Gents:
Seems like I'm stepping in to an interesting conversation. I'm new to this
list, and generally I'm a GUI user of linux for the last couple of years;
chiefly as a way to try to keep my two PPC computers somewhat viable. I
started with fink; but fink is the perfect name for it; and I moved
1. Re: Lubuntu 14.04 Beta Testing - Conclusions (Aere Greenway)
Machine 1 has jagged (not smooth) color gradients, obvious in the
default Lubuntu wallpaper.
Yes, as I posted here before, in my testing of the 3/28 daily build LiveDVD
in G4 iMac iBook, I had the same experience with the
noticed at a first glance (the machine is a pb g4, 1,3 ghz + altivec
with 2 gb ram):
- Suspend does not work. It only blanks the screen and from that it's
impossible to wake the pb up.
- the restart in the logout menu of lubuntu does not work
@fairnet:
I've been following along with your
Since i did not really understand, where and how to go better, for the
ppc problems, for the moment i continue to post here:
Aside all errors (and some others as well) i discovered that sound
absolutely does notwork. So, i decided to erase the lubuntu-ppc and went
to try a Debian Jessie.
LXDE a lot, but I am also quite partial to JWM, as it is
extremely fast.
I hope this helps you out some.
On 04/30/2014 04:43 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
Or is there out there someone, who has a solution?
@fairnet:
No immediate answer, have not found time to do the ppc 14.04
@farinet:
Ah, guess that explains why the CC to you bounced back as not deliverable
. . . no, it's not fair, but it should be??? Think of it as similar to
tweaking a kernel or something . . . you'll always be fairnet to
me--don't have time to check the wiki on it. But, by any other name, you
Gents:
Booted the LiveDVD of Lu 14.04 in my iBook last night, using live-powerpc
video=radeonfb:1024x768-32 as boot parameters, and that got me into a
clean GUI display, so that part was fine. But, no sound was found, and
that in and of itself isn't putting me off using 14.04, but rather it is
On 05/03/2014 02:54 AM, fari...@arcor.de wrote:
I do not understand why there aren't in the ppc installation iso
inserted by default the broadcom related firmware installation files.
They are in the ressources, but if you do not have hardwired wan access
nearly no chance to get there.
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 16:09:40 -0500
I used something almost the same
live video=radeonfb:1024x768-32@60
I have used both utilities on an iBook with no problem. You may try
setting your boot parameter to include the 60hz refresh.
--
Regards
@Israel:
OK, thanks kindly for that tip,
Gents:
Since the discussion has turned to the nm-applet issue, I've found some
issues with my iMac G4 version of Xu/Lu 12.04 that seemed to have
happened w/o my participation . . . . I started to notice these items in
the comparison to the 14.04 PPC testing that I tried on my iMac and iBook .
.
Israel:
Thanks for the reply, I'll check that link in a bit . . . sorry to the
ladies, I've just mostly seen replies from the Gents, hence my Gents . .
. .
But, right, that is the question, why would this be happening in 12? There
was sound and then there was none??
And, on the wifi, I believe
@Israel farinet:
Top posting . . . @Israel: On the hw-detect bug possible issue, would
that be a problem for a system that is already installed? This edition of
12 was installed at least 1.5 years back, or more . . . and then regularly
updated . . . including kernel to whatever the latest . .
@Israel: Read through your earlier post . . . and started with running
lsmod . . . looks like snd_aoa is listed . . . as well as airport .
. . does that mean doing the modprobe items you mentioned would be the
next step? I'd prefer not to mess things up in the pursuit of fixing
them. And,
From: Israel israeld...@gmail.com
On 06/19/2014 10:02 AM, luca bellini wrote:
Hello everyone,
the installation of Lubuntu 14:04 Desktop has serious problems on
PowerPC G4 with Nvidia GeForce4 MX video card, the problem should
involve the driver nouveau that do not work well, you should
@Luca Israel:
You should be able to get 12.04 installed on a G4 . . . I have an
iMac 800 MHz and it had 512 MB RAM and I managed --with online help-- to
get the NV driver installed . . . and it works more or less quite
well--just issues with Suspend not working. You should be able to
@wxl:
I think we have chatted in the past and you offered help to me a few years
back when I was first getting into linux and trying to get something
running on my ppc iMac . . . . But, just a short comment, it was only a
few days ago that you first posted about needing ppc testers here . . .
@Israel:
I've got the same understanding that Anthony has mentioned, and I think I
saw this on the PPC FAQ . . . that USB boot is not supported until
something like '04 units or so . . . and so after that time it would be
possible and before that it would not be, etc . . . . In my case both of
On 07/04/2014 09:26 AM, luca bellini wrote:
hi I've tried everything to try to get my old G4 with Lubuntu 14:04
but at this point I give up. I've tried a hundred xorg.conf but no one
went well I guess I'll wait for the 14:10 ... greetings
Hi Luca, I am so sorry for you.
I wish PPC
Hi!!
There is a version for PPC... just not an Alpha release... it is a daily
rolling release.
It is rather elusive to find, so here you go:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/317/builds/70586/downloads
It changes everyday so you need to md5sum it THAT DAY.
And zsync comes in
@Phil:
Immediately upon reading I went to download the live ppc iso . . . took
over an hour to retrieve and burn . . . but, there was no 14.04.1 in the
file name . . . it might have even been just trusty-ppc . . . . Didn't
have a chance to boot it up and check the yaboot ID data, I'm just
@Israel:
Are you saying there's a sound bug with 14.04 : - )))
F/e.e.p.
From: Israel israeld...@gmail.com
To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Trusty 14.04.1 testing for Apple
Message-ID: 53d039d3.9010...@gmail.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Hi,
I'd
Folks/gents/ladies:
So, took a few minutes to boot the live DVD of 14.04.1 on the iBook; took
awhile to get the boot parameters right to get into a good resolution GUI .
. . but, in a word, No . . . . I think my prior post here about the
testing of the 14.04 DVD has not been changed . . . .
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:56 PM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
From: Aere Greenway a...@dvorak-keyboards.com
To: Lubuntu Users Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: nm-applet missing from task-bar problem on 14.04.1
All:
Now that Lubuntu 14.04.1 is available, I upgraded a
Other option is copying to USB flashdrive . . . seems to be the latest
standard choice . . . or, I'm not sure on the details, but I think using
Virtualbox there doesn't have to be any burning . . . right? VB stores
the .iso and handles it . . .??? There does seem to be a learning curve
for VB,
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 5:00 AM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
I install a different Linux version about every 3-4 days. I want to see
them all.
My favorite method is to use a flash drive. I use a small program called
UNetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
to burn a
@RichieB:
Perhaps you are making a bit too much out of this, considering that you
are willing to use gmail . . . and one of the largest data miners is
Google . . . so if you are logged into Gmail, everything you do online is
recorded . . . available to you . . . as well as their servers to
Richie:
Cool. Maybe you can post back one more time if you have some success
getting the list to go silent. But, it's not just the ubuntu list that
has this problem . . . on the odd occasion that I google my name, somewhere
down the list will be some posts from my early exploits trying to find
Folks:
Fired up the iBook to check for 12.04 updates and a window opened asking me
if I wanted to upgrade to 14.04 ?. . . so I figured what the heck . . .
said it was going to take two hours . . . wound up at 4. I figured that
using the GUI Distribution Upgrade app would preserve my system and
, today text is again black . . . .
F/ e.e.p.
http://www.surfingthetimelesswave.net http://surfingthetimelesswave.net
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Aere Greenway a...@dvorak-keyboards.com
wrote:
On 08/23/2014 07:45 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
Previously here on the list I saw that perhaps
Israel:
Thanks for the reply, so I need an xorg conf file, OK. But none of those
listed iBooks looks exactly like mine, I've got a 933 MHz G4, with a radeon
driver, should I pick one and then would I have to edit it?
Or, what happens if I sudo Xorg -configure ??? will that set up the file
Israel:
Thanks again for the follow-up--I tried to follow the PPCFAQ on how to set
up an xorg.conf file . . . so I got the console generated file set up, but
so far it hasn't made a difference. Seems like what isn't mentioned in the
FAQ is that X has to be stopped before an xorg.conf file can be
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=328
wxl:
Hello again, I've mentioned or requested that your call for testers should
be posted on the Ubuntu Apple Users forum . . . as of 5 minutes ago I don't
see any post there from you or anyone calling for 14.10 testers. A couple
days ago I posted
wxl:
Done. Probably all I have time for today.
F/e.e.p.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:21 AM, ∅ carsrcoffin...@yahoo.com wrote:
Fritz, I rarely get on the forums. You're welcome to post something
up. Just a simple copy paste will do the trick. As a PPC user
yourself, I'd imagine you'd want more
Folks:
Beta testing 14.10:
Bug report #1363180
for the alt install: During testing for PPC 14.10 alternate install CD on
iBook G4 the process got as far as the Yaboot window boot prompt . . .
entering various commands resulted in response: claim error, can't
allocate e0 at 0 x c200;
when you finally get something major hacked
into working order :)
Congratulations!!
On 08/30/2014 07:58 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
@Israel:
After some time spent fiddling around trying to do it the hard way, I
decided to take your suggestion and just borrow the xorg.conf file from
be.linux
thoughts on suspend in the iBook would be appreciated, might be that
the 646 MB RAM might not be sufficient for 14.04??? Might be nice if it
was just a matter of a GUI setting in power management
F / e.e.p.
On 08/30/2014 07:58 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
@Israel:
Haven't tested suspend yet
...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Fritz,
AFAIK suspend is directly tied to the graphics card.
Not sure how you can go about fixing this though. Maybe someone else has
the same graphics card... you can always duckduckgo-ogle it
On 08/31/2014 03:17 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
@Israel, et al:
Yeah, tested
Folks:
Having failed to revive from suspend even after changing the power manager
settings from What should I do if you hit the suspend button? question
from Do nothing to suspend . . . Happening several times needing
to shut down the iBook . . . I took the 45 mins needed to file a bug
I'm assuming it has nothing to do with DE
and something to do with FF? Would I spend time to revert to an earlier
version of FF? Nah, just renders the system less use-able . . . decision
will be whether to drop back to 12.04 . . .
e.e.p.
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Fritz Hudnut este.el
Top posting:
Could anyone be kind enough to either show me the commands to get the
upstream kernel for PPC in the Terminal, or if there is any significance
to the choice of the i386 .deb or the amd64 .deb? I replied back asking
this on the bug report, but no reply . . . probably would be easier
@Is:
Thanks for the reply, that's what I was thinking, the dev who posted the
suggestion did not reply back to my bug post saying, This is PPC . . . .
Appreciate the link to building kernel, don't know if I have time to learn
. . . maybe I'll get there . . . .
In terms of the 14.10 test . . .
Is:
Thanks for the reply, yeah doesn't seem like things happen too fast in
PPC-land . . . no worries, it's not the mission critical computer . . .
and not enough time to retro-install kernels . . . could roll back to
12.04 and just let that do until the computer dies . . . .
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014
~$ sudo man
What manual page do you want?
-MacBookPro:~$ man man
@Is:
Turns out that man man is no laughing matter, first of all, it's
heee . . . but secondly, that is the command . . . just doing sudo
man gets the inquiry response shown above . . . man man gets the actual
man . . . man.
Nio, et al:
Taking the time to again say that there appeared to be some problem with
registering my PPC computers with the QA Tester matrix . . . I'm not sure
if my iBook made it on, and I'm pretty sure that my iMac did not, as there
was no gist for it (12.04) but yorick was offered by apt as the
For those of you don't know, there's a rather nasty little bug in bash
that has been dubbed Shellshock that is now has a patched version in
the repos. Update your system and you'll be good.
More info:
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-7169.html
wxl
@wxl:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Fritz Hudnut este.el@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks for that update, although about half an hour ago I ran
upgrade/update in my 14.04 Xubuntu/MATE system on my MBPro . . . and got
0 upgrades . . . . Possibly it was last updated a week or so back . . .
don't
Peeps:
Wondering if anybody could give me some hints to help get normal booting of
my 14.04 system? Have a triple boot set up with two versions of OSX in
front of 14.04, which I access using rEFInd, which then loads GRUB. Did a
system upgrade of OSX which has messed with rEFInd in the past . .
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 5:00 AM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
Yes you can reinstall GRUB2...
You boot a LiveCD and can reinstall GRUB2 from there
the command grub-install will do it.
You will need:
--bootloader-id=ID
the ID of bootloader. This option is only
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:43 AM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
Hey Fritz,
From the live cd you will need to mount the drive and chroot into it (or
at least this is how I'd do it on a non mac)
so it will be something like (be sure you have the right sda device use
fdisk -l
Top posting, for speed.
@Ali:
Question on ToriOS, I checked the web site, just wondering if ToriOS will
have a PPC offering . . . as it looks like ubuntu is formally ending their
support for PPC with 14.04??? Seems like there are a number of AmigaOne
folks that could have machines running for
Check out:
https://bryanquigley.com/crazy-ideas/still-running-32-bit-ubuntu/
Right now it's obviously just an idea, but you might want to throw
your 2? in there. There is a survey.
I'm not sure if this will affect PPC.
--
@wxl
@wxl:
The survey page says x86/Intel/AMD only . . . so,
Folks:
After finding that booting the 14.10 livedvd with the radeon.agpmode boot
parameters got me into a working GUI, I went for an install of the LTS a
couple days ago on my iBook . . . seemed to take a fairly long time, but
more or less went OK.
I had 14.04 installed before using radeonfb and
Forwarding this: top posted comment: Boris R. has been giving me some
pointers towards getting 14.04 PPC into more use-able state on my G4 iBook
. . . seems to have made a difference using Linux video=ofonly
radeon.agpmode=-1 at the second Yaboot window . . . now I would wonder
how to make that
these to the append=”” lines and save changes to the file, after that
sudo ybin -v
and after a reboot it all should stick :)
Am 01.11.2014 16:04 schrieb Fritz Hudnut este.el@gmail.com:
Forwarding this: top posted comment: Boris R. has been giving me some
pointers towards getting 14.04 PPC
.
. . it's not mission critical right now, but, benefit of a laptop is--it
can move . . . .
F
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Aere Greenway a...@dvorak-keyboards.com
wrote:
On 11/01/2014 11:16 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
Only other issue of minor concern . . . no b43-legacy driver is found
in software
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 4:00 AM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
On 11/01/2014 03:24 PM, Boris Reinhard wrote:
Almost there Fritz,
you will need to run
firmware-b43-installer
the legacy one is for oder cards, yours is one of the newer Airport
extreme cards.
You
2014-10-28 10:43 GMT+01:00 Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com:
I'll regularly rebuild the ISO and push it to
http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/ so be sure to check this directory
and to download the last one.
Just an updates for the ISO. The last one is Qt5 only, and KDE free,
which make
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Jörn Schönyan joern.schoen...@web.de
wrote:
About the minimum and/or recommended system requirements: we haven't
tested it, yet. But I think it's reasonable to assume simmilar requirements
like LXDE. As a rule of thumb:
* 256 MB RAM, 1 GHz: barely usable at
Folks:
Yesterday I checked my PPC iBook running 14.04 Lu for update/upgrade and
nothing showed about xserver-xorg-video-intel.
Today, logged into my LM17 MATE system on my MBPro, i.e. Intel processor,
and ran upgrade . . . and, surprisingly, in the list was
xserver-xorg-video-intel . . . . So I
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Walter Lapchynski w...@ubuntu.com wrote:
In just lspci . . . it all showed Nvidia in just about all the lines.
Would it be safe to assume that doing this upgrade would probably
***not*** lunch my system?
Well honestly we're not sure which kernel driver is
Folks: [this account wasn't working this am, used another addy which
bounced . . . sorry if it gets posted twice . . . .]
Working with 14.04.1 on iBook G4 this am . . . hibernate is not really
working, restarted the computer to get into GUI, did some stuff online;
then Software Updater showed
Today, did try the guest option, and typing this seems to be going OK . . .
did get the error: No session for pid 1583. Why would guest work OK, but
something must have happened in admin account rendering it less useful???
Guess I'll try to log out and back in . . . check out the blackness again
From: Israel israeld...@gmail.com
To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Stop dbus. startx, or self sabotage?
Message-ID: 5478b45b.6070...@gmail.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Hi again Fritz,
The other solution I use a lot for these types of issues is to move my
I have added my issue to bug report # 1059254 Lightdm fails to start
session which has been marked as invalid . . . but I used it anyway, as
right now it is lightdm that is failing to start a GUI session.
F
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Fritz Hudnut este.el@gmail.com
wrote:
From
why this would be different than running dpkg fsck in
recovery mode . . . both of which found errors but then . . . didn't fix
them . . . ??? But, I'll look at moving the dbus config file as well . .
. .
F
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Fritz Hudnut este.el@gmail.com wrote:
I have added
@Is:
Tried the various options . . . from the -f install command it showed 0
upgraded, 0 newly install, 0 to remove, 11 not upgraded . . . so I ran the
fuser command and the prompt just returned very quickly . . . I rebooted,
same problem. Ran thru the update but then after the -f install I ran
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:46 AM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
Hi Fritz,
It might be worth trying to add a new user.
Check if the new user has the same issues.
If the new user does not have any issue, you can of course simply
migrate your configurations to that account. And
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:52 PM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
I can't yet answer that from my own experience.
I know the upgrade process from one release to the next release has been
very reliable, but I haven't yet tried upgrading from one LTS release to
the next LTS
Fellow Lu users:
In the interest of trying to help get Lu 14.04 to be a better place for PPC
users . . . I have filed a bug report about the problem I posted here about
losing login to GUI after a normal update/upgrade procedure.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1400967
Lu users:
The bug report brought fast service, but seems like Manfred H got the fix
off to me before the bug triager . . . got the user account back into
service. No need to like my bug . . . . I'll be working on the
suspend problem now. Suspend seems to work from the GUI desktop, but not
the
Hi Israel. The links you were providing me dealing with removing
catalyst
drivers and last message on the terminal during the boot is 'virtual
Ethernet', so I guess problem with VMware. I just tried to make a log
file,
but failed.
Dmesg ~/dmesg.log
Bash: /root/dmesg.log: read-only
On 12/13/2014 08:26 AM, Linda wrote:
I installed Lubuntu 14.04 LTS on a new HP Pavillion
(500-C6) AMD A6 8GB SDRAM AMD Radeon HD 8400 Graphics.
It takes quite a while to go from login user password to
showing the icons on the desktop and allowing you to
start a terminal window. It
Folks:
So far all my computers have been Apple, but with the PPC iMac now at 12
years or so old and having an extended illness which it may or may not
survive . . . I've been considering a new/used desktop to replace it.
Since I've been fiddling with linux for a couple of years I have some
at 1:10 AM, Nio Wiklund nio.wikl...@gmail.com wrote:
Den 2014-12-23 01:05, Fritz Hudnut skrev:
Folks:
So far all my computers have been Apple, but with the PPC iMac now at 12
years or so old and having an extended illness which it may or may not
survive . . . I've been considering a new
So, you are looking for standard PC hardware, am I right?
Well, where do you live?
Are you loocking for Desktop or Laptop?
Do you know how to setup a Desktop PC, piece by peice?
Andre:
Also thanks to you for the reply, standard PC is one of the options, I've
looked at used '10 MacPro's
Folks:
Thanks for the added thoughts, much appreciated . . . I will give each of
them consideration, no particular rush on it . . . the *only** problem with
the build it myself option is that I would have to get myself organized
to do that, and I've spent most of my life fighting that . . . bit
Folks:
Thanks very much for all the great suggestions, much appreciated. I'll
have to spend the time to investigate all the ideas . . . and figure out
what makes sense to me now . . . appreciate it.
F
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So, add LXDE, log into it, and then try to remove the U-MATE stuff?
And that would get me back to the core system, more or less, with
the basic lighter DE?? Easy-peasy or messed up?
You may try out this first:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#How_do_I_adjust_my_fan_limits.3F
Good
@Is:
Appreciate the reply, well, that's what I was wondering, if it works to
cut the installed DE's out w/o messing things up. Thanks for the insight
on JWM, happy to look into that, I think we spoke about this before, or
something that was waiting for PPC config . . . .
Got a few too many
Folks:
This might be a no-brainer if I was booted up in linux, but I'm not . . .
perhaps a month or so back I was trying to follow someone's instructions
about doing a persistent live USB install . . . but doing it on an
external HD thru my iBook . . . and there was some issue with the installer
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Istimsak Abdulbasir saqman2...@gmail.com
wrote:
If you are going to be using your machine to test Ubuntu images, then the
entire machine model should be listed. Helps the developers tailor the
image to suite its needs.
For what I am asking are the specs from
From: Lars Nood?n lars.noo...@gmail.com
To: Lubuntu Users Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: No suspend after XFCE Power Manager added
Message-ID: 5511abdc.4060...@gmail.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
I installed Lubuntu-core on a small machine and suspend (sleep?) worked
Folks/PPC testing team:
Just staying in touch, making this informal report for now. The last
couple of months I've been reviving my wife's old PowerMac G4 Sawtooth .
. . new HD, new screen, and yesterday I replaced the old optical drive that
only booted CDs with one that will boot DVDs . . .
.
but the ibook is no more than just a cloud storage and a simple internet
router.
Fritz Hudnut este.el@gmail.com wrote:
@IA:
Thanks for the reply, yes, LXDE should work as XFCE is doing fine.
Getting the machine up to 2GB RAM seems to have been very good for
increasing functionality. I
definitely list
your PC specs when testing. The more hardware Ubuntu can be tested on the
better agile it becomes.
On Mar 22, 2015 8:57 PM, Fritz Hudnut este.el@gmail.com wrote:
Folks/PPC testing team:
Just staying in touch, making this informal report for now. The last
couple of months
But, Israel, you are saying that simply by creating a file that
contains 5 short lines that the suspend/resume will be working?
Again, why then are the devs not including those 5 lines in an
update/upgrade patch?
F
Hi Fritz,
I use that file in a minimal install setting. I
stack to 14.04.2) will work better. Do you have
time to find out what package that breaks your system? Is it a kernel
upgrade, or some other package? Is it some program package in the mate
meta-package?
Best regards
Nio
Den 2015-04-11 20:34, Fritz Hudnut skrev:
@AG Nio:
Appreciate
problems with it - even after I re-booted (just in
case).
- Aere
On 04/11/2015 08:46 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
Folks:
Along these lines of inquiry . . . seems like with a recent kernel
upgrade, the several month old U-MATE 14 PPC install on my iBook got
corrupted . . . seems like aptitude
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Aere Greenway a...@dvorak-keyboards.com
wrote:
I always use the Something Else (manual partitioning) option, and it has
(so far) always worked for me.
The thing I see in your e-mail snippet above that makes me wonder, is your
new world boot partition.
One
(logs). That was what I
had asked several times, but nothing was provided.
If you will have it, then come back please.
P.
Fritz Hudnut este.el@gmail.com wrote:
Peter, et al:
Correct, there is no need to continue . . . first thing, you never
introduced yourself to me as an installer
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On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Peter Golis gol...@centrum.sk wrote:
Hello Fritz,
I had seen set up a 10 MB new world boot partition in your email also
with remark about deleting / from label which was followed by put osx
into sleep. This is really bad handling, and the
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Peter Golis gol...@centrum.sk wrote:
Hello Fritz,
Did you had hibernated MAC OS X with connected disks which held Linux /
yaboot and performed disk layout reorganization? I will not comment that.
Regarding workarrounds, you can fix upstream kernel as is
is error if
description does not meet situation.
Peter.
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Komu: Peter Golis gol...@centrum.sk
Dátum: 15.05.2015 22:37
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On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Peter Golis gol...@centrum.sk wrote:
Hello Fritz,
I had asked how to create NewWorld bootblock (bootstrap) with different
size than is supported by OFI to use for booting from it. So, what was
your way how to create partition which was called by you as
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Komu: Peter Golis gol...@centrum.sk
Dátum: 17.05.2015 23:56
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@Peter:
Yes, my sense of humor is very sophisticated . . . very dry . . . . But,
in this case I'm not using
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Komu: Peter Golis gol...@centrum.sk
Dátum: 17.05.2015 03:33
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@Peter, etal:
Got the /var/log/Xorg.0.log uploaded to paste.ubuntu . . . doesn't seem
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Peter Golis gol...@centrum.sk wrote:
PS: I cannot understood which error of installer did you had mean. Hooking
of boot path into OFI to call yaboot and later also linux kernel is not
part of manual partitioning. This is part of yaboot post installation step
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Peter Golis gol...@centrum.sk wrote:
Hello Fritz,
Yes, I had shown to you approx. the same steps as are done by automatic
installation process. But this is different was as you are describing as
bug in installer. Could you please show picture of creation
@Peter:
Well, the problem was replicated over 4 attempts to use manual partition
install . . . 2 with Lubuntu 14.04 installer and 2 with U-MATE 15.04 . . .
I don't know how else to describe what I did . . . 10 MB for New World
Boot, 11GB or so for ext4, 1.6 GB for swap . . . . The installer
Folks:
Along these lines of inquiry . . . seems like with a recent kernel upgrade,
the several month old U-MATE 14 PPC install on my iBook got corrupted . .
. seems like aptitude was removing key packages so that logging into a MATE
session just showed the desktop image, no toolbars or desktop
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