second fresh install broken after update - gnome broken

Nathan Bryant nbryant at optonline.net
Wed Jan 7 15:12:34 UTC 2004


I have also noticed what appear to be reliability problems with the 
webserver that handles the updates-released yum repository. TCP sockets 
get timed out or dropped or something happens to corrupt the RPM 
transfers. up2date doesn't know how to recover from it, but if I use yum 
instead, it will retry the transfer and eventually succeed.

Maybe it's possible that you managed to force some package to install 
that was truncated?

Vanco, Don wrote:
> 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
> 
> 






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