[ale] Fedora 9

[Jay Finch]

Hey Mike,
    Can you think of any "gotchas" if I was wanting to update a FC6 mail 
server to F9?  I've been meaning to do something about it since FC6 was 
deprecated, but I haven't taken that plunge yet. :)

    Any advice would be appreciated. 

Thanks!
Jay

Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 19:13 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote:
>   
>> Has anybody tried Fedora 9 yet? Any particular problems with the 
>> install? Any suggestions as to what to avoid?
>>     
>
> 	I've got several installations now.
>
> 	A few gotchas.
>
> 	If you are doing an upgrade make sure you have updated to the latest
> updates first (especially if you love Emacs [yuck])!
>
> 	If you are thinking about doing a live yum upgrade from F8 to F9, read
> the Fedora FAQ and follow those instructions carefully.  It works and it
> works well.  Make sure you do the appropriate "yum clean all" steps.
>
> 	If you are thinking about trying out the new "preupgrade" that is
> suppose to be an alternative to a live yum upgrade, I would pass.
> IMHO...  Not ready for prime time yet and no real advantage over live
> yum upgrade and you will still be down for an hour or so.
>
> 	64 bit live yum upgrade was a bit of a pain due to some lingering 32
> bit applications.  Just removing them and anything (32 bit only) that
> depends on them and you're cool.
>
> 	If you have both dhclient and dhcp (server) installed on the system,
> you're going to run into a conflict in the upgrade.  Just remove the one
> you are not using.
>
> 	If you are using IPSec (OpenSWAN) with X.509 certificates, beware.  I'm
> still sorting through the debris where that cratered.  I had to
> downgrade OpenSWAN back to the F8 version.
>
> 	On a limited number of systems, when you reboot you won't have X
> Windows.  Just remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf and try again.  They're trying
> to go configureless and some configurations and cards (ATI and maybe
> others) are causing problems where no configuration file at all works.
>
> 	I've now done close to 12 systems in the last few days.  Only real
> heartburn was when my VPN went down because of the IPSec nonsense.
>
> 	Mike
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