Test Live Image Available

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> Just in time for the holidays, I've put up a new rawhide live image for
> some testing fun.  Available as usual via bittorrent from
> http://spins.fedoraproject.org and the direct link is:
> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents//rawhide-i686-20071220.torrent
> 
> Some notes:
> * i686 version of the main/desktop/gnome image only.  We had planned to
> have a KDE version, but some last minute problems have led to holding
> off for now
> * The images are set up to have SELinux in permissive mode as opposed to
> enforcing due to bug #425819
> * The keyboard screen in the installer is disabled due to it needing
> some work for some API changes in firstboot (#424811)
> * evince is not included on the image to keep the size down.  evince now
> ends up pulling in a large amount of tetex-fonts (#426388)
> * To log in, you'll want to click on the Fedora Live user and enter a
> blank password
> 
> The set of images have a lot of things available for some testing.  This
> includes (entirely non-comprehensive, based purely on what I know about)
> * Firefox 3 Beta 2
> * Installer support for resizing ext2, ext3 and ntfs partitions and
> logical volumes.  PLEASE BACK UP YOUR DATA FIRST!   :-)
> * Installer support for encrypted block devices, including /
> * And a whole bunch of things I'm not thinking about right now
> 
> So download and enjoy.  As always, file bugs in bugzilla against the
> 'rawhide' version of the Fedora product against the package you have
> trouble with.
> 
> Thanks for testing!
> 
> Jeremy
> 

Booted nicely, got to desktop ok, however:

1) Not sure where to bz for this one.  Test system has software raid 
used as PVs for LVs and no software raid devices were started, so LVM 
couldn't see the Lvs on those devices.  Had to mdadm --assemble 
/dev/md0, etc --scan --config=/temp/mdadm.conf (strange that using 
/dev/md* did not work as it works elsewhere).  Then vgscan, etc., and 
all LVs seen.  This is a consistent problem since Fedora 7 days....

2) On logoff, bugbuddy reported a terminal crash but I couldn't save the 
data as logoff was in effect.   Think this is a gnome problem and have 
seen it in current rawhide and reported it upstream.

-- 
Regards,

Old Fart
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