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

[David-Paul Niner]

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
>
Once inside the rescue environment, did you chroot to /mnt/sysimage?

Later,
David-Paul Niner

>-----Original Message-----
>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Claude Jones
>Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:45 AM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: Re: FC4 does not work, "out of the box" for me; GUI/X11 fails
>
>
>On Wednesday 26 October 2005 12:39 pm, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi, See my previous response that details my experience
>>last night.  I did try Yum but was unable to continue because
>>I chose 'everything' for software installation which it apparently
>>installed cman which had a dependency that could not be updated
>>or removed thus blocking updates in general.
>>
>>I am starting over.
>>    
>>
>
>I have regularly done 'everything' installs, as well. I now remember having 
>this issue as well, but, removing the GFP-kernel, gnbd-kernel, and cman-1.0 
>was no problem, for me. I'm not sure why you had a problem. That, just to let 
>you know that at least me, it did work. 
>
>  
>


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