[Ubuntugnome-qa] [Beta 1 Testing] Your Help Is Needed

Wed Feb 24 05:33:50 UTC 2016

Ali's respins failed. I retried and now there is a i386 image with the upower bug fix, no amd64 image as yet though

On 24/02/16 12:26, Ali/amjjawad wrote:
> Hi Lance and everyone else,
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> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Erick Brunzell <lbsolost at yahoo.com <mailto:lbsolost at yahoo.com>> wrote:
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>     On 02/23/2016 05:42 PM, Ali/amjjawad wrote:
>>     Hi,
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>>     I am extremely busy in real life and not in good health (back/neck problems) as I'm about to shift houses for the 4th or 5th times in 2
>>     years so you can imagine :)
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>>     However, living in pain is easier than NOT supporting Ubuntu GNOME. So please, do help us!
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>>     http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/357/builds
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>>     In case you don't know:
>>     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseSchedule
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>>     Please test and as you may know, report any bug to the ISO Tracker.
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>>     If you're new to all this, here is a good place to start from:
>>     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/Testing
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>>     The release notes:
>>     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/Beta1/UbuntuGNOME
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>>     Please update the release notes whenever possible.
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>>     I see, yet again, no one is paying attention to i386 so I'll do my best in that area.
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>     I am paying attention.
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> Yes, I know you do ;)
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>     As you can see from my posted results both the amd64 and i386 images are basically junk! I also encountered an installation failure but
>     ubuntu-bug ubiquity complained about a lack of space on the live DVD, how is that possible?
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>     Anyway I'll try and reproduce that behavior as time allows but right now I'm trying to recover from a failed Trusty -> Xenial upgrade so I
>     can file a release-upgrader bug the smart way. If that fails I'll have to file a must less useful bug report the dumb way.
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> These are mess so here is what I was doing just a while ago:
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> <amjjawad> Oh, launchpad is down/broken for some reason! why such things happen during before a milestone release?!
> <amjjawad> infinity, I'm testing Ubuntu GNOME images and these are true mess :(
> <infinity> amjjawad: Security updates, it's only temporary.
> <wxl> amjjawad: for more info on that, see #canonical-sysadmin.
> <amjjawad> infinity, the installation is broken and I just can't install anything.
> <amjjawad> wxl, "Technically, this is a 503 error and has been caused by our database being temporarily offline. " but thanks for your advice :)
> <wxl> amjjawad: have you read the topic at #canonical-sysadmin?
> <amjjawad> infinity, http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/357/builds/113126/testcases
> <infinity> amjjawad: I'm staying far away from this milestone.
> <wxl> amjjawad: you can see who is involved in this milestone here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseTaskSignup
> <wxl> suffice it to say, flocculant is asleep
> <wxl> i believe stgraber is handling the canonical side of things, right, infinity ?
> <amjjawad> Thanks infinity and wxl then guess I have to wait as there is nothing I can do except confirming bugs.
> <wxl> amjjawad: you do know you can get around the upower bug by running off ac power only, right?
> <infinity> The upower bug was fixed, it just needs a respin.
> <amjjawad> wxl, I'm testing on Oracle VB. Not sure if that applies to that as well?!
> <infinity> (which stgraber left up to the flavours to do themselves)
> <wxl> infinity: not true. flocculant triggered a respin and doesn't work.
> <amjjawad> how can I know if I have access to do a re-spin or not? can I try?
> <amjjawad> to be more accurate: a re-spin for Ubuntu GNOME images only.
> <wxl> amjjawad: if you have an SSO login to the tracker and you have an LP membership that allows you to, for example, mark images as ready,
> you can select a rebuild in the same area there
> <wxl> amjjawad: just click the right images, and click rebuild. bvut again, i don't think it will help
> <amjjawad> wxl, indeed, I have access to mark them as ready but never touched "re-spin" as of now.
> <infinity> lftp cdimage.ubuntu.com:/ubuntu-gnome/daily-live/20160222.2> cat xenial-desktop-amd64.manifest | grep upower
> <wxl> amjjawad: and yes, if your host has a battery, remove the battery and run off of AC power and your vm will work.
> <infinity> gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0   0.99.4-1
> <infinity> The latest version isn't in those images.
> <infinity> libupower-glib3:amd64 0.99.4-1
> <infinity> upower 0.99.4-1
> <infinity> wxl: It'll help.
> <wxl> infinity: it isn't in the xubuntu images?
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> <amjjawad> darkxst, I'll give it a go!
> * kenvandine has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds)
> <infinity> wxl: The newest xubuntu images have -2.
> <cyphermox> infinity: jibel asked me to do a respin earlier too, but I have no access to do that
> <wxl> infinity: --which is supposedly the fix, right?
> <infinity> wxl: Yes.
> <wxl> infinity: and what i'm telling you is dear flocculant already tested it and no dice.
> <wxl> infinity: i know the bug is fix released. i know pitti worked on it. it didn't fix it.
> <amjjawad> is there any harm if one does a re-spin?!
> <infinity> Or the testing methodology was lacking.  I'm happy to believe both.
> <infinity> amjjawad: No.
> <wxl> amjjawad: no harm. go for it.
> <amjjawad> perfect :D
> <wxl> amjjawad: if you DO get success, let me know.
> <amjjawad> wxl, sure ;)
> <wxl> amjjawad: but the battery removal WILL work.
> <amjjawad> request a rebuild, right?
> <wxl> do it
> <amjjawad> wxl, yes, will remember the battery thing.
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>     Lance
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>     PS: the 20160221 amd64 image had far fewer problems so something got borked in the last 48 hours or so.
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> I requested a re-build:
> http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/357/builds
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>>     Thank you!
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>>     -- 
>>     Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us."
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>>     Best Regards,
>>     Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>
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> I will keep you posted/updated (hopefully) in any case whether all is good or not.
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> Thanks!
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> -- 
> Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us."
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> Best Regards,
> Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>
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