On 20/09/2012 14:59, Matthew Miller wrote:

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:32:46PM +0200, Vincent wrote:

Now when it starts to boot it does the "cannot font file true" thing
and then, after the upgrade, says there is an orphan file link with
missing files and drops me to a shell from where I exit and fedora
then does a repair of files and alls well. But this has to be done

I think you may be hitting this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799401

http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/1798/cannot-find-font-file-true


Thanks Matthew, seems I'm between a rock & a hard place here. I don't
know whether to install all upgraded packages as this is a fresh install
& risk being dropped to a shell every time I boot, or download & install
FC18 where this appears to be sorted.

I'm not too comfortable with beta on a soho machine though.

Thanks for your speedy reply!
Regards

Vince
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 03:58:25PM +0200, Vincent wrote:
> Thanks Matthew, seems I'm between a rock & a hard place here. I
> don't know whether to install all upgraded packages as this is a
> fresh install & risk being dropped to a shell every time I boot, or

Well, since it's a fresh install, at least you won't lose much by trying.

> download & install FC18 where this appears to be sorted.
> I'm not too comfortable with beta on a soho machine though.

In my observation, the F18 alpha (not even beta yet!) is actually in pretty
good shape, except there are some big issues with the installer. (Read the
release notes first.)

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On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 15:58 +0200, Vincent wrote:
> On 20/09/2012 14:59, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:32:46PM +0200, Vincent wrote:
> >> Now when it starts to boot it does the "cannot font file true" thing
> >> and then, after the upgrade, says there is an orphan file link with
> >> missing files and drops me to a shell from where I exit and fedora
> >> then does a repair of files and alls well. But this has to be done
> > I think you may be hitting this bug:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799401
> >
> > http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/1798/cannot-find-font-file-true
> >
> >
> Thanks Matthew, seems I'm between a rock & a hard place here. I don't
> know whether to install all upgraded packages as this is a fresh install
> & risk being dropped to a shell every time I boot, or download & install
> FC18 where this appears to be sorted.
> I'm not too comfortable with beta on a soho machine though.
>
> Thanks for your speedy reply!
> Regards
>
> Vince

I have 3 machines running Fedora 17 I get the font error but I do not
get dropped to a shell I can still log in and proceed as normal is this
only affecting a certain type of machine? I run Fedora on both x86 and
x86_64. I am curious as to why this would not effect any of the 3
machines I have F17 on.

LostSon

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On 20/09/2012 16:09, lostson wrote:

On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 15:58 +0200, Vincent wrote:

On 20/09/2012 14:59, Matthew Miller wrote:

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:32:46PM +0200, Vincent wrote:

I have 3 machines running Fedora 17 I get the font error but I do not

get dropped to a shell I can still log in and proceed as normal is this
only affecting a certain type of machine? I run Fedora on both x86 and
x86_64. I am curious as to why this would not effect any of the 3
machines I have F17 on.

LostSon

Hi LostSon, FC17 does exactly the same for me, font error & I can boot.
However, the moment I update all the packages installed, on the next
boot, it drops me to a shell and repairs a whole bunch of files.
I'm running a Dell Optiplex RG280. x86 machine. without the updating it
only has the font problem. I don't know how stable the OS is like this?


Regards

Vince
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