Raskas’ blog

I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 9 alpha some days after the release. You could see that it is an alpha release because several things weren’t going as smooth as they should go. But most of them got fixed when updating all packages regularly. Except for Firefox.

When I started Firefox for the first time everything looked extreme big (user interface and content). This was caused by a bad autodetected dpi setting. Manually changing it to 96dpi solved the problem.
Bug 394103 in the mozilla bugzilla describes the problem and how you can solve it.

Some time later, when I upgraded some packages (including Firefox), i had a problem with the address bar. I could enter the url but pressing enter won’t bring me to the website. Pressing the green arrow on the right side of the url did.
Some upgrades later it still wasn’t fixed, it was even worse. Entering some text in the address bar was impossible and thus making Firefox useless. It was time to find the cause and solve the issue.

Removing and reinstalling the Firefox package didn’t solve it, but it showed there were some problems with xulrunner, a dependency of Firefox. The xulrunner rpm never got installed correctly, it gave following errors during rpm installation:

Error unpacking rpm package xulrunner-1.9-0.beta3.29.nightly20080227.fc9.i386
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9pre/dictionaries: cpio: rename

Searching the Fedora bugzilla for this problem pointed me to bug 433096 which handles this problem. As explained in one of the comments removing and reinstalling xulrunner rpm solved the problem.

I can now enjoy again from my Fedora 9 alpha with Firefox 3 beta!

Yesterday evening O’Reilly ONLamp.com published “Using Xen for High Availability Clusters“.

This article is written by my colleague, Kris Buytaert, and me and describes the setup of the clustering of the virtual gateways at Newtec.
It explains the networking in a xen dom0 and how to block all virtual machines from the network. It also explains how you can integrate this with linux-ha.

This is my first article on O’Reilly, this means that I now have a profile on O’Reillynet, you can check it out here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3323.

Enjoy the reading !