Re: Upgrading to Fedora 38: more comments

2023-10-16 Thread John Pilkington

On 15/10/2023 15:27, John Pilkington wrote:
My recent posts were about 'just in case' precautions before a system 
upgrade.  I now appear to have a working upgraded system.  It wasn't 
trouble-free and I didn't use the live workstation download.


The system uses the rpmfusion nvidia 470xx video drivers, which build 
modules locally via akmods.  Booting the F38 system with the 
kernel-6.5.6-200.fc38 did not complete, but kernel-6.5.6-100.fc37 seemed 
fine.


Eventually, running the F37 kernel, I "sudo dnf reinstall"ed all the 
rpmfusion 470xx packages *and* the kernel*6.5.6-200.fc38 packages and 
waited for the jobs to complete.  Booting to F38 seems ok now.  The 
problems were similar to, but worse than, those seen in earlier 
upgrades.  There's a related bugzilla.


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011120


I just upgraded another similar system, F37 to F38, both KDE/X11.  No 
problems seen, so no need for package reinstalls.  :-)


John P


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Upgrading to Fedora 38: more comments

2023-10-15 Thread John Pilkington
My recent posts were about 'just in case' precautions before a system 
upgrade.  I now appear to have a working upgraded system.  It wasn't 
trouble-free and I didn't use the live workstation download.


The system uses the rpmfusion nvidia 470xx video drivers, which build 
modules locally via akmods.  Booting the F38 system with the 
kernel-6.5.6-200.fc38 did not complete, but kernel-6.5.6-100.fc37 seemed 
fine.


Eventually, running the F37 kernel, I "sudo dnf reinstall"ed all the 
rpmfusion 470xx packages *and* the kernel*6.5.6-200.fc38 packages and 
waited for the jobs to complete.  Booting to F38 seems ok now.  The 
problems were similar to, but worse than, those seen in earlier 
upgrades.  There's a related bugzilla.


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011120

John P
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