Fwd: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Alternate testcase changes

[Nio Wiklund]

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Den 2015-03-03 13:13, Nio Wiklund skrev:
> Hi Walter,
> 
> Lars and I are making progress with the test-cases for encryption :-)
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
> 
> -------- Vidarebefordrat meddelande --------
> Ämne: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Alternate testcase changes
> Datum: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:59:16 +0100
> Från: Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com>
> Till: Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com>
> 
> ...
> 
> Hi again Lars,
> 
> I hope some debugging can be done in Vivid, but to be realistic, maybe
> we'll have to wait until the next version for a fully functioning
> encrypted Lubuntu.
> 
> Good that it will be easy to edit test cases with html :-)
> 
> -o-
> 
> I know a little more now about the encrypted systems, not only the
> test-cases, but also what happens afterwards.
> 
> 1. We have more than one bug (probably more than two bugs).
> 
> 2a. All Ubuntu flavour desktop test-cases with encryption have only
> encrypted disk with LVM, not encrypted home inside the encrypted disk.
> 
> 2b. I have managed to make cryptswap work (inside encrypted LVM with the
> alternate installer), but only in the first session. After reboot it
> disappears.
> 
> 2c. So I suggest that we suggest test-cases for Lubuntu alternate and
> desktop with only encrypted LVM and skip the encrypted home. This way it
> will be rather similar to the other Ubuntu flavour desktop test-cases
> with encryption, and much easier to get working again.
> 
> 3. The alternate testcase will probably work with some simple changes
> and the work-around (detour into a text screen) is only to unmount some
> partition(s) on the target drive. I think it should be done *earlier*
> than the installer does it now.
> 
> 4. Knowing this (after a lot of testing) the desktop testcase can
> probably be simplified too. But there is an additional bug due to the
> zRAM, that must be switched off or (better) accepted.
> 
> Summary: I think that a developer can make encryption work rather
> easily, so that we can get nice and polished test-cases (that work). I
> think it is quite possible to revive the alternate test-case before the
> release of Vivid (with automatic unmounting of that partition, often
> /dev/sda1).
> 
> See the attached text version of a modified Lubuntu alternate test-case.
> Look for # tags in order to find what is modified :-)
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
> 
> 

Hi Walter, Lars, Phill and all other Lubuntu users

I think we have a working alternative, that should be rather easy to
implement for the Alternate Install (Encryption) test-cases (for the
i386 as well as the amd64 iso files).

@ Walter and Lars: Can we agree to modify the (alternate) test-cases?

@ Lars: ... and when agreed, will you edit the alternate test-cases?

@ Walter and Lars: The next step will be to design corresponding
test-cases for the Lubuntu desktop iso files.
_____

See this link

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/1425681/comments/12

@phillw:

Comment #8 'Be interesting to hear the opinions of the server team...
Did this used to work?'

The Ubuntu server test-case for encryption uses 'only' encrypted disk
with LVM, not encrypted home inside it. So this is another indication
(alongside the encrypted desktop test-cases), that Lubuntu should do the
same thing.

@ everybody:

Skipping 'encrypted home inside encrypted disk with LVM' makes things
much easier to get working. My tests today indicate, that the Lubuntu
alternate test-case works with this small modification. We need not even
unmount any partition earlier than the installer wants to do it.

I just tested that it works with very different original partition
tables (GPT and several partitions of various kinds)

- the 64-bit alternate Lubuntu Vivid installer works
- the 32-bit alternate Lubuntu Vivid installer works

I modified the test-case for encryption only at these places:

'No' for encrypted home directory # Changed from 'Yes'. This is the most
important modification.

'Yes' unmount mounted partitions in the target drive # Additional item
which is important.

'No' to install grub boot loader to master boot record. Instead select
the target drive for the bootloader manually. # Changed from 'Yes'. This
is optional but I recommend it because the automatic choice often
creates problems for me.

-o-

It is not necessary to enter another text screen and unmount any
partition earlier than the installer wants to do it.

Best regards
Nio