2010-08-26 OpenSCAP Test Day report
by Kamil Paral
On 26th of August there was an OpenSCAP Test Day [1]. Thanks everyone
for showing up. The attendance was not absolutely great, but it was quite
decent taking into account this software is not widely known and used.
This test day has shown very helpful for OpenSCAP developers since many
problems were discovered. Some of them were reported into bugzilla, here's
the list:
627633 NEW - [abrt] firstaidkit-engine-0.2.12-1.fc14: raise: Process /usr/bin/python was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
627600 NEW - Set net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects for Hosts and Routers fails
627674 NEW - Failures on F13
565691 ASSIGNED - file probe eats too much memory even for small file lists
627488 CLOSED RAWHIDE - buffer overflow detected in xccdf_item_to_dom
Others were communicated over IRC, posted as wiki comments or put onto
fpaste. The soon-to-be-available OpenSCAP 0.6.2 version should address most
of those shortcomings. Developers also learnt an important lesson about
memory requirements of this software in different software setups, because
it caused problems on many computers.
Thanks developers for actively solving problems and posting fixed versions
and testers for helping to improve this upcoming Fedora 14 feature.
See you on the next test day,
Kamil Paral
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-08-26_OpenSCAP
12 years, 9 months
Bugzappers meeting slot 2010-08-24
by Adam Williamson
Hi, folks. There's a meeting slot tomorrow at the usual time, 2010-08-24
15:00 UTC. There's nothing new on the agenda page -
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers:meeting-agenda-list - and I
can't think of any particularly pressing topics, so we may not need to
have a meeting. I'll be around in the morning, though, just in case. If
anyone would like to discuss something specific, please do reply to this
email and we'll run the meeting as usual. Thanks!
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Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
12 years, 9 months
Call for testing: F14 Alpha RC3/RC4 with Radeon graphics adapters
by Adam Williamson
Hi, everyone. So, we have one bug remaining for Fedora 14 whose blocker
status is unclear:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596985
Two reporters in the bug - John Reiser and Mike Chambers - and one
reporter from the list - Rui He,
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092583.html -
report that the screen is blanked when the installer starts X on various
Radeon adapters when booted with default options. The system is still
running and you can switch to a virtual console to get logs - see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596985#c36 - but the screen
is permanently blank until reboot. When booted with 'basic video driver'
- which, due to an anaconda bug, actually results in the use of the
radeon driver, but with kernel modesetting disabled - the installer is
able to run X normally, for all three. One further reporter, Chuck
Forsberg -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092581.html -
had problems with both default and 'basic video mode' (radeon+UMS).
Jerome Glisse reports that he was able to start X and see the display in
the installer with one or some of his own test cards.
What we need here is more data. So it would be really useful if everyone
on this list with a Radeon video adapter could test this. It's fairly
quick and easy and doesn't require you to actually complete an install.
Just get the boot.iso for RC3 (currently) or RC4 (later today, likely) -
the boot.iso for RC3 is at
http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14-Alpha.RC3/Fedora/x... or http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14-Alpha.RC3/Fedora/i... - boot it, and see if you can make it to the graphical stage of the installation process. Please reply here, and if you observe the same problem as the reporters, add your details to the bug report (also test the 'basic graphics driver' choice, and report whether you used rc3 or rc4, and x86-64 or i386). Thanks!
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Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
12 years, 9 months
