Well interesting developments. Just got done doing an install of 12.1 – twice.
First time, installed ok, uname -a came back as expected with x86_64. DId some fiddling like install 32 bit Mesa and k3b. Did another uname and boom, i686. Mesa did give me the libGL.so.1 as expected this time around, did not do that on my 11.4 system (???)
Ok, so thought I would start over since i now had the add-on image burned to disk so thought I would go ahead and do it again. Once again, option of Install,
create Partitions with the default recommendations (did not blow away my /home data, nice), prompted several times through the install to switch DVDs, and this all seemed to work OK.
Except, as I mentioned before with my experience of about 3 weeks ago and problems installing 12.1 I got reminded, both times, of what those problems are. Once the install is complete, installation says it is going to reboot which it does, screen goes blank, I see quite a bit of disk activity for a while, then it stops and the screen never comes alive (this is a 4 month old laptop, i7-2670, 16gb memory so its current, it is newer NVIDIA 560M). I have to cycle power and the machine comes alive. Not sure if something didn’t finish, I let it sit quite a while.
So, now the real interesting part. First thing I do after all this is open a window, uname -m, and yup, i686. Big diff on this last install is the inclusion of the add-on software bundle. Beyond that I am doing nothing exotic on this install (if you want to call the add-on “exotic”).
One thing I saw a number of times during the install:
Undefined Reference: Schema-ID=<org.freedesktop.tracker.extract> (missing some caps)
At ken’s request here is the strace output of uname:
i686
e("/bin/uname", "uname", "-m"], /* 87 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x607000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f0396193000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=84217, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 84217, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f039617e000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0P\23\2\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1871381, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 3730344, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0395be5000
mprotect(0x7f0395d6a000, 2097152, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x7f0395f6a000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x185000) = 0x7f0395f6a000
mmap(0x7f0395f6f000, 19368, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f0395f6f000
close(3) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f039617d000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f039617c000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f039617b000
arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7f039617c700) = 0
mprotect(0x7f0395f6a000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x605000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x7f0396194000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0x7f039617e000, 84217) = 0
brk(0) = 0x607000
brk(0x628000) = 0x628000
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2512, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f0396192000
read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.
#"..., 4096) = 2512
read(3, "", 4096) = 0
close(3) = 0
munmap(0x7f0396192000, 4096) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=373, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 373, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0396192000
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=26244, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 26244, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x7f039618b000
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MEASUREMENT", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MEASUREMENT", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=23, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 23, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f039618a000
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_TELEPHONE", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_TELEPHONE", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=59, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 59, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0396189000
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_ADDRESS", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_ADDRESS", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=155, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 155, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0396188000
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_NAME", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_NAME", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=77, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 77, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0396187000
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_PAPER", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_PAPER", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=34, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 34, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0396186000
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=57, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 57, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0396185000
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MONETARY", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MONETARY", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=286, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 286, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0396184000
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1243766, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 1243766, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f039604b000
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_TIME", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_TIME", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2454, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 2454, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0396183000
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_NUMERIC", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_NUMERIC", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=54, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 54, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0396182000
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=256356, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 256356, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f039600c000
close(3) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="linux-x1r3.site", ...}) = 0
fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6477, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f039600b000
write(1, "i686
", 5) = 5
close(1) = 0
munmap(0x7f039600b000, 4096) = 0
close(2) = 0
exit_group(0) = ?
