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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