Preupgrade F13 x86_64 -> F14 x86_64 KDE Fails

[Allen Winter]

On Thursday 04 November 2010 11:59:22 am George Galt wrote:
> All:
> 
> I have just tried moving to Fedora 14 x86_64 using preupgrade.  Upon
> launch of the new system, KDE is virtually non-responsive (I can get
> some response initially, but it quickly fades).  Mouse pointer moves,
> but clicks do not seem to do anything.
> 
> If I relaunch in KDE safemode, all seems well.  Where should I start
> looking?  Xorg.0.log shows no errors.  Messages carries the following
> (which I don't think is relevant): Nov  4 11:33:33 george
> NetworkManager[1127]: <error> [1288884813.510342] [nm-manager.c:1331]
> user_proxy_init(): could not init user settings proxy: (3) Could not
> get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings': no
> such name
> 
> The only other anomaly was that the lower right-hand portion of the
> screen showed a flickering white bar just to the left of the plasma
> bar.  In addition, when I used alt-tab to switch between apps (during
> a brief period of responsiveness), one of the applications displayed
> was "plasma-desktop", which I had never seen before.
> 
> I do use the proprietary nvidia graphics driver from ATRPMs, not the
> nouveau driver (though, again Xorg says this was loaded just fine).
> 
> Any help or thoughts of where to look would be helpful.
> 

Preupgrade worked great for me on 2 of my systems so far.
Although I  don't have nvidia graphics

i'm pretty happy about it too -- this is the first time that preupgrade worked so well for me.