This will be the last post of my first review on the HTC Evo, for now… not really a summary of things previously said, but more of a last couple of things I have noticed or wanted to mention in my post.
Later… ( promise to work on the formatting issue of the website this weekend, to make this easier to read)
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just want to get this started as I hope it will motivate me to finish it, since I have done a LOT of things on my computer since my last post, and obviously I have posted none of it.
So, I got a little impatient about not having my PC functioning, so I I installed Fedora 12 x64 on the rest of my FreeBSD boot drive and I have about 80% of the things on my list done and working. I’ll reference them by numbers here, and you can go read what they were by clicking on “my list” above. I am still hoping to get FreeBSD as my host OS; however everything is working right now with Fedora (except that stupid wireless NIC), although I am still having my “system reached critical temp” error from ACPI, yet the system resource monitor I have running shows a nice pleasant 30C CONSTANT temp. maybe this summer I’ll pickup a liquid CPU cooler… I already have 5 exhaust fans and 2 intake fans, 2 x 240mm exhaust and a 160mm or 180mm intake, I think I have air flow covered. (talked to a friend who is more into the details of technical issues, a network engineer, and he says that an inactive CPU, like when the system shutsdown, can drop 40F in about 7-10 seconds so it might be why I cannot catch it reporting a high temp in the BIOS) The BIOS does not report any temps reaching above 45C ever, so I have no idea why this is happening, I do run widgets reporting the internal temp, but have never seen it change!!!) . most of the time when it shuts there is/has been high CPU/disk IO usage (all 4 cores over 60% sustained, multiple long term large/multiple file movements across drives and/or multiple VMs running). So it could be valid.
I have come up with a couple of things to try to resolve this issue (going with the cheapest first, even if it is not really going to help a CPU issue, it can’t hurt…)
- I could just upgrade some hardware and see if a different BIOS/MB manufacturer makes a difference. I would love a lower watt CPU (or 6 core!), more L2/L3 cache, and USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s, since my current system bottleneck is the SATA 3GB/s HDDs.
- Switch to liquid cooling and installing a new thermal sensor with an external readout.
- buy cute little 5cfm coolling fans to place on my NorthBridge, SouthBridge, and onboard GPU passive cooling fins (cheapest option, not necessarily attacking the actual issue though)
- purchase a pretty new Video card and disable the onboard video (the chip is within an inch or two from the CPU, so there maybe some issue with residual heat from the GPU causing my overheating).
in order from cheapest to most expensive would be 3, 2, 4/1 (really close and might be a tie or within a $20-$30)
My List of things to get working, except this one is for Fedora.
1. VirtualBox is installed, working and I have multiple VMs up and running.
2. Install VMWare Workstation, I have downloaded the newest trial version and it is good for another 3 weeks, but have not gotten around to installing it.
3. Mounting my NTFS drives, all mounted, where I want them, even went through and deleted the Windows OS system folders from all but one.
4. SSH connections, I have started this and was working on it when I decided to start this post, should be done tomorrow.
5. I am posting this from Google Chrome on my Fedora 12 installation right now, so I’d say installed and working. Java shows up in the plugins, although java.com cannot detect it in my browser.
6. Hulu works great in Firefox or Google Chrome, although is a bit spotty when I have VMs running, and the playback is laggy in Chrome… So I am trying to get the Hulu Desktop app running. will make a post after I get some work done on it and let you know how it goes.
7. So far everything is working great, going to try a couple of VM’ed games next week after I get the rest of this done.
8. Firefox is up, running, and is playing hulu; however it does not report Java as installed from the about:plugins page, even though it is and I followed all the steps to link the correct files to the correct places. I believe this is the Firefox 3.6 doesn’t support Java issue though and not an issue on my part.
9. access NTFS drives remotely via ssh and a chrooted account with links to the mounts. After I get my SSH working tomorrow I should be able to test this. I was reading something online I no longer have open and may not have bookmarked that said that I can double mount drives (mount a drive to more than one, specifically 2, locations)
10. convert my NTFS drives to a more suitable linux FS, this again is a last thing item, to be done after everything else is working.
11. convert my drives from MBR to GPT, most likely to be done at the same time as the FS change.
12. GUI package manager for KDE, done, comes with Fedora.
13. eliminate all traces of Gnome from my computer… again, have to be last thing, once all is up and working.
14. build my first kernel, normally done immediately after install, I’ll do it last after EVERYTHING else (including the other things I said I would do last)
15. Wine is installed and works. will try out some things that I have installed in VMs to see about dropping those VMs
16. install older apps, again part of a couple of other items, I will of course be installing older apps on older OS installation I have, and will try them in Wine as stated.
17. X.org port forwarding to Cygwin on a windows machine (laptop) something I might do in a week or two…
18. start regular backups… I’m getting there, I have the drive formated in ext3, I just have not started backing things up.
19. Java, I think it works in Chrome, I was able to see the animated maps on the NOAA website, which most people use to test their Java. not working in Firefox 3.5.9.2
20. Flash, Hulu is working in Firefox and Chrome, so all good here.
21. Yakuake is fully functional and working.
22. Picasa 3.6 (I think) is installed and working great, except I don’t seem to be able to find the facial recognician system.
23. No idea on this one, can not find where I posted what it was, only that it was completed on BSD.
Unfinished items for Fedora: 2, 4, 9, 10, 11, 19?
apparently Open Office will not load, for an unknown reason, looking into it at this time.
wow, so many issues, you’d not believe how many draft blog posts I have going while I try to resolve everything… In fact I have so many I can’t even tell which ones are related right now.
So, Today’s newest issue has actually been around for at least 3 weeks, I have noticed when I run portupgrade -ra that a very large number of errors fly by on my screen, all extremely similar and I think all during dependency builds for a single port that I have not captured the name of, but do I do know some of the culprits…
Now currently I cannot get a pretty scroll bar to limit the size of the “code” block so I’ll just leave it at the very bottom.
It all seems to revolve around boost, python, and gcc 4.2.2. I’ve been to /usr/ports/lang/gcc42 & /usr/ports/lang/gcc44 & /usr/ports/lang/gcc45 and ran a sudo make config in each location, all reported back nothing to configure. I also went to /usr/ports/lang/python and did the same thing and got the same result and one more time for /usr/ports/devel/boost_build with the same results. so I cannot figure out where the multi-thread checkbox was in the configure screen that I know I checked and I know showed up during a portupgrade I did some time ago and of course was before I started doing system backups.
I did the only thing else I could think of… I went to the gcc42 directory and ran sudo make config-recursive install clean and you know what? it did it, it did not tell me it was already installed, in fact it had to DL the gcc-core-4.2-20090325.tar.bz2 file to do the installation, so maybe the issue is that gcc was missing to begin with?
Now I did see some pretty wierd things go by my screen, like “craphunt” and “chamber” (pot?) and of course you can’t have unix without “dump” also saw what is definitely my favorite one “gimplify” tons of java stuff flew off my screen as well.
Well at the end it failed because a couple of dependencies failed to install, including gstreamer. I tried to install gstreamer and it failed, I tried to force the install and it still failed.
from ./boost/python/tuple.hpp:8,
from libs/python/src/tuple.cpp:5:
/usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h:168:17: error: pth.h: No such file or directory
libs/python/src/tuple.cpp: In static member function 'static boost::python::detail::new_reference_t* boost::python::detail::tuple_base::call(const boost::python::api::object&)':
libs/python/src/tuple.cpp:12: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules"c++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -fPIC -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -I"." -I"/usr/local/include/python2.6" -c -o "bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/tuple.o" "libs/python/src/tuple.cpp"...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/tuple.o.....failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/object/pickle_support.o...
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/errors.o
In file included from ./boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:142,
from ./boost/python/detail/prefix.hpp:13,
from ./boost/python/errors.hpp:12,
from libs/python/src/errors.cpp:10:
/usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h:168:17: error: pth.h: No such file or directory"c++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -fPIC -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -I"." -I"/usr/local/include/python2.6" -c -o "bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/errors.o" "libs/python/src/errors.cpp"
...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/errors.o...
from libs/python/src/wrapper.cpp:5:
/usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h:168:17: error: pth.h: No such file or directory
"c++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -fPIC -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -I"." -I"/usr/local/include/python2.6" -c -o "bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/wrapper.o" "libs/python/src/wrapper.cpp"
...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/wrapper.o...
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/import.o
In file included from ./boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:142,
from ./boost/python/detail/prefix.hpp:13,
from ./boost/python/ssize_t.hpp:9,
from ./boost/python/object.hpp:8,
from ./boost/python/import.hpp:8,
from libs/python/src/import.cpp:6:
/usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h:168:17: error: pth.h: No such file or directory
"c++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -fPIC -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -I"." -I"/usr/local/include/python2.6" -c -o "bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/import.o" "libs/python/src/import.cpp"
...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/import.o...
t-aliasing rules
"c++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE -DBOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB -DNDEBUG -I"." -I"/usr/local/include/python2.6" -c -o "bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/tuple.o" "libs/python/src/tuple.cpp"
...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/tuple.o...
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/str.o
In file included from ./boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:142,
from ./boost/python/detail/prefix.hpp:13,
from ./boost/python/str.hpp:8,
from libs/python/src/str.cpp:4:
/usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h:168:17: error: pth.h: No such file or directory
libs/python/src/str.cpp: In static member function 'static boost::python::detail::new_reference_t* boost::python::detail::str_base::call(const boost::python::api::object&)':
libs/python/src/str.cpp:16: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
"c++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE -DBOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB -DNDEBUG -I"." -I"/usr/local/include/python2.6" -c -o "bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/str.o" "libs/python/src/str.cpp"
...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/str.o...
"c++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE -DBOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB -DNDEBUG -I"." -I"/usr/local/include/python2.6" -c -o "bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/object/inheritance.o" "libs/python/src/object/inheritance.cpp"
...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/object/inheritance.o...
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/object/life_support.o
In file included from ./boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:142,
from ./boost/python/detail/prefix.hpp:13,
from ./boost/python/object/life_support.hpp:7,
from libs/python/src/object/life_support.cpp:5:
/usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h:168:17: error: pth.h: No such file or directory
libs/python/src/object/life_support.cpp: In function 'PyObject* boost::python::objects::make_nurse_and_patient(PyObject*, PyObject*)':
libs/python/src/object/life_support.cpp:94: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
libs/python/src/object/life_support.cpp:96: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
"c++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE -DBOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB -DNDEBUG -I"." -I"/usr/local/include/python2.6" -c -o "bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/object/life_support.o" "libs/python/src/object/life_support.cpp"
...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/object/life_support.o...
from ./boost/python/detail/wrapper_base.hpp:7,
from ./boost/python/wrapper.hpp:7,
from libs/python/src/wrapper.cpp:5:
/usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h:168:17: error: pth.h: No such file or directory
"c++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE -DBOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB -DNDEBUG -I"." -I"/usr/local/include/python2.6" -c -o "bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/wrapper.o" "libs/python/src/wrapper.cpp"
...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/wrapper.o...
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/import.o
In file included from ./boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:142,
from ./boost/python/detail/prefix.hpp:13,
from ./boost/python/ssize_t.hpp:9,
from ./boost/python/object.hpp:8,
from ./boost/python/import.hpp:8,
from libs/python/src/import.cpp:6:
/usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h:168:17: error: pth.h: No such file or directory
"c++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE -DBOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB -DNDEBUG -I"." -I"/usr/local/include/python2.6" -c -o "bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/import.o" "libs/python/src/import.cpp"
...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/import.o...
gnome@FreeBSD.org, and attach (a)
"/usr/ports/devel/gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.6.7/config.log",
(b) the output of the failed make command, and (c) the gnomelogalyzer output.
Also, it might be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed
on your system (i.e. an `ls /var/db/pkg`). Put your attachment up on any
website, copy-and-paste into http://freebsd-gnome.pastebin.com, or use
send-pr(1) with the attachment. Try to avoid sending any attachments to the
mailing list (gnome@FreeBSD.org), because attachments sent to FreeBSD mailing
lists are usually discarded by the mailing list software.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gobject-introspection.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/polkit.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gconf2.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gconf2.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade20100331-81619-37oww9-0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=gconf2-2.26.2_1 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=2.26.2_1 make
** Fix the problem and try again.
---> Skipping 'devel/libgsf' (libgsf-1.14.15_1) because a requisite package 'gconf2-2.26.2_1' (devel/gconf2) failed (specify -k to force)
---> Upgrading 'gstreamer-0.10.24' to 'gstreamer-0.10.28' (multimedia/gstreamer)
---> Building '/usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer'
===> Cleaning for gobject-introspection-0.6.7
Please run the gnomelogalyzer, available from
"http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/gnomelogalyzer.sh", which will diagnose the
problem and suggest a solution. If - and only if - the gnomelogalyzer cannot
solve the problem, report the build failure to the FreeBSD GNOME team at
gnome@FreeBSD.org, and attach (a)
"/usr/ports/devel/gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.6.7/config.log",
(b) the output of the failed make command, and (c) the gnomelogalyzer output.
Also, it might be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed
on your system (i.e. an `ls /var/db/pkg`). Put your attachment up on any
website, copy-and-paste into http://freebsd-gnome.pastebin.com, or use
send-pr(1) with the attachment. Try to avoid sending any attachments to the
mailing list (gnome@FreeBSD.org), because attachments sent to FreeBSD mailing
lists are usually discarded by the mailing list software.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gobject-introspection.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade20100331-81619-kpb867-0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=gstreamer-0.10.24 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=0.10.24 make
** Fix the problem and try again.
---> Skipping 'x11/libxklavier' (libxklavier-3.9,1) because a requisite package 'iso-codes-3.10.3' (misc/iso-codes) failed (specify -k to force)
---> Skipping 'multimedia/gstreamer-plugins' (gstreamer-plugins-0.10.24,3) because a requisite package 'gstreamer-0.10.24' (multimedia/gstreamer) failed (specify -k to force)
---> Upgrading 'py26-libxml2-2.7.5' to 'py26-libxml2-2.7.6' (textproc/py-libxml2)
---> Building '/usr/ports/textproc/py-libxml2'
===> Cleaning for py26-libxml2-2.7.6
otypes -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wredundant-decls -MT types.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/types.Tpo -c types.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/types.o
./generator.py:27: DeprecationWarning: The xmllib module is obsolete. Use xml.sax instead.
import xmllib
In file included from /usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h:86,
from libxml_wrap.h:1,
from types.c:9:
/usr/local/include/python2.6/intobject.h:45: warning: ISO C90 does not support 'long long'
In file included from /usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h:88,
from libxml_wrap.h:1,
from types.c:9:
/usr/local/include/python2.6/longobject.h:47: warning: ISO C90 does not support 'long long'
/usr/local/include/python2.6/longobject.h:48: warning: ISO C90 does not support 'long long'
/usr/local/include/python2.6/longobject.h:49: warning: ISO C90 does not support 'long long'
/usr/local/include/python2.6/longobject.h:50: warning: ISO C90 does not support 'long long'
/usr/local/include/python2.6/longobject.h:51: warning: ISO C90 does not support 'long long'
In file included from libxml_wrap.h:1,
from types.c:9:
/usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h:168:17: error: pth.h: No such file or directory
gmake[1]: *** [types.lo] Error 1
gmake[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
I have been counting, and paying attention, and I would like to note that as of today, and pretty much everyday, the total number of page reads per nation is very interesting and a bit startling. I do not have a huge number of people visiting, it seems to average around 18-22 unique IP addresses per day, which is more than I ever thought, yet less than I had hoped for. but, plenty of time to get that up.
This chart is the current stats since March 4th (when I installed the plugin that checks these things for me… until 9:45pm EST March 11th, so about 1 week, give or take a few hours.

Shows how many page read requests have been made
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