woody and sgi_fam
Recently I thought it was time to try Debian (I've previously mainly
used SuSE) so installed woody on my PC, and it all seems jolly fine,
but then after using it for a while get slightly narked that eg. my
Konqueror windows keep freezing and for some reason I can't unmount
CDs with the desktop icon. After grumbling a bit about so-called
"stable" releases I do some investigation and it turns out Konqueror
is hanging talking to the sgi_fam service so I comment out the:
#:OTHER: Other services
#391002/1-2 stream rpc/tcp wait root /usr/sbin/famd fam
line in /etc/inetd.conf and all is well, no freezes, can even unmount
cds.
I don't know if this is common, though looking at the web, sgi_fam
does seem a little problematic. I was talking to a friend who is a
long-time Debian user and he couldn't find any trace of sgi_fam on his
woody system, so I'm wondering how it got installed on mine. I was
wondering if I gave the wrong answer to one the installation
questions, but looking at the installer.log I can't see any questions
about fam or sgi_fam, so perhaps it is part of some security updates
or something.
(Incidentally, is there some way of sensibly replaying a
installer.log.n file? I can cat it to a terminal and get a very rapid
display of what I did, but it all goes by a bit fast, but eg. piping
through "more" messes up the curses stuff).
Having sorted this, I must say I like Debian very much, no more SuSE
for me I think.
Matthew.
ps. I tried posting this with gnus, but that didn't seem to work, apologies
if anyone sees this twice.
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