Fedora Core 5 problems?
Recently I upgraded to Fedora Core 5. Some things I like, some I don't, but that's usual when you have an OS upgrade (or replacement). This time around, there seems to be a few more problems. First problem was with yum and updates. pup (software updater) wouldn't run. Solution to that was in the FAQ - a replacement yum.conf file. Yum Extender did work, but there was a fair bit of guessing as to which repositories to use (I'm not a Linux expert!). Following software updates I did on Wednesday, cups refused to start (cups was among the updates). Remote assistance from a family member (he likes puzzles!) gave me a work around - involved changing ownership of files and changes to cupsd.conf, and then running cupsd in foreground. Adobe Reader no longer runs - but I haven't bothered to chase that one up as there are alternatives. Anyway, I'm not asking for assistance. Just want to know if anyone else has run into these problems. I couldn't find anything on the Net. Any comments? I'm tempted to try Ubuntu 6.06 in the near future. Michael
Michael McDonald wrote:
Recently I upgraded to Fedora Core 5. Some things I like, some I don't, but that's usual when you have an OS upgrade (or replacement).
This time around, there seems to be a few more problems.
First problem was with yum and updates. pup (software updater) wouldn't run. Solution to that was in the FAQ - a replacement yum.conf file. Yum Extender did work, but there was a fair bit of guessing as to which repositories to use (I'm not a Linux expert!).
I don't use yum at all (accept on rawhide as mock uses it), I install "smart" and its GUI. Its much better.. and faster. yum install smart-gui
Following software updates I did on Wednesday, cups refused to start (cups was among the updates). Remote assistance from a family member (he likes puzzles!) gave me a work around - involved changing ownership of files and changes to cupsd.conf, and then running cupsd in foreground.
Sounds odd, do you have any logs ?
Adobe Reader no longer runs - but I haven't bothered to chase that one up as there are alternatives.
Do you have compat-libstdc++-33 insstalled? Acrobat reader needs this. Michael
Michael J Knox wrote:
I don't use yum at all (accept on rawhide as mock uses it), I install "smart" and its GUI. Its much better.. and faster.
yum install smart-gui
Had a few problems with that ... but I'm not going to pursue it further because of the probability of moving to Ubuntu
Following software updates I did on Wednesday, cups refused to start (cups was among the updates). Remote assistance from a family member (he likes puzzles!) gave me a work around - involved changing ownership of files and changes to cupsd.conf, and then running cupsd in foreground.
Sounds odd, do you have any logs ?
Only error message was on start-up screen (and it didn't show up in dmesg) ... "error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.11: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: permission denied"
Adobe Reader no longer runs - but I haven't bothered to chase that one up as there are alternatives.
Do you have compat-libstdc++-33 insstalled? Acrobat reader needs this.
Yes I'm not worried about the problems because I'll try Ubuntu - the problems are an incentive for that! (It'll be a fair bit of work, shoving data around and changing partitions - lots more for me to learn) Thanks for your suggestions. Michael
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