Les Mikesell wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
I have applied quite a few updates over the past few days. And
still I'm having problems you do not. Not sure why. But for me the
basic things just do not work.
Did you start with a clean install or did you do an upgrade to an
older version?
I started with a clean install, not upgrading anything.
The latter can cause some problems and it is much safer to back up
your own data minus the dot-config files in your home directory (which
takes some contortions if you want to keep email folders, etc that
might be there), and put them back after the new install. Now that
disk drives are fairly cheap you might want to install on a new drive
and set up dual booting so you keep all of the old data until
everything works and fall back to the old system if needed. Or for a
less drastic approach, install vmware on the old system and run the
new one as a guest until you are comfortable with the way everything
works.
The other thing likely to cause unusual problems is installing
software that replaces system components from places other than the
stock fedora repositories (and livna is usually OK), letting yum
resolve the dependencies.
Mozilla has been good to always make a Linux version of their
software. I am used to going there and getting what I need.
That doesn't always break things but it should be the first thing to
suspect if you've done it and I think you did mention at least a
thunderbird and some libraries. If you have problems that others
don't, you'll probably have to get back to a stock system and see if
they are fixed.
I might try that. It has been VERY bad, what with the printer and
Email client not working it is a real bad start. Also Fedora 7 doesn't
always come up right. It often comes up without any controls. Others
have this same problem.
Karl
