magoo question--FC4

[robghealey]

I have never been the type to try a test release before now. I would like to be a part of the bug reporting process for FC4, but I do not know where or what to do to report my problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the help in advance...

[owakroeger]

I'm ready to take this plunge, as well. I'm in the process of downloading FC4-test1-binary discs now. When that finishes, and I've burned the cd's, I plan to take it on a test drive. Has anyone installed this, yet? If so, I'd be interested in any feedback you might provide..... problems, submitting bug reports, things to watch for.... etc.
Thanks,
owa

[greatscot]

Awesome! It's so cool to see others testing Fedora. You can file bug reports here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

[robghealey]

owakroeger:

Yes, there are several things to be aware of when first using fc4 until you get some updating done. Gnome does load very well, and it failed on me. KDE take about a half an hour to time out all the bugs before it loads. The best thing to do is choose failsafe terminal and use yum to update gdm and most of the kde stuff before using either one of them...

[Jman]

Awesome! It's so cool to see others testing Fedora. You can file bug reports here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
Be sure to file under FC4test1 version of Fedora Core.

[robghealey]

Jman:

I have been to the website that was listed in this thread to be able to report bugs that I have found. I am not sure what to do and where to go after I get this that page. I can't see where to go or what to do.

[owakroeger]

Arrgh! I was all set to burn the cd's this morning. I had started the BitTorrent download in my /home directory, and realized there wasn't enough room there. So I moved it to it's own directory in / , and resumed. This morning there was a failure message ..." corrupt. Did you have two downloads running?"
So, I deleted it all and started over. Balls! Maybe I can get started with the install tonight.
owa

[owakroeger]

Well, I finished downloading FC4-test1 via bittorrent, burned the cd's and booted to the first install disc. Media check failed.... corrupted. Just for jollies, I checked all of them.... all corrupted. Again, just for jollies, I tried installing, ignoring the failed media check... sure enough it failed after just a short time.... unable to open hw-** something package.
This is the first time I've had a problem with corrupted downloads from bittorrent.
I'm downloading again this time from a mirror site I've used before.... no bittorrent, this time.

owa

[robghealey]

I noticed that my first cd failed as well. I didn't check the other ones, but the install went completely fine. I was wondering if the checksum on the cd itself is written in sha1sum. When using k3b to burn, I notice that it wrote the md5sum. I was wondering if that is what caused my failure on disk one, and yet it still installed flawlessly...

Just thinking out loud and wondering...

[JesusDM]

I'm ready to take this plunge, as well. I'm in the process of downloading FC4-test1-binary discs now. When that finishes, and I've burned the cd's, I plan to take it on a test drive. Has anyone installed this, yet? If so, I'd be interested in any feedback you might provide..... problems, submitting bug reports, things to watch for.... etc.
Thanks,
owa

I did (Fedora4 64bit version) and I'm having so many problems:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=49400

[robghealey]

JesusDM:

I do not know anything about the 64bit version, but I know that the i386 version needed an immediate update of gdm first.