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Monthly Archives: December 2013

DreamPlug to 3.13-rc6..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 30, 2013 by RGJanuary 4, 2014

Updated the DreamPlug to kernel 3.13-rc6, and – apart from the usual mvsdio … unhandled interrupt ..  messages at boot time, everything seems to run OK.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.13.0-rc6 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …………….. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.13.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT Mon Dec 30 15:09:42 GMT 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Now … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Dreamplug, Linux / ARM | Tagged arm, armv5, dreamplug, kernel 3.13-rc6, linux, success, update | 2 Replies

Kernel 3.13-rc6 – Not so Many Changes, This Time..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 30, 2013 by RGDecember 30, 2013

Just updated the test system to Kernel 3.13-rc6, which has a smaller changelog, due to the ‘holidays’..   Details are here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1621119/ As before, patched NVIDIA drivers 331.20 and 319.76 compile and load OK, as does VMware 10.0.1.. Robert Gadsdon.   December 30, 2013 … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, VMware | Tagged 319.76, 331.20, kernel 3.13-rc6, patched nvidia, success, vmware 10.0.1 | Leave a reply

Pi to 3.12.6 – No More Pidora ‘Tombstone’

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 26, 2013 by RGDecember 26, 2013

Updated the Raspberry Pi to kernel 3.12.6 from GitHub, and – finally – there is no longer a ‘tombstone’ following the first console prompt, after boot.. Pidora release 19 (Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix) Kernel 3.12.6+ on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) ………………….. $ uname -a Linux rgpi 3.12.6+ #1 PREEMPT Thu Dec 26 17:46:50 GMT 2013 armv6l armv6l armv6l … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Linux / ARM, Pidora, Raspberry Pi | Tagged kernel 3.12.6, no more tombstone, pidora, raspberry pi, success | Leave a reply

DreamPlug to 3.13-rc5..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 22, 2013 by RGDecember 22, 2013

Updated the DreamPlug to kernel 3.13-rc5, and still getting some mvsdio f1090000.mvsdio: unhandled interrupt status=0x0810 en=0x0000 pio=0 messages on boot, but otherwise the system seems to be running OK… Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.13.0-rc5 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) ………………….. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.13.0-rc5 #1 PREEMPT Sun Dec 22 21:44:57 GMT 2013 armv5tel armv5tel … Continue reading →

Posted in arm, compilation, Dreamplug, kernel, Linux / ARM | Tagged dreamplug, kernel 3.13-rc5, success | 2 Replies

Kernel 3.13-rc4 – VMware and (Patched) NVIDIA OK..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 16, 2013 by RGDecember 16, 2013

Updated the test system to kernel 3.13-rc4, and VMware 10.0.1 and (patched) NVIDIA 331.20 compile and load OK.. NVIDIA appear to have pulled driver version 319.76 from their ftp download site – ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/, for some reason.. Robert Gadsdon.    December 16, 2013. … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, VMware | Tagged kernel 3.13-rc4, nvidia 331.20 patched, success, vmware 10.0.1 | Leave a reply

Fedora – YUM broken, and Fix..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 16, 2013 by RGDecember 16, 2013

A circular fail with a recent version of YUM – yum-3.4.3-119 – leads to a whole load of the following errors: http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates Trying other mirror. updates                                                            | 4.6 kB  00:00:00     http://mir01.syntis.net/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates Trying other mirror. updates                                                            | 3.4 kB  00:00:00     … Continue reading →

Posted in Crash and Burn.., Fedora | Tagged 343-119, fedora, fix, repomd.xml does not match metalink, solution, success, yum broken | Leave a reply

DreamPlug to 3.13-rc4 – No Patch Needed..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 16, 2013 by RGDecember 16, 2013

Just updated the DreamPlug to Kernel 3.13-rc4, and the compile-fix patch for -rc3 is no longer needed.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.13.0-rc4 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …………………… # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.13.0-rc4 #1 PREEMPT Sun Dec 15 23:26:14 GMT 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon.   December 15, 2013. … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Dreamplug, kernel, Linux / ARM | Tagged dreamplug, kernel 3.13-rc4, no patch needed, success | Leave a reply

3.12.5 – Problems? – No..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 12, 2013 by RGDecember 13, 2013

Just updated to Kernel 3.12.5, and quickly reverted to 3.12.4.. Update:   the problem turned out to be a badly-timed coincidental update to MariaDB (5.5.34)..   Reverting to the previous version (5.5.33a) fixed the problem..    Now running 3.12.5.. With 3.12.5, Avahi mDNS failed, and – more importantly – MariaDB would not start: mariadb.service – MariaDB database server    Loaded: … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., kernel, Linux, Opinion, Performance | Tagged avai mdns fail, back to 3.12.4, fixed, kernel 3.12.5, mariadb fail, mariadb update problem, problems, revert to previous version | Leave a reply

DreamPlug to 3.13-rc3 – with Untested Patch..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 7, 2013 by RGDecember 7, 2013

Thanks to more detective work by Adam Baxter, I have found a work-in-progress patch for the compile failure on 3.13-rc.. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/282669 So.. I now have Kernel 3.13-rc3 running on the DreamPlug: Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.13.0-rc3 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) ………………….. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.13.0-rc3 #2 PREEMPT Sat Dec 7 15:02:56 GMT 2013 … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., Dreamplug, Fedora, Hacks, kernel, Linux / ARM | Tagged dreamplug, kernel 3.13-rc3, patch, success | 2 Replies

DreamPlug to 3.12.2 – Still Needs Patch… 3.13-rc Compile Fail..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 1, 2013 by RGDecember 1, 2013

Updated the DreamPlug to kernel 3.12.2, and the orion / mdio patch mentioned in the article for 3.12.1 is still needed.. (http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=941) I have tried to compile 3.13-rc kernels for the device, but the compilation fails: /linux-3.13-rc2/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h: In function ‘__virt_to_phys’: ……………… /linux-3.13-rc2/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h:244:40: error: ‘PHYS_OFFSET’ undeclared (first use in this function)…………………… make[1]: *** [arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1 make: *** … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., Dreamplug, Hacks, kernel, Linux / ARM, Performance | Tagged 3.13-rc compile fail, dreamplug, kernel 3.12.2, orion/mdio patch, success | 6 Replies
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