[ltp] * * * WARNING * * * Red Hat 7.1 - seawolf * * * WARNING * * *

[James Mckenzie]

Thank you, Bill.  I was contemplating on installing RH 7.0 on this box,
what should I look out for?

James Mckenzie

Bill Mair wrote:
> 
> The newly released Red Hat 7.1 trys to install the lm_sensors package by
> 
> default !!!
> 
> AS A THINKPAD USER, DO NOT EVEN CONTEMPLATE DOING THIS !!!!
> 
> Deselect the package, you have to select the "install individual
> packages" to do this.
> 
> If you have selected KDE to be installed then the installer will
> complain about kde_base REQUIRING (!) the lm_sensors package. Just tell
> the installer to ignore dependencies during the installation.
> 
> I didn't even try installing the lm_sensors to see what happens, my
> system is just way too important for me to even consider doing this.
> 
> For those of you who are wondering what the heck I'm talking about:
> 
> lm_sensors is a neat package allowing sensor information (CPU temp,fan
> speed,etc) to be retrieved from the system board. Doing this on an
> IBM ThinkPad inevitably leads to either a completely DEAD or not all too
> 
> happy main board. This situation has been discussed here numerous times
> and IBM is aware of the problem. What they are doing to help
> rectify/resolve this situation is AFAIK unknown !
> 
> As this problem reared it's ugly head last year, I expressed my fears
> that as soon as the 2.4 kernels became main stream that lm_sensors would
> 
> also be added as a default component during the installation. And this
> indeed appears to have happened.
> 
> Tell your friends, tell everyone considering the move/upgrade to RH 7.1
> to take the lm_sensors issue into consideration when
> installing/upgrading their system.
> 
> I am not sure if Mandrake 8.0 also has this issue, but seeing as RH says
> 
> that kde_base is dependent on the lm_sensors package I would presume
> this to be the case.
> 
> Bill
> 
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