Rackspace machines being installed

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

On 05/29/2013 12:49 PM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:28:49AM -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
>> On 05/29/2013 02:45 AM, David Caro Estevez wrote:
>>> Hurray!!
>>>
>>> Finally the rackspace hosts are being installed, we have already
>>> fedora18 on one of them. Finally they had to install it using a kvm,
>>> and using the safe graphics mode (all the other installation modes,
>>> just froze before starting to install, no text mode, console, normal,
>>> kickstart, vnc....), it seems that there's some problem with the
>>> hardware and fedora 18 :S.
>>
>> Ah-ha ... I'd love to file a bug report if we can. So wow, you had to
>> have RackSpace folks put a keyboard/video/mouse on the actual host and
>> do a manual install?
>>
>> FWIW, I had the same problem with F17, but not CentOS 6.3 (or 6.4, I
>> forget.) If it's a bug, it's been in Fedora for a little while, and
>> we'll see probably therefore see it in RHEL 7 if it doesn't get fixed now.
> 
> Fabian suggested it could be 850785[1], but on IRC David said he tried
> the workarounds.
> 
> [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850785
> 

Wow, I didn't think to check for a bug report. I do recall possibly
trying the 'usbcore' workaround because of a forum post somewhere. As it
happens, these machines are in fact DELL PowerEdge R720s. I would reckon
we are experiencing that bug in some fashion, it would be too much of a
coincidence otherwise, right?

- Karsten
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