[plug] Fedora - BAH!!!

[Chris Griffin]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>wrote:

>
> On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 09:15 +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 12:52 +0900, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > > Now that I've caught everyone's eye, I have a problem with Fedora 10.
> > >
> > > I'm giving it a try, because I'm a dyed-in-the-wool SUSE user who is
> > > disappointed (nice way to put it) with 11.x. Since the latest Linux
> > > Format had a Fedora 10 DVD attached and they gave it 10/10, I decided
> to
> > > give it a go.
> > >
> > > Firstly Firefox couldn't find anything out there on the web, not even
> > > the Fedora.org site. I could ping, tracepath, etc, so I knew the
> network
> > > was basically sound. I managed to fix this with a google and using
> > > about:config and changing the network.dns.disableIPV6 setting to true.
> >
> > So you left ipv6 enabled at install because you have an ipv6 network?
>
> No I left it enabled because I didn't see an obvious way to turn it off
> in an unfamiliar distro. Secondly I wouldn't have disabled it anyway
> since SUSE also enables it by default, but doesn't show this behaviour.
> >
> > >
> > > I still cannot see the software repositories (or suppositories) as I'm
> > > starting to think.
> > >
> > > Anyone with a clue, who will lend it to me? I'll return it only
> slightly
> > > used, I promise.
> >
> > You should log a bug, how else will the maintainers know about the
> > problems?
> >
> > Ian
>
> I have since found a mention of this problem, so it is already known, I
> just haven't found a solution.
>
> It seems my search for TOPD [1] will continue.
>
> Cheers
>
> [1] The One Perfect Distro. (C) me!
>
>
> --
> Richard Meyer
> Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
> It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
> William Pitt, 1783
>
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>
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Care to share the fix, I too have had similar problems.

Chris Griffin
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