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F17 to F18 via FedUp: All tty output seems broken

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I used FedUp to upgrade an old Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop (2Gb RAM, 500Gb SATA) from F17 to F18. FedUp seemed to work fine, but, after the final process finished, and I tried to reboot using the new 3.7 kernel from the GRUB2 menu (which works as expected), all I could see was a white screen with a few thin vertical lines. When I rebooted using one of the F17 kernels that FedUp hadn't removed, the X-server did not start. However, the normal boot messages (I don't use the rhgb linux-line option.) were displayed, but the X-server failed to start. It that point, I could do a Ctrl-Alt-F2 (etc.) t (HowTos)

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This forum refuses to post my full message, claiming there are URLs or words in it it doesn't like without telling me what's wrong.. please see it at http:xxpastebin.com/SqaKCx26

The summary is that fedup fetches metalink information that does not contain the "fedora-install-17" repo it's looking for.

I upgraded from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 using FedUp. FedUp for me worked great... no problems whatsoever during installation. After installation, got a few orphaned packages which I removed and updated to the newest ones. However, I did find out one major quirk.. my laptop's webcam stopped working. It worked out of the box in Fedora 17 but doesn't work in 18 anymore.

Hi,

I run multiple linux distros from an external USB drive (Seagate 750Gb) on my work laptop (Elitebook 8470p).

I use Fedora 17 as the main distro and have it manage grub on /dev/sdb. To boot linux I choose the external drive from BIOS startup.

I ran fedup and all seemed to go well, just 2 missing repos, all else good.

Upgraded from F17 to F18 just now using : fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#Network

Command I used:

Code: sudo fedup --network 18 --debuglog fedupdebug.log --instrepo http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/qa/fedup/f18-RC4/x86_64/

Upgrade went smoothly and everything works out the box, but I'm hitting with dependency issues when trying to install new stuff.

Example (when trying to install a

Hi,

I upgraded my test machine from F17 to F18 using fedup.

Wish me luck.... 16 weeks 6 days ago

After spending the last 9 days in Zend training. I thought I'd reward myself with a PBR and FC18. So I flipped a coin: Heads - Yum upgrade, Tails fedup.

Well tails never fails, so just started the fedup process. The name makes me think that this is going to be a mistake, but we'll see!!!!!

OK, followed the instructions for using Fedup with an iso image. It went through the process and rebooted. Chose the upgrade and it did a lot of churning and heaving. In the end it booted into an F17 kernel. Nothing I searched for told me what to do. There was no F18 kernel on the machine.

I did a yum update kernel and kernel-devel and got the F18 3.7.2 kernel.

My system dual boots Ubuntu and Fedora, I believe both have a boot partition installed but Ubuntu is the one that actually has the boot loader and autodetects the fedora kernels.

Selecting other F17 kernels works fine, but when I select the fedup kernel until part way through the boot, the following is incompletely transcribed from a picture because I couldn't find logs anywhere.

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Now that Fedora 18, aka Spherical Cow, has been released, users of Fedora 17 will likely be gearing up to upgrade. Before this latest release, upgrading an installation of Fedora requires a procedure that’s not very elegant. With Fedora 18, the recommended upgrade tool is called FedUp (FEDora UPgrade).