On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 11:57 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 08/17/2013 12:28 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> VLAN setup for installing! Yay! However, after rebooting, > >> NetworkManager wasn't able to bring it up, something about not knowing > >> the "virtual interface name". Turned out to be the ethernet interface > >> name changed from what it was at install time. > > > > This would be the rather brown-paper-bag-ish > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=965718 . Last I > > checked we were still working out the precise implications of that one. > > This sounds like another of them. > > > I should remember to check common bugs, but since I follow this list I'm > normally familiar with the existing issues. But after looking at the > entry, it wouldn't have been helpful to my case since it says there > shouldn't be any issues. Yeah. We need to fix that. The problem is that now I know it *does* cause some issues, but I still don't know *what* issues. Bill was supposed to be looking into it and updating the bug, but unless I missed a comment, he didn't get around to it yet. > In this case, the problem is cross-interface > matching. The ethernet interface was created with one name and the vlan > references that one. However, after rebooting the ethernet interface > has a different name, so the vlan can't find it and fails. > > >> Didn't detect my timezone. Not a big deal, but I was hoping it would > >> since there's been some discussion here about it working. > > > > We'd probably need the apparent public IP address of the system you were > > installing on to debug this one. > > > I just tested the ip against the fedora geoip service and it returns the > correct info. I wonder if there is something timing related. Since I > had to setup the vlan interface before it had internet access, maybe it > was too late for the lookup. Yeah, I've seen that kind of thing in some of my tests. A lot of my live installs wind up with New York as the timezone, IIRC. > >> Eventually I read the instructions carefully > > > > You damn dirty liar. You are CLEARLY not a Fedora user. > > > It was my last resort! And since I was installing the gateway server, I > didn't have internet access to use Google or ask on the mailing list. ;-) > > >> and then looked at the > >> mount point entry again and saw that it wasn't disabled. I wonder if > >> there is some way to make it more obvious... > > > > Trumpets? :) > > > Sure! I don't know, maybe a different color, but that gets into other > issues... It's not a huge deal, but in the sea of grey, the one black > label didn't stick out much. > > >> One odd thing I noticed while > >> cycling through the consoles was that console 6 had a login prompt on > >> it. I didn't actually try logging in. > >> > Any thoughts on this one? It was rather surprising to find a login > prompt during the installing process. IIRC it's been there for a while, I'm not entirely sure of its purpose. More a question for anaconda team I think. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
