sparc May 2010

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Sun XVR 600
by Lubos Kocman 20 May '10

20 May '10

Hello, is there any way to get Xorg working with XVR 600 gpu? I only get this gpu working under Solaris/Xsun. But as far as I know neither under linux or solaris / Xorg has driver for this gpu. If somebody know about some 3rd party driver that may work, please let me know. -- Regards Lubos Kocman QA Enginner Desktop Red Hat Czech, s.r.o.

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/usr/lib/libfreebl3.so
by Rafal Maszkowski 19 May '10

19 May '10

There is a problem connected with the path of this library. When the fscking fails, the shell cannot be called: ... [/sbin/fsck.ext4 (1) -- /www] fsck.ext4 -a LABEL=/www fsck.ext4: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=/www' [FAILED] *** An error occurred during the file system check. *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot *** when you leave the shell. sulogin: error while loading shared libraries: libfreebl3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Unmounting file systems umount: /boot: not mounted umount: /var/ftp: not found umount: /www: not mounted umount: /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc: not mounted umount: /home: not mounted umount: /tmp: not mounted umount: /var: not mounted ... root@pingwin:/var,0# ldd /bin/tcsh libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/libtinfo.so.5 (0xf7f1c000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0xf7edc000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xf7d38000) libfreebl3.so => /usr/lib/libfreebl3.so (0xf7ce0000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f48000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xf7cc8000) root@pingwin:/var,0# rpm -qf /usr/lib/libfreebl3.so nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.4-10.fc12.sparcv9 On my other Fedora systems this library is in /lib (or /lib64 on 64-bit systems): rzm@rzm-ab:/tmp,0# ldd /bin/tcsh linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00564000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/libtinfo.so.5 (0x047d5000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x02fd0000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x007df000) libfreebl3.so => /lib/libfreebl3.so (0x03002000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00777000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x007c5000) rzm@rzm-ab:/tmp,0# rpm -qf /lib/libfreebl3.so nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.4-19.fc12.i686 R. -- Uniwersytet katolicki to oksymoron udający tautologię.

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Fedora 12 Beta
by Dennis Gilmore 16 May '10

16 May '10

I have pushed a fedora 12 beta sparc tree the master mirror, you can find one close to you Here under /releases/test/12-Beta/sparc/ the tree is pretty much complete. there are a few broken deps that need resolving. Partitioning is fragile. it mostly works however sometimes you will be best off to do manual partitioning in rescue mode or breaking out into a shell. Here is a quick list of some of the issues you might hit and workarounds. serial console install - to have a console on the serial port post install pass "console=ttyS0,9600" to the installer serial console install - to do any customisation at all you need to use vnc sunblade systems with qlogic hba's for primary storage - Make sure that you do a graphical install (vnc or local X) or kickstart and include "hardware support" this is so that you have the firmware for your primary storage install blowing up at partitioning - parted doesnt seem to like old parted disk labels. in rescue mode "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=2" where X == the valuse of each disk partitioning is fragile - simple partitioning works fine more complicated setups might require you to manual use parted to setup the partitioning you want and then choosing custom partitiing and allocate as you need to less than 512mb ram - using vnc you may get OOM during package install. you will need to either do a default install or select a smaller package set repo issues when installing - There is not repos exactly as anaconda wants when doing a netinstall. you can pass repo="path to mirror" or fix up in the gui Oh and partitioning is fragile, it looks like F-13 will be better And things i've likely forgotten or missed, please drop into #fedora-sparc on freenode for assistance, questions or feedback. Thanks Dennis

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Ext 4 errors?
by Lamar Owen 15 May '10

15 May '10

Ok, got F12 on the SB1000, thanks to a vnc install (PGX64 support apparently has some issues, as trying to use local GUI produced a blank display). Upon first boot, I get a console error about the ext4 journal, and the filesystem being remounted in ro mode. The firstboot stuff comes up in text mode (something about not enough memory on the PGX64 for the selected resolution?), but I can't save any settings because the root filesystem is remounted read- only.

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Serial console terminal type.
by Lamar Owen 15 May '10

15 May '10

Ok, this has been something that has aggravated me for the longest, and finally I've decided to see what can be done about it. I've googled all over for this information, and haven't found it yet. There's lots of information on setting up a serial console, but little to no information about the terminal type needed for a serial console to properly show the anaconda interface, even in rescue mode, or when setting up the ip addressing for vnc installation. In my case, I'm using minicom set to VT102 mode from a default fedora 'konsole' (F12, konsole 2.4.2, KDE 4.4.2), and I've just getting a little tired of the 'reverse video question marks' interspersed in the line drawing characters, which makes it very difficult to use the interface. I know, just an annoyance, but if it's just a command line parameter (and I don't find anything at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options or http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems#How_to_set_kernel_boot_o… to tell me anything; I've booted with 'linux rescue serial headless' and the display is the same as without those options) I'll be glad to add that to the boot line and keep on trucking. Or if it's a minicom setting, or simply using a different terminal emulator, to get reasonable display.....

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Problem with Xorg on Sun Blade 150
by diego 11 May '10

11 May '10

Hi at all, I have installed F12SparcBeta on my Sun Blade 150, with two Ati Rage XL (rev. 27). If I run X (and GNOME) when I put a mouse pointer on the border of the desktop area, or make a logout, init 0 or 6, or shutdown, the system freezing. Why? diego.

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installing sparc F12
by Rafal Maszkowski 07 May '10

07 May '10

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 07:35:48AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Wednesday 21 April 2010 05:05:45 am Rafal Maszkowski wrote: ... > > I have adapted a grub2 to example with a hope that it may work: > > # Timeout for menu > > set timeout=10 > > # Set default boot entry as Entry 0 > > set default=0 > > # Entry 0 - Load Linux kernel > > menuentry "My Linux Kernel on (hd0,1)" { > > set root=(hd0,1) > > linux /vmlinuz-2.6.32.9-72.fc12.sparc64 root=LABEL=/ > > initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.9-72.fc12.sparc64.img > > } > > If it does not work I can use silo instead (with the needed sparc32 > > libraries installed). > > Burning questions: > > - does not grub2 make sense at all in these circumstances? > ive not once gotten a successful boot with grub2 I will try it once or twice befove giving up and using silo. Is the configuration above theoretically correct? I will use /dev/sda1 for /boot . > > - should I expect problems with silo? It will have all the necessary > > 32-bits libraries in place. > silo only needs the 32 bit glibc installed and only then to actually run the > silo command there would be no problems I expected it to be so. > > - are there any fundamental problems with the 64-bits userspace or the > > main problem is that nobody tested it yet? > No one has tested it. binaries are bigger, which in turn means it takes > longer to load and run, uses more ram, and you do not gain additional cpu > features by doing it, x86_64 you gain access to additional registers and > other thinsg that make it worthwhile. sparc64 you don't So actually it does not make any sense to keep development/sparc64 tree? Anyway switching between 64 and 32 bits with use of yum is not very difficult. Maybe I will do it once the machine is running. I am copying my sparc64 tree on my new logical volumes (on top of RAID6 and RAID5 MDs). > > BTW the sparc64 devel version installs smoothly except dwdiff which has > > dependency problems: > > dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 z rawhide ma problemy z rozwi�zywaniem zale�no�ci > > --> Brakuj�ca zale�no��: libicui18n.so.40()(64bit) jest wymagane przez > > pakiet dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 (rawhide) dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 z > > rawhide ma problemy z rozwi�zywaniem zale�no�ci --> Brakuj�ca zale�no��: > > libicudata.so.40()(64bit) jest wymagane przez pakiet > > dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 (rawhide) dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 z rawhide ma > > problemy z rozwi�zywaniem zale�no�ci --> Brakuj�ca zale�no��: > > libicuuc.so.40()(64bit) jest wymagane przez pakiet > > dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 (rawhide) Błąd: Brakująca zależność: > > libicui18n.so.40()(64bit) jest wymagane przez pakiet > > dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 (rawhide) Błąd: Brakująca zależność: > > libicuuc.so.40()(64bit) jest wymagane przez pakiet > > dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 (rawhide) Błąd: Brakująca zależność: > > libicudata.so.40()(64bit) jest wymagane przez pakiet > > dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 (rawhide) > there are some broken deps in the tree > This should be taken to the fedora sparc list > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sparc I am already there - so I send it there too. R. -- Uniwersytet katolicki to oksymoron udający tautologię.

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Supported hardware for F12-Beta
by Lamar Owen 04 May '10

04 May '10

Good afternoon, long time no talk. I am wondering what hardware has been 'tested' with the current F12 beta, and if there is a current 'supported' (understanding that nothing is really supported, but more interested in what works) hardware list.... Looking at trying this out on some of our Sun hardware....which includes a Blade 2000, a Blade 100, a bunch of U10's and U5's, and E6500, and some ATX UltraSPARC IIi and IIe motherboards..... and a couple or three E450's. Just last month we decommissioned our longest running Aurora 1.0 box, which had been up for several years (Sun Ultra 30) with a rock solid record.

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