Upgrade guidance

[Jefferson Kirkland]

That's good to know Mike, thanks!  Thankfully I don't have a need for gdm as
I don't know that it is installed.  Even if it is, we don't normally run
these systems in desktop mode as its all remote.

If I have any issues with the upgrade, I will certainly post them here if I
cannot figure (Google) them out.

Thanks everyone, this was a great bit of information!

Regards,

Jeff



On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:05 PM, mike ledoux
<mwl+gnhlug at alumni.unh.edu<mwl%2Bgnhlug at alumni.unh.edu>
> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:40:50PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > But I always go one step at a time.  Most recently I took one
> > machine from F7 -> 8 -> 9.   Unfortunately I suspect I'll have
> > a hard time bringing my FC3 system up to date that way. ;)
>
> Maybe less trouble than you think, the machine I'm sitting at right now
> was yum upgraded from fc2->3>4>5>6>7>8 not all that long ago, with little
> trouble.  The yumupgradefaq saved me finding the pitfalls myself.  :)
>
> I borked it pretty hard trying to yum upgrade from fc8->9 yesterday;
> some of the packages on a fully up-to-date fc8 system have higher
> version numbers than the same packages in the fc9 repositories, which
> made things interesting.  At least it is back up and running multi-user
> now, I just need to figure out what is causing gdm to crash.  I'm sure
> there are some "old" libraries hanging around causing the issue.
>
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