Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Bidewell
> > > OK, so Mark, it looks like we need you to file a bug on the segfault you > hit when trying to run anaconda with the vmwlegacy driver (as long as > I'm interpreting the log right). Can you do that and link to the bug? > Thanks! > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw |

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 11:33 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 14:02 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 21:32 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Adam Williamson > > > wrote: > > > On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:29

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 14:02 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 21:32 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Adam Williamson > > wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:29 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > > The VM I used had 1GB of m

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Frank Murphy
On 18/04/12 12:47, Mark Bidewell wrote: After trying the F17 Alpha with no success, I tried the F17 Beta. I installed in the VMWare Fusion Technical Preview F17 Beta Xfce.x86_64 spin, Happily ran on F16.x86_64 host, and installed just dandy. firewalld service by default. But OT for this list,

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Tom Hughes
On 23/04/12 14:27, Mark Bidewell wrote: > So it looks for the VMWare 'vmwgfx' driver and it's not there (I'm not > sure if that driver is something Fedora would be expected to include, or > if it's a 'guest additions' kind of thing). Then it falls back on > 'vmwlegacy', which promptly bl

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Bidewell
> > > So it looks for the VMWare 'vmwgfx' driver and it's not there (I'm not > sure if that driver is something Fedora would be expected to include, or > if it's a 'guest additions' kind of thing). Then it falls back on > 'vmwlegacy', which promptly blows up. > > ajax, airlied, are we expecting thi

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 21:32 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Adam Williamson > wrote: > On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:29 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > The VM I used had 1GB of memory. > Does the 'basic graphics mode' option work? > OK, dug

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-19 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:29 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > The VM I used had 1GB of memory. > > It's pretty much impossible for us to just guess why the installer drops > to text mode. You should be able to get X logs from the installer >

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:29 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: > The VM I used had 1GB of memory. It's pretty much impossible for us to just guess why the installer drops to text mode. You should be able to get X logs from the installer environment; boot the installer, go to alt-f2, and poke around in /

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-19 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: > >> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Mark Bidewell wrote: >> >> However, no GUI for installation is less than userfriendly >>> >> >> did you give the VM 768MB or more RAM? >> >> It might not real

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-18 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > However, no GUI for installation is less than userfriendly >> > > did you give the VM 768MB or more RAM? > > It might not really need it anymore, but last I checked Anaconda > checked for it befo

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-18 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Mark Bidewell wrote: However, no GUI for installation is less than userfriendly did you give the VM 768MB or more RAM? It might not really need it anymore, but last I checked Anaconda checked for it before switching into gui install mode. Paul -- devel mailing list devel

Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-18 Thread Mark Bidewell
After trying the F17 Alpha with no success, I tried the F17 Beta. I installed in the VMWare Fusion Technical Preview (which supports Linux 3D Graphics). On install I was dumped into the text installer which installed a basic 211 package installation. Improved from the Alpha is that I could get a