2 small bugs with Fedora 7 and system

[thomas_klaus]

Fedora 7 was very easy to install. It runs well. There are only two odd things after
a fortnight:
Eth1 does not find the router (dhcp) about every 5th time I start the machine.
'check cable'. If I restart then it works. If I boot with other OS I dont have
this problem.
And Mozilla-Firefox or Mozilla-Thunderbird,...is going to be startet
'starting Firefox',... but it does not start in gnome,
'starting...' disappears. But only the first call after a restart.

Eth1: D-Link-DE530
Eth0: D-Link-DE530
Fujitsu-Siemens Athlon 1400
256 MB RAM

[SlowJet]

yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing

touch /.autorelabel

reboot


You are fighting bugs from the release. It needs to be updated to get pass 60 days of troubles.

SJ

[thomas_klaus]

are you sure?

[SlowJet]

I am sure that
the release has bugs,
there are many updates that fix bugs
dhcp had more than one bug
selinux needs updated
the new kernel has many bug fixes for usb, pci, wireless,
the glibc had a bug
initrd
and the list goes on.

The updates in updates-testing are 2 or 3 days old and probably are no more buggy than what they are replacing.

If you have problems with the newest kernel - reboot into the old one.
Then wait for a newer one to try again.

to make the update as safe as possible
in a root tem

# trun off selinux temporarily
setenfoce 0
# get the updates list and check it out
yum check-update --enablerepo=updates-testing

# now drop in to int 3, with a logon prompt
telinit 3
#the xorg wil stop and if the prompt is not there hit enter 2 or 3 times
root
<rootpassword>
# update stage stage 1
yum update yum rpm --enablerepo=updates-testing
# stage 2
yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing

touch /.autorelabel
setenforce 1
reboot


SJ

[thomas_klaus]

Hello SlowJet,

I tried the testing one month ago. But it seemed not to be completely, some error code appeared.
And the DHCP error was going on every 5th time I booted: Check Cable.
So I switched to static IP-addresses for card and router, but It was going on the same
way. Approximately every 5th time: Check Cable.
Then two new DHCP updates came and switched to DHCP again.Since that time the
error appears only every 10th time. But every 10th time in between I have errors like
to make starting gmome manually with startx or gnome hangs up or the panel and
Desktop will not appear. Or its just a simple kernel panic that stops booting.
Thank you either.

TK