Updates caused problems...

[Dan Thurman]

Craig White wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 09:24 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > Antonio M wrote:
> > >
> > > 2008/9/29 Renich Bon Ciric <renich at woralelandia.com>:
> > > > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 08:11 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > > >> 1) ASUS P5GC-MX/1333
> > > >>
> > > >> (a) If booting latest kernel: 2.6.26.3-29.f9.i686:
> > > >>
> > > >>    - No Gui startup after udev
> > > >>    - mkrootdev: could not determine nfs root target
> > > >>    - mount: missing mount point
> > > >>    - setuproot: moving /dev failed (No such file or directory)
> > > >>               : error mounting /proc (No such file or directory)
> > > >>               : error mounting /sys (No such file or directory)
> > > >>               : error mounting /selinux (No such file or 
> directory)
> > > >>     - switchroot: Mount failed
> > > >>     - system hangs
> > > >
> > > > I had this same problem... changed to mandriva for the moment.
> > > >
> > >
> > > did you file a bug???
> > >
> > No.  I would even know how to report this and what I need
> > to provide exactly that would aide in getting this issue resolved.
> >
> > I have removed and reinstalled the latest kernel (2.6.26.3-29.f9.i686)
> > and it still hangs.  I cannot use it and I am forced to use the 
> previous
> > kernel (2.6.25.14-108.f9.i686)
> >
> > I have removed akmod and kmod, disabled livna, rebooted and 
> interestingly
> > the kmod warnings no longer appear during bootup and so it appears 
> to have
> > nothing to do with corrupting the startup gui, so it appears to be a
> > seperate issue.
> > Also, interestingly, I cannot reinstall akmod/kmod (with livna 
> disabled)
> > because akmod/kmod are not available with the fedora-only repos.
> >
> > So, I re-enabled the livna repos, attempted to reinstall akmod/kmod and
> > I get
> > for every kmod module, errors similar to the following:
> >
> > Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686 is 
> needed
> > by package kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686-1.52-31.lvn9.i686 
> (livna)
> >
> > Finally, the startup gui is still a very big annoyance for both
> > kernels esp. with my less-experienced fedora users.
> >
> > When will someone acknowledge if this is bug or not? Only one
> > person acknowledged he had a problem as well as I.
> >
> > I have already listed the specific motherboards in this posting and
> > it has been a little more than a week with no resolution at this time.
> ----
> The list provides community assistance when / where possible. It's a
> great place for what often proves to be less than fully qualified help.
>
> Bugzilla provides interaction with the Fedora developers/packagers. It's
> the perfect place for qualified help.
>
> Livna has their own support (Bugzilla)
> http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/Bugzilla
>
> It seems that if a number of other people on this list aren't
> experiencing the same problems as you, the problems are somewhat unique
> to you and the list may not be capable of providing the assistance that
> you need.
>
> Craig
>
What has changed?  I mean, if there is a new list (I noticed that this
list no longer says: For Fedora Users", where has this list moved to
so that I can get a more technical level of support?

Thanks!
Dan