Experiences upgrading omen.com to Rawhide

[Bill Davidsen]

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> Rawhide seems to be settling down so I decided
> it was time to try Rawhide on my server which had
> been running Fedora 10 with an older Rawhide kernel.
> 
> Initial installation  and network setup went about as
> well as can be expected given the two networks
> and local installation files.
> 
> At first Apache and crontab just didn't work.  Not seeing
> any relevant error messages, it took a while to identify
> Selinux as the bad actor.  Things worked after disabling
> Selinux.
> 
I hope you will report the bugs, one of the reasons I use Fedora is that it has 
both SELinux and recent versions of things.  Dropping SEL certainly makes it 
less suited to externally visible systems.

> I installed dhcpd with add/remove software.  This version
> doesn't work with the services applet.  Another version
> of dhcpd apparently does work this way.
> 
Another reason it's not ready for production use.

> The advanced volume control app now starts the mixer.
> May I suggest it be called what it is - mixer.
> 
> Previously reported problems with the mixer not being
> able to select CD/AUX remain.  I am trying to isolate a
> problem where the recording gain changes for no
> apparent reason, then changes back some time later.
> 
I'll have to try the advanced volume control, since sound has yet to work for me 
on any machine with fc11.

> Otherwise, with Selinux turned off and a few other tweeks Rawhide
> seems to be stable running omen.com.
> 


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