Hello,
yesterday I installed Fedora 8 on my T61 and I like it. But there are a few bugs which are annoying to me.
The worst thing is that I have to reboot Fedora twice anytime I'm rebooting because the screen stays black on the first reboot. Maybe because of the Nvidia drivers from livna. While I am writing this I test to boot up in init 3 to see when the boot up process breaks.
Next point is a wired java problem. I need Websphere Application Server V 6.1 for work. If I try to start the installer there are some swing errors and the install progress breaks. I tried to install the AS with the same CD on Ubuntu 7.10 and it worked fine. I have no idea why I have this errors with Fedora. I tried Sun SDK 5 and 6. The WebSphere installer log says:
Install, com.installshield.wizard.StandardWizardListener, err, could not initalize interface swing.
Oh, and there are some network related issues too. I use the Intel 4965AGN Wlan adapter which Fedora supports out of the box. Thats great! But I cant disable initializatio on boot time. At any boot the wlan0 interface determies a IP address. I use the Network Manager and cant disable that. Its annoying because you cant break with CNTR + C, then the system reboots. The new Network Manager interface I like too, but I need IEEE8021X to access the university WLan. So i cant use it this time because the Network Manager gui provides only a disabled connect button. If I configure wpa_supplicant to access the network a lot of authentification and association errors appear.
Any suggestions? Tomorrow I am goning to reinstall Fedora 8 with a preview DVD Image I download this time.
Cheers!
On 10/29/07, timohirt timohirt@gmx.de wrote:
Hello,
yesterday I installed Fedora 8 on my T61 and I like it. But there are a few bugs which are annoying to me.
The worst thing is that I have to reboot Fedora twice anytime I'm rebooting because the screen stays black on the first reboot. Maybe because of the Nvidia drivers from livna. While I am writing this I test to boot up in init 3 to see when the boot up process breaks.
... snip ...
Yes, I was seeing this too about a week ago. (and I have Intel video, not nVidia.)
It occurred at random, and my only (reliable) recourse was to 1/ boot in single user 2/ init 3 3/ init 5
(booting to init3, then going to init 5, was NOT good enough.)
Fortunately after a number of daily Rawhides later... the problem seems to have gone away.
is your F8 up-to-date with the latest Rawhide?
Fulko Hew schrieb:
On 10/29/07, *timohirt* <timohirt@gmx.de mailto:timohirt@gmx.de> wrote:
Hello, yesterday I installed Fedora 8 on my T61 and I like it. But there are a few bugs which are annoying to me. The worst thing is that I have to reboot Fedora twice anytime I'm rebooting because the screen stays black on the first reboot. Maybe because of the Nvidia drivers from livna. While I am writing this I test to boot up in init 3 to see when the boot up process breaks.
... snip ...
Yes, I was seeing this too about a week ago. (and I have Intel video, not nVidia.)
It occurred at random, and my only (reliable) recourse was to 1/ boot in single user 2/ init 3 3/ init 5
(booting to init3, then going to init 5, was NOT good enough.)
Fortunately after a number of daily Rawhides later... the problem seems to have gone away.
is your F8 up-to-date with the latest Rawhide?
Yes, I installes 7.92 yesterday and installed about 600 MB of updates. Today I updated to kernel 2.6.23.1-37 so its up to date. Booting in single user and switching to init 5 as you described works well.
The Xserver doesn't log any errors.
2007/10/30, Fulko Hew fulko.hew@gmail.com:
On 10/29/07, timohirt timohirt@gmx.de wrote:
Hello,
yesterday I installed Fedora 8 on my T61 and I like it. But there are a few bugs which are annoying to me.
The worst thing is that I have to reboot Fedora twice anytime I'm rebooting because the screen stays black on the first reboot. Maybe because of the Nvidia drivers from livna. While I am writing this I test to boot up in init 3 to see when the boot up process breaks.
... snip ...
Yes, I was seeing this too about a week ago. (and I have Intel video, not nVidia.)
It occurred at random, and my only (reliable) recourse was to 1/ boot in single user 2/ init 3 3/ init 5
(booting to init3, then going to init 5, was NOT good enough.)
Fortunately after a number of daily Rawhides later... the problem seems to have gone away.
is your F8 up-to-date with the latest Rawhide?
My computer once hang at reboot. ctrl-alt-f8 to the console output, it seemed to be unloading the iptables kernel module? It was a very rare case. I am running only tor server and ssh server.
* timohirt timohirt@gmx.de [2007-10-29 12:21]:
Next point is a wired java problem. I need Websphere Application Server V 6.1 for work. If I try to start the installer there are some swing errors and the install progress breaks. I tried to install the AS with the same CD on Ubuntu 7.10 and it worked fine. I have no idea why I have this errors with Fedora. I tried Sun SDK 5 and 6. The WebSphere installer log says:
Install, com.installshield.wizard.StandardWizardListener, err, could not initalize interface swing.
Please file a bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com.
Thank you,
Andrew
On Oct 29, 2007 12:20 PM, timohirt timohirt@gmx.de wrote:
Hello,
yesterday I installed Fedora 8 on my T61 and I like it. But there are a few bugs which are annoying to me.
. . .
Oh, and there are some network related issues too. I use the Intel 4965AGN Wlan adapter which Fedora supports out of the box. Thats great! But I cant disable initializatio on boot time. At any boot the wlan0 interface determies a IP address. I use the Network Manager and cant disable that. Its annoying because you cant break with CNTR + C, then the system reboots.
To disable your 4965 wireless card from initializing on boot, (1) as root or with sudo, open /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 with your favorite text editor, and (2) change the ONBOOT parameter from ONBOOT=y to ONBOOT=n.
Rod