FedUp: best plan?

[Mark Eggers]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:26:33 -0500, Luan Minh Pham wrote:

> On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 09:42:37 PM Matthew Miller wrote:
>> > I would recommend not to use fedup.  I'm facing a lot of troubles
>> > after going the fedup route.  Although not officially supported, you
>> > could try upgrading via yum.  It has been reliably working for people
>> > across multiple releases.
>> 
>> It would be very helpful if you could report those troubles. Otherwise,
>> it's hard to make it better.
> 
> For one Fedup doesn't download all the package it need, so in middle of
> the upgrade system reboot.   I could not even login to KDE desktop.  So
> I had to go to failsafe mode to finish the updatge.

I ran into that problem, but in retrospect I should have expected it.

I ran fedup against the install ISO since I have a laptop with only 
wireless right now. I didn't want to take a chance and lose wireless 
connectivity during the update.

KDE was pretty borked after the initial update. Doing yum distro-sync 
fixed that.

I had to manually update the rpmfusion repositories by using the command 
line procedure given on the rpmfusion web site.

After rebooting (new kernel), I had a bunch of 32 bit updates to do (on a 
64 bit machine - running Skype).

Once I did all of that, everything was happily up and running (almost).

Moving from httpd 2.2 to httpd 2.4 created some problems, but then again 
that's not a fedup issue. Recompiled a few modules, reworked the 
configuration, and all was good.

VNC no longer works, but in retrospect this is expected. Gnome and KDE I 
guess now require 3D acceleration, which means I'll install Mate, LXDE, or 
XFCE for VNC. Yeah, I know - VNC to a laptop?? Most of the time I ssh in 
from my desktop.

One thing I did notice is that I'm running grub2-2.00-15.fc18.x86_64 (at 
least that's what RPM says) and I get the grub 2.00~beta4 screen on boot. 
Do I need to reinstall grub2?

One last thing - the new Gnome 3.6 screen saver on the login panel is a 
real pain with a laptop and a touch pad.

. . . . just my two cents
/mde/