Fedora Core 8 - Insight

The much awaited Fedora Core 8 was final released on 08 Nov 2007. The version8 named "WEREWOLF"

    "Werewolf" moves across the land
    Router meltdowns close at hand
    Sysadmins in search of blood
    For those who caused this bandwidth flood
    And whosoever took the risk
    But failed to make an extra disc
    Must face the Bastard Op from Hell
    And lose his access to the shell


    The best of Linux now is here
    To kill the FUD and strike with fear
    The hearts of those who steal your rights
    And hide their code far from your sight
    Closed source takes away what's yours
    But you'll never shake the horror
    Until you taste the freedom and
    The power of FEDORA!

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After the released of FC8, you opt to know those common bugs while installing, configuring and maintaining your desktop hardwares and softwares where bugs are on their ways.

Common Issues

CD/DVD Install Hangs

There appears to be an issue between ISOLINUX and certain BIOSes where the USB keyboard does not work at the boot menu. This can be worked around by holding down the "shift" key during bootup to force the bootloader into text mode.

Bug 239585 - On certain systems, the CD/DVD may hang during boot with message "Ready". Most of the bugs that caused this are thought to be fixed, though on some systems adding "edd=skipmbr" to the kernel command line, works around this issue.

Upgrade Hang

Bug 372011 - Anaconda hangs in postselection in Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 upgrade. This problem is still being investigated.

Sun Java Bug

Bug 254144 Fedora 8 includes IcedTea, a free and open source derivative of OpenJDK. Users trying to install Sun Java might run across a bug with the Sun JVM that makes it incompatible with the newer libX11 included in Fedora 8. Workaround is documented. We highly recommend using IcedTea instead.

Suspend/Resume Problem With Nvidia cards

Suspend option in the menu has been deliberately disabled in this release on systems with Nvidia cards since the default "nv" Xorg driver from Nvidia has a number of problems in handling of suspend and resume correctly. If you wish to override this default, add a file that contains ALLOW_NV_SUSPEND="yes" under /etc/pm/config.d

NetworkManager cannot connect to EAP-TLS secured wireless networks

Bug 323371 - The NetworkManager 0.7 snapshot included in Fedora 8 cannot connect to networks that use encrypted certificate files for authentication. A fix will be available soon.

NetworkManager fails to see wireless networks with Intel 3945 chipsets

Bug 319071 If you have the Intel 3945 wireless chipset, you may experience trouble finding and associating with wireless networks in NetworkManager. Try adding

options iwl3945 disable_hw_scan=1

to /etc/modprobe.conf

Cannot start ssh: Service will not start after installation of the x86_64 version

Bug 364971 - /usr/sbin/sshd: Permission denied

This issue should be fixed by updating to the latest selinux-targeted-policy which is greater than selinux-policy-targeted-3.0.8-44.fc8

Package Updater (PUP) is asking to insert CD

Bug 381721 - In a fresh F8 DVD install, you might see Package Updater (PUP) is asking to insert CD when you launch it for the first time. As a work-around, click on Repository Manager and uncheck "Install Media". See a screenshot.

Booting Installer on Dell Notebooks

Using boot.iso the install hangs during the initial boot at the following:

running install...
running /sbin/loader

Try adding

nohz=off nolapic

to the kernel line.

Less Common Issues

Help viewer crashes when searching

Bug 361041 - yelp (the GNOME Help Browser) may crash when you use its search box. This happens on systems where virt-manager is installed, due to a bug exposed by a bad help file in the virt-manager package. Bug 361071 tracks the bad help file.

This is fixed in yelp-2.20.0-5.fc8, which is available as an update.

Change in behavior: Partition table claimed to be invalid on previously working drive

Bug 241288 - Prior to Fedora 7, the host protected area of hard drives was often ignored and formatted as usable drive space. Starting with Fedora 7 and the new libata driver subsystem, the host protected area is respected by default. As a result, its possible the Fedora 8 kernels will believe your drive has a partition that extends off the end of the disk, as the sectors of the hpa are masked out. The work-around to upgrade such systems is to pass the module parameter 'libata.ignore_hpa=1' when booting the installer. For example, when booting the installer cd, boot with:

boot: linux libata.ignore_hpa=1

Those upgrading from FC6 or earlier via yum on impacted systems can add a line to modprobe.conf along these same lines to allow an F8 kernel to boot their system. Ex:

options libata ignore_hpa=1

Upgrade fails when using SELinux strict policy

Bug 369611 - Machines using the SELinux strict policy (selinux-policy-strict package) cannot upgrade because the new consolidated selinux-policy-targeted package does not properly obsolete the old strict package. To upgrade, first remove the strict policy using the command rpm -e selinux-policy-strict.

Note: I will install FC8 later and I will definitely post some of the bug fixes.

File source: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F8Common