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Kernel – 5.8 Released – NVIDIA OK, but VMware Runtime Causes Reboot, With No Warning..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 2, 2020 by RGAugust 2, 2020

Kernel 5.8 is out, and details are here:   http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2008.0/00586.html The (patched) VMware 15.5.6  vmmon/vmnet modules compile OK, and the latest NVIDIA driver 450.57 compiles and runs OK. However….    I cannot upgrade my main systems, as the catastrophic VMware runtime reboot still occurs, as mentioned in previous articles: $ uname -a Linux rgz220 5.8.0 #2 SMP Sun Aug … Continue reading →

Posted in Crash and Burn.., kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, VMware | Tagged failure, Kernel 5.8, nvidia 450.57 ok, released, vmware runtime immediate reboot, vmware vmmon vmnet ok | 5 Replies

Pi to 3.8.3 OK, but 3.9-rc2 Hack Fails..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 17, 2013 by RGMarch 17, 2013

Just updated the Raspberry Pi to kernel 3.8.3, by applying the incremental patch, from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/incr/patch-3.8.2-3.bz2 Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.8.3-pi on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) ……………….. # uname -a Linux rgpi 3.8.3-pi #2 Sun Mar 17 20:27:05 GMT 2013 armv6l armv6l armv6l GNU/Linux Attempts to ‘hack’ 3.9-rc2 by applying the standard kernel.org patch to my Pi … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., Fedora, Hacks, kernel, Linux / ARM, Raspberry Pi | Tagged 3.9-rc2, arm, failure, hack, kernel 3.8.3, linux, patch, raspberry pi, success | Leave a reply

Fedora 17, KDE, and USB Disks – a Workaround!

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 28, 2012 by RGMay 28, 2012

After recently upgrading from Fedora 16 to 17, I found that USB disk mounts in KDE were failing: Could not mount the following device An unspecified error has occurred Not Authorized I finally found a workaround at http://www.suurmeijer.net, and I have slightly modified it: Edit /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy as follows:   <action id=”org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount”> <description>Mount a device</description> <description xml:lang=”da”>Montér en … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, Hacks | Tagged failure, fedora 17, inactive, kde, polkit-1, startx, usb disk mount, workaround | Leave a reply

More Pi Hub Failures…

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 23, 2012 by RGMay 23, 2012

Now I have tried with (according to the wiki..) known/good power supply (Nokia) and – allegedly good – hub (Logik) and am getting the same errors, and disconnect of the USB Ethernet connection.. usb 1-1.2: new high speed USB device number 24 using dwc_otg usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0608 usb 1-1.2: New USB device … Continue reading →

Posted in Crash and Burn.., kernel, Performance, Raspberry Pi | Tagged bcm2708, failure, hub, logik usb hub, network disconnect, nokia power supply, raspberry pi | 1 Reply

Fedora Bash FTP Bug…and Fix

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 19, 2012 by RGMarch 19, 2012

There still seems to be a persistent bug with the latest FC16 and FC17 versions of the bash rpm, which causes ftp logins to fail after you attempt to put in the password. The cause is that vital data is erased from the /etc/shells file, during the rpm update. The file should contain: /sbin/nologin /bin/dash /bin/bash /bin/sh … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora | Tagged bash, bug, failure, fc16, fc17, fedora, fix, ftp, login, update | Leave a reply
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