The Joys of Rawhide

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 03:33:53PM -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Something 
> wrong with gnome desktop--reverting metacity helps some, but still 
> getting freezes in some areas (would bz but don't know what) and the 
> kernel keeps trying to read my floppy drive.

Have a look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496586

> Going back to last F11 kernel fixes that.

AFAICS "the fix" is that with that kernel floppy is not recognized
at all so it does not create problems.  What precisely is broken
I do not know but it appears that a desktop "user-friendly" stuff
is screwing you up.  First guesses would be gvfs and/or diskkit.

   Michal