F17-alpha: UI unusable

[Gerry Reno]

On 03/18/2012 05:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 03:02 AM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>   
>> On 03/18/2012 05:28 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mar 18, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Question then would be, can I do a yum upgrade to go from F16 to F17 or
>>>> F18 if things aren't fixed for F17?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Might work. Not tested. What you're after is preupgrade.
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading
>>>   
>>>       
>> Thanks, Chris.
>>
>> I know about preupgrade.   What I'm actually concerned about is whether
>> there is any incompatibility between those releases that would prevent
>> upgrading.  Like what happened a while back where you couldn't upgrade
>> between certain releases.
>>     
> There were no stable releases that you couldn't upgrade using Anaconda
> or PreUpgrade.   For this release, it hasn't reached beta yet and we
> need testers to test the upgrade process and report bugs but whatever
> issues are well known are documented in
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs
>
> Rahul
>   

Maybe it was the signing key thing I remember that messed up some upgrades.

Anyway, once the nouveau driver gets fixed for nv3/nv4 cards then I can
test the upgrade process.