User:Mbooth

Mat Booth

Mat is a software engineer who works on SCADA systems by day and Fedora by night.

Email: fedora(at)matbooth.co.uk

Website: www.matbooth.co.uk

Activities Within Fedora

Package Maintenance

A comprehensive list of the packages I maintain in Fedora can be seen in the Package Database. What follows is a brief test plan for some of the packages I maintain.

• eclipse-epic
  • Run eclipse from a terminal with -consoleLog.
  • Open Perl perspective, create a new Perl project with Module::Starter bits and create a new Perl file.
  • Syntax highlighting, occurrence highlighting, content-assist and Outline view contributions work.
  • Syntax error markers shown in Problems view and task tag markers shown in Tasks view.
  • Mouse-over Perl built-in function tooltips work.
  • Hit Ctrl-Shift-F to make sure Perl Tidy formatting works.
  • Right-click a built-in function "Perldoc" option opens Perldoc view.
  • Right-click a user function "Open Declaration" option works.
  • Create a "Perl Local" run profile and run, results appear in console.
  • Set a breakpoint and debug local profile, results appear in console and variable view works.
  • Create a "Perl CGI" run profile and run, server status appears in console, results appear in browser.
  • Set a breakpoint and debug CGI profile, server status appears in console, results appear in browser and variable view works.
  • TODO: Pod::Checker, Perl::Critic integration.

• eclipse-phpeclipse
  • Run eclipse from a terminal with -consoleLog.
  • Open PHP perspective, create a new PHP project and PHP file.
  • Syntax highlighting, occurrence highlighting, content-assist and Outline view contributions work.
  • Syntax error markers shown in Problems view and task tag markers shown in Tasks view.
  • Start, stop and restart apache successfully.
  • Apache stops when eclipse is closed.
  • When running apache, right-click the editor "Show In->PHP Browser" works.
  • When running apache, right-click navigator view "Open PHP Browser" works.
  • Right-click navigator view "External PHP Parser" runs and results are in the console.
  • Win32 help preference page is removed.
  • Mouse-over PHP built-in function tooltips work and PHP Manual view works.
  • Right-click a built-in function "PHP Help" opens help system to correct page.
  • Right-click a user function "Open Declaration" option works.
  • All the "PHPEclipse Help" links work in the help contents.
  • TODO: Run profiles and debugging.

Random Notes

New Installation Checklist

• Allow users of the wheel group to have sudo access.
• Add myself to the wheel group.
• yum install yum-fastestmirror yum-presto

Asus Laptop Sound Fix

Specifically for F10 on Asus Model F3Sr laptops, but this is probably valid for other configurations too.

In modprobe.conf:

 options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo

Sun Java on Linux Bug

For this locking assertion failure:

 java: xcb_xlib.c:82: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed

Fix for sun-java5-bin:

 sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.14/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so

Fix for sun-java6-bin:

 sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.5/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so