On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:10:34 -0700, Ben Brown wrote: > It sounds to me like you've enabled the development repos. Was that > intentional? Bless you, SIR! It was most certainly NOT intentional; I do at least know better than that ... But I had indeed, somehow. I discovered that much last night, and futzed with it -- the wrong way, of course : commenting things out rather than changing enablements. > If not, I would edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-development.repo and make > sure all stanzas have "enabled=0" in them. If they DO have "enabled=1", > change it back to 0 (everywhere it's listed!). Then do a "yum clean all" > and try your yum installation again. Any guidance on what should or should not be commented out? There's another problem with that machine, which I don't *think* is inherently related, but it affects things. Even though I pulled the KVM switch out of the situation, and did the latest new OS-install (i.e., F8) with the peripherals connected directly to the machine; even though Fedora 8 (at last, bless it!) knew about the Acer AL1916 monitor and recognized it; it *still* does what F7 and F6 did -- fails to recognize the monitor on boot when back behind the KVM switch, and gives me a display saying only something not supported. I fix that as I did before, by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, and then it does recognize it. But now I get no GUI. (I normally run Gnome.) It comes up with CLI only, and startx fails, both as user and as root. I can do stuff like "nano -w /etc/yum.repos.d" to change the enablings, and undo extraneous comments-out (once I establish which they are). But I'm no technoid, and I need my Gnome just to find things I have to tweak. Anyhow, I zeroed out the enables, and did yum clean all. Then I did my usual routine, adding rpm --rebuilddb and updatedb. I hope that was right. Then I rebooted it, without yet doing yum update. I should probably add that grub now gives me a choice of two kernels -- one that looks normal, and above it a strange one that I certainly shouldn't have, with an fc9 (yes, nine) at the end. I'll try to transcribe it : 2.6.24-0.62.rc3.git5.fc9 -- and it doesn't boot at all, but hangs up looking for something. At least the fc8 kernel does get me all the way to a prompt. But startx, even with the .fc8 kernel, still fails. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
