Bah, Fedora!

[lethargic_man]

Ran a software update on piltdown yesterday, and rebooted so it could pick up the kernel update, and the network manager died. Even ifup eth0 didn't work, as it didn't know anything about eth0. Previously I've occasionally had problems with software updates being broken (including at least once on Windows, at work), but normally if I wait a day, they'll release another software update fixing it. But when you can't get on to the Internet to pick up the following software update, you're screwed.

Good job in the end that I had Net access from elsewhere, so I could download Fedora 17 and upgrade to that rather earlier than planned, but it ate most of this evening (plus, I'm sure, bits of the following ones when I discover things anything missing from my Grand Plan for post-OS upgrade setup). Also, I'm not impressed with the new behaviour of the Fedora 17 live CD: rather than booting off the CD, it showed me the options for booting off the hard disk, and autoselected the first if I didn't touch anything. I discovered in the end how to boot off the CD only by chance: I selected a Grub command line, and when I then typed "exit" it booted off the CD.

Now, what was I supposed to be doing tonight?