From Fedora Project Wiki
Attendees
People present (lines said):
- jlaska (155)
- adamw (71)
- kparal (22)
- robatino (14)
- Oxf13 (14)
- jskladan (13)
- zodbot (5)
- pjones (4)
- hicham (3)
- lmacken (2)
- Viking-Ice (2)
- Southern_Gentlem (1)
Regrets:
Agenda
Previous meeting follow-up
- jlaska will discuss CommonBugs entry for RHBZ #552423 with halfline
- COMPLETED - Updated Common_F13_bugs#gnome-panel-crash
- Adamw will propose a document 'What do proventesters test for'?
- COMPLETED - Drafted User:Adamwill/Draft_proventesters_instructions and will send to mailing list for review this week
- jlaska to check-in with lmacken on the status of https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/424
- INPROGRESS - Have not yet heard back from lmacken, he might be away?
- lmacken is swamped this week, but will respond time permitting
- Someone needs to check with bodhi on when 'proventester' karma is required for critpath packages
- Same as above
- jlaska to update https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join to include link to proventester page
- COMPLETED - adamw posted several updates to QA, QA/Join and QA:Updates_Testing
- jlaska was still a bit confused about several items on QA/Join and took an action to post changes to the list for feedback
- adamw to forward wwoods a good explanation of the nss-softokn problem scenario to ensure autoqa catches it in future
- No updates this week, keep on for next week
- jlaska to add autoqa FIXME links for a wiki page describing how to update repoinfo.conf when branched release is available, linked from the existing branched SOP pages
- COMPLETED - Updated How_to_update_AutoQA_repoinfo.conf, currently included in Category:AutoQA
Fedora 13 QA Retrospective
- Owner - User:Jlaska
- Summary
- Jlaska organized Fedora_13_QA_Retrospective feedback into a list of QA recommendations for Fedora 14.
- Next steps...
- Need to clean up the page a bit, but expect to send this to the list for comments by Wednesday.
Proventester status
- Owner - User:Maxamillion
- Summary
- Adam Miller announced that the proventesters wiki page (QA/JoinProvenTesters) is no longer a draft. We have several TRAC requests to join the proventesters group. User:Adamwill asked whether we can start processing proventesters requests. What's next, and who is needed to take it there?
- Next steps
- Review and finalize adamw's proventesters instructions document (see User:Adamwill/Draft_proventesters_instructions)
- Waiting on feedback from lmacken on the status of https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/424 and re-enabling proventester karma for critpath packages
AutoQA initscripts test validation
- Owner - User:Jskladan
- Summary
- Josef asked for help in validating a new round of SysVinitscript AutoQA tests. See announcement and instructions and blog. Progress continues, and more help is needed to close out this task.
- Next steps...
- Continue to support volunteers
AutoQA
- Owner - User:kparal
- Summary
- The immediate goal is to automate the QA:Package_Update_Acceptance_Test_Plan. The team met and discussed task priorities and agreed on the following prioritization
- Next steps...
- jlaska - set up testing instance of autotest-server
- jlaska - find a machine where resultdb may run (it can be VM, publicly accessible preferred)
- INPROGRESS - awaiting additional access details for qa1.fedoraproject.org. Fedora-infrastructure has enabled access to existing QA hardware.
- kparal - implement *quick* virtualization support --
autoqa ticket#181
- jskladan, wwoods - bodhi hook needs to be tested --
autoqa ticket#87
- jskladan, kparal, wwoods - continue implementing and testing resultdb --
autoqa ticket#145
Open discussion - <Your topic here>
Fedora 14 desktop testing
- Owner - User:Adamwill
- Summary
- Adam informed the team that he was working on expanding the desktop test coverage for Fedora 14 to, in addition to GNOME, include KDE, XFCE and LXDE.
- Next steps ...
- Expects to have tests out to the mailing list for review soon
AutoQA Media Kit Sanity
- Owner - User:Liam
- Summary
- Liam has been working to automate the media kit sanity tests (see Category:Installer_Image_Sanity_Test_Cases)
- Next steps ...
- Continue to refine test
- User:robatino asked if the tests were also comparing the actual ISO size with the ISO header size (see RHBZ #585006).
Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD.iso boot problems
- Owner - User:Adamwill
- Summary
- Adam noted that there are several reports of the Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD.iso failing to boot for users on fedoraforums.org [1] [2] [3]
.
- The Fedora-13-x86_64-Live.iso and Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso both work, but for some reason the x86_64 DVD does not.
- Next steps ...
- Please direct further discussion to RHBZ #597283
Upcoming QA events
- 2010-07-08 - Pre-Alpha Rawhide Acceptance Test Plan #1
- 2010-07-15 - Pre-Alpha Rawhide Acceptance Test Plan #2
- 2010-07-22 - Pre-Alpha Rawhide Acceptance Test Plan #3
- 2010-07-23 - Alpha Blocker Meeting (f14alpha) #1
- 2010-07-30 - Alpha Blocker Meeting (f14alpha) #2
Action items
- jlaska to propose a clean-up of the Critical Path Packages wiki to be a suitable home for critpath information
IRC Transcript
jlaska | #startmeeting Fedora QA Meeting | 15:00 |
---|---|---|
zodbot | Meeting started Mon Jun 14 15:00:15 2010 UTC. The chair is jlaska. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. | 15:00 |
zodbot | Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. | 15:00 |
jlaska | #meetingname fedora-qa | 15:00 |
zodbot | The meeting name has been set to 'fedora-qa' | 15:00 |
adamw | yo | 15:00 |
jlaska | #topic Gathering critical mass | 15:00 |
jlaska | adamw: howdy | 15:00 |
hicham | i wan't to talk about drafting mozilla addons packaging guidelines | 15:01 |
hicham | there are none for the moment | 15:01 |
jlaska | we'll be without wwoods today | 15:01 |
* kparal waves | 15:02 | |
* jskladan is here! | 15:02 | |
jlaska | hicham: You're welcome to discuss that topic in the open floor. But just a heads up, this is the quality assurance meeting, you probably want to raise that topic with the package reviewers? | 15:02 |
jlaska | howdy kparal jskladan | 15:02 |
jlaska | wwoods is on PTO today, and hopefully public holiday for Liam and Rhe | 15:02 |
hicham | jlaska : is there another meeting for that ? | 15:02 |
adamw | i think that'd be devel group stuff? is there an official devel group meeting? | 15:02 |
jlaska | I was going to suggest sending your questions to https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging | 15:03 |
jlaska | I've seen a lot of similar discussion topics there. | 15:03 |
jlaska | adamw: would you suggest the devel mailing list? | 15:03 |
jlaska | hicham: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join#Join_the_important_Mailing_Lists | 15:04 |
jlaska | hicham: specifically, I think you might be looking for http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#Guideline_Change_Procedure | 15:04 |
adamw | no, you seem right with packaging list. | 15:04 |
jlaska | alright, let's get started | 15:05 |
* adamw feels like a Kafka character | 15:05 | |
jlaska | #topic Previous meeting follow-up | 15:05 |
jlaska | #info jlaska will discuss CommonBugs entry for RHBZ #552423 with halfline | 15:06 |
jlaska | #info Completed, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs#gnome-panel-crash | 15:06 |
adamw | i believe you should take your issue to Committee 493, Subcommittee 2398-A | 15:06 |
jlaska | adamw: :) | 15:06 |
jlaska | #info adamw will propose a document 'What do proventesters test for?' | 15:06 |
adamw | done! | 15:07 |
adamw | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_proventesters_instructions | 15:07 |
jlaska | saweeet! | 15:07 |
adamw | it's mostly just talking points for now | 15:07 |
adamw | i'm not happy with how word-y it is | 15:07 |
adamw | but if people think it's going in the right direction, i'll make it tighter with a second draft | 15:08 |
jlaska | adamw: awesome, thanks for drafting. I'll queue up for a post-meeting read | 15:08 |
adamw | i'll post it to the ml after the meeting | 15:08 |
jlaska | thanks | 15:08 |
kparal | with quick read it sounds good | 15:08 |
jlaska | #info jlaska to check-in with lmacken on the status of https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/424 | 15:09 |
adamw | thanks kparal | 15:09 |
jlaska | I've sufficiently annoyed lmacken by email, so I'll wait to hear back. | 15:09 |
jlaska | Unless anyone else has updates on when bodhi karma will be re-enabled for critpath updates | 15:09 |
adamw | nup. | 15:10 |
lmacken | jlaska: sorry, i'm teaching professors all week.. I'll get back to you soon :) | 15:10 |
jlaska | lmacken: no worries, you're always quick to respond ... so I assumed you were swamped | 15:10 |
jlaska | lmacken: I'll turn off *annoy* mode for now! :D | 15:10 |
adamw | or velociraptored | 15:10 |
jlaska | heh | 15:11 |
jlaska | this next item was really a follow-up to the above | 15:11 |
jlaska | #info Someone needs to check with bodhi on when 'proventester' karma is required for critpath packages | 15:11 |
* lmacken on a conference call with the NY State senate now... 230 conference call with Yahoo!... just hired 2 co-ops that we're mentoring today, and teaching RIT profs all week... a little busy :) | 15:11 | |
* Viking-Ice sneaks in a bit late as usual.. | 15:11 | |
jlaska | lmacken: no kidding, very cool! | 15:11 |
jlaska | Welcome Viking-Ice :) | 15:11 |
jlaska | next ... | 15:11 |
jlaska | #info jlaska to update https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join to include link to proventester page | 15:11 |
jlaska | well, adamw did this for me already! | 15:12 |
adamw | oh, i thought that was on my list =) | 15:12 |
adamw | yeah, i've updated various places in the wiki | 15:12 |
jlaska | I was going to ask about some thoughts on cleaning up the QA/Join page | 15:12 |
jlaska | but adamw went to town on this | 15:12 |
adamw | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA , https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join , https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Updates_Testing are all updated | 15:12 |
jlaska | adamw: awesome, thank you :) | 15:12 |
adamw | i noticed on the way through we should probably update https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_Path_Packages_Proposal too | 15:13 |
adamw | currently it talks about | 15:13 |
jlaska | I'll send some thoughts I had on cleaning up QA/Join to the mailing list | 15:13 |
adamw | 'qa/releng' doing the testing | 15:13 |
jlaska | adamw: ah, good catch | 15:13 |
jlaska | should we keep the 'proposal unchanged' and move stuff to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_Path_Packages ? | 15:14 |
jlaska | anyway, we can talk about that further post-meeting | 15:15 |
kparal | we should link rather to final page than to proposal | 15:15 |
kparal | which we do not :) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Critical_Path_Packages_Proposal | 15:15 |
jlaska | yeah, that was my sense | 15:15 |
adamw | the thing is, the 'final' page is completely different | 15:16 |
adamw | and has nothing useful on it | 15:16 |
adamw | all the interesting stuff is on the 'proposal' page | 15:16 |
jlaska | right, it needs to mature quite a bit | 15:16 |
kparal | yes, it should be redone | 15:16 |
jlaska | I'll be happy to take a stab at cleaning that up ... unless anyone else is anxious to have it | 15:16 |
jlaska | #action Clean-up critical path packages wiki to be a suitable home for critpath information | 15:17 |
adamw | mostly the 'final' page just links to bits of the 'proposal' page :) | 15:17 |
jlaska | yeah, that was my quick'n'dirty page a while back | 15:17 |
jlaska | I can do better | 15:17 |
adamw | ahh, okay, i thought it was the releng team i was subtly slagging off there ;) | 15:17 |
jlaska | nope, it's cranes maska | 15:18 |
jlaska | ;) | 15:18 |
jlaska | alright, 2 more on the list ... | 15:18 |
jlaska | #info adamw to forward wwoods a good explanation of the nss-softokn problem scenario to ensure autoqa catches it in future | 15:18 |
jlaska | not sure if we still need to track that ... and wwoods is out today | 15:18 |
adamw | oh yikes, i forgot to transfer that to my todo list so i didn't do it | 15:19 |
adamw | queued up for this week | 15:19 |
jlaska | adamw: cool, can you send it to the autoqa-devel@ list too? | 15:19 |
jlaska | while wwoods is out, a group of us were going to try and test post-bodhi-update in his absence | 15:19 |
jlaska | I don't know if we'll get to depcheck, but who knows | 15:19 |
jlaska | #info jlaska to add autoqa FIXME links for a wiki page describing how to update repoinfo.conf when branched release is available, linked from the existing branched SOP pages | 15:20 |
adamw | okay | 15:20 |
jlaska | I created https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_update_AutoQA_repoinfo.conf to discuss how to update the autoqa repoinfo.conf file ... will send to autoqa-devel list | 15:20 |
jlaska | okay, anything else from last week that I missed? | 15:21 |
jlaska | alright, main agenda ... | 15:21 |
jlaska | #topic Fedora 13 QA Retrospective | 15:22 |
jlaska | I've compiled all the feedback in the retrospective and come up with a draft of recommendations | 15:22 |
jlaska | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_QA_Retrospective | 15:22 |
jlaska | I'm not ready to open to the list just yet, I'd like to clean it up a bit further | 15:22 |
jlaska | I plan to send this to the list for feedback by Wednesday of this week | 15:23 |
adamw | cool | 15:23 |
jlaska | so no action yet here, but I hope to have this out for consumption | 15:23 |
jlaska | and then we can go through what's next etc... | 15:24 |
jlaska | many of you are already working the next steps, which is good :) | 15:24 |
jlaska | and speaking of ... | 15:24 |
jlaska | #topic Proventester status | 15:24 |
adamw | we sorta covered this above, really? | 15:24 |
jlaska | adamw gave an update in the previous meeting follow-up, but I had this on as a standing item | 15:25 |
jlaska | adamw: right on | 15:25 |
jlaska | in terms of next steps ... I don't have any changes here | 15:25 |
adamw | me either, we're waiting on releng for the most important bit, and we're working on our process | 15:25 |
jlaska | #info review adamw's draft document guiding proventesters | 15:25 |
jlaska | #info waiting for re-enabling 'proventester' karma for critpath packages | 15:26 |
jlaska | I think that captures it, anything else? | 15:26 |
adamw | nup | 15:26 |
jlaska | adamw: kudos for tackling the QA/Join updates. I was struggling to figure out how best to incorporate the link | 15:26 |
jlaska | alright, moving on ... | 15:27 |
jlaska | #topic AutoQA initscripts test validation | 15:27 |
jlaska | jskladan: I left this on as a topic from last week | 15:27 |
jskladan | jlaska: sure thing | 15:28 |
adamw | see my comment on the change - ideally i wanted to incorporate it into the existing mention of updates-testing, but couldn't think of a good way. | 15:28 |
jlaska | jskladan: were there any updates you wanted to give, or next steps to discuss? | 15:28 |
jlaska | adamw: yeah, that's what I was struggling with too! | 15:28 |
jskladan | so as you all probably know, I created a document <https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/wiki/initscripts> on how to review, and sent an email to fedora test list | 15:28 |
adamw | i keep meaning to mention this in a blog post, didn't get around to it yet - sorry! | 15:28 |
jskladan | for now, we have one new guy - Scott M Fergusson, who's working on the task | 15:29 |
jlaska | yay Scott, thanks for helping! | 15:29 |
adamw | awesome | 15:30 |
jskladan | and two more contacted me via email today, so there is a great possibility of extending the possible AutoQA contributors even further :) | 15:30 |
jlaska | moohahahaha | 15:30 |
jskladan | so it seems like it had some effect after all :) | 15:30 |
jlaska | nice work jskladan! | 15:31 |
jskladan | and might be a great starting point for new contributors/people interested in joining QA forces :-D | 15:31 |
adamw | that's great | 15:31 |
adamw | yep for sure | 15:31 |
adamw | thanks for backing the project | 15:31 |
jlaska | jskladan: how do you want to handle this topic going forward? Shall I take it off the agenda, or leave it on for weekly updates? | 15:32 |
jskladan | i think you can leave it in the agenda | 15:32 |
jlaska | jskladan: okay, will do | 15:32 |
jskladan | we all like to hear about others joining and contributing, don't we? :) | 15:32 |
* adamw does | 15:33 | |
jlaska | YES! | 15:33 |
jlaska | :D | 15:33 |
* kparal votes for | 15:33 | |
jlaska | I wager Viking-Ice would vote for it as well | 15:33 |
adamw | or shoot an arrow at it | 15:34 |
jlaska | that counts as a positive vote, right | 15:34 |
jskladan | and i'm still thinking about approaching Ray Chen - i'll probably write him some "hey, i saw your blog <http://blog.chinaunix.net/u2/68938/showart.php?id=2250919> come join us" | 15:34 |
jskladan | or smt like that | 15:34 |
adamw | that's excellent, it's always a good idea to take a personal approach like that | 15:35 |
jlaska | jskladan: so 3 new leads, cool | 15:35 |
jskladan | so thats about it on initscripts review effort, if noone has anything more, i think we can go on with the agenda | 15:35 |
jlaska | alright, thanks for the update | 15:36 |
jlaska | similar theme, but different focus ... | 15:36 |
jlaska | #topic AutoQA | 15:36 |
jlaska | so Kamil led us through a priority discussion last week (https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-June/000668.html) and helped get things focused | 15:37 |
kparal | tried to :) | 15:37 |
jlaska | kparal: are you able to guide us through current tasks? | 15:38 |
kparal | alright | 15:38 |
kparal | so we decided our current priorities are: | 15:38 |
kparal | * testing and finishing the Bodhi hook, because it is essential for many of our test cases | 15:39 |
kparal | * having quick support of running selected test cases in virtual machines, because we start to have some test cases which we don't really believe they are absolutely safe | 15:39 |
kparal | * getting testing instance of autotest-server and clients, so we can play with it and test new features rather than breaking our stable server | 15:40 |
* Viking-Ice shoots the vote high up in the air in stead of deep in the ground.. | 15:40 | |
kparal | * getting publicly accessible machine for resultdb if possible | 15:40 |
kparal | * working on resultdb. We need to store the data and have some kind of simple form to explore it. that will allow larger audience to get familiar with our testing | 15:41 |
kparal | I think that's all. these tasks have the highest priority, everything else may wait a while | 15:41 |
jlaska | kparal: what happened to all the easy tasks! :) | 15:41 |
kparal | some of them are not so hard, but others consist of many subtasks, that's true :) | 15:42 |
jskladan | jlaska: you know the stuff, once you get to think about the simple tasks for a while, they become more complicated :-D | 15:42 |
jlaska | hehe, so true | 15:42 |
kparal | anyway, at least it helps us keep our focus | 15:42 |
adamw | i find not thinking about it helps | 15:42 |
jlaska | definitely, thanks kparal | 15:42 |
kparal | yrw | 15:43 |
jlaska | kparal: I should have an update on my action item for getting a new autotest-server shortly | 15:44 |
kparal | great | 15:44 |
jlaska | kparal: mmcgrath has been working hard to make available our 6 systems (and 1 virt guest (aka the autotest-server)). It appears to be mostly working, I just need to figure out how we'll use this for the time being | 15:44 |
* kparal looks forward and hopes he will not break it immediately :) | 15:44 | |
jlaska | kparal: anything else you'd like to track on this topic for next week? | 15:45 |
kparal | I don't think so | 15:45 |
jlaska | alright, thanks for the update kparal | 15:46 |
jlaska | who wants open floor time? | 15:46 |
* adamw is good | 15:46 | |
adamw | oh | 15:46 |
jlaska | #topic Open floor - <your topic here> | 15:46 |
adamw | i should just briefly mention i'm working on expanding desktop testing for f14 | 15:47 |
adamw | to cover kde, xfce and lxde as well as gnome | 15:47 |
jlaska | #topic Open floor - adamw and F14 desktop testing | 15:47 |
adamw | in the early planning stages on that one, something should hit the mailing lists soon | 15:47 |
jlaska | #info i'm working on expanding desktop testing for f14 to cover kde, xfce and lxde as well as gnome | 15:47 |
jlaska | #info something should hit the mailing lists soon | 15:48 |
* jlaska gets friendly with meetbot | 15:48 | |
jlaska | adamw: nice, I gather that will be a welcome improvement | 15:48 |
adamw | i hope so | 15:49 |
jlaska | #topic Open floor - <your topic here> | 15:49 |
jlaska | any other thoughts/concerns/haiku? | 15:49 |
jlaska | If no other topics, I'll close the meeting in 2 minutes | 15:50 |
* adamw is short on poetic inspiration | 15:51 | |
jlaska | #topic Open floor - AutoQA media kit sanity tests | 15:51 |
kparal | do we have robatino? | 15:51 |
jlaska | robatino asked about this, so it might be worth noting in case others are interested | 15:51 |
robatino | here | 15:52 |
jlaska | robatino: howdy | 15:52 |
jlaska | Liam has code in his private AutOQA branch to automate the mediakit sanity tests | 15:52 |
jlaska | The tests he is automating can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Installer_Image_Sanity_Test_Cases | 15:53 |
robatino | i was wondering if a test should be added to compare the actual ISO size to the ISO header size | 15:53 |
adamw | oh, yeah, you found problems with that didn't you? | 15:53 |
robatino | the live and netinst images currently fail that | 15:53 |
jlaska | robatino: I don't know, to be honest. | 15:53 |
adamw | what's the impact of the problem again? | 15:53 |
robatino | not something to block, but just to track | 15:53 |
jlaska | robatino: sure ... if you have any script or code to help validate, please add to https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/186 | 15:54 |
robatino | besides being inconvenient, we don't really know whether the images are just oversized, or corrupted as well | 15:54 |
jlaska | robatino: did this first start with F-13 ISOs? | 15:55 |
robatino | F12 Alpha, I think | 15:55 |
jlaska | I think you have a bug tracking this already, right? | 15:55 |
robatino | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585006 | 15:55 |
robatino | it's against livecd-tools because currently that's the only way i know to reproduce it | 15:55 |
robatino | it's probably a genisoimage bug though | 15:56 |
jlaska | huff: you own livecd-tools bugs now? | 15:56 |
robatino | someone good at python could probably throw in some test statements and track it to the source, then reassign to the correct component | 15:57 |
pjones | robatino: are the images larger or smaller than the size listed in the headers? | 15:57 |
robatino | larger | 15:57 |
pjones | that's potentially valid | 15:58 |
pjones | (though still an error) | 15:58 |
robatino | of course, without knowing the cause, it | 15:58 |
jlaska | pjones: do you know what writes out that ISO header? is that genisoimage as robatino suggests? | 15:58 |
robatino | it's possible they could be smaller as well | 15:58 |
pjones | that's genisoimage, yes | 15:58 |
jlaska | okay | 15:58 |
jlaska | well, sounds like more work is needed to pinpoint this | 15:59 |
adamw | seems like we have enough time we should be able to pinpoint it, though | 15:59 |
jlaska | right | 15:59 |
jlaska | not sure what else is needed, I think this just needs a subject matter expert to review | 16:00 |
adamw | this actually reminds me of something else, if we have a minute | 16:01 |
jlaska | adamw: new topic? | 16:01 |
adamw | yeah | 16:01 |
jlaska | to close out this ... | 16:01 |
jlaska | robatino: can you suggest the new test to Liam in the ticket | 16:01 |
jlaska | and we'll continue monitoring this bug, perhaps Oxf13 or pjones have ideas to further isolate | 16:02 |
jlaska | adamw: go for it | 16:02 |
robatino | yes, i was planning to mention that, and also to make sure to distinguish between SI and IEC units for different media | 16:02 |
Oxf13 | I'm here. | 16:02 |
jlaska | robatino: cool, thanks | 16:02 |
Oxf13 | what's the bug? | 16:02 |
jlaska | 585006 | 16:02 |
jlaska | .bug 585006 | 16:02 |
zodbot | jlaska: Bug 585006 livecd-creator creates i386 and x86_64 ISOs which are larger than indicated by the ISO header - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585006 | 16:02 |
Oxf13 | ah that. | 16:02 |
Oxf13 | We were thinking about migrating over to libisofs to see if that changes anything, or if it's easier to work with | 16:03 |
Oxf13 | shell execution within python is ugly | 16:03 |
jlaska | Oxf13: anything you can think of to help robatino further isolate the bug? | 16:04 |
Oxf13 | not really. | 16:04 |
jlaska | is this libisofs change, that's with livecd-tools or something else? | 16:04 |
jlaska | alright, let's move on ... we can talk further on this in the bug or in #fedora-qa | 16:05 |
jlaska | adamw: take it away | 16:05 |
adamw | okay | 16:05 |
jlaska | #topic Open floor - adamw | 16:06 |
adamw | so there's been a few forum threads where people have said they couldn't get a DVD burned from the f13 x86-64 ISO to boot, at all | 16:06 |
adamw | their systems actually don't see it as a bootable disc | 16:06 |
adamw | in each case, they could boot from the i686 DVD, or the x86-64 live | 16:06 |
adamw | threads - http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=245321 , http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1364323 , http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=245844 | 16:07 |
adamw | but obviously in many cases the dvd does boot fine | 16:07 |
Oxf13 | jlaska: mostly pjones and I were looking at it for anaconda buildinstall and pungi, but lessons learned there should carry over to livecd-tools | 16:07 |
adamw | i've no idea what could be causing this, the whole process by which a system identifies and boots from a bootable device is voodoo to me | 16:07 |
jlaska | Oxf13: okay | 16:07 |
adamw | just thought i'd mention it in case anyone knows more than me, or knows who could take a stab at figuring it out | 16:08 |
Southern_Gentlem | adamw, and to majority of those that came into #fedora hadnt verified the iso and had bad downloads or where burning incorrectly | 16:08 |
Oxf13 | adamw: x86_64 doesn't boot, but i386 does... that tickles something in my brain | 16:08 |
adamw | there's also a bug report for this - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597283 | 16:08 |
Oxf13 | I wonder if we're putting EFI info on x86_64 media, but not i386 media. | 16:09 |
adamw | which oxf13 has commented on, so that may be the tickle point =) | 16:09 |
Oxf13 | oh... | 16:09 |
adamw | would the efi info also be on x86-64 live in that case? | 16:09 |
adamw | the reporters say x86-64 live boots, iirc | 16:09 |
Oxf13 | adamw: no, efi wouldn't be there. | 16:09 |
Oxf13 | since it's DVD media, and that's my territory, I don't generally do anything with EFI so I don't think that's me | 16:10 |
Oxf13 | or it | 16:10 |
* adamw didn't quite parse that last line | 16:10 | |
jlaska | comparing i386 and x86_64 "efi" files on the DVD's -- http://fpaste.org/fBu6/ | 16:11 |
jlaska | i386 has a # | 16:12 |
jlaska | /EFI/BOOT/BOOT.conf file, but x86_64 does not | 16:12 |
jlaska | anyhow, should we take the details to #fedora-qa | 16:12 |
adamw | or the bug report, sure | 16:12 |
jlaska | right on | 16:13 |
jlaska | adamw thanks for raising this topic ... has me perplexed :) | 16:13 |
Oxf13 | adamw: pungi is what creates the DVD isos, and it's during that creation one would have to make them efi bootable or not IIRC. And since I don't do that in pungi, I don't think it could be EFI that is causing issues. | 16:13 |
adamw | Oxf13: ah, okay. | 16:13 |
jlaska | for the logs ... this is | 16:13 |
jlaska | .bug 597283 | 16:13 |
zodbot | jlaska: Bug 597283 Fedora 13 x86_64 DVD does not boot in some computers - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597283 | 16:13 |
jlaska | okay folks ... thanks for your time | 16:13 |
adamw | Southern_Gentlem: in the cases i'm looking at, the reporters have verified the burns and in some cases have actually booted the same disc successfully on other machines | 16:14 |
adamw | Southern_Gentlem: i'm painfully familiar with bad burns, this doesn't look like that =) | 16:14 |
jlaska | If folks want to continue, feel free to discuss on #fedora-qa or the mailing list | 16:14 |
jlaska | thanks all! | 16:14 |
jlaska | #endmeeting | 16:14 |
Generated by irclog2html.py 2.7 by Marius Gedminas - find it at mg.pov.lt!