Upgrading from Fedora 14 to 15 -> some problems
Robert 'Bob' Jensen
bob at fedoraunity.org
Wed May 25 13:42:00 UTC 2011
----- "Casimiro de Almeida Barreto" <casimiro.barreto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yesterday I upgraded my notebook from 14 to 15.
>
> Problems:
>
> 1st: it deleted network configurations.
> 2nd: rpmdb was left quite messed. Several dependencies non satisfied.
> As
> this particular box was already upgraded from 13 to 14, there were
> problems dealing with very old things (fc13 stuff). Much of upgrading
> had to be done by hand (including uninstall & reinstall packages).
> Yum
> failed short.
> 3rd: kde & kdm not upgraded by default. Thus kdm failed to start. I
> had
> to switch to gdm, update kde, kdm, switch to kdm ... not intuitive
> for
> average user.
>
> Nothing really important for average nerd but annoying to users not
> proficient in system admin chores.
>
What upgrade method is important to know. DVD, preupgrade, other?
-- Bob
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