Not specifically Linux-related, but a frustration nonetheless.. This is documented elsewhere, but is often buried in other posts/articles/opinions.. Connecting a UART/USB cable/adapter to a SOC should be relatively simple, except that certain vendors now insist on a default speed of 1500000 instead of the traditional 115200.. I have been testing one of the ‘new’ RK3588-based systems, and … Continue reading →
This is one of those not-sure-if-bug-or-feature issues.. On my dual-boot Fedora/Win7 system, I needed to access a ‘shared’ NTFS (ntfs-3g) partition. When I came to add a softlink to the NTFS partition on the Plasma Desktop, the link existed, but nothing showed on the Desktop. Other softlinks – to EXT4 partitions – displayed OK. I tested with … Continue reading →
UPDATE: After more tests, I found a solution.. Rather than ‘update’ from 12.0.0 to 12.0.1, you have to deinstall 12.0.0 first: # vmware-installer –uninstall-product vmware-workstation – remembering to answer ‘yes‘ to the ”Do you wish to keep your configuration files?” message. Then install 12.0.1 as a new install.. # ~/VMware-Workstation-Full-12.0.1-3160714.x86_64.bundle Now everything seems to be working OK, … Continue reading →
Encountered a classic ‘Catch 22’ problem with a recent Pidora 20 update.. The version of RPM – rpm-4.11.2-3.fc20.v6.armv6hl – was broken, as it had the ‘build architecture’ set to arm5tel, instead of armv6hl.. This meant that all subsequent yum updates failed, with ”package xxxxxxxxx.armv6hl is intended for a different architecture” errors. And… updating RPM with yum also … Continue reading →
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 →
Soon after updating the DreamPlug to 3.12-rc6, I noticed that the Ethernet connection kept dropping, even though the # route command still showed it as OK.. I found a patch for the problem, and it works – for me.. http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg281285.html Be aware…. this patch is still being tested, and may be changed before it is ‘officially’ released, … Continue reading →
I have several dar archives created some years ago, using the late-lamented kdar (now obsolete.) and all were created with passwords.. I recently came to extract one, but found to my dismay that the latest (2.4.x) version of dar was unable to do this, and failed with the following error message: “FATAL error, aborting operation Current implementation … Continue reading →
Updated the Raspberry Pi to kernel 3.11.1, using the code from GitHub: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-3.11.y For some odd reason, then same files are still missing, as for 3.11 – ~/linux/drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig and ~/linux/net/mac80211/chan.c, so just copy these across from the 3.10 tree.. # uname -a Linux rgpi 3.11.1-pi #1 PREEMPT Sat Sep 21 11:13:01 BST 2013 armv6l armv6l armv6l GNU/Linux … Continue reading →
I am one of those people who compiles a lot of new kernels, and have become increasingly frustrated by the user-unfriendliness of grub2.. Now the latest version of grub2 has introduced – for reasons that I cannot fathom – two levels of menu, and relegated most of the multiple-choice kernel version boot options to the secondary menu … Continue reading →