Usb/udev/kernel problem

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Feb 19 08:10:14 UTC 2007


On Sunday 18 February 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 10:26 +0000, Ian Astley wrote:
> > On 18 Feb 2007, at 9:41, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > This box is an i686 box, but for some reason I have i586 kernels and
> > > kernel-devel packages installed.  I think this may be relevant to this
> > > problem.
> >
> > 'Morning, Anne. I had a similar problem: there is an error with
> > Anaconda in the installation of FC6. See,
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common
> >
> > A Google search for
> >
> > i586 i686 linux kernel anaconda bug
> >
> > will get you a number of alternatives to read with your Sunday coffee
> > and croissants but they all say pretty much the same thing. I
> > performed this fix on my machine and it's fine now. I trust the same
> > will apply to your problem.
>
> This is the same problem everyone encountered, isn't it? From the first
> Fedora 6 install? Make sure you rid yourself of the i586 package or yum
> will faithfully update it. Ric

I thought I had dealt with this immediately after the install.  I wonder if I 
matched to the i586, then somehow got an upgrade to the i686?  Maybe that's 
what confused the system.

Anne
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