[rhn-users] Upgrade Linux

[Craig M. Jameson]

I hope I'm not displaying ignorance here. After doing upgrades, when a
user is prompted for keeping the old desktop or changing to the new one,
if he chooses keeping the old one, some things stop working. A user can
change his choice by deleting .gconf and .gconfd in his home directory.


As for user accounts not working, I am guessing there has been a change
in PAM or how passwords are encrypted. I got my accounts to work by
going into /etc/shadow and manually deleting the password field of each
user and the re-entering it in the usual manner. (The new encryption of
the old password was different.) 

Good Luck,

Craig


On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 09:05 -0400, Mike M. Bracanovic wrote:
> I did upgrade from Fedora 3 to 4. Now some of the desk top icons do not work any more and, users accouts do not work. Hmmm,,,,...
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Riley, Liz (ACHE)
> Sent: Thu 5/25/2006 8:59 AM
> To: Red Hat Network Users List
> Subject: RE: [rhn-users] Upgrade Linux
>  
> 
> I was always told that if you put a CD of a newer version in, and typed
> linux upgrade it would would upgrade, sadly, its never worked for me.. I
> tried it a few times in case I was going mad.
> 
> For me, even things like slackware, cope with upgrading, you download
> and upgrading has just never felt as hard.
> 
> As a unixy person, I always find redhat hard to work with because
> they've had to allow non unix people work with them, so the creating of
> numerous generic scripts and odd placement of some stuff, just often has
> me scratching my head.
> 
> So, you arent alone!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Troy A Franklin
> Sent: 25 May 2006 13:56
> To: rhn-users at redhat.com
> Subject: [rhn-users] Upgrade Linux
> 
> As a UNIX administrator, I find the upgrade path for Linux very
> challenging.  Does Red Hat plan to implement upgrades in future releases
> instead of just a fresh install?
> 
> Thanks,
> Troy
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