Re: Fwd: [Fedora-sparc] SPARC Status update

On 04/13/2010 12:36 PM, mat wrote:
> Oops, looks like I broke the first rule of mailing list postings last
> week and sent a message whilst drinking and annoyed... *facepalm*
> 
> Sorry about that everyone, and thanks for the sane and helpful replies.
> Really I deserved a proper flaming for that last rant so I think the
> least I could do is jump back in to some testing, eh?
> 
> I'd already been using the latest fc12 test install tree with no luck.
> Appending the image from koji at boot did indeed give an apparently
> fully functional partitioner this time (previously I had been escaping
> to shell to fdisk manually and running the install over VNC) and let me
> complete a regular GUI install on my test machine, an U60 SMP box. I
> tried a minimal install as well as a default install with Desktop
> Environment, etc, and disabled prelink as per usual before reboot.
> 
> There is some progress but a regular boot still dies with *lots* of
> libc.so.6 segment map errors. Single user mode does equally badly but
> does dump me to a prompt eventually with a read-only filesystem that I
> can't remount rw. And that's as far as I've got with limited time for
> testing.

I'm pretty sure this is the old prelink bug rearing its ugly head again.
Booting into Rescue Mode and running:
  prelink -ua && rpm -e prelink

Should do the trick. I think we've got it fixed with the latest update.

~spot
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