16:02:33 #startmeeting Fedora 14 Beta Blocker Meeting 16:02:33 Meeting started Fri Sep 10 16:02:33 2010 UTC. The chair is poelcat. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 16:02:33 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 16:02:51 #topic roll call 16:02:54 who do we have today? 16:02:58 hello :) 16:04:03 adamw and any folks from devel? 16:04:16 * nirik is busy, but lurking. 16:04:20 oh, it's this time already? 16:04:21 * jlaska looking for Oxf13 16:04:29 * adamw here 16:04:51 * jsmith is here 16:05:37 #info attendees nirik adamw jlaska poelcat jsmith 16:05:45 #topic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608992 16:05:57 Bug 608992: medium, low, ---, dhuff, NEW, Add "Boot system with basic video driver" option at the initial screen 16:06:37 i updated this one yesterday 16:06:40 it's approved, looks like we're just waiting? 16:06:48 anything to discuss? 16:06:54 yeah, waiting for the new build 16:07:00 not really, i'll try and make sure this one goes ahead soon 16:07:01 * jlaska didn't hear back from huff, but I saw that Bruno offered to do the build 16:07:25 #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608992 waiting for a new build, needs to happen soon 16:07:25 OK... sounds great to me 16:07:27 Bug 608992: medium, low, ---, dhuff, NEW, Add "Boot system with basic video driver" option at the initial screen 16:07:34 #topic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621027 16:07:44 Bug 621027: medium, low, ---, tcallawa, NEW, Graphical screen in anaconda shows F-13 16:08:08 no update since last meeting 16:08:11 My follow-up from last week is inprogress here 16:08:27 new criteria should be added shortly (likely this afternoon) to accomodate this as a Beta blocker 16:08:29 mizmo's in -devel 16:08:31 we can try and pull her in 16:08:42 perhaps we should ch ... what the good man adamw said! :D 16:08:59 jlaska: i thought the criteria you proposed only applied to alpha and final ? 16:09:24 poelcat: they do, but this issue would fit into the Alpha criteria 16:09:36 lemme check the wording again 16:09:45 but we're discussing beta 16:09:46 I thought at Alpha we decided that this wasn't an alpha thing, but a beta blocker instead? 16:09:53 lol 16:09:54 * jsmith is one confused caveman today 16:10:00 F-14-Alpha - "The default Fedora artwork used must either refer to the current 16:10:04 anything that's an alpha blocker is also a beta blocker 16:10:04 Fedora release under development (Fedora 14), or reference an interim 16:10:06 release milestone (e.g. Alpha or Beta). If a release version number is 16:10:10 used, it must match the current Fedora release under development." 16:10:10 poelcat: Beta includes ... yes that 16:10:11 and anything that's an alpha or beta blocker is also a final blocker 16:10:37 the first beta criterion is "All Fedora 14 Alpha Release Criteria must be met " 16:10:54 okay 16:10:59 what is proposed next #action ? 16:11:12 let's see if mizmo can join 16:11:16 she says she's busy 16:11:17 oh, she's busy 16:11:38 so action is to follow-up with someone from design-team, noting that the change deadline is 2010-09-14? 16:11:44 i've asked her to update the bug when she's less busy 16:11:47 sounds reasonable, yes 16:11:53 rockin 16:12:13 #chair jlaska adamw 16:12:13 Current chairs: adamw jlaska poelcat 16:12:53 #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621027 asking mizmo to update the bug and remind design team of change deadline on 2010-09-14 16:13:08 #topic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628239 16:14:26 I can also add some test feedback to this using the TC1 images 16:14:43 I think that's what we need on this one -- more feedback 16:14:45 cool. yeah, we still need to test this one 16:15:15 sorry i didn't get to it yet :( 16:15:45 so we're still debugging? 16:16:22 That's what it sounds like 16:16:23 I'm confused 16:16:25 mostly we want to verify the bug exists as described, then we can figure out where it needs fixing 16:16:26 it's still in NEW 16:16:29 okay 16:16:31 adamw: thanks 16:16:42 I have hardware, but it is my main desktop. I can take a look at it with the Beta TC1 this afternoon. 16:16:53 bcl: hey there :) 16:18:13 proposed #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628239 need to continue debugging before we can figure out where it needs to be fixed 16:18:37 sounds good 16:18:48 do we need more heat/urgency on this bug? 16:19:01 i'm not too worried as it's likely to be a fairly simple fix 16:19:08 probably a one or two-liner in anaconda 16:19:14 but we should definitely take care of it for next week. 16:19:15 bcl ^^ ? 16:19:22 good to know :) 16:19:39 i think any of us in qa could probably do a lot of the shovel work on this one, it's not *too* complex an issue 16:20:05 #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628239 need to continue debugging before we can figure out where it needs to be fixed 16:20:22 #topic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629719 16:20:30 I never predict the extent of potential change :) 16:20:38 heh 16:21:00 But on the surface it doesn't look terrible 16:21:25 bcl: thanks 16:21:33 np 16:21:50 so ... #topic bug is certainly a bug ... but unfortunate as it sounds like we won't get much more failure information 16:22:25 Yeah... 16:22:25 BIOS RAID testing will be included in current TC1 test run, so we'll have some idea whether this bug is device specific, or affects all BIOS RAID 16:23:07 i have BIOS RAID on this laptop but can't really afford to reinstall it right now unfortunately 16:23:49 poof, and he appears! 16:24:18 no, i was here already 16:24:26 * dlehman resists the urge to turn and run 16:24:32 adamw: heh 16:24:33 which bug are we on? 16:24:41 # topic 16:25:11 okay, i wasn't sure if we had gone back to discussing the previous one 16:25:17 i think this is still clearly a blocker but in danger of being closed as INSUFFICIENT_DATA if we can't reproduce in tc1 testing 16:25:29 dlehman: anything insanely obvious looking at the traceback ? 16:25:34 dlehman: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629719#c0 16:25:36 Bug 629719: medium, medium, ---, anaconda-maint-list, NEW, FormatCreateError: ('invalid device specification', '/dev/md127p3') 16:25:40 right. I think it involves his biosraid getting resynced 16:26:28 the only thing I have so far is a theory that the resync is leading to some kind of deadlock which is preventing parted from writing the partitions to disk/os 16:26:45 but hard to know without the data 16:27:05 right 16:27:10 poelcat: I think adamw correctled summed up the next steps then 16:27:15 _ correctly_ 16:27:57 proposed #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629719 attempting to reproduce. If we cannot do so with TC1 testing will close INSUFFICIENT_DATA 16:28:00 ack/nak ? 16:28:15 Bug 629719: medium, medium, ---, anaconda-maint-list, NEW, FormatCreateError: ('invalid device specification', '/dev/md127p3') 16:28:15 ACK 16:28:24 ACK 16:28:30 yo 16:28:36 #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629719 attempting to reproduce. If we cannot do so with TC1 testing will close INSUFFICIENT_DATA 16:28:41 #topic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630490 16:29:27 maintainer knows what's wrong, no indiciation on a timeframe for a fix 16:29:30 does anyone else know? 16:29:43 know = timeframe for a fix 16:29:59 * jlaska looking 16:30:04 lennart usually deals with issues quite fast 16:30:33 but if we accept this we should mention the change deadline in the comment 16:30:42 he's around now if needed I believe 16:30:46 He's in -devel 16:30:47 note this is not an AcceptedBlocker yet, it's a newly proposed one we need to evaluate 16:30:59 he's always logged in but often takes some time to respond to IRC, note 16:31:11 It sounds to me like something we should probably accept, though. 16:32:10 hard to say, very little info other than the steps to reproduce 16:32:15 it doesn't hit any of our existing criteria afaik, but i'd agree it's quite blocker-y. 16:32:23 jlaska: what it basically means is that it's very hard to *really* disable any service 16:32:31 right 16:33:03 bus activation is one of the features of systemd, it means if something tries to talk to the app associated with a given service, that service gets started 16:33:16 Which isn't always what you want :-( 16:33:19 apparently, explicitly turning a service off with systemctl disable isn't stopping this 16:33:31 okay, I see 16:33:36 (though it's not 100% clear from the report whether this is a general issue or something specific to NM) 16:33:41 wasn't sure if this was specific to the reporters setup/configuration/system etc... 16:34:14 i doubt it is 16:34:18 given the nature of the issue 16:34:52 so how to proceed, leave on the list, and note the change deadline 16:35:22 the criteria issue is a bit icky. anyone have a great criterion proposal? 16:35:55 well ... can we tie this to the feature somehow 16:36:03 instead of getting specific about how systemd should work? 16:36:33 "A systems administrator should be able to disable a service such that it doesn't start up automatically" 16:36:36 that just turns it into a bigger problem we already know about: we haven't really integrated the feature and blocker processes :) 16:36:38 Is that too general? 16:37:02 adamw: true 16:37:23 jsmith: it's possibly a little vaguely phrased, this may be one where we have to get legalistic on the language...it may be best to follow it up on the list 16:37:38 Definitely one for the list 16:38:09 this feels to me like it could get messy, so yeah, let's say we want to accept it as a blocker but it will require a new criterion or some process improvement, and we should follow up on the list 16:38:23 WORKSFORME 16:38:50 adamw: i am here now 16:39:12 mezcalero: welcome! 16:39:21 jlaska: thanks 16:39:56 hi lennart 16:40:18 we're mostly done with the #topic bug now, but can you confirm that it's as stated - it will affect all bus-activated services? 16:40:47 oh jeez i hate copy paste on the n900 16:41:38 mezcalero the uber-geek 16:41:58 adamw: well, it affects all of them 16:42:01 it's the bug about networkmanager getting started by bus activation even if you do 'systemctl disable NetworkManager.service' 16:42:06 but that's not really a prob i think for most of them 16:42:16 after all bus services used to be always enabled 16:42:32 the new prob is NM and Avahi which didn't use to be bus-activatble but now are 16:42:40 adamw: but if have a fix ready for this one 16:42:43 so this is probably the most problematic case in practice 16:42:44 and it's almost commited 16:42:45 ? 16:42:47 great 16:42:49 it's a oneliner 16:43:02 well, the bug is a problem only for avahi and NM 16:43:08 ok 16:43:13 because those are the only ones that got converted to bus activation 16:43:28 cool 16:43:36 if you could commit the fix asap that'd be very useful 16:43:44 not from the tram ;-) 16:43:47 obviously :) 16:43:57 just asap as in 'in the next day or two; 16:44:00 ' 16:44:22 yepp, tonight 16:44:25 cool 16:44:40 poelcat: do we have any more systemd bugs coming up or can we let lennart go? 16:44:52 proposed #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630490 fix is in hand, maintainer expects to build new package tonight 16:45:00 Bug 630490: medium, low, ---, lpoetter, NEW, disabled units still get bus activated 16:45:03 adamw: let me look 16:45:15 ACK on the action 16:45:28 ACK 16:45:30 +1 16:45:36 #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630490 fix is in hand, maintainer expects to build new package tonight 16:45:42 we have 2 more systemd bugs 16:45:48 #topic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630781 16:46:01 Bug 630781: high, low, ---, kernel-maint, NEW, systemd hangs on "Clocksource tsc unstable" error and causes the system to freeze after cpu-scaling detection 16:46:11 this doesn't appear to be a systemd bug at all 16:46:26 adamw: that is the current component 16:46:30 oh wait 16:46:32 * adamw misremembered 16:46:47 it probably is one 16:47:09 okay, i remember now...as lennart's last comment indicates we really don't have enough info on this yet 16:47:32 essentially all we know right now is that for some reason the reporter's system doesn't boot, we don't have any real handle on the reason. 16:48:09 adamw: should this bug be accepted as a blocker? 16:48:20 poelcat: i don't think we can say yet 16:48:34 we need to know the cause of the hang to determine if it's a one-system outlier or some kind of more worrying bug 16:48:53 mezcalero: agree? 16:49:50 * mezcalero reads backlog 16:50:03 adamw: what are proposed next action(s) then? 16:50:30 poelcat: well, ask reporter for more info, but lennart already did that; all we can really do is mention deadlines to try and inject a sense of urgency :D 16:50:43 keep it on the F14Beta list for now but don't tag as AcceptedBlocker 16:51:03 adamw: if we don't have info by what point would we punt on it if we haven't had any other reports? 16:51:16 * jlaska suggested next week 16:51:23 s/ed/s/ :) 16:51:32 we usually kick it around for two or three meetings before doing that 16:51:36 yeah, next week sounds reasonable 16:51:50 so, this bug could be systemd butt aalso might not actually be a systemd but 16:51:54 bug 16:52:03 OK 16:52:17 right, as i said, all we know is, something ain't working =) 16:52:19 and it might be completely unrelated 16:52:24 proposed #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630781 really need more information from reporter; if no further information or similiar reports by next week, will consider dropping 16:52:31 ack/nak/patch 16:52:33 ack 16:53:03 i think the reason it got assigned to sytemd is because that's the fashionable thing that might break 16:53:13 ACK 16:53:24 #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630781 really need more information from reporter; if no further information or similiar reports by next week, will consider dropping 16:53:32 #topic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631620 16:53:38 Bug 630781: high, low, ---, kernel-maint, NEW, systemd hangs on "Clocksource tsc unstable" error and causes the system to freeze after cpu-scaling detection 16:53:41 Bug 631620: medium, low, ---, lpoetter, NEW, ordering cycles exist (+ breaking them deletes wrong services) 16:53:59 not necessarily because it really has anything todo with 16:54:55 for the hal/kde cycle i have discussed a fix today with kay 16:55:49 we'll just avoid the whole ordering mess and make hal bus activatable. while that might appear a big change i don't think it actually is 16:56:15 i.e. ubuntu ships hal bus activatable since two releases 16:56:32 is this bug perhaps getting confused because the bug about hal not starting up correctly under systemd is affecting people? 16:56:43 * adamw can't get much of a handle on the exact bug here from the comments 16:56:52 * jlaska still reading 16:56:56 so i am planning to upload hal with the necessary changes this WE 16:57:29 this fix will require no code changes and does more than fixing this bug 16:57:43 what is the change, exactly? a hal config option? 16:57:48 but it is desriable anway and by side-effect should fix this bug too 16:58:20 placing a dbus bus activation file and a native systemd .service file in the rpm 16:58:24 that's all 16:58:38 it would then only be started on demand 16:58:59 for something like hal that seems pretty reasonable 16:59:03 i.e our halsectomyfor gnome would benefit from that 16:59:13 and kde would continue to work 16:59:35 any worries about the approach from the devel side? 16:59:53 and again, hal is bus activated in ubuntu, and has been for a while, so this should be fairly well tested already 17:00:34 and given that hal is awfully slow the gnome users among us should rejoice by this fix 17:00:58 i was asking the rest of the meeting =) it seems good to me 17:01:08 any testing you'd want before this fix is in? 17:01:20 or just everyone jump on it when the updated packages are available 17:02:26 well, testing by one or two kde users would be good 17:02:44 but i dont think this change would require a lot of testing 17:02:45 * nirik reads up. Notes that Xfce still uses hal as well. 17:03:04 nirik: good point 17:03:16 but of course i am a hopeless optimist ;-) 17:03:16 any other considerations for xfce, lxde? 17:03:23 proposed #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631620 fix and new packages anticipated this weekend, needs testing by kde, xfce and other desktops depending on HAL 17:03:27 Bug 631620: medium, low, ---, lpoetter, NEW, ordering cycles exist (+ breaking them deletes wrong services) 17:03:33 ack/nak/patch 17:03:35 lemme see...is it possible for things to access hal by a method *other* than dbus? i.e. could something want to use hal in a way that wouldn't trigger it to be started by bus activation? 17:03:44 I have not noticed any problems... hal is runnign here, xfce4-battery-manager works fine... 17:03:46 poelcat: sounds good 17:03:58 poelcat: sounds good here. 17:04:26 adamw: no, only dbus, and ubuntu never had probs with this 17:04:36 adamw: afaik at least 17:04:38 mezcalero: ok 17:04:41 ack then 17:05:05 #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631620 fix and new packages anticipated this weekend, needs testing by kde, xfce and other desktops depending on HAL 17:05:06 adamw: if you want to be extra sure it might make sense to browse through launchpad or so 17:05:20 Bug 631620: medium, low, ---, lpoetter, NEW, ordering cycles exist (+ breaking them deletes wrong services) 17:05:25 #topic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632489 17:06:09 yay, tc1 bugs 17:06:42 clumens indicates this might be part of a known pycurl issue? 17:06:53 dlehman: bcl: any thoughts from you guys? 17:07:28 anything left to discuss regards systemd? my attention require any longer? 17:07:34 looking... 17:07:35 required 17:07:37 i think that's it for systemd... 17:07:43 awesome 17:08:11 someone just reported 632489 to -devel btw 17:08:13 rhe correctly links to the appropriate criteria affected "The installer must be able to use the HTTP, FTP and NFS remote package 17:08:17 source options" 17:08:20 so obviously it's not a one-off =) 17:08:25 seems like a clear blocker to me 17:08:42 yeah 17:09:21 agreed 17:09:31 ACK 17:10:25 no additional thoughts on it here. 17:10:31 bcl: okay, thanks 17:10:34 what are the next actions for this bug? 17:11:04 remind about the change deadline and then I think it's in rvykydal's hands? 17:11:30 poelcat: anaconda team to fix it :D 17:11:49 jlaska: change deadline doesn't really apply to blocker bugs, though of course the earlier the fix the better 17:12:03 proposed #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632489 accepted as a blocker, fixed needed no later than 2010-09-14 17:12:06 the 'deadline' for blockers is basically two days before go/no-go 17:12:21 adamw: we cant compose the beta rc with open blocker bugs 17:12:28 oh right, srry 17:12:45 * adamw always misses something 17:12:59 adamw: good to know you're still human :) 17:13:07 ack/nak/patch to proposed action? 17:13:25 one more to go! :) 17:13:30 ack 17:13:57 ack 17:14:11 #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632489 accepted as a blocker, fixed needed no later than 2010-09-14 17:14:12 Bug 632489: medium, low, ---, rvykydal, NEW, Fail to read package metadata after specifying repo= 17:14:18 #topic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632510 17:14:32 Bug 632510: medium, low, ---, anaconda-maint-list, NEW, Installer exited abnormally when starting network in rescue mode 17:15:27 * jlaska reads 17:15:56 yeah, seems like a cut'n'dry blocker per criteria listed by rhe 17:15:59 # The rescue mode of the installer must be able to detect and mount (read-write and read-only) LVM, encrypted, and RAID (BIOS, hardware, and software) installations 17:16:13 it's not quite cut and dry as the criterion doesn't actually specify network functionality. 17:16:20 and you don't need to be on the network to do any of those things. 17:16:32 but i'm not going to hate us if we futz that a bit. :D 17:16:52 I think it's a blocker 17:17:07 I think people expect to be able to configure network connections from rescue mode 17:17:39 jsmith: then we should amend the criterion to state that, strictly. 17:17:44 but i'm happy to go with that plan. 17:18:22 * jlaska thinks 17:18:49 thoughts from devel on timeline for a fix? 17:19:48 adamw: you're right, we don't mention networking with regards to rescue mode. We gathered at some point that would get pulled in for consideration. 17:20:00 dlehman: bcl: any thoughts around a timeline for #topic bug? 17:22:33 should be easy, looks like the import is wrong 17:22:41 bcl: okay, thanks 17:23:29 whether we should include rescue-mode + networking as Beta release criteria ... I'd propose we handle out of meeting 17:23:30 proposed #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632510 accepted blocker; need to ammend blocker criteria to be more specific, devel believes it's an easy fix they expect to make soon 17:23:39 ack/nak/patch 17:23:50 should we conclude that rescue-mode and networking isn't a requirement for beta ... we can circle back and adjust the bz 17:23:57 ack 17:24:22 bcl: just needs changed to from textw.netconfig_text import .... ? 17:24:30 s/from// 17:25:16 ack 17:25:26 * adamw has to run, thanks everyone 17:25:40 #action https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632510 accepted blocker; need to ammend blocker criteria to be more specific, devel believes it's an easy fix they expect to make soon 17:25:41 adamw: thank you, have a good evening :) 17:25:44 #topic open discussion 17:26:02 can I just say Hi to everyone, I'v just joined the triage group 17:26:18 #action jlaska to propose adjusting beta release criteria to accomodate rescue-mode + networking (see 632510) 17:26:30 Camberwell: Hi and welcome :) 17:26:40 thank you 17:27:21 anything else to discuss before we close? 17:27:29 nothing from me, thanks poelcat 17:27:32 i'm looking for someone to just walk me through a couple, I'm a quick learner i'll fly solo pretty quickly 17:29:11 i havn't even been aproved yet anyway, so when ever really 17:29:38 * poelcat closing meeting in 60 seconds 17:29:56 Camberwell: no worries, we should be able to get you started. Discussing some of the onboarding and how to get started is part of the approval process 17:30:42 Camberwell: have you walked through the sign-up procedure yet, that's the best place to start -- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Joining#How_to_Sign_Up 17:30:53 Camberwell: we can talk more out of meeting 17:31:11 thats ok, I'v read the checklist and stuff for triaging on the bugzappers page, i'll just need someone to show me the best tools for the job and stuff 17:31:17 yeah cool 17:31:26 thanks everyone! 17:31:28 #endmeeting