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Fedora 12 LXDE Spin withdrawn (for now)

Fedora 12 LXDE Spin withdrawn (for now)
[Distributions] Posted Nov 18, 2009 20:09 UTC (Wed) by corbet

It seems that the Fedora 12 LXDE spin does not behave quite as expected: "The problem is a crash in lxde-settings-daemon that triggers abrt, the automatic bug reporting tool. Because lxde-settings-daemon gets restarted by lxsession the bug reporting tool goes into an infinite loop, consumes all CPU power and makes the computer crash when the overlay image of the live OS is filled up." On the notion that this behavior is not desirable, the images have been removed for now. Those who have already downloaded a copy might want to wait for the update before attempting an install (or just install LXDE on top of a regular F12 system).; ..

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