I am having a peculiar problem

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Cyber Bob wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am an user of Fedora Core since 2003, and I've used versions 1.0 and 6.0.
> Though I've used both versions for quite some time now, I would still like
> to consider myself to be a novice, since Linux is still like a mysterious
> lady to me :).
>
> I am facing three peculiar problems with FC6 in two systems:
>
> 1. I own an Intel D865GBF based PC running an Intel 2.8 GHz processor with
> 512 MB MB (dual channel) DDR RAM. It houses two Seagate Baracuda 80 GB HDDs.
> FC6 was installed in a dual boot environment with WinXP, FC6 was installed
> in three primary partitions in the second HDD. Now the problem was that,
> whenever I tried to boot into FC6, system hanged at the "loading udev" line.
> I traced the source of this problem to be kernel-xen; since the problem
> vanished as soon as I unchecked the "Virtualisation" segment in all of the
> fresh installations post problem. I observed that it installed only "kernel"
> and not "kernel-xen". Can anyone please tell me whether my observations are
> correct or not, and whether there exists any solution to the problem with
> "kernel-xen" ?
>
> 2. I own a Lenovo 3000 Y500 notebook with 512 MB DDR RAM and 120 GB HDD. FC6
> is installed in a dual boot environment with Win Vista that came preloaded.
> As soon as I update kernel, from the next boot onwards, the updated
> kernel is unable to detect the laptop keyboard whereas the default kernel
> works fine. The problem persisted even after updating hal, cups,
> seliux-policy targeted and  xorg-x11. Am I doing something wrong ? The same
> setup seems to work fine in my PC.
>
> 3. Even after installing the latest JDK and JRE, the latest version of
> OpenOffice.org components fails to start even after giving a "installation
> success". I didn't installed the following bundled products: OpenOffice,
> Java, Java runtime, eclipse, firefox and thunderbird. I installed the latest
> releases of the above mentioned softwares from their respective sites. Any
> solutions ?
>
> Please give me a reply as soon as possible. I am eager to become a part of
> the FC6 Developers team, but before doing so I need to upgrade myself from
> novice status. For now, I would like to observe things and explore the way
> things work here. Wish me luck.
>
> Wishing you all a very happy prosperous new year, regards,

Sorry Cyber Bob, you want:

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	-Mike