Posts Tagged ‘OpenSuse’

Codesourcery G++ for ColdFire on OpenSuse 10.3 and some problems during IDE installation

Posted by Matteo Mattei / 26th June 2008

In these days at working we are evaluating the buying of cross-compiler IDE of ColdFire by CodeSourcery G++. The development environment is substantially Eclipse optimized for that cross-compiler. During installation of the package we have discovered a lot of problems running the IDE installation and the next license installation.

From the official site must download the *.bin package that contains all the necessary, but after run, we have always obtained this error:

eclipse.bin: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock’ failed

To solve this issue is sufficient to insert into ~/.bashrc this line:
export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1

and reload the file:
source ~/.bashrc

Well, proceed with installation and complete it. At the end a wizard license will be prompt but it was never appear to us, may be because of some problem about the MAC address of our virtual machine (we work under vmware). So, we have prepared a new computer with native linux, put it out of the net (probably the license evaluation file it will be downloaded directly from internet during installation), waiting the wizard appear, download the license from codesourcery site by hand and import it to the wizard itself.

Only after all these fix and tries we were finally able to work with the new development environment. Unfortunately, using it we have discovered that sometimes Eclipse crashes with no sense and we have not yet understand why.

OpenSuse 10.3 CD and DVD with fault installer? Reinstalling the bootloader!

Posted by Matteo Mattei / 25th June 2008

Today I’ve tested the new OpenSuse 10.3 with KDE both in CD and DVD version on an old Packard Bell Desk Pro. After a long waiting during installation, at automatic reboot it will be prompt a classical black screen with the message “Operative System not present“. After a vanished search on the net looking for some informations, I thought that the installer was failed to install the bootloader and so I’ve just tried to do it manually. Here there are all the steps I follow:

  • Boot OpenSuse installation CD/DVD and enter in Recovery mode
  • Run grub ed enter in its own shell
  • From here run these commands: 
    grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

    Where:
    hd0,1 => sda2
    hd0 => sda

  • Restart the system and magically the installation will go on.