On 12/07/2012 03:31 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Jon Masters <jcm(a)redhat.com> 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(a)redhat.com>
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_...
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