Re: iso testing documentation
On 10/08/12 00:18, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi Istmsak, My honest answer to that, is that I do not know. As we get the tests / wiki set up, we would appreciate any links for other flavours. Merging one flavour into the system is 'fun' enough, if others from the other flavours wish to help - PLEASE DO! This work is for all of the family, it is just that I'm familiar with Lubuntu testing wiki area. The 'main' QA area should hold just about everything needed. The sites for the various flavours are more than welcome to use the templates that are being developed. Regards, Phill. On 10 August 2012 00:05, istimsak abdulbasir saqman2...@gmail.com mailto:saqman2...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com mailto:phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi, Lubuntu does have a flavour specific area [1] but I'm currently working with Nicholas to get as much of it as possible into the vanilla area, thus leaving only lubuntu specific stuff there. This saves duplication and lowers the maintenance burden of keeping everything upto date :) Regards, What about Xubuntu and Kubuntu? Do they had a vanilla version with documentation? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Testing/Short and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Testing/Long might be what you are looking for Elfy -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: iso testing documentation
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Elfy ub.u...@btinternet.com wrote: On 10/08/12 00:18, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi Istmsak, My honest answer to that, is that I do not know. As we get the tests / wiki set up, we would appreciate any links for other flavours. Merging one flavour into the system is 'fun' enough, if others from the other flavours wish to help - PLEASE DO! This work is for all of the family, it is just that I'm familiar with Lubuntu testing wiki area. The 'main' QA area should hold just about everything needed. The sites for the various flavours are more than welcome to use the templates that are being developed. Regards, Phill. On 10 August 2012 00:05, istimsak abdulbasir saqman2...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.comwrote: Hi, Lubuntu does have a flavour specific area [1] but I'm currently working with Nicholas to get as much of it as possible into the vanilla area, thus leaving only lubuntu specific stuff there. This saves duplication and lowers the maintenance burden of keeping everything upto date :) Regards, What about Xubuntu and Kubuntu? Do they had a vanilla version with documentation? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Testing/Short and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Testing/Long might be what you are looking for Elfy Thanks -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
On running a persistence session...
Hello QA team. I've been able to do a live test successfully but not a live persistence session. Therefore, I found some guidance from this wiki pagehttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence . But I'm confused with the necessity of a loopback file. It says that the loopback file must be created in the root directory of a partition, but in which? my devel computer or my mac? Is it ok to put the file on my ext3-formatted usb stick and use that for the persistence testcase? Thanks. -- John Kim Ubuntu enthusiast l http://epikvision.blogspot.comookjohn.com -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: On running a persistence session...
John, I believe the simplest way is to use the usb-creator in ubuntu and check the persistence box.. The loopback file goes on your usd drive. What happens is that you start a live session, save some files, and then the next time you boot the live session from your usb stick, those files are still there (because they were written to the usb stick). Normally an image can't do that type of thing. But having the image on rewritable media means we can :-) Make sense? I'm trying to dig up some more info as well about how others have done it in the past outside of the usb creator. Nicholas On 08/10/2012 10:27 AM, John Kim wrote: Hello QA team. I've been able to do a live test successfully but not a live persistence session. Therefore, I found some guidance from this wiki page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence. But I'm confused with the necessity of a loopback file. It says that the loopback file must be created in the root directory of a partition, but in which? my devel computer or my mac? Is it ok to put the file on my ext3-formatted usb stick and use that for the persistence testcase? Thanks. -- John Kim Ubuntu enthusiast l http://epikvision.blogspot.comookjohn.com http://ookjohn.com -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: On running a persistence session...
Hi, there is another alternative over persistance. That is to actually install ubuntu onto the usb-stick. I think Ali's link is the most up to date[1], simply replace the iso you wish with the Lubuntu one he states. Have a read of it, it is a good discussion on that alternative. Regards, Phill. 1. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1872303 On 10 August 2012 15:40, Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.comwrote: John, I believe the simplest way is to use the usb-creator in ubuntu and check the persistence box.. The loopback file goes on your usd drive. What happens is that you start a live session, save some files, and then the next time you boot the live session from your usb stick, those files are still there (because they were written to the usb stick). Normally an image can't do that type of thing. But having the image on rewritable media means we can :-) Make sense? I'm trying to dig up some more info as well about how others have done it in the past outside of the usb creator. Nicholas On 08/10/2012 10:27 AM, John Kim wrote: Hello QA team. I've been able to do a live test successfully but not a live persistence session. Therefore, I found some guidance from this wiki pagehttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence . But I'm confused with the necessity of a loopback file. It says that the loopback file must be created in the root directory of a partition, but in which? my devel computer or my mac? Is it ok to put the file on my ext3-formatted usb stick and use that for the persistence testcase? Thanks. -- John Kim Ubuntu enthusiast l http://epikvision.blogspot.comookjohn.com -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa -- https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: ISO Testing Status
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:45 PM, John Kim thinkn...@gmail.com wrote: On running persistence. What is persistence? http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14912/create-a-persistent-bootable-ubuntu-usb-flash-drive/ Persistence is when the livecd (on usb) is copied (not installed) onto a disk with the special file that enables peristence. It's also very very slow. Better to run the installer, and install the system onto the usb disk. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Hello! [Introduction]
Hello everyone. I'm Sanchit Gangwar and I'll be testing the ISOs and packages. I'm completely new to all this and I hope I'll be able to contribute a little bit to Ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Fwd: Re: On running a persistence session...
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Kim thinkn...@gmail.com Date: Aug 10, 2012 1:10 PM Subject: Re: On running a persistence session... To: Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com The usb-creator doesn't include a checkbox for persistence. :( I've been able to format a pen drive to ext3, but I can't invoke other options on my mac with f6 at the ubiquity home screen. I've been trying the live cd for mac, only to be disappointed that the F6 key doesn't work. I also don't know how to restart the live cd into persistence. :( Hence, when I restarted, I started with a fresh lived session. How can I restart the live cd persistence? Thanks for the help. -John. On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com wrote: John, I believe the simplest way is to use the usb-creator in ubuntu and check the persistence box.. The loopback file goes on your usd drive. What happens is that you start a live session, save some files, and then the next time you boot the live session from your usb stick, those files are still there (because they were written to the usb stick). Normally an image can't do that type of thing. But having the image on rewritable media means we can :-) Make sense? I'm trying to dig up some more info as well about how others have done it in the past outside of the usb creator. Nicholas On 08/10/2012 10:27 AM, John Kim wrote: Hello QA team. I've been able to do a live test successfully but not a live persistence session. Therefore, I found some guidance from this wiki pagehttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence . But I'm confused with the necessity of a loopback file. It says that the loopback file must be created in the root directory of a partition, but in which? my devel computer or my mac? Is it ok to put the file on my ext3-formatted usb stick and use that for the persistence testcase? Thanks. -- John Kim Ubuntu enthusiast l http://epikvision.blogspot.comookjohn.com -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa -- John Kim Ubuntu enthusiast l http://epikvision.blogspot.comookjohn.com -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
sudo apt-get upgrade
What is the significance of the command sudo apt-get upgrade on Ubuntu 12.10 alpha 3? Is it different from running the daily build with zsync? I'm guessing it updates the system as up-to-date as the daily build. -- John Kim Ubuntu enthusiast l http://epikvision.blogspot.comookjohn.com -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: Hello! [Introduction]
On 08/10/2012 03:54 PM, Sanchit Gangwar wrote: Hello everyone. I'm Sanchit Gangwar and I'll be testing the ISOs and packages. I'm completely new to all this and I hope I'll be able to contribute a little bit to Ubuntu. Sanchit, welcome! If you've not already done so, check out our wiki for an overview of the team and how to get started. Being signed up to this mailing list is a great start: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Overview https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/QATracker https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities Ping us if you need any help! Happy testing! Nicholas -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: sudo apt-get upgrade
John, the daily images contains snapshots of packages in the archive (including things you wouldn't have installed on your machine). If your running a the development version of ubuntu, the packages found on the cd will be the same versions you could install from the archive on that day. Does that make sense? Nicholas On 08/10/2012 04:28 PM, John Kim wrote: What is the significance of the command sudo apt-get upgrade on Ubuntu 12.10 alpha 3? Is it different from running the daily build with zsync? I'm guessing it updates the system as up-to-date as the daily build. -- John Kim Ubuntu enthusiast l http://epikvision.blogspot.comookjohn.com http://ookjohn.com -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Our Cadence results
So it's friday afternoon/evening for most of the world -- time to take a look and see how we did! We're currently only awaiting results for amd64+mac. Thanks to everyone else who helped make this a success. Yesterday we found some critical ubiquity bugs that we'll be following up with the release team on. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1034954 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1034960 Thanks again to all our the folks who helped to test: gregfaith, larsnooden, sjskaggs, victor.zhou, carla-sella, redmar, k1fri, michael-kroll, fabiomarconi, doak-jackson, nskaggs, sanchitgangwar, kate.stewart, smartboyhw, lbsolost, robinc, thinkndev https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Cadence/Status Nicholas -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Fwd: Community site downtime announcement
Apologies if you do get repeats of this alert, but do pass the word along! Regards, Phill. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jorge O. Castro jo...@ubuntu.com Date: 10 August 2012 21:09 Subject: Fwd: Community site downtime announcement To: ubuntu-news-t...@lists.ubuntu.com FYI! -- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Jones chris.jo...@canonical.com Date: Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:06 PM Subject: Community site downtime announcement To: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com, loco-conta...@lists.ubuntu.com, hosting-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com Hi, Canonical is in the process of moving out of one data centre and into a new one. Unfortunately this will require downtime for some of the Ubuntu community services hosted in the old data centre. The downtime window will start at 07:00 UTC on Saturday 18th August 2012 and last up to 12 hours (i.e. until 19:00 UTC) but we will do our best to minimise the actual downtime. The services are: blog.ubuntu-fi.org blog.ubuntu-women.org brainstorm.ubuntu.com dc.ubuntu-us.org ddebs.ubuntu.com design.ubuntu.com developer.ubuntu.com font.ubuntu.com forum.ubuntu-fi.org forum.ubuntu-it.org forums.ubuntu.com harvest.ubuntu.com help.ubuntu-it.org help.ubuntu.com hwdb.ubuntu.com hwe.ubuntu.com irclogs.ubuntu.com jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com juju.ubuntu.com kernel.ubuntu.com lists.ubuntu.com loco.ubuntu.com lococouncil.ubuntu.com mago.ubuntu.com maps.ubuntu.com merges.ubuntu.com michigan.ubuntu-us.org mirror.qa.ubuntu.com mirrors.ubuntu.com package-import.ubuntu.com packages.ubuntu.com pastebin.ubuntu.com patches.ubuntu.com planet.ubuntu-it.org planet.ubuntu.com popcon.ubuntu.com qa.ubuntu.com release-blog.ubuntu.com screencasts.ubuntu.com testcases.qa.ubuntu.com torrent.ubuntu.com translations.ubuntu.com ubuntu-it.org ubuntuforums.org ubuntustudio.org uds.ubuntu.com unity.ubuntu.com wiki.ubuntu-it.org wiki.ubuntu-women.org wiki.xubuntu.org www.edubuntu.org www.ubuntu-au.org www.ubuntu-br.org www.ubuntu-ie.org www.ubuntu-it.org www.ubuntu-ve.org www.ubuntustudio.org www.xubuntu.org LoCo DNS updates *only* (DNS resolution will still work) Other Ubuntu services (such as the package archive and CD images servers, Ubuntu SSO, Ubuntu One etc.) will *NOT* be affected. Please accept our apologies for the interruption to these services and the short notice of the interruption. Unfortunately due to circumstances outside of our control we a) have a very short window in which to do the move and b) have been unable to finalise the timing until very recently. If you have any questions or if this downtime window is likely to cause severe issues for your project/users, please contact me. Cheers, -- Chris Jones c...@canonical.com www.canonical.com -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-conta...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://cloud.ubuntu.com -- Ubuntu-news-team mailing list ubuntu-news-t...@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news-team -- http://www.thesii.org *Synthetic Intellect Institute* Mr. Phill Whiteside, Server Admin *One Vision, One Purpose* -- Home http://www.thesii.org/ | Projects http://www.thesii.org/projects.php | Purpose http://www.thesii.org/purpose.php | Team http://www.thesii.org/team.php | Contacts http://www.thesii.org/contact.php | Legal http://legal.thesii.org -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Next testcase...
I succeeded with the Mac live session testcase. Thanks Nicholas for the help! As I moved onto the auto-testing one, I encountered a dilemma. Ubiquity is missing an option to Install Ubuntu 12.10 alongside Mac. Do you guys consider this a bug? If so, should I report it? Do I keep moving on with the testcase with another option, like do something else? Or should I close it as a failed test? Thanks. -- John Kim Ubuntu enthusiast l http://epikvision.blogspot.comookjohn.com -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: Next testcase...
Keep going and find all the bugs you can. John Kim thinkn...@gmail.com wrote: I succeeded with the Mac live session testcase. Thanks Nicholas for the help! As I moved onto the auto-testing one, I encountered a dilemma. Ubiquity is missing an option to Install Ubuntu 12.10 alongside Mac. Do you guys consider this a bug? If so, should I report it? Do I keep moving on with the testcase with another option, like do something else? Or should I close it as a failed test? Thanks. -- John Kim Ubuntu enthusiast l http://epikvision.blogspot.comookjohn.com -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
