Well, I've got me second system in as many weeks that has had something broken by updating it. I cannot get gnome to start, and sadly it gives no error output.
Details:
Fresh install of FC1 - gnome / X works fine (Compaq DL320, ATI Rage XL
Chipset)
Tried to update system via up2date - this lead to a cyclical redundancy where the RPMs would not installed because they failed both MD5 check and appropriate key signature (after installing key???), and no combination of --nosignature and/or --nomd5 could satisfy RPM to install.
So - "apt-get update" and let it do it's thing.
Now the system will not let a user start X. I can run gdm, but if root or a user tries to log in or even launch X via "startx" (where their default session is gnome) they're immediately bounced out. KDE appears fine. Adding a new user or deleting the .gnom* stuff does nothing. Starting X and then trying to use "gnome-session" rewards me with an immediate seg fault.
Aside from this gnome mess - when will the update process stop breaking systems? Pretty much all of my peers (and me if it's not obvious) are tiring of Fedora because of it's inability to provide a stable platform...... and relying solely on an apt repository or yum repository is still to immature for Fedora - they're just not a single site I've found that doesn't have issues of some kind... Using multiple apt/yum repositories appears to be disastrous - I've loaded 4 systems with FC1 (after numerous beta machines) and have a "50 percent failure rate" on machines that have been subsequently rendered problematic (at best) or broken (at worst) by the upgrade process in one fashion or another.....
Fedora - the new Mandrake!
Don