Fedora 12 Snapshot 1 available

[RahulSundaram]

Fedora 12 Snapshot 1 is now available for testing. These snapshots
consist of live images only.

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ - Desktop (GNOME), KDE Live CD's
http://spins.fedoraproject.org - Xfce, LXDE Live CD's

This is a snapshot the represents the state of Fedora 12 in between Alpha and Beta. Please test and provide us your feedback via bugzilla. Appreciate your participation.

[Dangermouse]

Hi rahul,
just tried it, unfortunately links are typed wrong, there is : when there should not be, just remove the : at the end and the links will work for those wanting to use them.

[Demz]

i noticed in the test list Bill Nottingham has the same Mistaken url, ok im downloading it

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

downloaded it an burnt it, just aint booted from it yet, but as soon as i do will report back bout it . hopefully PulseAuto works this time :)

[Demz]

ok im running the LiveCD now of snap1, i got no KMS Rahul? same white/blue line that was in F11? have they disabled KMS ?

an hardi har har, i actually got sound


is Empathy still gonna be Default IM? i dunno if it will be in Ubuntu9.10 as lots didnt want it since there's a few show stoppers like no Privacy in it )

ok Empathy Crashed causing a Segmentation fault all i did was try an Add a IRC account an Bam down it went

ok just trying Epiphany, it doesnt wanna bring up the fedoraforums.org but any other site it will

Edit: i might have to redownload it

how many snapshots are gonna be done?

another thing i forgot to mention,, that Palimset ( or whatever its called told me my E Drive had bad sectors on it wherre as the Alpha it didnt.

[SlowJet]

6 hours to download with 1.4 GB transfered to get
a /home error (nautilus cannot create /home/user)
/home/liveuser already exists.
message will not go away.

chown liveuser:liveuser /home/liveuser
chown can not assess /home
su -
chmod 777 /home
chown - R liveuser:liveuser /home/liveuser
liveuser group does not exit.

start up useradd gui - starts and goes away.
chown - R liveuser:root /home/liveuse
chown can not access /home/liver-fuse-gfs

shutdown.
game over.


SJ

[Demz]

6 hours to download with 1.4 GB transfered to get
a /home error (nautilus cannot create /home/user)
/home/liveuser already exists.
message will not go away.

chown liveuser:liveuser /home/liveuser
chown can not assess /home
su -
chmod 777 /home
chown - R liveuser:liveuser /home/liveuser
liveuser group does not exit.

start up useradd gui - starts and goes away.
chown - R liveuser:root /home/liveuse
chown can not access /home/liver-fuse-gfs

shutdown.
game over.


SJ

i also get this error message a /home error (nautilus cannot create /home/user)
/home/liveuser already exists.
message will not go away. apart from that almost eveything else works fine

an only took me about 10min to download the LiveCD, hope there's a 2nd snapshot out soon

[jfprieur]

Using the XFCE-Live-spin in Virtualbox in windows and I get "unable to load failsafe session" when I click automatic login. If I press quit I go back to the login screen.

[Trapper]

X86_64
Gnome

I get the nautillus/liveuser errors too. To make it even more interesting I have no opportunity to create a user during install to hard drive or during first boot.

I did get another frisbee to add to my growing Fedora collection. I'm tired of dumb errors getting in the way of real testing. It's like trying to test drive a car that doesn't start.

[Gödel]

To get rid of the Nautilus Desktop errors do

su -c 'rm /home/liveuser/Desktop'

To boot the F12 livecd from a hard disk partition (not ntfs) using grub do the following:

The partition must be labelled (edit:or use UUID), in this case I'm using /dev/sda7 which is formatted as ext3, mounted on /mnt/data and labelled 'DATA' (use e2label if there is no label)

su -
mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -o loop <path to>/F12-Snap1-i686-Live.iso /mnt/iso
cp -r /mnt/iso/* /mnt/data/

Then I edited /boot/grub/grub.conf and added

title F12 LiveCD i686 Snap 1
root (hd0,6)
kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz0 ro root=LABEL=DATA rootfstype=auto liveimg quiet rhgb
initrd /isolinux/initrd0.img


root (hd0,6) = /dev/sda7 (change appropriately to match your partition)

EDIT: For missing gnome-panel icons I had to log out and log back in to fix.

[Levis]

I have no opportunity to create a user during install to hard drive or during first boot.

I did get another frisbee to add to my growing Fedora collection. I'm tired of dumb errors getting in the way of real testing. It's like trying to test drive a car that doesn't start.

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Refer to

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520207

If you have booting issues

[Demz]

i did notice with snap1, the NFS deamon doesnt load

[Gödel]

Booting the LiveCD from a hard disk (see my post above) is more useful with a persistent home, and persistent yum cache. You can make a persistent home in the same (non lvm, non ntfs) partition you are booting the live image from like this:

At the gdm login screen, click cancel and press ctrl+alt+f2. Login as root and create a file called homeinit.sh with the following commands:

mount -o rw,remount /mnt/live
useradd -d /mnt/live/user1live user1
passwd -d user1
echo "user1 ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
sed 's,/var/cache/yum,/mnt/live/user1live/yum,' -i /etc/yum.conf
sed 's,keepcache=0,keepcache=1,' -i /etc/yum.conf


execute the script, and then copy it to your persistent home:

cp homeinit.sh /mnt/live/user1live/
chmod u+x /mnt/live/user1live/homeinit.sh

Now on subsequent boots you just need to login as root and type:

/mnt/live/user1live/homeinit.sh

Now press ctrl+alt+f1 to return to gdm login screen, and user1 should be available, login as user1 and all your desktop settings, home directory contents and yum cache will persist across reboots. :)

Alternatively, add '3' to the kernel line in grub so it boots up to text mode, login as root, run the script and then type 'gdm'.

If you have selinux issues then add 'selinux=0' to the kernel boot line in grub (it really isn't crucial for a live session)

Note that I enable passwordless sudo in the above script, you can remove that line if it'snot useful for you.

[Gödel]

In the live snapshot it's not possible to get the broadcom wl driver running (since you can't update the kernel), instead you can use ndiswrapper with the bcmwl5.inf driver. Download the two required rpms from rpmfusion, then create a script to run the following commands:

rpm -ihv kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.31-0.199.rc8.git2.fc12.i686-1.54-4.fc12.8.i686.rpm ndiswrapper-1.54-2.fc11.i586.rpm
ndiswrapper -i <path_to>/bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -ma
modprobe -r b43
modprobe -r b44
modprobe -r ssb
modprobe ndiswrapper


check wlan0 is present with 'iwconfig', and NetworkManager should pick up any access points.

winxp broacom bcmwl5 drivers can be found by google or for the lazy (please don't link) here (http://www.jbg.f2s.com/bcm43.bz2) (32bit + 64bit)