Fedora 33 ppc64le
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Last week my Fedora Linux (on my POWER9 desktop, so the Fedora 32
ppc64le) started to behave strangely. The Firefox started to fail
randomly, sound disappeared and so. As mu Fedora 32 is about to end of
life I decided to to upgrade.
The Fedora upgdrade process is realtively easy:
- sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
- sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
- sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=33
- sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
- sudo dnf system-upgrade clean
It almost worked except some details. I experienced the librsvg2
problem [1] in the past so I had an "exclude=librsvg2" line in my
"/etc/dnf/dnf.conf" which reliably locked the "system-upgrade download"
inside the dependency hell.
Then I deleted the downloaded files (I executed the "clean" comand by
my mistake) so I had to repeat the whole download procedure.
After that I rebooted the thing - and then had to wait some twenty
minutes in front of blank screen. So weird.
But after some time the system booted and started to work. Visually,
nothing changed (I use the MATE instead of the default GNOME because it
is, well, conservative) but the system now identifies itself as the
Fedora 33. The sound is back but the Firefox still fails on pages with
embedded videos. So I have to use the Chromnium for such pages.
References:
[1]
https://www.talospace.com/2019/10/librsvg2-issue-on-ppc64le.html