Yum makes me FC2 from Core1?

[Bana]

I decided to try the development 2.6 x86_64 kernel from the development repository and so I had yum install kernel with a lot of deps. The kernel actually somewhat works (I can get all the way to gnome but many many segfaults after that) yet when I went back to my 2.4 kernel I noticed my system is now Fedora Core2 1.90. Is this supposed to happen? Nothing bad seems to be happening and everything is normal.

On a second note: the segfaults that I got when trying to run firefox, thunderbird, and oowriter under the 2.6 kernel, would those count as bugs that I should put into bugzilla? I am not sure that my 'update' procedure makes them valid.

[ewdi]

can you post full error message?

[Bana]

[root@tuxpenguin thunderbird]# ./thunderbird > ../thund.msg
/home/bana/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 4236 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
[root@tuxpenguin thunderbird]# cd ..
[root@tuxpenguin bana]# cd firefox
[root@tuxpenguin firefox]# ./firefox > ../firef.msg
/home/bana/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 4243 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
[root@tuxpenguin firefox]# oowriter > ../oowrit.msg
/usr/bin/ooffice: line 160: 4249 Segmentation fault /usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup -r:/etc/openoffice/autoresponse.conf
[root@tuxpenguin bana]# mozilla
Segmentation fault

Thats all of them that I saved and I only tested a few more programs, gaim seemed to work fine, konqueror along with glxgears and glxinfo seemed to not be able to find some gl library (didn't save that error message). HTH

[mhelios]

I would suspect that one of the deps needed for the development packages would have been fedora-release-1.90. As soon as you start upgrading a significant amount of devel packages then I'm sure it thinks you're trying to "upgrade" to that latest test release version and upgrades fodora-release as well. (just an observation though)

As for your segfaults. what version and which repo did you get the packages from? I've seen people get these segfaults by mistakenly installing the older GTK version. Make sure you install the GTK2/XFT versions. Did you get them from dags rep?

[Bana]

Hmm, I got them from http://redhat.secsup.org/ which is an official mirror so I don't think that was it, odd, now that you mention GTK2, I realize that this isn't installed somehow and I have just now installed it from stable sources (gtk2 2.2.4-5.1.x86_64), lemme try running those programs again.

[Bana]

Wow, that really is the derndest thing... I updated to the new 2.6.3 kernel and everything works now! Even Konqueror (well gaim doesn't work but that is broken in my 2.4 kernel too).

This is really neat, although as I speak I am now running a yum update that will probably break everything again :D

[Bana]

Wow, still works although I am going to wipe everything so I can repartition with a clean regular Fedora install and a test one along with a separate home partition so I can relax a little about some of the things I am doing.