Re: fedup'able ?

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On 06/30/13 15:05, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On 2013-06-29 18:49, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> I know we are a few days away from release.  But, should an F18 system
>> be fedup'able now using the command
>>
>> fedup-cli --network 19  ?
>
> On the whole, testing so far indicates yes, but of course upgrades are always a bit varied.
>
> I don't know if this has changed yet, but when we were testing RC3, just using the above command would use the upgrade.img from Beta. You had to use a couple of special parameters to get the Final one. Both generally seem to work, though. This will change whenever the redirects fedup uses to find stuff get changed.

OK....

>
>> I ask since I tried it and while things seemed to go well I was left
>> with a couple of problems.
>>
>> 1.  No F19 kernel installed.  Fixed by "yum distro-sync" after needing
>> to erase and then re-install firefox.
>
> Er, firefox and the kernel would appear to be different issues. The kernel one I know about: it's simply that since F19 has been frozen for so long, F18 has a newer kernel in stable. The latest F19 kernels are still only in updates-testing. When the 0-day updates push happens, this will be resolved.

I forgot what the issue was with firefox.  Something about a file conflict.  Not something I'd lose sleep over.

Ah-ha, on the kernel....

>
>> 2.  On boot, I get the messages....  about themes not being found.....
>>  Still boots fine, but annoying to see.
>
> That's https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975800 . It was supposed to be fixed by grub2 -22 but somehow it isn't. 'yum install grub2-starfield-theme' will give you the theme, if you want it. If you'd rather have the F19 default of just console mode with no theme, add a line:
>
> GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
>
> to /etc/default/grub and do grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg .
>

Yeah, I fixed that before reading this....after I remembered I saw this issue raised on the users list.  :-)

All in all, a painless experience.

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