Dear sir/madam,
I ran into a problem with Fedora Electronic Lab, but I am not sure where to report it.
The problem that I ran into is a bug that has been fixed, but the fix has not been implemented into the installation disk, instead it’s being offered through updates. Since the bug in question prevents under certain circumstances a successful boot, I would like to know why it hasn’t been implemented in the installation disk.
The bug presents itself when booting the Fedora Electronic Lab 18 iso within a virtual machine made in VMWare Workstation 9. When the bug presents itself, it causes the boot process to stop just before the logon screen should appear. Instead only the background and the mouse appear, nothing more. It’s not frozen though, I can move the mouse.
After disabling the 3d graphics acceleration setting in VMWare Workstation, booting and installing goes without problems. The 3d graphics acceleration setting can be re-enabled after the updates for Fedora have been installed.
Links about this issue:
http://letsdevus.blogspot.nl/2013/04/solved-vmware-9-enable-3d-acceleration.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903413
In the comments on the 2nd link, someone says: “This has been fixed in commit dbb2d192de33064ae6cdb799d71c5ac89a6ea8ff in the Mesa3D repository“ Can you forward this email to the right person? It would be very helpful to update the iso with this particular fix. With regards, Bart Grefte