Ubuntu-qa Digest, Vol 14, Issue 1
greg
greg at ccs.sa.edu.au
Tue Nov 18 02:45:31 UTC 2008
Hi all,
I am new to the Ubuntu QA mailing list, and have to report a problem copying
Ubuntu 8.1 to CD. It seems to be missing an essential part which allows the
disk to install to computer.
I am running a stand-alone PC - not connected to the net- at work, and I am
unable to do a live update of 8.04 which is currently installed on the
machine. Can anyone suggest what this problem might be?
Also...
There seems to be a small problem with samba and its usage/compatibility
with several programs. Is there an update or fix for this too?
Thanks,
Greg
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1. (no subject) (Mohammad Aziz)
2. RE: (nathaniel maddux)
3. Hardy SRU Testing Day! (Ara Pulido)
4. Ideas for Jaunty (David Murphy)
5. Joining Ubuntu-qa (Sayak Banerjee)
6. Re: Joining Ubuntu-qa (Ara Pulido)
7. Dell Mini 9 update testing (Chris Gregan)
8. Dell Mini 9 update testing (Craig A. Eddy)
9. testing updates (was Re: Dell Mini 9 update testing)
(Steve Beattie)
10. Bad ISO Image - ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso (Chris Bidwell)
11. Re: Bad ISO Image - ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso (Mike Rooney)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 19:39:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mohammad Aziz <maze77ca at yahoo.com>
To: Ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com
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Dear Sir, Madam:
Hi
I was installed a copy of ubuntu in my computer form a Cd which down loaded
from the internet. It was good, but afterthat I was trying to connect with
the internet I got a black screen. I tried to install again from the same Cd
but I could not. Therefor, would you please kindly advise me what I should
do.
Finally, I would like to pay my great thanks.
Sincerely yours,
Aziz Mohammad
E-mail: maze77ca at yahoo.com
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:29:00 -0500
From: nathaniel maddux <madduxne at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE:
To: <maze77ca at yahoo.com>, <ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com>
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i Dont know what to do> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 19:39:17 -0700> From:
maze77ca at yahoo.com> To: Ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com> > Dear Sir, Madam:> Hi>
I was installed a copy of ubuntu in my computer form a Cd which down loaded
from the internet. It was good, but afterthat I was trying to connect with
the internet I got a black screen. I tried to install again from the same Cd
but I could not. Therefor, would you please kindly advise me what I should
do.> Finally, I would like to pay my great thanks.> > > Sincerely yours,> >
> Aziz Mohammad > E-mail: maze77ca at yahoo.com> > > > > -- > Ubuntu-qa mailing
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:42:30 +0100
From: Ara Pulido <ara at ubuntu.com>
Subject: Hardy SRU Testing Day!
To: ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com
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Hello all,
We are pleased to announce the next Ubuntu Testing Day that will be next
Monday, November 10th.[1]
The Ubuntu Testing day is a special day where the Ubuntu Community comes
together with a shared goal of testing a specific set of ISO images (Alpha,
Beta, RC, Gold or Point releases), a specific feature or some bugs needing
verification. Taking the idea from the Ubuntu Bug Day [2] we want to apply
the same concepts to ISO testing.
Who can join the Testing Day?
Everyone. You don?t need to be a developer. You don?t need to know how to
code. Everyone is welcome. If you don?t know how to help, then just stop on
by and we?ll explain everything to you. In fact, one of the objectives of
the Testing Day is to help people willing to start testing Ubuntu to make it
better.
Where to join the Testing Day?
Come to #ubuntu-testing on freenode IRC. We will be there day and night
resolving your testing questions you might have. You can even ask for help
on creating new automated tests for Ubuntu!
Normal testing activity takes place in #ubuntu-testing at other times also.
Which is the goal for this testing day?
We know we just released Intrepid a week ago, but we have a lot of pending
SRU bugs in Hardy needing verification. Hardy is a LTS release and,
therefore, it needs to be kept in shape for a longer period. SRU is the
process to get updates into a stable release. Please, refer to the SRU wiki
page [3] for more information on the process.
Please join us next Monday and help making Ubuntu better!
Cheers,
Ara.
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/UbuntuTestingDay/20081110
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:21:17 +0000
From: David Murphy <david.murphy at canonical.com>
Subject: Ideas for Jaunty
To: Ubuntu QA Team <ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com>
Message-ID: <20081107172117.46ad930c at hagrid>
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I've revamped our IdeaPool page [1] with a view to collecting ideas for
the Jaunty development cycle, and in particular topics we should be
looking to cover at UDS.
Please add your ideas and lets see how we can make QA even better for
Jaunty!
There were some ideas still on the page, so I have marked those for
review - if you can help clean those up, that would be appreciated.
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/IdeaPool
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:34:25 +0530
From: "Sayak Banerjee" <sayakb at ubuntu.com>
Subject: Joining Ubuntu-qa
To: ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com
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Hello
I am Sayak Banerjee.
I am an Ubuntu Member [0] [1] and have worked on Ubuntu Bugs [2] for some
time now.
I would be interested in joining the team.
Regards
Sayak Banerjee
[0] https://edge.launchpad.net/~sayakb
[1] https://wiki.kubuntu.org/SayakBanerjee
[2] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~sayakb
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:30:41 +0100
From: Ara Pulido <ara at ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Joining Ubuntu-qa
To: Sayak Banerjee <sayakb at ubuntu.com>
Cc: ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com
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Hello Sayak,
A great way to start is by joining the Ubuntu QA meetings [1] at
#ubuntu-meeting every Wednesday at 17:00 UTC.
Come today and join us in the meeting!
Cheers,
Ara.
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings
Sayak Banerjee wrote:
> Hello
> I am Sayak Banerjee.
> I am an Ubuntu Member [0] [1] and have worked on Ubuntu Bugs [2] for
> some time now.
> I would be interested in joining the team.
>
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:43:51 -0500
From: Chris Gregan <chris.gregan at canonical.com>
Subject: Dell Mini 9 update testing
To: Ubuntu QA <ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com>
Message-ID: <491B07C7.7020007 at canonical.com>
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Hello,
With the release of the Dell Mini 9 the Ubuntu Community has an
opportunity to become involved with pre-release and update testing for
the custom engineering group. As many, if not all of you are aware the
Dell Mini 9 shipped with a custom version of Ubuntu, based on Hardy, but
sporting a new desktop interface. As we move forward, the system will
require ongoing updates and security fixes. This is where the community
can help us keep the quality of our updates high, our customers happy,
and happy customers means more Ubuntu pre-loaded devices.
The OEM Services group is setting up a proposed repo, to handle updates
for the mini 9 and other netbook devices. As the QA lead, I would like
to find out the level of interest in helping out with this testing.
Those of you with devices would be highly valuable testers, but there is
a chance for a program in the future to provide hardware to those
interested in this kind of work.
So, please respond to me directly with your comments, questions, and we
can begin to organize an effort around this new class of devices running
Ubuntu.
Sincerely,
Chris
--
Chris Gregan
QA Manager
OEM Services
Canonical USA Inc.
cgregan at canonical.com
cgregan at freenode
M-240-422-9224
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:07:54 -0700
From: "Craig A. Eddy" <tyche at cox.net>
Subject: Dell Mini 9 update testing
To: ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com
Message-ID: <491B0D6A.5020708 at cox.net>
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Chris,
I am in possession of a Dell Mini 9. I am not a member of QA. I am
not a programmer. I would be interested in finding out what I can do to
help. My use of the Mini is primarily to show people what Ubuntu is,
and what it is capable of.
I am, however, one of the editors of the UWN, and your reply may be
used in the next issue.
I can be reached at tyche at ubuntu.com, or in the IRC channel
#ubuntu-us-az, or #ubuntu-news
Craig
Tyche
> Hello,
> With the release of the Dell Mini 9 the Ubuntu Community has an
> opportunity to become involved with pre-release and update testing for
> the custom engineering group. As many, if not all of you are aware the
> Dell Mini 9 shipped with a custom version of Ubuntu, based on Hardy, but
> sporting a new desktop interface. As we move forward, the system will
> require ongoing updates and security fixes. This is where the community
> can help us keep the quality of our updates high, our customers happy,
> and happy customers means more Ubuntu pre-loaded devices.
>
> The OEM Services group is setting up a proposed repo, to handle updates
> for the mini 9 and other netbook devices. As the QA lead, I would like
> to find out the level of interest in helping out with this testing.
> Those of you with devices would be highly valuable testers, but there is
> a chance for a program in the future to provide hardware to those
> interested in this kind of work.
>
> So, please respond to me directly with your comments, questions, and we
> can begin to organize an effort around this new class of devices running
> Ubuntu.
>
> Sincerely,
> Chris
>
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:13:45 -0800
From: Steve Beattie <sbeattie at ubuntu.com>
Subject: testing updates (was Re: Dell Mini 9 update testing)
To: "Craig A. Eddy" <tyche at cox.net>
Cc: ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com
Message-ID: <20081112181345.GK12107 at nxnw.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi Craig,
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:07:54AM -0700, Craig A. Eddy wrote:
> I am in possession of a Dell Mini 9. I am not a member of QA. I am
> not a programmer. I would be interested in finding out what I can do to
> help. My use of the Mini is primarily to show people what Ubuntu is,
> and what it is capable of.
I'm not Chris and can't speak specifically for how the Dell mini 9
updates process will be handled, but I would expect that it would not
be terribly different from the way Stable Release Updates (SRUs) are
handled in general.
To be explicit, to test proposed updates does not require programming
expertise; what's more useful is to be a slightly more experienced user
and an attention to detail. Basically, the process for testing specific
fixes is:
1) reproduce original problem
2) install the proposed update
3) attempt to reproduce problem again
4) look for possible regressions
5) report results
We do ask that testers be slightly more experienced than a basic user
both to help recognize regressions and as there is some small risk that
an update may cause problems that may not be straightforward to revert;
ideally, fixes that have made it to the -proposed repository have been
vetted enough to not do that. A tester should also be comfortable
enabling and disabling package repositories; experience with a command
line could be helpful but is not required at all.
I gave an open week presentation walking through how I did a specific
verification, the log of which is at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/VerifySRU
I used some apt commands directly, but there was nothing I did there
that required being a programmer or couldn't have been done through the
gui tools (synaptic in particular).
> I am, however, one of the editors of the UWN, and your reply may be
> used in the next issue.
By all means. Thanks for the interest and the work you do on UWN!
--
Steve Beattie
<sbeattie at ubuntu.com>
http://NxNW.org/~steve/
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:07:53 -0700
From: Chris Bidwell <cjbidwell at qwest.net>
Subject: Bad ISO Image - ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso
To: ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com
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I've burned this iso from several mirrors and I get an error each time I
check the disk.
Is anyone else getting issues with this?
Thanks,
Chris
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:25:18 -0500
From: "Mike Rooney" <mrooney at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bad ISO Image - ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso
To: "Chris Bidwell" <cjbidwell at qwest.net>
Cc: ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Chris Bidwell <cjbidwell at qwest.net> wrote:
> I've burned this iso from several mirrors and I get an error each time I
> check the disk.
>
> Is anyone else getting issues with this?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
I just downloaded the torrent yesterday and burned it. It passed the
integrity check and installed fine. While this isn't a direct ISO I would
imagine it comes from the same place.
I would suspect your issue is a bad set of discs, a bad burner, or a bad
reader. However it wouldn't hurt to hear a confirmation of a successful ISO
download, I suppose!
--
Michael Rooney
mrooney at gmail.com
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