Fedora Issues
Ed
esimmonds at speakeasy.net
Mon Oct 20 16:01:52 UTC 2003
I don't post often so bear with me.
I am having serious problems with Fedora (every version, but now
Beta3). I just did a clean install of beta3 because I wanted a clean
system.
1. up2date just didn't work. I gave up and tried yum.
2. yum didn't work, ran for hours and kept popping up warnings about bad
rpms.
3. Grabbed apt from freshrpms and now I can at least install packages.
(Fedora apt in beta2 was a massive headache too).
I can live with package management now, but the thing that is killing me
is that I can't compile a kernel-- ANY kernel. Using gcc32, default
configs from /configs directory, smp kernel, vanilla kernel from
kernel.org, nothing will compile. Everything fails with segmentation
faults or other problems. Has anyone compiled a stock RedHat kernel or
vanilla kernel? How did RedHat compile them in the first place to create
the binary RPMs?
Other problems with beta3:
- X randomly locks up when screensaver kicks in. I have to reboot.
- Fedora just drops my USB mouse for the heck of it on reboots (though
it is plugged in). Always worked in RH9.
What I really need is the ability to compile a kernel. Anyone been able
to do that? Advice would be greatly appreciated.
--
Edward Simmonds RHCE, OCP
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