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Re: [K12OSN] v5 beta9 install notes

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, William Fragakis wrote:


Eric,
I tried installing via ftp last night and my gdm is dead, too. Plain
vanilla install using the defaults. I tried using yum update and that
made it worse as a bunch of cyrillic characters go across the screen
before I can copy down the error.

I'd previously installed beta4 on the same system with no hitch but had
issues with yumex so tried to do a fresh install instead.

Also a lot of errors are thrown during boot - access denied and services
failing. Could this be due to SELinux?


That sounds like the font server issue I had on my laptop, /etc/X11/fs/config
was missing. I had a /etc/X11/fs/config.rpmsave that I copied to /etc/X11/fs/config and all was well. (look for a /etc/X11/fs/config.rpmnew 
if you don't see a config.rpmsave).


I don't have the command line chops Jim does to sort things out at the
moment as we are about to be off for the weekend.


I'm off as well. Back online in a day or two ;-)

-Eric


Regards,
William

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On Wed 28 Jun, James P. Kinney III wrote:


I had python "issues" installing beta 9 (i386 version). The anaconda
would crash complaining about a gui library issue. It happened 2

times

at about the same spot (disk 2). I was not able to capture the exact
error as that machine had no working floppy drive. I was able to

install

with the text method.



The yum update process cause gdm issues. The k12ltsp version removed

the

file that controls the graphics display mapping and gdm would no

longer

start. I pulled an older version over and renamed it for the new

gnome

version and recovered. (can't locate notes on this event at the

moment

for the file name... Hmm.)


No GDM issues here. Let me know if you can repeat the problem & if you
can let me know what file fixed it.

I had a problem with the latest font server upgrade (xorg-x11-xfs)
on my laptop, but I chalked that one up as my problem (heavily abused
computer + I ran out of disk space right about the same time as the
font server issue). All of my other upgrades went fine. I'm doing
a series of tests today, I'll keep my eyes open.


Many of the yum updates in the k12ltsp repo failed to successfully
complete post-install scripts. The default setting in yumex (and

yum)

was to remove after install so the package was no longer around to

work

by hand. Add to this the gui for yumex no longer worked after the
update. I used rpm -e to remove it (yumex), turned off the k12ltsp

repo

and reinstalled yumex from the Fedora repo.


The yumex package in the K12LTSP repo is the same package as the
Fedora
repo. I'll double-check the MD5SUM to make sure it is 100% identical.


Please note: these were mostly minor issues for me (except the lost
gnome that threw me for a loop for hours!) I have tested this on

several

different TC system and it works very well. An impromptu demo was a

nice

surprise as sound "just worked".

Release date on v5 final?


Probably pretty soon. I hope to have a close-to-last beta release out
today. I'm working on a number of minor packaging refinements that
won't
make a difference to most people + doing a lot of testing.

There is a known bug in the new USB thumbdrive access feature. If Jim
doesn't put out an official update real-soon-now, I'll bug him for a
patch ;-)

-Eric
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