Topic: Important News

Posted by : bluewater on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 04:05 PM

The Greek -el (Ελληνικά) version of the the sidux Operating System manual hits the sidux site with
grigris and edhunter as the translators and maintainers.

Posted by : devil on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 01:05 AM

Please hold back from dist-upgrades until further notice!
There seems to be a serious issue with lsb and maybe other packages affected which renders your system unusable.

If you got caught by this bug in dmsetup (#491107, #491114), please follow the steps below (fixed packages are in sidux' repositories):

• try to find an older, still installed, kernel with an unaffected initrd, select it and just head over to the steps starting with apt-get update below
• if you're not lucky to find a still booting kernel, restart your system and wait a few minutes, while it seems to freeze at "Begin: Waiting for root file system...", the initramfs will time out after a little while (less than 5 minutes) and drop you to a very limited busybox shell, once there please follow the next steps
  • rm /etc/udev/rules.d/65_dmsetup.rules # you can use [tab] expansions here
  • udevadm trigger # you most likely won't see a prompt, after udev has enumerated your devices - just type ahead when it stops scrolling down (if you don't see any output here, just wait ~2 minutes)
  • exit
• get to tty1 --> press [alt]+[ctrl]+[f1]
• log in as root
• apt-get update
• apt-get install dmsetup lsb-base # make sure to get dmsetup >= 2:1.02.27-2+c0.sidux.1 and lsb-base >= 3.2-15
• update-initramfs -u
• reboot

Now everything should be in order.

if you already dist-upgraded within the last 24h, don't reboot and make sure to update to dmsetup >= 2:1.02.27-2+c0.sidux.1 and lsb-base >= 3.2-15 before powering down!

Edit: the problem is now resolved in the debian repos.

Posted by : devil on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 02:30 AM

As some of you might have seen in todays news, Debian had a serious problem with SSL Keys.
Good reference and ways to fix it are online.
Please follow their advice, its a serious topic.

Posted by : devil on Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 11:23 PM

With the mirrorsync an hour ago python-2.5 moves into unstable.
The expected problems did'nt take long to hit us.
A lot of packages will be removed, openoffice.org being one of them.
So, until further notice please no dist-upgrades

Edit: April 16: 12:30 AM
For users of 64 bit sidux openoffice is installable again
per apt-get update && apt-get install openoffice.org

Edit: Apr 16 18:13
OpenOffice.org is installable again for amd64 and i386

Edit:2: Apr 17
Dist-upgrade is ok again for 32 & 64 bit
Miro gets removed still for 32 bit

Posted by : devil on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 09:43 PM

It was exactly one year ago today when the sidux e. V. founders came together to hold their first constitutive meeting at IRC #sidux-ev. Immediately the first version of its Statutes was passed leading to the establishing of the Association (e. V.).
Apart from distributing free software, it is sidux e. V. aim, to support the sidux project financially as well as in legal matters.