Fedora 16 Beta test compose(s) now up

[AdamW]

Hey, folks - so we're into Beta validation now, TC1 came out today (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-August/000274.html). Please do grab a copy and help us validate the release. Thanks!

[tox]

this package caused a SIG11 for me telepathy-mission-control-5.9.1-1.fc16 and so did GCONF2 apart from that it ran ok ,

steps to reproduce the crash

1) Use Empathy as your IRC client
2) join 1 channel only
3) then once your in the channel you joined try and join another channel

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Note: i didnt try and update the LiveCD from updates-testing

[ah7013]

I am getting a rendering glitch in the KDE LiveCD with Krunner (White borders around buttons etc...) :
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/picture.php?albumid=258&pictureid=1041

I think it has to do with this upstream bug:
https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com//browse/QTBUG-20542

[jenaniston]

F 16 KDE Beta Live iso downloaded and with yum install livecd-tools made the bootable USB Live F16 KDE Beta
I used a 900 MB partition/100 MB overlay with 100 MB swap on the 1 GB USB -
added a foreign language and changed the desktop image -
reboot with persistence changes all worked fine except I did have to use a straight yum install of the language package kit . . .
as kpacka never stopped loading.

Also yum installed rekonq 0.7 web browser . . . all is really good guys.

[tox]

any idea when there will be another Beta Test Compose made?

[mainlylinux]

I downloaded and tried to boot via iSCSI iBFT on an Intel network card (used Intel's bootutil to load iSCSI boot firmware). The NIC sees the LUN and passes the info through to the installer, I don't have to click "add target" it is just there in the partitioner screen (iSCSI option/SAN). In the end after the install though no luck. The boot stops:

dracut Warning: No root device "block:/dev/mapper/vg_vmhost01-lv_root" found
dracut Warning: LVM vg_vmhost01/lv_swap not found
dracut Warning: LVM vg_vmhost01/lv_root not found

Dropping to debug shell.

sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
dracut:/#



Here's what grub.cfg ended up looking like after the install. I am not sure what this is supposed to look like - where does it get the iSCSI target information? Does it come via iBFT?

menuentry 'Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.1.0-0.rc3.git0.0.fc16.x86_64' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class $
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 52b9fdbc-67ce-44e2-93c5-9ec0948a4721
echo 'Loading Linux 3.1.0-0.rc3.git0.0.fc16.x86_64 ...'
linux /vmlinuz-3.1.0-0.rc3.git0.0.fc16.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/vg_vmhost01-lv_root ro iscsi_firmwar$
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /initramfs-3.1.0-0.rc3.git0.0.fc16.x86_64.img
}

If anyone can offer any advice on debugging that would be great. I'd love to see this work in Fedora 16. I can also send screenshots of the Intel iSCSI firmware screens if anyone would like to see them.

Dan

[tox]

just testing the F16 Nightly compose 20110908 nightly ( not installed ) still had 4 crashes signal 11 ones. but over all i think its better than TC1 Beta, i may install TC1 Beta when its made and available.

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Fedora 16 Beta Test Compose 2 (TC2) Available Now!

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-September/156649.html

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http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16-Beta.TC2/Live/

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16-Beta.TC2/Fedora/

[marko]

Why does the get-fedora page (https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora) still have the "Did someone say Alpha" link on it?

Shouldn't that be changed to be direct everyone to TC2 ?

Mark

[tox]

Why does the get-fedora page (https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora) still have the "Did someone say Alpha" link on it?

Shouldn't that be changed to be direct everyone to TC2 ?

Mark

no, TC2 beta isnt an " official " release so its not put there. TC's or RC's are put on a unofficial lijnk

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[Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Beta Release Candidate 1 (RC1) Available Now

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-September/156954.htm

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16-Beta.RC1/Live/

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16-Beta.RC1/Fedora/

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people that are getting a Bug Oh No Something Has gone wrong you will need to use the command enforcing=0 to stop the shell from crashing . thats with RC1 image

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follow this Thread(s) http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-September/102880.html

[AdamW]

marko: as detox says - these are sort of 'test builds' that we use to prepare the pre-releases. They're pre-pre-releases =) They used to be just passed around the RH office and never uploaded anywhere at all, then they were only announced on the QA mailing list, now we mention them here too to aid in testing.

[tox]

Adam

i got TC2 Beta DvD here on the desk, but would i be better off waiting for the official Beta before installing F16?