Fedora 12 LXDE Spin withdrawn (for now)

[Posted November 18, 2009 by corbet]

From:		Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert-AT-googlemail.com>
To:		fedora-announce-list <fedora-announce-list-AT-redhat.com>
Subject:		Fedora 12 LXDE Spin images are broken
Date:		Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:54:22 +0100
Message-ID:		<1258574062.14537.2.camel@wicktop.localdomain>

I have just asked the website admins to remove the Fedora 12 LXDE Spin
from the BitTorrent Tracker because we found a major bug that makes the
images unusable. The problem is a crash in lxde-settings-daemon that
triggers abrt, the automatic bug reporting tool. Because
lxde-settings-daemon gets restarted by lxsession the bug reporting tool
goes into an infinite loop, consumes all CPU power and makes the
computer crash when the overlay image of the live OS is filled up.

I have no idea why we didn't spot this bug before. I have tested every
nightly and they all were fine, but they were created on a different
machine then the final images. Also installing LXDE from the package
repositories works fine, so you can already install LXDE on Fedora 12.

There will be fixed images soon. I'd like to ask you for two or three
more days of patience.

Apologies for the inconvenience,
Christoph

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Fedora 12 LXDE Spin withdrawn (for now)

Posted Nov 18, 2009 21:09 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

"Those who have already downloaded a copy might want to wait for the update before attempting an install (or just install LXDE on top of a regular F12 system)"

Actually, as mentioned in the announcement, it seems to be a Live CD only issue. Installation of the Live CD to the hard disk doesn't exhibit this problem. An updated Live CD with the fix is planned to be released once the problem is fixed.

If you want to just do a installation directly, use "liveinst" or "textinst" as a boot option. This will directly initiate Anaconda and you don't have to log in to the desktop environment at all.

Fedora 12 LXDE Spin withdrawn (for now)

Posted Nov 19, 2009 14:04 UTC (Thu) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link] (1 responses)

"seems to be a Live CD only issue"

Until the problem is diagnosed, would it not be prudent to error on the side of caution and not use the CD at all?

Fedora 12 LXDE Spin withdrawn (for now)

Posted Nov 19, 2009 14:13 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

If you want to be cautious about new releases in general, sure.