Well I have to say the my Fedora 9 install didn’t go as smoothly as I hoped. It seems that Fedora 9 is a bit rough around the edges so here’s a run down of my issues so far:
- While installing I managed to crash the Anaconda installer, this happened while I was trying to set up custom partitioning. After I let Anaconda decide the default partitions and then edit the results all worked as normal.
I was also unable to save the crash report so no chance of logging a bug report. I have to say that this is the first time that I’ve ever manged to crash Anaconda and I’ve been using it since Fedora Core 4.
- Anaconda is now able to resize partitions during install but it seems to be only able to do this with NTFS and ext2/3 partitions. I have a FAT32 partition that was not recognized at all, seems strange it supports NTFS but not FAT32.
- gdmsetup is not available at all since the new login manager was introduced, this seems like a backwards step since now I have to learn how to use GDM configuration.
- The new Add/Remove software application called PackageKit looks nice but is very slow and basic. There no way to queue installs so you have to install them one by one while waiting for the display to refresh the package list after each install.
It also seems to take a long time to update the package list plus the search function only works within a package group, not globally, so if you don’t know where your package belongs it’s very hard to find.
- I tried to set up Nautilus to use single clicks but after clicking a directory in the left pane it would not refresh the directory contents in the right pane. Setting it back to double click fixed the problem.
- My synaptics touchpad stopped responding to taps, it seems this is a known issue with a possible fix here. I’ll try this later but still pretty bad it doesn’t work ‘out of the box’.
- I sometimes get SELinux denial messages generated by NetworkManager. I’ve used SELinux for at least 3 releases without problems so this was a surprise. I also got more denials actually caused by running the SElinux Administration (semodule) itself, something about accessing /home/username/.xsession_error!
Hopefully these issues get ironed out soon and I’m aware that it’s a very new release but I’ve actually never had so many problems with other Fedora releases and I’ve installed every once since Fedora Core 4 within a day or two of the initial release date.
Update - the SELinux problem is a real nightmare, I run Apache and MySQL which initially worked fine but without changing anything it has suddenly stopped working due to SELinux. I’m getting a bunch of errors like this:
SELinux is preventing httpd (httpd_t) "connectto" to /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock (unconfined_t).
Until I work this out I’ll have to set SELinux to premissive mode by running /usr/sbin/setenforce 0.