Not able to install F20 over IPv6

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Dec 10 03:34:19 UTC 2013


On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 19:10 +0100, A.J. Werkman wrote:
> On 12/09/2013 05:36 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 09:08:51 +0100
> > "A.J. Werkman" <AJ.Werkman at digifarma.nl> wrote:
> >
> >> Adam,
> >>
> >> You asked people to test F20 with IPv6. I do agree that works fine.
> >> But the problems I see is getting F20 installed IPv6 only.
> >>
> >> In my experience as soon as you involve IPv4 somehow, things work.
> >>
> >> My testcase is a IPv6 only network, without IPv4-DHCP. Wether you
> >> supply IPv6 address on the boot command line or you supply addresses
> >> in the opening network screen after boot, F20 crashes.
> >> Even kickstarting with installation from local media makes F20 crash.
> > I agree that it would be good to support this case... but I'm not sure
> > we have any specific 'ipv6 only' test cases/criteria, so it's not been
> > something on the radar much...
> >
> > Perhaps something to propose for next release?
> >
> > kevin
> +1 for me. I proposed this some time ago. At that point there was not 
> much enthousiasme for it. But if Fedora wants to be, as it always 
> claims, on the cutting edge, you should have IPv6-only in QA.
> 
> One thing you would immediatly run into is the fact that 
> bugzilla.redhat.com does not resolve to an IPv6 address. So sending 
> crash reports from anaconda isn't possible at the moment from IPv6.

Instead of proposing that somebody writes a test case, perhaps write a
test case and propose that? It's generally going to get you to your goal
faster.
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