On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 19:46 -0600, Lonnie Freeman wrote: > Wow, what a change! (But not a good one!) > Is there any way to go back to FC5? > > Problems: Upgraded from FC5 to FC6, using CD's. The upgrade was REALLY > SLOW! As in 5 hours! Granted I am using a slower computer, but it is > not that bad. Intel 733, 384 meg of memory, worked good on FC5. > Updates will not work...yum cannot find web site. Checked yesterday > and, yes, the web site was down. That also means "remove software" will > not work. : ( > Java is changed, as in broken... > Most of all, ctrl. alt. plus or minus will not change screen resolution > now! That has been a shining app for linux since the beginning! > I can work from the command line but I prefer GUI. Now things work in > Gnome but are broke in KDE and vice versa, meaning I am always in the > wrong GUI when I want to do something. And it is strange things, like I > can mount network files in Gnome, but not SMB4K??? What's up with that? > Sound card works fine for system sounds, Amerock crashes. Xine doesn't > work now... > Grrrr... Makes Ubuntu look palatable. Maybe Suse? I have been with Red > Hat since v.7.2. I will get the bugs worked out (will help a lot when I > can update, and when I am not so frustrated with Sun about their java > policies). But this has not been a pleasant experience! Anybody have > ideas about how to fix the broken stuff that are easier than rip out and > reinstall? ---- something I have learned to do when upgrading Fedora systems... mv .kde .kde-bak mv .gnome .gnome-bak mv .gnome2 .gnome2-bak mv .gconfd .gconfd-bak Then new GNOME & KDE settings are created which seems to work right. By moving them to '-bak' you can always bring the config/data for specific apps back in. the issue of not being able to update is probably hurting things like amerok, xine. What does /etc/hosts look like? Some people have been better served by changing the first line from ::1 to 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Craig
