[PlanetCCRMA] F15 + CCRMA = no X on start, no network, long boot time and instability

Sat Jul 2 08:44:37 PDT 2011

Thanks for the reply Geoff.

Worked out I wasn't seeing Grub as timeout=0 so set it to 5sec and can now choose kernel at boot.

Decided to reinstall anyway as I had literally only got the hard drive this morning and doesn't take long at all to get to where I was. Think I'll stay without the RT Kernel (CCRMA-Core) for now, considering it again if I find myself getting xruns when using my software of choice (assuming I get Jack etc set up smoothly to start with.)

Is yumex much different from gpk-application (Add/Remove Software installed as standard on the XFCE version. Tried Gnome on FC14 and know that had a different one. Was that yumex?)

Wireless adapter is a Intel 4965AGN. Only use it at work, wire in at home. With Ubuntu 10.4/10.10 and FC14 if I ever lost connection I would have to restart the computer to get it to reconnect and there are quite a few bug reports of others having the same issue. Finally with FC15 I've found something where it will happily reconnect of its own accord.

X is there just not starting on its own, requiring a  'startx' command once logged in. See somebody else just made a post about this same things once installing ccrma-core onto fc15.

Thanks again, Dale.

Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 11:00:37 -0400
From: gsking1 at gmail.com
To: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] F15 + CCRMA = no X on start, no network, long boot time and instability

Hi Dale, A few things that might help (note I'm still on FC14, but probably not significantly different in commands):

1) Holding down Shift while booting should bring up boot menu. 
2) Once you are sure a kernel setting works you can edit /boot/grub/menu.lst but be careful

3) Install yumex and try to manage rpm packages with that. I find it easier to use most of the time. You shouldn't need to reinstall Fedora in your example, just remove the offending packages. 
4) FWIW - the rt kernel doesn't work well on my current desktop machine either (quad core i5). It boots, but eventually locks up after a few minutes.  For the last few months I've been using a low latency kernel based on the FC14 generic that I build myself and works for my use.  However, the rt kernel worked great on a prior machine of mine in the past. 

5) Assuming you are on wireless,  I'm not suprised that you are having some network issues.  Wireless can sometimes be problematic with linux especially if changing around kernels and such.  Maybe someone will have some advice? I use ethernet cable and never have any problems.  What is your network device name?

6) I doubt you will have any dual boot problems, but haven't done that for a several  years.  I found I don't like to switch OS back and forth decided to stick with linux.  Maybe others have an opinion?
7) Not getting X?  What is your video card make and model?  What are your system specs, type model, 32bit or 64bit?  I probably won't know how to help, but this is some basic info you should provide when asking for help.  If you have nvidia card, search the mailing list and web, there is tons of advice on the net about how to get those working using akmod or kmod.

8) Ask yourself if you really need a full rt kernel or does a more stock system like FC15 or latest ubuntu work well enough for your purposes?  There are compromises that sometimes have to be made.   What do you hope to gain from going full rt vs. standard setup?

Hope this helps. 

Geoff

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Dale Powell <dj_kaza at hotmail.com> wrote:

Just installed Fedora15 on a new hard drive in my laptop. As the first distribution I have tried that will loose wireless connection and reconnect without me having to restart the laptop to get the network working again I really do want to go for F15 over F14 even though CCRMA/RT-Kernel hasn't quite caught up with it yet.

Ran the installation.

Ran Yum Update

Added RPMFusion Free and NonFree, plus CCRMA depositories

Removed Parole

Installed XMMS plus Gstreamer plugs Bad, Ugly and FFMPEG

(Very basics and at this point would boot up very quickly, didn't time it but would say 20-30sec.)

Slightly worried at this point that I did not have a GRUB Boot menu at loading. Especially as I do plan to have a Windows partition on there as well. Previously have always had Windows installed first... But at that point I didn't know if there was maybe no kernel update thus no need to select which you use at startup.

installonly_limit=3 which I didn't change to 0 for unlimited but still I thought should of given me the option between kernels at boot but didn't seem to, automatically loading into most recent. How do I change this and is installing Windows (most likely XP, maybe Win7 if I ge around to upgrading) later going to cause any problems?

Anyway thought I'd try the planetccrma-core as should have the choice so ran 'yum install planetccrma-core' then tried restarting.

Laptop took ages to boot up, a couple of minutes, at least 3-4 times as long if not longer than before. I tried restarting a couple of times to make sure wasn't only due to running the first time after changes.

Not only that but it only booted into command line, with me having to log in the run 'startx' to get the graphical environment (but at least it worked.)

Once there I found my Network widget had disappeared so I had no access to the internet. Trying to find the Network Manager and the system completely froze on me, requiring a hard reset.

At this point I decided to just reinstall F15 vanilla and not use the CCRMA Core for the moment!

As you can tell I'm fairly new to Linux, some Ubuntu use and a little with F14 previously. Comments on the above appreciated. Hints and tips on what I did wrong (if anything) or any more information you would like to have from me regarding it appreciated.

Many thanks, Dale.

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