-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike Chambers Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 1:01 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: FC5 - T3 On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 12:16 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Problems: > > - Cannot update the software - Software update tool fails > - Cannot add/remove software for the system - tool fails > - Cannot locate xterm so that I could see if I can manually execute YUM > > So -- how can I startup an xterm so that I can update FC5 T3 with the latest updates? Can you use control+alt+F1 and then update? If not, try booting to run level 3 and updating. Can also try gnome-terminal and see if that works. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "It's only funny until someone gets hurt, then it's hilarious!" -- ================================================================ Mike, Thanks for responding - I found that my network was not working - which explains some of the problems (cups,ntp) and it turns out I had two network cards and did not configure the 'other one' which is my active LAN. With that out of the way - I can now access the Internet via my hardware firewall. I found the 'Terminal Icon' - Was used to finding this under System Tools but it is in the 'Applications->Accessories menu location so I was now able to get the xterm window so that I can run the Yum updates. Geez... LOTS of updates for Yum! Yum, Yum, keep yum coming :-D Will of course keep y'all posted on the results. So far is FC5 T3 is very good! I did note another anomoly when I rebooted the system from Gnome that the reboot process did not completely shutdown as it appears the it was stuck in the XEN shutdown process and wasn't letting it go. I had to force a hardware reset to get past this. Anyway - appreciate your response. I think I am now on the way to at least get the updates I need and to hopefully install the complete apps that I forgoed in the installation process. Hopefully most everything should be successful! Kind regards, Dan
