Common F13 bugs

This page documents common bugs in Fedora 13 and, if available, fixes or workarounds for these problems. If you find your problem in this page, do not file a bug for it, unless otherwise instructed. Where appropriate, a reference to the current bug(s) in Bugzilla is included.

My bug is not listed

Not every bug is listed in this page, but Bugzilla should be a comprehensive database of known bugs. This page is a sampling of the bugs most commonly discussed on our mailing lists and forums.

To see if your bug has already been reported, you can search Bugzilla. If it has not yet been reported, we encourage you to do so to help improve Fedora for yourself and others. A guide to Bugs and feature requests has been prepared to assist you.

If you believe an already-reported bug report should be added to this page because it is commonly encountered, you can:

• Add it yourself, if you have wiki access. Please follow the style and guidelines explained in the comments in the page source.
• Or, add the CommonBugs' keyword to the bug report. Someone from the QA team will then inspect the issue to determine whether the bug should be listed as a common bug. To expedite your request, please add a comment to the bug that includes
  1. a summary of the problem
  2. any known workarounds
  3. an assessment on the impact to Fedora users

For reference, can query Bugzilla for bugs tagged CommonBugs:

• CommonBugs? (bugs with CommonBugs keyword, but do not yet have a link to this page) -
• CommonBugs+ (bugs with CommonBugs keyword and contain a link to this page)

Installation issues

Failure to eject CD-ROM when prompting for next disc

link to this item - Bugzilla: #569377

During a Fedora 13 Alpha CD-ROM installation, the installer may fail to properly eject the media when prompting for a subsequent installation disc. Investigation appears to show that performing a media check on the ISO media may trigger this failure later during install.

If you encounter this issue while installing from CD-ROM media, you may work around the problem using the procedure detailed below.

1. When prompted to insert the next disc, change to the debug shell on tty2 by pressing <Control><Alt>F2
2. Eject the disc by typing: eject /dev/cdrom
3. Insert the requested installation disc number
4. Prepare the disc by typing: mount -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/source
5. Return to the installer by pressing <Control><Alt>F6

The above procedure may be repeated for each installation disc needed to complete the install.

Software issues

PackageKit silently fails to update

link to this item - Bugzilla: #567346 Bugzilla: #569352

After installing Fedora 13 Alpha, some testers experienced a problem where the Software Update utility (provided by gnome-packagekit) fails to update the system software when requested. The Software Update utility will quickly report that the software update has completed without actually downloading and installing any updates. Running the Software Update utility again will show that no updates have been applied.

It is believed that a yum plugin provided by yum-langpacks may introduce package dependency conflicts, which will cause the update to silently fail. The problem may affect upgrades using both the Sftware Update utility and yum. Testing also demonstrated that the problem was difficult to reproduce and depends on whether the yum-langpacks plugin is installed, and whether certain conditions exist in the package repositories used during the update.

If you are unable to update your system and the problem description above matches your symptoms, you may work around the issue by removing the yum-langpacks package. To remove the package you may either:

1. Open a terminal and type:

   su -c yum remove yum-langpacks

2. Or, from the default Desktop environment
   1. Select the System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software menu item
   2. Enter the text yum-langpacks in the text-box
   3. Deselect the check-box associated with yum-langpacks and select, Apply