On 12/06/2012 06:37 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 05:39:17PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: >>> On 12/06/2012 05:29 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>>> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:19:51PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: >>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Samsung_Chromebook_2012 >>>>> >>>>> Do not follow any of these instructions unless: >>>>> >>>>> 1). You know what you are doing. >>>>> 2). You understand that you may cause damage to your Chrombook. In >>>>> particular, you may permanently damage the audio (speaker) hardware >>>>> until we have UCM working properly in ALSA. This is at your risk. >>>>> >>>>> PLEASE do not remove the giant obnoxiously offensive warning from that >>>>> wiki page that I intentionally added to scare people off in the interim. >>>> >>>> Heh :-) >>>> >>>> I followed Dan Berrange's instructions and successfully got Fedora 17 >>>> onto my Chromebook. >>>> >>>> However it crashes (pretty reliably actually) when I do a 'yum update'. >>>> Somewhere in the middle. >>>> >>>> I haven't entirely ruled out general hardware crappiness. In >>>> particular, the SD card might be bad (although it works OK on my main >>>> laptop). Aside from that has anyone seen anything like this? >>> >>> I've seen one crash so far which happened when I left it running >>> overnight. Haven't had chance to track down why. Generally though, I've >>> not have the unreliably you mention. Upgrades work ok. If that's >>> reproducible, can you provide some more info, debug output, even a >>> YouTube video of the process for us to see what's happening? >> >> I think first of all I'm going to replace the SD card with another >> one. Never trust them even (in this case) when it's a brand name card >> bought from a reputable retailer. > > Arnd mentioned the Samsung ones as they're basically built to the > standards of eMMC cards. I've actually got a couple and they've been > very good. > > Also I've seen that on occasion. I usually do a "yum clean all; rpm > --rebuilddb" and it sometimes helps. Also, if you're upgrading for some reason from F17 to F18 you'll need to destroy and rebuild the rpm metadata in some cases. I've had to whack the __db files manually and rebuild, etc. Jon. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
