Fedora 17 “The Beefy Miracle”
Fedora 17 aka “The Beefy Miracle” was released on 05/29/2012 to much fanfare, but was it worth the upgrade?
The upgrade from Fedora 16 to Fedora 17 was pretty simple using the following three commands.
- yum update. (reboot if needed.)
- yum install preupgrade.
- preupgrade.
To see screen shots of the above upgrade procedure head over to if-not-true-then-false.com.
One problem after the upgrade was a kernel panic everytime I shut down which was caused by the Fedora 16 kernel being used instead of the new one for Fedora 17. Using the KDE Apper utility I was able to remove the offending Kernel and install the new one.
- From Apper search for kernel and select one for Fedora 17.
- Reboot.
- On restart select the Fedora 17 kernel you just installed.
- For the next steps I went command line because it was easier, but searching for Kernel and removing Fedora 16 kernels should work in Apper.
Exact commands from my bash history file:
- uname -r
- rpm -qa | grep kernel
- rpm remove kernel-devel-3.3.6-3.fc16.i686
- rpm erase kernel-devel-3.3.6-3.fc16.i686
- yum erase kernel-devel-3.3.6-3.fc16.i686
- rpm -qa | grep kernel
- yum erase kernel-3.3.6-3.fc16.i686
- rpm -qa | grep kernel
- reboot
- rpm -qa | grep kernel
- uname -r
More information on Fedora 17 kernel panic on shutdown:
Another issue, if you want to call it an issue is that after evey Fedora upgrade Plymouth reverts to the same crappy Fedora logo. This to is a simple fix.
First as root on the command line list installed themes.
plymouth-set-default-theme –list
charge
details
fade-in
hot-dog (Fedora 17 default)
solar
spinfinity
spinner
text
You can find more Plymouth themes by searching in the KDE Apper utility for Plymouth.
Again from the command line as root we now set our theme.
plymouth-set-default-theme solar (solar is from Fedora 14 and it is my favorite.)
Now to finish. Again as root run the following command.
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd (this step can take a few minutes.)
Reboot!
I now have a completely working system with the current KDE desktop.
Was it worth the upgrade from Fedora 16 to Fedora 17?
The answer will come in the next article.
