FC4 does not work, "out of the box" for me; GUI/X11 fails

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:07:57PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> 
> Well.. I discovered WHY I had a problem.  I Yum installed
> inside the Fedora Rescue environment which did a very weird
> installation that rendered it impossible to remove these
> and many other installations that used scriptlets (%preun,
> %postun etc).  That is why I had to start over from scratch
> and Yum install in a level 3 boot.  See previous posting that
> explains it.
> 
> Dan
Look I sympathize with you that you had problems but most of the
problems it seems to me came form mistakes you made which I don't
understand. What gave you the idea you could do a yum update in the
rescue environment. I know others have reported errors in the update
of kernels when you install everything that is somehow system
dependent because I have installed everything on several systems and
never had any update problems.

I have installed FC4 on at least 4 machines with very different
architectures and never had the problems you report. I am afraid it is
a question of it is nigh impossible to have a distribution that will
work on every type of hardware 32 but and 64 bit. I manage about 50
fedora machines without much problem and updates work more or less
without problems.

The fact that FC4 has been out for 5 months or so and only recently
your problems have been reported indicates to me that things are more
ok then you make them out to be.
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Aaron Konstam
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Trinity University
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