Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 01.04.2013 20:06, schrieb Joe Zeff:
> On 04/01/2013 10:51 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> There are reasons for running old versions, but but only a few of us
>> have a good one.
there are NO REASONS for Fedora
if you need LTS because you have reasons you use the wrong distribution
> I stopped caring after not getting a response, and
>> follow this thread now for amusement, watching sensible people not only
>> beat a dead horse, but drag the carcass through the streets.
>
> Absolutely. Yesterday's updates (I presume) somehow b0rk my desktop, running F
17; even rebooting into an older
> kernel didn't get things back. (No, this isn't an attempt to hijack the
thread; it's just background for what
> follows.) The boot process never completes, but when disk activity stops, I can get
to an alternate TTY and log
> in; sometimes, but not always, the network's up. (I'm a tad suspicious of my
NIC, but again, that's a side issue.)
>
> I've decided that the best thing to do is to reinstall Fedora
and why did you not
* login after press CTRL+ALT+F3 as root
He did that, unless you read "get an alternate TTY" to mean something else.
* type "cat /var/log/yum.log"
* yum downgrade "package1 package2 package3"
?????????????????????????????
this is not windows
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