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Fedora 9 Alpha Pre-Release Test Coordination
Current Testing Tree
Rawhide is the current testing tree. You can install from one of your local mirrors or build your own ISOs if you need installation media.
Release Criteria and Feature Status
- ["QA/ReleaseCriteria"]
- ["Releases/9/FeatureList"]
Major Changes
- New device encryption and partition resizing support in anaconda - please test if possible!
Known Issues
There was the blocker bug for the Alpha release release: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=f9alpha . Any open bugs on this list are known issues at the time F9 Alpha shipped.
New bugs should be filed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide
- Firstboot does not offer to create a user account (fixed in rawhide)
- Log in as root and create a user (System -> Administration -> Users and Groups)
- "Shut down" and "Restart" options on login screen don't work
- dmraid not detected during install
- rescue with encrypted block devices does not work
- upgrades may fail to find /boot partition - boot with updates=http://people.redhat.com/clumens/f9a-updates.img
Status Whiteboard
These are notes on issues we've encountered that may not be on the blocker list yet. We're in the process of investigating them - bugs will be filed soon.
- intel video: switching between X and text mode can cause X to lock up
- intel video: using DRI / OpenGL causes X to lock up (maybe? needs retesting)
- radeon video may not work
Blocker Bugs
For reference, here are the Blocker and Target bugs for this release:
- Alpha Blocker - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=f9alpha (CLOSED)
- Beta Blocker - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=F9Beta
- GA Target - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=F9Target
- GA Blocker - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=F9Blocker
Installation Test Matrix
The following is a list of things which need to be tested to help ensure a valid tree.
| Install Type | Install Arch | Install Details | Install Notes |
| Upgrade | Any | Test upgrade from previous release, ensure necessary things blacklisted (yum list extras) | Traceback upgrading bootloader config: #430811 |
| Upgrade | Any | Test upgrade from oldest supported release, ensure necessary things blacklisted (yum list extras) | Traceback upgrading bootloader config: #430811 |
| Upgrade | Any | Test multi-repo upgrade | Traceback upgrading bootloader config: #430811 |
| Install | Any | Test multi-repo installs | |
| Text mode FTP/HTTP | Any | Ensure text mode with minstg2 sane | x86_64 |
| SELinux check | All | Need to ensure that fresh installs of all arches come up without any SELinux AVC errors | i386 |
| VNC | Any | Make sure vnc installs work with connect parameters, password param, or none at all | x86_64 no args |
| Any | All | Make sure default install doesn't include -devel packages | selinux-policy-devel and libgdiplus-devel show up |
| DVD | All | Media Check Passes | i386, x86_64 OK. Progress meter does not change, but media check works: #431138 |
| CD | All | Media Check Passes | |
| USB | Any | Test installation onto removable media. | |
| Live Image size | All | Make sure i386 images fit on CD | |
| Kickstart | Any | Make sure that kickstart works | "user" command causes tracebacks: #428891 |
| Resizing NTFS | i386 | Make sure resizing NTFS works without breaking Windows | Needs a CHKDSK but otherwise fine |
| Resizing ext3 | Any | Make sure ext3 partitions can be resized without breaking existing Linux install |
Test Matrix
| Install Source | Install Type | Arches Completed | Install Notes |
| CD | Random Package Selection | ||
| CD | Full | ||
| CD | Default | ||
| CD | Minimal | ||
| DVD | Random Package Selection | x86_64 | |
| DVD | Full | ||
| DVD | Default | i386(kvm) | |
| DVD | Minimal | i386 | Selected only Base, but still got GNOME - i386 and x86_64 |
| NFS | Default | x86_64 | |
| NFS ISO | Default | x86_64 | |
| HTTP | Default with 256megs of ram | i386 | |
| FTP | Default with 256megs of ram | ||
| Harddrive (ISO set) | Default | i386 | Installer fails to find repomd.xml and aborts after formatting partition(s): #431132 |
| Live Image | N/A | ||
| Any | Xen install | ||
| Any | KVM install | x86_64, i386 | |
| Any | ipv6 install | ||
| Any | dmraid install | Installer doesn't see dmraid device 429713 | |
| Any | dmraid rescue | Doesn't work with encrypted devices 430786 | |
| Any | mdraid rescue | Doesn't work with encrypted devices 430786 | |
| Any | normal rescue | x86_64(no encrypted devices) | Doesn't work with encrypted devices 430786 |