[Test-Announce] 2010-05-18 - F-13-Final go / no go meeting recap

[James Laska]

On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 20:22 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear James,
> 
> Sorry to bother here, but I have encountered several problems on one
> of my machines running rawhide(soon to be Fedora 14).  

Never a bother, thanks for sharing your experiences :)

> No new kernel boots on it :(, last kernel to boot was a 2.6.34rc4.:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585417
> 
> I recently installed Slackware 13RC1 on it, and it too does not
> boot :(,
> 
> Should I attempt to install Fedora 13 RC ?  on it to see if it will
> boot?  For folks with this kind of hardware, it seems that no new
> kernel would boot.  Not Fedora's fault either, but still

Yes, and if there isn't enough information this failure already, you'll
likely want to try to determine when the failure started.  I'm not a
kernel test expert, but I would probably try ...

     1. Install a Fedora release (F11, F12 or F13)
     2. Prior to rebooting into installed system ... install a range of
        different kernels
              * F-12 GA kernel
              * F-12 updates kernel
              * F-13 Alpha kernel
              * F-13 Beta kernel
              * F-13 updates-testing kernel
     3. Try booting all installed kernels

Depending on the results, this will help pinpoint when the problem was
introduced.  From there, you may want to try installing additional
kernels to further narrow down which changes introduced the problem.
You can find additional released kernels in bodhi
(https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/kernel)

> Smolt Profile here:
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_8b7db8bc-665b-4e96-a662-2750f5d2adac
> 
> This machine happily ran Fedora 9, Fedora 11, and Fedora Rawhide to
> the present.  Last kernel that works here is :
> 
> 2.6.34-0.4.rc0.git2.fc14.x86_64
> 
> My intuition tells me that any Fedora kernel 2.6.33.X will not boot
> here :(, This will not stop Fedora from releasing, but it should be a
> Common Bug at least.

Yes.  If this problem is confirmed present in Fedora 13, and something
that would affect a wide range of systems, I don't see any reason why we
can't list this issue on Common_F13_Bugs.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs#My_bug_is_not_listed

Thanks,
James

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