further testing of hoary daily (live, upgrade & install)

[James Troup]

Hi, 

Another day of fun.

Generic problems with Live CD
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 . Usual "No sound hardware" ERROR-ERROR-ERROR dialog reported yesterday
   [Repeated here to qualify the 'all good's below]

 - Start of boot-up says: "* version 2.86 booting" - which is mildly
   confusing.

 - "Get video state buffer size failed
    Save video state failed"

   on every boot - mjg59 says this is harmless and because the servers
   unsurprisingly lack a VESA BIOS.  Might be nice to a) LSB-ize them
   (for consistency, if nothing else) and/or b) convert them to
   something less newbie scary?

Live CD Test on HP Proliant DL380 G4
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 - X comes up in 1280x1024 which makes the monitor unhappy (bizarrely
   it displays the screen but with a slow floating box saying
   "Resolution out of range").  xresprobe thinks the monitor is a CRT.
   Config, trace files etc. at:

     http://people.ubuntu.com/~james/paste/broken/

   Maybe the autoconfig stuff could blacklist this type of KVM?

 - Also noticed: xresprobe a) doesn't know about -h/--help, b) doesn't
   have a manpage, c) is unuseful when you run it as non-root.

Live CD Test on Dell PowerEdge 2650
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 - Same X resolution problem
 + Otherwise all good.

Live CD Test on HP Proliant DL380 G3
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 + No X resolution problem but very similar HW to the G4 & PE 2560
   above and on the same KVM?

   Trace files for this machine at http://people.ubuntu.com/~james/paste/working/

 + All good.

Live CD Test on IBM xSeries 235 and 345
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 + All good.

Install CD Test on HP RX1600 (ia64)
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 - Couldn't detect the link beat on the tg3 NIC?

   [This is actually I suspect a recurring theme, this just happens to
    be the first machine I've tried where I didn't know automatically
    which NIC was live]

 - After DHCP failed, the menu choice looked like this:

  3. Configure network manually [*]
  4.     
  5. Do not configure the network at this time   

   in 'readline' mode.  [Obviously 'readline' is the 'lynx' of the
   debconf world and suffers at the hands of folks designing for the
   Netscape/Internet Explorer equivalents for debconf :p]

 - Install failed entirely at partitioning stage due to lack of MPT
   fusion modules in scsi-*.udeb ... -> no disks to install on. [Will
   apparently be fixed by next linux-source-2.6.10 upload]

Upgrade test (powerpc)
----------------------

 - Lots of scary or irrelevant NEWS items, e.g. alsa-lib (gives you a
   patch!), bogofilter (should be versioned checked), firefox,
   gnome-volume-manager (we've always used pmount) etc.

   I think these may need audited for suitability and branding?

   Though, I later discovered this to be not nearly as important as I
   first thought since apt-listchanges is only in Supported, not
   installed by default.

 - Warning messages from apt-listchanges about data.tar.bz2 .debs.
   Yay for well planned transitions :-P </bitter>

 - Got prompted by a bunch of packages (gimp, udev, hal, pbbuttonsd
   and dovecot) about a bunch of config files I know haven't been
   touched on this box.  They didn't look like the usual 'a conffile
   moved and dpkg now thinks the user needs prompted about it' stuff
   either.

Install test on Apple G5 (powerpc)
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- partman offers you the chance to 'Use largest free space' even if
  there isn't enough.  [Will file a bug]

- Partition #1 is sacrosanct on Macs, it'd be really nice if partman
  knew this.

- The (amount of) locales that you get with the English language pack
  (is/)are insane.  Given that the installer knows exactly which
  variant of English I'm using, it'd be nice if the language pack
  could be a little less scattershot about it.  Alternatively if
  locale-gen wasn't insanely slow, maybe I'd care less.

- yaboot help text only mentions 'expert' not 'server'

- No software raid love from the partitioner for powerpc.

- 'server' mode still tries to register documents and (of course)
  fails due to lack of scrollkeeper.

-- 
James