fedup to F22 issues

[Stephen Davies]

On 02/11/15 11:41, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 10/31/2015 01:53 AM, Stephen Davies wrote:
>> On 31/10/15 12:32, Stephen Davies wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. PostgreSQL databases were not upgraded from 9.3 to 9.4 and subsequent
>>> attempts to do this manually fail due to locale differences (AU vs US).
>>> (I have requested help on the PostgreSQL list).
>
> I think you want to install the "postgresql-upgrade" package, and then run
> "pg_upgrade".
>
Fedora 22 includes a script called postgresql-setup which claims to be able to 
do the upgrade.
I couldn't get it to work - because of the locale change and also because it 
does not allow the specification of the new cluster location.
Eventually, I used initdb and pg_upgrade to do the job.

>>> 2. Amavisd-new no longer works due to issues with PERL.
>>> This seems to be a result of updating PERL from 5.18 to 5.20 breaking a bunch
>>> of modules.
>>> I thought that I had resolved these by following the hints in cpan error
>>> messages but cannot install Net::LibIDN because idna.h is missing.
>>> I am forced to run without spam or virus checking as a result.
>
> Whenever you can, avoid installing modules from CPAN.  They will probably
> always break on a platform upgrade.  Instead, install the module from rpm:
>
> dnf install perl-Net-LibIDN
>
Thanks for that. I was not aware that this was possible.
I eventually fixed this by downloading and installing the latest libidn (as 
well as the one that was there) and cpan upgrade and reinstalling a bunch of 
modules.
There seems to be no compatibility between PERL 5.18 and 5.20.

>>> 3. All of my local sendmail aliases disappeared causing many inbound emails to
>>> be rejected.
>>> I manually rebuilt /etc/mail/aliases to fix this.
>
> Question?
>
No question, just a warning to others.

>>> 4. After rebooting to F22, I had only one workspace.
>>> I reconfigured to four via settings but now I get apparently random blank
>>> screen with just the mouse cursor visible. Not even a task bar.
>>> The only way that I have found to get my work spaces back is to logout and
>>> login again.
>
> I've seen some users have similar problems on GNOME upgrades.  It appears to
> be gnome-settings-daemon crashing in the cases I've seen, and the only way
> I've found to clear it is to remove .config/dconf/user, which nukes *all* of
> the settings in dconf.  It sucks,  but GNOME decided they wanted a single
> binary configuration store, so...
>
I'm still using KDE. Touch wood, the issue seems to have gone away since I 
changed the screen saver settings.
I used to use the screen saver that trawls through my image files but that 
seems to have disappeared in F22.

>>> 5. Some fonts (particularly within Wine apps??) have changed and are much less
>>> readable than before.
>>> MyHeritage Family Tree Builder is one example. I have no idea which fonts were
>>> used in F21 nor in F22.
>
> Can't help there.  Sorry.


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