F18 Beta Smoke 12 Available

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

On 10/27/2012 12:22 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 00:14 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>> On 10/26/2012 07:49 PM, Tim Flink wrote:
>>> I've built a new smoke test image with:
>>>  - btrfs-progs-0.20.rc1.20121017git91d9eec-1.fc18
>>>  - firstboot-18.4-1.fc18
>>>  - lorax-18.21-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm
>>>  - pykickstart-1.99.21-1.fc18
>>>  - python-meh-0.18-1.fc18
>>>
>>> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/qa/18/20121025_f18b-smoke12/
>>>
>>> I've done a few quick installs with it and it seems to work for
>>> autopart gnome installs.
>>>
>>> Anyhow, more testing and appropriate karma for the included builds
>>> would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Selecting an installation source is somewhat difficult. Since it defaults
>> to "closest mirror" it cannot work until the network is properly configured
>> however once I did that it didn't try again to download the metadata. So I
>> went in there, made sure that "closest mirror" is selected and clicked
>> "done". Nothing.
>> So I went in again selected "http" and then "closest mirror" again followed
>> by "done". Nothing.
>> Then I tried "http" => done and when I go back in "closest mirror" is set
>> again.
>> Finally I went all the way and set "http" with an actual (bogus) ip address
>> and clicked done. Now I got an error (which was expected). After now going
>> back in and selecting "closest mirror" again Anaconda finally could be
>> convinced to try and download the meta data again which this time succeeded.
> 
> Network configuration has been so fragile up till now I'm not sure we've
> actually done much testing on setups where the network actually *needs*
> configuring. So it sounds plausible that anaconda just isn't smart
> enough to notice when the network goes up and re-do the metadata stuff
> yet. Could you file a bug on this and nominate it as NTH (mark it as
> blocking F18Beta-accepted) , or if you don't have the power to do that,
> post the URL here so someone else can do it? Thanks!

Filed and marked as blocking F18Beta-accepted:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870570

Regards,
  Dennis