FC10 -> Rawhide yum upgrade report (with minor problems)

Wed Apr 29 11:26:49 UTC 2009

I just completed the FC10 to rawhide upgrade an hour ago
and it did complete successfully. This installation was
previously a FC9 that was upgraded to FC10 in the same way.
FC10 packages were updated prior to the rawhide upgrade.

Although in retrospect I should not have done that from
within a console window in X. At about 20% during the
update, fontconfig (I think it was atlest) segfaulted and
caused X to restart, leaving the yum update incomplete.

However, yum-complete-transaction did manage to finish the
update although it was incredibly slow.

I changed fstab to enable one of my ext3 filesystems to
be mounted using ext4, and that seems to work fine. I have
not converted the filesystem to enable remaining ext4 features.

All in all, I see this as a successful upgrade (though I would not
recommend the method to anyone who are not able to fix potential
errors that would occur).

Rawhide seems stable and fast from what I have seen so far, and I
look forward to the FC11 release.

Minor annoyances:
 -Keyboard settings have been reset to USA instead of NO
 -Sound theme was enabled

Some (new) messages from dmesg:
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1101: Too big adjustment 32
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1101: Too big adjustment 32
(.. repeated ~40 times)
hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #1. Suggest a
bigger bdl_pos_adj.

The kernel seems to think the mtrr is different than before, though
I do not know whether this is ok or not.
# cat /proc/mtrr 
reg00: base=0x000000000 (    0MB), size= 2048MB, count=1: write-back
reg01: base=0x080000000 ( 2048MB), size= 1024MB, count=1: write-back
reg02: base=0x0c0000000 ( 3072MB), size=  256MB, count=1: write-back
reg03: base=0x0cfe00000 ( 3326MB), size=    2MB, count=1: uncachable

Whereas I have 8GB of ram, and it previously had more entries. Will
this result in worse performance when utilizing memory above the first
~3GB?

from dmesg:
original variable MTRRs
reg 0, base: 0GB, range: 2GB, type WB
reg 1, base: 2GB, range: 1GB, type WB
reg 2, base: 3GB, range: 256MB, type WB
reg 3, base: 3326MB, range: 2MB, type UC
reg 4, base: 4GB, range: 4GB, type WB
reg 5, base: 8GB, range: 512MB, type WB
reg 6, base: 8704MB, range: 256MB, type WB
total RAM coverred: 3326M
Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
 gran_size: 64K 	chunk_size: 4M 	num_reg: 4  	lose cover RAM: 0G
New variable MTRRs
reg 0, base: 0GB, range: 2GB, type WB
reg 1, base: 2GB, range: 1GB, type WB
reg 2, base: 3GB, range: 256MB, type WB
reg 3, base: 3326MB, range: 2MB, type UC

Finally, my lspci output in case someone wanted to know:
(Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H motherboard)
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host
Bridge [1022:9600]
00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI
bridge (ext gfx port 0) [1022:9603]
00:0a.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI
bridge (PCIE port 5) [1022:9609]
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA
Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB
OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:12.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1
Controller [1002:4398]
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI
Controller [1002:4396]
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB
OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1
Controller [1002:4398]
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI
Controller [1002:4396]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller
[1002:4385] (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE
Controller [1002:439c]
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel
HDA) [1002:4383]
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host
controller [1002:439d]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
[1002:4384]
00:14.5 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB
OHCI2 Controller [1002:4399]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h
[Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1200]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h
[Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map [1022:1201]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h
[Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller [1022:1202]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h
[Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1203]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h
[Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control [1022:1204]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility
Radeon HD 3600 Series [1002:9598]
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc RV635 Audio device
[Radeon HD 3600 Series] [1002:aa20]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev
02)
03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments TSB43AB23
IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [104c:8024]

Sincerly
  Hans K. Rosbach