On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. All F17 -> F18 upgrades need to rebuild the rpmdb because of the move from db4 to db5. It is in fact documented in the yum upgrade guide for F18 here https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedora_18 Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
