preupgrade from FC12 to FC14 issues?

Ankur Sinha sanjay.ankur at gmail.com
Sat Nov 6 09:03:39 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 18:35 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> I've just used preupgrade to upgrade some systems in my clasroom lab that 
> has XP and Fedora 12. I had earlier done a test with fedora 13, but it had 
> some issues the upgrade. The upgrade from 12 to 14 seems to have handled 
> the problem with the older Nvidia cards these machines have, but there are a 
> few issues.
> 
> I saw the same issue with system-config-display that has been mentioned, 
> and also found that vim-common and vim-enhanced where still the fc12 
> version? It also left the 3 fc12 kernels and kmods nvidias for the 3. I removed 
> those and then installed the fc14 versions of the vim rpms. 
> 
> The one issue that I'm have trouble with is Flash and firefox. Google chrome 
> works fine, and I was able to it working with firefox after I did a number of 
> things. I then tried to figure out exactly what I did, and it didn't work on 
> another machine? 
> 
> Even the machine I got it working on, I then logged in with another user, and 
> it didn't work for that user?
> 
> 

Hello,

It's always a good idea to first remove 3rd party packages before
attempting to preupgrade. 

Have a look at this, it might help:

http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/post_upgrade_cleanup/


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Thanks!
Regards,
Ankur 

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