Fedora 12 upgrade sucks

Paolo Galtieri pgaltieri at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 23:41:02 UTC 2009


I have the same problem.  I upgraded a laptop from F11 to F12 using
preupgrade and after rebooting no GUI.  I'm running the nouveau driver and
it worked fine under F11.

Paolo

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:01 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 <
n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> I tried to upgrade my laptop from Fedora 11 to 12 today, using yumex.
> The result sucks.
>
> The latest kernel cannot run a GUI
>
> The only video driver that appears to work is vesa, (should use either
> nv or nouveau for nvidia graphics), and therefore not at required
> resolution, or openGL applications.
>
> The display configuration program fails to run
>
> Unless someone can suggest what to do I will be reinstalling Fedora 11
>
> My advice to others based on this experience is not to install/upgrade
> to Fedora 12 for next couple of months, when hopefully these serious
> problems will have been fixed.
>
> I appreciate the amount of work people put in for new releases, but I
> would rather new releases were delayed, rather than be broken with
> regard what most users require.
>
> I managed to upgrade my PC from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 using yumex
> successfully, hence my disappointment!
>
> JB
>
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