FC2 to FC3 or FC4 upgrade

[Rick Stevens]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
>> On 7/11/05, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>>> FYI all - I have been unable to move forward with this due to none of
>>>> the CD passing the media test portion of the install. CD #1 boots fine
>>>> and is happy to start the install if I let it, but the CDs themselves
>>>> all fail the test media option I'm given at the beginning of the
>>>> install.
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently researching other ways to burn the CDs. I normally use
>>>> k3b to do this. I'm sure it can be done at the command line also.
>>>
>>>
>>> First, do an md5sum on the ISO images themselves and verify they got
>>> downloaded correctly.  The command to burn a CD on a 2.4 kernel
>>> (RH7.2-9, FC1) is:
>>
>>
>> <SNIP>
>>
>> Rick & Bob,
>>    Thanks for your responses. After burning no less than 10 coasters I
>> found new media which worked. Using k3b I had no problem burning at
>> 16x. The media was created and the update went fine. I'm now writing
>> from the machine booted into FC4.
>>
>>    That's not to say I'm happy with the update. Unfortunately it
>> appears that the update completely hosed all of my Gnome panels and
>> menus. I now have a blank panel with no way to even log out of Gnome!
>> Pretty bad choices the system made there.
>>
>>    One thing that's a bit strange about this problem is that the 'Add
>> to Panel' function obtained by right clicking the panel still has all
>> of my previous menu items, etc. It's just that Gnome is not displaying
>> the basic operations button normally in the bottom right.
>>
>>    Does anyone know how to fix this? Without menus I'd say Gnome is
>> pretty much not useful.
> 
> 
> Uhm, hmmm.  I didn't have any problems when I upgraded, but I didn't
> have anything fancy set up.  I think this was addressed on the 
> fedora-list recently (last week or two).  Try checking the archive
> there.

In fact, see this:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-July/msg01760.html

Methinks it's seLinux that's biting you.
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