[opensuse-ppc] Bugs & Observations of a (Linux) Newbie Install
I thought I would help out by listing a few bugs on my recent install on a Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio) with a Rage 128. 1. The default color depth was set at 15 bits which seems odd. I changed it to 16 bits successfully during the install. 2. No command line editor is installed by default. During my problems with not being able to boot into X (see my other thread), I successfully installed nano using zypper, but that isn't a good situation when X not launching is a common occurrence. 3. The openSUSE updater has an error installing the 4492-0 patch. It crashes and restarts upon accepting the install. The other couple of updates were fine. Since it does this, it keeps trying to install it to no avail (and continually reminds you of this on the desktop). 4. During the install when it updates the packages in the second stage, there is an error related to the two pango packages. Here is the error on the 64-bit version (not quite sure why that one is installed by default) when doing the update after the install (same problem though): Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3011: line 2: usr/bin/pango-querymodules-64: cannot execute binary file error: %post(pango-64bit-1.18.2-4.ppc) scriptlet failed, exit status 126 --- /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.76148: line 2: usr/bin/pango-querymodules-64: cannot execute binary file error: %post(pango-64bit-1.18.2-4.ppc) scriptlet failed, exit status 126 2008-02-26 11:05:33 pango-1.18.2-4.ppc.rpm installed ok 2008-02-26 11:07:53 pango-1.18.2-4.ppc.rpm installed ok 2008-02-26 11:07:55 pango-64bit-1.18.2-4.ppc.rpm install failed rpm output: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3011: line 2: usr/bin/pango-querymodules-64: cannot execute binary file error: %post(pango-64bit-1.18.2-4.ppc) scriptlet failed, exit status 126 5. Perhaps dri should have been enabled by default as per this link: http://en.opensuse.org/PowerPC_X11_configuration On a side note, I did in fact get dri working as indicated in glxinfo and the fact that system info says 3D support! Lastly, I also installed ubuntu when I had all of the problems with X. I have to say that openSUSE KDE on first blush blows that thing away. Keep up the good work--it is really appreciated. Adam _________________________________________________________________ Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! http://biggestloser.msn.com/------------------------------------------------... To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org
Hello, AG S írta:
4. During the install when it updates the packages in the second stage, there is an error related to the two pango packages. Here is the error on the 64-bit version (not quite sure why that one is installed by default) when doing the update after the install (same problem though):
See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336678 There are two problems: - there are some broken 32 bit packages, which require 64bit packages, and are installed by default - "zypper up" is also broken: it insists to install 64bit packages A possible workaround: - delete all 64bit packages: rpm -e itrace rpm -qa | grep 64bit | xargs rpm -e --nodeps --force --noscripts rpm -qa | grep ppc64 | xargs rpm -e --nodeps --force --noscripts (itrace is part of the devel pattern, and requires a 64bit kernel module) - add the following two lines to /etc/zypp/locks *64bit* *ppc64* - run zypper: zypper -v up Bye, CzP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org
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