From Fedora Project Wiki

Release Notes

  • the VNC server is started automatically with the vnc option in the parameters file, so you don't need to use SSH connection first, just wait a bit and start your VNC client
  • the option for installing with X forwarded over SSH was removed
  • very rarely a kernel panic can happen with 3.6.x kernel from the GA repositories, it is fixed in the 3.7 kernel available in the updates repository, please see this kernel commit for more information

for older notes see Architectures/s390x/17

Developer information

Global info

Image composes are run on F-18 with

  • pungi-2.11-3.fc18.dh.1
  • pungi-2.13-1.fc18 (>= 20130108)
  • lorax-18.14-1.fc18
  • lorax-18.17-1.fc18 (>= 20120903)
  • lorax-18.19-1.fc18 (>= 20120916)

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

issues found in F-18 Alpha 20120823

using anaconda-18.6.1-1.fc18

Installation status: FAIL

  • network not set up, install.img can't be downloaded

issues found in F-18 Alpha 20120903

using anaconda-18.6.5-1.fc18

Installation status: unknown

  • none yet

issues found in F-18 Alpha 20120917

using anaconda-18.11-1.fc18

sample parameters file

ro ramdisk_size=40000 cio_ignore=all,!0.0.0009 vnc
rd.dasd=0.0.0200 rd.dasd=0.0.0201 rd.dasd=0.0.0202 rd.dasd=0.0.0203
ip=192.168.100.100::192.168.100.1:24:fedora.example.com:eth0:none
rd.znet=qeth,0.0.0800,0.0.0801,0.0.0802,layer2=0,portname=FOOBAR,portno=0
root=live:http://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/tree/test/20120917/s390x/os/images/install.img
repo=http://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/tree/test/20120917/s390x/os
nameserver=10.20.30.40

Installation status: OK

  • bug 857940 - AttributeError: 'ZIPL' object has no attribute 'storage' - we have a fix that works, waiting for upstream acceptance, the network configuration and root login issues depend on successful run of anaconda
  • bug 860244 - wrong reIPL device is set

Boot status: OK

issues found in F-18 pre-Beta 20121010

using anaconda-18.17-1.fc18 and lorax-18.21

Installation status: FAIL

Boot status: N/A

issues found in F-18 pre-Beta 20121022

using anaconda-18.19-1.fc18 and lorax-18.21 (+ patch to include Perl in the image - bug 868824)

Installation status: OK

Boot status: OK

  • delay during login - bug 868839

issues found in F-18 pre-Beta 20121105

using anaconda-18.24-1.fc18 and lorax-18.21 (+ patch to include Perl in the image - bug 868824)

Installation status: OK

Boot status: OK

issues found in F-18 post-Beta 20121128

using anaconda-18.31-1.fc18 and lorax-18.21

Installation status: OK

Boot status: OK

  • I got a report that one can still get the "Storage" spoke marked as unconfigured even when you successfully finish the partitioning dialogs, please try to capture as much info as possible, seems it's not easily reproducible

issues found in F-18 post-Beta 20121205

using anaconda-18.35-1.fc18 and lorax-18.21

Installation status: OK (kickstart) - OK (GUI)

Boot status: OK

issues found in F-18 post-Beta 20121211

using anaconda-18.37-1.fc18 and lorax-18.22-7 with a fix for creating the upgrade image

Installation status: OK (kickstart) - FAIL (GUI)

Boot status: OK

  • 880319 is a anaconda traceback from GUI installation on reclaimed disk space with both automatic and manual partitioning

issues found in F-18 pre-GA 20121213

using anaconda-18.37.2-1.fc18 and lorax-18.22-7 with a fix for creating the upgrade image

Installation status: OK (kickstart) - OK (GUI)

Boot status: OK

issues found in F-18 pre-GA 20121218

using anaconda-18.37.3-1.fc18 and lorax-18.22-7 with a fix for creating the upgrade image

Installation status: OK (kickstart) - OK (GUI)

Boot status: OK

issues found in F-18 pre-GA 20130108

using anaconda-18.37.8-1.fc18 and lorax-18.24-1.fc18

Installation status: OK (kickstart) - OK (GUI)

Boot status: OK

issues found in F-18 pre-GA 20130111

using anaconda-18.37.11-1.fc18 and lorax-18.29-1.fc18

Installation status: OK (kickstart) - OK (GUI)

Boot status: OK

  • this compose was declared as GA

general anaconda/lorax/pungi/... issues

  • pungi