Taking a break for a week or more on this problem . . . it's Groundhog Day all over again . . . .
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:49 AM, Peter Golis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Fritz, > > If I can remember your situation correctly, then you had chabged something > and system got into troubless. > > > > First issue was your change of bootstrap to unsupported size, may be you > had not followed bootstrap but normal disk partition for data. You had > confirmed it with picture of standard disk layout with correct bootstrap. > > > > Next issue was related to sound card, you got confirmation how to proceed > with loading of snd-aoa-i2sbus to confirm if that bug is only wrong i2s > autodetecttion in upstream kernel which becomes from migration from driver > snd-powermac to bunch of drivers snd-aoa-*. No feedback was received. That > is allready confirmed in HOWTO. > > > > Another issue was regarding no network. On your notebook are two network > cards. Metalic sungem does not have issues on most kernels which I had > tested, but wireless b43 need to have active old fassioned driver. Again > you got information how to proceed, but no feedback was received. > > > > But you had provided log from xwindow system with kernel argument to use > open firmware frame buffer. > > > > Now you are informing about issues in kernel for Ubuntu Mate which > difefrent Ubuntu derivate than Lubuntu. I'm nor sure what you mean with > that all information. > > > > P. > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Od: Fritz Hudnut <[email protected]> > > Komu: Peter Golis <[email protected]> > > Dátum: 17.05.2015 23:56 > > Predmet: Re: Lubuntu 14 && U-MATE 15 installer issues [PPC] > > > > > CC: "lubuntu user list" > @Peter: > > Yes, my sense of humor is very sophisticated . . . very dry . . . . But, > in this case I'm not using it very well . . . or the joke is on me . . . . > However, I'm not sure that you understand how broken this system is . . . > sometimes I can boot the system and get to a TTY and others times not--due > to kernel dump/freezes. So, it's not like I have time to mess with you, > the system is messing with me, and, then I'm using what is very limited CLI > knowledge to try to do commands that will either fix the problems or > provide data that might be helpful to others . . . such as yourself. My > time is very valuable to me and this isn't really funny to me . . . it > should be that since PPC machines have stood still technologically for the > last ten years that the knowledge of what is needed to run them should be > very clear--but nothing seems to be further from what is happening with > powerpc development, given the evidence presented with this install of > 15.04 PPC. > > Yesterday I posted my situation on the Ubuntu-MATE forum and a few hours > later I got a reply from Martin Winpress, who seems to be the lead on the > ubuntu + MATE team . . . and he said, "There are serious big endian > problems with Xorg 1.7, check with G+ to see how other PPC users are using > Xorg 1.6 . . . . " > > > So, that tells me that there are "big endian" problems with the system . > . . and, that seems to be including some issues with the installer, as well > as the installed system--whereas the live DVD appeared to be "OK." > > Back to our conversation, first thing, "apport" was **not** installed > with the system, and I spent some hours trying to find a similar bug or > figure out exactly what is happening so that I could "file" about it . . . > . Is this a "syslinux" problem? Crash? Or, problem with a "package"?? > Actually all of the above. So, taking time to again figure out that each > time the system is booted the ethernet connection is again "broken" and has > to be "restarted" and then messing around trying to get a TTY to show up I > installed "python-apport" and "pastebinit" while I was at it. Then I tried > to "apport-collect" to a bug number . . . .that attempt failed because > there is no GUI to open Firefox. It is a "known issue" that wifi is not > included, and also, no sound. A new "error" listed pre-splash was > "build/buildd/linux-3.19.0/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device > (rtc0) ???? Along with the "i2c" error that showed up in 14.04, b ut which > didn't seem to interfere with running the system, perhaps relating to no > sound? > > Then I spent further time trying to find data on which "logs" would be > helpful, because actually you didn't name any, you just requested > "evidence" . . . . And, then I tried a test run of pastebinit to upload > what looked like the smallest log, but one which multiple forum sites were > requesting from people, the Xorg.0.log . . . . Which unfortunately didn't > seem to show much, but I chose it rather than looking through 8000 lines of > the other log, the kern.log . . . didn't seem to be any obvious errors > there either, but is huge. Again, I asked you what files/logs you would > want to see, but you instead have chosen to comment about my "sense of > humor." > > Much of this stuff I have also repeated, but I'm stating it again. 1. > Problems with manual installer 2. GUI gets to splash, then "freezes" 3. > Once the GUI freezes TTY will not open 4. Booting into Single user will > also crash or screen goes black 5. If TTY can be opened from single user > then "dependency" problems are breaking the ethernet connection 6. > Upgrading to new kernel (post 5/8/15 download) . . . did **not** fix any of > the fore-going problems . . . . 7. It now appears to be known that there > are "big endian problems with Xorg 1.7" 8. Xorg.0.log did not provide > any evidence to any of these Big endian problems with Xorg 1.7. > > F > > On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Peter Golis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Fritz, >> >> You had talked about issue with network, and you know how to activate >> b43legacy driver. To confirm it you had provided random log, from X Window >> System (graphics) where is no error reported. >> >> >> >> I cannot understood your sense of humor. >> >> >> >> P. >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> > Od: Fritz Hudnut <[email protected]> >> > Komu: Peter Golis <[email protected]> >> > Dátum: 17.05.2015 03:33 >> > Predmet: Re: Lubuntu 14 && U-MATE 15 installer issues [PPC] >> > >> >> > CC: "lubuntu user list" >> @Peter, etal: >> >> Got the /var/log/Xorg.0.log uploaded to paste.ubuntu . . . doesn't >> seem to be showing anything too obvious to me that would explain why X is >> not loading . . . . I looked through 8000 lines of /var/log/kern.log . . >> . nothing seemed to be worth looking through there, plus it's 8000 lines >> long. >> >> Any other logs you would want to see? >> >> http://paste.ubuntu.com/11176522 >> >> F >> >> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Fritz Hudnut <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> @Peter: >>> >>> Thanks, I'll be back shortly . . . whenever I can get a TTY to open . . >>> . . >>> >>> F >>> >>> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Peter Golis <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Fritz, >>>> If you get that errors 20 times in a row, then you have clear way how >>>> to reproduce it and also information about evidence (logs). That was what I >>>> had asked several times, but nothing was provided. >>>> >>>> If you will have it, then come back please. >>>> >>>> P. >>>> >>>>
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