When the firstboot module fails to send the profile (which is 100% of the time on a new installation, because NetworkManager doesn't start up before firstboot), we get zero feedback. Firstboot just goes away without registering the machine, and without reporting the failure.
Actually not 100% of the time as not everyone uses NetworkManager. Also, by saying "yes register" a monthly checkin is enabled. Which means that if we don't get them the first round we do get them the second round. At one point in time Smolt was setup to re-try a certain number of times if it failed to send. I'll have to check and see how this behavior is but the way it was designed to work with firstboot is: try to send: if fail wait 5 minutes, try again repeat 10-15 times (something like that) We've made a lot of changes to the client in this round so I'll have to see what the deal is. Obviously if someone enables it in firstboot and it fails, then reboots before it gets sent we won't know about that until after that users monthly check in. I'll leave this open until I can verify the behavior of smolt is still what it used to be.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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Closing bug, this is the intended behaviour and it seems to be working properly.