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| ===== Special Issues, Upgrading to Fedora 21 ===== | ===== Special Issues, Upgrading to Fedora 21 ===== | ||
| + | Only just started on this, I expect this list to grow... | ||
| + | - A number of packages haven't been properly updated for F21, so they don't get upgraded properly. As of Dec. 23, the list includes wget, samba and sqlite. The cause seems to be a misunderstanding between the package maintainers and the fedup maintainers about the required relationship between F20 and F21 version numbers for things to work properly. You can fix this after upgrade by running "yum downgrade" on the affected packages. | ||
| + | - The ATI Rage 128 video driver doesn't get upgraded properly; you may be able to fix this by booting into single user mode and issuing yum downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg (if you can't, you will be left with a system that can't get to a login screen). However I can't test this because... | ||
| + | - There is a further problem with the assignment of network interfaces, so (especially if you need fixed ip addresses), the network may require further configuration. You can either do this manually, or - if you have a video interface (see above) - use the networkmanager gui. | ||
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| + | Bottom line, currently there are too many bugs that may interact, creating catch-22s as above. Fortunately, so far I have only been upgrading virtual machines. One is running F21 OK, I think I'm going to have to revert the other. I won't be trying to upgrade real machines till things are a bit more stable. | ||
| ===== Special Issues, Upgrading to Fedora 20 ===== | ===== Special Issues, Upgrading to Fedora 20 ===== | ||
| - The biggy here seems to be that it's best to disable all external repos (and specifically, rpmfusion) before running fedup | - The biggy here seems to be that it's best to disable all external repos (and specifically, rpmfusion) before running fedup | ||