A big mess now!

Douglas Furlong douglas.furlong at firebox.com
Fri Aug 27 10:16:54 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 08:50 +0100, PFJ wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > 	After install everything seemed to work, ran up2date, downloaded 432
> > packages.  Many hours later back to the same problems... so is there
> > anyone here who has updated to everything in the rawhide, whose distro
> > boots? 
> 
> Yep. Here. Went from a RH8 box to FC2 in one jump, then FC2 to FC3t1 in
> one jump. Other than having to pratt about with the X server for a very
> small amount of time (basically, just changing where /dev/mouse and one
> other thing pointed to get it to work), it was seemless.
> 
> > I'm beginning to think this test stuff is way beyond me.
> 
> Only use the test stuff if you're prepared for things not to work, to
> work but not correctly or at the very worst to annoy the b'jes out of
> you due to a fault in another package. To use the tests, you should be
> able to work out what has gone wrong, diagnose it and report it for
> fixing. Okay, no-one is expecting people to be experts in all fields,
> but I certainly wouldn't recommend it for a main system [1]
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Paul
> 
> [1] Unless you know what you're doing and are expecting the worst.

I had a similar problem, however selected an older kernel and was able
to boot up fine.

It sounded as if the screen could not start due to X crashing, I'm
assuming it is related to a driver problem.

Try an older kernel.


-- 
Douglas Furlong
Systems Administrator
Firebox.com
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