RE: FC4 does not work, "out of the box" for me; GUI/X11 fails

From: Daniel B. Thurman (dant_at_cdkkt.com)
Date: 10/28/05

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    Yes but before doing that, I setup the Network options
    which allowed Yum connectivity. I don't think the environment
    is that which would support the scriptlets. It made a real
    mess for me.

    Dan

    -----Original Message-----
    From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com
    [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of David-Paul Niner
    Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:16 PM
    To: For users of Fedora Core releases
    Subject: Re: FC4 does not work, "out of the box" for me; GUI/X11 fails

    Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

    >Well.. I discovered WHY I had a problem. I Yum installed
    >inside the Fedora Rescue environment which did a very weird
    >installation that rendered it impossible to remove these
    >and many other installations that used scriptlets (%preun,
    >%postun etc). That is why I had to start over from scratch
    >and Yum install in a level 3 boot. See previous posting that
    >explains it.
    >
    >Dan
    >
    Once inside the rescue environment, did you chroot to /mnt/sysimage?

    Later,
    David-Paul Niner

    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com
    >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Claude Jones
    >Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:45 AM
    >To: For users of Fedora Core releases
    >Subject: Re: FC4 does not work, "out of the box" for me; GUI/X11 fails
    >
    >
    >On Wednesday 26 October 2005 12:39 pm, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Hi, See my previous response that details my experience
    >>last night. I did try Yum but was unable to continue because
    >>I chose 'everything' for software installation which it apparently
    >>installed cman which had a dependency that could not be updated
    >>or removed thus blocking updates in general.
    >>
    >>I am starting over.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >I have regularly done 'everything' installs, as well. I now remember having
    >this issue as well, but, removing the GFP-kernel, gnbd-kernel, and cman-1.0
    >was no problem, for me. I'm not sure why you had a problem. That, just to let
    >you know that at least me, it did work.
    >
    >
    >

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