Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-testing (32 mails)

["Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bernhardout@xxxxxxxx>]

Larry Finger wrote:
> On 06/24/2010 03:46 AM, Bernhard Wiedemann wrote:
> > Hi testers,
> >
> > on our Monday IRC testing meeting, I proposed to test current Factory
> > between RC1 and RC2.
> > Now I found
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=616940
> > which might affect all 32-bit systems.
> > As workaround, giving mem=800M on bootloader params seemed to work.
> > Keeping the old 2.6.34-9 kernel around would also be good.
> >
> > bug looks like this:
> > http://www3.zq1.de/opensuse/video/openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-i686-Build0684.ogv
> >
> > Last good Build was 0682.
>
> I downloaded Build0685 of the i686 KDE Live CD and found that it booted
> fine on my VirtualBox VM. I also downloaded the i586 NET install iso today
> and used it to install onto the same VM. Other than the usual problem with
> HAL not being installed, it seems to work fine. BTW, HAL was needed to get
> wireless networking running.
>
> Build0675, which is the official release of the NET Install iso failed to
> boot on this machine and hung at the loading basic drivers step. There is
> some progress; however, despite assurances that the new yast2-nfs-client
> version has been pushed to Factory, it is not yet available and Bug
> #608166 is still present.
>
> Larry

The bugfix was already in the pipeline so that the buggy kernel was only
distributed for 20-40 hours and Build0675 is indeed good again.
http://www3.zq1.de/opensuse/video/openSUSE-NET-i586-Build0685b.ogv
http://www3.zq1.de/opensuse/video/openSUSE-NET-x86_64-Build0685.ogv

However, this again illustrates the point I tried to make at
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/06/12/improve-software-quality/

Until yesterday I only thought of "what could they do". But I found that
I could do something about that, too. OpenSUSE is probably a "doocracy".
A first step could be that I add to my mirror a "factory-testing" repo
directory, that will only get a copy of factory after it passed
automated tests. While this will need a few extra hours in the pipeline,
it could prevent such breakages, thus improving on the experience for
testers without having to wait on milestone releases (which even broke
in the past, too, so factory-testing could be better than that in both
quality and turn-around-time).


As for the yast2-nfs-client issue I found this page useful.
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=yast2-nfs-client&project=openSUSE%3AFactory

when you click on the green "succeeded" it shows
yast2-nfs-client-2.19.3-1.1 to mention the fix for bnc#608166

this version is already on
http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/noarch/. but maybe
the fix was not good? Then the bug should be reopened.


also in the news:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2010_fiveway&num=1

Ciao
Bernhard M.
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