Re: Fedora 12 Extremely Unstable

[Brad Longo]

On 11/25/2009 11:13 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>  Brad Longo wrote:
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> > I reinstalled Fedora, and also checked the cd I installed from to see if
> > that would fix the problem.  I believe the issues I had previously may
> > have been caused by putting /home on its own lvm, which I did not do
> > when I reinstalled.  I wanted to do this so I could install future
> > releases without having to erase the home folder.  Unfortunately, I
> > don't have the time continue to reinstall Fedora over and over to
> > confirm that putting /home on its own lvm is the source of the issue,
> > but maybe someone else can replicate this?
> >      
>  I'd be awfully surprised if this were the root cause.
>
>  The suggestion to run the failing application from a console, and look
>  for errors on the console and the X log, sounds like the best plan of
>  attack to me.
>
>     
> > Before reinstalling, the programs that crashed when I tried to edit
> > their preferences were all of the ones I tried: Thunderbird, Empathy,
> > and Mozilla.  The automatic bug reporting tool crashed the system when
> > trying to report some of the bugs too.
> >
> > The system was fully update when I was experiencing the crashes.
> >
> > Reinstalling solved all of my problems except one.  Keyboard shortcuts
> > are still not saved.  However, this issue is trivial compared to the
> > frequent crashes I was experiencing before.
> >      
>  oh, ok.  Hm, odd.
>
>  -Eric
>      
I just got keyboard shortcuts to work by enabling compiz.  Compiz was 
disabled by default.

Brad.
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> > Brad.
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