Description of problem: The installer thinks my amd 1800 duron system is an athlon. After install, the system is very unstable and experiences frequent segmentation errors in a wide variety program. I was able to fix this problem on rh9 a while back by installing a 586 kernel instead of the default one. Two questions: Is there a way I can override/specify the install architecture on a fedora core install? On an already installed FC1/FC2 system is there a way to override the install architecture so that when I upgrade the kernel (and other platform specific packages) with up2date/apt/yum, i586 will be used instead of athalon. Is it as simple as changing /etc/rpm/platform from athlon-redhat-linux to i586-redhat-linux? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: easy. problem intermittent but occurs approximately once every 5 minutes using gnome or kde file managers navigating through directories. Other programs as well. doesn't occur using terminal. Occurs everytime doing kernel build. some services also have problems (not as frequently). Steps to Reproduce: see above Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Yes, you can change /etc/rpm/platform like that. Note that you probably want to look more closely at your hardware, though, as this is usually caused by bad hardware.