Fedora 12 Release Candidate 4

[RahulSundaram]

Fedora 12 RC4 is available for download at

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/12-RC.4/

Submit your installation test results to

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_...12_RC4_Install

Adam Williamson from Fedora QA team has more notes at http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/11...2-crunch-time/

At this stage, Fedora 12 is in a deep freeze and only very critical updates will be pushed into the main repository before the release with everything else coming in as updates.

Please run yum update first before filing any bug reports. To file bug reports, refer to

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests

If you want to discuss the latest Rawhide, you can post to the Fedora 12 Alpha/Beta forum here or to fedora-test list or join us at #fedora-qa (NOT #fedora) channel in irc.freenode.net

$ yum repolist

fedora     Fedora 12 - i386    enabled: 15,366

Happy testing!

Frequently asked questions

What's new in Fedora 12?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Announcement

Is this any different from the latest Rawhide?

No. If you are running the latest Rawhide already, you are covered but you might still want to download the image and help us with the installation testing

How do I upgrade from a previous release or development snapshot?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading

When is the general release of Fedora 12?

Refer to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12

What are the blocker bugs?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdepe...ide_resolved=1

Where can I get the Live CD?

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/

[Nord]

Where is LiveCD??? I yould like to test LiveCD version

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

As a reminder to an earlier post, you can grab the rawhide nightly builds of Live CD's at

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/

[AdamW]

The 20091106 nightly live build will have exactly the same bits as the RC1.

Note that we're already spinning an RC2 build as I type this. This kind of thing is the main reason we don't really publish the RC builds

[salvachn]

I saw an RC 2 directory too. Should I download that? Just woke up by chance at 3 am to find this So far, all nightly builds have installed perfectly.. Fedora 11 had many issues, this one has virtually none. Anyway, I'm 10% into RC1 download, and will report on my installation at link Rahul specified.

[AdamW]

rc2 has few changes from rc1, it fixes a package being missing from the DVD spin which meant any kind of network install wouldn't work, and two dependency issues in DVD packages which aren't really a big problem except that we don't allow broken deps in DVD packages. any testing you do with rc1 is valid unless you hit the network install bug.

[salvachn]

I won't be doing a network install. Just bought a few DVDs last night to test out the RCs. I hope I won't run into any problems, but the download is being throttled by my ISP so I'll only be done tomorrow

[jonathan47]

And then there was RC-3.
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/12-RC.3/

[SlowJet]

Size matters.

SJ

[sonoran]

Apparently the netinst bug bit the cd version as well. After boot loader configuration my Fedora-12-x86_64-netinst.iso cd install failed with

Error - Unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree.

Retry fails. This was RC1 cd from Rahul's link http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/12-RC.1/

Update: same problem with RC3 netinst cd

[MorphingDragon]

Do the RCs have the New Xorg and Kernel?

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Yes. Updated the post for the latest RC as well.

[Sordep]

waiting for the final release. ^_^

[RahulSundaram]

sordep,

Please test and provide your feedback meanwhile. Thanks.

[hedayat]

Is there any delta isos for RC release? Will be any delta isos for the Final release?
(delta from Fedora 12 Beta, or maybe from Fedora 11)