Upgrade? What type of upgrade did you perform, a full install or a true upgrade from a previous version? Were your settings saved in a separate partition? On Monday 11 July 2005 16:39, Steven W. Orr wrote: > The problems with it are a mile long and I'm very disappointed that I > upgraded my home machine. > > * I run Majordomo2 which is a great mailinglist manager. Not all my > mail is getting delivered and I'm getting messages with blank > bodies. No one else seems to be having this problem. I'm not sure > what I can do now. It could be perl, or worse, it could be gcc > which was used to build perl. > If no one else seems to be having this problem then the problem is probably not with Fedora but with the settings not being correct. > * I have a Palm IIIc connected on a serial port. pilot-link woks ok > but all software that uses pilot-link (jpilot, kpilot, gnome-pilot) > are all unable to connect to the device. No one knows why. I > suspect gcc. > No one knows why? Have you been following this list for any length of time? A couple of recent messages had very useful information to help solve this problem. > * I have a Dell Dimension 4700 at work. The upgrade went fine from > Core 3 to 4. Afterwards, I went to start X and it failed. The > xorg.conf file was identical both before and after the upgrade, > including after running system-config-display --configure. The fix, > after a team of people poured 6 hours into it was to not use the > VESA driver that it used before. The correct choice is to use the > i810 driver. The writeup for it is here: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162699 > Using drivers from previous versions often causes problems. Many things get changed between version which is why I recommend a fresh install (saving all the /home directories as separate, unformatted partitions). > I've had good and bad upgrade experiences before, but this is > killing me. My home machine is my domain server and it's been pretty > badly crippled because of the mail problems. I can still use my palm > but it's a new experience in being crippled. > > -- > Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have > .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say > Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We > are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? > steveo at syslang.net -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA Iraq war: 1,752 US deaths and counting
