Re: How to get f 12 -- *t*w*e*l*v*e*, twelve???

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On 10/06/2010 08:21 AM, Beartooth wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:58:31 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 	[...]
>> I don't know what your issues with F13 are.  It works well on all of my
>> machines--some of which are fairly esoteric.  I did have some issues if
>> I upgraded to F13 instead of doing a fresh install.
>
> 	It's one of those fuzzy boundary things, almost certainly at
> least 99 44/100% my error -- and not reproducible (nor deducible, despite
> having occurred three times, alas!).
>
> 	I've asked repeatedly, in several places, starting here on this
> list: no response. I tried both the LUGs I follow; nobody on either had
> seen it. If it was (or is) on Gnome's on RedHat's bugzilla, I missed it.
>
> 	Concluding it was some aberration of mine, I started trying
> things, especially "yum update" and "yum remove" followed (after taking
> note of other things being removed) by "yum install."
>
> 	Last of all, as I mentioned in my first post, I tried preupgrade.
> So now I propose to wipe the offending machines, or at least tell
> anaconda to use all space -- and start over with F 12, which has never
> had the problem, reconfigure it, and try preupgrade again (or else a
> fresh install of F 14 next month).
>
> 	On an affected machine the most conspicuous symptom (to me, at
> least) is that I can't use the workspace switcher.

Uh, can't use it or it doesn't appear at all?  I would have suggested
a reinstall of the "GNOME Desktop Environment", but yum doesn't have
a "groupreinstall".  Dang!

> 	My heartfelt thanks to all! I've downloaded F12 from two of the
> sources posted here, and am burning DVDs as I type.

Glad to help (if I did).
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