[Mageia-discuss] Good work on upgrades!

Thu Jan 3 13:04:36 CET 2013

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
+