experiences with an upgrade
David Malcolm
dmalcolm at redhat.com
Tue Nov 30 20:45:51 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 10:36 -0800, Mike Zingale wrote:
> Hi, I just recently upgraded my system to FC3 from FC1. It is important
> to note that the FC1 install was also an upgrade from Redhat 9, so some of
> the experiences I have run into might be from that. Hopefully some of
> this will help anyone else who always does upgrades instead of fresh
> installs.
>
> Some observations:
>
> 1. system-config-soundcard was not installed. After the upgrade, I had no
> sound, despite all the proper lines being in /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> yum install system-config-soundcard and then running that seems to have
> fixed this.
>
> 2. the menus were all messed up. Under the systems menu, was an
> Applications, Games, Internet, etc. submenu. In fact, the Games menu
> appeared under a lot of the categories.
>
> I eventually tracked this down to the new Gnome looking in
> /etc/X11/applnk and putting any directories in there in (seemingly)
> random places in the menu. Deleting these made the menus much nicer.
>
> 3. evolution was not installed. Clicking on the mail icon on the Gnome
> panel just brought up an error and then the default applications
> dialog
What does the error say? What does "rpm -q evolution" output?
Thanks
>
> 4. even after updating udev to the latest version, the Nvidia
> closed-source driver still has problems after reboots. Maybe this is
> still the status of this driver, but I thought I read in the archives
> that the new udev made things happy again.
>
>
> So far, it seems a little faster than FC1 on this machine (PIII-733MHz).
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Michael Zingale
> UCO/Lick Observatory
> UCSC
> Santa Cruz, CA 95064
>
> phone: (831) 459-2277
> fax: (831) 459-5265
> e-mail: zingale at ucolick.org
> web: http://www.ucolick.org/~zingale
>
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>
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