default theme to be EaseOfBlue
Changed because of TradeMark of TUV.
gdm-2.16.0-59.sl5
gdm-docs-2.16.0-59.sl5
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We have removed these RHN tools as they cannot be used for SL
rhel-instnum
subscription-manager
subscription-manager-firstboot
subscription-manager-gnome
We have removed the cc-ael4 config files as SL has not been reviewed for
this certification
* cc-eal4-config-rhel56
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/SL/
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The location of the rpms.
The Upstream Vendor's release consists of 2 cd sets, Server and Client.
Each
cd set has a group of directories which contain the actual rpms. On the
Client
cd this consists of Client,Workstation and VT. On the Server cd this
consists
of Server,VT,Cluster, ClusterStorage. The VT directory contains the
same rpms
on each cd. The Cluster, ClusterStorage and Workstation directories do not
have any common rpms. The Client and Server directories contain many common
rpms along with many unique rpms.
Scientific Linux has combined all of the rpm's from Client, Server, VT,
Cluster,
ClusterStorage, and Workstation into the SL directory.
You are not asked to enter any key, since you have access to all packages.
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/contrib/
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RPMS provided by colaboraters that either cannot go in main release or are
intesting before going into main release.
See the SRPMS section for source rpms
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/updates/
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security
Security errata
fastbugs
Packages rebuilt from the Upstream Vendor "bugfix" rpms
These are rpms that are expected to be in the next Update
They have gone through full QA by the Upstream Vendor
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/SL/
Contains the SRPMS for what we added or changed. Put these in the
top level directory as these are really the ones we changed. All
the others can be obtained from the upstream vendor ftp updates area
/vendor/
The upstream vendors SRPMS.
This directory contains both the original released SRPMS, as well as
the updated SRPMS
/contrib/
SRPMS for the contrib packages
/sites/<site>/SRPMS
SRPMS for sites, if there is a site
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/../archive/
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/obsolete/
Packages that used to be in the release but have been
updated
/debuginfo/
Debuginfo packages
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LIMITATIONS
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ipw2100, ipw2200, ipw3945
Does not work in the installer
ftp install
Currently, during an ftp install when it get's the the graphical
section, there is a long pause (close to a minute) when it sits
at a blank screen. It is NOT frozen, it is just searching for
files that are not there. Give it a couple minutes and it
will continue.
NVIDIA motherboard chipsets
May need to use
linux noapic
to install.
Intel 965 motherboard chipset
May need to use
linux all-generic-ide
if you have pata hardware
Yum Update
When upgrading to SL 5.x from a version earlier that 5.3, you need
to update glibc first, and then update the rest of your system.
# yum update glibc
# yum update
If you don't update glibc first, then you will continually get errors
during your upgrade that say something similar to
rpmdb: unable to lock mutex: Invalid argument
Graphical Desktop
After doing a clean install, sometimes the monitor isn't configured
properly and Xorg.conf does not contain all required information.
Result is a garbled display when entering runlevel 5.
Workaround: After the installation, reboot the system normally and
run the firstboot utility. Reboot the system into runlevel 3.
Log in as root and run system-config-display and configure the
display manually.
Some machines that use NVIDIA graphics cards may display corrupted
graphics or fonts when using the graphical installer or during a
graphical login. To work around this, switch to a virtual console
and back to the original X host to refresh X.
Intel Wireless
Due to outstanding driver issues with hardware encryption
acceleration, users of Intel WiFi Link 4965, 5100, 5150, 5300,
and 5350 wireless cards are advised to disable hardware accelerated
encryption using module parameters. Failure to do so may result in
the inability to connect to Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
protected wireless networks after connecting to WiFi Protected Access
(WPA) protected wireless networks.
To do so, add the following options to /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias wlan0 iwlagn
options iwlagn swcrypto50=1 swcrypto=1
(where wlan0 is the default interface name of the first Intel
WiFi Link device)
Removable Storage
Removable storage devices (such as CDs and DVDs) do not automatically
mount when you are logged in as root. As such, you will need to
manually mount the device through the graphical file manager.
Alternatively, you can run the following command to mount a device
to /media:
mount /dev/[device name] /media
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INFO
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Web Site
https://www.scientificlinux.org
FTP
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/
http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/
Mailing Lists
scientific-linux-de...@fnal.gov Development of Scientific Linux
scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Users of Scientific Linux supporting
each other
scientific-linux-annou...@fnal.gov Announcements concerning
Scientific Linux
scientific-linux-err...@fnal.gov Announcements about Security Errata
scientific-linux-mirr...@fnal.gov Announcements concerning mirroing
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ERRATA rebuilt from SRPMS that were released after TUV Update 9
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*Security errata will not be placed in the default install tree as has been
*done with prior releases of Scientific Linux 5. They will only
*reside in the updates/security/ directory.
You will have to do a "yum -y update" after the installation via DVD to
install all the security errata.
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-Scientific Linux Development Team
