On 09/22/2013 01:13 PM, Lars Noodén wrote:
On 09/22/2013 08:51 PM, JM wrote:
It should be registering an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU. I'm not up
on hardware enough to know whether that is dual core or dual cpu.
But either way, both should be the same. Looking at
/proc/cpuinfo shows that both
On 07/25/2013 08:05 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
it is to ensure there are no 64 bit instructions in the 32 bit version.
To err is human, to mess things up completely requires a computer :)
Whilst this may seem like over kill, it is a 100% sure fire way to
ensure that should the unthinkable
Lance,
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Lance wrote:
So, I need to figure out if it's the kernel or X ... that
could take a while.
Boot and install Ubuntu Server. If that works, the kernel is OK :)
You could also use the mini.iso if you prefer.
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Ali,
On 07/04/2013 02:01 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
Can we, *_by default_*, reduce the sensitivity of the Touch Pad for a
Laptop?
Honestly, the Touch Pad do things even before I touch it. Whenever I use
Lubutnu, I can NOT use it without a mouse. Using Lubuntu on any Laptop
is a huge
On 07/04/2013 02:51 PM, nio wiklund wrote:
Then let us wait for a reply from someone who knows how to set the
sensitivity :-)
Huh? Start - Preferences - Keyboard and Mouse
That lets you set both Acceleration and Sensitivity.
These settings are stored in the file
Ali,
I wrote:
Can you be sure this is Lubuntu-specific?
On 07/04/2013 03:39 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
Yes. As you know, I've been using Lubuntu for years. ...
But then you say:
I can't remember when was the last time I've used Ubuntu :D since
Unity, I'm keeping myself away. So, not
to be related to specific hardware (video
cards, sound cards, NICs) on older Apple machines. Do you think it
would really be useful to do ISO install testing of Lubuntu PPC on a
QEMU PPC emulated machine?
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of QEMU, ARM or PPC.
Am I missing something? Where is this fabled QEMU classroom session?
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On 06/28/2013 05:44 PM, Erick Brunzell wrote:
I think it's very possible but much testing is required :^)
Is the upgrade testing a suitable candidate for automation, so the much
testing doesn't need much human tester time to accomplish?
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-installer instead, because
that is what Alternate CD images use.
I'd guess the same holds for the netboot (mini.iso) installer, too.
So the Install_Bugs page is probably in need of an update.
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I wrote:
I wish we had better luck at 256MB on real hardware with the
desktop image. I'm not really sure why it works so well down even
below 224MB on VirtualBox, but apparently not on real machines.
On 06/23/2013 01:46 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
Well, when carefully prepared, the desktop
Keith and James,
On 06/23/2013 05:12 AM, ke...@refaceplace.net wrote:
Don't worry about dragging the team down. As far as I can tell, the PPC
testing team is very small. All help is appreciated.
+1 (or +100)! Anyone with a PPC machine who is willing to help test
Lubuntu on it is *very*
On 06/23/2013 01:21 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
So to have a high success rate you recommend
1. Wipe the target drive before starting the installation.
2. Boot from CD
3. Try Lubuntu from the desktop iso
4. Install Lubuntu from the alternate iso or the mini iso.
Well, sort of. In practice I
Ali,
On 06/23/2013 03:31 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
For how many years now, a Windows XP Users has been using XP?
Potentially since 2002 (technically, since 31 Dec 2001). So up to 10.5
years.
Do they really update it?
Yes, usually automatically via Windows Update. You can use Windows
On 06/22/2013 02:43 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
On 2013-06-22 15:37, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
I think Phase 1 of testing is done. ...
So, what is next?
Testing zRAM on Alternate installs, once it is enabled in them :)
I added some testing today for compatibility. I think it is similar
to
On 06/21/2013 03:08 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
1- Add a link of from where to download the daily build.
If you don't know that, you are not a regular QA tester :) I can add a
link, but I hope everyone on lubuntu-qa knows where the ISOs are by now!
2- I see some contents on the table that
, etc... we
document them, but on the wiki only and not in the main documentation
path we expect newcomers to use. So that people who don't need those
details don't have to read them anyway and be put off Lubuntu by them.
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I just created a wiki page at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/LowRamTesting
for documenting the results of low RAM Lubuntu installation tests.
Please read it and then add your results to the table!
Thanks,
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On 06/18/2013 02:44 PM, James King wrote:
I just realized I hadn't sent any info about my computer. I had to install
pastebinit and clipit, and I considered editing the wiki myself, but I have
this irrational fear of doing something hideously destructive and setting
off some NORAD-style chain
On 06/18/2013 05:59 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
I'd much prefer a test using the default install type. ...
With all due respect, this will make no difference whatsoever,
IMHO. What this has to do with RAM Usage and zRAM and stuff like
that?
It is possible that one path through the
On 06/19/2013 03:05 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
Results with 'grub-n-iso-n-swap' and Pentium M indicate that using the
default installation (starting from a blank drive or overwriting it) is
maybe slightly smoother than a complicated manual partitioning at the
'Something else' page.
Good :)
this
correctly, the same way every time. So let your PC do this for you!
Save your time and effort for the things that need a human... like
testing these images :)
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the packager of it labels
it in their .desktop file, I think. So it's not something Lubuntu is
likely to change, you would need to persuade the packagers of
gnome-disk-
utility about this.
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Ali,
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013, at 05:31 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Jonathan Marsden
I'd much prefer a test using the default install type. ...
With all due respect, this will make no difference whatsoever, IMHO.
What this has to do with RAM Usage and zRAM
to be on the Lubuntu ISO?
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
On 2013-06-10 19:53, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
Wouldn't it be more useful to provide the temporary workaround of
sudo apt-get install python-gudev gir1.2-gudev-1.0 -y
Your ppa makes a big improvement of usb-creator-gtk :-) It probably
On 06/07/2013 12:39 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
I saw that you are building the 64-bit raring version of
usb-creator-gtk. I tested the 32-bit version. I'll download Lubuntu
13.04 64-bit to test it.
No need. Unless I or the PPA build infrastructure really messed up, it
should run builds for both,
this allows the program to run :)
Julien: Can we add gir1.2-gudev-1.0 to the Lubuntu Saucy ISO so testers
can then verify whether that is indeed a sufficient fix for this issue?
For info see https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1165200
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On 06/06/2013 05:33 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
sounds good, thanks Jonathan. I'm on limited duties over the weekend but
as soon as Julien can get them into the ISO seed list, there are plenty
of people to test; including me from Monday.
Per recent email from Nio it needs both git1.2-gudev-1.0
On 06/06/2013 08:06 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
Please add both packages, that were recommended by Yuri in comment #6
of the bug report!
They were, but I don't know Yuri personally, and no explanation was
provided as to *why* both are needed. Doing packaging (and seed-file)
changes based on one
On 06/06/2013 10:01 PM, nio wiklund wrote:
I'm eagerly awaiting your results Jonathan,
An initial PPA build for Raring is uploaded and in the build queue now,
it should be done in a couple of hours. It will show up in
ppa:jmarsden/lubuntu
when it is done (assuming it builds correctly!).
On 06/05/2013 08:08 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
Maybe raise a bug that says you have zero supported packages instead
of just dying?
But they won't backport the fix to Lucid :)
Actually this app is more than a little scary in its tight
Canonical-oriented definition of supported. If you do
the install, and a few more not needing
to uninstall the apps they dislike. That's a few minutes per year
saved, even if they do a fresh install annually.
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On 06/02/2013 10:24 PM, Lance wrote:
Sorry for top posting this time but since those attachments failed
when I tried to post earlier here are two links to the extra screens
shown during Edubuntu installation:
On 06/01/2013 10:58 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
Furthermore, the Startup Disk Creator (usb-creator-gtk or
usb-creator-kde) is also part of the test. The kde version works,
but the gtk version is still broken and none of them is included
in the Lubuntu saucy iso now.
I asked:
OK... did this
On 06/02/2013 11:24 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
Also, the current expected week to run the classroom sessions is
from Monday 24th June, that week is currently free on the calendar
and provided we can get all the sessions filled in with tutors and
times, we can advertise it over 2 weeks before
On 06/02/2013 11:27 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
this is mentioned on our Minimal Install page.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall
where have 'desktop install' (the normal one), and 'core install' (very
stripped down).
I think (if I am understanding Ali
On 06/02/2013 01:41 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
I have tired to find the answer by searching but couldn't, maybe didn't
try hard enough?
Anyway, my question is:
How can I install any system from LiveUSB using Oracle VM version
4.2.12? I have installed the Extension Pack but it just
The test case at
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/testcases/1301/info
seems to me to assume that it is being run on a machine on which there
is already an existing other OS installation (so it gets resized). But
this is not clearly stated in the test case, and there is no info on
what to do
On 06/01/2013 04:28 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
as usb creator seems a bit broken at present, putting an iso onto a
usb drive to check that the installer works is handy as it does not
need people to keep burning CD's / DVD's (Images often go over sized
between milestones). I've just been told
On 06/01/2013 10:42 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/testcases/1303/info
include persistence. How do you test that without a writable drive?
Normally I use USB drives, but in VirtualBox I use a virtual disk, a
second and smaller one, if I want to install too, not
On 05/27/2013 12:14 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
(19:11:24) phillw: cjwatson: they do, but none of the devs have.
Well, I *nearly* had a machine to try this on... I was outbid with
2seconds to go on a Mac Mini G4 on Ebay today! Oh well, I'll try again
at some point, I expect.
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On 05/27/2013 03:13 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
you are a good man :) But those of us who do know who as quiet person
do know that, do you fancy trying a build using virtualistaion? The
server area to do it is not a low resource. it just happens to be
CentOS (RH) system. If you can follow on
On 05/27/2013 03:13 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
... do you fancy trying a build using virtualistaion?
Tried, and my first try failed... Following the info at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing/PPCMac64
I did (on a Ubuntu 10.04 amd64 desktop):
sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm
On 05/27/2013 07:57 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
As the ppc-bios is in .deb format, and my server
runs .yum it was suggested that the binary of ppc-bios could be
extracted from a debian based system and inserted into a yum based
system.
(1) On a local Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Debian machine, do
wget
On 05/27/2013 09:12 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
Meanwhile, I'll dig out my recalcitrant borrowed iBook G4, and see
what I can get it to do for me. I've just never solved or even fully
understood the (nVidia) video issues it has. But I can probably
install Raring server well enough to ssh
On 05/27/2013 09:56 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
sudo apt-get install debhelper libwebkitgtk-dev libgtk2.0-dev
libsoup2.4-dev libgnutls-dev libbsd-dev imagemagick
debuild -us -uc
Just in case anyone else is working on this and following along, there's a
cd xombrero-1.4.0
needed between
On 05/02/2013 12:53 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
I'm now typing this email from Lubuntu 10.04:
Okay, we all know that Lubuntu 10.04 wasn't LTS.
Is this a secure system? is this an LTS system? what are the risks of
running this?
Because you do not already have the security and system
On 05/02/2013 01:39 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
I'd think to use gdb for this. ...
I've directly included both in the hope one of them will say:
a) is it worth trying
b) how to do this for synaptic
Before we go to those lengths, can someone else duplicate the issue?
Phill, can you (or Ali)
On 05/01/2013 03:01 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
gksudo and gksu are no longer installed by default, but you should
not run GUI applications with just su as it can mess up permissions.
Did you verify this statement before making it?
A fresh install using the Lubuntu 13.04 i386 LiveCD certainly
On 04/12/2013 03:00 AM, Lars Noodén wrote:
Should the hardware profiles be kept on the wiki itself?
Good question, see Bug #1017207 at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017207
so ... probably :)
I suggest that you put your hardware profile(s) anywhere that is
reasonably permanent, as well
On 04/11/2013 03:34 PM, Str8bs wrote:
I don't know if Ubuntu Pastebin entries are supposed to expire. If
so, we may want to encourage use of something else in places where
long term retention is needed.
Indeed. If you can pastebin text, you can capture it to a text file and
attach that file
On 04/05/2013 03:58 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
13.04 exhibits the same problem as 12.10 (and 12.04), where the
software updater window goes away, and there is no indication (other
than by closely watching the Task Manager window) that the process
has completed.
(1) Can you help define the
On 04/07/2013 04:16 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
By process, I don't mean something internal with a process-ID. I
mean the sequence of steps a person (and the software) goes through
to apply updates.
OK, thanks for clarifying.
Also, I don't think the problem is memory-related, because I have a
Different people use bootable USB sticks and Linux in different ways.
If you want to teach and advise the Lubuntu community about use of USB
sticks, it would be good to first learn about and test several of those
ways, and understand their advantages and disadvantages, so we can then
recommend the
On 03/31/2013 04:13 AM, prairie zephyr wrote:
I have been trying to test as many ppc images as I can.
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou! :) We need more people like you!
I noticed zsync read 49% of the seed file was good before it started
overwriting the alt lubuntu, even inside it's own folder.
On 03/31/2013 06:25 PM, Charles Ford Jr wrote:
I'm quite aware of the video problem -- that's the pseudo 8 bit thing I
mentioned - it's on the PPC known issues page, too, but the fix listed
there doesn't work (I keep trying to remember to fix that page, too) -
anyway, from this guide
On 03/10/2013 05:48 AM, Julien Lavergne wrote:
We had problems with SSH in the past, so we add a workaround in
/usr/bin/startlubuntu:
# Export Gnome-keyring variables if needed
# See bug #664206
Thanks, this helps me understand the issue. However, that bug refers to
using a menu item
Lars,
On 03/09/2013 08:07 AM, Lars Noodén wrote:
It seems that the new setup with Lubuntu won't allow me to log in via
SSH using a password if using a key is also an option. If I connect to
the server in LXTerminal
ssh -l lars xx.yy.zz.aa
then a graphical dialog box pops up and
already have, and do not start a new one each time. So you probably
want to do something like
cd /home/jose/iso
zsync
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/daily-live/current/raring-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync
in a terminal window, each time you want to update this ISO.
Jonathan
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On 02/14/2013 12:51 PM, 神癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna) wrote:
Sadly, the default isn't choosen, normal and particle beam have the
same votes. Any advice to clear this point quickly?
I've deliberately avoided voting so far, but if it helps you and Julien
out... +1 for normal from me.
Jonathan
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On 01/24/2013 07:20 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
Can someone who is running Lubuntu 12.04 and has an up to date system
please let me know what version of Chromium you have installed? (The
reason for asking is that I have the -proposed repo enabled and am
on Version 25.0.1323.1 Ubuntu 12.10
On 12/08/2012 08:55 PM, Jackson Doak wrote:
my profile is at paste.ubuntu.com/1420338. can someone add me to the wiki
Done. I suppose I should add myself now, too :)
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On 11/11/2012 09:37 AM, Julien Lavergne wrote:
As I will not monitor the size of the ISOs each day, please if you
see any oversized ISO when you do your testing, please ping me on
IRC. Size of the ISO is easy to fix when I have the info, so please
don't hesitate to ping me so I can quickly
On 10/09/2012 02:55 PM, ∅ wrote:
Option NoAccel True
I have not yet tried nouveau.noaccel=1 (this is the same as that
Option No Accel True line) by itself with live to see if that
would work, but my guess is that it would not. That's not the magic
that made it work, it's what
On 10/01/2012 09:31 PM, ∅ wrote:
Meanwhile, if anyone has successfully got a 12.10 GUI Lubuntu
working on PPC (G4) with an nVidia video card, please let me know
the secret :)
Johnathan, I see that you've got a nVidia chip. This is exciting
because most of the Lubuntu PPC team are using
if I can.
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On 10/01/2012 07:16 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
For server-ppc, what is needed is where the test cases are simply
wrong (such as check the processor you have) etc. and which are
applicable. Whilst I can try to do an install via qemu (and most
certainly will), what would really help is if you
On 09/28/2012 01:47 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
I have been asked to ensure that PPC server edition does get a full
suite of tests once we hit RC status, I will remind people of this
when it is needed.
At least I did (and reported) 3 of the Ubuntu Server PPC test cases for
Quantal Beta2 --
On 09/13/2012 11:25 PM, lars nooden wrote:
On 9/14/12, Karl Anliot kanl...@gmail.com wrote:
I think julien would rather have the $$ and buy one himself.
How much and how to transfer the € ?
On 09/13/2012 06:57 PM, Karl Anliot wrote:
I think julien would rather have the $$ and buy one himself. ...
In case it plays into this discussion, I've been working on a friend at
my local Linux User Group who has Macs of many kinds... he may very soon
be donating (or giving me on long term
On 08/05/2012 09:45 PM, Greg Faith wrote:
The bug above may be confined to Lubuntu. ...
When I choose LXDE to run under I have no small boxes appearing.
It might be worth checking whether the theme, or some other setting in
lubuntu-default-settings, is what is causing the issue.
Jonathan
On 08/03/2012 02:23 AM, Lance wrote:
Also, though VirtualBox is quite nice, using Qemu would allow testing of
the PPC architecture, too.
At some point Ubuntu, and thus Lubuntu, will probably offer ARM
officially, so we should try to be prepared.
We already are :) I'm one of the six or so
On 07/28/2012 07:25 AM, Lars Noodén wrote:
I notice that there appear to be two configuration files for LXDE:
/etc/xdg/lubuntu/lxdm/lxdm.conf
/etc/lxdm/default.conf
Of the two, the latter seems to be ignored. Is there a reason for
having it this way?
The variable
We list the x86 and AMD64 architectures on the web site.
(http://lubuntu.net) Can we also advertise that we have PPC?
On 07/28/2012 12:45 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
can this be done? also including the amd64-Mac edition. PPC is now
reliant on lubuntu for releases.
Wasn't there *huge* fuss
On 07/28/2012 12:54 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
I took this thread over to 'qa' as it reduces the chatter on the main
line email channel that you devs are actually subscribed. If you
guys want more bugs raising, about the seemingly conflicting conf
files, it can be done. If you guys find the
On 07/22/2012 07:48 AM, Lance wrote:
I know nothing about powerpc but I've been on the edge of my seat ever
since this was announced at UDS:
Ubuntu’s Ubiquity installer will be ‘beefed up’ to provide all of the
features offered by the ‘alternate installer’, resulting in the latter
being
Lance,
On 07/14/2012 04:51 AM, Lance wrote:
Just realized that this didn't go to the whole Lubuntu qa list and
others may have valuable input.
It is a sign of how busy I am that I failed to send it there :)
Regarding your existing bash script; it's fine but there's probably
no need to
On 07/08/2012 03:26 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
At present I get bug reports that affect lubuntu directly (e.g. lx
ones) and also ones that may affect lubuntu (e.g. chromium ones) and
updates on them. It means I don't need to look and find every bug
and subscribe to it in order to get
On 06/23/2012 12:52 PM, Greg Faith wrote:
Thanks Jonathan that was what I hoped you would say the bug
persists and is not hard-ware dependent. ...
It is really a problem if you install your grub say in the same
partition where you made the install (which i do to keep my
Customizer Grub
On 06/12/2012 03:14 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
1. Do we have testers ?
2. Is the lack of major bug reports down to there being no major bugs?
Yes and yes, I think :)
Alpha 1 was very clean for me; in some ways this is expected, because it
doesn't have a lot of shiny new stuff in it, from an
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