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The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experienceThe Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experiencePosted Jan 15, 2013 19:54 UTC (Tue) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience
I recently upgraded also.
The biggest issue for me so far is that Firefox seems to have a multithreading bug using the GTK libraries. It'll just go unresponsive and hang, then GDB shows that all the threads are stuck in locks, several of them doing GTK operations.
I should file a bug report but I can't reproduce it very often. This never happened in Fedora 16.
I also had a terrible time with the Anaconda installer. For whatever reason, Anaconda would freeze up, also in GUI operations it seemed. Using strace on its threads would unfreeze it.
And when the GUI was working correctly it was less than helpful. I don't know who designed the new disk partitioning but they really could have done a better job. Such as just using gparted instead of their own incomplete buggy thing. I was trying to do a hybrid EFI/BIOS boot on a GPT disk label. I had to eventually give up and manually wipe the partitioning using fdisk before Anaconda would even attempt to work correctly.
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The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience Posted Jan 15, 2013 20:08 UTC (Tue) by mbaldessari (guest, #36769) [Link]
I think you might be hitting: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895197
The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience Posted Jan 15, 2013 20:46 UTC (Tue) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]
Looks likely. Sounds like they found the problem. I'll try disabling my Java plugin and see what happens.
The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience Posted Jan 15, 2013 22:47 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
> I was trying to do a hybrid EFI/BIOS boot on a GPT disk label
That's... a really bad idea. It's unsupportable (since many systems will absolutely choke on that kind of setup), and so any UI that makes it easy for you to configure a system in that way is actually a UI that makes it easy for people to accidentally configure a broken system.
The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience Posted Jan 16, 2013 16:23 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]
There isn't any other way to be able to easily switch your system BIOS from standard to EFI.
But that really isn't the point. The partition tool couldn't even manage to write a new partition label. I ended up with two swap partitions and a leftover root partition from the previous install while thinking that I'd managed to remove everything.
Seemed very buggy.
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