Rawhide / F19 tester PSA: Don't install the F19 fedora-release yet. If you do, don't install a kernel. If you do THAT, don't reboot.

[Kevin Kofler]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> Then nothing would boot at all.
> 
> It turns out this is because the release name of Fedora 19 is:
> 
> Schrödinger's Cat
> 
> with a single quote used as an apostrophe. That release name gets
> written into the grub entry for a kernel when you're installing it.
> Unfortunately, the lines it goes onto look like this:
> 
> menuentry 'Fedora (3.9.0-0.rc2.git0.4.fc20.x86_64) 19 (Schrödinger's
> Cat)' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os
> $menuentry_id_option
> 'gnulinux-simple-a749ca4b-0cea-4db0-883d-5c036d89e5c5' {
> 
> and:
> 
> echo 'Loading Fedora (3.9.0-0.rc2.git0.4.fc20.x86_64) 19 (Schrödinger's
> Cat)'
> 
> note how both lines use single quotes for quoting. The single quote in
> the release name terminates the quotes early, and leaves the rest of the
> stuff that's meant to be inside the single quotes as garbage lying
> around the config file.

http://xkcd.com/327/ ;-)

        Kevin Kofler