Upgrading to 19 by fedup: bad and good news

[Bill Davidsen]

antonio montagnani wrote:
> Fred Smith ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 29/06/2013 17:59:
>> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 04:52:16PM +0200, antonio wrote:
>>> antonio montagnani ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on
>>> 29/06/2013 15:39:
>>>> antonio montagnani ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on
>>>> 29/06/2013 15:17:
>>>>> Today I issues a fedup-cli network 19 command (
>>>>>
>>>>> At the end of procedure that ended right when rebooting I get
>>>>>
>>>>> Bad news:
>>>>>
>>>>> I get a black window if I login as any user with a fedora logo on the
>>>>> bottom of screen but I can use tty and then issue a startx
>>>>>
>>>>> Good news
>>>>> after issuing startx my old video card (Geforce FX5200) works fine with
>>>>> Gnome 3.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why do I have only F18 kernel??
>>>>>
>>>>> Tnx
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> more info:
>>>>
>>>> I have two users, when I issue startx with user A (that is coming from
>>>> F18) I get the message oh no something went wrong, while a fresh user B
>>>> can issue startx flawlessy.
>>>>
>>>> Also root can startx with no problem
>>>>
>>> when the screensaver starts I get authorization failed, i.e. I have
>>> to hard reset the machine!!!
>>
>> Antonio:
>>
>> Right up front I'll say I have no idea about the various problems you
>> report (apparently) from having used fedup.
>>
>> However, this last one, you almost certainly DO NOT need to reset the
>> machine. If I read you right, it's stuck in the screensaver, you can't
>> authenticate to get back to your login.
>>
>> If that's right, you can do one of at least  a couple different things:
>> 1. try CTRL-ALT-BKSP, which should kill your X session and return it to
>>     a login. Note that this only happens if that response to CTRL-ALT-BKSP
>>     hasn't been disabled by default.
>> 2. switch to another VT, log in, kill the X session that's stuck.
>> 3. probably a dozen other choices that don't come to mind right now.
>>
>> In my F19 system, CTRL-ALT-BKSP seems to be disabled by default. you
>> can enable it in the gnome tweak tool. click "typing" and in the resulting
>> list select "Key sequence to kill the X server", set it to
>> "Control + Alt + Backspace. then the next time you have this kind of
>> fail, just do the 3-finger-salute and voila.
>>
>> Fred
>>
> tnx for the reply.
>
> I have decided to reinstall F18 from the net. The machine is connected to the
> home printer and scanner so it cannot stay out-of-service for a long time.
>
> I have the doubt that at this stage of release, my fedup-cli 19 network command
> may have got the wrong packages, (for example no F19 kernel, that is quite
> surprising)
>
Doesn't surprise me, I have yet to see it work on a machine more complex than a 
barebones with one drive and using LVM. Someone posted a better(?) way, using 
you to do the updates by revectoring the default revision. I'll see if I can 
find that quickly Monday.

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