Testing Rawhide (F31) drop 0711

2019-07-13 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to testing Rawhide (F31) drop 0711: I ran most of the standard test cases with only one error found. When looking at the start ups (systemctl --all --failed), I found that packagekit.services failed. I did not file a bug report because package kit issues seem to be well known as men

F32 and AVX2 (advanced planning is a good thing)

2019-07-22 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to F32 proposal: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/x86-64_micro-architecture_update I've done some checking into the AVX2 situation. Please see the wikipedia page that is referenced in the proposal. Note the parentheticals There are many newer PCs that do not have the explicitly

In regard to testing Rawhide (F31) 0722 drop

2019-07-23 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
This is in regard to my testing of Rawhide (F31) drop 0722: The problem I encountered with not being able to install relval (0711 drop) is not in this drop. I ran most of the standard tests and reported the results via relval. There were no failures noted. I have completed about half of my as

Update to last minute blocker bugs proposal (Rev:07242019)

2019-07-24 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I got feedback from Adam and Ben today; so the following changes have been made: I have added a little paragraph at the beginning to say what a last minute blocker bug is. I used freeze as the time anchor rather than a meeting since that seems to be the most firm time constraint we work to. P

Testing of Rawhide (F31) Workstation Live 0726 drop

2019-07-28 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Regarding my testing of Rawhide (F31) workstation live 0726 drop. This was done as a clean bare metal install on a Lenovo M59p PC with an E8400 processor. No issues were encountered with the installation. I had no failures with standard tests and logged the results with relval. I ran the kern

Requirements and procedure updates for Journal test

2019-07-29 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
This is my proposal to change requirements and test documents in order to provide Logging test for the LiveOS and Netinstall OS while not changing the Logging test for installed composes. There are three documents affected by this change: Basic Release Criteria at https://fedoraproject.org/wi

Testing Rawhide (F31) Workstation-Live drop 0802

2019-08-04 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to my testing of Rawhide (F31) Workstation-Live drop 0802.n.1: The ISO and check sum were downloaded. The check sum passed. The ISO was burned to DVD and DVD check sum passed. The DVD was used to boot my bare metal test PC (Lenovo M58p with E8400 processor). The test system was runni

btrfs

2019-08-28 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I have been following the btrfs discussion with great interest. What I knew about btrfs until a few hours ago was zero, but even in that state I learned more about Fedora and the folks that work on it. I am very impressed with the energy everyone brought to the discussion. From my view I really

Testing Branched F31 drop 0831

2019-09-01 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In response to the test event, my testing of Branched F31 drop 0831 produced the following: After the ISO was downloaded, the check sum passed. The ISO was burned to DVD and the DVD's check sum passed. The installation was on my test machine (bare metal) Lenovo M58p with E8400 processor. The

In regard to testing F31 Workstation 0905 drop

2019-09-07 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to testing F31 Workstation 0905 drop: I ran several of the standard tests on my bare metal system with no problems found. I was going to log the results, but since we're on 09/07 now... When I moved on to testing my as deployed configurations I encountered two issues so far. The fi

Re: In regard to testing F31 Workstation 0905 drop

2019-09-08 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/8/19 11:31, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2019-09-07 at 08:10 -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: In regard to testing F31 Workstation 0905 drop: I ran several of the standard tests on my bare metal system with no problems found. I was going to log the results, but since we're on

Re: [Test-Announce] 2019-09-09 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2019-09-08 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/8/19 11:43, Adam Williamson wrote: # Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2019-09-09 # Time: 15:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! We didn't meet for a few weeks, so let's check in on where

Testing for proper disk mount & dismount

2019-09-09 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In the QA meeting today, Adam thought we can discuss this here. Back in late 2018, Alan Jenkins posted a note to this list concerning a problem he had observed with drives not being properly dismounted. No one seemed to reply and I had seen the same problem. I swapped a few e'mails with Alan t

Re: Testing for proper disk mount & dismount

2019-09-09 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/9/19 14:34, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 14:09 -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: In the QA meeting today, Adam thought we can discuss this here. Back in late 2018, Alan Jenkins posted a note to this list concerning a problem he had observed with drives not being

F31 Beta

2019-09-17 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Was the 0916 drop of F31 the one that became Beta 1.1? I am curious because I have been in the process of testing the 0916 drop. So far I haven't found any new problems, but RHBZ #1694782 still applies. Have a Great Day! Pat (tablepc) __

Testing F31B drop 0928

2019-09-29 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to my testing of F31B drop 0928: This was a bare metal install using a thumb drive imaged from the ISO. The test machine (Lenovo M83 with an i5-4570 CPU) was booted successfully. Anaconda ran normally. The disk options of delete all and reclaim space were selected and the install pro

Testing of F31 Workstation beta drop 1003.n.1

2019-10-04 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to my testing of F31 Workstation beta drop 1003.n.1: This was a bare metal install on a Lenovo M53 with a i5-4570 CPU. After the ISO was checksummed it was loaded to a thumb drive using Media Writer. The thumb drive was written successfully and then used to boot the test machine. The

Testing of F31 Workstation beta drop 1007.n.0

2019-10-08 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
This is in regard to my testing of F31 Workstation beta drop 1007.n.0: This was a bare metal install on a Lenovo M53 with a i5-4570 CPU. After the he ISO was check summed it was loaded to a thumb drive using Media Writer. The thumb drive was written successfully and then used to boot the test

Testing of Fedora 31 Workstation beta drop 1012.n.0

2019-10-13 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to my testing of F31 Workstation beta drop 1012.n.0: This was a bare metal install on a Lenovo M53 with a i5-4570 CPU. After the he ISO was check summed it was loaded to a thumb drive using Media Writer. The thumb drive was written successfully and then used to boot the test machine.

Testing of F31 Workstation beta drop 1015.n.0

2019-10-15 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to my testing of F31 Workstation beta drop 1015.n.0: This was a bare metal install on a Lenovo M53 with a i5-4570 CPU. After the he ISO was check summed it was loaded to a thumb drive using Media Writer. The thumb drive was written successfully and then used to boot the test machine.

firewall-applet RHBZ Bug#1762485

2019-10-16 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to testing of F31 Workstation beta drop 1015: The firewall-applet is not working: a new bug was filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1762485 Have a Great Day! Pat ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fe

Testing of F31 Workstation beta drop 1018.n.0

2019-10-19 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to my testing of F31 Workstation beta drop 1018.n.0: This was a bare metal install on a Lenovo M53 with a i5-4570 CPU. After the he ISO was check summed it was loaded to a thumb drive using Media Writer. The thumb drive was written successfully and then used to boot the test machine.

Testing Fedora 31 Workstaation Candidate RC-1.3

2019-10-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to my testing of F31 Workstation beta RC-1.3: This was my usual bare metal clean install on a on my test machine. Check sum, thumb drive writing, boot, Anaconda run and install ran with no errors. Several of the standard tests were run with no problems found. Results were logged wi

Testing of F31 Workstation RC 1.8

2019-10-23 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to my testing of F31 Workstation RC 1.8: This was my usual bare metal clean install on my lenovo test system the ISO, thumb drive writing, booting to the thumbdrive and anaconda install all ran without errors. I ran several of the standard tests and logged the results with relval. N

Proposed test case for disk dismount

2019-10-28 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Back in late 2018, Alan Jenkins posted a note to this list concerning a problem he had observed with drives not being properly dismounted on restarts or power down - Startup. No one seemed to reply and I had seen the same problem. I swapped a few e'mails with Alan to get particulars and wrote a

Proposed test case for disk dismount (2nd try to send)

2019-10-29 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Back in late 2018, Alan Jenkins posted a note to this list concerning a problem he had observed with drives not being properly dismounted on restarts or power down - Startup. No one seemed to reply and I had seen the same problem. I swapped a few e'mails with Alan to get particulars and wrote a

Link to test case for drive dismount

2019-11-04 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Here is the link to the draft: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tablepc/Draft_testcase_reboot Have a Great Day! Pat (tablepc) ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@list

Re: Link to test case for drive dismount

2019-11-04 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 11/4/19 15:34, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:04 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: Here is the link to the draft: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tablepc/Draft_testcase_reboot Why is "Be sure to reclaim all disk space" important for this test case? It really

Stream

2019-11-12 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
As time passes, my curiosity has grown concerning the realignment of Redhat, Fedora, and CentOS. The article in Fedora Magazine didn't seem very definitive; especially after RHEL 9. The article commentary seemed upbeat and good. So I'm guessing all long time participants who are very knowledge

Re: Stream

2019-11-13 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 11/12/19 19:56, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 14:41 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 10:32:05AM -0500, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: As time passes, my curiosity has grown concerning the realignment of Redhat, Fedora, and CentOS. I assume you also saw

Re: Link to test case for drive dismount

2019-11-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 11/5/19 13:48, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 6:45 PM Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 10:26 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: On 11/4/19 15:34, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:04 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: Here is the link to the draft

For today's agenda item - Proposed disk unmount test case

2019-11-25 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Here is a link to the List discussion on the subject item: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/search?q=drive+dismount+test+case&page=1&mlist=test%40lists.fedoraproject.org&sort=date-asc I don't have a current example of this happening. It was originally posted to the list by Alan Jenkins

Updates to disk unmount test case.

2019-11-26 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Kamil, I have received your input. Thank you; I appreciate your help. With the holiday this week, I will start on the updates next week and send a note when it is done. A couple points of clarification: Those trivial instructions were included because they were in the old test case. When I

F29 test results page

2018-08-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I read that there is aa F29 branched compose ready for testing. I can't find the page to record test results. Can someone please provide the link? Have a Great Day! Pat (tablepc) ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To

F29 test results

2018-08-31 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Just some information. I hope it helps. I've tried out a couple of the recent drops (08/25 & 08/26) of Fedora 29 Workstation-Live. These were bare metal installs from DVD on a Lenovo M58. and The DVDs were checked with sha256sum -c beforehand The system booted okay from the DVD and the media t

Re: Fedora 29 Beta status: RC4 incoming

2018-09-19 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Hello everyone, Back on the evening of 09/17 I downloaded the Workstation Live beta 1.3 ISO, and ran the check sum (ok), and burned it to a DVD. I used the DVD to make a bare metal clean install on my test machine (Lenovo M58P with E8400 processor) The media check and Anaconda ran fine. The in

Re: Fedora 29 Beta status: RC4 incoming

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
The process that's running is gnome-software. Have a Great Day! Pat (tablepc) On 9/19/18 11:59 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/19/18 5:06 AM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: Back on the evening of 09/17 I downloaded the Workstation Live beta 1.3 ISO, and ran the check sum (ok)

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/20/18 2:16 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: Justification: http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ More seriously: I don't think there are any systems in the audiences

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Consider cost please. DVDs are a few cents each. From what I've seen 16 Gb is the smallest thumb drive available now and they are fading fast. Even in lot quantity they are between $6 an d $10 each. I know they can be reused a few times before they start having retention problems, but there is

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/20/18 4:03 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:30:19PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip CDs and DVDs ;-) There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native USB media and need CD/DVD emulation

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Okay, I see. I always burn the ISOs to DVD and do bare metal installs from DVD; so I am testing this criteria every time I install a new drop for testing. Well, I have no plans to change my install procedure. I don't test every drop, and so far I wait to start testing until the new version is

F29 Beta 1.5 problem

2018-09-21 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Yesterday afternoon (9/20), I did a clean install of F29 Beta 1.5 onto bare metal via DVD. The PC is a Lenovo M59P with an E8400 processor. The ISO had been check-summed and passed. The PC booted fine and the media test ran and passed. Anaconda ran perfectly and the install completed normally.

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/21/18 1:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 22:35 -0400, Harold Dost wrote: Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Yes, frankly. Not a lot of testers even keep a DVD-RW drive and media around any more. It takes like a half hour just to write all the media f

Re: F29 Beta 1.5 problem

2018-09-22 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/21/18 3:31 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 08:49 -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: Yesterday afternoon (9/20), I did a clean install of F29 Beta 1.5 onto bare metal via DVD. The PC is a Lenovo M59P with an E8400 processor. The ISO had been check-summed and passed. The

Re: runaway packagekitd process, was F29 Beta 1.5 problem

2018-09-22 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/22/18 12:32 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 7:49 AM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: I decided to go ahead to try doing some testing. The runaway mode was still running when I started testing things. First I did the desktop browser tests and they passed. Then I did the

Re: runaway packagekitd process, was F29 Beta 1.5 problem

2018-09-24 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/23/18 1:16 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: I would keep testing other things, and try to break it, and file bugs or report it on test@ if you're confused about some behavior. On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 6:29 AM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: On 9/22/18 12:32 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sat, S

Silver blue

2018-10-01 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I keep seeing Silverblue being referred to as immutable. Also descriptions that say it avoids problems with OS crashes due to misbehaving application software. In earlier times there were some things that at least in theory were considered immutable. In more recent times physics and cosmology

Today's QA meeting minutes

2018-10-01 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to the proposed release criteria: 1) I've come to a point where I accept that I am in a small minority of folks that do installs from ISO burned to DVD. I am okay with removing this as a blocker. I will continue using this method as long as I can and I will certainly make a bug repor

DNF test day.

2018-10-03 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I tried to run the dnf test day cases, but didn't have much luck. The Yum stuff passed, but anything to do with update or upgrade had problems. I saved some text files from the terminal. I could not see any place on the test day results page where a file can be attached; so I am sending them th

Testing F29 10/13 drop.

2018-10-15 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Good Day Everyone, I've been testing the F29 Workstation Live 10/13 drop for several hours now and so far I found one problem and it's not a required thing. The problem is with SELinux Troubleshooter; it won't start and show it's window. When I click the icon, I get the SELinux Troubleshooter

Re: Testing F29 10/13 drop.

2018-10-17 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
. Instead, use this sequence: from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True) import dbus.glib Have a Great Day! Pat (tablepc) On 10/15/18 5:26 PM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: Geoff, I did the (sudo dnf resinstall setroubleshoot

Re: Testing F29 10/13 drop.

2018-10-17 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
There were no further messages and there was no sign of SELinux Troubleshooter starting. the response to the (echo $?) was 0 Have a Great Day! Pat On 10/17/18 1:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/17/18 10:36 AM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: I decided to

Testing F29 Workstation live 10/17 drop

2018-10-18 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Good Day Everyone, I've been testing the F29 Workstation Live 10/17 drop. This was a clean install on bare metal (Lenovo M58p with E8400 processor) from a DVD. The ISO check-sum was good and the media test ran and passed. I found a problem that I saw in the 10/13 drop. The problem is with SE

Re: Ideas for discussion (Issue #567)

2018-10-31 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 10/31/18 9:46 AM, Lukas Ruzicka wrote: Hello, I have been assigned to organize a discussion about this issue https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/issue/567. I have thought about some possibilities (see lower or the issue) how the behaviour should be defined. I would like you to comment on it and add

Test Results:Fedora 29 RC 1.2 Desktop

2018-10-31 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to the test results page and the specified order of testing: Following up on a comment I made on a message earlier today concerning if the updates-testing repo should be enabled for Anaconda installs and the impression I am under that we want to do testing on each drop according to t

Desktop bottom panel

2018-11-03 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Is there still a bottom panel on the desktop? I was just doing some extended testing and ran an application that shows its icon on the bottom panel. I have the extension Topicons Plus installed, but I had it turned off. The application's icon did not appear in the bottom panel. I shutdown th

Re: Test Results:Fedora 29 RC 1.2 Desktop

2018-11-03 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 10/31/18 3:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 13:37 -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: In regard to the test results page and the specified order of testing: Following up on a comment I made on a message earlier today concerning if the updates-testing repo should be

Re: [fedora-qa] Issue #569: Proposal to redefine core applications.

2018-11-09 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
This is what my proposal is really about, Kamil. It seems to me that currently we do not file many bugs for non-blocking environments, we just let them go with the flow. Why? Because there isn't any required test case to test for them. Sure, we do not have time and resources to do it thoroughl

Re: [fedora-qa] Issue #569: Proposal to redefine core applications.

2018-11-10 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I'd say an easy-to-read guide in "how can I help?" section on our wiki could be more visible. As one of the newbies (joined in March 2018) I will wholeheartedly say Great Idea! I'm still trying to figure this out. The only things the wiki seems to point to are testing updates and running th

Re: repos used by anaconda during Branched

2018-11-22 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 11/22/18 10:59 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: I'll try to revive a discussion related to ticket #567 [1] and a previous test list thread [2] (I decided to start a new one to make the subject clearer and avoid the confusion from the initial email). During F29 development, we couldn't agree which repo

Re: repos used by anaconda during Branched

2018-11-27 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 11/27/18 4:47 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 6:20 PM Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2018-11-26 at 15:41 +0100, Kamil Paral wrote: * Into Additional Repositories section, add updates-testing repo item, disabled by default, and only visible in pre-release composes. Mkol

Spins testing and vanishing?

2018-12-05 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Recently I was in a chain of e'mails on the Test List and someone mentioned that the spins probably needed more attention than they have been getting for test. I volunteered that I might help out with that. I decided to check out the spins to see if there was one I particularly felt like I woul

Re: Soas is written for kids ( additional information)

2018-12-08 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Thank you. I did understand that SoaS is for children, I first tried it when I was trying out a bunch of the Fedora spins to see which one I might like to help out with testing. All of the others had an Install option, and in some places I have seen SoaS referred to as Live/Install. I was just

Re: Soas is written for kids ( additional information)

2018-12-08 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 12/8/18 11:27 AM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: Thank you. I did understand that SoaS is for children, I first tried it when I was trying out a bunch of the Fedora spins to see which one I might like to help out with testing. All of the others had an Install option, and in some places I

Fedora names

2018-12-10 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I remember when I first started using Fedora and for some years after that each new release had a name like Beefy Miracle or Spherical Cow to reference a couple I just remembered. There was also a version number, but I think the name was what most folks remembered. I thought that was nice and m

Rawhide

2018-12-21 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Recently I have been doing some testing on the Rawhide drops. I didn't find any new problems to talk about so far. Just for note, I have not tested any of the drops where the e'mail called out gating failures. Since this is my first time working with Rawhide, I got curious about what goes on w

Re: Please consider adding a QA test case for shutdown, which gives more time to see error mesages - i.e. uses "halt"

2019-01-11 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 1/11/19 7:26 AM, Alan Jenkins wrote: Hi QA people! In the past few years I've seen four shutdown bugs. The problem is that the screen turns off too quickly, so even if it shows error messages, most people don't actually see them. Or at least, it requires extra effort if you want to repo

Re: [Test Day] Kernel 4.20 on 2019-01-15

2019-01-11 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 1/10/19 6:33 PM, Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: Hey All, Tuesday 2019-01-15 will be Kernel 4.20 Test Day[0] Test Day! As Fedora 29 will be getting 4.20, we want to test it across all arcs and different variants of F28 and F29. So this is an important Test Day! Test Day will focus on testing the

Re: Please consider adding a QA test case for shutdown, which gives more time to see error mesages - i.e. uses "halt"

2019-01-12 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 1/11/19 5:08 PM, Alan Jenkins wrote: On 11/01/2019, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_base_shutdown/reboot Basically: 1. On a running system, change to a virtual console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 2. At the virtual console, login as the root

Participating in the Monday QA meetings

2019-01-14 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I tried to attend the Monday QA meeting, but when ever I typed something to the chat screen I got an error something like (can not send to the channel) I was able to send a Query to Adam and his reply suggested that I needed to have audio set up. I have speakers hooked up and on, but I could no

Re: Participating in the Monday QA meetings

2019-01-14 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
x27;t miss the meeting cancelling mail next time) and it uses to be on #fedora-meeting-1 pmkel...@frontier.com I tried to attend the Monday QA meeting, but when ever I typed something to the chat screen I got an error something like (can not send to the channel) I was able to send a Query to Ada

Planet Fedora article

2019-01-23 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I just read Adam's post on Planet Fedora about the new automated tests that Lukáš and he are getting started. I think that's totally Great! the more eyes looking at things the better Fedora will be. Computer "eyes" count; especially since they are really good at those tedious jobs where it's ea

Fedora infrastructure

2019-01-30 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Please pardon my still learning questions as I have never been involved with a software project that involved a large number of people before. I have seen various e'mails on this list that mentioned Pull Requests and Tickets. I was curious about these things and so I started reading about them

Testing Rawhide (F30) 0201 drop

2019-02-02 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In response to the test announce I received today I downloaded the ISO and check sum for the Rawhide (F30 0201 drop) Workstation. The check sum result was okay; so I burned it to a DVD. I booted my test machine (Lenovo M58p with E8400 processor, 4GB ram, 160 Gb disk) to the DVD and proceeded wi

Testing Rawhide (F30) 0203 drop

2019-02-04 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I finished testing Rawhide (F30) 0203 drop using the same install method described in my e'mails on the 0201 drop. Bug #1672056 still applies. I'm not sure if this qualifies as a blocker. I would appreciate it if I could get some feedback on this. As an aside, I was unable to get auto-login t

Shebang

2019-02-08 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In my reading today I came across several references to shebangs From the references I've found it looks like a shebang is a way to make hard path reference to an executable like bash. Is this right or have I missed something? I thought people were trying to get hard coded paths out of their co

Re: Blocking criteria proposal for F30+: Printing

2019-02-11 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 2/11/19 3:17 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 2:24 PM Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 9:58 AM Stephen Gallagher wrote: Sorry that it's taken me so long to get back to this. I think the feedback on this has been mostly positive on the Beta criteria, but

Testing Rawhide (F30) 0214 drop

2019-02-14 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
After down loading the 0214 drop ISO, I ran the ISO check sum and it passed. I burned the ISO to a DVD and the DVD check sum passed. The DVD was used to boot the test machine (Lenovo M58p with E8400 processor). The media check that runs right after boot passed. Install to Hard Disk was selected

Testing Rawhide (F30) 0215 drop

2019-02-16 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
When testing the Rawhide Workstation (F30) 0215 drop, I found that Anaconda still reports that it is unable to install the boot loader and the system will not be able to boot. Have a Great Day! Pat(tablepc) ___ test mailing list -- test@l

Testing Rawhide (F30) Drop 0216 Workstation

2019-02-16 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Testing Rawhide (F30) Drop 0216 Workstation. Yeah!! Cleared the first hurdle The boot loader was apparently installed because Anaconda completed normally and the reboot happened normally. I ran several tests including some of my own and we seem to be back to where we were before the boot loade

Testing Rawhide (F30) 0217 drop

2019-02-17 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Testing Rawhide (F30) 0217 drop: My standard bare metal installation went without problems or errors. I ran some of the standard tests and some of myown. I logged the results of the standard tests using relval. The problems continue to be dbus-daemon not starting, tracker-miner crashing, an

Fedora 30 0222 drop

2019-02-23 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Testing of F30 Workstation pre-Beta 0222 drop: ISO file could not checked for integrity because the CHECKSUM file was not in: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/Fedora-30-20190222.n.0/compose/Workstation/x86_64/iso/ The ISO was burned to a DVD and used to boot the test PC (L

Fedora 30 0222 drop

2019-02-24 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Testing of F30 Workstation pre-Beta 0222 drop: ISO file could not checked for integrity because the CHECKSUM file was not in: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/Fedora-30-20190222.n.0/compose/Workstation/x86_64/iso/ The ISO was burned to a DVD and used to boot the test PC (Le

Testing Fedora 30 Workstation potential beta drop 0224

2019-02-25 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Testing Fedora 30 Workstation potential beta drop 0224: The ISO was down loaded and checked against the CHECKSUM file and passed. The ISO was burned to a DVD and the DVD check sum passed. The DVD was used to boot the bare metal test system (Lenovo M58p with E8400 processor). The system booted

Re: Testing Fedora 30 Workstation potential beta drop 0224

2019-02-25 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 2/25/19 9:06 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 4:25 PM Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:59 PM pmkel...@frontier.com >> wrote: >>> >>> Testing Fedora 30 Workstation potential beta drop 0224: >>> >

Re: Testing Fedora 30 Workstation potential beta drop 0224

2019-02-26 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 2/26/19 12:02 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 8:49 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: I just booted to the live install disk a few more times and didn't see any sign of the media check running. I watched the CD and hard disk activity lights closely and though I couldn&

Testing Fedora 30 Workstation potential beta drop 0224

2019-02-26 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Continued testing Fedora 30 Workstation potential beta drop 0224: The install has not changed since my first report on testing this drop. Notable results: Prior problem reported with g-c-c is now fixed. Prior problem reported with not seeing the grub screen of the media check screens is now u

F30 backgrounds

2019-03-02 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I thought I would tryout the F30 backgrounds. I got the f30-backgrounds-30.0.0.tar.xz file and extracted the f30-backgrounds-30.0.0 folder. Then I found the /usr/share/backgrounds folder on my F30 test system. I saw an f29 folder there, but decided not to change that but instead made a new f3

Silverblue question

2019-03-05 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Is the intent that Silverblue will replace Workstation someday? Have a Great Day! Pat (tablepc) ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of

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

2019-03-06 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 3/6/19 3:46 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 c

F30 Workstation 0301 drop updates

2019-03-07 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Today I updated my F30 Workstation 0301 drop using: sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing upgrade --refresh At least that seemed like a reasonable way to do it. I haven't finished my testing yet, but so far no new problems found and the problem on Bug #1683740 seems to be fixed. I fiddled arou

Testing F30 Branched drop 0312

2019-03-13 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Testing F30 Branched drop 0312: I ran most of the standard test cases and reported the results with relval. All of the tests I ran passed. The system seemed much slower to react to starting apps than normal, for instance g-c-c, but when I look at the Processes in System Monitor nothing seems

Testing F30 Workstation drop 0315

2019-03-17 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Good Day! In regard my testing of F30 Workstation 0315 drop: Testing on bare metal Lenovo M58P with E8400 processor. All disk space was reclaimed. I ran several of the Basic and Desktop standard test cases and found no problems. The results were posted with relval. Then I configured the sy

F30 Workstation RC1.8 RHBG #1693344

2019-03-28 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Sumantro observed that the one sound channel quit working because the Balance control had was shifted. Apparently he initially had the problem, noticed what happened, and corrected it by moving the balance control to the center. Sumantro Thanks for helping me out! I hand not changed the balan

Testing F30 Workstation Beta RC 1.8 0303 RHBZ #1694782

2019-04-01 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to my testing of F30 Workstation Beta RC 1.8 0330: I ran most of the standard test cases and all passed and were logged via relval. In my as deployed testing the issue I found a couple of drops ago still persists. This is the authorization pop up that can not be satisfied or dismis

Problem participating in the QA meetings

2019-04-01 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I have been lurking at the last few QA meetings, but I must still be missing something. I followed all the reference pages people were kind enough to send me. I have Hex Chat set up and I registered at the website. In fact when I re-did the registration command today, it said the tablepc is alr

qemu

2019-04-01 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I got curious about qemu today. I read a little about it at the qemu website. Then I checked to see if their was any qemu on my fedora workstation. I found that there are many qemu items installed. From the names of the installed items and what I read at the website, I started guessing that fed

Testing F30 Workstation Live Beta drop 0405

2019-04-07 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
In regard to testing F30 Workstation Live Beta drop 0405: The standard tests that were run were logged using relval. No problems found. However RHBZ #1694782 still applies. Have a Great Day! Pat (tablepc) ___ test mailing list -

Introduction

2018-02-19 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Hi! My credentials are in electrical engineering and just before I retired (almost three year ago) I was reading through the Intel spec's on the latest chip sets ; as I needed to understand physical data flow bottlenecks. From early childhood I was not only interested in electronics, but in e

Introduction

2018-02-19 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Hi! My credentials are in electrical engineering and just before I retired (almost three year ago) I was reading through the Intel spec's on the latest chip sets ; as I needed to understand physical data flow bottlenecks. From early childhood I was not only interested in electronics, but in e

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