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Fixing broken xemacs on openSuSE 11.2

Posted on November 30, 2010, 10:40 AM, by Mike Diehn, under linux, OpenSUSE, SysAdmin.

One of our developers is using openSuSE 11.2 as his desktop machine and reported that xemacs from RPM xemacs-21.5.29.b604d235f028-1.1.1.x86_64 wasn’t working.  As soon as you start it, the status line at the bottom displays: Loading this file requires xemacs, (null(function-max-args ‘throw)) I goggled that and found a thread on the opensuse forums recommending we: zypper in […]

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Treason uncloaked

Posted on March 8, 2007, 3:05 PM, by Mike Diehn, under linux, SysAdmin, tips.

Plagued by these messages in your Linux server’s kernel log – kern.log? Finally tracked down a reasonable explanation this morning. Seems a bug was introduced in the kernel back in 2.6.8 and it causes, among other troubles, this error message: Jan 17 12:30:13 iml kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 134.48.120.88:3832/80 shrinks window 3881756777:3881761622. Repaired.Jan 21 […]

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