DESY Linux 5 Known Issues

In the table below, you can find a list of known issues with DESY Linux 5. If you have a problem, please look here to see, if it is already known. Click on the rightmost column for details. If you cannot find your problem, please send an email to 'uco@desy.de' for questions concerning usage of the system or to 'linux@desy.de' for operating system related problems.

Status	Entry Date	Solved	Issue
Done	2004-01-26	2004-01-28	Adaptec I20 RAID Support missing
Done	2004-01-21	2004-01-30	AFS Cache Size Increase
Closed	2004-01-22	2004-07-01	AFS admin tool not working
Done	2004-01-21	2004-04-13	No refreshing of AFS tokens within the KDE screensaver
Done	2004-01-21	2004-01-23	ATI Sapphire 9200SE w. PCI 5964 unsupported
Done	2004-02-11	2004-02-18	Cernlib: cmz is missing
Done	2004-02-11	2004-02-19	Cernlib: patchy is missing
Done	2004-06-02	2004-06-02	chxlocal: Cannot set 1024x768 resolution for TFT displays
Done	2004-02-11	2004-02-18	chxlocal -default command: No 'dw' fonts in path
Done	2004-05-27	2004-06-03	chxlocal sometimes creates a unusable X11 configuration
Done	2004-01-21	2004-04-13	Console Access does not work
TBD	2004-06-02		DESY Linux 5 cannot be installed in a VMware environment
WA/Done	2004-07-12	2004-07-12	The digital port of the graphics card of SPC1103 does not work
Done	2004-01-21	2004-01-28	dos2unix and recode are not available
Done	2004-02-17	2004-06-11	Emacs: No fonts match `Vt'
Done	2004-01-21	2004-02-11	Email: Output from 'at' jobs delivered locally
Closed	2004-04-21	2004-07-01	Evolution client missing
Done	2004-01-21	2004-03-10	'ini' command not available
WA	2004-01-28	2004-01-30	Installaton hangs at stopping of AFS client
Closed	2004-01-21	2004-07-01	KDM 'reboot' menue item does not work on some architectures.
Done	2004-03-26	2004-03-29	Please add 'kile' to DL 5
Done	2004-02-11	2004-03-01	k5crontab doesn't exist for DL5 afs-systype
Done	2004-01-30	2004-03-12	locate: /var/lib/locatedb: No such file or directory
Done	2004-03-12	2004-03-12	locate: Databases not maintained Updated: 2005-05-05
Done	2004-01-26	2004-01-29	Mathematica missing
Done	2004-02-12	2004-03-10	'mailfwd' command is missing
WA	2004-02-11	2004-06-25	Mouse not detected by YaST in a few cases
Done	2004-02-02	2004-04-13	Oracle access does not work
Done	2004-03-19	2004-06-08	'passwd' command does not work
Done	2004-02-25	2004-04-13	Perl: module DBD::Oracle does not work
Done	2004-01-30	2004-02-02	pdflatex is missing
Closed	2004-02-11	2004-07-01	Registration takes too long
Closed	2004-02-12	2004-07-01	rgy tool does not work
Done	2004-01-21	2004-01-28	/scratch is writable for all users
Done	2004-01-21	2004-01-28	'Shift Backspace' kills the X Server
Done	2004-01-21	2004-05-25	Sound Support
WA/Done	2004-02-12	2004-02-12	Supermicro 6013-P8 systems not supported by GRUB based installation media
Done	2004-02-12	2004-02-12	Supermicro 6013-P8 systems not supported by installation CD
Done	2004-02-11	2004-03-04	'sys' comand: Wrong output
Done	2004-01-21	2004-03-31	Upgraded machines should keep their host keys
Done	2004-01-21	2004-04-21	WGS systems
Done	2004-04-25	2004-05-27	X11: "dw" fonts not installed by default
Done	2004-04-25	2004-05-27	X11: paw HIGZ windows do not store plots
Done	2004-02-17	2004-02-18	Xemacs: Error when accessing buffer menue
WA/Done	2004-03-02	2004-03-03	Xemacs: 'auctex' does not get started (properly)
Done	2004-01-28	2004-01-28	xtem, xv, xpaint unavailable