Call for testing: 22.04.1 release candidate images ready!

[Benjamin Drung]

On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 17:41 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 16:48, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 14:53 +0200, Lukasz Zemczak wrote:
> > > Hello everyone!
> > > 
> > > As you know, we had to delay 22.04.1 by a week to get an additional
> > > fix in. This has now happened and new release candidate images are
> > > building as we speak. Please start testing as soon as the new images
> > > for your favorite flavors appear on the tracker:
> > > 
> > > http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/437/builds
> > > 
> > > The ones with "(re-building)" in the name are still building, but many
> > > have already finished.
> > > 
> > > Let's give those as much testing as possible and, hopefully, we'll
> > > have a swift release on Thursday.
> > 
> > I tried Ubuntu Desktop amd64 in a VM [1] and ran into following problem:
> > After clicking the Restart now button, the screen went black with a non-
> > blinking cursor in the top left. I verified that this is the identical
> > behaviour compared to the initial ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso.
> > 
> > Which component should I file this problem against? How are non-
> > regressions handled in the ISO tracker?
> 
> did you try using alt + left/right arrow to cycle between tty's to get
> to the screen which tells you to "remove installation media, and press
> enter"? and once there, did you press enter and it rebooted?

No, I didn't. I tried again. This time using alt + left/right and it was
as you described.

> We have a long standing issue where VMs do not switch to the expected
> TTY even when asked to.

Do you have the bug link at hand for this problem?

I tried with video QXL (the default that virt-manager uses for Ubuntu)
which was affected. I tried again with video virtio and this one had no
problems. Why don't we default to virtio for Ubuntu guests? I get the
best user experience with it on recent Ubuntu guests.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer