F10 preview kickstart failure + other issues list
by Peter Glassenbury (CSSE)
Hi all,
First post to this list so go easy on me if I haven't followed protocol.
I have a kickstart server to serve out F10 preview(to test it on a
variety of hardware). I use a network pxe/tftp install
and can install OK. (formats disk, installs packages etc.) Doesn't run properly.
#1 minor issue..
docs said I didn't need to expand the .iso into a tree (I have
had to in the past) I can use
method=nfsiso:server:/path/Fedora-10-Preview-i386-DVD.iso
Couldn't get this to work at all. If it is supposed to work
then the documentation needs clarification as to how.
I reverted back to last versions
"expand everything out to a directory tree"
#2 major issue
When it does the first boot off the local disk, it hangs
at nfslock with "NFS statd" on the screen. Don't know why or how to
fix it..Any pointers for things I should check
#3 another issue
I can get past the hang(interactive boot) but can't finish the
install because my server disks are not available. I note the one liner...
"8.2.3. Autofs - Autofs is no longer installed by default.....
.... choose it from the System Tools group"
What replaces it so I can finish the install??
autofs is NOT in the @system-tools group. I added that group to the
kickstart install file but it didn't install (and a package doesn't
seem to be in the Packages directory.)
my kickstart file is listed below and does do some copying from servers
with hard readonly mounts..
#4 possible I have the wrong arch?... notice on the list someone
suggested 64 bit for HP workstations
Fedora 10 preview i386 (this is the architecture we used on these
machines last year with F8... should we be using x86_64 ??)
Hardware trialling on.
HP DC7700 - Intel Core2 6400(a)2.13GHz
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG HD160JJ/ ZM10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 0.3.3.3-k6
Intel DQ965GFERKR UATX motherboard -- E6420 CPU --uses the following
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD1600JS-60M 10.0 PQ:
Kickstart config file
=====================
install
lang en_NZ.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --device=eth0 --bootproto=dhcp
rootpw --iscrypted BlahBlah
firewall --disabled
auth --useshadow --enableldap --enableldapauth --ldapserver IP.numbers.here --ldapbasedn
o=nismaps,dc=cosc,dc=canterbury,dc=ac,dc=nz
selinux --disabled
timezone Pacific/Auckland
bootloader --md5pass=BlahBlah --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="noipv6"
reboot
text
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
part / --fstype ext3 --size=700 --grow
part swap --size=2048
%pre
%end
%packages
whole lot of groups here because I can't find ANYWHERE
a way of doing @everything or @all
%end
%post --nochroot --erroronfail --log=/root/ks_post_log --interpreter /bin/sh
mkdir -p /mnt/f10-i386
mount -r -o nolock IP_server_num:/export/netfs/kickstart/f10-i386/CSSE_post /mnt/f10-i386
SOURCE=/mnt/f10-i386
LOCATION=/mnt/sysimage
cd $SOURCE/control
cp ./auto.master $LOCATION/etc/auto.master
mkdir -p $LOCATION/var/tmp
rm -rf $LOCATION/tmp
ln -sf /var/tmp $LOCATION/tmp
mkdir -p $LOCATION/local
chmod 1777 $LOCATION/local
cp -f ./nsswitch.conf $LOCATION/etc/nsswitch.conf
cp -f ./S98kickstart.F10 $LOCATION/etc/rc3.d/
chmod a+x $LOCATION/etc/rc3.d/S98kickstart.F10
%end
Cheers
Pete
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15 years, 6 months
arecord Input/Output error
by Partha Bagchi
Perhaps I am doing something wrong. But arecord seems to give me
input/output error:
arecord -f cd -t wav foobar.wav
Recording WAVE 'foobar.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
arecord: pcm_read:1489: read error: Input/output error
Does anyone else have this issue?
Thanks,
Partha
15 years, 6 months
'interactive' boot
by A. Mani
In Fedora 10 Preview (full install), I cannot get into interactive boot mode.
Boot without 'rhgb quiet'.
Pressing 'I' at the usual stage does not work
The main difference is \home is on an encrypted xfs partition, so I
get the password prompt for that after
the "Press I for interactive startup" and 'udev OK' messages.
Is this known in other situations?
Otherwise, I will report this as bug.
Best
A. Mani
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Member, Cal. Math. Soc
15 years, 6 months
Bluetooth Problems
by Jim
FC 10 /KDE
Error message while running Bluetooth-Wizard.
Is it missing some GTK packages or What ??
$ bluetooth-wizard
(bluetooth-wizard:4061): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
gtk_tree_model_filter_set_visible_func: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_MODEL_FILTER
(filter)' failed
(bluetooth-wizard:4061): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
gtk_tree_model_sort_new_with_model: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_MODEL
(child_model)' failed
(bluetooth-wizard:4061): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
gtk_tree_sortable_set_sort_column_id: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_SORTABLE
(sortable)' failed
(bluetooth-wizard:4061): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref:
assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)'
failed
(bluetooth-wizard:4061): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref:
assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
15 years, 6 months
Windows bites Fedora
by A.J. Werkman`
On both the Asus M2A-VM and M2N-VM DVI motherboard I noticed the following.
I have configured the system to dual boot between windows and fedora.
When I switch from windows to fedora, fedora can not get control over
the build in NIC anymore. So DHCP can not configure the NIC. A software
reboot and a hardware reboot don't solve the problem. The only remedy is
to fysically disconnect the power cord wait a few seconds and power up
directly into fedora again. As soon as windows boots the problem reoccurs.
I saw this too on some other motherboards I don't recall the name of.
I tested three M2A-VM boards and found this problem on all three of
them. This is 100% reproducible.
It looks like Windows leaves the NIC in a state that fedora can't
handle. Anyone seen this? Anyone who has a solution to this?
Koos.
15 years, 6 months
X still freezes
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I thought that one of the benefits of the kernel-based mode setting and
reworked VT code in F10 was that one could still use Ctrl-Alt-<Fn> to
escape even if X froze up. I guess I must have misunderstood because I
just managed to freeze X completely (some combination of showing a flash
video and switching desktops, probably hard to reproduce) and had to
reset the machine to recover. This is with an Intel 965 video chipset.
poc
15 years, 6 months
Fedora 10 Preview results
by John Morris
Have now tried the F10 Preview in three environments, None worked 100%,
but it isn't all that bad either.
First try: QEMU 0.9.1
The installer hangs at the end. Whenever I check back on it the screen
is black and the mouse is frozen. But the install did complete,
rebooting starts the firstboot process normally. Tried a second install
and had the same results. Other than installing little further testing
was done as the VM was so slow as to be unusable. This with kqemu
loaded and running and on a machine where F9 in qemu is somewhat
sluggish but usable. Also, shutdown fails to 'power off' the VM.
Second try: pub_bd650caa-f279-438f-ba56-69ae904b66dd
Boot time, from GRUB to GDM login: 1:20
Time from login to desktop: 0:31 with the screen blank >25
Much better luck on real hardware. Install worked without a hitch.
Compiz works out of the box. No option for suspend or sleep and
hibernate doesn't work. Plus shutdown doesn't power off but this isn't
anything new on this platform, power down has always been spotty and
sleep/suspend/hibernate has never worked. Power down works on F6, F7
and F8, doesn't on RHEL5 (clone), F9 and F10Preview.
For grins I installed all of the sugar packages on this machine to have
a look at it. The calculator is broken. Everything else appears to
work in as much as it does what it appears it is intended to do... but
now I understand why countries buying the OLPC hardware are installing
XP.
Third try: pub_10f500cd-a672-4c4b-a40b-c52f6ba2a804
Boot time, from GRUB to GDM login: 0:55
Time from login to desktop: 0:13 with the screen blank >10
Got to see the new Plymouth eye candy on this machine. Looks very
good. Kills GL very dead. Booting with nomodeset makes GL apps work,
including the compiz bling bling. So pretty boot vs working compiz/GL
isn't much of a decision, if it can't be made to work reliably it needs
to be disabled by default.
This machine will power down at the end of a shutdown but hibernate
fails and sleep/suspend aren't offered as options. Again, these power
management issues aren't new to F10.
One non-platform specific issue is that Firefox is launching larger than
the 1280x1024 panel on both of the real machines I tried. No problem
for me to ALT-drag the menus and title bar into view but that would
confuse the heck out of a newbie.
When F9 came out I was hating on PackageKit with a lot of other people.
The version on the F10 Preview install media was also broken but the
current rawhide looks like it is settling down quite nicely for F10
final.
If I had to pick one thing to complain about it would be the speed
drop. F10 continues the trend toward slower performance on the same
hardware. Boot time isn't bad but the time from login to the desktop
finishing to load is appalling and that should be happening more often
that booting anyway.
The machine that recorded the 31 second login is an Athlon64 with 2GB of
RAM in it, it isn't state of the moment but it ain't no obsolete piece
of junk either. The hard drive is a old one from the bench but logging
in and out and right back in to ensure everything is in cache only cut
the time to 25 seconds so something else is the bottleneck. Watching
top during a login it appears Xorg is the CPU hog.
To provide a couple of reference datapoints for the bloat over time,
here is the time to login for several previous releases running on the
same machine. The model of drive is noted because it is the only other
variable between versions. All measurements with compiz disabled and
from a cold start.
Fedora Core 5 6 Maxtor 51536U3
Fedora Core 6 15* Western Digital WD200
Fedora 7 9 Maxtor 51536U3
Fedora 8 26 Maxtor 51536U3
Fedora 9 Couldn't locate that drive
Fedora 10P 31 Maxtor 6E030L05
* Everything except the date/time is on the screen by 11 seconds.
If the goal is to make Linux as slow as Windows Vista break out the
"Mission Accomplished" banners. Otherwise improving performance really
needs to become a bigger priority than new features and rewriting
existing ones for the Nth time.
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15 years, 6 months
FC 10 drops Mic on reboot.
by Jim
FC 10 / KDE
Setting mic in gnome-volume-control, Enabling Mic under Recording Tab,
Mic works great ,but if I reboot
Box I loose Mic and I have to go back into Recording Tab and renable.
What Wrong ??
15 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20081112 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Wed Nov 12 06:01:43 UTC 2008
Updated Packages:
acpid-1.0.6-9.fc10
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* Tue Nov 11 17:00:00 2008 Zdenek Prikryl <zprikryl(a)redhat.com> - 1.0.6-9
- power.sh works with ConsoleKit >= 0.3.0 (#470752)
- Fixed conditions in power.sh, which look for power-managers (#470752)
- Added check to init script
anaconda-11.4.1.57-1
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* Tue Nov 11 17:00:00 2008 David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com> - 11.4.1.57-1
- Fix more UnicodeDecodeErrors, hopefully for good this time (#470733).
(clumens)
- iscsi do missing value check only once (hdegoede)
- Don't try to label XFS filesystems on livecd installs (#470951). (clumens)
- Include cracklib .mo files and look up strings in the right domain.
(clumens)
- Bugzilla has changed its return values for a couple queries. (clumens)
- Set the default keyboard based on the language (#470446). (clumens)
- Prevent traceback for vnc installs on KVM guests (#470559) (dcantrell)
- Bring up networking early enough for syslog= param (#470513) (dcantrell)
- Sleep a bit before calling udevsettle in iscsiTarget.login (#470073,
- kickstart, iscsi do not call iscsi.startup after startIBFT has been called
(hdegoede)
- Do not stop and restart iscsid when rescanning disks/partitions (#470223)
(hdegoede)
- iscsi.startup should not login to targets as we are already logged in
(#470230) (hdegoede)
- Remove obsolete normally never reached code from _stopIscsiDaemon
(#470229) (hdegoede)
- The function getEncryptedDevice gets called correctly expect when we are
in (jgranado)
- More translations
cheese-2.24.1-2.fc10
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* Sun Nov 9 17:00:00 2008 Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> 2.24.1-2
- Fix cams which only support 1 resolution not working (rh470698, gnome560032)
dovecot-1.1.6-2.fc10
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* Mon Nov 3 17:00:00 2008 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.1.6-2
- changed comment in sysconfig to match actual state
* Mon Nov 3 17:00:00 2008 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.1.6-1
- update to upstream version 1.1.6
- change permissions of deliver and dovecot.conf to prevent possible password exposure
Summary:
Added Packages: 0
Removed Packages: 0
Modified Packages: 4
Broken deps for ppc64
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livecd-tools-019-1.fc10.ppc64 requires yaboot
15 years, 6 months