Fedora Installation, Bugs/Fixes - Page 4

11-18-2006

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Quote:

Originally Posted by gyos23

I have a similar problem in which I installed Fedora 6 with no problem but the moment I got into the actual GUI after startup, the screen started flashing and everything seemed somewhat off. Any ideas?

in GRUB screen, select Fedora title and press 'e'. add 3 at the end of 'kernel' line and press 'b' to boot up. this will drop you on command line login prompt. log in as root and execute this command.

Code:

system-config-display

configure display settings, resolutions etc.
type 'startx' on prompt to load GUI.

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11-20-2006	#32 (permalink)
vpsa Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 5	devil_casper I was wondering if the dual boot procedure described in first two line will work to dual boot Mac OS X as well . What if I do partition using bootcamp instead !! Has anyone attempted it yet !! Thank you.

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gyos23 Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 4	still at it I added the '3' after the 'quiet' in the 'kernel' line and nothing. The line goes 'kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol100 acpi=off rhgb quiet'. Did I place it in the right position because it goes into normal start up when i put the '3' at the end?

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devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	it should boot up in command line mode. add <space> 3 at the end of kernel line. casper __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

11-21-2006

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Quote:

Originally Posted by devils_casper

if none of the above suggestions worked, Upgrade BIOS.

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The BIOS upgrade + use of acpi=off solved the problem.

Then I downloaded patches, including a kernel update. The new kernel won't boot - it hangs immediately after a message which informs me that the kernel is being uncompressed. There is no error message, it just stops. The original kernel still works fine.

11-21-2006

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rpmdb open failed

Quote:

Originally Posted by devils_casper

rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery

its a BUG in latest Yum. it is corrupting rpm database on upgrading system.
execute this command as 'root'

Code:

rpm --rebuilddb

this command will rebuild the rpm database. try to upgrade again.

casper

I tried doin' that, but I got this message:
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database re
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30977)

what should I do?

11-22-2006

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rh.arauz

execute this

Code:

su -
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*          <--- two under_scores before 'db*'
db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
rpm --rebuilddb

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11-22-2006

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Then I downloaded patches, including a kernel update. The new kernel won't boot - it hangs immediately after a message which informs me that the kernel is being uncompressed. There is no error message, it just stops. The original kernel still works fine.

post the contents of /boot/grub/grub.conf file.

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11-22-2006

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thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by devils_casper

execute this

Code:

su -
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*          <--- two under_scores before 'db*'
db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
rpm --rebuilddb

casper

hey mr. you're the master

!!! It works now!!
there's another thing, not that important...
I installed a kernel update, but now in Grub , when you choose which OS to load, it apears two versions of Fedora Core 6

....how can I fix that???

11-22-2006

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rh.arauz

I installed a kernel update, but now in Grub , when you choose which OS to load, it apears two versions of Fedora Core 6 ....how can I fix that???

you can keep both version. if you wanna remove old kernel's entry, login as root and open /boot/grub/grub.conf file. put '#' sign before old kernel's title, root, kernel and initrd lines.

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