Fedora 9 Issues:

[vohnmaxwell at bellsouth.net]

Seeing that there seems to be a consensus building that I have an installation issue, the prudent course of action would be to back up my files - pictures, documents etc. and reload with a clean Fedora 9 package.

Would you concur?

-------------- Original message from Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>: -------------- 


> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 09:15 -0700, Craig White wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:09 +0000, vohnmaxwell at bellsouth.net wrote: 
> > > I've upgraded to Fedora 9 and about the only thing that seems to run 
> > > with any consistancy are the KDE applications. Third party programs, 
> > > such as OpenOffice, will not run. FireFox runs sporatically in Gnome 
> > > but not at all in KDE. Forget about Gnome applications - Evolution 
> > > for example. 
> > > 
> > > I have been using Evolution as my mail client/calendar/contact list 
> > > and more for some time. It interfaces with OpenOffice by allowing it 
> > > to generate labels using the contacts from Evolution. 
> > > 
> > > Has Fedora abondoned support for Gnome? How about OpenOffice? 
> > > 
> > > Or, is there something I am missing? 
> > ---- 
> > create a new user and try logging in as that user and see if gnome, 
> > openoffice, etc. work properly, which they should. 
> > 
> > If so, the problem is with the files in your $HOME directory 
> > 
> > If not, you have a problem with your installation 
> > 
> > GNOME, OpenOffice should work fine on an updated Fedora 9 installation. 
> > 
> > Craig 
> > 
> > 
> They not only should but they do. Something is wrong with you 
> installation. 
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