some suggestions...
- that you use keep discussions on the list and not think of me as your personal support dude.
- that you suggested that you updated to Fedora 9 but that boot options are Fedora 8 and have to answer my first question about how you updated from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 - i.e. the process used because it appears that it failed. You probably don't realize that when you fail to answer the first question I asked, I lost a lot of enthusiasm to help.
- let whatever updates do their thing because it does seem as though you've got something very unfinished installed there and if it were completely updated, that seems that would be a good thing.
- that you learn to read release notes, especially before doing things like update an installation because sometimes, they are really important.
- if after the updates, gnome still fails to give you menus with applications, someone on the list can tell you how to restore them back to defaults.
Craig
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 00:08 +0000, vohnmaxwell@bellsouth.net wrote:
After some trial and error and gnashing of teeth, I have finally gotten to the point where I can bring up 2 separate terminal sessions within the Gnome Gui Desktop. However, I am still not able to click on applications, such as FireFox or Yum and have it launch within the gui desktop.
I will use the terminal sessions to continue updating Fedora 9 (about 500 currently).
Could the possible issue with launching the applictions within the desk top be related to the boot options? When I boot and press any keep to bypass the default (Xen), the options it displays are for Fedora 8 not 9.
-------------- Original message from Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>: -------------- > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 13:11 +0000, vohnmaxwell@bellsouth.net wrote: > > > > Here a are the steps I've taken and the results. > > > > 1) Installed Fedora 9 > > Found that Fedora 9 does not support Xen very well. When > > loading, it would encounter a (XEN) Xen is relinquishing VGA console > > message then hang up. When I would bypass XEN and attempt to use one > > of the listed Fedora versions, which I would have assumed would be > > Fedora 9, the list would be for versions of Fedora 8. After they > > would load, the applications would not run. I would click on an > > application, say Firefox, and it would not load. Nothing would > > happen. I would seem that Fedora was confused by having some parts > > perhaps Fedora 9 and others Fedora 8 and not being compatable. > ---- > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Virtualization.html > > "However, the Xen kernel now lacks Dom0 support. An existing Xen > host/Dom0 must continue to run Fedora 8. Xen Dom0 support will be added > back in Fedora 10." > > This was in the release notes for Fedora 9 > ---- > > 2) I tried the Rescue and was confused as to what/how it worked. > > if said that it put my system to /mnt/sysimage and that I could > > use the chroot /mnt/sysimage. Well, I am a GUI kind-of-guy and I am > > clumbsy using anything in command mode. > ---- > I would suggest that you become familiar with it because that would > appear to be necessary to bring your system back online. > > boot linux rescue > command line stuff... > > chroot /mnt/sysimage > yum update # you really need to update > yum update # you will probably need to update again because > # the first update will probably just add updates.newkey > grub-install /dev/sda > ---- > > 3) when I backed out of the RESCUE and rebooted into one of the > > Fedora versions (not XEN), it came up with the main screen but no > > applications, not icons and the title bar at the bootom and 2 items > > which siad (UNKNOWN). Clicking on these resulted in nothing > > happening. > ---- > I'm not sure what your intentions are with Xen but it's not going to > work right for Fedora 9...the release notes do make note of that. > ---- > > 4) I then attempted to do a reload of Fedora 9 (update an existing > > release). This results in just the word GRUB appearing in the > > upper left of an otherwise blank screen. Nothing happens after this. > ---- > try above instructions...should help > ---- > > It this juncture, I am very concerned. I have photos and scanned > > documents on the drive and want to pull them off before I screw things > > up more. > ---- > sounds as if they might be on one of the Xen domains but how would I > know that. > > It might be best to install the Fedora 10 test at this point just to get > Xen working again...I am just not aware how well it works and what is > broken. > > Craig >