[AG-TECH] Critical Python Bug Affecting AGTk 2.2

Randy Groves randy.groves at boeing.com
Thu Jun 24 16:16:18 CDT 2004


Not a problem - I'm thinking of trying it - and I'll report on how it goes 
if I do.

-randy

At 01:54 PM 6/24/2004, Ivan R. Judson wrote:

>It might be possible, but we don't have, nor are we planning on building any
>RH9 machines to test and support RH9. So I can't tell you that this will
>work or that we can help you if it doesn't.
>
>We're working on the Fedora stuff now, it's coming along quickly.
>
>--Ivan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ag-mcs at mcs.anl.gov
> > [mailto:owner-ag-mcs at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Randy Groves
> > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:45 PM
> > To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > Cc: ag-mcs at mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Critical Python Bug Affecting AGTk 2.2
> >
> > Is it possible to resolve this by installing 2.3.x on RedHat
> > 9, for instance?
> >
> > -randy
> >
> > At 12:14 PM 6/23/2004, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> >
> >
> > >We've discovered a problem with Python 2.2.2 that has a
> > critical effect
> > >on the operation of AGTk 2.2. This unfortunately has a serious side
> > >effect for the platforms we can support.
> > >
> > >The effect of this bug is that the VenueServer .cfg and .dat
> > files are
> > >incorrectly loaded, which causes the venueserver to subsequently
> > >checkpoint them incorrectly. This causes them to get
> > corrupted and no
> > >longer work. The fix many people have done is to copy fresh
> > versions of
> > >those files into place at a restart.
> > >
> > >We have a test, which can verify if the bug is present on
> > your machine.
> > >Please contact us for details.
> > >
> > >We have two challenges we are dealing with right now:
> > >
> > >1) Getting our servers on platforms that have more the more recent
> > >python available.
> > >
> > >We are building machines with our internal build tools,
> > which is moving
> > >us to Gentoo. Gentoo support for the AGTk is not official,
> > but you can
> > >expect it will become official in a very short time.
> > >
> > >2) Deciding on how to deal with platform support.
> > >
> > >RedHat 7.3 does not have python 2.2.3+ available, RedHat 9.0
> > is already
> > >abandoned. Therefore, we'll be working with external folks (Doug you
> > >know who you are :-) to begin nearly immediate support for Fedora
> > >Project distributions. We're accelerating this, and expect
> > to try and
> > >make packages for 2.2 available as soon as we can.
> > >
> > >This serves as official notice that we will not be supporting RedHat
> > >7.3 or 9.0, effective as soon as we have a working Fedora Project
> > >distribution available.
> > >
> > >We're sorry for the short notice on the platform shift, we'll try to
> > >make this as quick and painless as possible.
> > >
> > >--Ivan
> >
> >
> >
> >






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