Call for testing: 32-bit AMD CPU owners

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 12:08 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, folks!
> 
> We've found an issue in Fedora 23 Beta testing which seems to affect
> AMD CPUs when booting the 32-bit images:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263762
> 
> unfortunately, so far all those who've tested have only had 64-bit
> CPUs. So we know there's a problem booting the 32-bit images on some
> 64-bit AMD CPUs, but we don't know yet if there's a problem booting
> the 32-bit images on 32-bit AMD CPUs, which is obviously the main
> reason we still keep the 32-bit images around (people with 64-bit
> CPUs
> can just use the 64-bit images).


One additional request: it's unclear right now (and we don't have
available hardware to test) if there is also a failure happening on 64-
bit AMD systems that are running on i686 Fedora.

If someone out there has access to hardware that hits BZ #1263762,
would you please try installing Fedora 22 i686, updating to all the
latest stable packages, plus dnf-plugin-system-upgrade from updates-
testing and then do an upgrade using the supported mechanism[1] and
verify whether A) the upgrade runs or aborts, leaving F22 present and
B) if it completes the upgrade, is the system bootable and runnable.

This will help us figure out how serious to rate this issue. (For new
installs, we can probably advocate simply using the 64-bit media; for
existing installs, irrecoverably breaking on upgrade could be a show-
stopper).

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade
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