Seeking some advice

2012-08-19 Thread Greg Faith
Here is the situation. I am using a live persistent USB of the Lubuntu quantal desktop amd64 20120819 to run live and install test cases. Presently I using a Dell D620 and Lenovo T61p to do full hardware installs. The Dell D620 boots up live with no problem, but the Lenovo with nvidia

Re: Server move

2012-08-19 Thread Phill Whiteside
Ahh, I think I may have it. http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/230/builds/21391/downloads Is pointing to http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/precise/daily-live/20120817.3/precise-desktop-i386.iso.zsync Regards, Phill. On 19 August 2012 23:38, D Akhila Hegde wrote: > The link provided on Dow

Re: Problem using zsync

2012-08-19 Thread Brendan Donegan
rely the difference between the old image and the new image will be retrieved, thus saving bandwidth/time > > john@thunderbolt:~$ zsync > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120819/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync > cdimage.ubuntu.com <http://cdimage.ubuntu.com>: Connection time

Re: qemu problems

2012-08-19 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi, can you give some more details as to what image you are trying [1]? That will give you the details as to what is needed to assist you. Regards, Phill. 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities#Bugs On 19 August 2012 22:52, Jackson Doak wrote: > im am constantly having issues with qemu

qemu problems

2012-08-19 Thread Jackson Doak
im am constantly having issues with qemu i.e. it freezes while loading ubuntu. any ideas? jackson -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa

Re: Problem using zsync

2012-08-19 Thread C de-Avillez
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 09:00:29 -0700 John Kim wrote: > Hello QA Team, > > I want to use zsync. After browsing the web for some more > information, I understood that the iso file must be in the harddrive, > namely the home folder, for zsync to work. The ISO does not need to be present -- if it i

Re: Facebook Page

2012-08-19 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Karl, I do hope you did give the user the full details[1] and not some half baked 'delete my account' one! apart from, that things are decently settlled. Not sure what it going to be like when I join the +G area. :P Regards, Phill. 1, http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-

Re: Facebook Page

2012-08-19 Thread Karl Anliot
We have had one Facebook conversation so far. The user asked how to get off Facebook. That's what I like to see. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa

Re: Server move

2012-08-19 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Akhila, If you find one link not working and the other does, please do report back. The last thing we need for QA is 404 errors (aka It does not work). Thank you for taking the time to bring up an issue. QA depends on people like yourself. Regards, Phill. On 19 August 2012 19:38, D Akhila

Server move

2012-08-19 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi guys and gals, over the weekend the "behind the scenes" team were busy. You may have found that you could not upload / zsync etc. Moving servers is not for the faint of heart, I still have the scars. Thank you to all those who did the server transfer to enable ubuntu testing and dev team to b

Re: Problem using zsync

2012-08-19 Thread Phill Whiteside
laced a recently downloaded quantal image >>> on my home folder and copy-pasted the command. But this came out as my >>> output. >>> >>> john@thunderbolt:~$ zsync >>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120819/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync >>> cdi

Re: Problem using zsync

2012-08-19 Thread Phill Whiteside
ecently downloaded quantal > image > > on my home folder and copy-pasted the command. But this came out as my > > output. > > > > john@thunderbolt:~$ zsync > > > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120819/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync > > cdimage.ub

Re: Problem using zsync

2012-08-19 Thread Charlie Kravetz
nloaded quantal image > on my home folder and copy-pasted the command. But this came out as my > output. > > john@thunderbolt:~$ zsync > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120819/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync > cdimage.ubuntu.com: Connection timed out > failed on url &g

Re: Problem using zsync

2012-08-19 Thread Phill Whiteside
> john@thunderbolt:~$ zsync > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120819/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync > cdimage.ubuntu.com: Connection timed out > failed on url > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120819/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync > could not read control file from URL >

Problem using zsync

2012-08-19 Thread John Kim
out as my output. john@thunderbolt:~$ zsync http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120819/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync cdimage.ubuntu.com: Connection timed out failed on url http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120819/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync could not read control file from URL http

Re: Facebook Page

2012-08-19 Thread Ho Wan Chan
Hi. Really, elfy, not supposed to be attacking you, but then Facebook is indeed the most popular social networking system around (though it's stock prices keeps falling down:) We do need, I think, advertising for QA. People will mainly think that contributing to Ubuntu means coding ad writing docu

Re: Facebook Page

2012-08-19 Thread Phill Whiteside
There are times I also hate some of social media. I'm pretty adamant that social media is used *ONLY* to reach more people and that requests for support are directed to the existing channels that they can be of use. Even at this early stage, the new QA facebook page had a support request [1] What

Re: Facebook Page

2012-08-19 Thread Carla Sella
On 08/19/2012 03:29 PM, Gema Gomez wrote: > > > > Hi, I have been thinking about this social media stuff to coordinate. I > have mixed feelings, I particularly go through phases of hating facebook > and stop using it completely, if we move all the communication there as > opposite to email, I will

Re: Facebook Page

2012-08-19 Thread Gema Gomez
On 17/08/12 23:01, Elfy wrote: > On 17/08/12 04:41, Phill Whiteside wrote: >> Hi guys & gals, >> >> as a part of Nicholas's questionaire one thing that had been >> previously discussed was how does QA advertise itself. We have bounced >> a couple of ideas about. One of them has actually arrived, al