F17 Alpha RC2

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 21:44 +0100, Brendan Jones wrote:
> On 02/17/2012 09:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 20:58 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >> First boot locks up. Rebooted, locked up again. Rebooted without "rhgb quiet",
> >> locked up again: Failed to Show Plymouth boot screen.   [FAILED]
> >> Then a few more messages, but no LUKS passphrase prompt yet.
> >>
> >> The only differences in installing default GNOME Desktop compared with
> >> TC2: I added a LUKS encrypted /home volume, because entering the
> >> alternative passphrase worked with RC2. And I enabled the repositories
> >> "fedora" plus "updates".
> >>
> >> Next I'll try to reinstall without enabling "updates".
> >
> > For general testing it's usually the best thing to install from a live
> > image or from the DVD and not to use any remote repositories. That way
> > we can be reasonably confident what packages you install. If you do a
> > network install of a 'TC' or 'RC' you are not really getting that TC or
> > RC at all, you're getting a fairly random collection of whatever happens
> > to be in the official repos at that moment in time on your particular
> > mirror.
> 
> I can confirm ConsoleKit is missing from the Desktop Live RC2. It's no 
> longer pulled in by network manager yet the default 
> /etc/pulse/default.pa tries to load module-console-kit.so from 
> pulseaudio [1]
> 
> Pulseaudio needs to require ConsoleKit, or the console kit module split 
> off with its own requires and the defailt.pa changed.
> 
> Its not present in the KDE spins as the KDE network manager still has 
> this dependency.
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794690

Removal of ConsoleKit is a feature, but it seems to be having
consequences the feature maintainers didn't expect.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ckremoval

Note this isn't an Alpha blocker; sound is only required to be working
at Beta stage. "In most cases, the installed system must be able to play
back sound with gstreamer-based applications" is the Beta criterion.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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