[Techtalk] RedHat buggy? (was: Learning distro: Gentoo or Linux From Scratch)

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:34:50PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Tracey Grrl Geek thought:
> I had some problems with RH 8.0 which led me to go back to 7.3 for a
> while. I'm now running 9.0 and I've also found it to be buggy.

> 3 - Trying to choose certain options in GToaster (Gnome Toaster) locks
> the system up solid per #2

There's a lockup problem in kernel 2.4.21 (dunno about 2.4.20-xx) where
magicdev (the gnome CD automounter) fought with ide-scsi (used by
cdrecord).  The solution was to rpm -e magicdev

Conor
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