Fedora 12 Extremely Unstable

[Brad Longo]

On 11/25/2009 11:13 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Brad Longo wrote:
>    
>> I reinstalled Fedora, and also checked the cd I installed from to see if
>> that would fix the problem.  I believe the issues I had previously may
>> have been caused by putting /home on its own lvm, which I did not do
>> when I reinstalled.  I wanted to do this so I could install future
>> releases without having to erase the home folder.  Unfortunately, I
>> don't have the time continue to reinstall Fedora over and over to
>> confirm that putting /home on its own lvm is the source of the issue,
>> but maybe someone else can replicate this?
>>      
> I'd be awfully surprised if this were the root cause.
>
> The suggestion to run the failing application from a console, and look
> for errors on the console and the X log, sounds like the best plan of
> attack to me.
>
>    
>> Before reinstalling, the programs that crashed when I tried to edit
>> their preferences were all of the ones I tried: Thunderbird, Empathy,
>> and Mozilla.  The automatic bug reporting tool crashed the system when
>> trying to report some of the bugs too.
>>
>> The system was fully update when I was experiencing the crashes.
>>
>> Reinstalling solved all of my problems except one.  Keyboard shortcuts
>> are still not saved.  However, this issue is trivial compared to the
>> frequent crashes I was experiencing before.
>>      
> oh, ok.  Hm, odd.
>
> -Eric
>    
I just got keyboard shortcuts to work by enabling compiz.  Compiz was 
disabled by default.

Brad.
>    
>> Brad.
>>      
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