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Tue, 19 Feb 2008

Fedora sucks. It is not even remotely designed for smaller than high-end systems.

At least yum developers do not know, that there are systems with less than 1 Gb of RAM. And it is not even about how slow yum is. Not about the fact, that to install 30 kb application yum will download 3.5 Mb sqlite database file.
It is about yum programming bugs:

error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory
  Updating  : libebml                      ################### [  68/1218] 
error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory
  Updating  : xorg-x11-server-utils        ################### [  69/1218] 
  Updating  : fribidi                      ################### [  70/1218] 
error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory
  Updating  : lame-libs                    ################### [  71/1218] 
error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory
error: Couldn't fork %pre: Cannot allocate memory
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping tk-8.4.17-2.fc8
  Updating  : libdvdnav                    ################### [  73/1218] 
error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: corrupted double-linked list: 0x15cdde58 ***
As you might expect, all 70+ packages above also got 'Cannot allocate memory' error. My laptop has 256 Mb of RAM and 512 Mb of swap, more than a half was free.
After trying to start the same process again, after some applications were killed to get free memory, yum refused to install packages because of broken dependencies...

For example for xorg-x11-server-utils I have:
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.3-2.fc8
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.2-1.fc7
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.3-1.fc8
But libebml has one FC6 version. For the protocol, FC6 was never installed on this laptop:
libebml-0.7.7-2.fc6
libebml-0.7.7-3.fc8
Fedora Core also forces FC9 stopper bug into needinfo one without any single patch/version to test (at least I did not receive any such mail), opened with perfect description, with probability of bufer overflow somewhere in image processing/rendering code, with 100% reproducible example and image to test with, even after other person reported the same problem on rawhide (and marked it as fc9 stopper).
How in the hell you expect to get some info after two months of silence from developers? (one month after bug was confirmed in rawhide) Some people still believe in miracles...

I would like to test it right now, but I can not because of yum problems... Old packages, as you might expect, still have that bug somewhere.

World is far from being perfect :)

I will not turn it off or suspend, I do not believe it will work after that. Instead I will wait until capabale to get new DVD with some other distro. And it will not be Debian either.

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A doctor's visit.

I first time in my life called a doctor.
Doctor happend to be a nice-looking woman less than 30 years old we nicely talked about my sickness, and how (un)successfull cure was. Since it is first time I used some drugs (except aspirine) to cure (I belive it is a flu) the sick, I managed to miss the point, when getting the drug should be started, so it was not very useful. After the quick look at me she found so many possible crappies I would have, so I began to scary. I always knew that the less one knows the better sleep is, but after set of questions and 'no, I do not' answers, sky became a bit less cloudy...
She gave me a list of needed drugs to get, described what the heck it is (flu, which forced some complications: something like bronchitis), so now I feel a bit better, but will be ill (according to her prognosis) at least all this week or maybe a bit more.
Modulo themperature I feel not that bad, but when it starts rising after drug (aspirin) stops working, I start feeling like shit, dejavu.

I actually tried two anti-themperature drugs: aspirine and paracetamol. The former kicks the themperature in about 30 minutes, but frequently this results in excessive hyperhidrosis, while the latter acts only in an hour or so, but without any bad effects.

So, as you might notice, there are no updates about tons of my projects because of this fucking sick, but I expect soon to be able to kick its ass so things would be in a good shape again.
Such (crappily forced) 'vacations' make brain to sleep allmost all the time, so when this will be ended, I expect even higher rates and more interesting stuff happens.

Stay tuned!

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