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Fedora 8 upgrade on Mario
Mario is my main Linux box. I had to uninstall x264 this comes from the fact that I mixed livna and freshrpms. I never intended to do so, but I started with freshrpms back in the day, but nowadays I use livna for my graphics card. That plus freshrpms relative lack of updates compared to…
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Upgrading Fedora with Yum
I followed the procedure at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq so the point of this is just to go over my experience with these steps. Review and remove all .rpmsave and .rpmnew files before and after upgrading I basically did a locate, found them and deleted them. for a in $(find /etc /var -name ‘*.rpm?*’); do b=${a%.rpm?*}; diff -u…
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Some really quick observances about Fedora 8
The bootup screen is pretty, but…. The default GDM screen looks a little ugly to me….perhaps it’s just too new. The new SELinux notification tool may be useful if something is not working correctly, but it just bugs the heck out of me as every single program appears to be trying to access protected memory.…
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Fedora 8 yum upgrade success
Well, at least it worked pretty well on my future PVR. I will give a more detailed explanation/directions of my experience for others who may be wondering if this is really as scary as it sounds since it’s “unsupported”. However, my main Linux computer is much, much more complex in the number of packages installed.…
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Yum upgrade may be the way to go if you have Third Party packages
Well, the entire upgrade process is not yet over, so I don’t want to get too excited, but I think this may solve my problem. I started a yum upgrade on my living room computer – which will one day be my MythTv PVR (once I get the necessary hardware). It went through the dependency…
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Fedora 8 Upgrade Aborted
It may have been about to install or it may never have installed, but after 35 hours, I was getting a little annoyed. I’ve decided to try the unsupported yum upgrade. I’ll try it first one a guinea pig computer that’s at Fedora 7. If that works, I’ll try it on my real machine. Blogged…
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Argh! Fedora 8 upgrade dependency check continues…
It’s still right at the end of that little progress bar. The HDD activity light on my compute continues so I’m hoping it’s not frozen, but just working on figuring out the dependencies on all of my packages. I’m going to give it until I get home today and maybe until I go to bed.…
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Fedora 8 upgrade continues…..
Upgrading to Fedora 7 didn’t take this long and neither did Fedora 6, but that’s ok – as long as it happens. It’s nearly done with the dependency checking. It’s been getting closer and closer to the end of the bar. Part of me thinks it may be stuck, but after waiting 10 hours to…
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Fedora 8 Upgrade Process
I tried upgrading Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 a few times when it first came out and it kept getting stuck at 26% in the dependency checking phase. I went on the fedora IRC room and I was told to remove my non-Fedora repos. I didn’t listen because that’s always the first thing they tell…
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Fedora 8 is released!
I’m bit torrenting is as we speak. Get it here. Be nice and download via bit torrent if you can so we can all share in the bandwidth! And here’s the release announcement: Official Announcement: (To the tune of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”) It’s close to midnight and something cool is coming through the “tubes” It’s…
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KDE is back!
On my system, running Fedora 7 and Compiz causes the computer to refuse to exit Gnome. I always have to go into a terminal and shut the computer down that way and it’s extremely annoying. So I’ve decided to run KDE as my default desktop instead of Gnome. We’ll see if I can rekindle the…
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Yay, Dual Screen is back!!
It turned out to be pretty easy. I used the nVidia tool to generate my xorg.conf and then just had to do a couple of tweaks. First off, since it was running as a non-privileged user, it wasn’t able to save to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. So I had to save it to my desktop. Then I had…
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Some more Fedora 7 impressions
Man have I been busy. I’m finishing up the wedding I shot a couple of weeks ago, so I haven’t had time for much. I think I have nVidia up and working now, although still just one monitor is working. glxgears gives me 1340 FPS – is that good or bad? I’ll have to look…
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Fedora 7 GUI up, but not nVidia….yet (and other first impressions)
Updating via Livna nVidia did not completely fix the problem. As in the last time I upgrade I am now down to one monitor and I hate it! I feel so cramped! I’m still updating some stuff so hopefully this’ll be fixed soon. While I’m at it….I don’t like the default Gnome icons for Fedora…
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Fedora 7 Installed – GUI borked
But that’s my own fault. I thought about switching away from nVidia before updating, but I didn’t. So I’m updating – there’s 1 GB worth of updates. So when I get home today I need to install the nVidia drivers from Livna. The upgrade went off without a hitch except for one thing: in grub,…