On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Cyber Bob wrote: > Hi, > > I am an user of Fedora Core since 2003, and I've used versions 1.0 and 6.0. > Though I've used both versions for quite some time now, I would still like > to consider myself to be a novice, since Linux is still like a mysterious > lady to me :). > > I am facing three peculiar problems with FC6 in two systems: > > 1. I own an Intel D865GBF based PC running an Intel 2.8 GHz processor with > 512 MB MB (dual channel) DDR RAM. It houses two Seagate Baracuda 80 GB HDDs. > FC6 was installed in a dual boot environment with WinXP, FC6 was installed > in three primary partitions in the second HDD. Now the problem was that, > whenever I tried to boot into FC6, system hanged at the "loading udev" line. > I traced the source of this problem to be kernel-xen; since the problem > vanished as soon as I unchecked the "Virtualisation" segment in all of the > fresh installations post problem. I observed that it installed only "kernel" > and not "kernel-xen". Can anyone please tell me whether my observations are > correct or not, and whether there exists any solution to the problem with > "kernel-xen" ? > > 2. I own a Lenovo 3000 Y500 notebook with 512 MB DDR RAM and 120 GB HDD. FC6 > is installed in a dual boot environment with Win Vista that came preloaded. > As soon as I update kernel, from the next boot onwards, the updated > kernel is unable to detect the laptop keyboard whereas the default kernel > works fine. The problem persisted even after updating hal, cups, > seliux-policy targeted and xorg-x11. Am I doing something wrong ? The same > setup seems to work fine in my PC. > > 3. Even after installing the latest JDK and JRE, the latest version of > OpenOffice.org components fails to start even after giving a "installation > success". I didn't installed the following bundled products: OpenOffice, > Java, Java runtime, eclipse, firefox and thunderbird. I installed the latest > releases of the above mentioned softwares from their respective sites. Any > solutions ? > > Please give me a reply as soon as possible. I am eager to become a part of > the FC6 Developers team, but before doing so I need to upgrade myself from > novice status. For now, I would like to observe things and explore the way > things work here. Wish me luck. > > Wishing you all a very happy prosperous new year, regards, Sorry Cyber Bob, you want: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -Mike _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
