[PlanetCCRMA] Must I upgrade to build Ardour?

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

[sorry for the empty response... arghh]

> > You should probably upgrade your kernel and alsa. There are instructions
> > in the changelog in the planetccrma web page. The repository structure
> > for the kernel changed and you need to update both sources.list and
> > apt.conf (and that is probably why synaptic is hanging). 
> 
>    The installation of the new kernel does not seem to be working.
> Here's what I think I did:
> [MUNCH]
> 
> 6) [root@Wizard root]# apt-get install planetccrma-core
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   alsa-driver alsa-kernel-2.4.20-4.ll.acpi alsa-lib alsa-lib-devel
> alsa-tools alsa-utils
>   kernel#2.4.20-4.ll.acpi
> The following packages will be upgraded
>   alsa-driver alsa-lib alsa-lib-devel alsa-tools alsa-utils
> The following packages will be REPLACED:
>   alsaconf (by alsa-driver)
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   alsa-kernel-2.4.20-4.ll.acpi kernel#2.4.20-4.ll.acpi planetccrma-core
> 5 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 replaced, 0 removed and 0 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 15.5MB of archives.
[MUNCH]
> Executing RPM (-ivh)...
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
>    1:kernel                 ###########################################
> [100%]
> 
> The terminal is hung at this point. Ctrl-C does nothing. No processes
> seem to be using any CPU cycles, but the terminal won't respond.

You seem to have hit the rpm bug where it hungs and cannot be killed.
This seems to be happening more often, who knows why. To fix:

- see if you have a hung "rpm" and/or "apt" process
  do a 
    ps axuw|grep rpm
    ps auxw|grep apt
- try to kill the processes with a normal kill, most probably you will
  not be able to kill them.
- "kill -9" said processes :-(
- rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*
- check if the kernel finished installing:
  rpm -q kernel-2.4.20-4.ll.acpi
- if it is there, erase "rpm -e kernel-2.4.20-4.ll.acpi"
- if not, repeat install of planetccrma-core

-- Fernando