On 03/01/13 06:01, Daniel wrote: > Hello Mageia team. > In the last few days I did a dist upgrade on my Mageia 1 system. I moved > to Mageia 2. Now I've done a few dist upgrades in my time and I must say > that instructions on the mageia site were clear about what I needed to > do. As always a few things happened that were unexpected. First off, I > picked in the update applet that I wanted to download all packages before > the upgrade. As my / file-system would not hold all packages I created > one in my home dir (non-root), and clicked go. It starts and then tells > me that the directory has the wrong permissions. However I can not adjust > which directory it downloads to, nor does it tell me what permissions it > needed (I think it said "wrong owner" but I am not certain). Anyway I > restarted the upgrade without first downloading the packages and it all > went smoothly. > > After the upgrade Evolution did not have any mailboxes nor any mails. I > sort of expected this and it is a problem with Gnome/Evolution rather > than than Magieia. I followed the instructions I found on the net > regarding migrating from mbox to mdir and things were peaches again. > > Second was that I only had a "suspend" rather than "power off" button in > Gnome shell. I know this was a Gnome decision, so I went looking for the > gnome-shell-extensions but could not find them in the repository. I found > the bug-report that asked for them to be removed. To that regard I built > them myself from the Fedora 17 SRPMS (Fedora 17 runs the same Gnome > version as Mageia 2). And they work fine. > > I put them up on http://rpm.staticthings.com/ if anyone else is > interested. > > In all I am very pleased with how the upgrade went, good work guys and > gals! > > regards > Daniel > >
Its good to hear that Daniel. Could you create a bug for the 'wrong owner' issue you found please on https://bugs.mageia.org Did you try gnome-tweak-tool for the gnome bits you wanted to change? I'm not a gnome user so can't say whether it does all you want it to do but it does allow you to easily alter certain hidden gnome settings. Thanks Claire
