2024-11-11 Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation

Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation by default


Date	2024-11-11 to 2024-11-18
Time	all day

Website	QA/Test Days
Matrix	#workstation:fedoraproject.org
Mailing list	test

Can't make the date?
If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?[edit]

This Test Day will focus on testing case and giving feedback on Anaconda WebUI by Default for Fedora Workstation. This changeset was pushed to next Fedora release and these test days will help determine how the experience is shaping up to be!

Who's available?[edit]

The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion:

Development - Jiří Konečný (jkonecny) et anaconda team
Quality Assurance - Sumantro Mukherjee (sumantrom), Geoffrey Marr (coremodule), Kamil Paral (kparal), Adam Williamson (adamw)

You can chat with us on Matrix or IRC. See the infobox on top of the page to learn where to join.

Prerequisites for Test Day[edit]

Fedora Rawhide nightly ISO image installed on either bare metal or in a virtual machine. (Make sure you have no important data on that system. Things might go wrong -- don't do this on your production machine!)
Please use the latest ISO whenever you are attempting to test

How to test?[edit]

Visit the results page and click on the column title links to see the tests that need to be run: most column titles are links to a specific test case. Follow the instructions there, then enter your results by clicking the Enter result button for the test.

Reporting bugs[edit]

Please file bugs in Red Hat Bugzilla under . Each application has its own separate project, just search for it.

We really need bug reports!
Please note that just mentioning your problem into the comments section on the results page is not very helpful. Very often those problems only happen in specific circumstances, or with specific steps taken. We need the logs and screenshots, and we need to be able to ask you followup questions. Please file bug reports, it's much more useful than a short comment. Thank you!

When filing the bug, it's very helpful to include:

exact steps you've performed (and whether you can reproduce it again)
screenshots or videos, if applicable
system journal (log), which you can retrieve by journalctl -b > journal.txt
all output in a terminal, if started from a terminal
your system description

If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask us.

Please make sure to link to the bug when submitting your test result, thanks!

Share Feedback[edit]

The Anaconda team is looking for feedback as much for for bugs. Please share your feedback in this discussion.

Test Results[edit]

Web UI Guided Partitioning[edit]

User	Profile	Guided free space	Guided Shink	Guided Encrypt	Guided Multi Select	Guided Multi Empty All	Guided Preserve Home	Guided Delete Partial	References
Daniels	MSI Summit 2in1 13 QEMU Standard PC _Q35 + ICH9, 2009_ 13th Gen i7-1360P × 9 Gnome 47 KVM Linux 6.12.0-0.rc6.20241108git906bd684e4b1.55.fc42.x86_64			pass
Minegame Ytb	Proxmox (qemu/kvm)			pass			pass ^[1]		↑ Reinstall fedora with home preserve: OK
Minegame Ytb	Proxmox (qemu/kvm) (dualboot with windows)		pass ^[1]						↑ Resize Windows partition: OK, Boot Windows after install: OK
adriend	Proxmox Virtual Machine with Ubuntu 24.04		fail ^[1]						↑ RHBZ #2325707 Dual boot with Ubuntu 24.04 (ext4 installation). Resize Ubuntu root partition OK. At reboot, Fedora's GRUB can't boot Ubuntu entries. Booting Ubuntu from UEFI menu is OK.
alciregi	Lenovo ThinkPad E15						pass
ancaster				pass
ancaster	Boxes VM			pass
bittin	gnome-boxes (12th November iso)			pass
bittin	gnome-boxes (15th November iso)	pass
bittin	gnome-boxes (17th November iso)			pass
bittin	gnome-boxes	pass		pass
bittin	gnome-boxes (12th November iso)	pass
cconrad	Dell XPS 9320		fail ^[1]						↑ RHBZ #2326532 "No such file or directory: efibootmgr" reported as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2326532
cconrad	Dell XPS 9320	pass ^[1]							↑ Installed to free space between partitions belonging to a Debian 12 installation. Both distros were bootable using EFI as expected.
derekenz	AMD 5600g F41 KDE boxes VM	pass	warn ^[1] pass	pass	pass		pass		↑ Since others had a fail. Ran test again. The installer did see and reclaim space automatically. Install ran fine. In the reclaim space dialogue under actions though I had no option to manually shrink the partition.
earlramirez		pass		pass	pass
firebleudark	VM on VirtualBox 7.1.4			pass ^[1]					↑ Default installation on a SSD Crucial X6. It's a success. The installation was made in 6m21s.
geraldosimiao	Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20241118.n.0.iso on KVM	pass ^[1]							↑ Installed using pt_br language, still need some translations.
guiltydoggy	Fedora 41 Kinoite Podman version 5.3.0-rc2				pass	pass		pass ^[1]	↑ KVM Virtual Machine
guiltydoggy	KVM Virtual Machine						pass
igorjagec	Boxes	pass ^[1]							↑ All good. Gnome Boxes on Hewlett-Packard HP Z230 SFF Workstation (i7-4770 × 8).
jelly	Share disk with other operating system		fail ^[1]						↑ I have an existing Arch installation: - 512M EFI partition - 8G Linux swap partition - 503 GB LUKS partition So in theory deleting the swap partition allows me to install Fedora but clicking delete does not detect space savings. It does for the EFI/Luks partition Further issues are: - The move? icon next to the delete partition icon has no tooltip so its unclear to me if it is for moving - The move? icon is disabled and I don't know why
kanru	gnome-boxes	pass ^[1]	pass ^[2]						↑ Works. I first created 3 partitions to simulate an existing Fedora install (FAT, Ext4, XFS). For some reason the installer shows "Currently installed: Windows". Guided installation decided to create 3 more partitions. Not sure if it should reuse the first FAT partition for EFI (I didn't populate the first partition so maybe that's why it wasn't used) ↑ Works. First installed Debian testing with 3 partitions (EFI, ext4, swap) then shrink the ext4 partition to install Fedora. The final partitions are (EFI, ext4, [ext4, btrfs], swap). Fedora's grub menu has Debian but it can't boot due to shim mismatch, but EFI boot manager works.
kronenpj	KVM Virtual Machine	fail ^[1]	fail ^[2]	pass ^[3]	pass ^[4]	pass ^[5]	fail ^[6]	pass ^[7]	↑ RHBZ #2324913 Overwrites existing EFI system boot partition ↑ RHBZ #2324916 Existing OS's BTRFS (on root) partition cannot be resized via WebUI ↑ Apart from the previously recorded EFI-reformat issue, worked as expected for both full disk and free-space installations. ↑ Worked as expected. ↑ Worked as expected ↑ RHBZ #2324930 Installer refuses to continue citing insufficient disk space ↑ Apart from the previously recorded EFI-reformat issue, worked as expected. Data is available on previous OS/home partition.
lbrabec	Framework 13 AMD Ryzen 7040 Series			pass
lruzicka@redhat.com	Libvirt VM	pass	fail ^[1]	pass			pass ^[2]		↑ I cannot shrink an existing BTRFS partition. A bug is already filed by one of the testers. ↑ Home is preserved, but nothing else. You could also think about trying to recreate the users from the existing directories in /home.
nielsenb	HP Compaq 8501w							fail ^[1]	↑ RHBZ #2305543 BIOS dual-boot system with Windows 10, fails attempting to reclaim space from a Fedora install
nikodunk	https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/u/nikodunk/	pass ^[1]							↑ In Flatpak Boxes, install from scratch worked great. Re-selected the empty disk that was autoselected, erased all, everything worked as expected.
royboy626	MoBoard:Gigabyte H55M-S2H;GeForce GT 730	pass	pass	pass	pass		pass	pass
seaninspace	KVM with single disk	pass
tqcharm	UTM with Apple Virtualization	pass	pass ^[1]						↑ Resized an NTFS partition.

Web UI & Cockpit Storage Editor[edit]

User	Profile	Standard Ext4	Standard xfs	Standard btrfs	Cockpit Storage	References
adriend	Proxmox Virtual Machine		pass ^[1]			↑ On "system configuration" step, installing bootloader took a very long time...
bittin	gnome-boxes (12th November iso)	pass	pass
jikortus	Libvirt VM				pass
kanru	gnome-boxes				pass ^[1]	↑ Works. I tried to create partition layout as following: /dev/vda1 /boot/efi EFI /dev/vda2 /boot Ext4 /dev/vda3 (unmounted btrfs root) Btrfs / subvolume /home subvolume /var subvolume So that I can use backup system like btrbk to store snapshots in another subvolume in the real btrfs root volume.
royboy626	MoBoard:Gigabyte H55M-S2H;GeForce GT 730			pass ^[1]		↑ Created brtfs as suggested; When 'Return to installer' message clicked: 'You need to define a root partition...'. An addendum to this message might be 'Select: Return to installer and select "Define Mount Points" (sic) to set a root partition for the installer'
seaninspace	KVM with single disk	pass

Web UI Manual Partitioning[edit]

User	Profile	Preserve Home	RAID Mount	LVM	Cockpit Storage	References
alciregi	Lenovo ThinkPad E15	pass
jikortus	Libvirt VM	pass		pass	pass
jikortus	Libvirt VM, 2 disks		fail ^[1]			↑ RHBZ #2325906
kanru	gnome-boxes				pass ^[1]	↑ Works. I tried to create partition layout as following: /dev/vda1 /boot/efi EFI /dev/vda2 /boot Ext4 /dev/vda3 (unmounted btrfs root) Btrfs / subvolume /home subvolume /var subvolume So that I can use backup system like btrbk to store snapshots in another subvolume in the real btrfs root volume.
royboy626	MoBoard:Gigabyte H55M-S2H;GeForce GT 730			fail ^[1]		↑ Perhaps a failure of instructions? A drive with an ;empty' gpt partition used. "mount point assignment" option is not displayed.

[1] Reinstall fedora with home preserve: OK

[2] Resize Windows partition: OK, Boot Windows after install: OK

[3] RHBZ #2325707 Dual boot with Ubuntu 24.04 (ext4 installation). Resize Ubuntu root partition OK. At reboot, Fedora's GRUB can't boot Ubuntu entries. Booting Ubuntu from UEFI menu is OK.

[4] RHBZ #2326532 "No such file or directory: efibootmgr" reported as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2326532

[5] Installed to free space between partitions belonging to a Debian 12 installation. Both distros were bootable using EFI as expected.

[6] Since others had a fail. Ran test again. The installer did see and reclaim space automatically. Install ran fine. In the reclaim space dialogue under actions though I had no option to manually shrink the partition.

[7] Default installation on a SSD Crucial X6. It's a success. The installation was made in 6m21s.

[8] Installed using pt_br language, still need some translations.

[9] KVM Virtual Machine

[10] All good. Gnome Boxes on Hewlett-Packard HP Z230 SFF Workstation (i7-4770 × 8).

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