Fedora 12 Beta

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 12:31 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed F12 Beta. Here are some thoughts
> 
> 1 - during the first boot smolt panicked - there was an error related
> to time zones in python-sitepackages or something like that.

Could you try to reproduce and provide more precise details on the
error? There's not a lot we can do with that level of detail.

> 2 - I tried to reboot the system - ctrl + alt + del, but it stopped on
> process termination

It _may_ not actually have stopped, rebooting from firstboot can be
quite sluggish I've noticed, but goes through eventually.

> 3 - after reboot system wanted my root password for partition check -
> after I pressed each key, the system gave me a communicate about wrong
> password

The fact that it wanted to do fsck at all may be
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522969 , which is fixed in
tomorrow's Rawhide.

> I guess this is a plymouth bug. I disabled it in grub conf and system
> works correctly. Is there any chance to completely remove plymouth
> from the system? (even from initrd)

>From a quick look, we don't have a bug filed for the fact that entering
the root password at this point doesn't work with Plymouth. Could you
please file one with a full description, and mark it as blocking
F12Blocker? Thanks.

> 4 - F12 boots really slow on my laptop
> http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tmp/bootchart.png something
> wrong is happening while udev loading

Please file a bug for this, on 'udev' component for now, and CC Harald
Hoyer (hhoyer at redhat). Thanks!

> 5 - default gnome sound scheme is terrible

This is a pretty subjective topic.

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