Fedora 18 Beta Finally Ready For Release

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora 18 Beta Finally Ready For Release

The Fedora Project held a Thanksgiving Day Go/No-Go meeting for the long-delayed Fedora 18 Beta. The developers decided that the beta is finally in a condition where it's ready to ship...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTIzNDM

[bwat47]

I tried the beta release candidate build and the installer was still an unholy buggy mess, I hope they can wrangle it into shape because fedora 18 is a release I've been anticipating.

[AdamW]

I tried the beta release candidate build and the installer was still an unholy buggy mess, I hope they can wrangle it into shape because fedora 18 is a release I've been anticipating.

Did you file a bug on whatever problem you had?

[bwat47]

Did you file a bug on whatever problem you had?

I was going wait and to try it again when the actual beta comes out (since its supposed to be coming out very soon) and see if I still have the problem. Basically when I did the hard drive partitioning in the installer I set up a very simple scheme (40gb root ext4, 450gb /home ext4, 8gb swap, no lvm encryption or anything.). After completing the partitioning and hitting continue when it brought me back to the hub, every single time it would say it could not read my partition setup and make me do it again.

[AdamW]

I was going wait and to try it again when the actual beta comes out (since its supposed to be coming out very soon) and see if I still have the problem. Basically when I did the hard drive partitioning in the installer I set up a very simple scheme (40gb root ext4, 450gb /home ext4, 8gb swap, no lvm encryption or anything.). After completing the partitioning and hitting continue when it brought me back to the hub, every single time it would say it could not read my partition setup and make me do it again.

Beta RC1 is Beta, so you've already tried it with the actual Beta.

That's an odd result - I wouldn't have been terribly surprised at some kind of crash, but that's a more unusual failure case. Could you file a bug against anaconda, with precise description including exact error messages, and attach at least the files /tmp/anaconda.log , /tmp/program.log and /tmp/storage.log to the report? You can get to a console during install with ctrl-alt-f2, then you can manually mount a USB stick and copy those files to it, or you can 'fpaste' them out - run 'fpaste filename' and it'll be pasted to a Fedora pastebin and give you a URL. If you get some kind of server error just try again, that's a stupid bug in the fpaste code.

[Pallidus]

there won't be any changes from beta rc1 to the final beta coming out today?

damn, I would at least expect them to upgrade ffox to 17 and fix some of 'software' app nags

[bwat47]

Beta RC1 is Beta, so you've already tried it with the actual Beta.

That's an odd result - I wouldn't have been terribly surprised at some kind of crash, but that's a more unusual failure case. Could you file a bug against anaconda, with precise description including exact error messages, and attach at least the files /tmp/anaconda.log , /tmp/program.log and /tmp/storage.log to the report? You can get to a console during install with ctrl-alt-f2, then you can manually mount a USB stick and copy those files to it, or you can 'fpaste' them out - run 'fpaste filename' and it'll be pasted to a Fedora pastebin and give you a URL. If you get some kind of server error just try again, that's a stupid bug in the fpaste code.

In any case for some reason I'm not seeing the issue anymore with the beta I downloaded today :/. If I ever see the issue again I will file a bug report though. I'll test it on my other laptop too.