[fedora-arm] Initial Chromebook install instructions

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/06/2012 06:37 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> 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.
>
> Also, if you're upgrading for some reason from F17 to F18 you'll need to
> destroy and rebuild the rpm metadata in some cases. I've had to whack
> the __db files manually and rebuild, etc.

All F17 -> F18 upgrades need to rebuild the rpmdb because of the move
from db4 to db5. It is in fact documented in the yum upgrade guide for
F18 here https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedora_18

Peter