Subject: Re: yi (among other things)
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terrasoftsolutions.com)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 11:16:30 MDT
On Friday 15 June 2001 14:50, you wrote:
> Is there a place where I can get some information on yi -- how it works
> etc?
>
> I ran yup yesterday and it upgraded my 2.2.19 kernel and associated files,
> but also updated yi. I'll be darned if I can figure how yi should be run
> since I seem to not be able to boot from the 2.0 installer CD now that I
> have installed the system. There does not seem to be an executable yi
> installed anywhere on my hard drive, although I can find many files in
> /usr/lib/yi that yi presumably uses.
rpm -qi yi will provide amongst other things:
/usr/X11R6/bin/Xconfigurator
/usr/sbin/kbdconfig
/usr/sbin/mouseconfig
/usr/sbin/netconfig
/usr/sbin/ntsysv
/usr/sbin/soundcfg
/usr/sbin/timeconfig
/usr/sbin/userconf
There are other things in /usr/lib/yi that are used by the above
modules, but they're not really intended for direct execution.
> One thing I also noted -- yup seems to be much slower than previous
> versions. Now, admittedly this could have been due to a slow link, but I
> ended up downloading the files using a browser into the
> /var/cache/yup/packages directory and then using yup to update using the
> cached files instead as this was faster than trying to use yup to do the
> download and the install.
It's because we don't have any live mirrors yet and you were using.
> Also, I still have a problem with the background showing up when using kdm
> (or any login manager). I still have the gray X-type grid background -- no
> matter what I set for the background in the kde control center. This
> apparently is a known problem, but cannot figure a workaround for it.
> Xsetup_0 (and also kdmrc) apparently is not getting read by kdmdesktop so
> the background never gets set correctly. What's interesting is that I can
> see the background I set for just a moment after login, but before kde goes
> through its initialization. It's almost as if these things are getting set,
> but is getting overriden by something in X to set the background to the
> gray grid.
Known problem.. kdm is looking for a "Xsetup" file rather then "Xsetup_0"
(if you symlink Xsetup_0 -> Xsetup this will provide a temporary fix)
--Regards, Dan Burcaw Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
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