On 12/07/2012 03:31 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > 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 Ah, I guess I did it every time then :) Well, David, you should know that one too then. I'll add it to the wiki and clean that up too. Jon. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
