Fedora 17 is behaving very unstable

Mon Dec 24 18:24:07 UTC 2012

On 12/24/2012 07:00 AM, Luiz Emediato wrote:
> I did not try it on another computer. It looks like Fedora 17 LIVE DVD
> is working fine on the machine. Perhaps my hard drive (which is brand
> new, 3TiB) is not good after all. I will reinstall the system on another HDD.
> Thanks.
>
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 5:55 AM, antonio <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Luiz Emediato ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 24/12/2012
>> 03:13:
>>> 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.
>>> 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.
>>> 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?
>>> Thanks
>>> Luiz
>>>
>> on my systems, F17 works flawlessly and I think that it is one of the most
>> stable releases, I think that something is not working properly on your
>> system: have you tried on a different machine??
>>
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Just curious: Could the size of the HDD have anything to do with the 
flaky behavior of the OS? I have been a user of Fedora since 5/6 and I 
haven't read about anyone installing it on such a large drive, not that 
it should matter, but maybe the installation might have places a certain 
folder (/etc?..../swap?) in a different location due to the size of the 
HDD? just curious...I seriously doubt this could have anything to do 
with it....but I figured I'd throw it out there...


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