some suggestions... - that you use keep discussions on the list and not think of me as your personal support dude. - that you suggested that you updated to Fedora 9 but that boot options are Fedora 8 and have to answer my first question about how you updated from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 - i.e. the process used because it appears that it failed. You probably don't realize that when you fail to answer the first question I asked, I lost a lot of enthusiasm to help. - let whatever updates do their thing because it does seem as though you've got something very unfinished installed there and if it were completely updated, that seems that would be a good thing. - that you learn to read release notes, especially before doing things like update an installation because sometimes, they are really important. - if after the updates, gnome still fails to give you menus with applications, someone on the list can tell you how to restore them back to defaults. Craig On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 00:08 +0000, vohnmaxwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > After some trial and error and gnashing of teeth, I have finally > gotten to the point where I can bring up 2 separate terminal sessions > within the Gnome Gui Desktop. However, I am still not able to click > on applications, such as FireFox or Yum and have it launch within the > gui desktop. > > I will use the terminal sessions to continue updating Fedora 9 (about > 500 currently). > > Could the possible issue with launching the applictions within the > desk top be related to the boot options? When I boot and press any > keep to bypass the default (Xen), the options it displays are for > Fedora 8 not 9. > > > -------------- Original message from Craig White > <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>: -------------- > > > > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 13:11 +0000, vohnmaxwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > > > > > Here a are the steps I've taken and the results. > > > > > > 1) Installed Fedora 9 > > > Found that Fedora 9 does not support Xen very well. When > > > loading, it would encounter a (XEN) Xen is relinquishing > VGA console > > > message then hang up. When I would bypass XEN and attempt > to use one > > > of the listed Fedora versions, which I would have assumed > would be > > > Fedora 9, the list would be for versions of Fedora 8. > After they > > > would load, the applications would not run. I would click > on an > > > application, say Firefox, and it would not load. Nothing > would > > > happen. I would seem that Fedora was confused by having > some parts > > > perhaps Fedora 9 and others Fedora 8 and not being > compatable. > > ---- > > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Virtualization.html > > > > "However, the Xen kernel now lacks Dom0 support. An existing > Xen > > host/Dom0 must continue to run Fedora 8. Xen Dom0 support > will be added > > back in Fedora 10." > > > > This was in the release notes for Fedora 9 > > ---- > > > 2) I tried the Rescue and was confused as to what/how it > worked. > > > if said that it put my system to /mnt/sysimage and that I > could > > > use the chroot /mnt/sysimage. Well, I am a GUI kind-of-guy > and I am > > > clumbsy using anything in command mode. > > ---- > > I would suggest that you become familiar with it because > that would > > appear to be necessary to bring your system back online. > > > > boot linux rescue > > command line stuff... > > > > chroot /mnt/sysimage > > yum update # you really need to update > > yum update # you will probably need to update again because > > # the first update will probably just add updates.newkey > > grub-install /dev/sda > > ---- > > > 3) when I backed out of the RESCUE and rebooted into one > of the > > > Fedora versions (not XEN), it came up with the main screen > but no > > > applications, not icons and the title bar at the bootom > and 2 items > > > which siad (UNKNOWN). Clicking on these resulted in > nothing > > > happening. > > ---- > > I'm not sure what your intentions are with Xen but it's not > going to > > work right for Fedora 9...the release notes do make note of > that. > > ---- > > > 4) I then attempted to do a reload of Fedora 9 (update an > existing > > > release). This results in just the word GRUB appearing in > the > > > upper left of an otherwise blank screen. Nothing happens > after this. > > ---- > > try above instructions...should help > > ---- > > > It this juncture, I am very concerned. I have photos and > scanned > > > documents on the drive and want to pull them off before I > screw things > > > up more. > > ---- > > sounds as if they might be on one of the Xen domains but how > would I > > know that. > > > > It might be best to install the Fedora 10 test at this point > just to get > > Xen working again...I am just not aware how well it works > and what is > > broken. > > > > Craig > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
