xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.13 appears to not like multiprocessors

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Mar 31 08:44:34 UTC 2005


Seth Alford wrote:
> I downloaded the previous xorg rpm's, version 6.8.1-12.FC3.21, from the Fedora
> web page.  I forced rpm to load the previous packages, then I erased the newer
> xorg packages (6.8.2-1.FC3.13.)  I should probably have done that in the
> opposite order.

The "right" way to do this would have been:

# rpm -Uvh --oldpackage xorg*6.8.1-12.FC3.21*.rpm

It is almost *never* necessary to use --force or --nodeps, and these 
options should be avoided if at all possible because they can result in 
a screwed-up system if used improperly.

Paul.




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