It seems my update to 9.0 has pretty much fried my machine; there are no obvious clues anywhere as to what is tripping over or where, things just fail without warning or messages, and all over the place. This machine has gone from being the flagship workstation to being less stable than the windows box.
Xscreensaver and Mozilla were just the tip of the iceberg. Latest example: I can no longer use any consoles in runlevel 5 because (a) alt-shift-Fn will close the F7-based X session (but leave all the apps alive) and (b) after the gdm daemon timeout, the chosen console shell will be overridden by a return to X in console 7, so there's not enough time to do any serious work in the console. I have run binstats and rpm -Va, and nothing appears amiss, but I have found a few stray libs not belonging to any known package and who knows what cruft is in my /etc/ -- at the very least, all of gdm, XFree86, gnome, gtk-pixbuf and libgcc have /very/ serious problems after the 9.0 upgrade. If I run the install program, choose "Update" and then jump into the shell and wipe /lib /usr/lib /usr/X11R6/lib and /usr/local/lib, will the installation realize the installed packages are invalid and re-install them? I want to avoid losing everything on this disk but I'm running out of alternatives. Is there any other cleaner way to induce the installation process to run rpm -Uvh --force to do complete updates of /all/ installed distro packages? -- Gary Lawrence Murphy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - TeleDynamics Communications - blog: http://www.auracom.com/~teledyn - biz: http://teledyn.com/ - "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." (Picasso)
