Fedora 17 is behaving very unstable

[Bill Davidsen]

Luiz Emediato wrote:
> Hi there,
> I am finding a lot of problems with Fedora 17. I have installed the
> DVD distribution
> and after a few days I got a kernel panic after an upgrade.
> Fortunately after a few days I could re-upgrade the kernel to a newer
> version available.
> However many system commands do not obey me.
> For instance, it does not allow me to choose wallpaper, it is now complaining
> about glibc with errors, why? Everything is fresh install. I have also
> tried yum reinstall glibc
> unsuccessfully.
> It does not let me open System Settings now. All very strange.
> By the way, default GNOME is horrible. I have successfully changed it
> back to Gnome 2.

Aside from your other problems, just how did you do this? You didn't by chance 
force an install of GNOME2 from an older distribution and revert libraries, did 
you? If you mean you forced classic mode (sort-of GNOME2), or went to Cinnamon 
or MATE, please clarify. I saw a release saying GNOME2 was coming back 
officially, with no details if that means a better classic mode or updated 
distribution.

> However the system seems to be still very unstable. I choose NAMED and
> SMBD at Services
> but after a reboot systems seems to lose the information so I have to
> set it back up manually.

No idea on that, corrupt information could be memory, but "lose changes" is 
unusual. You aren't booting from a live DVD or anything, are you? Yes, I know 
that's an unlikely mistake, but I've seen it done...

> I used RH9 in the past which was wonderful, very stable. Then RHELv5
> very stable too but RH
> no longer allows academic subscription. So I stuck with Fedora14 which
> worked fine too.
> Now I am having all these troubles with v17. I have been using Linux
> for over twelve years now
> and do consider myself an expert with it as much as other Unix OS's.
> Should I wait for the new release 18? Why 17 is so unstable? Would
> anyone please advise?

FC17 has been so stable for me that I'm planning to upgrade my FC16 VM hosting 
servers to it, after months of testing in a non-critical enviroment.

Final thought, if you like real GNOME2 and such, you can get the RHEL6 
functionality, with support, from Scientific Linux or CentOS. I have been on SL 
for a year for many things, because (a) they are the group doing OS support for 
the LHC (supercollider), and (b) they put a lot of effort into making it easy to 
have a few custom packages without losing support for the rest.

> Thanks
> Luiz
>


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