Fedora 21

When making a new VM, to clear the Sugar Journal of old entries and to avoid identity conflicts among copies of the VM, enter the command rm -rf ~/.sugar in the Terminal activity. Then shutdown the VM. This will clear all Learner information on the VM and let you start with a fresh install. Skipping this will result in collisions in the Neighborhood view of the Jabber network between separate copies of the appliance. Verify the presence of the .sugar directory by entering ls -a in Terminal.
When cloning a customized VM, in order to keep the Journal and installed .xo Activities, use rm -rf ~/.sugar/default/owner.key* in the Sugar Terminal, and then shutdown the VM. enter in root terminal:su (password) shutdown -h now This leaves the Journal entries and removes only the previous Learner's identity key files.
To clear the Sugar Journal:rm -rf ~/.sugar/default/datastore This may be needed if the Journal becomes clogged with too many entries. USE WITH CAUTION'

UEFI Boot

Warning UEFI does not support MultiBoot

New install will delete the existing UEFI boot record if installing from USB.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129507

UEFI-recovery

How to fix booting of your disk if it does not boot.

Described by Dan Mossor here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dmossor/uefi-recovery

Text of link:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_21/UEFI_recovery

Errors in java when upgrading to f21

"After updating to java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.11-11.b12.fc21.x86_64
java is no longer my PATH"

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130247#c4

dd writing a USB with gnome-disks

1 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB

or

2 Boot Live CD of f21 Workstation

start gnome-disks

Insert USB with previously downloaded (Live) xxx.iso

click on gear on the top bar of gnome-disks

click Restore Disk Image

Select xxx.iso and Target USB

NOTE works with booted Live DVD/CD

Liveusb-creator

Use Liveusb-creator to make a bootable Live USB to do Installation from one of these LiveCD's

Get liveusb-creator at https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/

Testing liveusb-creator in Windows 8.1

Tested by satellit on 2014/08/01

NOTE: GUI works well in fedora.

"There are a number of things that need to fixed in the windows version of liveusb-creator. 
1-) detect screen resolution and properly display GUI
2-) run in compatability mode (run as administrator)
3-) run as liveusb-creator --reset-mbr by default  (this can be done in linux by editing the icon command)
4-)Fix the Download button on the GUI to work and be up to date."

fedora-qa Install testing:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_21_Rawhide_2014_05_Install#Live_image

06/24/2014 NetworkManager--wifi added to comps in f21(rawhide)

SoaS shows wireless and ad-hoc in f1 Network Neighborhood on install

"If you suddenly find yourself without Wi-Fi,find a wired network connection and:

dnf install NetworkManager-wifi
systemctl restart NetworkManager"

Systemd

Fedora wiki page

Systemd Commands

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/index.html

dracut

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html

Updating Grub 2 on UEFI systems

Tutorial:http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html

Turn off gnome automatic background updates

NOTE seems to be no longer available:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709121

To turn off background downloading of updates and forced 10 minute updates on boot of gnome3.10.1
Root terminal

yum install dconf-editor

User Terminal

dconf-editor
gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/updates

Uncheck [ ] auto updates

NOTE this plugin no longer exists in f21(rawhide) 03/14/2014

see gnome Bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719304

This is modified: 12/28/2013

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/commit/?id=774a67b55ca21901d4dca58717015503fce8db1b

"This moves more functionality from the gsd updates plugin here:
* Notify about successful or unsuccessful offline updates 15 seconds after start.
* Monitor for available offline updates and notify about them, once per hour.
* Refresh the cache once per day, after 6am.
* If important updates are available, or updates have not been installed for at least 7 days, download all available updates.
We rely on PackageKit to prepare an offline update when updates have been downloaded.
* Avoid mobile networks for cache refresh and downloads."

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709121

Logic Map for Updates in gnome

https://bug709121.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=256126

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709121

know how to force a reinstall of a kernel

yum reinstall kernel isn't doing anything; you need to re-run the scriptlets; this is not done with "yum reinstall"
"rpm -q --scripts kernel-version-release" would tell you what to rerun

fedora boot optimization

Can be dangerous - ADVANCED USERS ONLY

http://www.harald-hoyer.de/2013/11/13/fedora-boot-optimization/

Location enabled by default in GNOME

Fedora Gnome/Workstation has GeoClue enabled by default

"Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information.
The primary goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible,
while the secondary goal is to ensure that no application can access location information without explicit permission from user. "

anaconda-ks.cfg

Initial xxx.ks file in install of KDE f21 with anaconda 21.48.2-1

version=DEVEL
System authorization information

auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512

Run the Setup Agent on first boot

firstboot --enable ignoredisk --only-use=sda

Keyboard layouts

keyboard --vckeymap=us --xlayouts='us'

System language

lang en_US.UTF-8

Network information

network --bootproto=dhcp --device=enp0s3 --ipv6=auto --activate network --hostname=localhost.localdomain

Root password

rootpw --iscrypted $6$21yI.gKoDIBEnN7K$0DJdYNiG4Zi0MTXNoChIHU1G8BssOtABn/CzaYigG5VTd3ETD3fwbR/BnWc.69P/7tIyk22I1.KqKOiDe46H5.

SELinux configuration

selinux --enforcing

System timezone

timezone America/Los_Angeles --isUtc

X Window System configuration information

xconfig --startxonboot

System bootloader configuration

bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda autopart --type=lvm

Partition clearing information

clearpart --none --initlabel

%packages @admin-tools @base-x @core @dial-up @fonts @guest-desktop-agents @hardware-support @input-methods @kde-desktop @multimedia @networkmanager-submodules @printing @standard

%end

%addon com_redhat_kdump --disable --reserve-mb='128'

%end

Fedora-21 anaconda 21.48.1-1 installer

This is the installer from Fedora-Live-SoaS-x86_64-21-20140728.iso SoaS LiveCD in Oracle VM VirtualBox

This is a Preliminary version and will be modified before f21 is released.

07/29/2014

Note The same installer is on the boot.iso with more options.

Install done from Soas terminal with

su
liveinst

Time Zone selected

[Done} to return to main Hub

Custom Install Screens

Note only used if you select:

 [x]I will configure partitioning

Otherwise skip to Begin Installation

select type of partition to create in Drop Down menu

Reclaim space if HD is already formatted

Begin Installation

Configuration

Root Password and User Creation

Select Password and User Creation to enter their spokes and return with [Done]

A weak Password will require entering [done] 2 times to return to main Configuration Spoke

See yellow warning in bottom of page

NOTE: If No Root/User are entered

Gnome or workstation: G-I-S (Gnome initial setup) will be started on first boot where these can be entered

Warning Passwords will need to be much more complicated and larger; (keep adding letters to password until you can click next.)

Other Desktops: Anaconda will pop up window for missing root/user before it completes the install and [Done]-Reboot appears

Installing Software

% completion until [Done]-Reboot appears

Boot.iso

This may also be listed as netinstall.iso

Software Selection

Lists Server and Desktop Environments with their Optional packages listed on the right side.

Select and hit [Done] to return to Main Hub.

Sugar-test Cases

Sugar Test Cases

Used in #fedora-qa testing

SoaS v10 testing with activities not included in the standard distribution

Testing/Reports/SoaS v10 Activities

f21 Gnome 3.1.4 Test Day

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2014-08-28_Gnome_3.14

http://testdays.qa.fedoraproject.org/testdays/show_event?event_id=17

Bug Reports

Blockers Bugs info

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Trackers

Sugar IRC 10 errors

- Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (HippoCanvasBox)

1409321321.471840 WARNING root: KeepButton has been deprecated since Sugar 0.94 and should not be used in newly written code. 1409321321.474542 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level window. 1409321321.479086 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level window. Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked

- DEBUG :: Add window1: <StatusWindow object at 0x7fa02d3dd500 (GtkVBox at 0x2148df0)>
- DEBUG :: Add default channel: #sugar
- DEBUG :: Add default channel other: #sugar-es

Terminated by signal 6, pid 30472 data (None, <open file '<fdopen>', mode 'w' at 0x7f7e97

Captive Portal

active in f21 if gnome is used.

May be present in NetworkManager for other DE's ?

Gnome 3.1.4 feature

Should be https: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135777

https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1337

Connects to fedora server every 300 sec to check connectivity

NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora

To see NM settings

http://fedoraproject.org/static/hotspot.txt

To test if connected; "OK" says connection is up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal

New proposed Features

AppInstaller in F21

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AppInstallerContinued

"gnome-software will support installing system add-ons such as fonts and codecs. It will show additional metadata for applications: screenshots, ratings, other details.
We will also work with the Fedora infrastructure team to obtain the metadata online for all applications instead of shipping it statically for a limited set."

Fedora.next

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next

"This all came out of a number of proposals at Flock 2013, 
including Architecture for a More Agile Fedora and Stephen Gallagher's suggestion that we use that architecture to design, build,
and market three distinct Fedora products. This grew into a proposal accepted by the Fedora advisory board, and the formation of Initial Working Groups by FESCo. "

Release Schedule

Links to current fedora wiki pages:

Release Schedule http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/21/Schedule

Tasklist: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Tasklist

buglist: https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/21/alpha/buglist

TC List: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/

Fedora 21

Fedora 21

Release Notes-prerelease-only

Download

Changes in boot.iso in f21

TESTING

Screenshot of Background

Get VirtualBox

How to Clear ./sugar

UEFI-recovery

Errors in java when upgrading to f21

dd writing a USB with gnome-disks

Liveusb-creator

Testing liveusb-creator in Windows 8.1

DNF vs YUM

Upgrade to rawhide from an existing installation

Anaconda Command Line Options

Systemd Commands

dracut

Turn off gnome automatic background updates

Logic Map for Updates in gnome

know how to force a reinstall of a kernel

fedora boot optimization

anaconda-ks.cfg

Fedora-21 anaconda 21.48.1-1 installer

Custom Install Screens

Begin Installation

Sugar-test Cases

SoaS v10 testing with activities not included in the standard distribution

Bug Reports

Sugar IRC 10 errors

Captive Portal

New proposed Features

AppInstaller in F21

Fedora.next