Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-08 Thread Pedro Francisco
Try ALT+F2 and type 'r' before and/or after. Though in my case that is only good for 3G dongles, maybe it magically works with you :) (Shell will disappear, don't worry, should be back) You may also check if on Gnome's fallback mode the network-applet works well, since it's the Gnome 2.x applet in

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever. (linux guy)

2011-09-08 Thread Brian Hanks
> 1) Wireless networking is not operational, even though wireless worked fine > in F15 Live. Its not apparent to me what is different between my F15 > install and the F15 Live iso. I've started a thread on this issue. Check out post #10 at this link. It fixed my F15 wireless issues: http://for

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-08 Thread linux guy
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Pedro Francisco wrote: > Is 1) solvable by doing su -c 'service Network-Manager restart' or > something similar? Because if so it's gnome-shell's applet fault, I think. > Performed the following. # service NetworkManager stop Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop Ne

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-08 Thread Pedro Francisco
Is 1) solvable by doing su -c 'service Network-Manager restart' or something similar? Because if so it's gnome-shell's applet fault, I think. On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:44 AM, linux guy wrote: > Update. > > I still have 2 outstanding issues with my F15 system. > > 1) Wireless networking is not

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-08 Thread linux guy
Update. I still have 2 outstanding issues with my F15 system. 1) Wireless networking is not operational, even though wireless worked fine in F15 Live. Its not apparent to me what is different between my F15 install and the F15 Live iso. I've started a thread on this issue. 2) The process that

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread Peter G.
Bruce Korb wrote: > Down side: /home is still ext3. Yes, my /home/me/Documents partition (actually drive) is ext4 and when I will finally switch to btrfs (in about Fedora 17 or 18), I will have to transfer all of my stuff onto another partition, create the new btrfs file system on the old /ho

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread Peter G.
Bruce Korb wrote: > It is also useful to have /home on a separate partition that > gets mounted from both installations This is why I have /home/me/Documents on a separate partition (actually a full separate 300GB drive, sdb, with just one partition, hence sdb1), filled with my stuff. Total

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread Peter G.
Darlene Wallach wrote: > When you verify the new install works, what do you do with the new > install on the spare partition and the old install? When I verify that the new system works, I move in, of course :-) I start using it right away... like I did last week with Fedora 16α. I leave the old

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread Bruce Korb
On 09/01/11 14:56, Darlene Wallach wrote: [snip] >> What I do is have a spare partition to install the new system to and I never >> do >> a system upgrade ... > When you verify the new install works, what do you do with the new > install on the spare partition and the old install? The "old" becom

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread Darlene Wallach
Peter, On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Peter G. wrote: [snip] > > What I do is have a spare partition to install the new system to and I never > do > a system upgrade (tred a few fedoras ago, without success; no doubt it works > much better now). This way my old system is still intact and I have

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread Peter G.
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Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread Peter G.
Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/01/2011 11:10 AM, linux guy wrote: >> But not a KDE session ! Apparently none of my KDE packages had been >> upgraded and my system now only had F15 gnome packages on it. Just a wild guess: maybe you had some kde-rpm stuff installed and when you upgraded, you got confli

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/01/2011 11:10 AM, linux guy wrote: > But not a KDE session ! Apparently none of my KDE packages had been > upgraded and my system now only had F15 gnome packages on it. I'm sorry to read of your difficulties, but glad to see that you managed to work through them. Of all your woes, the on

F15: Worst. Update. Ever.

2011-09-01 Thread linux guy
I just wanted to share what a troublesome, irritating process it was to update my F14 KDE box to F15. When it was released, I immediately downloaded F15 KDE Live ISO and installed it on a USB drive. I was quite impressed. Shortly thereafter, I ran pre upgrade, only to find that the pre upgrade k