15:01:47 #startmeeting Fedora QA Meeting 15:01:47 Meeting started Mon Sep 19 15:01:47 2011 UTC. The chair is adamw. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 15:01:47 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 15:01:52 #meetingname fedora-qa 15:01:52 The meeting name has been set to 'fedora-qa' 15:01:56 #topic Roll Call 15:02:11 morning everyone, who's here? 15:02:53 * athmane is around 15:02:54 * brunowolff is here 15:03:32 * kparal and pschindl are today double-booked 15:04:05 how dare you book something else at the same time as the QA meeting 15:04:07 HOW DARE YOU, is ay 15:04:24 blasphemy!!!! 15:04:42 * maxamillion hopes nobody notices he's been double booked for roughly 5 months 15:04:45 >.> 15:04:50 :D 15:04:56 oh, i noticed. your co-ordinates are programmed into the orbital laser 15:05:16 adamw: :D 15:05:29 silly $dayjob getting in the way 15:05:41 alright, i guess we'll move along 15:05:43 if only I didn't have bills or need coffee and food 15:05:48 #topic previous meeting follow up 15:05:52 So how does oen get uh observation time on the orbital laser? 15:05:55 maxamillion: what, they don't take Fedora poker chips? 15:05:55 (notice that coffee was listed first) 15:06:01 adamw: if only! 15:06:10 brunowolff: funny you should ask - it involves buying me lots of beer... 15:07:03 so we had one for tflink - #action tflink to ping python-yourls reviewer to get the process moving again 15:07:07 anyone know if that got done? 15:07:50 tflink is not around today? 15:08:06 he's on #fedora-qa 15:08:51 he seems idle 15:09:01 good-for-nothing little... 15:09:06 :P 15:09:22 * adamw goes to look for the bug report 15:09:32 let's come back to this item when he connects 15:10:25 bug hasn't been touched since 733692, so it looks like there' sstill an issue 15:10:29 erf. 15:10:35 since 08-30 15:10:42 #action adamw to check in with tflink about python-yourls 15:11:07 #chair athmane 15:11:07 Current chairs: adamw athmane 15:11:16 just in case i die of exhaustion in my chair... 15:11:37 there was also #action adamw to summarize this response for the fesco trac ticket (in the context of the updates policy), which I did 15:11:47 oh, actually, we should talk about that. 15:11:56 #topic previous meeting follow-up: updates policy 15:12:08 so if anyone else was around for the fesco meeting, you'll know the result was that the policy wasn't changed 15:12:19 but it's all going to be okay because we're going to get more proventesters and do more proven testing! 15:12:29 * kparal is relieved 15:12:33 so...if you're a proven tester, do more testing. ;) and go make more proven testers. ask your parents how. 15:12:53 nirik is trying to organize weekly pt meetings. 15:12:54 kparal: the 'get more proventesters and do more proven testing' bit appears to be up to us, so don't get too comfortable. ;) 15:12:59 yes, indeed 15:13:00 * nirik looks up. 15:13:09 Yeah, wed! be there! :) 15:13:12 everyone be nice to nirik and show up at his meetings. *pets head* 15:14:12 if anyone has ideas about how to get more proven testing - either by getting more testers, getting testers to do more testing, or making the whole process more efficient - please do share on the list. or just go ahead and do whatever your brilliant idea is. :) 15:14:27 we'll probably come back to this in a more organized way after beta...but anyone have ideas/thoughts now? 15:14:32 we will see if it has any critical mass moving forward. If nothing else we can test and karma stuff for an hour. 15:15:15 yup. 15:15:52 alright then, back to... 15:15:57 #topic previous meeting follow up 15:16:13 i see "#action tflink find out current status of virtualization test day" - dunno if that got done, but the virt test day happened and appeared to be very active. 15:16:20 If people discuss how to test particular packages (which seems to be blocking some testing), documenting that for future occurances would be nice. 15:16:38 brunowolff: as a package-specific test case! 15:16:55 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_package_test_plan_creation 15:17:22 adamw: +1 15:17:47 and finally "#action nirik look into why grub2 isn't showing up as critpath in bodhi" - nirik, did you? 15:18:00 random side note, I think it would be nice to have a link to a package test plan available on the package's pkgdb listing (once there's enough material for it to be warranted) 15:19:14 maxamillion: sure, it'd be good to have it in sensible places other than just bodhi 15:19:39 not sure who to ask about that...dunno who maintains those pages 15:20:01 adamw: I think abadger1999 maintains pkgdb 15:20:04 abadger1999: ping 15:20:30 maxamillion, adamw: You rang? 15:20:39 quick phone line 15:21:04 abadger1999: ^^^^ 15:21:10 abadger1999: what adamw said :) 15:21:53 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/grub2 15:22:04 grub2 is marked critpath in devel, not in f14/15 15:22:20 hm... it is marked critpath in f16 15:22:44 maybe the bodhi code to pull from pkgdb wasn't updated b/c of the freeze. 15:23:04 package test plans... what are we talking about? 15:23:06 a url? 15:23:13 abadger1999: correct, I'm going to push an updated critpath list in soon though 15:23:15 and is it constructable from a template? 15:23:51 abadger1999: its more an idea right now than anything 15:24:00 15:24:12 The code changes are different depending on what it is. 15:24:13 abadger1999: bodhi does it already 15:24:18 abadger1999: but we were wondering if there would be a way to link to the test cases (once they exist) like we do to the package source, builds, etc. 15:24:19 so lmacken can tell you 15:24:30 maxamillion: we already do it with bodhi, so it ought to be possible 15:24:52 adamw: if its a templatable url, then we can just add it to thelinks at the top of a pkgdb package page. 15:25:08 adamw: ahhh ok :) 15:25:20 adamw: I didn't know it was already being done with bodhi 15:25:27 * maxamillion is a tad behind the curve 15:26:14 adamw: If it's a url that we only want to exist if there actually is a test plan then we'd also need to modify the database and the code to put in that link would be a little different. 15:27:07 adamw: and we'd need a way for package maintainers to edit it, probably.... I'm thinking it would be easiest to add to pkgdb-cli at first. 15:27:37 the webui needs to be rewritten to use a !Mochikit javascript library so it's harder to add things to than the command line interfaces 15:27:38 abadger1999: a 'test plan' is just a set of pages in a specific category on the wiki 15:27:51 adamw: right... but what do you want to expose? 15:27:54 abadger1999: so what you do if you want to 'show the test plan' is simply display a list of all those cases 15:28:03 * jskladan1 finally got the d**ned irc working, sorry for the delay 15:28:07 it's therefore inherently modifiable because you can always put new pages into wiki categories 15:28:12 adamw: are you okay with a test plan link that goes to an empty category? 15:28:26 jskladan1: welcome :) 15:28:39 adamw: If so, very easy to implement. 15:28:59 see https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-11370 for e.g. , under 'test plan' 15:29:19 abadger1999: we don't really want to link to the category directly, but for pkgdb to do what bodhi does, and actually list out the appropriate test cases 15:29:23 well, i'd think 15:29:28 we can work out the details later, though... 15:29:36 where should we raise a ticket? 15:29:36 adamw: ahh... then it's tougher. 15:29:44 adamw: where do you want it displayed? 15:30:11 adamw: probably have to look at the bodhi code and steal whatever screen scraper code it's using as well. 15:30:18 dunno yet. it's maxa's idea, and he just had it, afaik :) 15:30:26 abadger1999: it doesn't use screen scraper code, it queries wiki 15:30:37 adamw: oooh.... and that's buggy code :-( 15:30:48 hmm? 15:31:04 adamw: I thought you were showing me what a package without test cases looked like 15:31:17 adamw: b/c the list of test cases is invisible in chromium 15:31:19 abadger1999: by "steal" you mean "move into python-fedora" ? 15:31:24 :) 15:31:51 abadger1999: that means there's two candidates for where the buggy code might be...;) 15:31:52 lmacken: I'm not sure.... I don't know that I'd want a screen scraper in python-fedora -- but if it's querying the wiki then it could go into client.wiki 15:32:09 abadger1999: screen scraper? where? 15:32:11 lmacken: it's already in python-fedora , isn't it? 15:32:17 and i already said, it's not a screen scraper. 15:32:35 adamw: I wrote a fedora.client.Wiki module, but this test-case specific code jlaska wrote, and I ended up pushing into bodhi 15:33:10 oh right. 15:33:31 anyway...i repeat the ticket question, as i'm looking anxiously at the clock and we have a fun blocker list to get to. 15:36:17 #action maxamillion to follow up with abadger1999 on the idea of linking from pkgdb to the list of package-specific test cases for a package 15:36:43 alright...let's move on to: 15:36:47 #topic Beta preparation 15:36:58 in a nutshell, we're screwed! now, someone help me out of this damn nutshell. 15:38:56 #info https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-11370 15:38:58 grrr. 15:39:02 #undo 15:39:02 Removing item from minutes: 15:39:07 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers 15:39:48 we're still looking at more or less the same blockers we were on friday, with some new proposals 15:40:00 #topic http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738803 15:40:24 mgrepl has submitted a new attempt at fixing this: it appears to be a shot at the underlying issue, rather than a band-aid like dan's 15:40:47 so we need to test that; i can put up a live image, built using it, after the meeting 15:40:57 anyone have any other input on that one? 15:42:56 * adamw taps mic 15:43:05 is this thing on? 15:44:11 brunowolff: kparal: athmane: nirik: where'd everybody gooo... 15:44:14 adamw: yes 15:44:16 :) 15:44:32 whew, i was starting to feel all alone. 15:44:42 adamw: sorry, sidetracked fixing something. ;) 15:44:53 hopefully this new fix will work out. 15:45:00 so looks like there's not much on this one other than re-test. 15:45:22 #agreed 738803 needs re-testing, adamw to build a live with it included 15:45:29 #topic http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737731 15:46:31 for this one we need https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12733 to be in the images on the public mirrors, aiui 15:46:36 and for that, it needs to be pushed stable 15:46:48 and for that, we need releng...nirik: dgilmore: lil help? 15:47:14 * nirik didn't do any of that this weekend... dgilmore could today? or I could later if given a list of updates that have karma. 15:48:32 nirik: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12733 and https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12730 are the crucial bits to be able to test that preupgrade now works as intended 15:49:03 ok. 15:49:10 adamw: ? 15:49:16 dgilmore: nirik's got it, i think 15:49:38 well, better if dgilmore did it, but I can if he's busy. 15:50:13 dgilmore: see above - we really need anaconda and pykickstart pushed stable (or at least, do whatever you have to do so they're included in the images preupgrade uses) 15:50:50 adamw: ok 15:50:56 ok 15:51:17 #agreed need releng to push out updated anaconda and pykickstart into the images used by preupgrade before we can test this 15:51:19 #topic http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737118 15:51:27 * kparal is back 15:51:33 bad news, we've had no plymouth or systemd help on this one 15:51:43 good news, mgracik will do a build that just disables firstboot-text today 15:51:53 yay for the big hammer 15:51:57 when I looked on saturday, kernel and mutter also had karma. There may be others now. ;) 15:52:04 cool 15:52:12 nirik: sure, these are the really essential ones though - they stop us re-testing the preupgrade bug 15:53:13 so nothing much we can do here for the present, look out for and test the big-hammer build when it lands 15:53:37 #info 737118 waiting for mgracik to do a dumb fix for this so we can test it 15:54:03 we have a few proposed blockers to go through 15:54:05 #topic http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738964 15:57:28 do I read that correctly that anaconda offers wrong disk to install the bootloader at/ 15:57:29 ? 15:57:43 yes, it seems like it 15:57:47 viking has kinda muddied things up a bit 15:58:04 has he reproduced it or is it a different issue? 15:58:35 but this specific case looks like, if you install from the traditional installer written to a usb stick, it won't offer to write the bootloader to the 'mbr' of the actual target disk. and, apparently, it creates the bios boot partition on the usb stick it's installing from. 15:58:49 kparal: i think his 1) and 2) are reproductions, 3) is something else 15:58:56 but it's hard to be sure. 15:59:08 we should definitely get more people to test this: write the dvd image to a usb stick then try and install from it 15:59:13 I find this sentences hard to read. anyway, I think installing from USB stick should be supported and functional 15:59:19 *his 15:59:37 I can test it tomorrow 15:59:44 tomorrow be too late, arrr ;) 15:59:52 go/no-go is wed, we really need a new build today 16:00:02 i'll try and look at this one later 16:00:07 ok 16:00:08 anyone else? 16:01:19 zoiks. okay. 16:01:38 #agreed 738964 looks like installing from dvd image written to usb causes issues with bootloader installation, needs more testing to verify 16:01:45 adamw: I will do DVD to USB test and install to USB HD if you like... 16:02:02 satellit_: thanks...it probably doesn't matter what the desired target device is, but the more info the better 16:02:10 ok 16:02:41 the most interesting bits are 'does it create a bios boot partition on the target disk' (tell it to 'use entire space' if you can) and 'what places does it allow you to install the bootloader' 16:04:02 as to whether it's a blocker...i think it probably is, if it can be reproduced reliably; we do overall seem to support writing the dvd to a usb stick, though it always seems to cause one problem or another 16:04:06 i remember having a similar discussion at alpha 16:04:13 anyone else have a vote? 16:04:27 +1 16:04:52 optical media are outdated 16:05:13 optical media should die die die die already 16:05:53 I think we'd like install images to work from USB devices. If we don't treat it as a blocker now, I think we should in the future. 16:06:09 okay...i guess that's +3, let's accept it as blocker on the basis that it's valid as described, if not, we can re-visit 16:06:31 #agreed 738964 is a blocker if it's inhibiting all installs from traditional installer image written to usb stick; we need to verify this 16:08:24 #topic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737774 16:09:22 I am still seeing digikam blocked with updates-testing enabled. So I don't think it's fixed. 16:09:27 isn't that basically the same as 738735? 16:09:32 yes 16:09:43 it doesn't need to be a blocker in its own right; 738735 depends on it 16:09:48 brunowolff: what's the error if you try to update it? 16:09:55 brunowolff: what do you mean by "blocked"? 16:10:24 you mean depsolving problems, right? 16:10:55 Just a sec... 16:12:14 I started an install. My memory is that there is a lot of output referring to opencv, but I'll try to trim it down here. 16:13:20 okay, please update the bug 16:13:37 #agreed 737774 does not need to be a blocker in its own right as it already blocks 738735 16:14:03 #topic http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739258 16:14:11 this one would be a blocker if valid as described, but i haven't hit it 16:14:17 738735 should probably be against digicam since that's what needs an update 16:14:18 has anyone else seen firstboot run on the live image? 16:14:37 I added the output to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738735 16:14:48 robatino: the current setup is fine - 738735 is for the rc1-specific repoclosure issue, and depends on the bug which tracks the issue that's actually causing the repoclosure 16:14:49 It wasn't all that much output. 16:14:51 makes sense to me 16:15:12 ok, i'll leave it alone 16:15:14 It's possible there is an update which hasn't hit updates-testing yet which fixes things. 16:15:46 okay 16:15:48 which bug# are we discussing now? 16:16:02 we should be discussing 739258 =) 16:16:06 all of that was related to the last bug, though. 16:16:15 ok 16:16:24 jsmith claimed he saw firstboot fire on the live image, i haven't seen that, and i've booted the live image about 10,000 times this weekend, feels like. 16:17:20 I haven't seen that 16:17:24 pschindl neither 16:17:57 man, this reporter is full of crack...'jared smith'? if that even IS his real name 16:18:04 :P 16:18:33 * kparal double-checking i686 Live 16:18:58 nope 16:19:11 adamw: btw. (semi ot but we decide whether 738977 is a beta blocker or not later in the meeting?) 16:20:23 I must say I never used livecd-iso-to-disk. it may be related to that 16:20:26 drago01: it's not proposed as one right now, but consider that a proposal 16:20:31 kparal: i always do 16:20:33 kparal: you just dd? 16:20:39 adamw: right 16:20:47 adamw: ok 16:20:50 works like charm 16:20:59 roger. i use livecd-iso-to-disk and i haven't seen it, either, though. i think jared did something wrong. =) 16:21:12 let's ask him to re-test once more 16:21:19 i suppose he might have inadvertently deleted 'liveimg' from the kernel parameters. 16:21:21 yeah, i will 16:21:32 maybe he booted from his hard disk by some mistake? 16:21:34 no idea 16:21:53 #agreed 739258 would be a blocker as described, but no-one besides jsmith seems able to reproduce; ask him to re-test and provide more details 16:22:52 #topic http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739591 16:23:09 this is a brand-spanking new one elad just threw on the list 16:23:15 he did an f15->f16 upgrade and sound is broken 16:23:30 sounds like a candidate for further testing 16:23:42 I haven't tried sound yet 16:24:10 pschindl says it worked for him in TC2 16:24:33 It isn't a general f16 sound issue as I have sound right now. 16:24:47 of course there can be zillions reasons why it fails just for someone 16:25:20 someone who knows something about audio should ask for more audio-related details 16:25:56 logs, hardware listings, etc 16:26:09 pschindl1: on an upgrade from f15? 16:26:16 +1 to needinfo 16:26:27 adamw: nope, clean install 16:26:30 ok 16:26:35 this is likely an upgrade-specific issue 16:26:43 so we need more people to test upgrading 16:26:48 and +1 to re-test, right :) 16:26:49 adamw: I made only clean install 16:27:11 and as I remember, sound is working well 16:29:34 alright, so: add that to the list of things to test - do an upgrade install and check sound 16:29:53 #agreed 739591 need more info on the failure and need to see if others can reproduce on upgrade from f15 to f16 16:30:18 #topic http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739345 16:31:52 if it block install media creation, it's a no-brainer, isn't it? 16:32:46 ayup. 16:32:55 can't build images if the image build builder doesn't build. 16:33:11 (how many images would an image build build if an image builder could build...) 16:33:22 oh, look, tongue twisters work when you're typing too. 16:34:32 so, +1 blocker for me 16:34:35 and kparal too 16:34:37 any others? 16:34:47 +1 16:35:09 I checked for syslinux-vesa-splash in spin-kickstarts and didn't see that string there. 16:35:24 Name changes have hosed live images in the past. 16:35:55 uf, nice catch. we'll have to check live image compose too. 16:36:00 can you comment in the bug? 16:36:20 #agreed 739345 is a blocker as it causes problems with image compose 16:36:26 syslinux could still have issues with a name change. I am not sure how to quick test that. 16:36:53 wouldn't just building a live image with the offending fedora-logos be a good enough test? 16:37:49 Yes, but I was trying to think of something I could do in a minute. 16:38:03 You'd probably want to try to boot as well as compose. 16:38:36 I think syslinux has a config file that points to images that might not get used until booting. 16:40:09 Side note: digikam 2.0.0-4.fc16 from koji is installing for me. So that issue will be fixed once it's really in stable. 16:40:34 right. 16:41:19 oop, missed one confirmed blocker 16:41:20 #topic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735866 16:41:31 which we still just have no useful maintainer response on. anyone else have new data? 16:43:08 that is very weird. I never received any of those comments after my comment was posted 16:43:13 anyway I don't have any new data 16:44:06 kparal: somehow you're not on the cc list 16:44:16 adamw: I just added myself manually 16:44:45 adamw: I believe I saw that on DVD install media, yes 16:47:31 The two minute timeout might be systemd related. That's about how long it waits for me to enter keys on boot and will continue without mounting devices if I take too long. 16:47:41 brunowolff: no, it's not: it's coded into udevadm. 16:47:56 what 'udevadm settle' does is simply wait for the udev queue to empty, then return success 16:48:10 or return failure if waits for a specific period and the queue doesn't empty 16:48:21 the default timeout is 120 secs, you can pass a parameter to udevadm to change it 16:48:32 it happens too infrequently to test it well 16:48:35 systemd's default service timeout is 90 secs. 16:49:01 kparal: yeah, it's an annoying bug. 16:49:20 there were times where I encountered it 5 times in a row 16:49:31 and now nothing, not once 16:49:33 #agreed no new info on 735866, still waiting for a reliable reproducer or developer feedback 16:50:21 one bug i have on my list that's not proposed as a blocker, and then the other one that was proposed earlier... 16:50:22 #topic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731356 16:50:32 * satellit_ dd 8GB USB of f16 DVD RC1 is booted and installing to usb 250 GB HD now... 16:51:32 this one's another issue encountered when writing the dvd iso to usb stick 16:52:01 so, another one to look out for when testing that path 16:52:53 anyone else ever seen this one? 16:53:02 nope 16:53:36 yay, more worrying-but-uncertain bugs. 16:53:41 okay, just wanted to flag this one up. 16:53:53 #agreed 731356 another potential issue when installing from dvd-to-usb, everyone please test 16:54:13 * kparal is tired and wants to go home. let's wrap it up! 16:54:22 yeah, this should be the last one 16:54:23 #topic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738977 16:54:27 as proposed earlier 16:55:07 interesting bug 16:55:07 i'm not sure i see this one: i think when i tested install f15, upgrade to f16, update kernel, reboot, it booted to the new kernel 16:55:17 but my everyday f16 machine is on grub1 so i'm not sure 16:55:25 I don't think it relates to dist-upgrade 16:55:32 just simple kernel upgrade 16:55:42 kparal: see last step 16:56:14 this one? 16:56:15 4) Due to 1) user ends running the vulnerable kernel even though he had updated 16:56:15 to the one with the security fix. 16:56:19 so i did an f15->f16 upgrade which left me with kernel rc3, then i did a 'yum update' which installed rc5 and rebooted, and it gave me rc5 16:56:24 adamw: I did 1) install f16 from live cd 2) yum update 3) reboot 16:56:27 kparal: no, the 'last step' in my line ' 'update kernel' 16:56:30 adamw: 4) old kernel 16:56:33 hum, interesting 16:56:36 maybe it's a live thing 16:56:39 more testing required! 16:56:57 adamw: what does your grub config state as default? 16:57:04 drago01: i blew that vm away days ago. 16:57:13 adamw: ok 16:57:15 it's probably had about fifteen installs since then =) 16:57:26 I think you must use "saved" option 16:57:31 for this bug to manifest 16:57:39 I don't know whether it's the default setting 16:57:50 well, let's do a bit more testing to see 16:57:56 does anyone want to vote yet? 16:57:58 kparal: the whole bug is about saved being the default 16:58:11 drago01: ah, you're right 16:58:17 I don't think its a blocker. 16:58:31 definitely can be solved post-release 16:58:42 are we sure about that? 16:59:05 (it can be fixed post-release) 16:59:15 could we do an update which changed a grub config option for existing installs? 16:59:21 adamw: Fesco's in 60 seconds? 16:59:27 mjg59: we're about done 16:59:30 well yeah assuming grubby writes out the config 16:59:34 adamw: Great 16:59:53 okay...let's vote on this one in comments, don't want to take a hurried -1 17:00:02 aaand we'd better get out of fesco's way, that's the whole list anyhow 17:00:10 anyone have a really urgent topic? 17:00:16 you got -10 seconds to raise it 17:00:25 paging dr. who 17:00:34 I remember that 1 hour meetings used to be considered long... 17:00:41 #agreed 738977 needs more testing and voting 17:00:44 #endmeeting