On 10/06/2010 08:21 AM, Beartooth wrote:
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:58:31 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: [...]
I don't know what your issues with F13 are. It works well on all of my machines--some of which are fairly esoteric. I did have some issues if I upgraded to F13 instead of doing a fresh install.
It's one of those fuzzy boundary things, almost certainly at least 99 44/100% my error -- and not reproducible (nor deducible, despite having occurred three times, alas!).
I've asked repeatedly, in several places, starting here on this list: no response. I tried both the LUGs I follow; nobody on either had seen it. If it was (or is) on Gnome's on RedHat's bugzilla, I missed it.
Concluding it was some aberration of mine, I started trying things, especially "yum update" and "yum remove" followed (after taking note of other things being removed) by "yum install."
Last of all, as I mentioned in my first post, I tried preupgrade. So now I propose to wipe the offending machines, or at least tell anaconda to use all space -- and start over with F 12, which has never had the problem, reconfigure it, and try preupgrade again (or else a fresh install of F 14 next month).
On an affected machine the most conspicuous symptom (to me, at least) is that I can't use the workspace switcher.
Uh, can't use it or it doesn't appear at all? I would have suggested a reinstall of the "GNOME Desktop Environment", but yum doesn't have a "groupreinstall". Dang!
My heartfelt thanks to all! I've downloaded F12 from two of the sources posted here, and am burning DVDs as I type.
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