Fedora 12 Alpha installation test invitation --Jul 29, 2009

Sat Aug 8 02:59:21 UTC 2009

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 21:26 -0500, Todd wrote:
> I  did the preupgrade testcase on 2 systems form F11 to Rawhide and
> neither went well at all..  On a x86_64 machine with nvidia graphics,
> the preupgrade procedure went fine, but after the upgrade, X would not
> start.  I tried again on a 32 bit laptop with ati graphics.  The
> display was blank during the upgrade.  I just waited for the hard
> drive to stop for a few minutes and rebooted with CRTL-ALT-DEL.  After
> reboot the screen was again blank.
> 
> Is using preupgrade the best way to upgrade a fedora installation?

Today's Rawhide is known to be basically stuffed in various interesting
ways (X is entirely broken, and anaconda is entirely broken six
different ways), so I'm not surprised. :) hopefully, the next rawhide
compose that gets done will be better.

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