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Joined: 05 Nov 2004
Posts: 174
Location: New Mexico
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:55 pm
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Why not employ a DSLR (eg Nikon D70) hooked live to a laptop? That's routine practice in commercial photo studios currently.
Arca makes a back for DSLR attachment...it undoubtedly could readily be attached to a Super D, though making your own might be cheaper.
You'd have a super-bright, sharp, accurate view. And according to your laptop selection, you'd have big screens ranging from about 9" to 19" diagonal, while weighing from 8oz to 4lbs.
[ This Message was edited by: djon on 2004-12-15 09:59 ]
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Posts: 13
Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:05 am
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An interesting idea indeed. Unfortunately, I don't yet have neither a digital camera nor a laptop. It's unclear though, whether you suggest to project a small portion of the image from the camera's own (Graflex's or other 4X5) lens onto the sensor of a digital SLR mounted at the focal plane of the large camera, or you mean aiming an upside-down SLR with its own lens at the ground glass, like I have done with a video camera. In either case the image will not be live, I suppose. You will need to do a capture and only then will be able to observe a static image on the laptop. The TV camera (a small camcorder) though, with a lot less resolution, of course, novertheless allows one fo zoom in on the center and to check the focus live. I remember finding that very convenient.
Now, as to my prizm elaborations, I have gotten to making mental sketches of two versions thereof. One can be with stereo viewer for convenience, but will deliver left-to-right inverted image. The other version can be a fully corrected mirror box, with one eye viewing, like on any other prizm. I envision either the fixed 45 degree arrangement, like Mamiya RB and RZ, or an ajustable angle, between horisontal and 45. Modern mirrors (Edmund Industrial Optics) can be of very high quality indeed, like someone here suggested. Anyway, I am determined to build the prizm-like viewer for either or both of mine 3X4 and 4X5 Graflexes. Next will be the adaptation of the aerial lenses (sweet F2.
with movements to Graflex bodies. Stay tuned.
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Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:08 am
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In the post a minute ago I meant "sweet TWO, POINT EIGHT), rather than some stupid smiley.
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Posts: 174
Location: New Mexico
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:56 pm
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It'd be easy to position a digital camera in the viewfinder tube of a Super D.
I suspect there'd be no better way to do what you want, if you're really after right-images, sheet film, and old fashioned lens abberations.
A Canon 10D (or Fuji S2 or one of the Nikons)can give you the image live on a monitor. Used that way, they've become the standard for catalog and advertising photography because the art directors can look at big monitors, or even projections, rather than little 4X5 polaroids. And of course, 6MP looks as good as 8X10 film in a magazine or catalog, so film's irrelevant anyway.
Certain of the $300 pocket-sized digicams will probably do what you want as well, and would give you brighter imagery than any prism ...you'd have to research which of them allow live viewing on a computer, rather than downloading... I think some of the smallest Canons will do it. I don't know how their autofocusing would handle things, but that'd be easy to research .
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Posts: 18
Location: Washington DC, USA
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:39 pm
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I don't know about a prism, but I just recently bought a Polaroid MP-4 copy camera viewing hood that supposedly locks right into a 4x5 Graflok back. The hood is quite nice, has a frenel screen, and has measurement hashes across the screen indicating length in inches and centimeters. The hood has a mirror that shows the image right side up. I probably paid too much, but if it works as good as it looks I don't care
Anyone use of these before? I'm planning on using it on a 4x5 SG I just bought, and will mount my 15" Tele Optar.
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Posts: 46
Location: Brooklyn NY
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 5:22 pm
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For what its worth....
The viewing hood of an arca fp camera can be fitted to the top of a 3x4 RB graflex with relative ease. Mount a fast 2.9 pentac and change the original GG to a beattie and you'll see just fine. I've held such a camera in my hands, and it was awkward and difficult to use. The eyepiece of the arca viewing hood can be rotated to any viewing angle from perpendicular to 90* or any point inbetween. I dont see many of the arca cameras around, but there are a few and there is one retailer in the NY area who has the aforementioned camera ******* in their showcase. Personally I don't like the arrangement much, I feel better with the camera hung down at waist level or lower. However, when shooting environmental portraits, being able to get the camera up higher could be usefull. I have on occasion held my camera out at arms length at eyelevel and shot down, which as you all know makes for very tireing work. Also, this is nearly impossible at slow shutter speeds. Having the front movements of a mentor or a plunger cam type of thing could be fun... and open creative possibilities. Particularly used with a fast lens. I used to have a 300 on my 4x5 rb which would never hit infinity, but was damn cool for studio work. Limited... yes. My current love is a 9" Pentac on a 3x4. I'm probably going to go back to a 4x5 rb though. My feeling is that the lens is somewhat 'choked' on the smaller neg and I want it to 'breath'more. The fingerprint of the longer lens is just not coming across the way it did on sheet film. Back to the drawing board, again... with a smile.
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Location: Holland MI
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:09 am
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Hello all:
I stumbled on this thread looking for info on 'what's inside a Graflex?'
I want to experiment with a reflex viewer on a box camera. What I envisioned (not having one), is that a manually operated mirror could drop down at 45 degrees to block the path between lens and film plane. This would deflect the image vertically, now erect. Hmmm, I think I just realized that's all that's needed minimally, plus a ground glass & hood...mirror and ground glass should be placed such that focus coincides with image position on film plane ground glass.
I came to this thread thinking I needed TWO mirrors, ground glass & maybe reducing viewfinder to get image out the back end, but two mirrors must be lossier as you have alluded to.
Did the Graflex cameras go to the effort of using a front surface mirror, or was there no such thing back then? Is there an advantage to an FS mirror, other than one less refractive optically imperfect surface offered by ordinary mirror (and the possible f.l. shift by n/t for the glass in front of the rear surface mirror?
Dmitri, are there any of your singlet (or other unconventional) images available to view on the web? They sound interesting.
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Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:47 pm
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Hi [Murray],
From what I could understand, the later Graflex D models indeed do have first surface (FS) mirror in the box. This type, of course, is better than ordinary mirror, albeit the consequences of not using FS are tolerable, and not as drastic as your apprehensions suggest. In the viewfinder you will see a double image, the second one being shifted vertically ever so slightly, and very faint. This is that parasitic reflection from the first surface, in the case of an ordinary mirror being just the surface of the glass. This ghost image in the viewfinder would annoy a perfectionist, as it annoys me, but other than that... no worries. You can get cheap FS mirror stock these days (about 98% reflectivity), and I wouldn't concern oneself with the brightness loss from letting your light path to employ a few FS mirrors.
On the other hand, it sounds as though you are simply reinventing a bicycle, trying to make a simple SLR out of your box camera. There is nothing wrong with that, but Graflex SLRs are exactly that and then some. To deliver the correctly oriented image from the ground glass of any SLR you need a mirror box with three reflecting surfaces, or a pentaprism, that accomplishes exactly that. I can go into details, if you need more info. But as to building the mirror box I described in my initial post, I still haven't gotten to it, half a year since. Full time job, commute, rebuilding the house, children... overall being a looser, I guess.
That's why there are no my images to be found on the web. Except for that abandoned venue you see the path to in my profile. I began working on my personal site over a year ago, but being a perfectionist, I couldn't spend enough time to painfully guide the software coder I'd employ for that, to do things in my exact way.
Instead, I am sending you a few of such images as an attachment, in my direct email to you.
Dmitri Serdukoff
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:00 pm
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OK thanks.
I liked what I saw on your linked page (I won't call anything 'pretty', so as not to offend :O)).
I also signed up for a space on that server. I like the flow of the website.
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Cook allowed two runs and four hits in 4 2-3 innings.
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First Knight (UK - BD)
Our own Scott McKenzie checks out the Blu-ray release of this medieval movie...
King Arthur (Sean Connery) is an ageing monarch and has decided to seek a wife late in life. He proposes to Lady Guinevere (Julia Ormond), who accepts, but she hasn't bargained on the appearance of Lancelot (Richard Gere). The dashing rogue charms the queen-to-be and they share moments that remain hidden from the king in the run up to their impending marriage. In the meantime, King Arthur takes Lancelot under his wing while ex-knight of the round table Sir Malagant launches his plans to overthrow the monarchy.
First Knight was released in 1995 and only managed to recoup half of its $75 million budget at the US box office. Unfortunately, this isn't because it's an overlooked masterpiece; the reasons for its failure are pretty clear to all but the most undiscerning viewer. First of all, the decision seems to have been made to completely throw anything we know about King Arthur and Camelot down the toilet and just use the names of the characters to cobble together a supposed romantic epic. If you were looking for Excalibur, Merlin the magician or the lady in the lake, you've made a grave mistake in sitting down to watch First Knight.
Richard Gere's performance is right out of Kevin Costner's Robin Hood school of acting, i.e. just be yourself and to hell with your American accent. As a result, he's no more than an American with long hair and it doesn't exactly make it easy to picture him as the English hero he's supposed to be playing. Julia Ormond was hot Hollywood property in the mid-nineties, but surely not on the strength of this performance. There isn't any chemistry between Gere and Ormond and their romance feels like a product of plot necessity rather than their love being written in the stars. Sean Connery doesn't show up until half an hour into the movie and to his credit, he positively chews up the scenery, stealing every scene, but I'm sure even he would admit that this isn't among his greatest performances.
Jerry Zucker was a very odd choice to direct First Knight and he admits on his commentary track that he doesn't have any love of Arthurian legend. The dodgy dialogue and pantomime performances make the movie feel like a spoof, which you might expect from the director of Airplane!, but of course there are no punch lines and this makes for an uneven tone throughout. This is complicated by the changing focus of the plot between the blossoming romance of Lancelot and Guinevere and the antagonism of Sir Malagant. When the story changes focus, the other storyline takes a backseat and we're constantly forced to change our minds about who we're rooting for.
The unintentional pantomime theme means that First Knight can be considered good clean family viewing. Well, family viewing at least. Life in medieval times seems to be very pleasant, even for the poor and no one seems to have a spot of dirt on their colourful outfits. Lancelot and Guinevere's affair is never consummated and there's very little blood in a swordplay movie that probably suffered from being released in the same year as the infinitely more brutal Braveheart. If I had young children, I wouldn't be worried about letting them watch anything on screen here, but on the other hand I could think of plenty of other movies I'd choose to show them first.
First Knight does have a few saving graces. The production design is impressive and a large slice of the budget (that wasn't spent on Sean Connery) was well used to create the massive sets. Some of the fight scenes are engaging enough, but fall far short of the standards we have now come to expect in life after Lord of the Rings. British viewers will be pleased to see appearances from 'Finchy from The Office' and Rob Brydon, but you can probably tell I'm clutching at straws to find positive things to say about First Knight and there's just not enough to recommend the movie at all.
First Knight is presented in 1.85:1/1080p. While I'm confident this movie hasn't looked this good since it hit cinema screens, the quality on show here isn't what we've come to expect from this new generation of optical disc. The detail in the picture is generally fine but wide external shots lack sharpness in the background and the extra detail offered by Blu-ray highlights the dodgy blue screen work. First Knight is a colourful movie and the picture represents this well but there are also patches of grain and the screen flickers occasionally, which contributes to an overall unrewarding visual experience.
This release comes with a Dolby TrueHD track, but just as the video quality promised much and delivered little, the story is also true here but to a lesser degree. There is good detail on show in the surround track and the battle scenes are all the more rewarding for it. The score also sounds fairly impressive here and Jerry Zucker freely admits on the commentary track that Jerry Goldsmith would have had a chance at the Oscar had his music been featured in a better movie. However, the dialogue is a little muted and while this isn't a complaint about the movie itself, the audio quality of some of the extra features is quite frankly awful.
Director Jerry Zucker and producer Hunt Lowry provide a commentary track that is very honest and neither of them is under any illusion about the dubious quality of their output. They do focus on the good points of the movie though, and almost apologise to production designer John Box while singing his virtues. Another commentary track is provided by a professor of Arthurian legend, who delights in pointing out the huge amounts of artistic licence employed by the filmmakers. Four deleted scenes are available here, all with a battered picture, some without sound and none of which add anything to a movie that's already too long.
There are three featurettes that were obviously filmed during the production because they include interviews with Sean Connery, who I'm sure would refuse to answer any questions about First Knight if you were to approach him about it now. 'The Quest for Camelot' focuses on the actors as they talk about their characters and their reasons for taking on the roles. 'The Creation of a Kingdom' includes interviews with John Box and shows how the huge castle sets were built, which left me feeling that the movie could have been so much better if the writers had done a better job. 'Knights in Training' is a very odd featurette. It features the Association for Renaissance Martial Arts, who specialise in working out how swordsmen in days gone by fought with their medieval weapons. This sounds like an interesting setup, but what we actually end up with is a very earnest chap dressing up like a knight and hitting a tree with swords, and it's all very silly.
Given the huge amount of money spent on the movie and the big name cast, it's a shame to report that First Knight is a bit of a stinker. Revisiting it on Blu-ray highlights the fact that's it's also a stinker that hasn't aged well. The movie hasn't been cleaned up nearly as much as other pre-DVD movies that have recently been released in high definition. Most of the extras are pure filler but the audio commentary tracks on this release are genuinely entertaining, highlighting the flaws of the movie more than the positive aspects, so fans of the movie might not appreciate the sentiment as much as those who just take the movie for what it is—not very good.
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Review by Scott McKenzie
El Mariachi Member Join Date: September 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 460
Jerry Zucker didn't direct "Airplane" David Zucker did other than that good riview Scott.
Sam Spade Member Join Date: January 2007 Location: United States Posts: 2,032
I agree, complete stinker. Yet better than the recent King Arthur by leaps and bounds. Nothing beats Excalibur or Monty Python and The Holy Grail.
scottmck Contributor Join Date: April 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 393
El Mariachi wrote: Jerry Zucker didn't direct "Airplane" David Zucker did other than that good riview Scott.
According to IMDb there were three directors of Airplane! - Jerry, David and Jim Abrahams.
According to IMDb there were three directors of Airplane! - Jerry, David and Jim Abrahams.
Makman Member Join Date: December 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 111
I can't believe the film cost $75 million to make - apart from Sean Connery's large salary, what happened to the rest of the film budget?!?! Both the set design and costumes were dire.
I can't believe the studio was silly to hire a director who did not like the original King Arthur story (doh!).
I can't believe the studio was silly to hire a director who did not like the original King Arthur story (doh!).
General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children
Disc Details
Release Date: 5th May 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English, Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Italian, Dolby Digital 5.1 Hungarian, Dolby Digital 5.1 Czech, Dolby Digital 5.1 Polish, Dolby Digital 5.1 Russian
Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English HoH, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Turkish
Extras: Director and Producer Commentary, Arthurian Legend Commentary, The Quest for Camelot, The Creation of a Kingdom, In Shining Armor: Knights in Training, Deleted and Extended Scenes, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jerry Zucker
Cast: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, John Gielgud,
Genre: Action, Drama and Romance
Length: 128 minutes
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Here are the Top 10 comments made on websites of the state's larger news organizations.
From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
1. "Wisconsin hired this guy from Texas to evaluate their CWD problem. I don't know how this guy from Texas can help them, CWD has been waltzing across Texas for 10 years. seems Dr. Kroll should go back home and take care of CWD in Texas coming in from New Mexico. …just my opinion of course."
2. "I still can't believe that our tax dollars are going to this TEXAS DEER FARMER for his opinion on Wisconsin wildlife management – something in which he has NO expertise, and NO credentials."
3. "About time somebody lays into the DNR and their complete failure at managing the deer herd, especially in the northern third of the state where wolves are a far bigger problem than these doofuses ever care to admit. I'm sure they just sit down there in Madison and think that wolves are a beautiful thing and have absolutely no idea how devastating their influence is. I've hunted in Barron and Washburn counties for the last 45 years and have never seen it so hard to find a deer, much less shoot one. Last year, our party of 8-9 people hunted hard every day and no one saw more than 5 deer, with a few of us never even seeing one all season. And to those who might want to still say the numbers are not bad and that we are not good hunters, tell me this – why don't we even see any tracks? Unless the deer have learned to climb trees, that usually is a good indicator the deer are not there."
From the Wisconsin State Journal:
4. "The DNR biologists are just another group of dedicated public employees to be vilified for the sake of a few votes for politicians. A politically motivated study at a ridiculous price comes to a politically correct conclusion. Big Deal, big surprise. I would have gladly reviewed the literature for a fraction of the cost and come up with that 'on command' conclusion. Some expert!"
5. "This is a perfect example of starting with a set of conclusions and working backwards toward the beginning of the investigation looking for evidence… Walker heard what the hunters were complaining about and found a dude to validate their opinions. We get to pay for this?"
6. "Hey quit worrying: At present rates of decline in hunting interest among teens, all you graying hunters will have a lot more deer per hunter in a few years."
7. "Also I might say that 55 years ago in Buffalo county when I started hunting if you saw nine or 10 deer in a season you saw alot of deer. Now the hunter want to see 50 deer a day. They are not hunters today they are shooters."
8. "If Wisconsin hunters thinks that they had a bad deer season 2 years ago why is it that Upper Michigan, Ohio and Missouri all complained about their bad deer hunting."
From the Green Bay Press Gazette:
9. "Leave it to Walker to have a 'czar' in his command. $125,000 for this? I suppose Walker would say he created a job."
10. "The DNR's job is to keep the deer herd to a manageable number, not personally ensure that hunters get a deer every year. That's why it's called hunting. There is an implication that there is a chance that the hunter will come home with nothing."
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On Monday, Tech coach Tommy Tuberville said Cobb committed "no wrongdoing whatsoever" stemming from his Aug. 19 arrest. Athletic department spokesman Blayne Beal said "we stand by everything we said yesterday."
Cobb was expected to play against TCU on Saturday.
A police report showed that an officer responding to the apartment found evidence of forced entry and Cobb assaulting the occupant.
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The AK (Автомат Калашникова, Avtomat Kalashnikova, almost universally known as the AK-47) is a gas-operated assault rifle designed by former Soviet Army Lieutenant General Mikhail Kalashnikov, and is produced primarily in former Soviet bloc countries, as well as some Middle Eastern and South Asian countries. It currently serves as the service rifle in several of the aforementioned nations (as well as most African nations), and comes in several different calibers and makes, each with distinctive features.
AK-47 stands for Автомат Калашникова образца 1947 года (Avtomat Kalashnikova, obraztsa 1947 goda), which translates to "Kalashnikov's automatic weapon", model of the year 1947. The name AK can refer to the original AK model or the AK series of rifles based on the original AK model. The name Kalashnikov rifle is a alternate western name for the general AK series of rifles.
The veracity of the "AK-47" name is a source of controversy among firearm historians. The AK never had a production designation by the name "AK-47", and has been produced by the Izhevsk Mechanical plant under the "Avtomat Kalashnikova AK" designation. The "AK-47" designation was stuck to the AK by western sources, likely because most Russian weapons have a design date in their names.
More confusingly, a few early Russian documents referred to AK prototypes by the AK-47 designation, which was dropped soon after.[1][2] Many western sources today recognize AK-47 as the weapon's more common but non-official nickname used in western publishing, while Russian sources would universally refer to the weapon as AK, and the AK-47 name only refers to early AK prototypes.
Sergeant Mikhail Kalashnikov, being in the hospital after being wounded, began to develop various small arms during World War II. In 1944 he was assigned to the Izhevsk Machinebuilding Plant (IZHMASH), where he developed a semi-automatic, gas-operated carbine. Starting with this design, based on (and outwardly resembling) the German Sturmgewehr 44 (StG 44 or MP44/MP43), he developed an assault rifle that he submitted for official Soviet Army trials in 1946.
During 1946 and early 1947, he redesigned his initial rifle and submitted it to the second trials, held in 1947. The new prototype was deemed superior to the other competitors and was consequently adopted in 1949 as the "7,62mm Avtomat Kalashnikova, obraztsa 1947 goda" (7.62mm Kalashnikov automatic rifle, model of 1947). After extensive field trials it was slightly modified in 1951, but retained the same name. Along with the basic version, a folding stock version had been developed for paratroopers and vehicle crews and was named the AKS.
By 1959, the AK was modified again, this time more extensively, and was consequently adopted (after trials) as the AKM (Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernizirovannyj - Kalashnikov Automatic rifle, Modified). The key changes were the introduction of the stamped receiver instead of the milled one, and improved trigger/hammer unit that introduced a hammer release delay device (often incorrectly referred to as a rate reducer). Other changes were effected, to include a slightly raised buttstock, the pistol grip, and the addition of the removable muzzle flip compensator. This spoon-like compensator is screwed onto the muzzle and uses the muzzle blast to reduce muzzle climb during bursts of automatic fire.
Design details
AKs are long-stroke gas piston operated rifles. Most AKs are select-fire rifles; some have been converted to only fire semi-automatically. In all cases, the selector doubles as a dust cover; when the rifle is on SAFE, the selector covers the ejection port.
Early AKs have milled steel receivers. These are identified by two milled out sections, right above the magazine well, one on each side of the receiver. These are known as AK receivers, and were rather expensive to produce.
Most modern AKs use stamped sheet metal receivers. The metal is 1mm thick. These receivers, with a couple of exceptions (Romanian WASR-10 rifles, Saiga rifles), have two dimples, one on each side of the receiver, that serve as magazine guides. These receivers can also be identified by the rivets that hold the front trunnion in the receiver. These receivers are found on AKM rifles, AK-74 rifles, and all rifles of the AK-10X lineage.
Some AKs (Yugoslavian rifles, some Chinese rifles, and all RPKs) have reinforced stamped sheet metal receivers; the metal is 1.6mm thick, instead of 1mm. These can be identified by the rivet that holds the front trunnion in the receiver; it is oversized and reinforced. These tend to be very durable and stable receivers.
Operating system
The piston rod (op rod, actuator rod) is permanently attached to the bolt carrier. The bolt carrier rides on the two rails machined in the receiver with significant clearances between the moving and stationary parts.
The bolt has two lugs that lock into the barrel extension, sealing the chamber when it goes into battery. Upon unlocking, it makes a primary extraction movement on the spent case. This, along with the significant taper of the 7.62x39mm and 5.45x39mm casing, results in very positive and reliable extraction, even with a dirty chamber and dirty or corroded cases. The rotation of the bolt is ensured by the curved cam track, machined in the bolt carrier, and by the appropriate stud on the bolt itself. The action spring and spring guide are located behind the gas piston and are partially hidden in its hollow rear part when the bolt is in battery. The base of the action spring assembly also serves as a receiver cover lock; the serrated end holds the cover down. The charging handle is permanently attached to the bolt carrier (in fact, it forms a single machined steel unit with the carrier), and does reciprocate when the weapon is fired.
Gas block and barrel assembly
The gas block is located on the barrel, and the gas port on modern AKs is drilled at 90 degrees; this was changed from the original 45 degrees due to 5.45mm bullets shearing in the barrel. Generally speaking, there are two thread pitches for the muzzle. AKs and AKMs use a 14/1mm left hand thread, and the barrel itself is threaded. AK-74s use a front sight assembly that slips over the barrel itself, and is threaded. Russian, Bulgarian, and East German AK-74s use a 24mm right-hand thread, while Romanians use a 22mm right-hand thread.
Most AKs, with a couple of exceptions (Yugoslavian rifles and their clones do not have chrome-lined bores), have cold hammer forged barrels with chrome-lined bores to resist corrosion.
The AK rifles feature rear sights adjustable for range (100 to 800 meters on an AK, 100 to 1000 on everything else), and a front sight, adjustable for elevation and windage. The rear sight is adjusted by pressing in on the slide catch and moving the slide bar along the leaf until the front edge of the bar is aligned with the line below the number that corresponds with the range in meters.
The front sight post is adjusted for elevation by screwing it in and out of the front sight base; a wrench is used to do this. Windage is adjusted by using a tool to move the front sight post mount from side to side. A 1mm adjustment of the front sight changes the point of impact by 26 cm at 100 meters on a 7.62 Soviet AK.[3]
Manual of arms
AKs are short, compact, gas-operated, select-fire weapons. They feed from 30-round box magazines, which have a significant curve if the AK in question is of the 7.62 Soviet variety; 5.45 Russian and 5.56 NATO magazines are straighter, with the 5.45 having a slightly more significant curve due to the taper of its casing.
The magazine is inserted via a "rocking" motion, positioned so that the lug on the front of the magazine engages with its recess in the magazine well, into the magazine well. It should be pulled to the rear until it snaps into place.
In order to operate the charging handle, the selector must be off safe. The charging handle is pulled all the way to the rear and then released to chamber a round. As the bolt carrier goes forward, the lug on the bottom of the bolt will strip a round out of the magazine and feed it into the chamber.
When a round is fired, the gas produced by the propellant in the cartridge goes into the gas tube and impinges upon the operating rod, which then unlocks the bolt and cycles the bolt carrier rearward, which causes it to cock the hammer as it travels. The bolt carrier then strips another round from the magazine and chambers it as it travels forward, and locks the bolt, sealing the round in the chamber.
When the last round is fired, there is no bolt catch mechanism to catch the bolt carrier group and prevent it from closing on an empty chamber. Thus, when the shooter reloads, he will need to rack the charging handle to chamber the next round. If the shooter experiences a malfunction, in most cases racking the charging handle (or reloading, if the magazine is bad OR empty), will solve the problem.
There are several variants of the AK rifle, in different calibers and of differing configurations. This section will not list the varying models by country, unless they do not fit under any other variant listed here.
7.62×39mm rifles
This AK is chambered for 7.62x39mm. It has a milled receiver, a 45 degree gas block, and no muzzle device; the muzzle threads are protected by a muzzle nut. This rifle features wooden furniture, and does not have a hammer release delay device. It features a 16 inch barrel.
This is the model often incorrectly labeled as AK-47; there is no number denoting the year of manufacture.
Same as the AK, but with a wire underfolder stock.
Main article: Type 56 assault rifle
Chinese clone of the AK.
Main article: Type 58 assault rifle
North Korean clone of the AK.
The most produced version, this AK is chambered for 7.62x39mm ammunition. It has a stamped sheet metal receiver which is 1mm thick. It has two dimples, one on each side of the receiver, above the magazine well, that serve as magazine guides. Romanian WASR-10 rifles do not have these indentations (though they are correctly referred to as AKMs when converted to take standard double-stack magazines). Some variants, such as the Yugoslavian Zastava M70, utilize a thicker RPK receiver, rather than the normal 1mm receiver.
AKMs have a 45 degree (slanted) gas block, and the barrel is no longer threaded to the receiver; it is embedded using a 20-ton press and secured with a pin. The barrel assembly has horizontal guide slots to help align and keep the handguards in place. The "spoon" muzzle device is in place to combat the weapon's tendency to climb up and left on full auto. The barrel length for this weapon is 16 inches.
The AKM has a modified trigger assembly, equipped with a hammer-release delaying device (installed on the same axis pin together with the trigger and semi-automatic sear). This device also prevents the weapon from firing out of battery.
The AKM's bolt carrier group is slightly lighter than the AK's bolt carrier group; despite this, the two are completely interchangeable in an AKM rifle.
The wooden stock used in the AKM is further hollowed in order to reduce weight and is different in shape to a small degree.
The AKM uses a modified return spring mechanism, which replaces the single recoil spring guide rod with a dual "U"-shaped wire guide.
The rear sight is adjustable for ranges from 100 to 1000 meters, as opposed to the AK's 100 to 800 meters.
Same as the AKM, only with a wire underfolder stock.
Main article: AKMSU
Chopped and shortened version of the AKM. Origin is disputed.
This rifle is the 7.62 Soviet variant of the full-size (non-carbine) AK-10X lineup. Unlike the earlier 7.62 AKs, this one has a 90 degree gas block, as well as the other AK-10X upgrades. The AK-103 features an AK-74-style muzzle brake and has a barrel length of 16 inches. This rifle is in service with selected units in the Russian military.
The RPK is the light machine gun variant of the AK rifle. It comes with a 24-inch heavy barrel and its receiver is stamped sheet metal that is 1.6mm thick, and has an oversized and reinforced rivet holding the front trunnion. These can take either standard 30- or 40-round magazines (the 40-round magazines were standard issue for an RPK gunner, along with one 75-round drum), or 75-round drums. This variant comes in 7.62 Soviet. Production for this weapon began in 1961, and ended in 1978.
Unlike most other weapons in its class, the RPK fires from a closed bolt.
7.62×39mm carbines
The Draco Carbine is a short Romanian 7.62 Soviet carbine variant of the AKM rifle. It features a very short barrel and a wire sidefolder stock. Draco carbines exported to the U.S. have the stock removed and are sold as pistols.
This is the shortened, carbine version of the AK-103. It is chambered for 7.62 Soviet, and features a 12 inch barrel and the same muzzle device as the AKS-74U, designed to help the weapon cycle.
5.45×39mm rifles
This AK is chambered for 5.45x39mm ammunition, and features all the upgrades that were made to the AKM. Early AK-74 rifles featured a 45 degree gas block; these were changed to 90 degrees when bullet shear became an issue for the 5.45mm rounds. This rifle features a front sight assembly that slips over the barrel, and is threaded for muzzle attachments. It has a muzzle brake installed, and features a 16-inch barrel.
As with the WASR-10, the WASR-2 (a Romanian AK-74) does not have the dimples in the receiver over the magazine well.
Same as the AK-74, only with a side-folder wire stock.
The AK-74M is functionally the same rifle as the AK-74; however, the wooden furniture has been upgraded to polymer and the barrel is now cold hammer forged, making it more durable, AK-74M has received a stock, folding to the left. The flash suppressor has been changed too; the new one has open cameras for being able to be cleaned without detaching. The AK-74M also received a side rail, universal for all Russian day/night optics. The rifle is lighter and stronger than its wooden-furniture counterparts. It is the current service rifle of the Russian military.
This is the light machine gun variant of the AK rifle, but with the AK-74 upgrades. It is chambered in 5.45x39mm and can take standard AK-74 magazines, 45-round magazines, 60-round magazines, and 100-round drums. Its receiver is stamped sheet metal, 1.6mm thick, and it has a 24-inch heavy barrel. The magazine well and rear trunnion are also reinforced, making for a very strong, very durable receiver.
This is the light machine gun variant of the AK rifle, with the AK-74M upgrades, though it is functionally the same as the RPK-74. It is chambered in 5.45x39mm and can take standard AK-74 magazines, 45-round magazines, 60-round magazines, and 100-round drums. The 45-round magazines for this weapon are polymer, like the magazines for the AK-74M. The receiver is stamped sheet metal, 1.6mm thick, and the RPK-74M sports a 24-inch heavy barrel.
The RPKS-74 is a light machine gun designed and manufactured in Romania. It is an RPK clone with a folding wire stock and a four-position fire selector with burst fire compatibility, an unusual aspect for a Kalashnikov variant. Some RPKS-74s were made with scope rails fitted and Bakelite handguards. The RPKS-74 was produced in the early 90s.
5.45×39mm carbines
Carbine version of the AK-74. It features a triangular folding stock and a 8.3-inch barrel with a 1:6.3 twist to better stabilize the 5.45mm projectile from the short barrel.
A new gas block was installed at the muzzle with a new conical flash hider combined with a cylindrical muzzle booster, which features an internal expansion chamber that increases the weapon's reliability by ensuring that the weapon cycles completely upon firing. The booster enhances the recoil impulse by supplying the gas system with residual gases from the barrel. The chrome-lined muzzle booster also burns any remaining propellant, thus reducing the gun's flash signature. The muzzle device locks into the gas block with a spring-loaded detent and features two notches cut into the flash hider cone, used for disassembly using the supplied cleaning rod. The forward sling loop was relocated to the left side of the carbine and the front sight was integrated into the gas block.
The AKS-74U also has a different sighting system, with a U-shaped flip sight instead of the standard sliding notch rear sight. This sight has two settings: "P" (calibrated for firing at 350 m) and "4–5" (used for firing at distances between 400–500 m). The rear sight is housed in a semi-shrouded protective enclosure that is riveted to the receiver's top cover. This top cover is integral with the gas tube cover and hinged from the barrel trunnion, pivoting forward when opened. Both the gas tube and handguard are also of a new type and are shorter than the analogous parts in the AKS-74.
This is the shortened, carbine version of the AK-74M. It is chambered for 5.45 Russian ammunition, and features a 12 inch barrel and the same muzzle device as the AKS-74U, designed to help the weapon cycle.
5.56 NATO rifles/carbines
This rifle is chambered in 5.56 NATO. It features most of the upgrades available on the AK-74 and AK-74M. The rear and front trunnions have been redesigned, the handguards now have a heat shield inside, and the AK-101 has an optical plate on the side for installation of Russian and European AK optics. This rifle is the export version of the AK-74M, and production of this rifle started in 1990.
This rifle is a 5.56 NATO version of the AK-105, and a compact, carbine variant of the AK-101. It features a 12 inch barrel and the same muzzle device as the AKS-74U, designed to help the weapon cycle.
Export variant of the RPK-74M. This weapon has the same features as the RPK-74M, and is chambered in 5.56 NATO.
Unlike the other AK variants, the "AK" in this weapon's designation stands for "Aleksandrov/Kalashnikov". It features the "Balanced Automatic Recoil System", derived from that of the AL-7; the gas from the fired cartridge moves the piston rod attached to the bolt carrier, and it also moves another piston in another gas chamber, which moves the opposite direction, reducing the effect of recoil. The cyclic rate for this weapon is significantly higher than other AKs, at 850-900 rounds per minute. The overall design is very similar to the AL-7 prototypes.
This rifle features a 3-round burst in addition to the semi-automatic and full automatic modes of fire.
5.56 NATO variant of the AK-107, but with a more efficient and stronger material than its predecessor.
Cultural influence
- The AK is included in the Mozambican flag.
- In Mexico, the AK is known as Cuerno de Chivo (meaning Goat Horn) because of its curved magazine. It is one of the weapons of choice of Mexican drug cartels.
See also
- AK-63 - Hungarian AKM
- American AR-15
- MPi-KM - East German AKM
- Soviet PK/PKM
- PM md. 63 - Romanian AKM
- Russian AK-12
- Nazi German StG 44
- Type 56 - Chinese AK
- Type 58 - North Korean AK
- Type 68 - North Korean AKM
- Zastava M70 - Yugoslavian AKM
- ↑ https://imgur.com/a/gkfgf
- ↑ http://www.ak-info.ru/ak/ak_manual_52.jpg
- ↑ Section 3, Page 6, U.S. Army AK-47 manual
- ↑ http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/10/10/latest-ak-alfa-prototype-future-israels-kalashnikov/
- ↑ http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/11/06/new-assault-rifles-emtan-mz-47-mz-4p-mz-300/
- ↑ http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/01/20/kalashnikov-usa-shows-off-ak-alfa-us-made-pp-19-01-vityaz-shot-17/
- Modern Firearms - Kalashnikov AK and AKM assault rifles (USSR)
- United States Army AK manual
- Wikipedia: AK


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|Vegetables, Nuts, Bread
|Day Part
|Lunch, Snack, Dinner
|Menu Part
|Appetizer/Small Plate
|Cuisine Type
Source: Chef Jeff Clark; California Walnut Board
Menus often use the word "California" to give a menu item a healthy halo. Walnuts, which grow in abundance in the northern section of the state, are rich in heart-healthy oils and antioxidants. Chef Clark blends creamy walnut butter with edamame for a snack that rates high in nutrition and taste.
2 cloves garlic
2 lb. edamame, blanched and shocked
1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp. California walnut butter
1 tsp. cayenne pepper
2 cups water
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
Walnut halves, for garnish
Flatbread, such as pita
- In food processor, pulse garlic cloves until minced.
- Add edamame, walnut butter and cayenne; pulse to blend. With motor running, gradually add water and oil; continue to process until smooth.
- To serve, garnish with walnuts and accompany with flatbreads.


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Cystic Fibrosis: Ways to Clear the Airways
Topic Overview
People with cystic fibrosis can get lung infections and other respiratory problems because of the buildup of thick, sticky mucus that traps bacteria.
Talk to your doctor or respiratory therapist about airway-clearance methods and medicines that you can use to help get rid of mucus. Your doctor or respiratory therapist may suggest some things that you or your child can do at home to help clear mucus from the lungs. These include:
- Postural drainage and chest percussion, to help with coughing up mucus from the lungs. For specific instructions, see:
- Deep breathing exercises, to help with breathing out completely and to strengthen the muscles used for breathing.
- Directed cough, to help clear mucus by breathing and coughing in specific ways.
- Exercise. Aerobic exercise can improve how well the lungs work. Ask your doctor about what kinds of exercise you or your child should do.
Other methods use mechanical equipment to help clear mucus from the lungs. Examples include:
- High-frequency chest compression vest. You wear an inflatable vest that receives pulses of air from a generator. The tightening of the vest causes the chest to vibrate, and this helps loosen and clear the mucus from the lungs. This method can be done without the help of another person.
- Positive expiratory pressure (PEP) therapy. You breathe into a handheld device that raises the pressure inside the lungs. Examples of devices include a PEP valve, Flutter device, or Acapella valve. The devices work in slightly different ways to help loosen and clear mucus from the lungs.
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We are aiming to try and fix this bug before the final release of Fedora 19, though as mentioned above, it is proving complex to pin down and fix for good.
We are aiming to try and fix this bug before the final release of Fedora 19, though as mentioned above, it is proving complex to pin down and fix for good.
Revision as of 01:05, 31 May 2013
This page documents common bugs in Fedora 19 and, if available, fixes or workarounds for these problems. If you find your problem in this page, do not file a bug for it, unless otherwise instructed. Where appropriate, a reference to the current bug(s) in Bugzilla is included.
- 1 Release Notes
- 2 My bug is not listed
- 3 Resolved issues
- 4 Installation issues
- 4.1 Installation crash if you de-select all hard disks and click Done when running from a USB stick
- 4.2 UEFI install fails with BootLoaderError: failed to set new efi boot target
- 4.3 NFS repositories fail to work
- 4.4 Installer screens sometimes do not appear at full screen width
- 4.5 'Selected' state for disks is indicated with a small and easily missed check mark
- 4.6 Bootloader password is required on each boot
- 4.7 Non-GNOME initial setup utility always shows all actions
- 4.8 Non-GNOME initial setup utility does not warn of failure to create a user account
- 5 Upgrade issues
- 6 Hardware issues
- 7 Software issues
- 7.1 GDM and GNOME render incorrectly on older systems
- 7.2 System fails to start correctly (due to qxl driver crash) when booting 32-bit image in Fedora virtualization
- 7.3 System fails to start correctly (due to qxl driver crash) when booting Fedora 19 Beta as a virtual guest on a RHEL 6 host
- 7.4 "Updates available" notification runs online updater
- 7.5 Several x-caja-desktop windows pop up on login to MATE desktop
Release Notes
Read the F19 Beta release announcement and the Fedora 19 Beta Release Notes for specific information about changes in Fedora 19 and other general information.
My bug is not listed
Not every bug is listed in this page, but Bugzilla should be a comprehensive database of known bugs. This page is a sampling of the bugs most commonly discussed on our mailing lists and forums.
To see if your bug has already been reported, you can search Bugzilla. If it has not yet been reported, we encourage you to do so to help improve Fedora for yourself and others. A guide to Bugs and feature requests has been prepared to assist you.
If you believe an already-reported bug report should be added to this page because it is commonly encountered, you can:
- Add it yourself, if you have wiki access. Please follow the style and guidelines explained in the comments in the page source.
- Or, add the CommonBugs keyword to the bug report. Someone from the QA team will then inspect the issue to determine whether the bug should be listed as a common bug. To expedite your request, please add a comment to the bug that includes
- a summary of the problem
- any known workarounds
- an assessment on the impact to Fedora users
For reference, you can query Bugzilla for bugs tagged CommonBugs:
- CommonBugs? (bugs with CommonBugs keyword, but do not yet have a link to this page)
- CommonBugs+(bugs with CommonBugs keyword and contain a link to this page)
Resolved issues
Native UEFI Fedora installation fails to boot after upgrade to Fedora 19
link to this item - Bugzilla: #966586
If you had a UEFI native installation of Fedora 18 with the default bootloader configuration, and you upgraded to a Fedora 19 package set that includes a version of
grub2 earlier than grub2-2.00-18.fc19, the upgraded system will likely fail to load grub correctly at boot. This is due to a bug which caused initialization of grub2 in graphical mode to fail on UEFI systems. The bug was worked around for fresh installs by having grub2 configured in console instead of graphical mode, but as upgraded systems use the old bootloader configuration, the bug still affected upgrades.
This issue was fixed in the updated grub2-2.00-18.fc19 package. To solve the issue if you already upgraded and are affected, you can change grub2 to console mode. Boot a live or rescue image, mount the installed system (at least the /etc and EFI system partitions), edit
etc/default/grub within the mounted filesystem and change the line that starts GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT to read GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" (or create such a line if none exists). Then run
grub2-mkconfig with the -o parameter to specify the correct location for the updated configuration file within the EFI system partition. The system should now boot correctly.
After updating to grub2-2.00-18.fc19 you can return to a graphical grub2 configuration, if you like, and it should now work.
Installation issues
Installation crash if you de-select all hard disks and click Done when running from a USB stick
link to this item - Bugzilla: #959677
The Fedora 19 Beta installer has a bug which can cause it to crash with the error IndexError: list index out of range in a specific (but moderately commonly-encountered) circumstance. You will hit this crash if you:
- Boot the installer from a USB stick written with livecd-iso-to-disk or (possibly) liveusb-creator
- Intentionally or otherwise de-select all hard disks on the Installation Destination screen and click Done
It is quite easy to inadvertently do this in Fedora 19 Beta as the design used to indicate selected disks on the Installation Destination spoke is somewhat confusing. A relatively small check mark indicates disks that are selected as install targets, and if you only have a single disk, it will be pre-selected for you. It is quite easy to hit this bug if you don't notice this, click the disk to 'select' it (in fact de-selecting it) and then click Done.
If you do hit the bug, it is quite safe to simply reboot and re-try the installation. Note that this bug cannot lead to any loss of pre-existing data. This bug does not affect installs from optical media, or from USB sticks written with 'dd' or analogous methods. The status of the bug with regard to USB sticks written with third-party utilities such as unetbootin is unknown, but in general, the bug will not occur if the USB stick from which you are running the installer shows as a potential target disk on the Installation Destination screen (which should never happen, but at present does happen for dd-written sticks). It may occur if the USB stick from which you are installing is (correctly) suppressed from being shown as a possible target device.
This issue should be resolved before the final release of Fedora 19.
UEFI install fails with BootLoaderError: failed to set new efi boot target
link to this item - Bugzilla: #949786
Some UEFI-native installations of Fedora 19 Beta may fail near the end of installation, with the error BootLoaderError: failed to set new efi boot target (or a similar error).
Systems with UEFI firmwares contain a small amount of NVRAM (non-volatile RAM) storage, into which certain UEFI configuration and other data can be written by the firmware or by UEFI-native operating systems. This error usually indicates that the kernel considers the NVRAM storage area to be full, and is refusing to write anything to it when the Fedora installer attempts to write an EFI boot manager entry for the newly installed Fedora system.
In Fedora 19 Beta (in fact, in all recent kernel builds - this behaviour is not specific to Fedora, though it is very new), the kernel attempts not to write to the NVRAM storage when doing so may trigger the recently-publicised bug in some Samsung firmwares, which causes the system firmware to fail if the NVRAM storage is more than 50% full. There are cases where this can interact badly with firmwares that do not do garbage collection very well, and you may therefore be affected by this problem even if your NVRAM storage area is not full and you do not use one of the affected Samsung firmwares. You may also, of course, actually have a full NVRAM storage area.
If you are affected by this problem, there are several things you can try. The Fedora 19 Beta installer attempts to delete non-essential data from the NVRAM prior to writing a boot manager entry. However, it cannot force the firmware to do garbage collection after requesting the deletion. In some cases, several reboots may be required to trigger garbage collection. So the first thing to try if you are affected by this is to reboot the system several times, and then re-try the installation.
If that does not help, you may try resetting the firmware to defaults, or updating or reinstalling the firmware. However, note that doing so can reset the EFI boot manager to its default state, which may remove entries for any UEFI native operating systems you have installed!
If all else fails, you may be forced to install Fedora 19 Beta in BIOS emulation mode rather than UEFI native mode.
We will continue to work on this issue to see if we can improve the situation in any way for the Final release.
Note for journalists: this issue has nothing at all to do with Secure Boot. Please be careful in distinguishing Secure Boot from UEFI.
NFS repositories fail to work
link to this item - Bugzilla: #968023
If you try to use an NFS repository as a package source for a Fedora 19 Beta installation, you may find it fails to work for no obvious reason. More specifically, NFSv4 mounts should work; NFSv3 mounts will fail. If you are not sure of the differences between v3 and v4, this page may be useful, though it contains some outdated information. Note that it is entirely possible to have an NFS server configured such that you can mount the same share via NFSv3 or NFSv4, possibly with a different path.
To make NFSv3 mounts work, you must pass the nolock parameter. If you are configuring your NFS repository graphically in the installer, there is a field labelled NFS mount options: - simply type nolock into it. If you are using the inst.repo kernel command line parameter, you can enter inst.repo=nfs:nolock:host.name:/path/to/repo instead of inst.repo=nfs:host.name:/path/to/repo.
This bug should be resolved before the final release of Fedora 19.
Installer screens sometimes do not appear at full screen width
link to this item - Bugzilla: #869364
Sometimes when you visit a screen in the Fedora 19 Beta installer (a 'spoke') more than once, it will display incorrectly - it will be squeezed into an area less than the full width of the screen, and sometimes less than the full height also. We have been attempting to fix this bug for a while but it is a difficult one to pin down.
Usually you can still use the screen in the reduced size version, though it may look very strange. If you get completely stuck, though, you will unfortunately be required to reboot and restart the installation process. We apologize for any inconvenience.
We are aiming to try and fix this bug before the final release of Fedora 19, though as mentioned above, it is proving complex to pin down and fix for good.
'Selected' state for disks is indicated with a small and easily missed check mark
link to this item - Bugzilla: #967682
On the installer screen where you choose which disks will be used for Fedora 19 installation, disks that are selected as installation targets are marked with a fairly small black check mark in the lower right hand corner; disks that are not selected do not have the check mark.
This has been changed since Fedora 18, when disks that were selected were highlighted in blue, and now the blue highlight simply means the UI element is selected. So if you click on a disk that was previously selected as an install target, then you have just de-selected it - so the check mark goes away - but the UI element is active, so it is highlighted in blue.
Add to this that if you only have a single hard disk it will be pre-selected as an install target when you enter the page, and it has become clear that this design is confusing people. Many users have entered the screen and clicked to 'select' their single disk - in fact de-selecting it, because it was already selected, but not noticing the mistake.
Please be aware that the check mark not the blue highlight indicates the disks selected as targets. We will endeavour to improve this interface before the final release of Fedora 19.
Bootloader password is required on each boot
link to this item - Bugzilla: #840160
If you set a bootloader password during installation of Fedora 19 (which is only possible when doing a kickstart-based install), the password will be required at each boot of the system. This is a change in behaviour from Fedora 15 and earlier, where the password was required only to change settings from within the bootloader.
Lawrence Lowe suggests that the --unrestricted parameter can be added to menuentry lines in the grub config file to make them available without the password being entered.
Non-GNOME initial setup utility always shows all actions
link to this item - Bugzilla: #963935
Fedora 19 includes a new
initial-setup utility which replaces the old firstboot utility as the tool that runs on the first boot after installation to complete any necessary setup tasks before normal use of the system can commence. Note that there is an alternative - and completely different -
gnome-initial-setup utility which is used instead of initial-setup on the Desktop spin and on installation of GNOME from the DVD or network install images; this bug does not affect GNOME installations, which use this other utility. (If you are not sure which one you are seeing, gnome-initial-setup is a wizard-type interface which starts by asking you to choose a language, while initial-setup looks almost identical to the installer interface).
In Fedora 19 Beta installations of any graphical desktop other than GNOME, the initial-setup utility always runs, and always displays all possible actions (set date and time, set root password, and create user accounts), no matter what actions you took during installation. It is intended that actions that are not necessary or useful should not be displayed; so for instance, if you created a root password and a user account, or an administrative user account, during installation, initial-setup should not really need to run at all, but this has not yet been implemented.
We recommend you use initial-setup only to create a user account if you did not create one during installation. If you did create a user account during installation, the best thing to do is simply to quit it as soon as it runs.
Non-GNOME initial setup utility does not warn of failure to create a user account
link to this item - Bugzilla: #965797
In Fedora 19 Beta, the new initial-setup utility described in the previous entry does not present any kind of warning if you leave it without having created a user account either during installation or from initial-setup itself. Thus it is relatively easy to arrive at a graphical login screen without any user accounts available.
The old utility would allow you to skip user account creation, but required you to click through a warning in order to do so, to ensure no-one did it inadvertently. This is also how initial-setup should behave.
We have tested that the desktops for which the new tool is used - KDE, Xfce, LXDE, MATE, and Sugar - all allow login as root; so this bug should not present any major roadblocks to accessing the installed system. However, if you do install without creating a user account, we strongly advise that you log in as root only in order to create a user account, and then immediately log out and in future always log in as the user account. Using a graphical desktop with root privileges can increase your vulnerability to remote attack, to simple mistakes having severe consequences, and to bugs caused by software not expecting to be run with root privileges.
This issue does not affect the GNOME initial setup utility: in fact, that utility will not allow you to skip user account creation at all.
This issue is expected to be resolved before the final release of Fedora 19.
Upgrade issues
System hangs at the end of the process when upgrading to Fedora 19 with fedup
link to this item - Bugzilla: #957783
When upgrading to Fedora 19 using the recommended FedUp method, the system may hang at the end of the upgrade process, whereas it should automatically reboot into the upgraded system. The upgrade process has been completed at this point, and it is safe simply to force a reboot at this point. Barring unrelated issues, the upgraded system will be in place and working.
Hardware issues
Boot hangs when using NVIDIA discrete graphics on some Thinkpad models (W520, T420)
link to this item - Bugzilla: #752613 Kernel bugzilla: #43054
Multiple testers have reported that various Thinkpad models - including at least the W520 and T420 - that have hybrid Intel/NVIDIA graphics will fail to boot Fedora 19 when using the discrete NVIDIA graphics adapter. Using the onboard Intel adapter, Fedora will boot successfully.
Further testing indicates that this bug is an interaction between several features of these systems and of Fedora: the VT-d advanced virtualization feature, the X2APIC level APIC, and the NVIDIA adapter. If all three of these things are used together, boot fails. If any one is removed from the equation, boot succeeds.
So if you are affected by this bug, you can choose to boot with any two of those things, but not all three together. You can disable the VT-d feature and select which graphics adapter to use through the system firmware. You can disable X2APIC functionality by passing the kernel parameter nox2apic. In this way, you should be able to determine which of the features you want to use.
The kernel developers plan to address this issue in a future kernel update by blacklisting X2APIC functionality on affected systems, when the NVIDIA adapter is in use.
Software issues
GDM and GNOME render incorrectly on older systems
link to this item - Bugzilla: #909473
Some testing has indicated that Fedora 19's llvmpipe-based software 3D rendering does not work properly on older CPUs (those without SSE2 or equivalent instructions; SSE2 was introduced by Intel with the Pentium 4 in 2001, and AMD added support for it with the introduction of the Opteron and Athlon 64 lines in 2003). If your graphics card is not sufficient for GNOME 3 - which may well be the case on older machines - Fedora will try and use software rendering to display GDM and GNOME, but due to this bug, it may fail entirely or render incorrectly. GNOME 3.8, as included in Fedora 19, no longer has a non-accelerated 'fallback mode' for use on systems where 3D acceleration does not work correctly.
At present the only workaround for this problem is to use a non-3D accelerated login manager and desktop. KDM is probably the most robust alternative login manager. The KDE, Xfce, LXDE and MATE desktops all work without 3D acceleration and would be possible alternatives to GNOME.
System fails to start correctly (due to qxl driver crash) when booting 32-bit image in Fedora virtualization
link to this item - Bugzilla: #965101
Several testers have reported that, using Fedora's official virtualization stack (qemu-kvm/libvirt) with the virtual machine's video adapter set as 'qxl', if you boot a 32-bit Fedora 19 Beta image, the system will fail to boot correctly due to a crash in the
xorg-x11-drv-qxl video driver.
As we do not support 32-bit systems as virtual hosts at all, there is a very simple workaround for this bug in all supported (i.e. 64-bit host) configurations: configure your guest with a 64-bit processor and boot a 64-bit Fedora 19 Beta image. If you absolutely must boot a 32-bit image for some reason, you can re-configure your virtual machine to use a different video adapter; the 'cirrus' or 'vga' models ought to work, although performance will likely be poor and there may be glitches in rendering of the GNOME desktop.
System fails to start correctly (due to qxl driver crash) when booting Fedora 19 Beta as a virtual guest on a RHEL 6 host
link to this item - Bugzilla: #967679
It has been reported that the
xorg-x11-drv-qxl driver in Fedora 19 Beta crashes during X startup when trying to boot a Fedora 19 Beta image in a virtual guest configured with qxl/SPICE graphics on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 host. This likely affects earlier versions of RHEL 6, clones of RHEL 6 such as CentOS, and possibly very old (and unsupported) Fedora releases as well.
To work around this issue, configure your guest to use cirrus/VNC or vga/VNC instead of qxl/SPICE. Developers are currently considering how this issue can be resolved before the final release of Fedora 19.
"Updates available" notification runs online updater
link to this item - Bugzilla: #863592
Fedora 18 introduced a feature called offline system updates. Its description suggests that 'offline' updates - updates performed across a system reboot - are now the default method for graphical updating in Fedora 18, at least when using GNOME. However, the feature's implementation is still somewhat incomplete: GNOME will still pop up notifications of available updates, and if you click on these notifications as you are encouraged to do, the 'online' update process (updates installed within the running system) will be launched.
This is not a major bug - the online update system still works, and while there are valid reasons why offline updates are slightly more robust, online updates are what Fedora used from Fedora Core 1 through Fedora 17 so there is no pressing reason to believe the use of online updates will be a disaster. Both mechanisms perform as intended in Fedora 19, and you can use the online update mechanism as safely in Fedora 19 as you ever did in a previous Fedora release. This note is included simply to explain the situation, in case you are confused as to what's going on.
If you want to trigger an offline update, use the "Install Updates and Restart" entry on the User menu.
Several x-caja-desktop windows pop up on login to MATE desktop
link to this item - Bugzilla: #886029
Sometimes (the bug is due to a race condition and hence unpredictable), on boot of the Fedora 19 Beta MATE live image or first login with a user account to the MATE desktop, several useless windows labelled x-caja-desktop will open up on the desktop.
The bug has no further consequences and it is quite safe to simply close the windows and continue using the system.
This bug should be resolved for the final release of Fedora 19.