Re: [Devil-linux-develop] 1.0RC1 - Notes from installation.

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Dean Nedelman wrote:

>1) Memtest works!  Though I couldn't use 'M' (as the option indicated), but
>rather 'm'.
>
fixed

>2) For some reason, I can no longer scroll backwards through the console
>messages on VC/1.  I noticed this when I wanted to scroll back and get a
>GRSec error and couldn't. I am using the "default" (non-framebuffer) option
>on boot
>
SHIFT + PGUP doesn't work?
I just checked it on VMWare, it worked fine.
Unfortunately I don't have any computers which don't support the VESA mode.

>3) I am still getting the grsec resource errors.  I believe they are comming
>from /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/dhcpcd.exe - and yes, even if I use the
>distrubted one:
>
>Starting DHCP client daemon on interface eth0
>grsec: attempted resource overstep by requesting 37695488 for RLIMIT_STACK
>against limit 8388608 by (pidof:381) UID(0) EUID(0), parent (S05network:370)
>UID(0) EUID(0)
>grsec: attempted resource overstep by requesting 77271040 for RLIMIT_STACK
>against limit 8388608 by (pidof:381) UID(0) EUID(0), parent (S05network:370)
>UID(0) EUID(0)
>
I don't use DHCP and I couldn't reproduce the problem with my test config.
Can you send me your /etc/dhcpd.conf ?

>4) ClamAV fails with the following errors when I try to start it:
>Updating ClamAV Virus signatures:
>ERROR: LOGGER: Can't open file /var/log/clam-update.log to write.
>ERROR: Problem with internal logger
>
>For what its worth, I do have LogFileMaxSize set to 2M - but that shouldn't
>be an issue.
>
fixed in CVS
edit the file /etc/sysconfig/permissions.base and add the line
/var/log                        root.root        0777

>
>5) Starting SAGATOR fails with:
>
>creating chroot jail for SAGATOR.....cp: writting
>`/var/spool/vscan/lib/libc-2.3.2.so': No space left on device
>And similar cp: errors for another 9 files
>...
>.sed: Couldn't flush stdout: No space left on device
>Warning: no source refers to internal message, they'll go to /dev/null
>
You need more RAM. ;-)

>I noticed that when I do a df command, I get:
>Filesystem	1K-blocks	Used	Available	Use%	Mounted
>rootfs		292032		292032	0		100%	/
>/dev/hdb	292032		292032	0		100%	/
>shmfs		30832		30832	0		100%	/shm
>
>Interestingly, no messages from the Kernel about being out of space.
>
>(Since the above results from df came AFTER the errors from ClamAV and
>SAGATOR, I did a reboot and a fresh df (following the POSTFIX startup) and
>got this:
>Filesystem	1K-blocks	Used	Available	Use%	Mounted
>...
>shmfs		30832		20164	10668		66%	/shm
>)
>  
>
Since the shmfs was eating up more space then it should have, we (I) 
switched to the default which is RAM / 2
You really should upgrade to at least 128 MB, this helps a lot. ;-)

>6) PowerOFF WORKED!
>  
>
Finally!
This time I would have mailed you a bomb or something... ;-)

cya
  Heiko