I might be ready to give up...

Hal Levy hal.fedora at gmail.com
Sat Jan 6 16:40:18 UTC 2007


Sorry- I am trying again


 I have not used any flavour of linux in more years than I care to even
think about.  I decided to give it a go with Fedora Core 6.

I installed on a older Pentium 2 MMX box. The install went smoothly and I
was up an running in a short time.

Shortly after install I was notified about 140 some-odd updates that were
availible and told the system to install them.

I waited... and waited.. and waited... and nothing happened- at all. No list
of updates.. no notice updates were taking place. Nothing.

Well, after literally hours of nothing happening- I told the machine to
reboot.  While shutting down- the machine froze. The background image was
about 1/2 removed from the screen and it just sat... I thought perhaps it
was doing something- so I let that sit for a while- and again, nothing
happened. I powered off.

I powered back up- and boot starts normally- the graphic enviornment starts
up and starts loading.

Near the end- when I expect the desktop to show- it reverts to the command
line.

I looked at I have not used any flavour of linux in more years than I care
to even think about.  I decided to give it a go with Fedora Core 6.

I installed on a older Pentium 2 MMX box. The install went smoothly and I
was up an running in a short time.

Shortly after install I was notified about 140 some-odd updates that were
availible and told the system to install them.

I waited... and waited.. and waited... and nothing happened- at all. No list
of updates.. no notice updates were taking place. Nothing.

Well, after literally hours of nothing happening- I told the machine to
reboot.  While shutting down- the machine froze. The background image was
about 1/2 removed from the screen and it just sat... I thought perhaps it
was doing something- so I let that sit for a while- and again, nothing
happened. I powered off.

I powered back up- and boot starts normally- the graphic enviornment starts
up and starts loading.

Near the end- when I expect the desktop to show- it reverts to the command
line.

I looked at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common and validated I had
the i586 rather than the i686 kernel.  I attempted to fix that. On step 2
the yumdownloader reports that a lot of repositoriy's are listed more than
once in the configuration and then runs a short time - with a final notice
of "Errno 13" Permission denied  ./kernel-2.6.18-1/2896.fc6.i686.rpm

I looked further on the page and found *
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212507*   and *
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218207* which seem like
they might apply- but the instuctions, for a newbie, are incomplete so I am
not sure what I should be doing.  It talks about fixes in -updates-testing
and so forth.  However, I have no idea what any of that means.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Hal
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