[SLUG] Fedora 6 updates

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

My printer's now working, no idea why but perhaps a particular job was
a problem.

I'll re-check sound .. Skype still works.

Maybe my scanner's started working.

<shrug>

J

> Had the same problem with SuSE so never bothered in the end. Just did
> a full
> re-install on the six monthly cycle when each new release came out. I
> use a
> seperate hard drive for my /home folder but also keep it backed up
> daily to a
> removeable hard drive. Now running Xubuntu, having failed miserably to
> install Debian satisfactorily. Using both apt and synaptic which
> surpass
> anything I've used so far in that they download the latest versions of
> all
> required packages and dependencies then build them according to my
> machine so
> everything is more or less guaranteed to work.
>
> --
> Regards
> Pete Redwood
> predwood at phonecoop.coop
>
>
> On Friday 18 May 2007 15:49:04 john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Just a moan. I rebooted for the first time in a few weeks, installed
>> all the updates (Fedora 6), there was a clash, so something didn't
>> install (I thought it was supposed to solve all that), and now sound
>> and my printer's stopped working. This must have been how my scanner
>> stopped working (and still doesn't work). What a pain in the arse.
>>
>> Does everyone else do automatic updates or do you just leave well
>> alone?
>>
>> J
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