F7: quite a lot of troubles
Alexander Volovics
awol at home.nl
Fri Jun 8 08:22:21 UTC 2007
Although F7 has a lot of nice things it also comes with
more bugs and troubles than I reckoned with, for example:
- One PC I can't use at all (dell dimension E520 with Intel
Core2 Duo and onboard Intel 10/100 ethernet)
F7 x86_64 installed without any problems but on reboot
it halted when dhclient failed to establish a connection.
After a couple of minutes it passes but I have no networking
Trying to bring eth0 up or down afterwards causes problems
and does not work. Sometimes the pc even freezes completely
and I have to pull the power plug.
Going to cause extra trouble to update without networking.
- One other PC (nvidia Nforce 3 chipset, MSI mainboard and
AMD64 cpu) shutsdown (from the menu) allright but does NOT
powerdown.
Furthermore it seems to have powernow-k8 problems and I have to
use the F1 key at boot to proceed.
Last but not least: time seems to have gone completely crazy.
Everytime I boot time comes up 'januari 1 2003 1.47 AM'.
- On a laptop (dimension 6000 with F7 i686) I seem to have
no serious problems yet.
- On all 3 the pc's there are quite a lot of SElinux problems.
Using the standard fix (restorecon) does not help.
For example postfix can't append to /var/spool/mail/user or
/var/spool/mail/root.
But there are more problems that pop up occasionaly.
- Have things changed in mutt: the 'c' key does not switch to
a new directory anymore.
I will leave it at this. Had to vent some frustration.
If I gather enough energy to investigate properly I shall
bugzilla the bugs this weekend.
Alexander
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