On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Jon Masters <jcm(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> 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.