This page documents common bugs in Fedora 12 and, if available, fixes or workarounds for these problems. If you find your problem in this page, do not file a bug for it, unless otherwise instructed. Where appropriate, a reference to the current bug(s) in Bugzilla is included.
Fedora 12 has not yet been released. During this pre-release period, this page will cover known issues in the Fedora 12 pre-releases. Issues that are fixed will be removed from the page once a pre-release that fixes them is available (for instance, an issue that affects the Alpha but is fixed in the Beta will be removed when the Beta is released).
Release Summary, Announcement and Notes
Read the Fedora 12 Alpha release notes for specific information about changes in Fedora 12: known issues, and other general information.
My bug is not listed
Not every bug is listed in this page, but Bugzilla should be a comprehensive database of known bugs. This page is a sampling of the bugs most commonly discussed on our mailing lists and forums.
To see if your bug has already been reported, you can search Bugzilla. If it has not yet been reported, we encourage you to do so to help improve Fedora for yourself and others. A guide to Bugs and feature requests has been prepared to assist you.
If you believe an already-reported bug report should be added to this page because it is commonly enountered, you can:
- Add it yourself, if you have wiki access. Remember to try and follow the style and guidelines explained in the comments in the page source.
- Add the CommonBugs keyword to the bug report, and contact the Fedora QA team with the Bugzilla report number explaining why you believe that particular report qualifies as a common issue. You can contact Fedora QA through any of the methods listed here.
Issues when upgrading from previous releases
As usual, the supported methods for upgrading from previous Fedora releases are to do an 'upgrade install' from the regular installation media, or to use preupgrade (see How_to_use_PreUpgrade). Upgrading by using yum directly is not supported, but may in practice work. For known issues when upgrading via yum, see the page on this upgrade method.
Installation issues
/boot must be a minimum of 500 MB
link to this item - Bugzilla: #510970
If you use a separate /boot partition, it is highly recommended that it be at least 500MB in size.
First boot wizard unusable (buttons invisible) on some multiple display configurations
link to this item - Bugzilla: #526836
The first boot wizard - which runs on the first boot of a newly-installed system to display license information, handle user creation and offer to submit hardware information to the Smolt database - does not display consistently on multiple display configurations in Fedora 12 Beta. On some configurations, the wizard may be usable but stretched across all connected monitors. On others, it may be restricted to one monitor only. In the worst case, the wizard will display in such a way that the buttons needed to progress through the steps (which should be shown at the bottom-right hand corner) are invisible, being rendered outside the boundaries of all connected monitors.
This issue has been fixed in a later version of the 
firstboot
In rare cases, you may encounter this bug on a system with only one display, when it intersects with an X.org driver bug which causes your system to believe extra displays are connected when in fact they aren't. In this case, you can use the tab/enter workaround described above, or boot to runlevel 3 by adding the number 3 as a kernel parameter. This will cause a text configuration wizard to be displayed instead of the graphical firstboot wizard. If you have not yet created a user account, you should do so from this wizard. Then you can reboot as normal. If you find yourself in this situation, please file a bug on the phantom extra display problem, following these instructions.
First boot after installation fails on Apple Mac PowerPC systems
link to this item - Bugzilla: #529035
After a standard installation on an Apple Mac PowerPC system, booting the system fails with the message Unknown or corrupt filesystem. This is due to the installer (Anaconda) failing to ensure the
To workaround this issue, use the manual package selection option during installation and ensure that the
Software issues
link to this item - Bugzilla: #505421
Due to a misconfiguration, in Fedora 12 Beta, the snd-seq module - which provides the ALSA sequencer interface - is not loaded by default. This affects applications which use the sequencer, such as
To work around this problem, create a file with the following contents:
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq
and save it as /etc/modprobe.d/dist-alsa.conf. This issue should be resolved in the final release of Fedora 12.
Unable to login to GDM using network authentication
link to this item - Bugzilla: #527920
Fedora 12 Beta systems configured for a network authentication system (e.g. kerberos or lpap) may be unable to login using the GNOME Display Manager (GDM). Systems exhibiting this problem will not permit login for remote user accounts and may not offer a dialog to manually enter the remote username. A suggested workaround involves adding a temporary entry in /etc/passwd for affected users. One method to accomplish this is demonstrated below.
# getent passwd <username> >> /etc/passwd
Adobe Reader fails to run
The root cause of this problem is not Fedora, but rather software provided by Adobe. If you are interested in a fix for this issue, you must contact that vendor through their web site.
We encourage Fedora users to use a free alternative to Adobe reader, such as Evince, whenever possible.
Current releases of Adobe Reader do not run by default on Fedora 12. To work around this problem, launch Adobe Reader with the following command:
GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 acroread