FC 3 Install Success! - NOT
David Curry
dsccable at comcast.net
Mon Apr 4 23:11:35 UTC 2005
Mark Mecum (teknowiztx) wrote:
>Thanks for the suggestions. I am booting in runlevel 3 and am logging on without the respawning messages.
>
>After a little more fishing I have found that there are no files/directories installed in /usr or /var (and probably other places) which appears to be why so much (and probably the x11 serv) is broken.
>
>That leaves me with several outstanding key questions:
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>1] How did the installer leave me with such a screwed up mess?
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>
Good question. I am running FC2 in part due to difficulties in
successfully installing FC3 directly. I made three attempts with each
proceeding just a bit further but never progressing beyond a report to
stdout that oo.o installation was in progress. FC2 installed without
any problems after which the FC3 distribution isos would successfully
upgrade the system to FC3. But, I was a bit leery of FC3 by that time
and the
>2] Should I report this as a bug on bugzilla?
>
>
A bug report would likely be welcomed if the phenomenon were repeated on
a second installation attempt. Might be welcomed on the basis of your
first installation effort.
>3] Are all of the startup messages that are sent to the screen recorded in a file for later viewing? (many of them go by too fast to catch)
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>
As root, you might try
# cd /var/log
cat boot.log | less
and
cat messages | less
>4] Any ideas how to figure out which files the installer did not get in place and repair the installation?
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>5] I downloaded this distro through the duke site with bittorrent. Could it be an issue with that particular ISO. (Yes I did the validation before installing and it checked out, as well as the install process did not complain with any errors)
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>Appreciate the assistance,
>
>mmecum
>mmecum at gmail.com
>
>
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