I am also facing problems installing FC6, one I have already posted here
Apart from the above, the installer does an abnormal termination when I click on configure additional repositories while doing a fresh install
Whats wrong?
Specs are PIV 2.4Ghz, 256 MB RAM Intel motherboard with 845 chipset

Quoted from tadek:Are you sure? I have run it pretty successfully on Fedora Core 6 (about which this thread is about). Just finished solving a math problem a few days ago with it, no problems.

After many attempts finally it works from root not from user ( I mean Mathematica 5.0). When called as user it clashes immediately. Earlier from user I could start but clashed when attempted to save or open a file. By the way how to switch off transparent window under Gnome?

I had the same so I performed installation without configuration. Now yum refuses to update because of python and python-dev incompatibilities

Posting exact error messages will help you get a solution.

here is the output after
it happened right after the installation

I agree with you guys fc6 is difficult to work with unlike fc5 which in my opinion better than fc6. i installed it twice in one day and still getting same error. which after i google it i found out that there are lots of people getting the same error:

Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: hub 5-1:1.0: USB hub found
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: hub 5-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: usb 5-1.1: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: usb 5-1.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: input: Dell Dell USB Keyboard as /class/input/input0
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Dell Dell USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-1.1
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: usb 5-1.2: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: usb 5-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: input: Dell Dell USB Mouse as /class/input/input1
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Dell Dell USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-1.2
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata1: SRST failed (status 0xFF)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata1: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost hcid[2049]: Bluetooth HCI daemon
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata1: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata1: SRST failed (status 0xFF)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata1: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata1: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata1: SRST failed (status 0xFF)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata1: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata1: reset failed, giving up
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: scsi1 : ata_piix
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata2: SRST failed (status 0xFF)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata2: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata2: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata2: SRST failed (status 0xFF)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata2: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata2: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata2: SRST failed (status 0xFF)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata2: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100)
Dec 4 08:12:02 localhost kernel: ata2: reset failed, giving up

old kernal 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6

I upgraded my BIOS A0 to A8 didn't help then ran yum and updated the kernal to 2.6.18-1.2849 with no help then found out about the followin links:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115959297700001&r=1&w=2
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedor.../msg04082.html
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...1&page=1&pp=15

Now I know never to buy a Dell. Of course, I already knew that.

Try doing
or uninstalling python-devel and then reinstall it.

Do you mean Mathematica 5.0?
It runs here nicely on FC4. On FC5 I had some problems because SELinux if I remember well. At Wolfram they said that FC5 is not officially supported but gave some advices that worked.
It is something that make me furious: once I tune everything then come the next release and I am so stupid to install it and game starts again. In mean time I shall look on Wolfram forum

now im happy 3CD's and bad install doc's scared me away from giving FC6 a try

I have same issue.

The problem is that python is installed twice, once as version 2.4.4-1.fc6, which is what python-devel is looking for, and once as version 2.4.3-18.fc6, which is the conflict.

So yum upgrade doesn't work (that's what pup's doing, after all), and reinstalling python-devel doesn't work. Reinstalling python MIGHT work, but that would uninstall the entire gnome framework for dependency reasons... including yum. Good times.

Anyone have a good way to rip either one of these python entries out of the installation repository so yum will find its sanity?

EDIT: Using the Add/Remove Software tool (pirut) I was able to target a single python incarnation (the old one) and expunge it. This then silenced pup's constant whining about a new package update. Time will tell if something important got removed.

Since this seems to be the thread to b*tch about FC6, let me add mine.

Anytime I logout of my Gnome session, I lose my mouse pointer. First noticed this when I changed the resolution on the screen, but I have since done other non-screen-related things that required a display manager restart with the same effect.

And yes, before you ask, I also did a simple logout/login as a control test. Mouse pointer also gone there. Only a full system restart brings it back.

Even running:
at a command prompt failed to bring back the pointer, which implies to me that this is more likely a driver issue than a display manager issue.

This is a new install on new(ish) hardware:
Athlon 64
nForce-410-based POS WinFast mobo
Logitech MX510 mouse, connected via PS/2 port

Hi all,
a few days ago I tried to install Fedora Core 6.
After the end of installation procedure, I found that fedora did not boot. In the first place I tried to install FC6 on /dev/hdc but when I reboot the PC I only get the message "missing operative system" or something like that. I tried to resolve the problem using a grub floppy to boot but I cannot. By the way, I noticed that "grub.conf" was wrong: it pretended to boot linux from (hd2,0) while the boot partition was on (hd0,0). Anyway, I decided to install FC6 on /dev/hda but it was all the same.
I found this post so I simply installed again grub following these instructions and corrected "grub.conf".

The system booted correctly to runlevel 3 but then I get the issue of black screen instead of login screen. This seems the same problem stated in this post. I tried "yum update" but issue was still there.
I edited the xorg.conf replacing Driver "radeon" with "vesa" and it works. Maybe the solution is in this post but it seems to me that the FC6-user life is not so simple as I'd like it!

ditto





I'm one that's had no problems w/ FC6 on my system, DFI LanParty MB, Opteron165.
But, I do notice that the install is a little different on every system I do. A great example is my friend's computer that's ...according to model #'s, exactly the same as mine except he has a different harddrive configuration. On mine, nvidia drivers work w/o issue, on his, I can't get'm working for the life of me and I end up having to use the kmod-nvidia....rpm, instead of my usual .bin file installation.

I'm one of the network admins @ a computer lab, and in our Linux lab we have 22 computers that all are imaged w/ a base image using Rembo, but one of them -- even though it's the literally exact hardware spec as the rest, ALWAYS has a screwed up Gnome desktop when it boots. I've installed FC6 on 3 Dell Optiplex 270's now and all ended up to be slightly different fresh installs, I put it on a Dell GX620 Tower and it works great, I put it on a Dell GX620 Desktop (the smaller case) and it's a little quirky and the fresh installs are never the same.

Although all the little quirks I HAVE been able to work out and compensate for, I do find it a little strange how much of a variety I get when the same install DVD is used on multiple systems for fresh install.

So on one hand, in regard to not being able to get it to WORK, it's not FC, it's your hardware's compatability w/ the kernel they choose(?), on the other hand, it's not your hardware, it's FC (being a little different every time it installs....?).

All I know is, despite the issues, I figure it out rather quickly when I use google and some quality time, and have been running smoothly on my system since FC4's release.

/endrambling