Question on best method to report install issues.

[Michael D. Setzer II]

I've run into a had a couple of issues when doing an upgrade.
Tired a preupgrade, and it failed when boot didn't have enough space.
Cleared out all old kernels, and then it worked thru the complete install, but it 
was doing final step, and said this will take some time, and the screen went 
blank and no keyboard activity. Forced reboot, and it would boot from the old 
Fedora 11 kernel, but trying the upgrade kernel resulted in a message that 
old root not found. Had to restore boot and root partitions..

Second attempt using the netinstall cd and the DVD image via FTP from my 
server resulted in  a full upgrade, but did have to try 4 times before it gave 
me the upgrade options. Not sure why the first three boots went to replace 
linux.. This went all the way thru, and got to the final screen that it was 
finished, and it was reboot time. Reboot resulted in monitor coming up with 
an out-of-freq message. Brought the machine up in single user mode, and 
check the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and it was the same one from the Fedora 
11 to use vesa. Renamed it, and rebooted, and the machine came up using 
no xorg.conf. So, not sure if the new setup doesn't support xorg.conf at all. 
Tried using system-config-display, and it created a xorg.conf, but reboot had 
same problem. This is an old nvidia 32MB card, and vesa worked better than 
nv with Fedora 11. 

Last issue so far is tha the VNC failed to load due to library issues.
Seems program uses the libssl.so.8  but the Fedora 12 has libssl.so.10 
which links to libssl.so.1.0.0.  Also, libcrypto.so.8 used by program, and 
Fedora 12 has libcrypto.so, libcrypto.so.10, and libcrypto.so.1.0.0

I was able to just create symbolic links from the current names to the version 
used the the vncserver, and then it would work like before. 

The timing worked well, so I shared this with a few of my classes, since my 
lab has both Windows XP and Linux, and now have the one machine with 
the Fedora 12 now...

Thanks.

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