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

Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:47:42 -0500
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On Tuesday 13 April 2010 11:55:53 am Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 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*
> >=20
> > 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?
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> 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
>=20
> Should do the trick. I think we've got it fixed with the latest update.

newer builds have prelink disabled by default.  I need to respin anaconda a=
nd=20
spin up some beta isos.  the issue could also be selinux preventing things=
=20
from running. there is a kernel to fix it which will land in the next compo=
se.

Dennis

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