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). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Do you know how to save five drowning lawyers? No? GOOD! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
