F17 vs. Pentium 4

[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 13:09 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:

>> The problems that I am aware of so far:
>> 
>> I seem to be stuck with KDE though I specified at least two other desktops.
>> The login screen did not have an obvious option for another desktop.
>
> Do you know if you have KDM or GDM? If GDM, you get to pick a desktop
> *after* you pick a username - there's a drop-down selector below the
> password entry box.

gdm.
Thanks.

>> Which of these should I worry about?
>> [root at localhost ~]# grep -v stall install.log
>> warning: fontpackages-filesystem-1.44-2.fc15.noarch: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID a82ba4b7: NOKEY
>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.70BdJf: line 1: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: No such file or directory 
>> warning: %post(tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-0:7.0.26-1.fc16.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 127 
>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.pKiL8w: line 1: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: No such file or directory 
>> warning: %post(tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-0:7.0.26-1.fc16.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 127 
>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.NaLh0X: line 3: find: command not found 
>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.hawg7Q: line 1: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: No such file or directory 
>> warning: %post(tomcat-el-2.2-api-0:7.0.26-1.fc16.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 127 
>
> Not quite sure what's going on there; alternatives is a mechanism for
> allowing multiple providers for a given file or set of files, basically.
> update-alternatives is the tool to specify which one should be used, and
> some packages use it in scripts, obviously. I'm not sure why it wouldn't
> be present when they're trying to run it; badly stated  deps in the
> packages or some kind of issue with usrmove maybe. I _doubt_ the
> consequences would be critical, but it's hard to be sure.

IIRC alternatives works by manipulating symlinks.
The one time I tried to use it was for java.
Didn't like it very much, but don't remember details.

>> Running in chroot, ignoring request. 
>> SELinux:  Could not downgrade policy file /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.26, searching for an older version.
>> SELinux:  Could not open policy file <= /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.26:  No such file or directory
>> load_policy:  Can't load policy:  No such file or directory
>
> What does 'getenforce' say now?

Disabled

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