On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 20:01 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > As reported earlier in thread "Unable to read package metadata", I tried > starting installation using Grub and kept failing. So I tried the boot ISO > from http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/development/17/i386/os/images/. That > enabled a GUI minimal install (on only 512M RAM, shared with video, but with > 1M of swap) to complete without reporting any errors. In fact the worst > (unannounced) error makes it unusable except via chroot: Every login from > direct boot results in instant log out. I proceeded to install X/KDE and try > again direct boot to runlevel 5, where logging in to the only user (root) > produces "a critical error occurred" suggesting I look at KDM's log to find > out the details. I find no such thing in (empty) /root/.xsession-errors. > /var/log/kdm.log has no errors reported and there is no /var/log/kde* or > /root/kde*. /root/.kde contains nothing but a symlink to a cache file. > Switching to a tty while KDM is up doesn't help. Log out still quickly > follows login. From chroot, startx gets KDE started, though with no mouse or > keyboard. the problem with doing a default network install is you get packages from updates-testing...I did several minimal installs of Beta RC2 and saw nothing like this. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
