On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This list is fine. It's generally not a good idea to post five > completely different issues as 'addenda' to a thread about another > different issue, though. It only leads to confusion :) THANKS for your reply --- it is fully appreciated. The mistake I made was that I thought that I would encounter 0 or 1 bugs while attempting the installation; all of the addenda were related to firstboot (IMHO, although I was advised to report against anaconda). The purple password-backspace was quite stunning. From there, I continued to encounter problems, the next with ntp, thus the next addendum, sort of a diary, all entries are related and within the scope of the code which is run when /etc/reconfigSys is set. If no one else can duplicate the purple-password-backspace issue, then I have to assume a problem with the Dell 340, although memtest looks OK and the machine had done a great deal of work prior to the failure. > ntpd refuses to work if it has to make an adjustment it considers too > big - you have to use ntpdate before firing up ntpd - but it should fail > with a coherent statement in that case and not just 'hang'. Not sure > exactly what it is you're hitting. alt-ctrl-f2 would function, yielding a login time of a fixed 25 seconds regardless of the number of iterations. Yet, 'w' showed no noticeable load. Once logged in (via alt-ctrl-f2), 'service sshd status' would hang, so ... I can't imagine how much work on the Fedora Team is caused by hardware (read: defective) problems and really appreciate the the work of the Fedora Team. kind regards/vaden@xxxxxxxxxx -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
