That's unfortunate to hear. =[

I just used fedup last night and all went well (for the most part).  The
only two real issues I ran into (that were easily resolved) involved a
shared library missing that my Cisco AnyConnect client used.  Resolved that
with a yum provides and installed the missing package.  Then, Google Chrome
wasn't launching due to a missing shared library... fixed that with a yum
reinstall.  Since then, it's been running without any issue.

Oh, and the nVidia drivers took a bit to install due to nouveau being
loaded, but again... no big deal.

I'd recommend fedup, but I'd also recommend allocating extra time to
resolve issues that arise. (Which, imo that should be assumed when doing
any upgrade.)

Better luck next time, if such a thing exists. :-)

-Andrew

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Andrew Dahl:
>>
>> > Oh nice!
>> >
>> > I used to forgo preupgrade and just manually do it through yum.  (point
>> > to
>> > new repos, install the latest release, yum, rpm, and then do a yum
>> > update... wait an eternity and reboot.)  I only used preupgrade... maybe
>> > twice (~3 years ago) and wasn't satisfied with it.  Sounds like fedup
>> > fixes what dissatisfied me though.
>> >
>> > I think I'll go ahead with fedup tonight on my work laptop to check it
>> out.
>> > Thanks for the tip, Kathryn!
>>
>>
>
> I wound up getting a number of kernel panics on a server that
> I had used fedup on.  I tried a few things like yum distro-sync
> to remedy things, but they didn't help.  So I ended up doing a
> fresh install of Fedora 18 and that has lasted longer now
> without a crash than the version with fedup.  I wouldn't
> recommend fedup at this point.
>
>
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