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loolDoes someone reproduce https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/358961 with a desktop daily on !armel?11:56
ubot4Launchpad bug 358961 in ubiquity "Broken window icon in top left corner" [Undecided,New]11:56
persialool, Yes: I'm looking at it now.  I'll confirm.11:57
loolOn armel or !armel?11:57
persiaarmel11:57
persiaSorry.  I'll try another arch right now.11:57
loolI'd suspect the new libglade personally12:07
persialool, I ran into another issue in my first test on i386, but at least the questions had the icon.12:07
jtholmesdavmor2, mornin12:13
davmor2jtholmes: Morning12:13
jtholmesyou asked about the bars yesterday and I found that side by side goes away and never comes back12:14
davmor2jtholmes: yes it a bug it's not meant too12:16
jtholmesok i am downloading dailys now will check things out12:16
davmor2jtholmes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/35851912:17
ubot4Launchpad bug 358519 in ubiquity "Jaunty: Ubiquity-frontend-kde step 4 should display bars for partitioning" [Undecided,New]12:17
davmor2I don't think it got fixed yesterday12:17
jtholmesi knew i had seen the bars on a previous daily but could not find the one that worked correctly12:19
jtholmesnow with VM i can keep several days iso's in diff VM's and refer back to check on previous behaviors12:20
jtholmesthe VM is a little slow loading etc. but allows me to keep several days of dailys ready to run etc.12:20
persiajtholmes, You might consider just keeping the dailies as files, and then loading those ISOs into the VMs, rather than keeping the installed results laying about.12:21
persiaThe ISO should only be ~700MB, but the installed target is more likely to be close to 2GB.12:21
persialool, I can reproduce in i386 reliably now: that I couldn't reproduce before it probably related to the other issues I had with that install.12:23
jtholmespersia, well i have about 65G for the VM and so far it am only using about 20% of it with 4 dailys loaded12:23
loolThen I'll target the bug12:23
jtholmesi just wish the VM was faster loading and starting12:23
persiajtholmes, Well, that's up to you.  That's 13G.12:24
jtholmesi may change that approach if disk space get used up faster than i want but thanks for the heads up12:25
persiaMy local iso directory typically has between 6 and 10 different images (I don't keep historical copies), so for me, it's easier to replicate the install (doesn't take that long), or replicate in a live environment.12:25
jtholmesfrom start to finish how long does your VM take to install and load one iso mine takes about 35 min12:26
jtholmesand thats on a fast machine12:26
persiaabout the same for a full install.12:26
persiaThe live environment is usually available in a couple minutes, and that sufficies for most replication.12:26
jtholmesok just wanted a watermark12:27
persiaIf you want faster VMs, you want *lots* of RAM and very fast disks.12:27
persiaI understand an install can be done in about 15 minutes, if one both reads from and writes to cache, rather than actual disk reads.12:28
jtholmeshave fast disks plan to add more memory today or tomorrow12:28
jtholmesi can bring up live cd to start of install in about 5 mins is that pretty standard12:29
persiaRight.12:29
jtholmesstarting with a new VM that is12:29
jtholmesok12:29
persiaI'm surprised it takes that long with fast disks though: I can get about that with a laptop.12:30
davmor2persia: I cheat I use hardware :D12:30
jtholmesyes it is a litle slower than i thought i currently have 2G mem12:30
persiadavmor2, I use hardware sometimes, but I find it slower, because it takes longer for me to burn CDs or USB keys than to launch a VM :)12:31
davmor2persia: I know but I get really issues that aren't apparent in vm so swings and roundabouts12:31
persiajtholmes, That's probably the limiting factor then.  For fastest VM, you want enough ram for your normal environment, plus enough for the size of the install media, plus enough for the environment in the VM plus enough for the disk cache in the VM for the 2GB being copied, plus enough to cache the virtual disk onto which you are installing.  That's usually at least 8GB.12:32
persiadavmor2, Yep.  That's why I also use hardware :)12:32
persiaMy experience is that 80% of issues can be replicated in a VM, but only 80%, and none of them related to the kernel.12:33
jtholmeshmm 8G well i might give that a try i was going to bump to 6 but might go 8 thanks12:34
davmor2persia: I currently have a nice setup that I want to increase.  I need ati gfx base unit to round off the 3 major gfx bases.  I got 32 and 64bit machines.  I got bought and home buit units, laptops and netbooks.  I got a machine specifically for testing ltsp oh and a huge electric bill :)12:36
persiadavmor2, That sounds like a decent setup.12:37
jtholmesyikes!12:37
persiaMine is different (2 lpia, 3 armel (one for which we no longer ship kernel), 2 amd64).  My powerpc is sadly dormant.12:38
persiaBut I tend to test different things :)12:38
davmor2persia: like I say I just want an ati base unit then I intel, nvida and ati :)12:38
davmor2persia: I test everything bar armel12:38
persiaYou ought be able to grab a relatively inexpensive ati card somewhere.12:39
davmor2persia: yeah but I need the base unit too :)12:39
davmor2persia: probably need a bigger kvm too then :)12:42
* davmor2 -> Off out for a bit see you's latter12:51
jtholmesdavmor2, whoever fixed something12:53
jtholmesno more side by side, no more use largest free area12:54
jtholmesonly use entire disk, and manually but the bars are there on step 412:54
jtholmesand they took the Bang Icons off the WHo are you page, yeah12:55
jtholmesit appears that there is a ubuntu alternate and a kubuntu alternate is that correct?13:16
persiajtholmes, Yes.13:16
jtholmesthanks13:17
persiaThe difference is the set of packages available in the pool, the default tasks, and the preseeding.13:17
jtholmesgood to know13:17
persiaSo, while it's possible to install Xubuntu from the Kubuntu alternate CD, one ends up downloading a fair number of packages (and one has to fiddle the defaults).13:17
jtholmesis alternate for those machines that seem to choke on other iso's for one reason or another13:19
persiaWell that, or to support certain classes of automated installs, or for different sorts of accessibility, or just more control over the installation process.13:20
jtholmesgot it13:20
persiaThere are things one can do with alternates that one can't do with the live images, in terms of package selection, etc.13:21
persiaSo, for example, the Server CDs are *all* alternates, because it's impossible to know which kind of server is being installed, and nobody wants an unmaintained webserver installed on their mailserver.13:21
jtholmesgood good13:23
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jtholmespersia, ping16:17
jtholmesdoes anyone know if today is a holiday in Europe as it is in most of the USA16:18
stgraberit's16:19
jtholmesthank you16:19
davmor2persia: you about still?17:07
charlie-tcaHello, davmor217:07
davmor2Hello charlie-tca :)  How's things stateside?17:07
charlie-tcaLooking good, I think.17:08
charlie-tcaNot making any bets, though, today17:09
davmor2:)17:10
jtholmesdavmor2, do you have the bug number for side by side partitioning failing?17:27
jtholmesi cant find it in lp17:28
davmor2jtholmes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/35851917:29
ubot4Launchpad bug 358519 in ubiquity "Jaunty: Ubiquity-frontend-kde step 4 should display bars for partitioning" [Undecided,New]17:29
jtholmesthanks17:29
jtholmesis there a timestamp file in each iso telling when it was created  date/time etc.17:51
davmor2jtholmes: What for?17:54
jtholmesso i can positively identify an iso image17:55
jtholmesother that lsb-release file which has no date/time17:55
davmor2jtholmes: you can use md5sum to track images17:56
jtholmestrue but was looking for simpler method, but that will do17:56
davmor2jtholmes: you could right click on it and look at properties17:57
jtholmesbtw  #339308 is in  4/10/9  daily-live  dont believe it was ever fixed i attaching bug trace17:58
jtholmesyes hadnt thought about properties17:58
jtholmesi am attaching  ubiquity -d  files to the bug for devel17:58
davmor2jtholmes: they know about it it's just a mtter of tracing back to when it first happened17:59
jtholmesok thanks17:59
cjwatsonjtholmes: .disk/info18:15
jtholmescjwatson, stepped away for lunch will find it and include it also18:22
* sbeattie writes a todo to himself to get apport to include it if ubuntu-bug is invoked from a livecd.18:24
cjwatsonI don't think we need further information on 358519, if that's the one you're talking about18:25
cjwatsonI could reproduce it myself18:25
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jtholmesis there something similare to ctrace for python22:34
jtholmessimilare similar22:35
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