test days live image creation guide
by Kamil Paral
Hello,
our guide for livecd creation used for test days [1] have been
outdated (used F11 packages as a repository). I have rewritten
it to use Rawhide packages for building, which is preferred
for test days. I have also added some info what to do if rawhide
repository is currently broken. Hope that helps.
There is one issue which should be discussed: The default
kickstart scripts remove fedora-logos package because of
trademark issues with non-official spins. I have added it back
for test days spins. Is that ok? If someone thinks it is not,
it's not a problem to modify it, just tell me.
Kamil
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/Live_Image
14 years, 7 months
Abobe Reader doesn't work with current Rawhide
by Jonathan Kamens
FYI, with current rawhide, Adobe Reader (I tried 9.1.2 and 9.1.3)
crashes on startup. I sent a crash dump to Adobe and suggested that
they might want to try to get it fixed before Fedora 12 is released, but
I'm not holding my breath.
jik
14 years, 7 months
move to openssl-1.0 and skype
by Michal Jaegermann
It appears that move to openssl-1.0 means that available skype
binaries will break on Fedora 12.
$ ldd /usr/bin/skype | grep so.8
libssl.so.8 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.8 (0x00369000)
libcrypto.so.8 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.8 (0x001fc000)
I know that skype is binary-only and so on but in practical terms
that would be a very serious trouble. Or maybe this is only
indirect and openssl-1.0 will work too? No way to check that really
in the current state of rawhide where attempts to update to any
packages using openssl-1.0 fail on dependencies.
If /usr/lib/libssl.so.8 is really required would be possible to have
'compat-openssl' for that?
Michal
14 years, 7 months
Install 12 Alpha Using USB Stick
by Robert L Cochran
I'm going to try installing Fedora 12 x86_64 using the install.img image
taken from the DVD iso. I put it on a USB stick. I'll install this to a
brand new hard 160 Gb drive. I need to upload a few more files to my
other machine which will be needed on the new installation if it is
successful. We will see what happens.
Bob
14 years, 7 months
F12 alpha needs network during install?
by Joachim Backes
I installed F12 alpha from the DVD and had the feeling that the network
is used during installation. So the installation was awful slow.
For confirming this, I tried to install again after having de-activated
the LAN chip in the BIOS, and, indeeded, the installation was cancelled
(after the install partition had been formatted).
Is there any option for installing F12 without accessing the LAN (I have
DSL with 1 Megabit/sec)?
All comments are welcome.
--
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>
http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes
14 years, 7 months
F12-Alpha-Live does not work
by Antonio Olivares
Dear folks,
I downloaded F12-Alpha-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso to test on an EMachines ET1161-05 machine and it fails to work. I get the login screen, I click enter to get into KDE and I get message:
BoX appears with message:
Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.
Okay
I have to select Okay and it cycles me back to login screen :(, I wanted to test live install, but not possible at this time :(
I see line the following lines too :
grep : ]: no such file or directory
sbin/real-init: line 487: [: missing ']'
transferring control to /sbin/init
I wanted to install Rawhide on this machine and keep up with the testing, but I guess I should try another option?
Regards,
Antonio
14 years, 7 months
F12-alpha: superblock always in future
by sean darcy
I've just installed F12 alpha. My system clock is set to local time. F12
must think it's set to UTC. But when I try to boot, I end up in fsck
land, with a last mount time in future error. If I then run fsck and
reboot, I get the _same_ error, but now everything is 4 hours earlier!
How can I get it to boot?
sean
14 years, 8 months
selinux error after starting vpn
by David L
I don't know much about selinux, so I'm not sure if this is normal or not,
but I got this error after starting a pptp vpn connection with NetworkManager:
SELinux denied access requested by ip-up. It is not expected that this
access is required by ip-up and this access may signal an intrusion
attempt. It is also possible that the specific version or
configuration of the application is causing it to require additional
access.
I was running f11-alpha + non-broken dependencies updated today.
Cheers...
David
14 years, 8 months
SEAlert seems to need pakagekit
by shmuel siegel
On an up to date fc12 i686 system (I got there with preupdate from fc11)
I occassionally get one of the stars on the panel that says that there
is a selinux error (I am running in permissive mode). But when I open
the dialog box I see that it complains that it can't find
packagekit.frontend. Not very surprising since I don't have packagekit
on my system. Shouldn't there have been a dependency problem?
package-cleanup says that everything is okay.
14 years, 8 months
Sectool Test Day Coming Up ...
by Eduard Benes
Hello, friends!
I would like to announce another Test Day. This Tuesday we want to look
at Sectool (using Fit&Finish test day slot).
Sectool is a security tool that can be used both as a security audit
as well as a part of an intrusion detection system. So it looks like
this is important tool and that is why we want you to come and help
testing.
There is a Sectool TestDay wiki page [1] with all important info.
Maros Barabas and Jakub Hrozek have kindly agreed to be around,
so we'll have sufficient expertise from developers.
Drop in #fedora-test-day on Freenode on this Tuesday, Sep 1,
to join in the fun.
We are looking forward to see you this Tuesday!
/Eduard
[1] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-01_Sectool
14 years, 8 months
