On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 16:53 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > On 06/01/2012 12:25 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 11:17 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > >> I did a fresh install of 64 bit F17 from the DVD on omen.com yesterday. > >> I was a bit alarmed at all the funny screens before Anaconda got the > >> X server running. > >> > >> The install did not offer to check the DVD for errors. > >> Apparently there weren't as the install proceeded without problems. > >> > >> The biggest problem is on F17 seems to be networking. The omen.com > >> machine talks to the internet using a PCI card. The motherboard > >> gigabit ethernet talks to the local 192.168.1 net. As with F16 the > >> brain damaged network connections GUI would not let me set > >> the local net without specifying a gateway. This required me to > >> manually edit the scripts before masquerading could work. > >> Overnight the local net died and I decided to revert to the > >> previously installed F16. > > So...you're saying that F17 behaves exactly the same as F16 except > > something went wrong. > > > > This is very useful information and I shall work on fixing something > > right away! > The difference is that F17 seems unstable running the two networks. > I do not know if I am the only one using Fedora as a gateway. > My situation may be unique. F17 appears unreliable > on the same machine where F16 has been reliable. > > I will see if I can recreate and resolve the problem(s) on another > machine which doesn't have to be reliable. > > My problem reports in the past have identified problems before > they were widely known. You are free to ignore them. A report that 'the network went down' is worth about zero. Put yourself in the position of, say, the NetworkManager maintainer. you have just read a mail which says: 'Overnight the local net died and I decided to revert to the previously installed F16." What do you do? Where do you start? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
