Fedora17 Alpha RC4

As per the Fedora 17 schedule [1], Fedora 17 Alpha Release Candidate 4
(RC4) is now available for testing. Content information, including
changes, can be found at https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5083 .
Please see the following pages for download links (including delta ISOs)
and testing instructions. Normally dl.fedoraproject.org should provide
the fastest download, but download-ib01.fedoraproject.org is available
as a mirror (with an approximately 1 hour lag) in case of trouble. To
use it, just replace "dl" with "download-ib01" in the download URL.

Installation:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_...tallation_Test

Base:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_...rent_Base_Test

Desktop:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_...t_Desktop_Test

Ideally, all Alpha priority test cases for Installation [2], Base [3],
and Desktop [4] should pass in order to meet the Alpha Release Criteria
[5]. Help is available on #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net [6], or on the
test list [7].

Create Fedora 17 Alpha release candidate (RC) - live and traditional
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5083

F17 Alpha Blocker tracker bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=752648

F17 Alpha Nice-To-Have tracker bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=752653

[1] http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/sch...ity-tasks.html
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:In...dation_testing
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Ba...dation_testing
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:De...dation_testing
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedor...lease_Criteria
[6] irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-qa
[7] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

RC4 DvD's

RC4 LiveCD's

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still getting Garbled Graphix, Plymouth no workies either. the result was, it actually booted but at the end all it was, was Garbled Graphics. ( i do get DRM Nouveau ) errors. how can i get the Logs of those errors even though i cannot log into the Desktop of Gnome?

i did trey another way of booting with 3 it got as far as loading the plymouth Bar on the bottom of the screen and stalled and wouldnt finish loading

[bob]

Greg, booting the X86_64 and posting from the Live CD right now. Very nice, actually. Gotta check it out, perhaps test the 3D options, but doubt I'll install it at this point. Well, 3D's a bust with my graphics card and Nouveau. Otherwise things are pretty decent.

Originally Posted by bob

Greg, booting the X86_64 and posting from the Live CD right now. Very nice, actually. Gotta check it out, perhaps test the 3D options, but doubt I'll install it at this point. Well, 3D's a bust with my graphics card and Nouveau. Otherwise things are pretty decent.

only other thing i could try an boot with Vesa ? and dont use Nouveau but would that work?

[bob]

Well, since the Big Thing with F17's supposed to be universal support, I'd sure file a bugzilla and let them work it out.

Originally Posted by bob

Well, since the Big Thing with F17's supposed to be universal support, I'd sure file a bugzilla and let them work it out.

i'll do that or use ABRT but again its still rather early days and for all i know by the time F17 beta arrives my issues maybe solved

[sonoran]

Installation went smooth as silk here. The Live version even let me yum install gparted (where does it install to??), create a single new partition for F17, then run Install to hard disk, all without a hitch.

Not even any complaints from Anaconda when I installed bootloader to first sector of boot partition, in this case /, instead of to mbr. Then created a chainloader entry in legacy grub's menu.lst and Fedora 17 booted on the first try.

Originally Posted by bob

the Big Thing with F17's supposed to be universal support

I'd say it's a Beefy Miracle!
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I'd forgotten about the "you can check in but you can never leave" feature of gnome-hell. They seriously expect me to tweak something before I get anything but a useless "Suspend" on the logout power switch icon? They can take that presumption and their Beefy Miracle and stick them both where the sun don't shine.

F17 works, but that ain't saying much. I have better uses for that disk space... like leaving it empty.

[glennzo]

Working well here too. Live RC4. Booted fine. Everything looks good so far. Using RC4 Live to post this reply.

Originally Posted by glennzo

Working well here too. Live RC4. Booted fine. Everything looks good so far. Using RC4 Live to post this reply.

so far i cannot get into a GUI of the Gnome Desktop. i havent tried KDE yet. i will tomorrow. but yeah i shall wait till the Beta perhaps and see if it works then. but what X-server GIT version is RC4 using?. it booted but without the proper plymouth. i just got the white/blue bar. least it got that far, recent ones i have downloaded didnt do that

[glennzo]

Dunno about the xserver GIT version. I didn't check. Now I've booted back to F16 and am thinking about installing Live to hard disk.

[sonoran]

Originally Posted by tox

what X-server GIT version is RC4 using?

The xorg server in the original TC4 is 1.11.99.901-6.20124.fc17. Nouveau works.

Using openbox, which seems to have been further downgraded by removing the ability to shade windows by double-clicking in the titlebar. You can get a titlebar icon to do it, but that's not nearly as convenient. Maybe installation of a better theme will change that.

[smr54]

I usually set that in rc.xml

Fedora's openbox has given me trouble in the past--usually, especially during alpha, I wind up just downloading the git version. I wonder if this regression is the Fedora packaging or openbox itself?

[sonoran]

My mistake - the window shade functionality can still be set in ObConf under the mouse tab.

Originally Posted by sonoran

The xorg server in the original TC4 is 1.11.99.901-6.20124.fc17. Nouveau works.

Using openbox, which seems to have been further downgraded by removing the ability to shade windows by double-clicking in the titlebar. You can get a titlebar icon to do it, but that's not nearly as convenient. Maybe installation of a better theme will change that.

thanks dude, i'll ownload a current Nightly and see if tht works for me

[Dutchy]

I was trying to install the Vbox Guest Additions but of course that failed because of a too new X version,
when I suddenly noticed that I wasn't in fallback mode but the actual normal mode.
So the new software renderer seems to be doing its work.

t the F17 Alpha Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 17 Alpha release
(RC4) was declared GOLD, and ready for shipment on February 28, 2012.

GOLD is the color of mustard, and, as you know, mustard indicates
progress. A huge thank you to everyone who made this on-time(!!!) Alpha
release possible. My (occasionally inaccurate) research tells me that
the last time we shipped an Alpha according to schedule was Fedora 10.
That is some excellent progress, in my humble opinion

Fedora 17 Alpha is hereby declared GOLD(en mustard color)! http://lists.fedoraproject.org/piper...ry/163082.html