On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 15:47 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I have found FC6 to be the least installable of all the Fedoras. > That is my conclusion but first some caveats. I am trying to run it on a > year 2000 Dell Optiplex GX1p. This machine ran FCx (x<6) with minimum > problems. It is an old machine but FC6 has given me more serious > trouble with the installation than and other Fedoras. > > On the bright side it has been a learning experience but I am full of > anxiety as to what will happen with FC7. There is something wrong with > its construction and let me list some of the more serious problems. > Maybe it is only with older machines but I have seen others having > similar problems. > > 1. shutdown would not turn off the machine. Finally fixed with 4 months > of hitting my head against the wall. > > 2. The system did not recognize my sound card. It showed up in the early > boot messages but then it was lost. lspci did not list it, and it did > not show up in modprobe.conf and when the appropriate lines were put in > the file they were ignored. Again after much turmoil the modprobe had > to be run in rc.local. > > 3. Once sound was enabled use of sound was ephemeral. With updates, CD > playing which worked stopped working. > > 4. Getting various video and audio sources to play also came and went. > > 5. firefox configuration to use plugins properly was especially > confusing and tedious. > > 6. Using system-config-httpd to configure the web server does not really > work and caused me the hidden problem of ending up with two Listen > commands in the configuration files which took a while to trouble shoot. > > 7. And today's special, rpm's that are removed by yum erase for > dependencies are not re-installed with a yum install > > There were other things but these were the biggies. Now I ma not trying > to start a rant and for people to say it worked for me is not helpful. > What was helpful in getting things to work was advice I received from > people on the list. Again all this worked fairly well in previous > Fedoras on this machine so I can't really blame the machine. > I am not bitter I just want the installation process to be smoother and > for it to work as it has previously. ---- and how many of these things did you add to bugzilla? Things don't get fixed because of this list - they get fixed because the package maintainers use bugzilla as a guide for things that need to be fixed. By the way - Item 6 - firefox plugins aren't part of fedora packaging Craig
