second fresh install broken after update - gnome broken

[Vanco, Don]

Awesome - the saga just keeps getting better - now "yum update" instantly
seg-faults.  Fedora is "teh roxor"!  

Where's my holy water?
Don


fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com wrote:
> I have also noticed what appear to be reliability problems with the
> webserver that handles the updates-released yum repository.
> TCP sockets
> get timed out or dropped or something happens to corrupt the RPM
> transfers. up2date doesn't know how to recover from it, but
> if I use yum
> instead, it will retry the transfer and eventually succeed.
> 
> Maybe it's possible that you managed to force some package to install
> that was truncated? 
> 
> Vanco, Don wrote:
>> Well, I've got me second system in as many weeks that has had
>> something broken by updating it.  I cannot get gnome to start, and
>> sadly it gives no error output. 
>> 
>> Details:
>> Fresh install of FC1 - gnome / X works fine (Compaq DL320, ATI Rage
>> XL Chipset) 
>> 
>> Tried to update system via up2date - this lead to a cyclical
>> redundancy where the RPMs would not installed because they failed
>> both MD5 check and appropriate key signature (after installing
>> key???), and no combination of --nosignature and/or --nomd5 could
>> satisfy RPM to install. 
>> 
>> So - "apt-get update" and let it do it's thing.
>> 
>> Now the system will not let a user start X.  I can run gdm, but if
>> root or a user tries to log in or even launch X via "startx" (where
>> their default session is gnome) they're immediately bounced out. 
>> KDE appears fine. Adding a new user or deleting the .gnom* stuff
>> does nothing.  Starting X and then trying to use "gnome-session"
>> rewards me with an immediate seg fault. 
>> 
>> Aside from this gnome mess - when will the update process stop
>> breaking systems?  Pretty much all of my peers (and me if it's not
>> obvious) are tiring of Fedora because of it's inability to provide a
>> stable platform...... and relying solely on an apt repository or yum
>> repository is still to immature for Fedora - they're just not a
>> single site I've found that doesn't have issues of some kind... 
>> Using multiple apt/yum repositories appears to be disastrous - I've
>> loaded 4 systems with FC1 (after numerous beta machines) and have a
>> "50 percent failure rate" on machines that have been subsequently
>> rendered problematic (at best) or broken (at worst) by the upgrade
>> process in one fashion or another..... 
>> 
>> Fedora - the new Mandrake!
>> 
>> Don