Mark Mecum (teknowiztx) wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I am booting in runlevel 3 and am logging on without the respawning messages.Good question. I am running FC2 in part due to difficulties in successfully installing FC3 directly. I made three attempts with each proceeding just a bit further but never progressing beyond a report to stdout that oo.o installation was in progress. FC2 installed without any problems after which the FC3 distribution isos would successfully upgrade the system to FC3. But, I was a bit leery of FC3 by that time and the
After a little more fishing I have found that there are no files/directories installed in /usr or /var (and probably other places) which appears to be why so much (and probably the x11 serv) is broken.
That leaves me with several outstanding key questions:
1] How did the installer leave me with such a screwed up mess?
2] Should I report this as a bug on bugzilla?
A bug report would likely be welcomed if the phenomenon were repeated on a second installation attempt. Might be welcomed on the basis of your first installation effort.
3] Are all of the startup messages that are sent to the screen recorded in a file for later viewing? (many of them go by too fast to catch)
As root, you might try
# cd /var/log cat boot.log | less
and
cat messages | less
4] Any ideas how to figure out which files the installer did not get in place and repair the installation?
5] I downloaded this distro through the duke site with bittorrent. Could it be an issue with that particular ISO. (Yes I did the validation before installing and it checked out, as well as the install process did not complain with any errors)
Appreciate the assistance,
mmecum
mmecum@xxxxxxxxx
