SELinux can really complicate matters for Linux newbies. I recommend you disable it on install. This may clear up problems 1 through 3. Problem 4 is often due to updates defaulting to the same server. After you reinstall, check out this webpage on how to change your configuration files to use a mirror instead of the overloaded redhat servers: http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror I'm sure you'll still have issues after you do these two things, but try them first then come back to us. Good luck; Linux is hard to learn but very gratifying once you get it! - Steve -----Original Message----- From: M A L Wraight [mailto:mawraight@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 5:55 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Newbie needing help Sorry to bother you all, but I can't read anymore. I am a complete newbie to Linux and trying to learn it on my own. Bought "A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux", 2nd ed. Came with installation for 2.6 Kernel. I followed steps except I used $linux selinux for install. Now I am having issues. 1. Can only sign on with the root account - other account "john" created fails 2. Signed in as root, I can't browse /home/john 3. Log in fine with KDE but Gnome crashes and freezes 4. up2date has lots of potential updates, but I have been unable to download or install a single one. I have reinstalled (since I couldn't get very far) but the same issues appear. Any help would be appreciated. Signed, Aaron Wraight Windows user trying Linux __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
