F17 FAIL - long live F16

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 16:53 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> On 06/01/2012 12:25 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 11:17 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> >> I did a fresh install of 64 bit F17 from the DVD on omen.com yesterday.
> >> I was a bit alarmed at all the funny screens before Anaconda got the
> >> X server running.
> >>
> >> The install did not offer to check the DVD for errors.
> >> Apparently there weren't as the install proceeded without problems.
> >>
> >> The biggest problem is on F17 seems to be networking.  The omen.com
> >> machine talks to the internet using a PCI card.  The motherboard
> >> gigabit ethernet talks to the local 192.168.1 net.  As with F16 the
> >> brain damaged network connections GUI would not let me set
> >> the local net without specifying a gateway.  This required me to
> >> manually edit the scripts before masquerading could work.
> >> Overnight the local net died and I decided to revert to the
> >> previously installed F16.
> > So...you're saying that F17 behaves exactly the same as F16 except
> > something went wrong.
> >
> > This is very useful information and I shall work on fixing something
> > right away!
> The difference is that F17 seems unstable running the two networks.
> I do not know if I am the only one using Fedora as a gateway.
> My situation may be unique.   F17 appears unreliable
> on the same machine where F16 has been reliable.
> 
> I will see if I can recreate and resolve the problem(s) on another
> machine which doesn't have to be reliable.
> 
> My problem reports in the past have identified problems before
> they were widely known.  You are free to ignore them.

A report that 'the network went down' is worth about zero. Put yourself
in the position of, say, the NetworkManager maintainer. you have just
read a mail which says:

'Overnight the local net died and I decided to revert to the
previously installed F16."

What do you do? Where do you start?
-- 
Adam Williamson
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