Fedora 8 Pre-Release Test Coordination
This page contains some installation tests that should be performed before Fedora 8.
Current Testing Tree
The current public release candidate is RC3, which is available on http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/.
The final set of images (RC5) includes fixes for the bugs noted below. Current Rawhide includes these fixes also, so - if possible - use rawhide for testing instead of the RC3 images.
Release Criteria and Feature Status
Major Changes Since Test3
- Bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes.
Known Issues
Blocker bug list: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=235703&hide_resolved=1
File new bugs here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=devel
Status Whiteboard
These are notes on issues we've encountered that may not be on the blocker list yet.
- #362721 : rhgb crashing/getting stuck on first boot. Still tracing this one; a reboot fixes the problem. Fixed: reverted to known-good rhgb-0.17.7-3.fc8 for F8 release
- #357401 : Install failure with dmraid and live image. Fixed in anaconda-11.3.0.50-2
- #344181 : System failing filesystem check on first boot and dropping to text mode root prompt. Related to previous rhgb bug, fixed in final release.
Blocker Bugs
For reference, here are the Blocker and Target bugs for this release:
- F8 Blocker - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=F8Blocker
- F8 Target - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=F8Target
Any proposed changes to the distribution at this point should fix a bug on one of these lists.
Installation Test Matrix
The following is a list of things which need to be tested to help ensure a valid tree.
| Install Type | Install Arch | Install Details | Install Notes |
| Upgrade | Any | Test upgrade from previous release, ensure necessary things blacklisted (yum list extras) | |
| Upgrade | Any | Test upgrade from oldest supported release, ensure necessary things blacklisted (yum list extras) | |
| Upgrade | Any | Test multi-repo upgrade | Both Static IP and DHCP |
| Install | Any | Test multi-repo installs | Both Static IP and DHCP (DHCP tested) |
| Text mode FTP/HTTP | Any | Ensure text mode with minstg2 sane | |
| SELinux check | All | Need to ensure that fresh installs of all arches come up without any SELinux AVC errors | i386, ppc |
| No-SELinux check | All | Ensure that installs with 'selinux=0' succeed and the installed system runs OK | i386, ppc |
| VNC | Any | Make sure vnc installs work with connect parameters, password param, or none at all | vnc, vncpasswd |
| Any | All | Make sure default install doesn't include -devel packages | i386, x86_64, ppc |
| DVD | All | Media Check Passes | i386, x86_64, ppc |
| USB | Any | Test installation onto removable media. | i386, x86_64 |
| Live Image size | All | Make sure i386 images fit on CD | Works for f13 (but not wwoods?) |
| Kickstart | Any | Make sure that kickstart works | i386, x86_64, ppc |
Test Matrix
| Install Source | Install Type | Arches Completed | Install Notes |
| DVD | Random Package Selection | i386, x86_64, ppc | |
| DVD | Full | i386, x86_64 | |
| DVD | Default | i386, x86_64, ppc | |
| DVD | Minimal | i386, x86_64 | |
| NFS | Default | ||
| NFS ISO | Default | i386, x86_64, ppc | |
| HTTP | Default with 256megs of ram | ||
| FTP | Default with 256megs of ram | ||
| Harddrive | Default | ||
| Live Image | N/A | i386, x86_64 | |
| Any | Xen install | x86_64 | |
| Any | KVM install | i386, x86_64 | |
| Any | ipv6 install | ||
| Any | dmraid install | ||
| Any | dmraid rescue | ||
| Any | mdraid rescue | i386, x86_64 | raid1 /boot, raid0 / |
| Any | normal rescue | x86_64 |