Re: [Fwd: [Bug 1385432] Dracut exhibits numerous AVC denied errors during cleanup, takes long time to power off]

2017-02-05 Thread Jon Stanley
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 1:59 PM, charles profitt wrote: > I am hoping that I can get some help moving this bug forward or at > least having someone answer the last question regarding if the bug > poses any risk to file system corruption. Looking at the errors (at least what's in comment 4). it loo

Re: is the name ok

2012-04-09 Thread Jon Stanley
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Larry Brower wrote: > As am I :) > > I don't see why just having a version number isn't enough. Well, Toshio raised an important point in the above-referenced thread on advisory-board - just a version number makes Fedora feel cold and distant to any new user or the

Re: is the name ok

2012-04-06 Thread Jon Stanley
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:24 PM, george2 wrote: > There is no release criterion in the Testing/QA group for the release name. > Before millions see the latest great work from a multitude of contributors, > should this group pause to reflect if the release name is appropriate for > world wide releas

Re: QA as a sub-project: draft 'governance' section for the wiki

2012-03-21 Thread Jon Stanley
2012/3/21 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" : > Basically the board is faced with this. > > A) make QA an SIG and merge bugzappers back into it > > Or > > B) Split the relevant parts of QA into their own indvidual SIG ( > Triagers/Reporters/AutoQA etc ) with their own resources... The Board can't confer re

Re: My task for the next ~6 months

2012-02-20 Thread Jon Stanley
2012/2/20 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" : > A while back I proposed having the test case structure split by > experience/difficult levels. I think that's a great idea - you wouldn't want someone who has never seen a CLI attempting to set up an iSCSI initiator and target, for example. However the proble

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-20 Thread Jon Stanley
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:21 PM, stan wrote: > Can you expand on entering the debugger when a traceback occurs?  What > packages need to be installed?  How is it invoked immediately after the > traceback in order to pick up the failed job? No packages need to be installed, everything is right th

My task for the next ~6 months

2012-02-19 Thread Jon Stanley
I had a conversation with Adam at FUDCon about things that might be beneficial to QA that I could champion and make sure that it happened, and provide regular status reports, the whole nine yards. What we came up with is updating "How to debug" and "How to test" pages in the wiki, soliciting input

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-19 Thread Jon Stanley
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > I'm willing to bet that I wouldn't be getting a "NameError: global name > 'BRFSError' is not defined" traceback if it were.  (BTRFSError anyone?) No, you'd instead get much less useful errors instead. Obviously this particular typo would nev

Re: New criterion for installation with minimal set of packages

2012-01-31 Thread Jon Stanley
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> That's an implementation detail. It's not a capability-driven >> description of which packages should actually be in the minimal package >> set, as was discussed earlier in the thread. > > Merely stating that if you're linking to what the

Re: New criterion for installation with minimal set of packages

2012-01-30 Thread Jon Stanley
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > Yeah, this is kind of problematic, because I don't really want the > release criteria to prescribe exactly what the 'minimal' package set > should include. Perhaps we should just explicitly refer to 'the > installer's "minimal" package set

Re: New criterion for installation with minimal set of packages

2012-01-30 Thread Jon Stanley
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > We could phrase it a little bit more similarly to the existing default > install criterion: > > "The installer must be able to complete package installation with the > default package set for each supported installation method" > > Perhaps

Re: Fast karma request

2011-10-29 Thread Jon Stanley
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > please test and up-karma the update so we can spin RC2 ASAP, thanks! Looks like we've got +3 now, with two from proventesters. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: ABC News on Electronic Warfare

2011-10-23 Thread Jon Stanley
Um, wrong list? This has nothing even remotely to do with testing Fedora releases. On Oct 23, 2011 10:02 PM, "Chuck Forsberg" wrote: > Apparently written by an a political science major as there is no > mention of an EMP bomb wiping out the electrical grid. > > > http://abcnews.go.com/Internation

Re: / must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an existing / is not allowed.

2011-10-18 Thread Jon Stanley
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > So does anaconda expose the full set of mkfs options, since you are now > artificially restricting running mkfs in %pre? Since apparently this change doesn't affect ks installs, I'm fine with it - it makes a ton of sense. It would be intere

Re: python > 98% in rawhide

2011-09-05 Thread Jon Stanley
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > Also a ps with the right options (which I can never remember :-) > will show you the full command line which might have arguments > that provide a clue. 'ps auxww' will get you what you need. It's likely a problem with whatever python app is r

Re: Draft 'install alongside Windows' test case

2011-09-05 Thread Jon Stanley
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > Well, no version of Windows yet sets up a GPT disk label, and anaconda > is supposed to leave existing MSDOS disk labels around. Are you sure about this? What about a >2TB disk present on the system and EFI booting? I know at least Win7

Re: QA 'vote' at the go/no-go meetings

2011-05-17 Thread Jon Stanley
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > I hope that's acceptable to all! If not, or anyone has ideas for > improvement, do say so... As a formerly very active QA guy, and less so now since I got a new $DAYJOB, I think that this makes sense, bit I do have minor concerns over wha

Re: floppy drive light stays on

2011-05-15 Thread Jon Stanley
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: > Anyone else seeing this?  Anyone else still using a floppy drive? I seriously doubt you'll find many systems that *have* floppy drives these days, and even less people who care if they work/have lights that stay on/etc. Tell me that it's

Re: F15 ping must run as root?

2011-03-14 Thread Jon Stanley
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > I saw that in F15 ping must be started with root rights, otherwhise I get: > > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted Ping has *always* needed root privs, it generally gets them by being suid root. Don't have an F15 box here handy

Re: Find key that signed a package?

2010-12-05 Thread Jon Stanley
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > In a sense this is only half of an answer as this will show, among > other things, something like "key ID e8e40fde".  Only if you will > do > >   rpm -qi gpg-pubkey-e8e40fde > > then you will see something which you will likely find info

Re: Proven tester special testing procedures: PackageKit?

2010-07-29 Thread Jon Stanley
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > . We > can consider different ways of doing this, but an easy way would be I think that a reasonable way of accomplishing this (I may be insane though :) ) is to have a repo that has a newer version of a package that everyone has installed