On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 05:39:17PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: >> On 12/06/2012 05:29 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:19:51PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Samsung_Chromebook_2012 >> >> >> >> Do not follow any of these instructions unless: >> >> >> >> 1). You know what you are doing. >> >> 2). You understand that you may cause damage to your Chrombook. In >> >> particular, you may permanently damage the audio (speaker) hardware >> >> until we have UCM working properly in ALSA. This is at your risk. >> >> >> >> PLEASE do not remove the giant obnoxiously offensive warning from that >> >> wiki page that I intentionally added to scare people off in the interim. >> > >> > Heh :-) >> > >> > I followed Dan Berrange's instructions and successfully got Fedora 17 >> > onto my Chromebook. >> > >> > However it crashes (pretty reliably actually) when I do a 'yum update'. >> > Somewhere in the middle. >> > >> > I haven't entirely ruled out general hardware crappiness. In >> > particular, the SD card might be bad (although it works OK on my main >> > laptop). Aside from that has anyone seen anything like this? >> >> I've seen one crash so far which happened when I left it running >> overnight. Haven't had chance to track down why. Generally though, I've >> not have the unreliably you mention. Upgrades work ok. If that's >> reproducible, can you provide some more info, debug output, even a >> YouTube video of the process for us to see what's happening? > > I think first of all I'm going to replace the SD card with another > one. Never trust them even (in this case) when it's a brand name card > bought from a reputable retailer.
Arnd mentioned the Samsung ones as they're basically built to the standards of eMMC cards. I've actually got a couple and they've been very good. Also I've seen that on occasion. I usually do a "yum clean all; rpm --rebuilddb" and it sometimes helps. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
