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| persia | So, regarding SRU validation: There's a reporter in #ubuntu-bugs that says that upgrade for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/508173 renders GPT hardware unbootable. | 22:34 |
| ubot4 | Launchpad bug 508173 in grub2 (Ubuntu Lucid) (and 2 other projects) "postinst has errors with grub-probe that cause the system to stop booting (affects: 1) (heat: 16)" [Medium,Fix released] | 22:34 |
| persia | Could anyone remind me how we're supposed to respond? This mostly affects Apple hardware, but there's bundles of that around. | 22:35 |
| sbeattie | persia: mark the bug as verification-failed, have the reporter open a new bug about the regression and refer to the regression bug report in a followup comment to 508173 | 22:37 |
| persia | So, the reporter is having a bit of trouble opening a new bug using any automation. Do we care? | 22:37 |
| persia | Should it be an unautomated bug? | 22:37 |
| persia | Also, do we know any regular testers with Apple hardware that could do verification testing? I worry that we may want to take some significant action to avoid making Ubuntu not work there. | 22:38 |
| sbeattie | an automated bug would be preferred, but an unautomated bug is fine. | 22:39 |
| persia | OK, cool. Unfortunately, this sort of hardware can't USB-boot, and the reporter doesn't have a blank CD about. | 22:40 |
| sbeattie | Bugger, looks like the update made it out of SRU, and into -updates? | 22:40 |
| persia | So there's no means to get back into Ubuntu until a shop can get visited, or there's some grub manipulation tool that can run inside OS X. | 22:40 |
| persia | Unfortunately. | 22:41 |
| persia | I'm not sure we test GPT heavily. | 22:41 |
| * sbeattie doesn't know what GPT is. | 22:42 | |
| persia | It's "GUID Partition Table", used on many EFI-booting systems. | 22:43 |
| persia | EFI is the Extensible Firmware Interface. GUID might be Globally Unique Identifier, but that doesn't make sense to me. | 22:43 |
| persia | Anyway, it's how Apple Intel machines get partitioned, rather than using a DOS disklabel. | 22:44 |
| persia | So testing would involve a (newer) Mac | 22:45 |
| persia | (but note that at least some newer Macs have issues getting installed, making this tricky) | 22:45 |
| sbeattie | Does our installer support EFI/GPT? | 22:47 |
| sbeattie | virtualbox-ose claims to support EFI booting, and the next version coming is supposedly going to support OSX installs. | 22:48 |
| sbeattie | (just wondering if virtualbox can be used as an accurate test environment) | 22:48 |
| persia | It kinda does, for some sorts of installs. | 22:53 |
| persia | At least for my hardware, default selections for desktop works and default selections for server fails. | 22:54 |
| persia | But I think mine differs from lots of stuff out there, or there would be more complaints, as default selections for desktop failed prior to Beta2 in lucid. | 22:54 |
| persia | (and my hardware is very new) | 22:55 |
| persia | sbeattie: I think I've gotten 508173 in the right state. Could you confirm? | 23:10 |
| sbeattie | persia: yeah, looks okay. Probably best to get cjwatson looking at bug 576662 | 23:13 |
| ubot4 | Launchpad bug 576662 in grub2 (Ubuntu) "latest grub2 renders gpt based system unbootable (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/576662 | 23:13 |
| persia | Bad time-of-day, and even time-of-year (elections/UDS), but yeah. | 23:15 |
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