F12 media-less installer totally broken
by Ahmed Kamal
Hi folks,
I tried installing F12 fresh today without burning media. I had F11 on a
lvm, and was installing F12 on another. Here's what happened:
- Put the iso on a ntfs partition
- Put the vmlinuz+initrd.img in F11's grub .. and boot into the installer,
pointing it to install from HDD
- The installer cannot pickup the iso
- As an alternate I copied the iso to a server, and NFS shared its folder
- I reboot the installer, point it to nfs .. again it fails to start
anaconda
- Third trial .. on that server I loop mount the iso on /opt and NFS share
that
- Boot installer, it tried to mount server:/opt/images (which fails!) (only
/opt is shared)
- Fourth trial: I expand the iso image completely on disk into a new
directory, boot into the installer pointing it at that
- Installer finally picks up, anaconda starts .. I click next a few times,
partition and format my disk, then an error message mentions "cannot load
image #1, please insert the CD and try again" ... arrgh
- I give up, burn a DVD, and install from it just fine
Regards
14 years, 7 months
Fedora 12 Blocker Bug Meeting #1 :: 2009-10-23 @ 15:00 UTC (11 AM EDT)
by John Poelstra
When: Friday, 2009-10-23 @ 15:00 UTC (11 AM EDT)
Where: #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net
We will be doing a follow-up to the meeting that was held today. Below
is the list bugs still blocking the release of Fedora 12.
527048 - nss - NEW - nss-sysinit: system-wide nss sql empty key
database shouldn't have a password
528005 - xorg-x11-drv-nouveau - NEW - X server crash
528222 - initscripts - NEW - LiveCD intermittently gets stuck during
shutdown
509733 - gvfs - NEW - Process /usr/libexec/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor
received signal 11
528909 - DeviceKit-disks - NEW - DevKit 95-devkit-disks.rules should
avoid scan all DM devices
517839 - hsqldb - NEW - bitxor and bitor both mapped to single bitor
function
523110 - hsqldb - NEW - autoincrement bustage on column redefinition
513864 - firefox - NEW - Firefox crashes
501769 - kernel - NEW - intel hda: snd_pcm_avail/snd_pcm_delay overflows
523378 - kernel - NEW - [kernel] file system errors for recent 2.6.31
kernels
530169 - kernel - NEW - nouveau + gdm crashes
493472 - kernel - NEW - [945GM] KMS: LVDS wrongly detected as
connected, DVI monitor resolution incorrectly set
514760 - redhat-lsb - NEW - cleanup script segfaults during yum upgrade
498968 - distribution - NEW - Fedora 12 Virtualization Target Blocker
521519 - gedit - NEW - gedit 2.27 leaking memory
527089 - plymouth - NEW - repaire console is not accessible
520480 - kde-settings - NEW - F12 KDE blocker
523815 - nautilus - NEW - nautilus hoses vino
514415 - xorg-x11-server - NEW - X server locks up every time
notification is about to be displayed
518962 - xorg-x11-drv-ati - NEW - ATI - Caught signal 11 (Segmentation
fault). Server aborting
522929 - xorg-x11-drv-ati - NEW - repeated system crashes
521512 - kernel - ASSIGNED - KMS: X Window Frozen with Radeon XPRESS 200M
526154 - thunderbird - ASSIGNED - localisation breaks sending mail
512845 - xulrunner - ASSIGNED - setroubleshoot: SELinux is
preventing firefox from changing a writable memory segment executable.
526699 - anaconda - ASSIGNED - CryptoError: luks_format failed for
'/dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol00'
517491 - anaconda - ASSIGNED - Anaconda fails if filesystem should be
shrunk
528312 - xorg-x11-server - ASSIGNED - udev takes almost 100% CPU on
resume from suspend (and Xorg are to be blamed)
522187 - pango - ASSIGNED - Java (so Eclipse too) crashes
521322 - xorg-x11-drv-ati - ASSIGNED - no graphics and no console for
F12-Snap1-x86_64-Live
522137 - xorg-x11-drv-ati - ASSIGNED - Test_Day:2009-09-09_Radeon:
Multiple tests crash X.org
522970 - xorg-x11-drv-ati - ASSIGNED - popup messages unreadable
493058 - anaconda - ASSIGNED - Custom partitioning creation/edit causes
traceback
526549 - anaconda - ASSIGNED - rats_install kickstart fails due to swap
device prompt
526021 - yaboot - ASSIGNED - f12 beta failed to boot on ppc platform
after autopart and encrypted installation
506075 - kernel - ASSIGNED - snd_intel8x0: snd_pcm_avail()/
snd_pcm_delay() overflow
514000 - alsa-lib - ASSIGNED - Aureon 5.1 MkII can't do 5.1 anymore
523768 - alsa-utils - ASSIGNED - [abrt] crash detected in
alsa-utils-1.0.21-2.fc12
514600 - kernel - ASSIGNED - Intel 82G965 requires 'nomodeset'
workaround to get working text-mode
528537 - kernel - ASSIGNED - fails to get kickstart file over nfs.
528048 - xorg-x11-drv-intel - ASSIGNED - display black after resume
516057 - webkitgtk - ASSIGNED - gets whacked by selinux execmem check
527426 - plymouth - ASSIGNED - (plymouth) No text prompt for encryption
password (but keyboard input is accepted)
520750 - PackageKit - ASSIGNED - Software Update windows checks for
update does not stop ..
512944 - fast-user-switch-applet - ASSIGNED - fast-user-switching locks
up login screen
527920 - gdm - ASSIGNED - gdm doesn't show user list and crashes -
unable to login
523800 - xorg-x11-drv-neomagic - ASSIGNED - X.org doesn't work on
ThinkPad 600X (NeoMagic MagicGraph256ZX)
527520 - anaconda - MODIFIED - post-install lxde system boots in text mode
526697 - anaconda - MODIFIED - Trying to change encryption status of
partition ends with error message: The mount point "" is in use. Please
pick another
527952 - anaconda - MODIFIED - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no
attribute 'disk'
528317 - anaconda - MODIFIED - anaconda traceback in getDefaultTimeZone
KeyError en_AU
529766 - NetworkManager - MODIFIED - applet won't start
517260 - anaconda - MODIFIED - liveinst fails at partitioning screen
519766 - nss - MODIFIED - (nss) FORTIFY_SOURCE buffer overflows and
other issues in test suite
520162 - nss - MODIFIED - nss-devel no longer provides pkgconfig(nss)
524168 - anaconda - MODIFIED - Wrong RAID10 recognition in anaconda
while dmraid shows correct values
529209 - livecd-tools - MODIFIED - PATCH: Tell dracut not to ask for
LUKS passwords or activate mdraid sets
528097 - dmraid - MODIFIED - /sbin/dmraid needs possibly unmounted /usr/lib
528497 - firstaidkit - MODIFIED - FirstAidKit does not start when using
F-12-Beta rescue mode from disc1.iso
529794 - setuptool - MODIFIED - cannot modify firewall using 'setup'
506013 - anaconda - MODIFIED - liveinst crash - DBusException ... No
such property HwAddress
515441 - anaconda - MODIFIED - Can't select local CD/DVD after provide
a wrong NFS location during install of F12 alpha
527258 - anaconda - MODIFIED - When using NFS installation source -
Cannot retrieve repository metadata for respository: UIedited_0.
518623 - unixODBC - ON_QA - busted sizes for SQLBIGINT and ODBCINT64 etc
Thanks for your help and time,
John
14 years, 7 months
dracut, or should booting a LiveCD touch the hard disk?
by Chuck Anderson
Dracut currently tries to find and activate all RAID, LVM, and LUKS
partitions on the hard disks when booting the LiveCD.
Several of my systems are made up of many RAID, LVM, and LUKS
partitions in various combinations. Booting the LiveCD now goes and
activates these and asks for passphrases that I have to "skip over" by
entering blank/bogus values to get the system to boot up. I now know
that you can pass various "rd_*" options such as "rd_NO_LUKS" to grub
to have dracut skip these things, but I was hoping for something
better, perhaps a "skip" button.
The new behavior makes the LiveCD less independent of and more "tied"
to the existing installations on the hard disk. This is surprising
and unexpected. Many uses of LiveCD's expect that the live
environment will be completely independent of, and unaffected by, what
is on the hard disk. This is no longer true. It may be confusing for
users of LiveCD's when an (unidentified) passphrase input text box
pops up when booting the LiveCD.
What do others think? Should the LiveCD by default access and
activate storage volumes, including encrypted partitions, on the hard
disks? Should the LUKS prompts better identify the volume so that
users know what passphrase to enter?
I would prefer a LiveCD that doesn't do anything to the hard disk at
all, at least by default when booting up. It should be
"self-contained". Perhaps we should create another entry in
syslinux.cfg that enables rd_NO_LUKS by default, and call it "Boot
without accessing hard disk".
14 years, 7 months
Unable to download Fedora 12 beta using jigdo
by Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi,
I'm trying to download F12 beta DVD x86_64 iso using jigdo (I've used
jigdo to download previous versions too). It successfully downloaded all
files, but it doesn't accept downloaded install.img file and tries to
download it again and again. I've tried downloading install.img several
times (also using stand alone download applications) but jigdo doesn't
accept any of them. As a result, jigdo doesn't compose the final .iso
image because of 1 missing file. Does anybody have any ideas about the
reason of failure? Has anybody downloaded F12 beta x86_64 using jigdo
successfully?
Thanks,
Hedayat
14 years, 7 months
Re: Fwd: Request to update ATi OSS driver for Fedora 12
by Liang Suilong
To Tomasz,
Thank you! I have enabled compiz with ati oss drivers.
To Adam Williamson
Oh..So I need to remove radeonhd driver in my box. RadeonHD seems to be one
part of xorg-x11-drv-ati. They provides the same things to ati users. But
radeonhd only stand for R500/R600 later.
Yes, When rolling up and down in the gnome-terminal. I move up my mouse but
the scroll bar still stay at there for about 0.5 seconds to 1 seconds. You
can feel delay obviously. But I do not try to disable KMS. Let me try it and
report the problem to here.
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14 years, 7 months
F-12 upgrade experience with Dell D630
by Peter Robinson
Hi All,
As the Dell Latitude D630 is one of the more common devices that smolt
reports being used by Fedora I thought I'd mention my upgrade
experience and issues for F-12.
Probably the two usual things that people query are grahics and wifi.
The model I have has the Intel IWL-4965AGN device which as expected
works fine.
I'm having a few issues with the nouveau driver with plymouth in that
it doesn't work at all but if I remove all the options from the kernel
boot line it gets to X and apart from some initial corruption as GDM
comes up its OK from there. I have no idea how to debug this.
Thankfully the issue with detection of my 2nd screen at 1680x1050 is
no longer and it now works great. Laptop screen is 1440x900 and I use
to have to run a manual 'xrandr --auto' to get it to detect both
resolutions properly and configure it.
Probably the most annoying is the breakage of sound. This seems to
have every other kernel/alsa/pulseaudio update and was an issue on and
off right through F-11 as well so its not exactly surprising but also
disappointing that one of the most common devices running Fedora has
sound broken on a semi regular basis. Again some pointers in debugging
this so it can be fixed by F-12 final would be great.
The only other very minor issue I see is that the icon spacing on the
gnome panels is massive!
Peter
14 years, 7 months
Status of touchpad support in F12 for kdm?
by mike cloaked
In F11 every laptop I installed had support for the touchpad under Gnome, but in
order to have touchpad tap action at the greeter stage in kdm I need to put in
place a suitable hal/fdi file.
Is touchpad support in kdm going to be available by default in F12?
14 years, 7 months
