Seems many have encountered strange problems with blank screens upgrading to 2.5.1 and beyond. I had similar problems and finally gave up on 2.5.1 due to a lack of time. 2.6.1 somehow magically solved my problems with one blog, but created the dreaded blank screen when trying to view blog entries for another.
http://www.colinmcnulty.com/blog/2008/07/08/solution-to-wordpress-blank-screen-of-death/
seemed on the right track, yet my admin screens worked fine, it was the blog itself that was invisible. Out of frustration, I tried changing from the Default (Kubrick) theme to the “Classic” theme, and my blog was back! Switching back to the Kubrick theme worked fine also. Something must have been corrupted in the database relative to the theme entries.
yum update -y py*
Total download size: 14 M
Downloading Packages:
(1/9): tkinter-2.5-15.fc7 100% |=========================| 283 kB 00:01
(2/9): python-2.5-15.fc7. 100% |=========================| 5.4 MB 00:21
(3/9): python-libs-2.5-15 100% |=========================| 561 kB 00:02
(4/9): pygtk2-libglade-2. 100% |=========================| 18 kB 00:00
(5/9): python-devel-2.5-1 100% |=========================| 2.0 MB 00:07
(6/9): pygtk2-2.10.6-1.fc 100% |=========================| 1.1 MB 00:04
(7/9): pygtk2-codegen-2.1 100% |=========================| 166 kB 00:00
(8/9): pykickstart-1.13-2 100% |=========================| 209 kB 00:00
(9/9): pygtk2-devel-2.10. 100% |=========================| 1.1 MB 00:04
Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
Package yumex needs python(abi) = 2.4, this is not available.
Package 4Suite needs python(abi) = 2.4, this is not available.
Package smart needs python(abi) = 2.4, this is not available.
Package libxslt-python needs python(abi) = 2.4, this is not available.
Package libxml2-python needs python(abi) = 2.4, this is not available.
Package 4Suite needs python-abi = 2.4, this is not available.
Package smart needs python-abi = 2.4, this is not available.
python can’t be updated due to stale fc6 packages
Upgrading from FC6 to Fedora-7 has mostly been a disaster. Many, many packages did not upgrade properly, leaving me with a mix of fc6 and fc7 packages on my system. Trying to update packages frequently does not work due to one error or another with stale fc6 packages. All too often I have to rpm -e a complete package set, then re-install with yum. Python is messed up. gnucash wouldn’t run, first because of this error:
gnucash-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkhtml-3.8.so.15:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
yum update -y gnucash guile-devel got closer:
gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
configure time.ERROR: In procedure open-file:
ERROR: No such file or directory: "/usr/share/guile/1.8/slib/require"
Then:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=156431
yum install -y guile-devel gtkhtml38 libgsf-gnome goffice
still didn’t work. ln -s /usr/share/guile/1.8/slib /usr/share/slib changed the error to:
ERROR: No such file or directory: "/usr/share/guile/1.8/slib/mklibcat"
This did not work, links to the library seemed to be broken.
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libgtkhtml-3.8.so.15
yum install g-wrap g-wrap-devel
didn't help either.
ln -s /usr/share/slib /usr/share/guile/1.8/slib
ls -l /usr/share/guile/1.8/slib/mklibcat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8120 2006-07-12 09:19 /usr/share/guile/1.8/slib/mklibcat.scm
attempting to build from gnucash 2.2.1 source resulted in
“libgoffice not found.”
Accidentally installed libgnome-2.18.0-4.fc7.i386.rpm
now it works???
Nov. 23, 2007
Here’s a tip for you USA AbiWord and/or Gnumeric fans, add the following
to your .cshrc:
setenv LANG en_US
or add this to .bashrc:
export LANG=en_US
Configuration:
- ECS RS482-M motherboard
- on-board ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 video
- on-board Realtek ethernet
- USB 2.0
- 768MB PC133 RAM (old & slow).
- Athlon-64 3700+ 2.2GHz, 1MB cache
- Masscool copper low noise CPU cooler
- 2 IDE hard drives
- HP 9100 CD writer
- DVD reader
- Video capture card
- Samsung Syncmaster 204T 20″ LCD display
- 4 available SATA ports – capable of supporting RAID-0 or RAID-1
Hardware:
Output of /sbin/lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a3f
00:11.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 437A Serial ATA Controller
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 4379 Serial ATA Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC’97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200]
02:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
02:01.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
The ECS RS482-M socket 939 motherboard/Athlon-64 was an upgrade replacement from a
Shuttle AK32E/Athlon 1600+. After 2 failed attempts to purchase Athlon 2400’s through
e-bay (both DOA), it was time to move up a generation. I upgraded to FC5 after swapping the
Shuttle AK32E in place of an ASUS A7V 800MHz Athlon that had served me well for several years.
The RS482-M changeover worked surprisingly well, the ethernet worked without intervention.
Upgrading from FC5 to FC6 worked with very little intevention.
The video took a little tweaking, mostly because the SyncMaster 204T is not listed in
the system-config-display list of monitors. The 210T is close, but tended to push the
bottom menu-bar off the bottom of the display, and it was not running 1600×1200 @60Hz.
Below are the tweaks to make this work:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster 204T (Analog)"
DisplaySize 410 305
HorizSync 30.0 - 93.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 85.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
#Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps"
#ChipID 0x5B60
BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200]"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
A google search had yielded the “XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps” and “0x5B60”
suggestions, these did not seem to help. Dropping to 16-bit color was
necessary to run “tvtime”, 24-bit color resulted in complaints about
a lack of available video memory. This may show the achilles heel of
on-board video with shared memory – this was not a problem with my
previous Nvidia MX4 AGP card.
I have not tested the ATI video driver as of yet.
mplayer blue-screen on files created with mencoder mpeg4
can't build DRI - can't find stddef.h:
Installed Packages
libXmu.i386 1.0.0-2.2 installed
libXmu-devel.i386 1.0.0-2.2 installed
libdrm.i386 2.0-2.2 installed
libdrm-devel.i386 2.0-2.2 installed
libtool.i386 1.5.22-2.3 installed
This motherboard hangs randomly, cause undetermined. Frequently runs for 1-2 weeks w/o problems, then simply freezes. Only recovery is a hard reboot.
Strangely enough I have a new HP dv9428nr Athlon 64X2 laptop running Vista that also freezes randomly and must be rebooted to recover.
setting up the Linksys wmp54g wireless LAN for WPA-PSK was a little tricky. I ended up
adding commands to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless:
ifconfig mode managed
iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK="xxxx"
iwconfig ra0 essid "xxxx"
I didn’t find a way to add this to the ifcfg-ra0 script that would work.
Upgrading from FC6 to Fedora-7 has mostly been a disaster. Many, many packages did not upgrade
properly, leaving me with a mix of fc6 and fc7 packages on my system. Trying to update packages
frequently does not work due to one error or another with stale fc6 packages. All too often I
have to rpm -e a complete package set, then re-install with yum. Python is messed up. gnucash wouldn’t
run, first because of this error:
gnucash-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkhtml-3.8.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
yum update -y gnucash guile-devel got closer:
gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at configure time.
ERROR: In procedure open-file:
ERROR: No such file or directory: "/usr/share/guile/1.8/slib/require"
Then:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=156431
yum install -y guile-devel gtkhtml38 libgsf-gnome goffice
still didn't work. ln -s /usr/share/guile/1.8/slib /usr/share/slib changed the error to:
ERROR: No such file or directory: "/usr/share/guile/1.8/slib/mklibcat"
This did not work, links to the library seemed to be broken.
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libgtkhtml-3.8.so.15
yum install g-wrap g-wrap-devel
didn't help either.
ln -s /usr/share/slib /usr/share/guile/1.8/slib
ls -l /usr/share/guile/1.8/slib/mklibcat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8120 2006-07-12 09:19 /usr/share/guile/1.8/slib/mklibcat.scm
attempting to build from gnucash 2.2.1 source resulted in
“libgoffice not found.”
Accidentally installed libgnome-2.18.0-4.fc7.i386.rpm
now it works???
Useful references:
Smartcard references:
- Cassini D&D Mfg, Inc., Metal Fabrication, Granite, and obsolete tile
- Further Light Lodge #1130, AF & AM
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