Fedora 14 Beta RC2 (inc. live) available for desktop testing

[Adam Williamson]

Hey, everyone. So, it's time for pre-release testing again!

I know this didn't work perfectly for Alpha, but I've got together with
releng and tightened up processes and it should be better for Beta. So:
right now, here:

http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14-Beta.RC2/Live/

you will find live images for all of the desktop spins (KDE, XFCE, LXDE,
Desktop) for RC2 of Fedora 14 Beta. I have tested them, and all four at
least boot in a VM, so they're not completely broken like some of the
Alpha images :) I also tested KDE and Desktop on bare metal, and I think
Christoph has LXDE booted on bare metal right now, so we're pretty sure
these are working at a basic level. You won't be wasting a download :)

So with these spins we need to fill out these tables:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test

As you can see, I've made a start on this already, but there's many
tests to fill out. We absolutely need to fill out all the Alpha and Beta
tests for each spin. It would be great to also do the Final tests, as
this gives us a head start on identifying and fixing blocker issues for
the final release.

If people could do some of these tests over the next few days (by
Wednesday) that would be awesome. Also note that I'm running a session
at FUDCon Zurich this afternoon where we'll hopefully be able to get
together and fill out some of the table, so if you're at FUDCon, come
out to my session at 2pm :)
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net

[Ron Leach]

Adam Williamson wrote:
>  Hey, everyone. So, it's time for pre-release testing again!
>  
>  http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14-Beta.RC2/Live/
>  
>  you will find live images for all of the desktop spins (KDE, XFCE, LXDE,
>  Desktop) for RC2 of Fedora 14 Beta.  
Using:
> http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14-Beta.RC2/Live/Fedo...
Write error on CD-R (too large).

GnomeBaker log extract here:

>  wodim: WARNING: Data may not fit on current disk.
>  wodim: Notice: Overburning active. Trying to write more than the official disk capacity.
>  Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
>  <snip>
>  status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>  Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 63 00 00 00
>  Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
>  Sense Code: 0x63 Qual 0x00 (end of user area encountered on this track) Fru 0x0
>  Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
>  resid: 63488
>  cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s
>  wodim: A write error occured.
>  wodim: Please properly read the error message above.
>  
>  write track data: error after 736905216 bytes
>  Writing  time:  322.700s
>  Average write speed  15.8x.
>  Min drive buffer fill was 1%
>  Total of 30 possible drive buffer underruns predicted.
>  Fixating...
>  Fixating time:   20.899s
>  BURN-Free was 263 times used.
>  wodim: fifo had 11799 puts and 11608 gets.
>  wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 11120 times full, min fill was 96%. 

Boot failed:

>  Couldn't find 'ext3fs.img' in a 'squash file',
> and couldn't then mount root filesystem. 
I guess this would be expected, given that there is concern about the 
spin being larger than CD capacity.  I hadn't realised that meant the 
images for download and test were themselves also too large for a CD, 
but obvious, now.

Sorry that I can't test this image.

regards, Ron

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 19:14 +0100, Ron Leach wrote:
>  Adam Williamson wrote:
>  > Hey, everyone. So, it's time for pre-release testing again!
>  > 
>    > http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14-Beta.RC2/Live/
>  > 
>  > you will find live images for all of the desktop spins (KDE, XFCE, LXDE,
>  > Desktop) for RC2 of Fedora 14 Beta. 
>  
>  Using:
>  >
> http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14-Beta.RC2/Live/Fedo...
>  
>  Write error on CD-R (too large). 
Yep, sorry about that, I should have noted that some of the spins are
currently above CD size. For now they can only be tested with a DVD or a
USB key. This should be fixed for final.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net