Posts tagged 5.3

It must be about time for an update, tough to blog when summer is here.  5.3 is in the works and is at a RC2 status.  Some of the changes include bug fixes of course, btrfs support, mono removed from grub and installer fixes.  Keep in mind that btrfs is very young in development and should not be used in a stable environment.  I did try it out in a virtual box setting and it seemed to work good for the little bit of time I worked with it.  Mitch follows the progress of it and has been a good source for information.  It sounds like in kernel 2.6.36 things will even be better for btrfs.  I’ll have to try and keep an eye on it myself, seems promising.

We do have on the public mirrors a weekly build that anyone can download and test.  We do have a special forum section setup for discussion, reporting, etc.  You can also use our dev-ML to report stuff.  You can also use our bugzilla, just make the proper selection when reporting.  When reporting, please give as much information as you can, including any and all logs, version and how to reproduce.  If we don’t get enough information we have to dismiss the report, which is frustrating to the devs and to the users.  If you are interested in helping the community and devs, this is a great opportunity to test and report.  We started out with daily isos for testing, but it consumes a lot to do that, so we decided to go weekly.  It sounds like every Sunday at 5AM, (GMT+1, currently UTC+0200) a new iso will be available.  If things change, we will let yas know.  I do hope to see more users testing these isos.

Seeing people having problems with boot splash disappearing after updates.  Fabio reports it’s an upstream bug and simply need to do”

equo update && equo install lvm2 && reboot
<after reboot>
equo install linux-sabayon && reboot

I hope that fixes that issue.  As far as seeing a red, green, deformed image on boot, we are still looking at that as it only seems to effect some.  I have not seen this problem on my machine.  Joost has it happening on his machine tho.  Nvidia vs. ATI, corrupt image or simply aliens running amok.  I don’t know, but sooner or later it will present itself.

Core-cd ran into a problem when anaconda dropped support with the text installer.  Some of the solutions we are tinkering with is a light weight wm like flux to boot into and run the gui installer or try to patch it so it can work like it use to.  I haven’t had time to try out a weekly core-cd test iso lately, but it sounds like flux is what we are using on it right now.  As far as I know and assume, it doesn’t actually install flux when the install is done, but I could be totally wrong on that.   We will have to see what happens with this little adventure.

A few days ago there was a bump in virtual box and some seem to be having issues running it.  I can not reproduce the issue myself.  I’ve been suggesting equo install virtualbox-modules virtualbox-bin && reboot and it works for some.  If that don’t work than I am wondering what kernel you are using.  Remember kernel upgrades are not automatically pulled, you have to tell equo to install the latest kernel.  You should be able to do this simply with equo update && equo install linux-sabayon && equo upgrade.  The last part is important to pull the matching modules/drivers or if you know which modules/drivers you have, you can install just them.  If you don’t reinstall the drivers/modules after a kernel update, you will have a bad experience upon reboot. The latest kernel in entropy is 2.6.33 and 2.6.34 is being worked on.

A quick note about entropy.  It’s important to always make sure you have the latest entropy.  When you see the message that there is a new entropy version and it’s important to install that first, it’s not kidding.  You can solve a lot of issues by making sure you always have the latest entropy.  If you want, you can simply remember to do equo update && equo install entropy equo sulfur && equo upgrade once a day. You can’t go wrong and than you will always have the latest entropy before doing updates.  If you find entropy a bit aggressive on packages being pulled, try the –relaxed option, for example:  equo install foo –relaxed  That should pull lesser packages and if you are still not happy, try –nodeps like equo install foo –nodeps.  Note that  – is two hypens, sometimes on wordpress the hypens look like one.  Hopefully that will help some out.