F9Beta - no session selector, no updates available

[Gerry Tool]

I just installed F9 Beta from the DVD.  The login window shows no way
to select a KDE session, and unbelievably, the Update System app says
there are no updates available.  I understand that development
continued after the freeze, so where are the updates?

What gives?

Thanks.

Gerry

[Jon Stanley]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Gerry Tool <gerrytool(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  I just installed F9 Beta from the DVD.  The login window shows no
> way
>   to select a KDE session, 
The session selection for GDM is in the bottom bar of the login
screen.  Threw me for a bit too until I stepped back and looked at the
whole screen :)

>  and unbelievably, the Update System app says
>   there are no updates available.  I understand that development
>   continued after the freeze, so where are the updates? 
There are updates a-plenty.  You may have an out-of-date mirror.  The
easiest way to tell is to find which mirror you are using, then 'yum
install snake'.  After that, you can use 'snake-tree info <url>'  and
it will tell you what the .discinfo file says about the date of the
compose.

[Gerry Tool]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Jon Stanley <jonstanley(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Gerry Tool
> <gerrytool(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>   > I just installed F9 Beta from the DVD.  The login window shows no way
>   >  to select a KDE session,
>
>   The session selection for GDM is in the bottom bar of the login
>   screen.  Threw me for a bit too until I stepped back and looked at the
>   whole screen :) 
Thanks Jon,
I still stumbled for a moment since one has to select a user before
that feature displays.

>   > and unbelievably, the Update System app says
>   >  there are no updates available.  I understand that development
>   >  continued after the freeze, so where are the updates?
>
>   There are updates a-plenty.  You may have an out-of-date mirror.  The
>   easiest way to tell is to find which mirror you are using, then 'yum
>   install snake'.  After that, you can use 'snake-tree info <url>'  and
>   it will tell you what the .discinfo file says about the date of the
>   compose. 
How do I learn which mirror I am using? Yum update doesn't display that.
If I look in /etc/yum.repos.d, the only repo that is enabled is
fedora-rawhide.repo, and it has the following lines:

#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&a...
enabled=1

Thanks.

Gerry

[Vasile Chelban]

Gerry Tool wrote:
>  How do I learn which mirror I am using? Yum update doesn't
> display that.
>  If I look in /etc/yum.repos.d, the only repo that is enabled is
>  fedora-rawhide.repo, and it has the following lines:
>
>  #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/$basearch/os/
>  mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&a...
>  enabled=1 
Try the following command:
 GET 
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide\&arch=$(uname 
-i)|grep -v ^#|head -n 1


Since mirrors are rotated in that list - run it twice.
The URL you'll get is right unless you
  - are using yum-fastestmirror plugin
 - set failovermethod=roundrobin option for that repo

[Gerry Tool]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Chelban Vasile <vchelban(a)fedoramd.org&gt; wrote:
>  Gerry Tool wrote:
>   > How do I learn which mirror I am using? Yum update doesn't display that.
>   > If I look in /etc/yum.repos.d, the only repo that is enabled is
>   > fedora-rawhide.repo, and it has the following lines:
>   >
>   >
> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/$basearch/os/
>   >
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&a...
>   > enabled=1
>   Try the following command:
>    GET
>   http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide\&arch=$(uname
>   -i)|grep -v ^#|head -n 1
>
>
>   Since mirrors are rotated in that list - run it twice.
>   The URL you'll get is right unless you
>    - are using yum-fastestmirror plugin
>    - set failovermethod=roundrobin option for that repo
>  
Thanks, Chelban.

Still no success.  Results of your suggestion:

[root@F9Beta yum.repos.d]# yum update

Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
[root@F9Beta yum.repos.d]# GET
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide\&arch=$(uname
-i)|grep -v ^#|head -n 1
http://mirrors.reflected.net/fedora/linux/development/i386/os
[root@F9Beta yum.repos.d]# yum update

Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
[root@F9Beta yum.repos.d]# snake-tree info
http://mirrors.reflected.net/fedora/linux/development/i386/os
No data source used
Not recognized as a valid tree:
http://mirrors.reflected.net/fedora/linux/development/i386/os
[root@F9Beta yum.repos.d]# GET
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide\&arch=$(uname
-i)|grep -v ^#|head -n 1
http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/linux/development/i386/os
[root@F9Beta yum.repos.d]# snake-tree info
http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/linux/development/i386/os
No data source used
Not recognized as a valid tree:
http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/linux/development/i386/os


I actually tried several different mirrors  with the same result.

Gerry

[Markku Kolkka]

Jon Stanley kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 26. 
maaliskuuta 2008):
>  The session selection for GDM is in the bottom bar of the
>  login screen.  Threw me for a bit too until I stepped back and
>  looked at the whole screen :) 
The session selector is empty and grey, there are no sessions to 
choose from, see: http://www.tuubi.net/markkuk/f9b_gdm2.png
Logging in through GDM doesn't work, X just restarts and goes 
back to GDM. Probably because there's no session to start. 
Logging in through a text console works.

-- 
 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka(a)iki.fi