Fedora 11 fail because of Anaconda :(

[James Laska]

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 15:58 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >> >> I don't have any warm fuzzies about how good F11 is going to be;
> >> >> I'm afraid that anaconda's instability has blocked a lot of the
> >> >> testing we'd normally get.
> >> >
> >> > Fair point.  I'm optimistic with the number of Test Days and the
> >> > increasing use of live images for testing.  That said, there is a
> >> > significant hurdle to overcome for calming down the installer.
> >>
> >> I agree the test days have helped but its concerning that I still
> >> can't do an install with custom partitions with the preview release.
> >> And there doesn't seem to be a lot of traction on the bug to fix it
> >> before release.
> >
> > I agree Peter.  From my perspective things have been improving with
> > anaconda.  However, the exposure continues to be the previous disk
> > layout especially those involving dmraid.
> >
> > When filing a bug, please be as specific as possible when outlining the
> > "steps to reproduce."  Order is very important for the custom disk
> > partitioning.  If a traceback occurs, the resulting traceback file
> > (/tmp/anacdump.txt) and any screenshots are tremendously helpful.
> >
> > In the case of bug#492154, it appears that the previous OSX disk layout
> > may be the culprit.  I'm reaching out to the anaconda-devel folks for
> > advice on further pinpointing this issue.  I'll hopefully follow-up with
> > more information.
> 
> Interesting, if that was caused by OSX disk layouts maybe some of the
> bugs that were marked as dupes of it should be reopened. Or at least
> the contents of the various bug reports re-examined for information.
> The original bug I filed was marked as a dupe of that and I've since
> put updates on that ticket but haven't been told that its not relevant
> or to open a new bug.

Let's see what comes out of initial triage efforts for this bug.  Stay
tuned ...

Thanks,
James

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