On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Personally I think most people would be better off just generating a new image from a F18 one rather than messing around "yum upgrade" the install. The standard upstream docs should work for those that do except for the linker symlink bit. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
