Many problems with Fedora 17

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 18:35 -0200, Luiz Emediato wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am finding a lot of problems with Fedora 17. I have installed the
> DVD distribution
> and after a few days I got a kernel panic after an upgrade.
> Fortunately I could re-upgrade
> the kernel to a newer version. However many system commands do not obey me.
> For instance, it does not allow me wallpaper, it is now complaining
> about glibc, why?
> Everything is fresh install. I have tried also yum reinstall glibc
> unsuccessfully.
> It does not let me open System Settings now. All very unstable.
> Also, default GNOME is horrible. I have successfully changed it back to Gnome 2.
> However the system seems to be still very unstable. I used RH9 in the
> past which was wonderful, very
> stable. Then RHELv5 very stable too but RH no longer allows academic
> version. So I stuck with
> Fedora14 which worked fine too. Now I am having all these problems
> with v17. I do consider
> myself an expert with Linux and other Unix OS's.
> Should I wait for the new release 18? Would anyone please advise?

Since F17 is a released system and you don't seem to be asking about
test versions of software, the appropriate place to ask about it is the
Users List.

poc