F7: Things to do after Upgrading Red Hat Fedora 6 to Fedora 7

See §6.8 below for the list of things I had to do after upgrading to Fedora 6 on my Linux desktop (with the desktop itself described in §15.9 below).

• First of all, the update would not fly until I converted the /etc/fstab entries for my external disks to label format. For example, typing, as root,

    /sbin/e2label /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
  

  labels /dev/hda2 as ``/mnt/hda2''. Then the fstab entry is changed from

    /dev/hda2               /mnt/hda2              ext3    defaults        1 2
  

  to

    LABEL=/mnt/hda2         /mnt/hda2               ext3    defaults        1 2
  

• Next, after the upgrade completed, of course I typed (as root)

    yum -y update
  

  which took hours to complete (over 700 packages updated).
• I found it quite necessary to say

    updatedb
    locate '.rpmnew'
  

  to find all the config files that were not installed because I had modified them. In particular, after installing the two rpmnew files I found in /etc/yum.repos.d/, another yum -y update yielded over 300 more updates! (Before this, CUPS printing didn't work.)
• My printer was ``disabled'' for some reason. After I got CUPS working again, I simply had to enable it in the /usr/sbin/system-config-printer panel (which can also be launched under the main System menu).
• Samba didn't work right away. To get it going, I did a

  yum install samba-swat
  

  which pulled in xinetd, after which I could configure Samba again (system-config-samba)[Update F16: no longer exists - now supposed to go to localhost:901 to run `swat', but this does not yet work for me]. The Windows work group name had somehow gotten lost in the upgrade. Resetting that got it working for a while, but then it stopped working. I finally got it working again after merging /etc/samba/smb.conf with smb.conf.rpmnew and deleting /etc/samba/smbusers and rebuilding it from the config gui. Another barrier was that somehow the nmb service was no longer configured to start as well as the smb service. I had to add it explicitly to run-level 5 myself.
• Installed the Fedora 7 repo files for Planet CCRMA, following the instructions for Fedora 6 with 6 changed to 7 in the repo URL.
• Reverted changes to /usr/share/texmf/dvips/misc/alt-rule.pro so that latex2html would work (see §6.9 below). To make this easy, I keep an RCS directory there, so I simply visit the filein emacs and type ^X v c to ``cancel'' all changes since the last commit. (The RCS file was initialized by typing ^X v i after the desired changes were first made.) I then type ^X^Q to ``check out'' the file so that future tetex updates can clobber it as usual, after which I check to see if any good changes occurred.

In summary, Fedora 7 mostly works, and the upgrade was straightforward, but Samba is broken, which prevents networking with my Windows machine.