F19 server install experience

[Samuel Sieb]

On 08/17/2013 12:28 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> VLAN setup for installing!  Yay!  However, after rebooting,
>> NetworkManager wasn't able to bring it up, something about not knowing
>> the "virtual interface name".  Turned out to be the ethernet interface
>> name changed from what it was at install time.
>
> This would be the rather brown-paper-bag-ish
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=965718 . Last I
> checked we were still working out the precise implications of that one.
> This sounds like another of them.
>
I should remember to check common bugs, but since I follow this list I'm 
normally familiar with the existing issues.  But after looking at the 
entry, it wouldn't have been helpful to my case since it says there 
shouldn't be any issues.  In this case, the problem is cross-interface 
matching.  The ethernet interface was created with one name and the vlan 
references that one.  However, after rebooting the ethernet interface 
has a different name, so the vlan can't find it and fails.

>> Didn't detect my timezone.  Not a big deal, but I was hoping it would
>> since there's been some discussion here about it working.
>
> We'd probably need the apparent public IP address of the system you were
> installing on to debug this one.
>
I just tested the ip against the fedora geoip service and it returns the 
correct info.  I wonder if there is something timing related.  Since I 
had to setup the vlan interface before it had internet access, maybe it 
was too late for the lookup.

>> Eventually I read the instructions carefully
>
> You damn dirty liar. You are CLEARLY not a Fedora user.
>
It was my last resort!  And since I was installing the gateway server, I 
didn't have internet access to use Google or ask on the mailing list. ;-)

>>   and then looked at the
>> mount point entry again and saw that it wasn't disabled.  I wonder if
>> there is some way to make it more obvious...
>
> Trumpets? :)
>
Sure!  I don't know, maybe a different color, but that gets into other 
issues...  It's not a huge deal, but in the sea of grey, the one black 
label didn't stick out much.

>> One odd thing I noticed while
>> cycling through the consoles was that console 6 had a login prompt on
>> it.  I didn't actually try logging in.
>>
Any thoughts on this one?  It was rather surprising to find a login 
prompt during the installing process.