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Monthly Archives: May 2015

Distros – R.I.P. Mandriva..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 30, 2015 by RGMay 30, 2015

Sad to hear that Mandriva has finally shut up shop…   I remember some years ago (1998?) trying one of the original Mandrake distros – which was derived at that time from Red Hat..     Mandrake (France) later merged with Conectiva (Brazil) to become Mandriva..     As they were still using the RPM format for packaging, I was able to … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, Opinion | Tagged conectiva, mandrake, mandriva, r.i.p, shutdown | Leave a reply

ARM – Updates to 4.1-rc4, and Pi 2 to 4.0.4

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 20, 2015 by RGMay 20, 2015

Updated the DreamPlug, CuBox-i4Pro, and Odroid U3 to Kernel 4.1-rc4.. DreamPlug and CuBox using the standard code from kernel.org: Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 4.1.0-rc4 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …………… ]# uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 4.1.0-rc4 #1 Wed May 20 09:12:43 PDT 2015 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.1.0-rc4 on an … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, CuBox, Dreamplug, kernel, Linux / ARM, Odroid | Tagged arm, cubox-i4pro, dreamplug, kernel 4.0.4, kernel 4.1-rc4, odroid u3, raspberry pi, success, updates | 2 Replies

KERNEL – 4.1-rc4 Released – Slightly Late..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 19, 2015 by RGMay 19, 2015

Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.1-rc4, and this is OK with the latest NVIDIA drivers (346.72 and 352.09) and with vmnet-patched VMware 11.1.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc4 #1 SMP Mon May 18 16:00:31 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Details of changes from -rc3 are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1505.2/01224.html Robert Gadsdon.  May 18, 2015. … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, VMware | Tagged kernel 4.1-rc4, nvidia 346.72 352.09, success, vmware 11.1 patched | Leave a reply

ARM – DreamPlug and CuBox to 4.1-rc3..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 12, 2015 by RGMay 12, 2015

Updated the DreamPlug and CuBox-i4 Pro to Kernel 4.1-rc3, from kernel.org.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 4.1.0-rc3 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …………… # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 4.1.0-rc3 #2 Mon May 11 15:04:52 PDT 2015 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.1.0-rc3 on an armv7l (ttymxc0) ……………. # uname -a Linux rgcubox … Continue reading →

Posted in CuBox, Dreamplug, kernel, Linux / ARM | Tagged arm, boot, cubox-i4-pro, dreamplug, kernel 4.1-rc3, kernel.org, linux, success | Leave a reply

Kernel – 4.1-rc3 – Now OK with NVIDIA..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 11, 2015 by RGMay 11, 2015

Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.1-rc3, and confirmed that this is now OK with the latest NVIDIA drivers, and includes the change to linux/arch/x86/kernel/process.c as detailed in a previous article.    Patched VMware 11.x is OK, as before.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc3 #1 SMP Mon May 11 07:10:01 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Performance, VMware | Tagged kernel 4.1-rc3, nvidia ok, process.c, vmware patched ok | Leave a reply

NVIDIA – Kernel 4.1 GPL-only Fixed

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 7, 2015 by RGMay 7, 2015

The GPL error with NVIDIA drivers and kernel 4.1-rc has been fixed with a patch to linux/arch/x86/kernel/process.c Details are at http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1505.0/03818.html.    EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_tss); has been replaced by EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_tss); I have applied the patch to Kernel 4.1-rc2, and rebooted, and NVIDIA driver 346.59 now compiles and loads OK.. Robert Gadsdon.   May 6, 2015. … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Performance | Tagged cpu_tss, fixed, gpl issue, kernel 4.1, nvidia, process.c | Leave a reply

ARM – Odroid to 4.1-rc2

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 6, 2015 by RGMay 6, 2015

Updated the Odroid U3 to Kernel 4.1-rc2, from https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid/tree/odroid-4.1.y Apart from the SELinux shenanigans (see previous post..) there were no problems.. Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.1.0-rc2 on an armv7l (ttySAC1) ….. ]# uname -a Linux rgodroid 4.1.0-rc2 #1 SMP Wed May 6 11:44:37 PDT 2015 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux I had updated to Fedora 22 … Continue reading →

Posted in kernel, Linux / ARM, Odroid | Tagged kernel 4.1-rc2, odroid u3, success | 3 Replies

ARM – More SELinux Problems..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 6, 2015 by RGMay 6, 2015

After updating the Odroid U3 to kernel 4.1-rc2 (see separate post) I encountered more SELinux / Fedora 22 issues.. This time, SELinux tried to enable itself in ‘targeted’ mode on reboot, despite being ‘disabled’ in the config file.. …. [ OK ] Started Tell Plymouth To Write Out Runtime Data. [ OK ] Started Preprocess NFS configuration. … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., Fedora, Hacks, kernel, Linux / ARM, Odroid, Opinion, Performance | Tagged config ignored, fedora 22, kernel boot parameter ignored, odroid u3, recompile kernel deselect selinux, selinux enabled automatically, targeted, workaround | Leave a reply

ARM – Rogue SELinux Fixed..?

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 5, 2015 by RGMay 5, 2015

I updated the CuBox-i4-Pro (Fedora 22) to Kernel 4.1-rc2, but the (re)boot process was very sluggish, with several key commands failing: ….. systemd[1]: Unit dbus.service entered failed state ….. [FAILED] Failed to start Login Service. ….. [FAILED] Failed to start Modem Manager. ….. [FAILED] Failed to start Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack. ….. [FAILED] Failed to start Network Manager. … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., CuBox, Fedora, Hacks, kernel, Linux / ARM, Opinion, Performance | Tagged active despite disable, cubox-i4-pro, dbus fail, disable selinux in kernel config, fix, kernel 4.1-rc2, selinux, success, systemctl failing | Leave a reply
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