Fedora 9 Beta Live CD: disabling services during interactive startup

[Oisin Feeley]

Hi all,

The i686 FedoraDesktop LiveCD appears to fail somewhere after
NetworkManagerDispatcher is started. The exact symptoms are that the
screen flickers, goes blank and the CD drive continues to spin for
minutes and then becomes inactive. Keyboard or touchpad input results
in the CD drive spinning up again but the screen remaining blank.

Attempts to see what's going on by switching to some other console via
Alt-Ctl-Fx appear to be ignored.

Attempts to selectively disable services (with the object of disabling
NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher) are a problem because the
reading of the options appears to ignored. The prompt "<service name>
(C)ontinue/(Y)es/(N)o" (or something of that form) appears, but it's
necessary to enter at least two carriage-returns with the option, a
bit of what appears to be Python code for reading the option and
starting the services is printed and then the service is (possibly)
started anyway.

So, any ideas as to how I can get a bit further with testing the
pre-release? Or capturing better info for reporting whatever is going
wrong to bugzilla?

Thanks,
Oisin Feeley