Steffen Kluge wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 21:02 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
Well, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, I guess Fedora is like
democracy. Its the worst Linux distribution there is, except for the
alternatives.
For some comic relief, try this (as I did on a new server with no
wireless networking hardware):
# yum remove wireless-tools
Better yet, don't try it. This is what it ends up in:
Removing:
wireless-tools i386 1:28-0.pre13.5.1 installed 231 k
Removing for dependencies:
acpid i386 1.0.4-2 installed 30 k
apmd i386 1:3.2.2-3.2 installed 139 k
audit-libs-python i386 1.1.5-1 installed 135 k
authconfig i386 5.2.3-1 installed 1.2 M
cyrus-sasl i386 2.1.21-10 installed 3.7 M
dhcdbd i386 1.15-1.FC5 installed 180 k
dhclient i386 11:3.0.3-26 installed 1.5 M
dhcpv6_client i386 0.10-16.1 installed 156 k
firstboot-tui noarch 1.4.6-1 installed 509 k
gcc i386 4.1.1-1.fc5 installed 7.7 M
glibc-devel i386 2.4-8 installed 4.4 M
glibc-headers i386 2.4-8 installed 2.0 M
glibc-kernheaders i386 3.0-5.2 installed 2.1 M
hal i386 0.5.7-3.fc5.2 installed 753 k
initscripts i386 8.31.1-1 installed 3.6 M
ipsec-tools i386 0.6.4-1.1 installed 782 k
isdn4k-utils i386 3.2-41.1.fc5 installed 9.3 M
kbd i386 1.12-13.2 installed 2.0 M
kernel i686 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 installed 34 M
kernel i686 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 installed 34 M
kudzu i386 1.2.34.3-1 installed 878 k
mdadm i386 2.3.1-3 installed 945 k
mkbootdisk i386 1.5.2-5.2 installed 6.9 k
mkinitrd i386 5.0.32-1 installed 1.6 M
mutt i386 5:1.4.2.1-6.2.1 installed 3.0 M
nessus-server i386 2.2.7-1.fc5 installed 348 k
netdump i386 0.7.14-1.2.1 installed 18 k
openssh i386 4.3p2-4 installed 719 k
openssh-clients i386 4.3p2-4 installed 821 k
openssh-server i386 4.3p2-4 installed 443 k
pm-utils i386 0.15-1 installed 62 k
policycoreutils i386 1.30.10-1.fc5 installed 863 k
prelink i386 0.3.6-3 installed 1.6 M
quota i386 1:3.13-1.2.1 installed 799 k
rhpl i386 0.185-1 installed 910 k
rng-utils i386 1:2.0-1.11 installed 25 k
selinux-policy noarch 2.2.40-1.fc5 installed 5.9 M
selinux-policy-targeted noarch 2.2.40-1.fc5 installed 8.1 M
sendmail i386 8.13.6-0.FC5.1 installed 1.3 M
sendmail-cf i386 8.13.6-0.FC5.1 installed 941 k
setuptool i386 1.18.1-1.2 installed 102 k
smartmontools i386 1:5.33-4.2 installed 607 k
system-config-language noarch 1.1.11-1 installed 137 k
system-config-network-tui noarch 1.3.30-2.1 installed 3.8 M
system-config-rootpassword noarch 1.1.8-1.1 installed 105 k
usermode i386 1.85-2.2 installed 492 k
util-linux i386 2.13-0.20.1 installed 4.5 M
vixie-cron i386 4:4.1-54.FC5 installed 612 k
yum noarch 2.6.1-0.fc5 installed 1.8 M
You *can* remove the wireless tools, but you'd have to part with the
kernel and yum itself, too. Hence, whenever you run out of disk space,
remove wireless-tools. That'll fix it :)
Cheers
Steffen.
Silly question, but, doesn't this look like a fairly major-impact
(although presumably easy-to-fix) bug?
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