#fedora-bugzappers: F16 Alpha Blocker Bug Review Meeting #5

Meeting started by tflink at 17:02:01 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. roll call (tflink, 17:02:08)
  2. why are we here? (tflink, 17:07:59)
    1. (tflink, 17:08:12)
    2. Our purpose in this meeting is to review proposed blocker and nice-to-have bugs and decide whether to accept them, and to monitor the progress of fixing existing accepted blocker and nice-to-have bugs. (tflink, 17:08:31)
    3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers (tflink, 17:08:43)
    4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting (tflink, 17:08:54)
    5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Alpha_Release_Criteria (tflink, 17:09:05)

  3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729599 (tflink, 17:10:29)
    1. PartitionException: msdos disk labels do not support partition names. (tflink, 17:10:38)
    2. AGREED: - 729599 - custom partitioning is not part of the alpha release criteria. Re-propose as final blocker - The installer must be able to create and install to any workable partition layout using any file system offered in a default installer configuration, LVM, software, hardware or BIOS RAID, or combination of the above (tflink, 17:17:11)

  4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729500 (tflink, 17:17:29)
    1. Error while installing updates on Fedora 16 Alpha RC3 (tflink, 17:17:40)
    2. AGREED: - 729500 - Not enough reproductions to make a decision now, will hold off. If this has not been reproduced by next week, will reject as alpha blocker (tflink, 17:20:52)

  5. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728576 (tflink, 17:21:04)
    1. python-imgcreate looks for /selinux which has moved to /sys/fs/selinux (tflink, 17:21:13)
    2. AGREED: - 728576 - RejectedBlocker - Does not hit any of the alpha release criteria and is not preventing official livecd spins (tflink, 17:26:08)

  6. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726029 (tflink, 17:26:45)
    1. [abrt] smolt-1.4.3-4.fc16 + kernel-3.x: smolt.py:283:__init__:TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable (tflink, 17:26:55)
    2. AGREED: - 726029 - RejectedNTH - It would be nice to have smolt working for alpha but it could impact firstboot and the risk seems to outweigh the potential benefit (tflink, 17:33:20)

  7. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720070 (tflink, 17:33:54)
    1. AttributeError: 'Iso9660FS' object has no attribute 'labelType' (tflink, 17:34:03)
    2. AGREED: - 720070 - Two reports of being fixed, move to VERIFIED (tflink, 17:35:00)

  8. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720070 (tflink, 17:35:18)
    1. Wrongly SELinux-labelled files in /lib(64) prevent boot of Fedora 16 Alpha RC systems with SELinux enabled (tflink, 17:35:33)
    2. AGREED: - 728863 - Two reports of being fixed, move to VERIFIED (tflink, 17:37:17)

  9. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728863 (tflink, 17:38:18)
    1. using the right bug this time (tflink, 17:38:25)
    2. Wrongly SELinux-labelled files in /lib(64) prevent boot of Fedora 16 Alpha RC systems with SELinux enabled (tflink, 17:38:31)
    3. AGREED: - 728863 - Two reports of being fixed, move to VERIFIED (tflink, 17:38:39)

  10. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728657 (tflink, 17:39:06)
    1. File conflicts in Fedora 16 Alpha RC1: kdesdk (kdesdk-libs not correctly obsoleted?) (tflink, 17:39:21)
    2. AGREED: - 728657 - confirmed as fixed; move to VERIFIED (tflink, 17:40:34)

  11. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723666 (tflink, 17:40:55)
    1. libreport-python-2.0.5 FILE conflicts with report-gtk-0.23 (tflink, 17:41:06)
    2. AGREED: - 723666 - issue is fixed if report* is blocked from the compose but need ticket from packagers to request blocking before closing the bug (tflink, 17:46:36)

  12. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729528 (tflink, 17:46:51)
    1. Unable to configure events in reporter to forward in anaconda for F-16-Alpha-RC3 (tflink, 17:46:59)
    2. ACTION: tflink will update 729528 with findings from hacking (tflink, 17:51:19)
    3. jmoskovc is hoping for a fix build today or tomorrow (tflink, 17:51:55)
    4. AGREED: - 729528 - fix is in process, need to update bug with info and verify today (tflink, 18:03:38)

  13. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729537 (tflink, 18:03:50)
    1. Anaconda cannot report crashes in text mode in F16 Alpha RC3 due to missing report-cli (tflink, 18:04:00)
    2. AGREED: - 729537 - duplicate of 729528 which has been closed. progress will be tracked here - build pending, will verify once those builds are available (tflink, 18:08:59)

  14. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690930 (tflink, 18:09:14)
    1. microcode_ctl loops, impossible to boot (tflink, 18:09:24)
    2. AGREED: - 690930 - this has been fixed to be "good enough" for alpha, remove from blocker list (tflink, 18:13:16)

  15. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728707 (tflink, 18:13:28)
    1. on package upgrade RPM is removing empty directories accidentally (tflink, 18:13:39)
    2. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpm-4.9.1-3.fc16 is available as an update (adamw, 18:16:20)
    3. AGREED: - 728707 - need to test installation with new RPM package in order to verify fix (tflink, 18:19:38)

  16. open discussion (tflink, 18:21:30)


Meeting ended at 18:26:40 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. tflink will update 729528 with findings from hacking


Action items, by person

  1. tflink
    1. tflink will update 729528 with findings from hacking


People present (lines said)

  1. tflink (180)
  2. adamw (139)
  3. Viking-Ice (26)
  4. dgilmore (15)
  5. buggbot (14)
  6. jmoskovc (13)
  7. brunowolff (10)
  8. zodbot (5)
  9. jlaska (2)
  10. nirik (1)
  11. athmane (1)


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