Hi List, Long story, short question: Should I fall back to FC1 instead of using FC2? I am somewhat very concerned about the release quality of FC2. Here's what happened: I just upgraded a laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens E2010) from RH9 to FC2. After that, I couldn't log on to Gnome, after username/password, X just hung without any error message, neither in the logs. Never mind, I did a fresh install instead & immediately after updated all the packages. Then the surprises really started: - Service PCMCIA doesn't load the yento-sockets module. This is known @ bugzilla, one has to patch the pcmcia script by hand. Through this bug, the PCMCIA subsystem is non-functional! - Kernel 2.6.6-1.435 gives a "failed to bind key 255 to value..." every time you log in at a console, whereas kernel -358 doesn't. This appeared at bugzilla but was closed as "magically disappeared" - Hotplug calls the script ide, which in turn calls /sbin/ide_info. /sbin/ide_info simply doesn't exist! Had to copy it in from a FC1 install. Through this bug, you can't mount CF-Cards in a PCMCIA adapter. Just found out that bugzilla also knows about this -- since FC2 test3! - USB updfstab doesn't work. Devices get detected in the kernel, hotplug @ updfstab gets executed, but /mnt & fstab entries are not created. Trying to debug, I realized that the issue is somehow timing-related. When I do some sleep at the "right" points in the updfstab scripts, things work sometimes. Can't resolve the issue though and have to live without using my Flash-Stick & Camera reliably. - Kernel -435 sometimes segfaults when plugging USB devices in/out, whereas -358 seems reliable here. - My console-beep (emitted through the sound card) disappeared ever since FC2. I don't seem to be able to find a pointer on how to trace this... This is the result after a few hours of FC2 experience and I really start wondering about what level of testing this release experienced before being released into the public -- even IMHO obvious things like the PCMCIA subsystem doesn't work! Seems to me that FC1 was by far the more reliable system. My question now is whether I should give up on FC2 (I'm really tempted) and go back to FC1 or hang in there. - Will I experience more of these surprises with FC2? - How fast will issues be attented to through updates? The PCMCIA issue is known, so is the ide_info issue (since FC2 test3), but still no fix today. - Is this what we have to expect from a "community distro" in the long run? As with RH9 the last consumer-distro is discontinued, my logical conclusion would then be to leave RH behind and move on to another packager, say Suse? A bit disappointed, HaJo
