Re: I'd like to introduce myself and ask newbie questions
The install iso boots but never makes it past the first screen Preparing to Install Ubuntu, attached is the VM log, if anyone can see what I'm missing I'd appreciate it. Your problem is real and there is a reported bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/723990 Booting from a USB stick on a real machine (Phenom II x6) was worse. Problem mounting Sr0 after I tried to install. CD worked a bit better, it at least gave me an error message: ubi-partman failed with exit code 141. Further information may be found in /var/log/syslog. Do you want to try running this step again before continuing... I could try it with the live CD on this system. I may This one to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/730209 -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: I'd like to introduce myself and ask newbie questions
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:26:26AM -0800, Joseph Areeda wrote: On 03/11/2011 09:58 AM, Eliseo Duarte wrote: this is not a meet and greet! OK. But I've been reading this list for months and you are the first one to say that. I apologize, I thought I had enough issues with the Alpha release to at least start a discussion. You did and thank you for bringing them up. Could you direct me to some reading on how best to use this list? I'm trying to get started in the QA process and my reading of the Wiki and everything else I've found on the website leaves me with questions. This is a perfectly acceptable place to ask questions regarding the Quality Assurance process. For real time answers you might also try #ubuntu-quality on Freenode's IRC servers. -- Brian Murray Ubuntu Bug Master signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: I'd like to introduce myself and ask newbie questions
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:01:03AM -0800, Joseph Areeda wrote: Greetings all, I am retired from a career in software development and medical research. I've been using Unix since 1983 (at least that's the first comment in my .cshrc file) and Ubuntu for about a year. I like Ubuntu and would like to give back a little by participating in QA and perhaps a bit of coding. I've been reading Wiki's and this mailing list, signed up for the mentor thing, but that seems slow moving, so let's try this list. I need some help or focus to get started. I've read that testing on a virtual machine is not as good as a hardware install, but it seems to a good place to start with an alpha release, especially one like Natty which has extensive UI changes. One can do lots of testing in a virtual machine and we welcome any help! I thought I'd start with VirtualBox and load my favorite packages and get the feel of it before I loaded it onto hardware but I can't seem to get it to load. I'm running 10.04 LTS (Linux jsa 2.6.32-29-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 11 20:52:10 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux) on a laptop (I5 4Gb) and a desktop (AMD Phenom X6 16GB). I downloaded the latest Vbox from Oracle (4.04). I use zsync to update a few times over the last week, they all behave the same. The install iso boots but never makes it past the first screen Preparing to Install Ubuntu, attached is the VM log, if anyone can see what I'm missing I'd appreciate it. As mentioned in another post you've certainly hit a bug here. I can run Meerkat (Linux meerkat 2.6.35-27-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 22 20:25:29 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux) in a VM with the same settings. I've tried a bunch of different ones and both 32 and 64 bit versions. You could test the distribution upgrade process and then be running the development release that way. You'd need to use 'update-manager -d' to get update manager to check for the development release though. In case you didn't run across it here is some documentation regarding testing - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing. -- Brian Murray Ubuntu Bug Master signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: I'd like to introduce myself and ask newbie questions
Identifying the bug reports that the original post was experiencing was a huge help and I've escalated one of them. So thank you! On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 07:58:05PM +0100, Mads ¤ wrote: Hi. I am very sorry, no rudeness is intended. I have not been participating long myself and is very unsure about how to do things right. I have not been able to install Natty because of these two bugs and just wanted to help. Mads On 11 March 2011 18:58, Eliseo Duarte duarteeli...@ymail.com wrote: this is not a meet and greet! -Original Message- Date: Friday, March 11, 2011 8:58:12 am To: ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com From: Mads ¤ motepr...@gmail.com Subject: Re: I'd like to introduce myself and ask newbie questions The install iso boots but never makes it past the first screen Preparing to Install Ubuntu, attached is the VM log, if anyone can see what I'm missing I'd appreciate it. Your problem is real and there is a reported bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/723990 Booting from a USB stick on a real machine (Phenom II x6) was worse. Problem mounting Sr0 after I tried to install. CD worked a bit better, it at least gave me an error message: ubi-partman failed with exit code 141. Further information may be found in /var/log/syslog. Do you want to try running this step again before continuing... I could try it with the live CD on this system. I may This one to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/730209 -- 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 -- Brian Murray Ubuntu Bug Master signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
