It’s just data

Lucid

Upgrading to Lucid Lynx went smoothly as usual, though by upgrade I mean do a complete backup, wipe disk, do a full install, install of the packages I need, and then copy back in the various data directories.  I’m keeping with Pidgin and Thunderbird versus Empathy and Evolution.  I also don’t expect to use Gwibber.  As I had done a test install first with a beta, I was prepared what floatflt went missing.  Looking at my Apache logs, that entry is gaining a steady stream of search results.  I like being able to give back to the community in such a manner.

Having literally terabytes of storage and a 100Gb Ethernet sure makes this process smoother than it was a decade ago.  At that time, I was using RedHat.  I jumped shipped when it looked like RedHat was going enterprise and Fedora’s future was uncertain.  While those fears turned out to be totally unfounded, I was happy for a while, then decided I wanted something that was more consistently upgraded, which led me to Ubuntu where I have been happy ever since.

I’ve been stepping up every six months, a practice that I have keep with on my desktop but I eventually decided I didn’t see the need on my server machine, and I kept that at the 8.04 LTS release.  Over the next month or so, I plan to upgrade it, which means that I will have to relearn how to install things that have “just worked” like eJabberd, CUPS and Samba.  I’ve recently remastered ssl, so that shouldn’t be a problem.

In preparation, I purchased an inexpensive machine.  While it is demonstrably faster and theoretically cooler than the machine it is intended to replace, it turns out not to be quieter.  The issue is that Ubuntu can’t detect any ACPI, and therefore the fans run all the time.  I have been able to install k10temp, and sensor-detect seems to have found f71882fg, but I am not clear on how to proceed from here.

$ sudo sensors
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:       +25.6°C

If I figure something out, I’ll update this post (or leave a comment).  If anybody has any pointers for me to chase, comments would be appreciated.

Update: found the following in my syslog

Apr 30 17:21:38 rubix2 kernel: [25458.307469] f71882fg: Unsupported Fintek device

hmmmm... feels strange... I’ve been on the six month cycle with ubuntu ever since October 2005... until now at least. I just realized that I haven’t even turned on my Ubuntu machine in over a month. The macbook and my android phone are simply enough for everything I’ve needed.

Posted by James Snell at

I let the auto updater do it’s thing on the little Acer Aspire that I’ve been neglecting since I went iPad crazy, and it did OK for the most part, except for breaking the little $5 Bluetooth adapter that worked fine in Karmic.  The bigger issue was that I was running UNR (and its netbook-scaled project launcher) and letting the upgrader do its thing left me with a decidedly desktop-scaled UI.  That feels like a bug.

Posted by d.w. at

Progress: Devices => f71882fg

$ make
$ locate System.map
/boot/System.map-2.6.32-21-generic
$ ln -s /boot/System.map-2.6.32-21-generic /lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/build/System.map
$ sudo make install
$ depmod f71882fg
$ sensors
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:       +28.0°C 

f71889fg-isa-0a00
Adapter: ISA adapter
in0:         +1.67 V
in1:         +1.42 V  (max =  +2.04 V)   
in2:         +1.02 V
in3:         +0.96 V
in4:         +0.94 V
in5:         +1.12 V
in6:         +0.00 V
in7:         +1.66 V
in8:         +1.54 V
fan1:       3416 RPM
fan2:          0 RPM  ALARM
fan3:          0 RPM  ALARM
temp1:       +34.0°C  (high = +255.0°C, hyst = +251.0°C)  
                      (crit = +255.0°C, hyst = +251.0°C)  sensor = Intel PECI
temp2:       +43.0°C  (high = +255.0°C, hyst = +251.0°C)  
                      (crit = +255.0°C, hyst = +251.0°C)  sensor = transistor
temp3:         FAULT  (high = +255.0°C, hyst = +253.0°C)  
                      (crit = +255.0°C, hyst = +253.0°C)  sensor = transistor
Posted by Sam Ruby at

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