How many people have unbootable FC5T2?

[Matthew Carter]

Just a quick quiz on how many people have a install of fedora that is
unbootable? Where does it stop? When did it stop?

Only reason I am asking is I havent had mine working since early test1
and am nervous about the release of FC5 as it might not support my
laptop. I have used fedora on it since FC3 and have never had any
issues but FC5 tests seem to be causing all hell to break loose.

Matt

[Chasecreek Systemhouse]

On 1/24/06, Matt Carter <matt.carter85(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Just a quick quiz on how many people have a install of fedora that
> is
>  unbootable? Where does it stop? When did it stop? 
I am on PPC -- the FC5T2 stuff installs but shortly afterward (less
than an hour) there is something marks the filesystem as RO and hosed
the rest of the root data...  =/

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[Peter Jones]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 21:27 -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
>  On 1/24/06, Matt Carter <matt.carter85(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > Just a quick quiz on how many people have a install of fedora that is
>  > unbootable? Where does it stop? When did it stop?
>  
>  I am on PPC -- the FC5T2 stuff installs but shortly afterward (less
>  than an hour) there is something marks the filesystem as RO and hosed
>  the rest of the root data...  =/ 
The FS marks itself RO when it notices that it's in an inconsistent
state, to avoid further corruption.

-- 
  Peter

[Chasecreek Systemhouse]

On 1/25/06, Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 21:27 -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
>  > I am on PPC -- the FC5T2 stuff installs but shortly afterward
> (less
>  > than an hour) there is something marks the filesystem as RO and hosed
>  > the rest of the root data...  =/
>
>  The FS marks itself RO when it notices that it's in an inconsistent
>  state, to avoid further corruption. 
Last night I was able to catch this before the filesystem was hosed to
completely unbootable:

[root@imac ~]# EXT3-fs error (device hda4): ext3_add_entry: bad entry
in directory #1752346: rec_len % 4 != 0 -
offset=160, inode=4102717057, rec_len=27005, name_len=3
Aborting journal on device hda4.
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device hda4): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
Remounting filesystem read-only
EXT3-fs error (device hda4) in ext3_rename: IO failure
__journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
__journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
__journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data


The above is from Kernel 1871...

However 1808 and 1826 series both work as does the original Kernel as
installed by FC5T1...
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WC -Sx- Jones | http://ccsh.us/ | Open Source Consulting

[Phil Schaffner]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 23:08 +0000, Matt Carter wrote:
>  Just a quick quiz on how many people have a install of fedora that
> is
>  unbootable? Where does it stop? When did it stop?
>  
>  Only reason I am asking is I havent had mine working since early test1
>  and am nervous about the release of FC5 as it might not support my
>  laptop. I have used fedora on it since FC3 and have never had any
>  issues but FC5 tests seem to be causing all hell to break loose. 
I have had multiple failures (>4) testing installing/upgrading FC5t2 in
VMware Workstation on two different hosts.  Zero successes.  Haven't
tried on real hardware yet.

Phil

[Jon Savage]

>  I have had multiple failures (>4) testing installing/upgrading
> FC5t2 in
>  VMware Workstation on two different hosts.  Zero successes.  Haven't
>  tried on real hardware yet. 
Working on real albiet aged hardware here - an IBM T20
laptop.
Boots faster than FC4 on better hardware.
No complaints :)

--
Bests,
Jon

[Reg Clemens]

>  On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 23:08 +0000, Matt Carter wrote:
>  > Just a quick quiz on how many people have a install of fedora that is
>  > unbootable? Where does it stop? When did it stop?
>  > 
>  > Only reason I am asking is I havent had mine working since early test1
>  > and am nervous about the release of FC5 as it might not support my
>  > laptop. I have used fedora on it since FC3 and have never had any
>  > issues but FC5 tests seem to be causing all hell to break loose.
>  
>  I have had multiple failures (>4) testing installing/upgrading FC5t2 in
>  VMware Workstation on two different hosts.  Zero successes.  Haven't
>  tried on real hardware yet.
>   
I have a multiboot system, and wrote the FC5T2 to a new partition. 
The install SHOULD have overwritten the boot block, it didnt, when I booted,
I got the old/other system back.  Had to modify /boot/grub/grub.conf
to get to the new install.

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                                        Reg.Clemens
                                        reg(a)dwf.com

[Rudolf Kastl]

2006/1/25, Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner(a)ieee.org&gt;:
>  On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 23:08 +0000, Matt Carter wrote:
>  > Just a quick quiz on how many people have a install of fedora that is
>  > unbootable? Where does it stop? When did it stop?
>  >
>  > Only reason I am asking is I havent had mine working since early test1
>  > and am nervous about the release of FC5 as it might not support my
>  > laptop. I have used fedora on it since FC3 and have never had any
>  > issues but FC5 tests seem to be causing all hell to break loose.
>
>  I have had multiple failures (>4) testing installing/upgrading FC5t2 in
>  VMware Workstation on two different hosts.  Zero successes.  Haven't
>  tried on real hardware yet.
>
>  Phil
>
>
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i am not sure if installing in vmware is a reliable test case though.
all it basically does it testing exactly that... if fc5tX works in
vmware which could be a  plain vmware problem (there have been similar
problems in the past with new releases.)

regards,
rudolf kastl

[Peter Jones]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 23:08 +0000, Matt Carter wrote:
>  Just a quick quiz on how many people have a install of fedora that
> is
>  unbootable? Where does it stop? When did it stop?
>  
>  Only reason I am asking is I havent had mine working since early test1
>  and am nervous about the release of FC5 as it might not support my
>  laptop. I have used fedora on it since FC3 and have never had any
>  issues but FC5 tests seem to be causing all hell to break loose. 
So, uh, can you answer your own question for us?  Where does it stop for
you?

-- 
  Peter

[David Timms]

Peter Jones wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 23:08 +0000, Matt Carter wrote:
>   
>
> >Just a quick quiz on how many people have a install of fedora that is
> >unbootable? Where does it stop? When did it stop?
> >
> >Only reason I am asking is I havent had mine working since early test1
> >and am nervous about the release of FC5 as it might not support my
> >laptop. I have used fedora on it since FC3 and have never had any
> >issues but FC5 tests seem to be causing all hell to break loose.
> >    
> >
> So, uh, can you answer your own question for us?  Where does it stop for
> you?
>  
And on what type of hardware ?

[Stanton Finley]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 21:03 +1100, David Timms wrote:
>  Peter Jones wrote:
>  
>  >On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 23:08 +0000, Matt Carter wrote:
>  >  
>  >
>  >>Just a quick quiz on how many people have a install of fedora that is
>  >>unbootable? Where does it stop? When did it stop?
>  >>
>  >>Only reason I am asking is I havent had mine working since early test1
>  >>and am nervous about the release of FC5 as it might not support my
>  >>laptop. I have used fedora on it since FC3 and have never had any
>  >>issues but FC5 tests seem to be causing all hell to break loose.
>  >>    
>  >>
>  >So, uh, can you answer your own question for us?  Where does it stop for
>  >you?
>  >
>  And on what type of hardware ?
>   
FC5T2 won't boot on my Emachines T5026. In fact it can't even find the
kernel image on the boot disk. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178143

Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/