On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:58:31 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
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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.
If you must feel you have to fetch F12 and reinstall, here's one
mirror
of the CD and DVD ISO images:
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/12/Fedora/x86_64/iso/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/12/Fedora/i386/iso/
Just wget whatever ISOs you need. Updates should be available at all
the mirror sites still (until F12 goes EOL), but if you need one spot:
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/12/x86_64/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/12/i386/
F12 will go EOL pretty soon, so you really should sort this out.
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My heartfelt thanks to all! I've downloaded F12 from two of the
sources posted here, and am burning DVDs as I type.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.