[ELDK] Ubuntu 8.04 and ELDK 4.1

[Scott Schlegel]

The copy of Ubuntu that initially installed was -16 and this was able to
successfully install ELDK.  After I installed ELDK, I updated to -19 and
ELDK continued to work correctly.  If I updated directly to -19 after
installing Ubuntu, then I would get the ELDK installation hanging when
trying to install gawk.

-Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: bwr [mailto:bwr64x at calcentral.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:36 PM
To: Scott Schlegel
Cc: eldk denx
Subject: Re: [ELDK] Ubuntu 8.04 and ELDK 4.1

Scott,
Which version of the kernel did you use successfully?

I'm using
Linux main 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux

but I may have been on -18 when I installed ELDK

Also, do you know what those 3 packages do?  Gawk is obvious, but I'm
not sure 
I'll recognize how the abscence of the others will cause problems.

bwr
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Scott Schlegel wrote:
> I was able to install by moving to an earlier kernel (the one that
> initially ships with 8.04). Since I had just installed a fresh copy of
> 8.04, I delayed updating any part of the OS until ELDK was installed.

> 
> -Scott
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eldk-bounces at lists.denx.de [mailto:eldk-bounces at lists.denx.de]
On
> Behalf Of bwr
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:07 PM
> To: eldk denx
> Subject: [ELDK] Ubuntu 8.04 and ELDK 4.1
> 
> I have run into this problem as well.
> 
> Running Ubuntu 8.04 and installing ELDK v4.0 to target a DDC ppc 8540
> board.
> 
> The install process will hang in 3 places:
>   pam-ppc_85xx-0.79-9.5_1.ppc.rpm
>   gawk-ppc_85xx-3.1.4-5_1.ppc.rpm
>   modutils-ppc_85xx-2.4.22-8_1.ppc.rpm
> 
> I "solved" it by removing those three packages from
> etc/rpm_ppc_85xx.list. All 
> the other packages install correctly, and the package as a whole seems
> to function.
> 
> I'm sure the missing packages will cause a problem later, but it
allowed
> me to 
> keep going.
> 
> Running "strace -p" was mentioned. I'm not familar with that command
> (I'm new to 
> kernel drivers as well as to this mail list). How would I determine in
> advance 
> the pid of the rpm command that is going to hang?, or is that not the 
> appropriate question.
> 
> Regards,
> bwr
> 
> 
> 
> snippet of output from the install:
> $ sudo ./install -v -d /opt/eldk2 ppc_85xx
> ...
> /opt/eldk2/bin/rpm -ihv --nodeps
> ./ppc_85xx/RPMS/glib2-ppc_85xx-2.6.6-1_1.ppc.rpm
> Preparing...
###########################################
> [100%]
>     1:glib2-ppc_85xx
###########################################
> [100%]
> /opt/eldk2/bin/rpm -q glib2-devel-ppc_85xx-2.6.6-1_1 > /dev/null 2>&1
> /opt/eldk2/bin/rpm -ihv --nodeps 
> ./ppc_85xx/RPMS/glib2-devel-ppc_85xx-2.6.6-1_1.ppc.rpm
> Preparing...
###########################################
> [100%]
>     1:glib2-devel-ppc_85xx
###########################################
> [100%]
> /opt/eldk2/bin/rpm -q pam-ppc_85xx-0.79-9.5_1 > /dev/null 2>&1
> /opt/eldk2/bin/rpm -ihv --nodeps
> ./ppc_85xx/RPMS/pam-ppc_85xx-0.79-9.5_1.ppc.rpm
> Preparing...
###########################################
> [100%]
> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Hi Tim & Scott,
> 
>  >> I recently tried to install ELDK 4.1 from a mounted ISO onto a
clean
>  >> installation of Ubuntu 8.04.  It goes through the installation
> process
>  >> until it reaches gawk-arm_trg.  At that point, the installation is
>  >> frozen and never comes back.  I have gone through this identical
> process
>  >> once already with complete success on a desktop PC, however, this
> latest
>  >> attempt is on an Acer laptop.  Any ideas/solutions would be much
>  >> appreciated.  Let me know if you need more info.  Thanks.
>  >>
>  >> -Scott
>  >>
>  >
>  > Hi Scott,
>  >
>  > I've got it setup on kubuntu8.04 - ran into the same issue you did,
> but
>  > can't quite remember what I did to get around it... sorry! It was
> pretty
>  > simple though, so you're not far off...
> 
> Did this get cleared up in any way?  One interesting thing to do would
> be to attach with "strace -p" to the process hanging in the install
> process.  If you see calls related to the futex mechanisms, it is very
> likely that there is a kernel/glibc problem involved.  I once saw such
a
> behaviour on a single Fedora version which went away either
downgrading
> or upgrading the kernel.
> 
> Cheers
>    Detlev
>