Fedora 17 is behaving very unstable

[Luiz Emediato]

I did not try it on another computer. It looks like Fedora 17 LIVE DVD
is working fine on the machine. Perhaps my hard drive (which is brand
new, 3TiB) is not good after all. I will reinstall the system on another HDD.
Thanks.

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 5:55 AM, antonio <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> Luiz Emediato ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 24/12/2012
> 03:13:
>>
>> 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 after a few days I could re-upgrade the kernel to a newer
>> version available.
>> However many system commands do not obey me.
>> For instance, it does not allow me to choose wallpaper, it is now
>> complaining
>> about glibc with errors, why? Everything is fresh install. I have also
>> tried yum reinstall glibc
>> unsuccessfully.
>> It does not let me open System Settings now. All very strange.
>> By the way, default GNOME is horrible. I have successfully changed it
>> back to Gnome 2.
>> However the system seems to be still very unstable. I choose NAMED and
>> SMBD at Services
>> but after a reboot systems seems to lose the information so I have to
>> set it back up manually.
>> I used RH9 in the past which was wonderful, very stable. Then RHELv5
>> very stable too but RH
>> no longer allows academic subscription. So I stuck with Fedora14 which
>> worked fine too.
>> Now I am having all these troubles with v17. I have been using Linux
>> for over twelve years now
>> and do consider myself an expert with it as much as other Unix OS's.
>> Should I wait for the new release 18? Why 17 is so unstable? Would
>> anyone please advise?
>> Thanks
>> Luiz
>>
> on my systems, F17 works flawlessly and I think that it is one of the most
> stable releases, I think that something is not working properly on your
> system: have you tried on a different machine??
>
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