Re: Fedora 19 beta test candidate images

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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:47:25AM +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
>> 1) The hostname is not set correctly. See my updates to
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964006. Looks to me like a
>> systemd/selinux issue.
>
> Ahaha!
>
> I had ruled that out because I booted with selinux=0 and it didn't work
> either.
>
> But apparently, cloud-init completely fails in that situation too.
>
> So, I changed to writing "SELINUX=permissive" to /etc/sysconfig/selinux, and
> that didn't work either, but on further inspection, on boot SELinux is still
> in enforcing mode, ignoring that config file. (Changed it to
> "SELINUX=disabled" doesn't work either.)
>
> Sooo, I booted with enforcing=0 on the kernel command line, and now it
> works.
>
> I think maybe I need a vacation. :)
>
> Are the sysconfig options not working for other people?

Dunno. I modified /etc/selinux/config directly.


> (I think probably `Requires systemd-hostnamed.service` in the systemd config is
> a good idea too.)
>
>> 2) The root partition is not resized. There's two problems:
>>     a) cloud.cfg doesn't list the growpart module ->
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=966888
>>     b) cloud-init can't find a resizer, since F19 parted doesn't seem
>> to support online partition resizing (option 'resizepart' is not
>> available). The work-around for this is to install cloud-utils.
>
> cloud-utils brings in a lot of dependenies. Including, apparently, glusterfs
> and ceph. Do you think it's possible/useful to split out growpart?

Agreed, it brings in a whole bunch of useless stuff. I'd rather have
resizepart in parted (thank for the bug report btw) and drop
cloud-utils than pull stuff out of cloud-utils. Seems like a lot of
effort for little (temporary) benefit.


> It looks like the resizepart command isn't upstream (even in the
>
>> 3) Can we please make the default user more provider agnostic? Pretty
>> please?? I propose to follow Debian and Ubuntu and use 'fedora' as the
>> default user.
>
> Yeah. I just want consensus on this. Let's start a new thread discussing it.

Will do.


> (One particular question is whether we want to use ec2-user in EC2, or the
> generic one.) Also, the livecd uses "liveuser". Maybe we should use
> "clouduser"?
>
>
>
>> 4) The kickstart file is stored in /root. That should probably be purged.
>
> Sure. It's pretty standard to have it there, but we can save 6K and people
> can look for it on the web. :)

Ok. I guess we can leave it there if there's some benefit to it. I
just thought it was noise that nobody cares about.


>> 5) The console log is empty. Can we add 'console=ttyS0' to the kernel
>> commandline?
>
> Sorry, yeah. I meant to do that before.
>
>> 6) cloud-init doesn't display the networking info correctly ->
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949832
>
> *nod* Yeah, I've known about that. Thanks for filing the bug.
>
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