Updating from standard 32 bit smp FC2 install tokernel-smp-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.i686.rpm breaks X
Dennis Gilmore
dennis at ausil.us
Mon Aug 16 19:04:15 UTC 2004
Once upon a time Monday 16 August 2004 1:48 pm, Seth Bardash wrote:
>
> Needed to run 32 bit apps.
You do realise you can still run 32 bit apps with the 64 bit os installed dont
you? if you look at the X86_64 tree you will see for instance
libstdc++-3.4.1-7.i386.rpm 20-Jul-2004 06:45 262k
libstdc++-3.4.1-7.x86_64.rpm 20-Jul-2004 06:56 269k
it has the 32 bit libraries as well as the 64 bit ones
> This bug makes it impossible to keep a graphical login on this
> machine and puts a user in an untenable position after an update..
have you tired using vesa drivers? you should still get x with that which
version kernel are you using that is causing the problem is there anything
in the x log to indicate what is locking up?
> Simply stated the update breaks the O/S (kernel) and requires a
> reload if yum is used to update the kernel. I used rpm -ivh so I
> could boot the old kernel and take out the update (after using yum
> the first time, blindly trusting it would work correctly and
> finding the system only usable in run level 3)
i know yum installs new kernels and doesnt upgrade them by defualt i did it
today. it will only overwrite the existing kernel if you configure it to
> Inexperienced users could completely hose the system and need to
> either reinstall the O/S or reinstall the release kernel...
It should still be there
> Shadows of recent Windows XP updates keep going through my
> mind.....
hmm ok
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