my f12 amahi 5 install

[dayer4b]

It was requested that I post my install process because I'm having some problems.

I had Amahi 4 installed and running on F10 and I've doing an upgrade / reinstall with F12 & Amahi 5. The main reason I wanted to upgrade was for MythTV support. I became a tester and tried it in Alpha on Amahi4, but I was unable to access my TV card. It appeared to me that reinstalling Fedora might help, so I figured I'd go all out and gain some Beta

Here's my hardware:

(cat /proc/cpuinfo)

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processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2220 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 13 cpu MHz : 1200.000 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm bogomips : 4799.73 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2220 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 13 cpu MHz : 1200.000 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm bogomips : 4799.27 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:

additionally:

ECS 946GZT-AM LGA775 DDR2 SATA2 PCIe X16 motherboard
Intel Dual Core E2160 1.8Ghz 800FSB
2GB DDR2 PC2 6400 800MHZ KIT 2x1GB CHIPS
160GB SATA 7200RPM INTERNAL HARD DRIVE
ONBOARD INTEL MEDIA GMA3000 VIDEO CARD ADAPTER
DVD-ROM/CD-RW COMBO DVD/READER CD/WRITER
7.1-CHANNEL HD HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD SOUND CARD ADAPTER (AUDIO)
10/100/1000MBPS GIGABIT ETHERNET CARD ADAPTER (LAN)
54Mbps Wireless-G PCI Adapter Card




I'm not really sure how to list the rest of my hardware. I do have a DViCO FusionHDTV7 RT Gold and I have a 160GB hard drive.

I backed up the old Amahi 4 data (mysql export and /var/hda) to a separate drive (1.5TB) that I'm hoping to remount and eventually add to a software RAID array. I should mention (although it's probably painfully obvious by now) that I'm a newbie with Linux (and Amahi, of course).

I burned a DVD for F12 and began the install, but I actually caused myself much pain by screwing up some simple things.

1.) I had not re-enabled DHCP from my router, so I was unable to setup eth0 in Anaconda (during F12 install). This meant I was unable to get the f12.amahi.org repositories working! I eventually figured this out after almost going insane.

2.) I had formatted my 1.5TB backup drive with xfs, not natively supported by Fedora. After I was able to install everything, I was getting filesystem errors until I removed the drive.

After I did a rain dance and crossed my fingers, it seemed like everything worked. I was even able to confirm that the TV card was accessible! Unfortunately, I was not able to get online.. DNS didn't seem to be working.

So.. I'm installing again .. right now... unless somebody has an idea and can stop me immediately.




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[dayer4b]

Ok, I've gotten to the part of the installation where installing happens. The installation process bar is progressing and, shortly, all necessary packages will be installed.

[dayer4b]

ok.. i was ignoring it for a bit because it took a while. I clicked on "reboot" when it was time to reboot, but I forgot to remove the f12 DVD. So when it booted up, it used the disc and tried to do something. I could not escape the install process without rebooting..

So, that's done now and I continued following the steps, enabled "Synchronize date and time over the network" and proceeded, created new user, etc.

at the desktop (after logging in) I am currently unable to use the Amahi Installer, so I'll try this:

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Install ... leshooting

[dayer4b]

It works! (as it did once before) Amahi Installer runs, and I entered my Amahi Code and the installation proceeds.

Note: there are many notices telling me to install security updates for Fedora... should I do that?

[dayer4b]

Time to reboot after Amahi install... this is as successful as I was last time, so I'm crossing my toes this time

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ok... bad.

"An error occurred during file system check"

[dayer4b]

after 2 more reboots, it appears to be working.. pjcrux suggests this is a bad hard drive. Maybe only partly so?

I'm now getting a popup (i haven't done anything else) that says:

No package cache available
The package cache needs to be rebuilt
This should have been done by the backend automatically

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I am back where I was before... can't connect the hda to the internet (although I am connected to the router and can access it).

Now it's late (for me). I must sleep. I'll try again later with a different hard drive maybe..

[moredruid]

hmpf, if it's a bad harddrive you can check the output of this command:

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smartctl -a /dev/sda

to run a short SMART test (2 mins) run this command:

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smartctl -t short /dev/sda

for a long test (I seem to recall about 1 hr) run:

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smartctl -t long /dev/sda

during or after the test is run, you can check it's output with the first command, you should see either a % remaining or that the test completed successfully (it's somewhere in the last 12 or so lines of the first command).

for the real hardware info you can run a few commands and put them in a text file:

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lshw (list hardware) dmidecode (also list hardware, but more verbose) lspci (list pci info) dmesg (hardware initialization and error log)

[dayer4b]

thanks moredruid,

I ran the short & extended tests and got more hardware information with the commands you suggested. I couldn't run lshw and I couldn't install it (can't access external internet!).

i'm attaching the info:

cpuinfo.txt

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dmesg.txt

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dmidecode.txt

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I'll post again with lspci & smartctl

[dayer4b]

Here are the results of lspci & smartctl -a /dev/sda after the tests

lspci.txt

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smartctl.txt

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[moredruid]

well it seems the only error you have is with a TV card. From what I can see it's a Samsung S5H1441 TV tuner card.
can you take it out and see how Fedora boots?