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.
Fedora 13 has not yet been released. During this pre-release period, this page will cover known issues in the Fedora 13 pre-releases. Issues that are fixed will be removed from the page once a fix is available (for instance, an issue that affects the Beta but is fixed in the final release will be removed at the time of that release).
Release Summary, Announcement and Notes
Read the F13 Alpha release announcement and the draft Fedora 13 release notes for specific information about changes in Fedora 13: known issues, and other general information.
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.
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- a summary of the problem
- any known workarounds
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For reference, you can query Bugzilla for bugs tagged CommonBugs:
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Issues when upgrading from previous releases
Installer fails after upgrade with writeGrub() error
link to this item - Bugzilla: #568567
During a system upgrade using the Fedora 13 Alpha installer, a failure will present after the upgrade process has completed. A sample failure is available for comparison. The presence of this failure does not impact the upgraded system. In fact, you may reboot the installer and return to your upgraded Fedora 13 system. This bug has been fixed in 
anaconda-13.33-1
Preupgrade doesn't work with default-sized /boot partition
Preupgrade is intended to provide a hassle-free method for upgrading a system to the current release of Fedora. Testing identified that users of Fedora 12 (and earlier) who installed their systems using the recommended /boot partition size of 200 MiB will not be able to upgrade their systems using preupgrade. The /boot filesystem is used to store the kernel and initial ramdisk images that form the core of the Fedora operating system. Its presence is required by several utilities including grub, kernel and preupgrade.
Users that have /boot partition size of at least 250 MiB should not have problems with using preupgrade. For others it is recommended to simply download Fedora 13 DVD/CD/netinst install medium and do a standard system upgrade. More experienced users that still want to use preupgrade may refer to these additional tips to free up space in /boot.
For Fedora 13 the default /boot partition size was increased to 500 MiB to avoid these problems in the future.
Installation issues
Booting from an mdraid mirror without a separate /boot fails
link to this item - Bugzilla: #584596
Installing a new system with / on an mdraid mirror without a separate /boot will fail as anaconda creates the / mdraid set with 1.1 metadata which makes it unsuitable to boot from. Workaround: use a separate mdraid mirror for /boot if you want to boot from an mdraid mirror. This issue will be fixed in Fedora 14.
Software issues
PackageKit silently fails to update
should be already fixed now
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
It is believed that a yum plugin provided by 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
- Open a terminal and type:
su -c 'yum remove yum-langpacks' - Or, from the default Desktop environment
- Select the System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software menu item
- Enter the text yum-langpacks in the text-box
- Deselect the check-box associated with
yum-langpacks
GNOME Shell fails to run at all
link to this item - Bugzilla: #567116
Fedora 13 Beta includes version 1.2 of the Clutter toolkit, but