>> * I quite often see messages like "Unknown HZ value! (45) Assume 100." >> which is probably due a kernel/system mismatch somewhere (the kernel in >> this image is not Redsleeve !) > I have seen this on other distros, too. Not sure what the cause is but > it is harmless. I also think it is harmless, but if you google it, you'll find references to a rootkit. f.i. http://www.bigismore.com/web-server-security/unknown-hz-value-assume-100-youve-been-hacked/
I think it is a bug in procps, but I did not find an 'agreed' patch. The issue is ofcourse due to a non RS6 kernel. >> * In a previous attempt to use redsleeve I found, that I could not >> compile new kernel modules due to missing kernel source. > > The way around this would be to build el6 rpms of the Pidora kernel > source rpms. They would probably need a bit of tweaking but it > shouldn't be insurmountable. > > If you provide a suitable source rpms I'm happy to include them in the > official packages. It would probably help work around package build > issues on some packages when using mock, too, since the only kernel > included is the Marvell Kirkwood one, and even that is ancient since > the official sources are broken for everything except x86, and even > then it sometimes only works due to luck with the .config file used, > e.g.: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773107 Hmm, I'm not sure if what I just did to the raspi image is compatible with this. I updated the kernel to 3.12.26+ which is the "official" latest version from https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware (for reference with the rasbian-esque tool https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update) So there was no building at all. After this I tried something similar to this: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=315376#p315376 which resulted in a kernel source tree with which I could build additional modules. Total result is thus that I have a couple of checkouts from git, which we could ofcourse package. But I'm not sure if this kernel source tree is good/smart to use for non-raspi projects. Question: all files under /lib/firmware are not installed by an RPM. can you remember where they came from? should that be replaced by firmware from kernel-firmware.armv5tel ? >> * I think pidora has some scripts somewhere to "resize the image" and to >> "create a swap file", should we include them into redsleeve somewhere, >> or is that to big a deviation from PNAELV > It's not a deviation at all. A script that puts a swap partition at > the end of the media and runs "resize2fs /" is a minor change. I found that they have those scripts in firstboot. which is quite nice. I'll check if the modules are compatible with our firstboot I think it would be good to install firstboot on such an image. on the downside, firstboot "needs" an awful lot of packages, including all kinds of X-libs. >> * I still miss the RTC on these machines. is there a script somewhere >> that sets the time to the last known date, so that (in case of missing >> network connectivity) the clock never goes backwards. maybe something >> like this: http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Nortc > Not in EL6, but I even Chromebooks have interesting issues syncing RTC > to hardware clock. Check the wiki page for those, a look at the script > in /etc/sysconfig/modules/. You should be able to replace that script > with something more appropriate for other machines. > > Are you sure it doesn't have a RTC? It could be that it just doesn't > sync the RTC with the hardware clock, same as the chromebook. Dead sure. Actually, I personally don't have that much of a problem. I bought some RTC's cheap on ebay :) my /etc/sysconfig/modules/rtc.modules looks like: #!/bin/sh /sbin/modprobe rtc-ds1307 echo ds1307 0x68 > /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-1/new_device sleep 1 /usr/sbin/hwclock -s Jacco _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users
