F12 crash

[Nermin Celik]

>How did you "install" Acrobat Reader?  Did you use yum and the Adobe repo?
I used the rpm manager.
> How did you download the other programs that you didn't install?  Yum?  Or
did you download the rpm's directly from a non-repo site?
Downloaded them from a non-repo site.

Thank you for the link:)



On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Patrick Bartek <bartek047 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> --- On Mon, 3/29/10, Nermin Celik <n.celik00 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I installed Fedora 12 x86-64 onto Hp Z800 workstation, had a problem
> > with software updates so used
> >
> > $su -c 'yum update',
> >
> > problem was fixed. Installed Adobe Acrobat Reader. Downloaded few other
> > programs but did not install them. Then, the screen froze. Tried
> > Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart, didn't work, so reset the machine from the
> > power button. Then someting very interesting happened - machine went
> > into a loop mode, started, failed to boot fedora, shutdown, restarted
> > by itself, failed to boot fedora, shutdown...etc about six times. Then
> > I just shut the machine off. Before fedora could be loaded, the pc just
> > shutdown in each case. At start tried pressing F10 but didn't work.
> >
> > Has anyone else experinced a similar problem?
>
> No.  Never had anything like that happen, and I've been using Fedora as my
> primary OS since Core 3.
>
> How did you "install" Acrobat Reader?  Did you use yum and the Adobe repo?

 How did you download the other programs that you didn't install?  Yum?  Or
> did you download the rpm's directly from a non-repo site?
>

> Really, since you just installed 12, save yourself a lot of time:  Do a
> clean reinstall of 12 overwriting everything.  At the first boot, before
> updating, disable selinux, then in the terminal of your choice: enter
>
>  'su -'
>
> give the root password, and do your 'yum update'.  After completing, set up
> the other repos that you want, and install your other apps.  The following
> link will help a lot:
>
>   http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/
>
> B
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