Downgrade from 9.92 to Fedora 9/Update caused Desktop effects not to work.

[flyingpengwin]

Hello. Today there was a giant update. (1010 updates) Everything looks awesome!!! but... Now desktop effects wont work. I tried to enable them but everytime I do it logs me out and wont let me enable it. I've even tried opening desktop effects in root and it still happened. Should I just wait a day or two and see if they send an update that will fix this?

PS.
I am using a G4 PPC. I do not know if this should be in the PPC forum, but this seemed to be more fedora in genereal not a PPC issue (since from what I can tell it isnt something over the hardware or drivers)

[flyingpengwin]

Now I cant get Openoffice to work. And when I go to add/remove programs and click on one of the sections (like multimedia or office) it will not display all my options. It says No results found. But when I search for a program that will show up.

[flyingpengwin]

Ok. Apparently I activated Rawhide and it installed the beta. Is there anyway to down grade?
I guess I should create a new thread for this.

[flyingpengwin]

I accedently activated Rawhide and updated to 9.92 (i guess beta Fedora 10 beta) Fedora 10 is awesome but I can't have Desktop effects and openoffice doesn't work. It was very difficult to get this Laptop up and running and I really don't want to have to redo everything. please help?!?!?!

[leigh123linux]

There is no way to downgrade .

[Nokia]

Perhaps your only option right now is to wait for F10 to be released, and then try an upgrade. Till then, forget about any updates from rawhide or elsewhere. It's a long shot, but it might work with no or few repairable glitches.

If you decide taking this course of action, don't forget to backup all data before attempting anything risky.

[flyingpengwin]

When is F10 expected to come out?
I really like this beta but I need openoffice. But the touchpad actually works on here... >.>

[flyingpengwin]

Ok. Nevermind it comes out next month. Link: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule (for other people). If I can get ahold of a OS X disk then ill wait till the update next month.

[Nokia]

Few more weeks. At least wait until the next beta or RC appears and do a selective upgrade then.
OTOH, in rawhide you could try

yum groupupdate 'OFFICE/PRODUCTIVITY'

That should be safe enough.

[Hlingler]

@flyingpengwin:

I merged your two threads into one as they ask the same question (and get identical answers).

In future: one and only one thread per issue, please.

V

[Nokia]

Ha, Vince, your merge lost one post of mine I just replied in the thread that got deleted so even though I saw the output due to the vBulletin feature, whern reloading the page, it's missing. Anyway, here it is again:

I stumbled on something very strange. Perhaps someone could duplicate the situation and check the results:

yum groupupdate 'OFFICE/PRODUCTIVITY'
================================================================================
 Package                     Arch    Version           Repository         Size 
================================================================================
Installing:
 openoffice.org-langpack-en  x86_64  1:2.4.1-17.6.fc9  updates-newkey      88 k
Installing for dependencies:
 mythes-en                   noarch  3.0-1.fc9         fedora             4.9 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install      2 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 5.0 M

yum update however, returns nothing. Tried it a few times to make sure there is no error on my part. Anyone care to explain what's this ?

[Hlingler]

OOPS! I'll blame vBulletin....

V

[flyingpengwin]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

@flyingpengwin:

I merged your two threads into one as they ask the same question (and get identical answers).

In future: one and only one thread per issue, please.

V

I only created a different one because the first one was about the Desktop and the other was about the upgrade. I didn't know if I should stay using the first one because it had a different title. Sorry.

[flyingpengwin]

Originally Posted by Nokia

Few more weeks. At least wait until the next beta or RC appears and do a selective upgrade then.
OTOH, in rawhide you could try

yum groupupdate 'OFFICE/PRODUCTIVITY'

That should be safe enough.

I tried this and got:
"root@localhost~]# yum groupupdate 'OFFICE/PRODUCTIVITY'
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/9.92/ppc...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/9.92...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedor...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livn...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: livna. Please verify its path and try again"
How do I run that in rawhide? (I'm still a little new to Fedora. )

[Seve]

Hello:
You need to disable the main livna repository as they do not support beta releases.

If you must use the livna repo, then do the following

su -

gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo
and set
enabled=1
to
enabled=0
save and exit
then
gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/livna-devel.repo
and set
enabled=0
to
enabled=1
save, exit and run
yum clean all

Seve