ppc February 2006

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(OT) Fedora Core 3 i386 newbie upgrade?
by Brian Durant 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

I have the chance of installing Fedora Core on a Dell laptop (PP10L) as a dual-boot system with XP. Since I have a freebie DVD with Core 3 i386 on it, I was wondering if i could use that to install from and then just do a 'yum update' over a wireless network to bring the system up to Core 4, rather than downloading a bunch of .iso files that I burn once, use the CD's once and then throw them away? The computer is one that my wife got through work about a year ago and never uses. For this reason, I am not afraid of losing data as long as XP boots, but installing GRUB or LILO does something to the MBR so XP can't boot, doesn't it? What can be done about that? This is one area where it seems to me that Fedora has fallen behind Debian based systems. There is a real lack of Fedora based live-CD's that you can install a system from. Cheers, Brian

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udev-event tty error messages at FC 5 test 3 boot.
by Brian Durant 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi again, I am getting a large number of udev-event error messages (some containing "tty...") at FC 5 test 3 boot. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the log that should contain these errors. Anyone have any ideas? Should I just post this as a bug? I don't have much info on it. Cheers, Brian

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Weird error in tla package
by Josh Boyer 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

I'm getting a weird error when trying to build the tla package from Extras on PPC. I haven't done too much digging yet, but I thought I would ask in case the symptoms ring a bell for some reason. Basically, it fails with this: ================ unit-ar tests ================ /home/jwboyer/rpm/BUILD/tla-1.3.3/src/hackerlab/tests/arrays-tests/unit-ar.c:53:botched invariant 0 == ((unsigned long)ar & (16 - 1)) PANIC: exiting on botched invariant What is weird is where that '16' comes from. It's coming from a #define called MACHINE_ALIGNMENT which seems to be a computed value of some kind. On my x86 box, it's #defined to 4. When building on PPC, it's #defined to 16. If the macro really does what it says it does, then I have to go figure out why the test is failing. And it doesn't help that this code makes my head hurt. But is the alignment on a PPC box really 16 bytes? josh

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List rejects my e-mail.
by Brian Durant 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

I am starting to have the same problem as others have also experienced on the list earlier. One of my e-mails was rejected by the list because of "suspicious" headers. All I did was access my account with webmail. Anyone remember who the listmom is, so that I can make sure the e-mail arrives on list? I am in the middle of trying to suss out my FC5 PPC test 3 install problems and something like this isn't exactly conducive... Cheers, Brian

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[Re: Re: Newbie FC 5 test 3 PPC help and first impressions.]
by Brian Durant 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- X-Auth-OK: RoadTripDK X-NIMS-Flags: 1 Return-Path: <RoadTripDK(a)myrealbox.com> Received: from RoadTripDK [80.163.36.206] by myrealbox.com with NetMail ModWeb Module; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:12:28 +0100 Subject: Re: Re: Newbie FC 5 test 3 PPC help and first impressions. X-Mozilla-Status: 0200 From: Brian Durant <RoadTripDK(a)myrealbox.com> To: bdc(a)carlstrom.com CC: fedora-ppc(a)lists.infradead.org Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:12:28 +0100 X-Mailer: NetMail ModWeb Module X-Sender: RoadTripDK MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1140761548.c7f07fbcRoadTripDK(a)myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -----Original Message----- From: "Brian D. Carlstrom" <bdc(a)carlstrom.com> To: RoadTripDK(a)MyRealBox.com Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:59:18 -0800 Subject: Re: Newbie FC 5 test 3 PPC help and first impressions. Brian Durant writes: > When I am getting errors at boot, which logs contain the errors, where > are the logs located and how can I tell if the errors are serious and > what to do about them? /var/log/dmesg has kernel output /var/log/messages has the syslog output, including a dump of dmseg after boot I don't know where the [ OK ] and [ FAILED ] messages go, if anywhere. -bri OK, I got my USB stick thingy to mount. The problem was syntax. I had written "users.noauto" instead of "users,noauto" Here is some output from the terminal: "]$ dmesg | tail Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7 hfs: write access to a jounaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only. SELinux: initialized (dev sdb3, type hfsplus), not configured for labeling hfs: write access to a jounaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only. SELinux: initialized (dev sdb3, type hfsplus), not configured for labeling SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses genfs_contexts eth0: no IPv6 routers present SELinux: initialized (dev sdc1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts" "sata_svw 0001:02:0c.0: version 1.07 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD00008008225C000 ctl 0xD00008008225C020 bmdma 0xD00008008225C030 irq 10 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD00008008225C100 ctl 0xD00008008225C120 bmdma 0xD00008008225C130 irq 10 ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD00008008225C200 ctl 0xD00008008225C220 bmdma 0xD00008008225C230 irq 10 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD00008008225C300 ctl 0xD00008008225C320 bmdma 0xD00008008225C330 irq 10 ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:007f ata1: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors: LBA48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi0 : sata_svw ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c69 83:7f09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4003 88:007f ata2: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 320173056 sectors: LBA48 ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi1 : sata_svw windfarm: SMU failed new fan command falling back to old method ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0)" "SELinux: initialized (dev sdb3, type hfsplus), not configured for labeling audit(1140759646.506:3): avc: denied { mount } for pid=1569 comm="mount" name="/" dev=sdb3 ino=2 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=filesystem hfs: write access to a jounaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only. SELinux: initialized (dev sdb3, type hfsplus), not configured for labeling audit(1140759646.514:4): avc: denied { mount } for pid=1569 comm="mount" name="/" dev=sdb3 ino=2 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=filesystem audit(1140759646.518:5): avc: denied { relabelfrom } for pid=1569 comm="mount" name="blkid.tab" dev=sda3 ino=581017 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:etc_runtime_t:s0 tclass=file audit(1140759647.074:6): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.074:7): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.074:8): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.074:9): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.078:10): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.078:11): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.078:12): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.078:13): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.078:14): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.078:15): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.078:16): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.078:17): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.078:18): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.078:19): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.078:20): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.078:21): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.078:22): avc: denied { search } for pid=1611 comm="pam_console_app" name="lib64" dev=sda3 ino=161281 scontext=system_u:system_r:pam_console_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1140759647.838:23): avc: denied { relabelfrom } for pid=1624 comm="swapon" name="blkid.tab" dev=sda3 ino=582278 scontext=system_u:system_r:fsadm_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:etc_runtime_t:s0 tclass=file Adding 2953116k swap on /dev/sda4. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2953116k SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts hvc_console: tty open failed, no vty associated with tty." I didn't copy the whole dmesg, but picked out some of the interesting bits. I don't want to overload with info as I am not sure what to look for. I hope someone gets something out of this. BTW, it seems like Firewire isn't working properly. Hardware browser doesn't seem to pick up my external Firewire drive. I haven't created any mount points, but then I can't do that before I know where the drive is located on the system. Cheers, Brian

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Newbie USB thumb drive problem in FC5-PPC test 3.
by Brian Durant 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

I am trying to mount my USB thumb drive. Here is my fstab: LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=/home1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-sda4 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usbdrive auto defaults,users.noauto 0 0 I have created "/mnt/usbdrive" and "/dev/sdc" is listed in system -> administration -> hardware. The drive is listed as "fat16" I have also tried in the terminal: $ sudo mount fat /dev/sdc mount: you must specify the filesystem type $ sudo mount fat16 /dev/sdc mount: you must specify the filesystem type I have tried to mount my HFS+ partition on my second SATA drive with the same result, when I used "hfsplus" as fs type. Anyone have any ideas? Cheers, Brian

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Re: Newbie FC 5 test 3 PPC help and first impressions.
by Brian Durant 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 13:08 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 14:03 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > > That would be nice as I got some errors when I ran "yum update", but > > until I figure out how to share a Thunderbird profile between Rawhide > > and OS X, I have to transfer the text files with the error messages > > between the two systems by using my USB stick. > > Linux can read and write OSX hfs+ volumes. I don't see why the > Thunderbird profile shouldn't be fairly portable -- if you really need > to _share_ it rather than just using the same config in both places, > then you might be able to make it work if your userid is the same on > both OSX and Linux. OK, I just did a quick and dirty setup to get this sent off to you and the list, by setting up Evolution. Here are the error messages that I got when I did a "yum update": Stopping sshd: [ OK ] Starting sshd: [ OK ] Updating : glibc [ 8/216]warning: /etc/ld.so.conf created as /etc/ld.so.conf.rpmnew Updating : glibc [ 8/216]warning: /etc/nsswitch.conf created as /etc/nsswitch.conf.rpmnew /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.14062: line 8: cd: /usr/lib64/firefox-1.5.0.1/extensions: No such file or directory unzip: cannot find or open /usr/lib64/beagle/beagle.xpi, /usr/lib64/beagle/beagle.xpi.zip or /usr/lib64/beagle/beagle.xpi.ZIP. grep: beagle-extension/install.rdf: No such file or directory mv: target `' is not a directory: No such file or directory error: %trigger(beagle-0.2.1-11.ppc) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 warning: /etc/libuser.conf created as /etc/libuser.conf.rpmnew warning: /etc/vimrc created as /etc/vimrc.rpmnew I am also getting quite a number of errors at boot, after doing the "yum update" command, but the system seems to still be running OK. I could send those as well, but I don't know which log files I need to copy or whether I can send them as attachments. Cheers, Brian

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Re: Newbie FC 5 test 3 PPC help and first impressions.
by Brian Durant 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 14:03 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > >>That would be nice as I got some errors when I ran "yum update", but >>until I figure out how to share a Thunderbird profile between Rawhide >>and OS X, I have to transfer the text files with the error messages >>between the two systems by using my USB stick. > > > Linux can read and write OSX hfs+ volumes. I don't see why the > Thunderbird profile shouldn't be fairly portable -- if you really need > to _share_ it rather than just using the same config in both places, > then you might be able to make it work if your userid is the same on > both OSX and Linux. There should be a way of directing Thunderbird to the profile on the hfs+ partition (HD), but I don't see those instructions on Mozilla.org any more. They used to work with the old Moz monolithic app, but I have only seen references when googling about Firefox/Thunderbird being quite finiky when this is attempted. In principle two seperate profiles should be possible, as long as the mbox files are shared. That would avoid an overwriting of the extension preferences between OS's, just in case the same pref files aren't an exact match between platforms... Cheers, Brian

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Newbie FC 5 test 3 PPC help and first impressions.
by Brian Durant 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Hi again, WOW! I just installed Rawhide PPC Test 3 and my eyeballs almost popped out. Thermal control works for my PowerMac 9.1 (G5 tower single), yaboot configures correctly and I love the new default theme in GNOME. But what is with those bubbles in the install splash screen, GDM and as the default desktop background??? Is Fedora in trouble? Are we on the Titanic, or what ? ;-) It would be nice if the first user was automatically included to "sudoers", but I am really having to reach, to find something to complain about :-) Anyway, I have a couple of issues that I need to deal with now: 1) I can't get my USB stick thingy to pop-up on the desktop or in the "Computer" window. 2) FC only spots my Griffin iMic and not the stock sound card. Here is what my system profiler says: Built In Sound Card: Devices: Burr Brown PCM3052: Inputs and Outputs: Line Level Input: Controls: Mute, Master Playthrough: No PluginID: Onyx Headphones: Controls: Mute, Left, Right PluginID: Onyx Internal Speakers: Controls: Mute, Master PluginID: Onyx Line Level Output: Controls: Mute, Left, Right PluginID: Onyx Crystal Semiconductor CS84xx: Inputs and Outputs: S/PDIF Digital Output: Controls: Mute PluginID: Topaz Formats: PCM 16: Bit Depth: 16 Bit Width: 16 Channels: 2 Mixable: Yes Sample Rates: 32 KHz, 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 64 KHz, 88.2 KHz, 96 KHz PCM 24: Bit Depth: 24 Bit Width: 32 Channels: 2 Mixable: Yes Sample Rates: 32 KHz, 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 64 KHz, 88.2 KHz, 96 KHz AC3 16: Bit Depth: 16 Bit Width: 16 Channels: 2 Mixable: No Sample Rates: 32 KHz, 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 64 KHz, 88.2 KHz, 96 KHz Built In Sound Card: Devices: Crystal Semiconductor CS84xx: Inputs and Outputs: S/PDIF Digital Input: Controls: Mute Playthrough: No PluginID: Topaz Formats: PCM 16: Bit Depth: 16 Bit Width: 16 Channels: 2 Mixable: Yes Sample Rates: 32 KHz, 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 64 KHz, 88.2 KHz, 96 KHz PCM 24: Bit Depth: 24 Bit Width: 32 Channels: 2 Mixable: Yes Sample Rates: 32 KHz, 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 64 KHz, 88.2 KHz, 96 KHz AC3 16: Bit Depth: 16 Bit Width: 16 Channels: 2 Mixable: No Sample Rates: 32 KHz, 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 64 KHz, 88.2 KHz, 96 KHz Cheers, Brian

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fc4 + Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support?
by Robert Story 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

I saw a message on wireless support via a rawhide kernel on (what I assume to be) stock fc4. [http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-December/msg00820.html] However, that is a 2.6.14 kernel. Is there a patch, instead of having to grab a binary? Does it apply against newer rawhide kernels? Any chance of a patch against a fc4 kernel? Anyone running a rawhide kernel on an otherwise stock fc4 machine?

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