Some things to focus testing on for F9Beta

[Tony Molloy]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 22:18:54 Will Woods wrote:
> Fedora 9 will have a lot of new and exciting things. Naturally, we want
> those things to be stable and well-polished for the final release.
>
> With that in mind, here's a list of things that deserve especially close
> attention.
>
<snip>

> 2) NetworkManager
> At long last, NetworkManager is installed and enabled by default for all
> new installs. It is *supposed* to play nice with the system
> configuration set up by Anaconda and the old system-config-network tool.
>
> I'd recommend that all testers install and enable NetworkManager if
> possible. File bugs about network configuration problems (not honoring
> static IP configurations, for instance) against "NetworkManager".
>

Fresh install of F9-Beta with static IP address. NetworkManagerDispatcher runs 
on firstboot and overwrites the resolv.conf file. Also the static network 
data from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 is not being honoured. It 
gets a 169.xx adddress.

>
>
> If there's any other things that people think need closer attention..
> now would be a good time to mention them.
>
> Happy testing!
>
> -w
>
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> https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-March/msg00710.html