Architectures/s390x/16

Release Notes

There are few known issues in the release of Fedora 16 for the s390x architecture

• the "Shutdown" button at the end of the installation doesn't work - relates to bug 740858, see below for more details
• a terminal isn't shown on the console when running in Hercules, if doing "Minimal" installation you need to login with ssh at the end of the installation, change into the newly installed system with "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and run "chkconfig network on" so the network will be up after reboot and login with ssh will be possible. It's not clear if this issue affects also LPAR installation on real hardware, but Hercules emulates something like LPAR mode.
• there is a delay (few seconds) after the password is entered during login and before the shell prompt appears (bug 771579 fixed in systemd-37-8.fc16)
• /etc/zipl.conf needs 2 new variables set to behave the same as in F <= 15 and in RHEL <= 6, we switched from Fedora specific patch to using new functionality provided by zipl directly. Those variables are defaultauto and prompt=1 and they must be written in the [defaultboot] section (bug 783424)

Developer information

Global info

Image composes are run on F-15 with

• pungi-2.9
• lorax-16.4.4

issues found in F-16 Alpha 20110830

using anaconda-16.15-1.fc16.dh.1 + dracut-013-6.fc16

Installation status: FAIL (Bug 733680)

• (resolved in dracut-013-8.fc16) when number of CPUs > 1 then "unknown filesystem in squashfs.img" error appears - probably 735199
• (resolved in dracut-013-7.fc16) even with 1 CPU I got boots when the CMSCONFFILE wasn't read because CMSDASD device wasn't ready ("could not set device online" error message)
• VNC install requires "vnc" in the parameters file
• Bug 733680 - DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
• Bug 735026 - loader crashes when trying to install in vnc mode

issues found in F-16 Alpha 20110901

using anaconda-16.16-1.fc16.dh.1 + dracut-013-7.fc16 + systemd-35-1.fc16

Installation status: FAIL (Bug 733680)

issues found in F-16 Alpha 20110907

using anaconda-16.16-1.fc16.dh.1 + dracut-013-8.fc16 + systemd-35-1.fc16 + rawhide-20110831 tree

Installation status: FAIL (Bug 733680)

issues found in F-16 Beta 20110919

using anaconda-16.16-1.fc17.dh.1 (contains fix for Bug 733680) + actual rawhide tree (pre-beta)

Installation status: FAIL (Bug 739620)

• Bug 739620 - ValueError: No description available for dasd
• Bug 739828 - filtering screen shows loop devices
• Bug 739846 - Traceback when starting the installation with "vnc" parameter on s390x

issues found in F-16 Beta 20110920

using anaconda-16.18-1.fc16.dh.1 (contains fix for Bug 733680) + actual rawhide tree (pre-beta)

Installation status: FAIL (Bug 739620)

• Bug 740341 - inconsistent output of dmsetup table (fixed in lvm2-2.02.86-5.fc16.dh.1)
• I have possible fix for bug 739620, so the installation now fails on installing the bootloader

issues found in F-16 Beta 20110922

using anaconda-16.18-1.fc16.dh.2 (contains fixes for Bug 733680 and Bug 739620) + actual rawhide tree (pre-beta)

• Bug 740576 - root is set to kernel file (anaconda-written zipl.conf contains "root=/boot/vmlinuz-3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.0.fc16.s390x")
• no "reboot" button/screen at the end of installation, last screen has "installing bootloader", which IS installed

issues found in F-16 Beta 20110923

using anaconda-16.18-1.fc16.dh.3 (contains fixes for bugs 733680, 739620, 740576) + actual rawhide tree (pre-beta)

• bug 740858
  • last entry in anaconda.log is "07:04:30,454 INFO anaconda: Writing autokickstart file" and /root/anaconda-ks.cfg isn't created yet
  • with the reipl step in anaconda being a no-op I get to the final Congrats&reboot anaconda screen
• Bug 744196 - Traceback when writing partitioning on DASD drive
• anaconda finishes successfully and the installed system boots with the workaround (= no reipl step) applied

issues found in F-16 RC 20111014

using anaconda-16.21-1.fc16.dh.1 (contains fixes for bugs 733680, 739620, 740576) + actual rawhide tree (post-beta)

issues found in F-16 RC 20111021

using anaconda-16.22-1.fc16.dh.1 (contains fixes for bugs 733680, 739620, 740576) + actual rawhide tree (post-beta)

• bug 739828 is resolved
• Bug 748811 - Shutting down the installation: Assertion 'bus' failed at src/systemctl.c:1654, function start_special().

general anaconda/lorax/pungi/... issues

• (upstream commited) the addrsize utility isn't built in anaconda any more and thus lorax fails after writing kernel.img and initrd.img => moved to lorax - patch
• (upstream commited) anaconda dropped the mk-s390-cdboot tool in version 16 => remove relevant code also from lorax - patch
• pungi shouldn't include s390 compat packages in the installer image/repo - patch