On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 12:08 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 15 July 2005 10:43, Ben Stringer wrote: > >On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 14:55 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Back again... > >> > >> Ok, I tried to boot the other, older kernal. It boots correctly > >> to runlevel 3, and I'm logged in as root. And ssh'd into it now > >> also. > >> > >> But when I tried to startx, it fails. The last line in the > >> Xorg.0.log > > > >I'd suggest you also start (at least) xfs as well. Runlevel 3 will > > not start any services X needs, and xfs is one of those. > > > >Cheers, Ben > > Among other things, xfs was also a casualty of the update, it > segfaults since the update was done. > > And, as I said in a previous post, its all moot. I gave FC4 the old > college try, 8 total installs, 3 of which actually worked before > turning yum loose on them. > > For my 9th re-install, I used a bdi-4.20 disk, which is debian sarge > based with a 2.6 kernel and adeos for the emc required realtime > stuff. Other than being a stripped distro (like vim was not > installed, but a quick run of apt-get install vim mozilla fixed my > two main itches. > > I don't know what more I can say about bdi-4.20 other than it Just > Works(TM). Those FC4 disks, all 9 of them, are only going wherever > the trashman hauls them. I've wasted enough of my remaining time on > them. > Some few people seem to have a LOT of trouble installing the various releases of Fedora. A lot of us (probably most) have little or no trouble. I often wonder how much that is affected by the choice of hardware being used. I for one, have had absolutely no problems in the software I routinely use, installation goes smoothly and the system "just works". A new install of FC3 went without a hitch several months ago, and the same with FC4 (4 installs) in the last month. FC4 even works without a hitch in my Dell Inspiron laptop. (Everything except the built-in winmodem which I don't need anyway.) > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly > Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above > message by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. >
