Fedora Core 2 Test 1 Problems

[William Hooper]

Steven J. Brown said:
> I seem to be having many problems with this release (2.6.1-1.65).

To quote the web page "Discuss this test release on fedora-test-list."

> It also
> said that there was a dependency problem with redhat-lsb, but this
> package was not present in the list, so I could not uncheck it.  I
> removed teh redhat-lsb package, but that didn't help.

Known issue discussed in fedora-test-list.  IIRC there is a package the
redhat-lsb depends on that has versioning issues and must be installed
manually with "rpm --oldpackage".

> Next, I tried
> updating only the kernel.  It took over an hour, using up2date.

It would help if you use a mirror.

> When
> rebooting with the new kernel, X wouldn't even start because it can't
> find the mouse.

Known issue discussed in fedora-test-list.  You need to change the mouse
device in /etc/X11/XF86Config.

> I've exhausted all means of updating packages: apt, yum, synaptic,
> up2date.  This is the worst build of Red Hat / Fedora Linux I've ever
> used.

It is a test release.  If you don't wish to help find bugs don't use test
releases.

-- 
William Hooper