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

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Fri Oct 28 18:22:03 UTC 2005


At 8:43 AM -0500 10/28/05, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>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. ...
 ...

It seems reasonable to me, that yum and rpm would work after chroot.  Why
do you think it is unlikely?
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