memtest86+

2022-02-14 Thread Brian Murray
The memtest86+ package has a new maintainer in Debian who has updated the package to a major new version and this is the first major update since at least Ubuntu 16.04. While I don't expect there to be any issues I wanted to mention it so that people will put it through the paces befor

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2014-01-22 Thread Jackson Doak
told you was that you need to either: > > * have cloud-image inherit from server in STRUCTURE and not duplicate >most of its contents > > *or*: > > * have cloud-image not inherit from server in STRUCTURE and duplicate > most of its contents > > but not some

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2014-01-21 Thread Ben Howard
On 01/21/2014 02:06 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 04:00:25PM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: >> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Colin Watson wrote: >>> I think memtest86+ is a great example of something that we might want in >>> the default server install but

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2014-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 04:00:25PM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Colin Watson wrote: > > I think memtest86+ is a great example of something that we might want in > > the default server install but not in cloud images; so my favoured > > option here wo

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2014-01-21 Thread Scott Moser
ser: And consider the future question of whether you might > ever want something in the default server install but *not* in cloud images > > So what I told you was that you need to either: > > * have cloud-image inherit from server in STRUCTURE and not duplicate >most of its

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2014-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
duplicate most of its contents *or*: * have cloud-image not inherit from server in STRUCTURE and duplicate most of its contents but not somewhere in between. You picked the latter option, which is fine by me. I think memtest86+ is a great example of something that we might want in the

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-10 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/10/2013 11:19 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:35:40AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Colin Watson wrote: >>> I think it's helpful for user-facing documentation for it to >>> be consistently installed by def

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-10 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:35:40AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I think it's helpful for user-facing documentation for it to be > > > consistently installed by default, especially since a system with memory

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:35:40AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Colin Watson wrote: > > I think it's helpful for user-facing documentation for it to be > > consistently installed by default, especially since a system with memory > > integrity problems may have trouble installing

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-10 Thread Jamie Strandboge
you think we can move memtest86+ somewhere higher in the stack, so that >> it's only included on images that will run on real hardware? Should it even >> still be installed by default on desktops/servers, or is having it available >> on the install media sufficient? > > I th

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-10 Thread Scott Moser
you think we can move memtest86+ somewhere higher in the stack, so that > > it's only included on images that will run on real hardware? Should it even > > still be installed by default on desktops/servers, or is having it available > > on the install media sufficient? > > I th

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:50:02AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Colin, it looks like you were the only person to have ever touched this > package in the seeds - and that only to move it from minimal to standard. > Do you think we can move memtest86+ somewhere higher in the stack, so th

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-10 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 08:47:39PM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: > > Hey all, > > Looking at the contents of the cloud images, memtest86+ is one of the > > packages that I questioned the necessity of in a cloud image. > > Tha

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 08:47:39PM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: > Hey all, > Looking at the contents of the cloud images, memtest86+ is one of the > packages that I questioned the necessity of in a cloud image. > That is in the cloud images as cloud images are ubuntu-server and >

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-09 Thread Robert Collins
On 10 December 2013 14:47, Scott Moser wrote: > Hey all, > Looking at the contents of the cloud images, memtest86+ is one of the > packages that I questioned the necessity of in a cloud image. > That is in the cloud images as cloud images are ubuntu-server and > ubuntu-standa

is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-09 Thread Scott Moser
Hey all, Looking at the contents of the cloud images, memtest86+ is one of the packages that I questioned the necessity of in a cloud image. That is in the cloud images as cloud images are ubuntu-server and ubuntu-standard tasks plus a small amount of other packages. memtest86+ was added to

Issue with memtest86+ on Quantal ISO

2013-03-06 Thread Chris J Arges
There is an issue with memtest86+ that causes false failures due to bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/memtest86+/+bug/1071209. This has been fixed in -updates, however users of the Quantal ISO as a LiveCD will still encounter these issues. (See comments at the end of the bug). Is