rawhide working towards F8

[Jim Cornette]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
>    Now rawhide will push towards f8 release.  I will
> be out for summer, I will not be able to help with
> testing other than tomorrow except for a laptop and it
> will be hard to test *will be on dialup and no working
> connection under linux*.  If I put my machine away and
> come last week of August and run yum update will it
> hurt me and the testing process in any way, other than
> get the test release(s) and run update from there.  
> 
> Is it best to leave machine as is and come back last
> week of August and yum update it?  or update it via
> test release for f8?
> 
> I have a working system with only a few quirks that
> have previously been reported by others and myself
> included.
> 
> * fedora does not see both cd/dvd drives, workaround
> put in data/audio cd and fedora will see them.
> 
> * 
> 
> BUG: warning at kernel/softirq.c:138/local_bh_enable()
> (Not tainted)
>  [<c042b0cf>] local_bh_enable+0x45/0x92
>  [<c06002bd>] cond_resched_softirq+0x2c/0x42
>  [<c059adf3>] release_sock+0x4f/0x9d
>  [<c05c670d>] tcp_sendmsg+0x90b/0x9f9
>  [<c05dec95>] inet_sendmsg+0x3b/0x45
>  [<c0599180>] sock_sendmsg+0xd0/0xeb
>  [<c0600901>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x4b/0x52
>  [<c048652a>] touch_atime+0x95/0xbb
>  [<c0436e71>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x35
>  [<c045bfe3>] generic_file_aio_read+0x173/0x1a4
>  [<c0599a44>] sys_sendto+0x118/0x138
>  [<c04599bf>] find_get_page+0x18/0x38
>  [<c045bce2>] filemap_nopage+0x18b/0x319
>  [<c04647b8>] __handle_mm_fault+0x362/0x8f3
>  [<c0599a9b>] sys_send+0x37/0x3b
>  [<c059a406>] sys_socketcall+0x14a/0x261
>  [<c0404f70>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>  =======================
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240982
> 
> * USB printer not printed, Sorry did not bugzilla this
> one
> 
> 
> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
> address 7
> usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
> address 8
> usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> , ..., etc
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio 
> 

I used to run a rawhide installed machine that was upstairs where I do 
not go often. It seemed to take two to 4four month rests without much 
trouble between updates.

So it might be alright or you might have some problems with the 
temporary timeout. I feel that you should be able to recover with not a 
great amount of difficulty, if any.

Jim