Fedora 19 beta test candidate images

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Fri May 24 13:33:38 UTC 2013


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:47:25AM +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> 1) The hostname is not set correctly. See my updates to
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964006. Looks to me like a
> systemd/selinux issue.

Ahaha! 

I had ruled that out because I booted with selinux=0 and it didn't work
either.

But apparently, cloud-init completely fails in that situation too.

So, I changed to writing "SELINUX=permissive" to /etc/sysconfig/selinux, and
that didn't work either, but on further inspection, on boot SELinux is still
in enforcing mode, ignoring that config file. (Changed it to
"SELINUX=disabled" doesn't work either.)

Sooo, I booted with enforcing=0 on the kernel command line, and now it
works.

I think maybe I need a vacation. :)

Are the sysconfig options not working for other people?

(I think probably `Requires systemd-hostnamed.service` in the systemd config is
a good idea too.)

> 2) The root partition is not resized. There's two problems:
>     a) cloud.cfg doesn't list the growpart module ->
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=966888
>     b) cloud-init can't find a resizer, since F19 parted doesn't seem
> to support online partition resizing (option 'resizepart' is not
> available). The work-around for this is to install cloud-utils.

cloud-utils brings in a lot of dependenies. Including, apparently, glusterfs
and ceph. Do you think it's possible/useful to split out growpart?

It looks like the resizepart command isn't upstream (even in the 

> 3) Can we please make the default user more provider agnostic? Pretty
> please?? I propose to follow Debian and Ubuntu and use 'fedora' as the
> default user.

Yeah. I just want consensus on this. Let's start a new thread discussing it.

(One particular question is whether we want to use ec2-user in EC2, or the
generic one.) Also, the livecd uses "liveuser". Maybe we should use
"clouduser"?



> 4) The kickstart file is stored in /root. That should probably be purged.

Sure. It's pretty standard to have it there, but we can save 6K and people
can look for it on the web. :)


> 5) The console log is empty. Can we add 'console=ttyS0' to the kernel
> commandline?

Sorry, yeah. I meant to do that before. 

> 6) cloud-init doesn't display the networking info correctly ->
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949832

*nod* Yeah, I've known about that. Thanks for filing the bug.

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Matthew Miller  ☁☁☁  Fedora Cloud Architect  ☁☁☁  <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>


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