Fedora 12 has gone gold

[Ray Strode]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Bradley Baetz <bbaetz at gmail.com> wrote:
> [sorry for the duplicate posting if you get one]
>
> On 11/11/09 04:24, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
>> Our impressions are indeed different.  The go / no go meeting was the
>> point of no return.  Once we go, there is no going back.  We've made a
>> commitment to go with what we have, and let the various teams that need
>> time to prepare for the release to start their work, as much of that
>> work cannot be pulled back once done.
>>
>
> Does that mean that its too late to get a bug marked as a blocker?

Unfortunately, yes.

> I've just upgraded from F11 using preupgrade and run into
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530896 which appears to have the
> impact that anyone not using the graphical boot option can't enter a
> password for an encrypted partition (eg /home), and then gets stuck in an
> endless loop being prompted for the password with no way out.

I don't think it affects all non-graphical boot users, but I don't
know how far reaching it is (because we haven't identified what
program is causing the problem yet).

I added some notes to the CommonBugs page here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#Encrypted_disks_can.27t_be_unencrypted_for_non-graphical_boot

That combined with the 0-day update that users should pick up at
initial install time automatically sort of defangs this issue.

Still unfortunate that no one ran into this issue a week earlier though.

--Ray