Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 21:32 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:29 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: The VM I used had 1GB of memory. Does the 'basic graphics mode' option

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Bidewell
So it looks for the VMWare 'vmwgfx' driver and it's not there (I'm not sure if that driver is something Fedora would be expected to include, or if it's a 'guest additions' kind of thing). Then it falls back on 'vmwlegacy', which promptly blows up. ajax, airlied, are we expecting this

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Tom Hughes
On 23/04/12 14:27, Mark Bidewell wrote: So it looks for the VMWare 'vmwgfx' driver and it's not there (I'm not sure if that driver is something Fedora would be expected to include, or if it's a 'guest additions' kind of thing). Then it falls back on 'vmwlegacy', which promptly blows

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Frank Murphy
On 18/04/12 12:47, Mark Bidewell wrote: After trying the F17 Alpha with no success, I tried the F17 Beta. I installed in the VMWare Fusion Technical Preview F17 Beta Xfce.x86_64 spin, Happily ran on F16.x86_64 host, and installed just dandy. firewalld service by default. But OT for this

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 14:02 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 21:32 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:29 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: The VM I used had

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 11:33 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 14:02 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 21:32 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Bidewell
OK, so Mark, it looks like we need you to file a bug on the segfault you hit when trying to run anaconda with the vmwlegacy driver (as long as I'm interpreting the log right). Can you do that and link to the bug? Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter:

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-19 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Mark Bidewell mbide...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Paul Wouters pwout...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Mark Bidewell wrote: However, no GUI for installation is less than userfriendly did you give the VM 768MB or more RAM?

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:29 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: The VM I used had 1GB of memory. It's pretty much impossible for us to just guess why the installer drops to text mode. You should be able to get X logs from the installer environment; boot the installer, go to alt-f2, and poke around in

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-19 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.comwrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:29 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote: The VM I used had 1GB of memory. It's pretty much impossible for us to just guess why the installer drops to text mode. You should be able to get X logs from

Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-18 Thread Mark Bidewell
After trying the F17 Alpha with no success, I tried the F17 Beta. I installed in the VMWare Fusion Technical Preview (which supports Linux 3D Graphics). On install I was dumped into the text installer which installed a basic 211 package installation. Improved from the Alpha is that I could get

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-18 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Mark Bidewell wrote: However, no GUI for installation is less than userfriendly did you give the VM 768MB or more RAM? It might not really need it anymore, but last I checked Anaconda checked for it before switching into gui install mode. Paul -- devel mailing list

Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

2012-04-18 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Paul Wouters pwout...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Mark Bidewell wrote: However, no GUI for installation is less than userfriendly did you give the VM 768MB or more RAM? It might not really need it anymore, but last I checked Anaconda checked