Architectures/s390x/19

Release Notes

for older notes see Architectures/s390x/18

• when running the Gnome desktop, having 2 GB RAM allocated for the VM is useful, I saw a lot of swapping in VM with 1 GB, XFCE run fine with 1 GB
• installation on SCSI/zFCP disk fails because a change in kernel broke the WWPN parsing (bug 975696) and it was too late for including the fixed kernel in F-19
• you can get "RuntimeError: cannot join thread before it is started" error thrown during the install (bug 970858), seems more widespread than originally thought

Developer information

Global info

Image composes are run on F-19 with

• pungi-2.13-2.fc19
• lorax-19.1-1.fc19
• lorax-19.1-2.fc19 (since 20130416)
• lorax-19.2-1.fc19 (since 20130424) + fix for rhbz#956241
• lorax-19.3-1.fc19 (since 20130515)
• lorax-19.4-1.fc19 (since 20130528)
• lorax-19.5-1.fc19 (since 20130628)

The test composes are available from http://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/test/

issues found in F-19 Alpha 20130412

using anaconda-19.18-1.fc19, python-blivet-0.10-1.fc19

Installation status: FAIL

• graphical - traceback during post-installation step (bug #951628)
• kickstart - doesn't start (bug #951632)

issues found in F-19 Alpha 20130416

using anaconda-19.19-1.fc19, python-blivet-0.11-1.fc19

installation may require 2 GB of memory because debug kernel is used

Installation status: OK

Boot status: FAIL

• root FS not mounted by dracut (bug 953094 => bug 953217)

issues found in F-19 post-Alpha 20130424

using anaconda-19.21-1.fc19, python-blivet-0.11-1.fc19

Installation status: OK (graphical), OK (kickstart with VNC), FAIL (kickstart with text)

Boot status: OK

• anaconda prints an error about "No IP address avaiable ..." but networking is working so one can continue in the installation with VNC (956583)

issues found in F-19 pre-Beta 20130515

using anaconda-19.25-1.fc19

Installation status: OK (graphical), OK (kickstart with VNC), N/A (kickstart with text)

Boot status: OK

• can be again installed with 1 GB of RAM

issues found in F-19 pre-Beta 20130520

using anaconda-19.28-1.fc19

Installation status: OK (graphical), OK (kickstart with VNC), OK (kickstart with text)

Boot status: OK

• minimal package set works fine, default package set fails with a dependency error

issues found in F-19 post-Beta 20130528

using anaconda-19.30-1.fc19

Installation status: OK (graphical), OK (kickstart with VNC), OK (kickstart with text)

Boot status: OK

• fixed the dependency issue in the default package set (#967422)

issues found in F-19 post-Beta 20130603

using anaconda-19.30-1.fc19

Installation status: N/A (graphical), OK (kickstart with VNC), N/A (kickstart with text)

Boot status: OK

issues found in F-19 post-Beta 20130610

using anaconda-19.30-1.fc19

Installation status: OK (graphical), OK (kickstart with VNC), OK (kickstart with text)

Boot status: OK

issues found in F-19 post-Beta 20130612

using anaconda-19.30.5-1.fc19, latest mesa and llvm

Installation status: N/A (graphical), N/A (kickstart with VNC), OK (kickstart with text)

Boot status: OK

• anaconda crashes because it calls hwclock - 973999, please use the updates.img from the bug

issues found in F-19 pre-GA 20130624

using anaconda-19.30.9-1.fc19, latest mesa and llvm

Installation status: OK (graphical), OK (kickstart with VNC), OK (kickstart with text)

Boot status: OK

general anaconda/lorax/pungi/... issues

• pungi
• lorax - /etc/os-release is missing - bug 956241