Jim Cornette wrote: > Antti J. Huhtala wrote: > > > Thanks again, Jim > > > > It just dawned on me that against all good advice on this list and > > elsewhere I decided to *upgrade* from FC6 to Fedora 7 instead of a fresh > > install. That's why I had some minor issues two months ago, such as my > > printer wasn't working and K3b didn't work either. Both problems were > > resolved by removing and reinstalling. > > The k3b breakage happened to me with several upgrades. (All that I > recall). I have not tried printing on most of the upgraded systems but > for one system it seems to have no troubles that were not present before > the upgrade. > OK, Jim. IIRC, a couple of other posters also mentioned broken K3b after updating/upgrading to Fedora 7 but I don't seem to recall earlier reports. Of course, if you know how to easily fix a malfunctioning program, you may consider it not worth reporting. > > > If I'm not mistaken, there are some packages renamed '.rpmnew' in my > > system right now as a result of the upgrade. Guess I'll have to look > > into them and see if there's something explaining why the new kernel > > panics at boot. I also might consider a fresh install... > > A lot of times with these files there is no difference except for dates > created. It still is worth comparing the files with the in place versions. > Yes, that's true. I checked and found ca. 270 files with '.rpmnew' added to the filename. Many of them seem to be identical with the 'in use' version except for the dates. In addition, a lot of them look like langpack or font files with little or no effect on kernel panic at boot. However, a couple of weeks after upgrading to Fedora 7 I had to replace a file with its .rpmnew counterpart: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules. With the old version of '50-udev.rules' I had several warnings while booting: "link <device> is deprecated and will possibly be removed from a future kernel. Please fix this...". These warnings disappeared when I switched from the old version to the new one by swapping (renaming) them. > I don't know if a fresh installation would land you at the same state or > if the system would work with the latest kernel. A fresh install would > allow you to change some preferences like lvm or partitions along with > the new features which were introduced in Fedora 7 compared to earlier > Fedora snapshots. Upgrades should offer the new features via the > installer but currently do not offer a chance to add them on upgrade. > Right. I've been thinking about abandoning lvm because I'm going to put another hard disk device into the box. It now only has an 80 GB disk, divided 50/30 between WinXP and Fedora. Because 99.8 % of my computing is using Fedora, and there's only ca. 8 GB free, I need another HD. I'd like to see the new features also. I don't even know what I'm missing at the moment... > Jim > Thanks, Jim. Looks like it will take a while to sort out all .rpmnew files and to try to evaluate their possible contribution to my kernel panic problem. > > > > I'll report later what I found out. > > Antti
