May 2011 - openSUSE Testing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

27 May '11

Hello :-) This list don't seems very active :-) the way I work makes it difficult for me to attend IRC, I will try to summarize my recent experience here. I could have factory running on two (very different) computers. The first, an old HP desktop, was empty. I couldn't find a booting media so I installed 11.4 basic and them changed repos ("distribution/11.4" to "factory"). After this the computer boots - I use kde. nearly no problem. the other, I installed yesterday, was an acer one (netbook) A0751H. The experience was quite exasperating, but probably mostly because some buggy hardware/bios. Must say, to be able to have several parallel installs I also installed on it a new 500Gb hard drive. This drive was new for the computer, but come from a dead laptop with Vista (no more working, tied to the original hardware) and at least two 11.3 openSUSE. At first time one of the openSUSE booted right away. The other failed (and kept failing all along) because the disk was for some time included in a big desktop with several disks and the fstab of this 11.3 version held some other disks, and also menu.lst and this 11.3 version always started in recovery degraded mode and was unable to find it's own root (don't know why and wont ever know, this system being now overwritten - it could be started with the manual grub command line but not by the original menu.lst). To make a long story short, I had to reinstall windows, choosed to use windows 7 and from there on the computer always said "no operating system" when trying to boot. I could boot with the supergrub cd, but no grub install could boot (nor the openSUSE extended partition one, nor a MBR one. I even used updategrub (the wonderfull programm from please-try-again) with no avail... At the end of this day, far in the night, I could not even boot from the USB dvd reader I used all the day. went to bed. yesterday morning, no boot neither. Then I did two things, one of them making all work: * changed the usb connector for the dvd from left side to right side * for this removing the usb mouse (there is only one usb connector on the righs side) after that the Hard drive booted normally and still find his grub menu. Looks like if the bios tried to boot the mouse... stupid cat :-)) switching from 11.3 to factory. Changing the repos to factory and running zypper dup issued so many dependecy problems ("keep old library or uninstall yast", for question example), I didn't accept that. but installing 11.4 repos and making zypper up went well (after 3 or 4 hours download). With this 11.4 running, I could fix the second 11.3 install to boot, install 11.4 on the same way, then change repos to factory and install factory. My problems are probably related to the fact the 11.3 install where very application loaded. kde *and* gnome, specially, as there is some know incompatibility right now on factory. Finally I have running kdm (kde do not connect, fall back to kdm), gnome is running complaining it don't find gnome 3, xfce and lxde runs. If you have any idea what I could test specially to be usefull? I usually work on multimedia, but right now I don't have a packman repo, so multimedia is limited! jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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Weekly News for May 21
by Larry Finger 21 May '11

21 May '11

The Testing Core Team met on Monday, May 9 at 17:00 UTC. The main topic of discussion was preparing for the upcoming openSUSE 12.1 release. We decided that a Feature Test Plan needs to be developed. As the nature of the new features in 12.1 becomes clearer, such a plan will evolve. We also discussed whether the TCT should be involved with testing of Tumbleweed or Evergreen. As none of us are users of these two products, the general consensus was that we should concentrate on 12.1 and not get officially involved with these other activities. Our next meeting will be Monday, May 23 at 17:00 UTC on our usual IRC channel. This meeting was scheduled to occur after the release of 12.1 M1; however, that event is delayed. I expect a short discussion. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting 2011-05-23 17:00 UTC
by Holger Sickenberg 20 May '11

20 May '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the 29th openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting will be on: Monday, May 23rd, 2011 at 17:00:00 UTC Please use the following link to find out what that means in your local timezone http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=5&day=23&year=20… We will meet in the Channel #opensuse-testing on the Freenode IRC Network. irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse-testing Please post your topics on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Testing_meeting Best wishes, Holgi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAk3WczAACgkQ539IWoEy06U0MACfRHw/0foQuxdwDwmeKDZtuDmS bQAAn1ROkqff0llrSJ4SFz/uLfwZWUTS =wMzP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting 2011-05-09 17:00 UTC
by Holger Sickenberg 06 May '11

06 May '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the 28th openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting will be on: Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 17:00:00 UTC Please use the following link to find out what that means in your local timezone http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=5&day=9&year=201… We will meet in the Channel #opensuse-testing on the Freenode IRC Network. irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse-testing Please post your topics on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Testing_meeting Best wishes, Holgi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAk3EKDgACgkQ539IWoEy06W/gQCeLWVapiHlddEeJBu8bDxW4HVc 4NEAn3BXcWycosDF9G8EDY++07DzNy4d =cBgd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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testing factory early and testopia
by jdd 05 May '11

05 May '11

Hello, Having had the need of some applications recently to discover they don't work well, I feeled it necessary to test them more and more early :-), so I decided to involve me a bit more in testing :-)). This list don't seems to be very active and I'm completely disliking IRC, so this post. 1) testing early It don't seems to be easy to test factory now, so I wrote a page explaining how I could. I'm completely lost with the new wiki, so I wrote this on my own one, here: http://dodin.org/wiki/index.php?n=Doc.TestingOpenSUSEearly#sDoc.TestingOpen… 2) I have an account on testopia, but don't see really how I can use it. For now it seems to me that it's mainly done for developper asking for help for they own product, when what I try do do is structured testing around a subject. My goal right now is to test multimedia pattern contents (scpecially the ones about video editing at large) and what I plan to do in the next weeks is: * identify the main multimedia applications. On the long term the goal is to have a set of very well tested applications and others set in a "second choice" list (on subjects where there are many identical applications, like dvd authoring) * test all of them *-do they install *-do they run (simply load and be able to start some work) *- choose one and try to use it on real use, try to crash them (usually pretty easy) and report for bug fixing, including upstream this is not as easy as it seems, because many if not all of them rely also on packman, and bugfixing between opensuse and packman is tedious. Gladfully, several opensuse developpers joined also packman, this makes things easier (with some funny messages like "closed as invalid because it's a packman bug, but I fixed it in packman" :-))) any comment appreciated :-) jdd NB: side note: all this began because I wanted to make video demos for 11.4, looked for apps, find them buggy, report and finally think it's better to make this for 12.1 :-) -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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MS1 late
by Bernhard M. Wiedemann 04 May '11

04 May '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi testers, http://www.suse.de/~coolo/opensuse_12.1/ had planned MS1 for 2011-05-12 but I just talked to coolo and it appears, MS1 will be delayed. Test results on http://openqa.opensuse.org/results/ currently show problems with GNOME and KDE and factory-tested has not been updated for a month because of such failures. And next week will not see much change, because people will be in Berlin attending LinuxTag. See also http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2011-05/msg00067.html Shall we have a small testing meeting next Monday anyway? Ciao Bernhard M. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3BI7oACgkQSTYLOx37oWS+UQCgupxrMsCSY6Dca4dEoBdjt+Ti HLwAoM/OgNc9w5jwkVbjDpdxAlUWYRzH =4uAY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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