Upgrade report, FC4+updates -> FC5t3
Hi,
I recently did an upgrade installation of FC5 test 3 on top of my fully
updated FC4 system. I ran into a couple of things that I haven't seen
reported here but that I'm not really sure are useful to file as bugs,
at least not before some discussion.
Problems:
* Gnome-panel wouldn't start until I removed the old .gnome2/session
file. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183318
* NetworkManager works great with wired networking but can't get my
wireless
card to associate - this worked great in FC4. (I can manually get
association
and a DHCP IP address by using iwconfig an dhclient.) This is using
the
Madwifi driver, so treat as you wish. No encryption; the only
limitation turned
on on the router is MAC restrictions. I don't really have a feeling
for how to
submit a useful bug report for this one.
Surprises (more discussion points than bugs maybe?):
* Xscreensaver did not get replaced by gnome-screensaver, as I had
expected.
* No gnome-power-manager - shouldn't this be default-included on an
upgrade?
* Gnome help system claims to need Beagle but that is not installed.
Dependency
bug? If Beagle/Mono is considered to be too heavy a dep to pull in
everywhere,
would it be possible to select between a simple search system and a
Beagle-
based one dynamically at runtime depending on whether or not Beagle
is
installed (or I guess rather whether beagle is running)? As far as I
have
understood, upstream Gnome doesn't actually have any hard deps on
anything
Mono?
* Even after I installed Beagle. it didn't start automatically in the
Gnome
session.
On another note, I haven't had particularly much luck with Xair just
yet, I did get it to work but it's slow and hangs quite a lot
unfortunately. Cool stuff though, I'm glad to see this happening! :)
Cheers,
Per