Comments on How To Upgrade From Fedora 10 To Fedora 11 (Desktop & Server)

@ Falko,

Thank you for this easy going update and perfect tut.

Robert

I don't know where i'm failing, because i followed your tut and i can't make it work. I have fedora in one partition space and kubuntu in the other; kubuntu have grub's control. Does this something to do with my issue?

I'm still thinking if I want to do this...

 I've got a headless webserver.  I don't use a gui - ssh only.

 It is possible for me to use a vterminal through my host but even then I can't remember if the login is terminal only - no gui.  I would much rather use terminal.

 Do you recommend vterminal??

 How risky is this?  I don't have any repo add ons... no fancy devel stuff.  I do have a few progs that where complied from source (i.e., courier-imap) that I would not want broken.

 Is it worth it to upgrade to 11 right now or should I wait?  How long?

 Thanks!

After reboot no package downloaded, nothing installed

does anybody know what to do with additional activated repositories like rpmfusion and liva? Should they be disabled (and perhaps any software from those repos be uninstalled)?

Hi,

Unfotunately I followed all steps(Desktop) and "after the successful upgrade", got the F11 screen.   And was surprised when I tried to login in KDE environment.   I got this messages in a smal window in the up left corner, "kstartupconfig4 does not exist or fails. The error code is 127.   Check your installation".   Before the upgrade everything worked on F10, now I lost. I don't have the option of KDE, but still have GNOME.

And now?

I also have the same problem - after upgrade to Fedora 11 (from 10 on x86_64).  I try to start up KDE (which worked fine before) and get a message "kstartupconfig4 does not exist of fails.  The error code is 127."

Any suggestions?

same problem here, upgraded from f10 from a live cd to f11 using the dvd

and got the same error

kstartupconfig4  does not exist of fails.  The error code is 127 check your installation

 and yum isn't working either...

I had this happen as well. I fixed it by removing the NessusClient RPM by issuing an "rpm -e NessusClient" command.  I'm amazed that fixed it up.

 For me no Nessus package were installed. So that was not the problem. The solution I found here.

http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&order=ASC&topic_id=86599&forum=12&move=next&topic_time=1258818260

 The only difference was that I have a 64 system, so the changes were done under /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib

Is possible to upgrade from F9 to F11 directly?

Thanks for your POST, you help-me very much. My drive of DVD was broken and that was the way to install fedora 11 in my notebook without the disc.

When I try to run preupgrade the process fails and I got: Failed to fetch release info.

This could be caused by a missing network connection or a bad mirror.

What can I do?

Thanks

i have the same problem :S

Hi, this was reported and fixed at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508439. Sorry for the inconvenience, and please feel free to email admin at fedoraproject dot org if you ever run into issues with missing files on our side.

This problem is solved. See:     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508439

Used the above procedure to migrate F10 to F11.  When I did the update after the migrate it resulted in a major mix of modules. Afterwards I found out that the repros was not updated properly i.e. a mix of F10 and F11 repros, where Fedora update was still pointing at the F10 repro.

I havn't tried it yet but i think yum upgrade to 11 works, when i put in mirrors like url for 11, i got back a plain txt list of mirrors

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch

is what is in the repo files, if yum looks up on fc10 in upgrade to 11

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=x86_64

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=i386

I have started from the moment "The preupgrade wizard will then start on your desktop:", i.e. from the second screen shot in that article. As I had got a window poped up offering the upgarde I did follow it. Everything seemed ok. After rebooting, once I saw BIOS is loading, I have switched the pc off as it was late in the night. A few hours later I started it again to see hanging GRUB. I do not get now a choice to boot Windows, other F10 kernels, not to mention F11.

All I see at the bootom of the screen, after some BIOS lines, is : GRUB

but it looks like it does not load (I would then expect it to clear the screen from the BIOS messages plus perhaps changing the screen colour - it is still black, not blue)

Hi, i'm new on Linux...was bored of gettin virus on Windows Vista so i've decided to migrate to Linux...theres my problem

 i'm trying to upgrade to Fedora 11 and i followed the tut and everything was alright till' i was there :

It will show you a list of releases that you can upgrade to. If all goes well, it should show something like Fedora 11 (Leonidas) in the list:

[root@server1 ~]# preupgrade-cli
Loaded plugins: blacklist, refresh-packagekit, whiteout
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
please give a release to try to pre-upgrade to
valid entries include:
   "Fedora 11 (Leonidas)"
   "Rawhide"
[root@server1 ~]#

  I didnt see the "Fedora 11 (Leonidas)"...so i typed the next command: preupgrade-cli "Fedora 11 (Leonidas)" ...and it ended up with this code error: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)

Is someone get the same problem and find how to resolve it?

thx y'all! :)

I have the same problem.

I type :

unset LANG (my lang was  fr_FR.UTF-8)
Fr)

and it's work fine.

the internet disconnected while i was ypgrading fedora 11 to fedora 16 (verne) . then i tried to continue upgrading .. but it stopped at the same place that it disconnected there ( downliad installer image ) .. what can i do to continue upgrading ?