Bugs I've encountered in Linux/PPC R5.

Bugs I've encountered in Linux/PPC R5.

[Michael Pruett]

I was really enthused to install LinuxPPC on my Power Mac 8500.  My
enthusiasm has been since slightly diminished by a host of problems I
encountered with the system, but I'd like to help make LinuxPPC as
robust as possible.

1) The first thing I encountered was that the X installer froze while
formatting and mounting my hard drive since it was connected to the
internal MESH controller.  I got MESH timeouts and SCSI bus resets
forever until I rebooted the machine.  I solved this problem by
connecting my internal SCSI chain to the slow SCSI bus.

Is this MESH timeout problem caused by poor termination or some other
kind of hardware failure, or is the driver broken?  Many people are
running into this problem.  If it's a software problem, is someone
working on a fix?  If it's a hardware problem, would it be possible to
say something about it on the web site or in the online installation
guide?

2) One very minor problem I ran into was that upon logging into Gnome,
I saw files with names like "??!?" in my home directory.  One was
created every time I logged in.  This is just an inconvenience.  Is
this a known bug?

3) Finally after rebooting a few times, I ran into a problem with the
initialization scripts running fsck on my root partition which was
already mounted read/write.  This situation caused fsck to report an
error and I was given the option of "repairing" my disk or shutting
down.  This seems like it should be a very simple thing to fix.  I
won't bother if someone's already fixed it though.

Michael

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R5 on 7200 yet?

[P. Barrette]

I have r4 with kernel 2.2.2 with vram patches and glibc1.99 patches, and I
have been apprehensive about upgrading to r5.  But I've heard that r5 uses
glibc6 as does the intel version RH (?), which makes me think that source
will compile better with less  changes.  The other thing is that I have a
blind OF machine, 7200, with no mac volumne.  Will r5 install nicely on
this machine with the current OF settings?  Any tips or warnings about the
7200 would be appreciated.

--------
Paul Barrette
Ph.D. Candidate Classics (Latin Literature)
System Administrator
McMaster University

"Oppositaque ad os manu nescio quid taetrum 
exsibilavit, quod postea Graecum esse affirmabat."
                                      --Petronius


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Re: R5 on 7200 yet?

[David Riley]

"P. Barrette" wrote:

> I have r4 with kernel 2.2.2 with vram patches and glibc1.99 patches, and I
> have been apprehensive about upgrading to r5.  But I've heard that r5 uses
> glibc6 as does the intel version RH (?), which makes me think that source
> will compile better with less  changes.  The other thing is that I have a
> blind OF machine, 7200, with no mac volumne.  Will r5 install nicely on
> this machine with the current OF settings?  Any tips or warnings about the
> 7200 would be appreciated.

A lot of people seem to be having problems with the 7200, especially with SCSI
(or so it would appear).  The CD drive seems to be dying on some people.
That's my warning.  It will install, eventually.


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effect."


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