WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4

[Thomas Taylor]

Upgrade?  What type of upgrade did you perform, a full install or a true 
upgrade from a previous version?  Were your settings saved in a separate 
partition?

On Monday 11 July 2005 16:39, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> The problems with it are a mile long and I'm very disappointed that I
> upgraded my home machine.
>
> * I run Majordomo2 which is a great mailinglist manager. Not all my
>    mail is getting delivered and I'm getting messages with blank
>    bodies. No one else seems to be having this problem. I'm not sure
>    what I can do now. It could be perl, or worse, it could be gcc
>    which was used to build perl.
>

If no one else seems to be having this problem then the problem is probably 
not with Fedora but with the settings not being correct.

> * I have a Palm IIIc connected on a serial port. pilot-link woks ok
>    but all software that uses pilot-link (jpilot, kpilot, gnome-pilot)
>    are all unable to connect to the device. No one knows why. I
>    suspect gcc.
>

No one knows why?  Have you been following this list for any length of time?
A couple of recent messages had very useful information to help solve this 
problem.

> * I have a Dell Dimension 4700 at work. The upgrade went fine from
>    Core 3 to 4. Afterwards, I went to start X and it failed. The
>    xorg.conf file was identical both before and after the upgrade,
>    including after running system-config-display --configure. The fix,
>    after a team of people poured 6 hours into it was to not use the
>    VESA driver that it used before. The correct choice is to use the
>    i810 driver. The writeup for it is here:
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162699
>

Using drivers from previous versions often causes problems.  Many things get 
changed between version which is why I recommend a fresh install (saving all 
the /home directories as separate, unformatted partitions).

> I've had good and bad upgrade experiences before, but this is
> killing me. My home machine is my domain server and it's been pretty
> badly crippled because of the mail problems. I can still use my palm
> but it's a new experience in being crippled.
>
> --
> Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have 
> .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say
> Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We
> are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
> steveo at syslang.net

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Tom Taylor
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