Patrick wrote: > I've tested how an upgrade from CentOS 5.2 to SL 5.3RC2 would go. For > this, I setup a CentOS 5.2 system with Apache active. I downloaded the > sl-release-5.3-1.i386.rpm and yum-conf-53-1.SL.noarch.rpm files. When > I tried "rpm -Uvh *" I got the following error: "file /etc/yum.conf > from install of yum-conf-53-1.SL conflicts with file from package > yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1". To solve this, I used the additional > "--force" to install both files. > > Since there is an issue with glibc (important! see RHEL release notes, > more info here: http://www.pendre.co.uk/screen.php), I updated glibc > first and used "yum update" to do the rest. That went without a > problem. In the end, there were 8 new packages to be installed, 207 to > be updated and 0 to be erased. Total download was 356MB in size. > > After the update, I rebooted and then several strange things started to appear: > *Grub* > The splash image of Grub still was the one from CentOS (no update to > the one from SL). > > *GDM* > When GDM started, there was a problem with the theme: "There is an > error with the EaseOfBlue theme, can't open file > /usr/share/gdm/themes/EaseOfBlue/EaseOfBlue.xml". Apparently, there is > only one theme in /usr/share/gdm/themes and it's not the right one. It > skipped to an very basic login. > > *Gnome panel* > After the login, the icon used on the Gnome application panel still > was the one from CentOS. > > Regards, > Patrick Interesting. Do an update of redhat-logos and redhat-artwork to fix the gdm, grub, and gnome panel. What is this glibc thing that you are talking about. You point to a web page, which points to RedHat's Release notes. RedHat's release notes are divided into 15 different web pages. A little more information please. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI LMSS Group __________________________________________________