Re: My list of annoyances

Just a few thoughts, see below...

-rhett

--- Roland Nagtegaal <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm a user of gentoo, and sysadmin of a redhat linux
> network,
> and these are mine or my users most common
> annoyances:
> 
> 1. cannot shutdown because an nfs mount refuses to
> unmount, usually the
> /home
> 2. cannot open a cdrom drive because someone else
> mounted a cd and I'm
> not root
use the 'users' option in your /etc/fstab.  this
should allow anyone to mount & unmount the cdrom.

> 3. cannot run TV program
> (xawtv/xawdecode/tvtime/etc...) because
> /dev/v4l/video0 is owned by the previous user that
> used the
> TV program
just a thought, but try creating a group called
'video', and all all video users to this group.  Then
chgrp the /dev/v4l directory to 'video', and set the
sgid bit.  chmod /dev/v4l 770 (not sure what
permissions it need).  This should make it so all
files (i believe this will apply to device files)
created within this directory are owned by the 'video'
group, and have rwx permissions for that group and the
owner.  any group members should have access to the
group.

> 4. cannot burn a CD because the scsi device file
> /dev/scd0 or whatever
> is owned by the previous user that used cdrecord.
> 5. after installing new software it does not appear
> in any menu
> 6. the gnome programmers decided that I should not
> have a virtual
> desktop but only virtual workspaces when they
> introduces metacity over
> sawfish. GRRRRR!
> 7. every one of a zillion different mua's (mail user
> agent, like pine,
> evolution, balsa, mutt ...) has its own unique
> directory
> (structure) or mail file and metadata files, and
> cannot be easily
> interchanged or used side by side. This is a real
> pain if you have to
> support people who all use a different program
> but as a sysadmin, it's fairly important you don't
> mess up your
> own mailfile/directory.
> 8. The nicer mail clients (evolution, mozilla mail)
> cannot be used if
> you also want to use a commandline or curses based
> client for when you
> log in from home at work (and X is too slow
> even over adsl).
> 9. processes that cannot be killed somehow. Usually
> because of
> some problem with files that are still open. And
> even with
> lsof or fuser it is not possible to find out which
> files, or why.
kill -9 (i know someone else already answered this).

> 10. cannot print pdf files, except from acroread.
> Which almost
> always has to be installed seperately.
> 11. most important mozilla plugins like realplay,
> acroread, flash java,
> plugger are not installed. Takes hours to find them,
> and
> get them all working. 
I noticed the installer doesn't always install these
on mozilla, but do on netscape.  I'd suggesting
changing the default plugin directory for mozilla to
look at netscape's plugin directory or setting up a
link of some kind.

> 12. xterms/gnometerms/whatever mess up the
> commandline after resizing
> the window. The newly entered text wraps over the
> left side of the
> xterm/etc... and overwrites my already typed
> commands. The command will
> still work, but I have to essentially type blind.
> 13. mozilla crashes and leaves some lock file,
> causing a newly started
> mozilla to start up with a wizzard to make a new
> profile. What's up with
> this bloody profiles in mozilla anyway! That's only
> needed for single
> user systems like windows 98, but for linux I'd
> rather do without them,
> just a single .mozilla directory with all my
> settings is good enough.
i found this annoying too, i wrote a script to get
around it.  basically i noticed that if you click the
netscape/mozilla icon, and another instance of mozilla
is already running, the profile wizard pops up.  I
created a script to test if another instance is
already running, if so i launch it with the following:
nohup netscape -remote "openurl($URL,new-window)"  &
where $URL is an argument from the command line of my
script or a default page.

> 14. for some mysterious reason, X windows does not
> provide direct (DRI)
> rendering anymore, and falls back to software
> rendering of 3D stuff.
> Nothing has been reinstalled, no drivers were
> altered, but still
> hardware 3D rendering suddenly does not work
> anymore. Rebooting will
> sometimes fix this, but just as often will
> not...(probably related to
> some permission/ownership issue like with cdrecord
> or tv viewing with
> v4l).
> 15. TV viewing, or divx players like xine or mplayer
> get interrupted
> by the xscreensaver program that kicks in.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Roland Nagtegaal <[email protected]>
> loridanshof
> 

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