Re: proposal: move "Image size requirements" release criterion from Beta to Final

2025-05-19 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
ki/ Fedora_42_Beta_Release_Criteria#Image_size_requirements> I agree with the rationale provided. Move it to Final. Brandon Nielsen -- ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedorapro

Re: Trying to understand how to preserve home with a legacy BIOS dual-boot Windows/Fedora install using WebUI

2025-04-10 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
On 4/6/25 8:06 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: I've been preserving /home using the instructions at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_partitioning_custom_btrfs_preserve_home since btrfs became the default, so it ought to work. For what it's worth, I just tried your steps and they worked fo

Re: Trying to understand how to preserve home with a legacy BIOS dual-boot Windows/Fedora install using WebUI

2025-04-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
On 4/6/25 4:20 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: OK, after watching the "Mount point assignment" video at https://fedoramagazine.org/anaconda-installer-redesign/ I have a better idea of what's going on. So here's what I think I'm supposed to do. I used "Add mount point" to add a third row /home. After

Re: Call for ARM testing: Kiwi-built ARM images

2025-01-21 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
On 1/21/25 2:52 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Hey folks! There is currently a proposal to switch Workstation images to build with Kiwi: https://pagure.io/pungi-fedora/pull-request/1419 It would be good to have some data on whether Kiwi-built images work well on ARM before we switch Workstation. T

Raspberry Pi 4B+ testing

2024-10-23 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
booting to a graphical desktop (green dots, color shifts, etc.). I can confirm this with the Fedora 41 1.3 RCs for both KDE and Workstation. Has anyone else seen this? I'm trying to rule out it just being a hardware fault with my unit. Brandon Ni

Re: Help needed: Intel-based Mac dual boot testing

2024-10-23 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
On 10/23/24 2:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: [Snip] From googling around it looks like we *could* potentially support accessing and even maybe installing into a filevault setup, since cryptsetup supports it since 2022, but anaconda/blivet maybe just don't have support for this wired up the way

Re: Fedora KDE 41 RC 1.3 needs testing!

2024-10-23 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
On 10/23/24 4:37 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 3:09 AM Brandon Nielsen via test mailto:test@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote: Not directly related to KDE / ARM, but did I somehow miss the announce emails? Now that I think about it, I haven't seen one for

Re: Fedora KDE 41 RC 1.3 needs testing!

2024-10-22 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
On 10/22/24 4:56 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: Hey folks, The candidate release compose for Fedora Linux 41 was released yesterday[1], and we need YOUR help to ensure Fedora KDE is the best this cycle! Kamil Paral provided some instructions on how to do this just after Fedora Linux 41 Beta went out[2] a

Re: [Test-Announce] 2023-12-11 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2023-12-11 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
My FAS account worked following the link here: https://chat.fedoraproject.org/ On 12/11/23 9:47 AM, pmkellly wrote: Kamil, Thanks. I thought I could login with my fedora account. but it won't take that do I have to change server or something else? Thanks inadvance for your continued help.

Re: Join Us for Fedora 39 Cloud Test Day on October 3rd & 4th!

2023-10-04 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
On 10/3/23 3:07 AM, Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: Dear Fedora Community, We're excited to announce the Fedora 39 Cloud Test Day[0], and we need your help! Before the official release of Fedora 39, we're seeking community members to participate in a focused testing event. By contributing, you'll be h

Re: Troubleshooting live boot on an Intel DH87RL

2022-12-21 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
On 12/21/22 4:46 PM, Dan Horák wrote: [Snip] aren't you hitting https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2113005 Dan Looks like I am, thank you so much! ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Troubleshooting live boot on an Intel DH87RL

2022-12-21 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
Finally got a chance to install Fedora 37 on most of the machines I have around here. Interestingly I cannot get Fedora 37 Workstation Live to boot in UEFI mode on a desktop with an Intel DH87RL motherboard. What happens is I select the USB drive from the boot selection menu, the screen goes bl

Re: Fedora 37 CoreOS Test Week is happening NOW!

2022-09-30 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
On 9/29/22 6:27 AM, Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: [Snip] I erroneously logged a KVM result under "Bare Metal install" (username: nielsenb, profile: "KVM, x86_64, fedora-coreos-37.20220918.1.1"). Sorry! ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject

Re: IoT testing page cleanups

2022-08-16 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
On 3/5/22 11:38 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2022-03-02 at 15:03 -0600, Brandon Nielsen wrote: [Snip] 2 - The "Wired Network" result doesn't appear in relval. Would that be fixed "automatically" if I add a "Wired Network" section to the QA:TestCase_I

Re: Test request: Gnome Text Editor infinite loop (RHBZ 2071228)

2022-04-27 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
On 4/26/22 8:52 AM, Ben Cotton wrote: Hi folks, I saw RHBZ 2071228 [1] proposed as a freeze exception, but it looks blockery to me. The report specifically mentions the fa_IR locale. It would be very helpful for the purposes of blocker decision to know if the problem is specific to that locale o

Make Flatpak support explicit

2022-04-04 Thread Brandon Nielsen via test
Based on some discussion at today's blocker review meeting, I thought I would take the temperature of the room for making Flatpak support explicit in at least some of the criteria? The biggest hammer would probably be adding it to the "Software types" sub heading of "Installing, removing and u

IoT testing page cleanups

2022-03-02 Thread Brandon Nielsen
I've been meaning to ask these questions for awhile but keep forgetting. In regards to IoT test pages, such as for the latest nominated compose[0]: 1 - My understanding is the non-ostree composes aren't intended for general consumption[1]. Is it feasible to remove them from the downloads list?

Re: F35 retrospective follow-up: proposed actions

2021-11-29 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 11/26/21 6:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Hi folks! So the F35 retrospective has been up for a while: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_QA_Retrospective [Snip] 4. "kparal - After F34, we talked in our team about doing a selected compose testing in a complete full run (all test cas

Re: new criterion proposal: Graphical package managers

2021-11-03 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 11/3/21 6:31 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: During the F35 release cycle, there was a dissatisfaction that we use the "basic functionality" criterion [1] too broadly when discussing package manager issues (like multiple issues in plasma-discover). I was asked in the latest QA meeting to propose a sp

Re: Cannot update F33 due to perl module metadata issues

2021-10-01 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 9/30/21 5:05 PM, Brandon Nielsen wrote: Testing upgrades of a plain F33 Workstation install I run into issues doing a "dnf update". I thought it may be a mirror issue, but I see other people reporting the same[0][1]. I'll open a Bugzilla entry if nobody can point me at one, b

Re: Cannot update F33 due to perl module metadata issues

2021-09-30 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 9/30/21 7:04 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2021-09-30 3:05 p.m., Brandon Nielsen wrote: Testing upgrades of a plain F33 Workstation install I run into issues doing a "dnf update". I thought it may be a mirror issue, but I see other people reporting the same[0][1]. I'll open a Bu

Cannot update F33 due to perl module metadata issues

2021-09-30 Thread Brandon Nielsen
Testing upgrades of a plain F33 Workstation install I run into issues doing a "dnf update". I thought it may be a mirror issue, but I see other people reporting the same[0][1]. I'll open a Bugzilla entry if nobody can point me at one, but I was hoping somebody here might have some insight first

Proposed blocker for wrong milestone

2021-09-05 Thread Brandon Nielsen
I accidentally proposed bug 2000300[0] as a Beta blocker, I meant to propose it as a Final blocker as I feel it violates the "SELinux and crash notifications" criterion[1]. What should I do? Also propose it as a Final blocker? Or can someone with more privileges move it to the correct mileston

Re: [Test Week] Fedora Linux Kernel 5.13 2021-07-11 through 2021-07-18

2021-07-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
Excellent, thank you so much! Was just double checking. On 7/6/21 1:28 PM, Luna Jernberg wrote: Gonna be updated on Friday or Saturday this week On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 8:22 PM Brandon Nielsen <mailto:niels...@jetfuse.net>> wrote: Linked test day image[0] has not been updated

Re: [Test Week] Fedora Linux Kernel 5.13 2021-07-11 through 2021-07-18

2021-07-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
Linked test day image[0] has not been updated. [0] - https://jforbes.fedorapeople.org/testweek/ On 7/6/21 9:30 AM, Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: Hey All, I would like to invite all of you to participate in the Kernel 5.13 Test week, which is happening from 2021-07-11 to 2021-07-18. It's fairly sim

Re: gdm / gnome-shell segfaults on Raspberry Pi 3B+

2021-04-23 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 4/23/21 2:57 PM, Brandon Nielsen wrote: [Snip] As noted, the other desktop environments work just fine. I plan on submitting a PR to the ARM landing page noting the 2GB RAM requirement for Workstation, similar to that which appears on the "regular" landing page[1] ("Fe

Re: gdm / gnome-shell segfaults on Raspberry Pi 3B+

2021-04-23 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 4/23/21 2:28 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: [Snip] If there is documentation or marketing that gives the impression that Workstation on 32-bit ARM is some sort of priority/"supported"/recommended/blocking/whatever environment, it should be changed. This particular bug also impacts aarch64, whic

Re: gdm / gnome-shell segfaults on Raspberry Pi 3B+

2021-04-23 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 4/23/21 9:57 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: [Snip] This brings up my major frustration with Fedora on ARM since I've started poking at it. A "regular user" wanting to run Fedora on their Pi is going to go to the Fedora ARM landing page[0]. That page doesn't make it immediately clear what works on

Re: gdm / gnome-shell segfaults on Raspberry Pi 3B+

2021-04-23 Thread Brandon Nielsen
Thanks for following up. I was mostly trying to gauge if this was common enough it should be a proposed blocker. Now, not to be a stick in the mud, but what other common armhfp hardware is out there? If the Pi 3B+ isn't "up to the task", perhaps desktop images that aren't expected work should

gdm / gnome-shell segfaults on Raspberry Pi 3B+

2021-04-22 Thread Brandon Nielsen
Can anyone successfully boot a Workstation image on a Raspberry Pi 3B+? I keep running into a segfault[0][1] with both armhfp and aarch64 images. [0] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1950129 [1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1950171 __

Re: Basic criterion proposal: g-i-s shouldn't take 2 minutes to launch

2021-04-14 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 4/14/21 2:13 PM, Brandon Nielsen wrote: [Snip] > Somewhat related, is there some mapping of compose test cases to release > criterion? Or the inverse? Something like "Failures of test case foo, > bar, and baz may constitute a violation of release criterion qux"? > [S

Re: Basic criterion proposal: g-i-s shouldn't take 2 minutes to launch

2021-04-14 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 4/13/21 9:39 AM, Ben Cotton wrote: [Snip] There must be no SELinux denial notifications or crash notifications on boot of or during installation from a release-blocking live image, or at first login after a default install of a release-blocking desktop. Of course, we can always adjust th

Re: Basic criterion proposal: g-i-s shouldn't take 2 minutes to launch

2021-03-15 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 3/15/21 9:45 AM, Ben Cotton wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 10:41 AM Brandon Nielsen wrote: Can we also add a "and displayed without error" clause, or maybe "completes with no visible error"? Something to explicitly capture the "sad face" bug[0]. [0]

Re: Basic criterion proposal: g-i-s shouldn't take 2 minutes to launch

2021-03-15 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 3/14/21 10:13 AM, Ben Cotton wrote: In the wake of the BZ 1924808[1] discussion in Thursday's Go/No-Go meeting[2], I am proposing an addition to the Basic Release Criteria[3]. This would go into Post-Install Requirements -> Expected installed system boot behavior -> First boot utilities (appen

Re: F34 WS Beta testing

2021-02-20 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 2/20/21 11:37 AM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: In regard to my continued testing of F34 Workstation Beta. I am currently at drop 0220.n.0 These are bare metal installs on a Lenovo M53 with a i5-4570 CPU. The ISO was check summed and loaded to a thumb drive using Media Writer. The test mach

Re: [Proposal] Test Cases for the Fedora Audio Test Day.

2021-02-18 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 2/18/21 10:16 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: [Snip] I think we're overcomplicating this unnecessarily. Of course it would be nice if all major teleconferencing tools offered an echo service for unregistered users, and if we are aware of some of those, we should include links/instructions. But thi

Re: Testcase Audio Recording Basic (new test case proposal)

2021-01-21 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 1/21/21 6:01 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 6:59 AM Lukas Ruzicka > wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:30 PM Neal Gompa mailto:ngomp...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 6:15 AM Kamil Paral mailto:kpa...@redhat.com>> wrote:

Re: Fedora Audio Test Cases for Test Day (a proposal)

2021-01-20 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 1/20/21 6:56 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 2:26 PM Lukas Ruzicka > wrote: Hello friends of Fedora, the following is a proposal for the test scope of PipeWire audio in Fedora, which could be tested as part of Fedora Audio Test Days.

Ethernet on Raspberry Pi

2021-01-18 Thread Brandon Nielsen
Just in case someone here has a bug report they can point me at: is there some known reason why wired Ethernet doesn't work on the Raspberry Pi 3b+? I can't get it working with any combination of F33, rawhide, aarch64, or armhfp. I distinctly remember it working in the past as I used it to test

gnome-control-center printer shenanigans

2020-12-04 Thread Brandon Nielsen
I have been in on-again, off-again pursuit for several months of an issue with something deep inside gnome-control-center's printer dialogs, but I can't come up with a reliable way to reproduce. Long story short sometimes it dumps core when closing a dialog, or gnome-control-center itself. I

Re: Image link hasn't been updated for the CoreOS testday

2020-11-07 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 11/7/20 12:04 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2020-11-06 at 14:28 -0600, Brandon Nielsen wrote: I see it as fixed now too. I'm not sure that bullet really makes sense. The test cases tell you to download an image with the appropriate link, and the documentation linked to from the

Re: Image link hasn't been updated for the CoreOS testday

2020-11-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
Must be updated now since I see links to image locations On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 14:22, Brandon Nielsen wrote: The wiki page[0] has the text "Test day Image (link will be updated soon)." "under Prerequisites for Test Day". [0] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Fe

Re: Image link hasn't been updated for the CoreOS testday

2020-11-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
The wiki page[0] has the text "Test day Image (link will be updated soon)." "under Prerequisites for Test Day". [0] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Fedora_33_CoreOS_2020-11-06 On 11/6/20 2:18 PM, Geoffrey Marr wrote: Ashish, Can you please post which link you see on the page that is

Re: F33 testing request: bluetooth mice

2020-10-14 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 10/14/20 3:19 PM, Brandon Nielsen wrote: [Snip] They were blinking like they were trying to reconnect. The suspend was only a handful of seconds. If I get a chance, I'll try again with the Gnome compose and see if any of the log messages match the ones in the bug report. Just tri

Re: F33 testing request: bluetooth mice

2020-10-14 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 10/14/20 3:13 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:02 PM Brandon Nielsen wrote: On 10/14/20 11:33 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: [Snip] Just tested with the KDE compose and some bluetooth headphones. After a suspend / resume (closed then opened laptop lid), I had to manually

Re: F33 testing request: bluetooth mice

2020-10-14 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 10/14/20 11:33 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Hi folks! A new proposed blocker bug showed up today: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1874082 the issue is that if you have a bluetooth mouse working, then suspend the system, when you resume the bluetooth mouse will not be working any mo

Re: F33 printer

2020-08-27 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 8/27/20 1:20 PM, alcir...@posteo.net wrote: Hello. I have an HP Deskjet 3700 (WiFi). It is correctly listed when I go to add a new printer, and it works without any issue on F32 and F31 (Workstation). On F33 it is automatically discovered, but if I try to add it, I get a popup stating "Failed

Re: Preserving the home on btrfs

2020-08-24 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 8/24/20 3:25 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 1:18 PM Brandon Nielsen wrote: [Snip] Is the "I would like to make additional space available" checkbox going to grow subvolume support? Right now your only option is to blow away the entire btrfs volume from

Re: Preserving the home on btrfs

2020-08-24 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 8/24/20 2:12 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 4:40 AM Alessio wrote: Hello. I was performing some random test of F33. There is a thing that I can't understand. If I reinstall the system on an disk where I already installed Fedora 33 before, and I want to preserve the content

Reclaim space from btrfs partition

2020-07-13 Thread Brandon Nielsen
In attempting to test the latest nominated compose, I encountered issues attempting to do a guided reclaim of space from a btrfs partition created by the btrfs test day compose. I submitted a bug report[0] and can try getting more information if someone has ideas for what would be most helpful

Re: [Test Day] F33 SwapOnZRAM 2020-07-06

2020-07-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/6/20 3:41 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: The test cases are plain wiki pages and can be edited by anyone with an account; if you see something you're pretty sure is wrong, do feel free to go ahead and correct it :) Thanks! I figured, but I haven't had a chance to watch the onboarding call

Re: [Test Day] F33 SwapOnZRAM 2020-07-06

2020-07-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 6/30/20 11:04 PM, Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: Hey Testers, Monday, 2020-07-06 will be SwapOnZRAM Test Day[0]! This Test Day will focus on SwapOnZRAM[1]. Swap partition is useful, except when it's slow. Zram is a RAM drive that uses compression. Create a swap-on-zram during start-up. And no lon

Re: relval and IoT composes

2020-05-21 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 5/21/20 2:56 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2020-05-21 at 14:28 -0500, Brandon Nielsen wrote: It appears relval does not recognize IoT composes? Or at least, I cannot give it a release string it seems happy with. Hi Brandon! It should work, but you need the very latest version - 2.5.0

relval and IoT composes

2020-05-21 Thread Brandon Nielsen
It appears relval does not recognize IoT composes? Or at least, I cannot give it a release string it seems happy with. ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code o

Re: user switching criterion proposal

2020-05-12 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 5/12/20 1:19 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 5:51 PM Kamil Paral > wrote: [snip] Work? The switching mechanism must correctly attempt the requested operation. If the operation doesn't work on a subset of graphical drivers, the releas

Re: Memtest86+

2020-03-31 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 3/31/20 4:03 PM, Brandon Nielsen wrote: On 3/31/20 3:53 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: gcc version? I don't think an application written mostly in assembly would change that significantly in size with different compiler versions. Anyway, it looks like it broke when gcc-compat was dr

Re: Memtest86+

2020-03-31 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 3/31/20 3:53 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: gcc version? I don't think an application written mostly in assembly would change that significantly in size with different compiler versions. Anyway, it looks like it broke when gcc-compat was dropped: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1

Re: Memtest86+

2020-03-31 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 3/31/20 10:23 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: I can confirm the issues. I have Haswell (i5 4570): * With F32 Workstation Beta, memtest freezes at 35% (of the first test) reliably if I keep the defaults (which defaults to SMP:disabled) or force safe mode with F1. When I force SMP using F2, it reboots

Memtest86+

2020-03-31 Thread Brandon Nielsen
Recently I've had cause to run memtest on some relatively modern systems (Haswell, Haswell refresh, and Kaby Lake R). On all three systems the memtest86+ provided with the Fedora Workstation Live media failed. On the Haswell and Haswell refresh machines it froze shortly after starting. It didn

Re: Testing impact of Red Hat office closure

2020-03-17 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 3/17/20 3:11 PM, Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: ...snip... Hey Brandon, Thanks a lot for helping us with Test Days, the introduction email got buried :( I've sponsored you and you should be able to edit wikis and it will be very thankful if you can help us out with validations :D -- No prob

Re: Testing impact of Red Hat office closure

2020-03-17 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 3/16/20 12:52 PM, Kamil Paral wrote: ...snip... * Testcase_dualboot_with_windows -- This will be affected by the lack of bare metal machines. ...snip... * Testcase_Printing_New_Printer (real printer) - Only few people have a real printer at home, I think. I don't. ...snip... I can test

Re: F30 Testing request: "basic graphics mode" in Workstation

2019-03-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 3/6/19 2:46 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Hi folks! So there's a current Beta blocker bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1683197 it is currently accepted as a blocker on the understanding that trying to boot to Workstation in 'basic graphics mode' (i.e. with 'nomodeset' on the cm

Self-introduction: Brandon Nielsen

2018-03-28 Thread Brandon Nielsen
libinput things). I've been using Fedora in various capacities since Fedora Core 5. I have to say you guys have been doing a pretty good job! I've also been both a Solaris and RHEL admin in past lives. I've applied to the QA FAS group, and am looking forward to working wit