Fedora 8 blocker update - testers needed (still!)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Will Woods wrote:
> As promised, here's an update on the current Fedora 8 Blocker list. 
> 
> As a note: the deadline for blocker fixes is Tuesday, October 29. If we
> still have unfixed critical bugs Tuesday, the release will have to be
> delayed.
> 
> But I don't think that'll happen. Things are looking OK. We currently
> have 14 bugs on the blocker list, which I'll talk about in detail below.
> About half of them have fixes that are waiting for confirmation, and a
> couple of them could be dropped if necessary because they only affect
> particular, uncommon hardware.

Thanks for doing this. We should be doing more of these status reports 
in the last couple of months towards a new release.

You might want to look at the status of

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251493

This appears to be hardware specific. If it can't fixed, the workaround 
should be documented in the common bugs page.

Workaround is to boot with "pci=nomsi,nommconf"

Rahul