Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Upgrade tests

2013-04-25 Thread Lance
I added a couple of comments to that bug report. Not sure how we'd mention that in the Release Notes? Lance --- On Thu, 4/25/13, Lance wrote: > From: Lance > Subject: [Lubuntu-qa] Upgrade tests > To: lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net > Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013, 12:17 AM > I had three done

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Upgrade tests

2013-04-25 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Lars, I've added it to the notes. Thanks, Phill. On 25 April 2013 08:41, Lance wrote: > I added a couple of comments to that bug report. > > Not sure how we'd mention that in the Release Notes? > > Lance > > --- On Thu, 4/25/13, Lance wrote: > > > From: Lance > > Subject: [Lubuntu-qa] Up

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Upgrade tests

2013-04-25 Thread Lance
Hi Phill, I'm Lance (lbsolost), not Lars, but I don't mind as long as Lars doesn't :^) Where can we view the proposed release notes? I apologize for being a major pain, but that's kind of who I am. Lance --- On Thu, 4/25/13, Phill Whiteside wrote: From: Phill Whiteside Subject: Re: [Lubuntu

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Upgrade tests

2013-04-25 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Folks. Notes are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseNotes/Lubuntu Announcement is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Announcement/13.04 Regards, Phill. On 25 April 2013 10:33, Lance wrote: > Hi Phill, > > I'm Lance (lbsolost), not Lars, but I don't mind as long as Lars doe

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Upgrade tests

2013-04-25 Thread Lance
Many, many thanks! I must say, "I love this team"! I'm serious about that, we be good! Lance --- On Thu, 4/25/13, Phill Whiteside wrote: From: Phill Whiteside Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Upgrade tests To: "Lance" Cc: lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net, "Julien Lavergne" Date: Thursday, April 25,

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] Kubuntu

2013-04-25 Thread Lars Noodén
On 4/21/13 8:29 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hi folks, > > the PPC tester for kubuntu has mis-placed the charger for his machine. Can > you please 'adopt' that iso for testing through to release. I'll let you > know if he finds it and resumes testing. > > Thanks, > > Phill. I ran through the te

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] still needs testing

2013-04-25 Thread Lars Noodén
On 4/25/13 12:45 AM, Jackson Doak wrote: > Can everyone with a PPC or ARM computer test server and Ubuntu now, they > have nothing done. everyone else: just keep up with the rebuilds and > someone test kubuntu active I got done with the other testing and can try to squeeze in the server testing no

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] still needs testing

2013-04-25 Thread Phill Whiteside
Test until we're told to stop! I'll keep the release team in the loop :) Regards, Phill. On 25 April 2013 10:49, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 4/25/13 12:45 AM, Jackson Doak wrote: > > Can everyone with a PPC or ARM computer test server and Ubuntu now, they > > have nothing done. everyone else: just

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] still needs testing

2013-04-25 Thread Lance
Xubuntu has some uncompleted testcases also, and there are a lot of uncompleted upgrade tests which are incredibly time consuming. I'm waiting for a last minute bug fix to hit Ubuntu GNOME. They're the new kid on the block this time, we all remember what that was like ;^) Lance --- On Thu, 4/

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] still needs testing

2013-04-25 Thread Phill Whiteside
I have ubuntu-gnome amd64 iso. Are they re-spinning? Phill. On 25 April 2013 11:01, Lance wrote: > Xubuntu has some uncompleted testcases also, and there are a lot of > uncompleted upgrade tests which are incredibly time consuming. I'm waiting > for a last minute bug fix to hit Ubuntu GNOME. >

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] still needs testing

2013-04-25 Thread Phill Whiteside
ubuntu-gnome has just been cleared for launch. On 25 April 2013 11:13, Phill Whiteside wrote: > I have ubuntu-gnome amd64 iso. Are they re-spinning? > > Phill. > > > On 25 April 2013 11:01, Lance wrote: > >> Xubuntu has some uncompleted testcases also, and there are a lot of >> uncompleted upgr

[Lubuntu-qa] Getting past "Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!" on PPC server

2013-04-25 Thread Lars Noodén
I'm getting this error "Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!" on the PPC server edition. Any ideas on how to get past it? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1066435 It seems to go through the installation process just fine but gives that error instead of finishi

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Upgrade tests

2013-04-25 Thread Lance
I think your mention in the release notes regarding that upgrade bug is good. Many, many thanks. Lance --- On Thu, 4/25/13, Lance wrote: From: Lance Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Upgrade tests To: "Phill Whiteside" Cc: lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net, "Julien Lavergne" Date: Thursday, April 25,

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Getting past "Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!" on PPC server

2013-04-25 Thread Str8bs
snd-powermac.blacklist=yes and your usual video params doesn't help? On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: > I'm getting this error "Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!" on > the PPC server edition. Any ideas on how to get past it? > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Lubuntu-qa] 13.04 Release

2013-04-25 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi everyone, it with great delight that 13.04 is released. Please read the Announcement[1] and Release Notes[2] before installing / upgrading. Thanks to everyone who helped make 13.04 our best release yet! Regards, Phill. 1. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Announcement/13.04 2. https://wiki.ubun

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Getting past "Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!" on PPC server

2013-04-25 Thread Lars Noodén
On 4/25/13 4:45 PM, Str8bs wrote: > snd-powermac.blacklist=yes and your usual video params doesn't help? Yes, thanks, that gets it to boot, the video parameters are not needed. But how can that be made permanent so that manual intervention is not needed with each reboot? Regards, /Lars -- Ma

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Getting past "Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!" on PPC server

2013-04-25 Thread Str8bs
add the param to the append line in /etc/yaboot.conf and then sudo ybin -v On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 4/25/13 4:45 PM, Str8bs wrote: > > snd-powermac.blacklist=yes and your usual video params doesn't help? > > Yes, thanks, that gets it to boot, the video parameter

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Getting past "Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!" on PPC server

2013-04-25 Thread Lars Noodén
On 4/25/13 5:03 PM, Str8bs wrote: > add the param to the append line in /etc/yaboot.conf and then sudo ybin -v Thanks. That worked. It now boots without intervention. Regards, /Lars -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

[Lubuntu-qa] make new Lubuntu versions cooperate with Pentium M

2013-04-25 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Julien, Now, that we have launched Raring, it's time to start thinking about the future of Lubuntu :-) One thing that I hope we can achieve, is to make the next version able to cooperate with Pentium M, that has no pae flag, but still the ability to run i686-pae kernels of *ubuntu. I have ver

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] desktop

2013-04-25 Thread Scott Kitterman
Thank you very much to the people who jumped in to test PowerPC for Kubuntu. Thanks to you we were able to release Kubuntu 13.04 for PowerPC (we missed it for 12.10 due to a lack of testers/lack of work arounds for issues that were found). Because you not only ran the test case, but kept at it

[Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) released

2013-04-25 Thread Phill Whiteside
-- Forwarded message -- From: Nicholas Skaggs Date: 25 April 2013 17:02 Subject: Fwd: Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) released To: "ubuntu-qual...@lists.ubuntu.com" I'm sure you've already seen this :-) Many thanks to all of you for your hard work in helping test and iterate ove

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [Lubuntu-wiki-docs] 13.04 Release

2013-04-25 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Now that 13.04 is FINALLY released, NO ONE can stop me, phew, thank God :D I must take at least 24 Hours (maybe more) of rest (did not do much but I need physical rest) and start setting Priority for my next action :) There are some really and very interesting stuff coming and I can't really wait

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Getting past "Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!" on PPC server

2013-04-25 Thread Str8bs
Good to know. Probably the same for your alternate installs. I guess that confirms it should be a kernel bug? Looking through 1066435 and 1071880 there are a few issues possibly mixed together. It might be a good idea to file a new bug against server to clarify that? Looks like it also happened wit

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Roadmap for Lubuntu

2013-04-25 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Boss, we did discuss, and finally went with a new desktop system once before. Provided, as then, we have a Plan 'B' (which we used), I'm sure none of the testers will have issues. (Well, they can scream at me! ) As one of the comments here has said. You fully know that one of my goals is for l

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Testdrive hackfest/hangout

2013-04-25 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Jackson Doak wrote: > sounds great, we could merge it with nicholas' QA release party. > would you mind merging my branch 412, i've got more merges to come afterward > and was hoping we could get 412 in quickly. > > I'm in australia and howard is in hong kong, so

[Lubuntu-qa] An upgrade bug

2013-04-25 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Boss, Brian Murray altered me to a bug[1] that may affect upgrading 12.10 --> 13.04. I've not seen a report on #lubuntu or by mailing list. Brian has pulled in and set up a 12.10 lubuntu VM for further investigation. since the initial report to me, he has updated the bug. Regards, Phill. 1. h

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Testdrive hackfest/hangout

2013-04-25 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Dustin / Jackson, just so I have some idea, how is testdrive in 13.04 accepting the (hopefully) updated VBox and KVM? Regards, Phill. On 26 April 2013 02:12, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Jackson Doak > wrote: > > sounds great, we could merge it with nicholas'

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Testdrive hackfest/hangout

2013-04-25 Thread Jackson Doak
i'll be able to tell you in a few hours when my update finishes. there were a few issue at beta 1 that i think are fixed On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hi Dustin / Jackson, > > just so I have some idea, how is testdrive in 13.04 accepting the > (hopefully) updated VB

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Roadmap for Lubuntu

2013-04-25 Thread Jackson Doak
not to take focus away from lubuntu here, but jonathan and fernado, could you both try all of the flavours and try and find bugs in the accessablity stuff? On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Jonathan Nadeau wrote: > I third Fernando's suggestion for accessibility both he and I are blind > GNU/L

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] An upgrade bug

2013-04-25 Thread Erick Brunzell
On 04/25/2013 08:14 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hi Boss, > > Brian Murray altered me to a bug[1] that may affect upgrading 12.10 > --> 13.04. I've not seen a report on #lubuntu or by mailing list. > Brian has pulled in and set up a 12.10 lubuntu VM for further > investigation. since the initial re

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] An upgrade bug

2013-04-25 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Erick, as you will see, this bug has been 'stood down' from a really important bug on release day. We are always very alert of such things when the releases go 'wild' to all the different computer systems. As long as we are aware of it. Release day always brings in 'zero-day' bugs, in this cas

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Testdrive hackfest/hangout

2013-04-25 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Jackson, great news about the hackfest; get it all updated. Having testdrive working with the updated VBox and KVM will be good. The new VBox version should be in the repos now. As to the new members of the ubuntu family who got added last cycle, I do hope you guys can get this all sorted out f

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Roadmap for Lubuntu

2013-04-25 Thread Jackson Doak
as in Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu. if ever you find something that doesn't work or could be improved, please file a bug immediateness. Telling the various mailing lists would help too. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Jonathan Nadeau wrote: > By flavors do you mean Desktop environments? I

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Roadmap for Lubuntu

2013-04-25 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Jonathan, apart from long time, no chat & I hope you are well, what I mean is elder computer hardware. I'm sorry if this was not evident in my earlier post. Are, for example, the PPC users going to be dropped BEFORE 14.04, or, are we going to support them as LTS. Regards, Phill. On 26 April

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Getting past "Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!" on PPC server

2013-04-25 Thread Lars Noodén
On 4/26/13 3:32 AM, Str8bs wrote: > Good to know. Probably the same for your alternate installs. I guess that > confirms it should be a kernel bug? Looking through 1066435 and 1071880 > there are a few issues possibly mixed together. It might be a good idea to > file a new bug against server to cla