Tinypliny's Journal

12/17/2011 20:51 #55762

More fedora 16 freezes
Category: linux

Thankfully, I waited for a complete 5 minutes (took (e:metalpeter)'s advice and went to get tea) instead of jumping on the power button. It recovered after taking its own sweet time.

Dec 17 20:20:26 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:27 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:28 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: dbus[1173]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus[1173]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: Launching FprintObject
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus[1173]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: dbus[1173]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: ** Message: D-Bus service launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: ** Message: entering main loop
Dec 17 20:20:29 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:30 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:31 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]

This is the tail of the /var/log/messages. With all those mentions of killings and daemons, it totally looks like notes from a homicidal maniac with a medieval tilt.

Farther back the log has these entries:

Dec 17 16:17:19 why dbus-daemon[1173]: dbus[1173]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762948] CPU6: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762956] CPU2: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762956] CPU1: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762965] CPU0: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762969] CPU4: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762972] CPU7: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762977] CPU5: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762977] CPU3: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773971] CPU5: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773975] CPU2: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773982] CPU4: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773984] CPU6: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773988] CPU3: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773992] CPU7: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773997] CPU1: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773999] CPU0: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:48 why kernel: [65700.686031] [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Hardware event. This is not a software error.
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: MCE 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: CPU 2 THERMAL EVENT TSC 7740a8dc9110
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: TIME 1324157195 Sat Dec 17 16:26:35 2011
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Processor 2 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: STATUS c0000000881b0c00 MCGSTATUS 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: MCGCAP c09 APICID 4 SOCKETID 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 42
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Hardware event. This is not a software error.
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: MCE 1
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: CPU 1 THERMAL EVENT TSC 7740a8dcb633
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: TIME 1324157195 Sat Dec 17 16:26:35 2011
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Processor 1 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: STATUS c0000000881b0c00 MCGSTATUS 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: MCGCAP c09 APICID 2 SOCKETID 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 42
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Hardware event. This is not a software error.

It killed something in cold blood and is now gloating over it?

~~Apparently it is some bios issue as described here:~~

According to the followup to that post, it's a kernel issue that sprang up after 2.6.38.7

The kernel is not able to balance loads on the CPU/GPU well in processors with a sandy bridge and gives rise to these errors. Updating the bios does not solve the issue.

Why does it ALL have to happen in my machine?! Seriously, this is not even my super-sucky original machine. It's a machine from my bro. Does the linux universe hate me or what?!

tinypliny - 12/17/11 23:44
I followed that thread to the bugzilla on kernels: :::link:::

Its apparently not a bios issue anymore. Its now seen as an issue with how the kernel handling CPU and GPU loads in intel chips with a sandy bridge processor. They made a patch for it, but now are worried how it would affect performance on these chips.

So if /var/log/messages claims its a hardware issue, it might not really be true and might actually be about how the new kernel is treating the CPU/GPU. Confusion ++

tinypliny - 12/17/11 22:46
Not that the productivity ruining freezes are not serious, but the freezes don't seem to be near these bios related hardware thermal problems...

tinypliny - 12/17/11 22:45
With my fabulous luck, what if I run into one of these issues with the new BIOS: :::link:::

I am wondering if it might not be a safer bet to live these thermal issues (or non-issues) rather than inherit some really serious problems...

tinypliny - 12/17/11 22:41
Btw, I posted that VLC related error in the earlier post. Something connected with LIRC.

tinypliny - 12/17/11 22:38
I have had this issue for quite a while. He didn't run into it. I am updating my bios as soon as I can (if there is an update, that is).

How about the other 1000 errors that are not connected to this particular error? :) The bios related error was a whole 3 hours before the freeze actually happened. The errors with the freeze (and around that pointframe) have no mentions of any thermal problems. They seem to be glitches in how fedora is handling mounted drives.

paul - 12/17/11 21:39
Oh I have the latest bios firmware on my laptops. However, if your bios is trigger thermal events it really is not fedora's fault. I never though to mention that but it does seem to be related to a hardware issue "Hardware event. This is not a software error." I guess that's a good thing in a way. There is also the possibility that you device is truly having thermal issues. Did you brother not run into this?

12/15/2011 19:06 #55749

Chocolate anxiety.
Category: eating out

When there is no chocolate on walgreens shelves. Well... there is chocolate but not MY favourite chocolate.

I realize I eat chocolate like it were popcorn or something but still... they are out of *my favourite* chocolate today. They say it will be re-stocked soon. But I want it now, dammit.

paul - 12/16/11 10:45
Maybe we need an intervention. Sounds like you are having drug withdrawal symptoms.

tinypliny - 12/15/11 22:37
I knew it. You are the evil mastermind who wiped out the chocolat! EEEEEEEEEKKS!

uncutsaniflush - 12/15/11 21:56
I think this is karma for complaining that the U.S. does not follow the French spelling of "metre". Just in case you didn't notice, the U.S. does not follow the French spelling of "Chocolat". Since you insist on the purity of language, there is no chocolate for you. And that what is even worse, there is no chocolat for you either.

No Metre, no Chocolat!!!

I feel your pain, I like chocolat(e) no matter how you choose to spell it.

tinypliny - 12/15/11 19:40
There is nothing for you to steal. lol. The stupid shelf is empty. I just checked!

metalpeter - 12/15/11 19:34
Interventions do work... But I think that they are mostly really for the people who where enablers to stop that and in that case they help... In this case we would steal it all and eat it right in front of you ha.... Or maybe we would buy you a case and you can't go anywhere until you eat it all...HA.... You know like people who do that with smoking with there kids that they make them smoke till they get sick..HA

tinypliny - 12/15/11 19:20
I have never had those things. I like the chocolate fairly bitter. So I am guessing the sugar will be too much for me.

Interventions are useless. I think I am into the well-past-remediable-addiction stage!!!

metalpeter - 12/15/11 19:11
Seriously though I know you are a fan of dark and me of Milk... But I saw that Areo Bars have caught on American Style and they now Hershey makes a couple kinds one of them being a Kiss with Air in it.....

metalpeter - 12/15/11 19:10
One Of These days you will eat one of those Bars (ha) and your blood pressure will drop into the negatives (ha) and your blood will run backwards through your body.... HA.... Think I'm going to call I bunch of (e:peeps) you need an Intervention! HA

12/17/2011 05:58 #55757

Found it. DeaDBeeF
Category: music

VLC is misbehaving on my system. The GUI doesn't start up unless I invoke it on the terminal. I can't find a solution to the error that comes up and I don't have time to look. I just erased it out of frustration.

Here's the crazy error, (e:paul). Knock yourself out.

$ vlc
VLC media player 1.1.12 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x13216c0] [rc] lua interface: Listening on host "*console".
VLC media player 1.1.12 The Luggage
Remote control interface initialized. Type `help' for help.
> vlc: could not connect to socket
vlc: No such file or directory
[0x13497d0] lirc interface error: lirc initialisation failed
[0x13497d0] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x134e1d0] oldtelnet interface: using the VLM interface plugin...
[0x134e1d0] oldtelnet interface: telnet interface started on interface localhost 4212
[0x121d120] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
(process:12794): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
	Using the fallback 'C' locale.

{and then VLC gui starts. It's insane to have to pull it up with the terminal.}

Which meant I looked for alternatives, and I found the beyond perfect replacement.

DeaDBeeF

It sounds gruesome but it is fantastic.

It has cuesheet support, a smashing 10 channel equalizer, tabbed playlist support, customizable colours, plays every lossless format and submits information to last.fm.

I suddenly and completely stopped missing foobar2000.

More importantly, the programs I miss from Windoze is now down to exactly 1.
PDFXchange Reader.

dhtj - 12/23/11 17:32
How you changed the interface/colors of DeadBeef? Mine is light gray with orange. I want it dark with green like yours.

tinypliny - 12/17/11 20:33
I just re-installed it just so I could post the error. I am chucking it out now.

paul - 12/17/11 18:04
I wonder what was up with you VLC. It always seems pretty reliable to me. We almost exclusively use it to watch video on our TV.

tinypliny - 12/17/11 13:53
Eugh. Who knew?!

I just searched rather desperately for something that would play my cue files and submit info to last.fm

ajay - 12/17/11 12:45
"deadbeef" has a long history. It can be spelled in hexadecimal in a 32-bit word (0xdeadbeef), so in the days of yore, it was used to indicate a memory location that had not been initialized (by first initializing everything to 0xdeadbeef).

12/16/2011 14:07 #55752

Fedora 16 Updates
Category: linux

I think I am going to document all the "transactions" of updates here so I can go back and see what changed when.

I also found out recently that someone called Ben Williams uploads updated Fedora livecds and images when kernels are updated.

I think I will be using his images from now on if I do any new install so that all updates are incorporated in the newly installed system.

Starting with the update today:

Installing:
 kernel                    x86_64    3.1.5-2.fc16             updates      26 M
Updating:
 createrepo                noarch    0.9.9-9.fc16             updates      97 k
 dhclient                  x86_64    12:4.2.3-4.P1.fc16       updates     258 k
 dhcp-common               x86_64    12:4.2.3-4.P1.fc16       updates     273 k
 dhcp-libs                 x86_64    12:4.2.3-4.P1.fc16       updates     123 k
 diffutils                 x86_64    3.2-5.fc16               updates     259 k
 dracut                    noarch    013-20.fc16              updates     164 k
 folks                     x86_64    1:0.6.5-2.fc16           updates     440 k
 fprintd                   x86_64    0.4.1-1.fc16             updates      56 k
 fprintd-pam               x86_64    0.4.1-1.fc16             updates      13 k
 gnome-python2             x86_64    2.28.1-7.fc16            updates      46 k
 gnome-python2-bonobo      x86_64    2.28.1-7.fc16            updates      79 k
 gnome-python2-canvas      x86_64    2.28.1-7.fc16            updates      32 k
 gnome-python2-gconf       x86_64    2.28.1-7.fc16            updates      42 k
 gnome-python2-gnome       x86_64    2.28.1-7.fc16            updates      74 k
 gnome-python2-gnomevfs    x86_64    2.28.1-7.fc16            updates      78 k
 gtk2                      i686      2.24.8-3.fc16            updates     3.2 M
 gtk2                      x86_64    2.24.8-3.fc16            updates     3.2 M
 gtk2-immodule-xim         x86_64    2.24.8-3.fc16            updates      62 k
 kernel-headers            x86_64    3.1.5-2.fc16             updates     772 k
 libfprint                 x86_64    0.4.0-1.fc16             updates     114 k
 libimobiledevice          x86_64    1.1.1-3.fc16             updates     101 k
 mdadm                     x86_64    3.2.2-15.fc16            updates     317 k
 memtest86+                x86_64    4.20-4.fc16              updates      77 k
 openssh                   x86_64    5.8p2-23.fc16            updates     257 k
 openssh-clients           x86_64    5.8p2-23.fc16            updates     396 k
 openssh-server            x86_64    5.8p2-23.fc16            updates     313 k
 tracker                   x86_64    0.12.8-2.fc16            updates     1.2 M
 vte                       x86_64    0.28.2-2.fc16            updates     349 k
 vte3                      x86_64    0.30.1-3.fc16            updates     317 k
Removing:
 kernel                    x86_64    3.1.2-1.fc16             @updates    112 M
Installing for dependencies:
 pyliblzma                 x86_64    0.5.3-5.fc15             fedora       44 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install       2 Packages
Upgrade      29 Packages
Remove        1 Package

I really wish the code box were lighter and easier on the eye. :(

12/15/2011 19:30 #55750

Give me all your brown bananas!
Category: eating in

I don't like bananas. They are not really high on my fruits from heaven list (topped by papaya, btw).

But the minute bananas are looking sad, black, almost ready to mould, I develop an inordinate amount of love for them because they make the MOST amazing banana bread aroma when I bake them. Even if the bread itself turns out a mild disaster (it mostly does since I cut out everything remotely luxurious, including butter), the ripe baking banana aroma is quite enough for me to love any bread... however poorly it might have turned out.

So if you are about to toss some black bananas, you know who wants them.

ME.
Signed,
The black spotty over-ripe banana bread experimenter supreme.

---
NB: today's experiment
2 black over-ripe bananas
1 cup plain low-fat yogurt
1¾ cup Whole Wheat Bread flour
¼ cup Wheat bran
Nutmeg
Fig Butter
½ cup Applesauce
Splash of vanilla essence
One BIG thumbs-sized (your thumbs, not mine) fresh ginger chopped.
Some ground black pepper
A tsp and a ½ of salt.