Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 15:33 +0200, PerAntonRønning wrote:
I did disable selinux, rebooted the machine, but nothing changed. So, this may be due to some CUPS problem. This is something I have never done before - should I remove and then download and reinstall the whole thing? Next thing may be to reinstall FC5 from the bottom and up. THAT I've done before :-)
But, without knowing what the cause was, you might encounter it again. How many times do you want to re-install the whole OS?
Removing CUPS will be a bit difficult, it's deemed to be a core component. You could try manually removing the current configuration files, and then doing a rpm freshen to re-install CUPS over the top.
But noticing that you're running FC5, you'd be hard pressed to get a result from making a bugzilla entry, unless someone can recognise the condition as being a user error (i.e. something that you can change, rather than requiring a change to CUPS). FC5 is no longer supported.
Point taken, I do not want frequent reinstalls. Here is the chain of events: 1) Blown fuse, powercut. 2) Reboot, but could not mount disk. Probably corrupted tables or somethiong like that. 3) Using rescue CD - but I did not find a way out of the mess by means of that, and I had no Internet connecion, so there was nobody to ask. 4) Reinstalling FC 5 5) Hoping to come up to speed with current software versions by running $yum upgrade which I was under the impression would take care of that. This may have been a grave mistake 6) CUPS problems started after 5).
For this reason I wonder if I have any choice but reinstalling FC 5, even if it is not supported any more.
What about FC 7? I have what I think must be a hardware problem, since it has occured under SuSe, Mandrake, Madriva and now FC 5: Screen freeze. The PC blocks out keyboard and mouse, and anything that moved on the screen freezes. I have no clue as to why, or what triggers it, and nobody on this list or the Mandriva newbie list had either. So: Hardware trouble. Before reinstalling I used to ssh from my old backup PC and run killall -9 Xorg, then I could log on again and everything was up and running. But now when the freeze happens the network connection is also reset, so I cannot get access to the PC from the backup PC. Yet another reason why I may have to reinstall. I am contemplating buying a new machine, hoping that I will say goodbye to this problem. But earlier it was easy to get around it, I just run the whole machine through the backup PC, using ssh connections. Thus I could focus on productive programming instead of error corrections. But all that has changed now, even if I use ssh -X localhost I have trouble in starting GUI applications. So this is relatively "deep shit".
PAR