{"id":87,"date":"2007-06-07T06:49:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T14:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2007-06-07T06:49:13","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T14:49:13","slug":"upgrading-from-fedora-6-to-fedora-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/upgrading-from-fedora-6-to-fedora-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading from Fedora 6 to Fedora 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, I completed the easiest Fedora upgrade I’ve ever had, without having to download and boot from a CD\/DVD. Here are the instructions I followed:
\n[http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/YumUpgradeFaq](http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/YumUpgradeFaq)<\/p>\n

I did have some unexpected glitches, mostly due to SELinux.<\/p>\n

* The pidgin (formerly known as gaim) system tray icon didn’t appear until I deleted my .gconf settings and logged back in. This has the drawback that I had to reconfigure several aspects of my UI. It may be possible to only delete ~\/.gconf\/apps\/panel\/applets\/systray (or to remove it from the panel manually), then re-add it by right-clicking the panel, selecting “Add to Panel” and chooise “Notification Area”.
\n* The Dovecot IMAP server wasn’t allowing Thunderbird to connect. I ran ‘yum upgrade’, and it installed an updated SELinux policy pack. After restarting, IMAP services functioned properly.
\n* HAL didn’t start up. To fix it, I ran ‘touch \/.autorelabel’ as root and rebooted. Since then, I’ve learned that using [fixfiles](http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/docs\/manuals\/enterprise\/RHEL-5-manual\/Deployment_Guide-en-US\/sec-sel-admincontrol.html#sec-sel-fsrelabel) is a safer approach.
\n* FreeNX didn’t allow me to connect unless I disable SELinux. Later, I [figured out how](http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=89) to configure SELinux to allow FreeNX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, I completed the easiest Fedora upgrade I’ve ever had, without having to download and boot from a CD\/DVD. Here are the instructions I followed: [http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/YumUpgradeFaq](http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/YumUpgradeFaq) I did have some unexpected glitches, mostly due to SELinux. * The pidgin (formerly known as gaim) system tray icon didn’t appear until I deleted my .gconf settings … <\/p>\n

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