[10:30] <DanChapman> dkessel_: hey! sorry been without internet for a few days (it was painful!!). Did you figure out the keyboard input issue?
[13:50] <pitti> jibel: ça va !
[13:51] <pitti> jibel: it seems run-ubiquity-test does not know how to set a proxy, is that right? --help or grepping didn't reveal anything
[13:51] <jibel> pitti, ça va bien et toi?
[13:51] <jibel> pitti, I don't think it is implemented at all
[13:51] <pitti> jibel: ça va bien aussi, merci
[13:51] <pitti> jibel: ok, so I wasn't missing something
[13:52] <pitti>     -o, --override PATH
[13:52] <pitti>                     Directory to copy into the target filesystem
[13:52] <pitti> jibel: ^ is that "target" the instance that runs the live session with ubiquity?
[13:52] <pitti> I could use that to copy /etc/environment (if it accepts a file as well)
[13:52] <jibel> pitti, let me check, it's far far away
[13:54] <pitti> custom-installation/iso-override/ sounds promising, though, although this is initramfs; but perhaps that can copy it further
[13:57] <pitti> oh, autopilot/ubiquity-autopilot-runner/custom-installation/iso-override/etc/ -- I could just add it there for a first test
[13:59] <jibel> pitti, override has the same structure than custom-installation and is copied on top of it
[13:59] <jibel> pitti, so you can either replace files on the iso or the target
[13:59] <pitti> jibel: I added the proxy vars to autopilot/ubiquity-autopilot-runner/custom-installation/iso-override/etc/environment, testing with that
[14:00] <jibel> pitti, yes that would work too, otherwise you can create /tmp/custom-installation/iso-override/etc/environment and pass -o /tmp/custom-installation/
[14:01] <pitti> jibel: ok, understood; that sounds good enough indeed
[14:03] <pitti> jibel: merci !
[14:05] <jibel> pitti, de rien!
[14:06] <pitti> yay, the bzr checkout seems to have worked
[14:12] <pitti> jibel: is there a trick to set a password for the ubuntu user so that you can ssh into the VM?
[14:12] <pitti> jibel: it already redirects the ssh port, so I can connect, but password "ubuntu" doesn't work, and ssh doesn't allow empty passwords
[14:15] <jibel> pitti, you could import your ssh key
[14:16] <jibel> pitti, write them in the override too
[14:16] <pitti> jibel: ah, put it into /home/ubuntu/.ssh ?
[14:16] <jibel> pitti, yes
[14:16] <pitti> nice idea
[14:16] <pitti> it seems stuck after "switched to page partman" here
[14:17] <jibel> if you run locally you can also run with --sdl to see what is happening
[14:19] <pitti> jibel: it works locally; I'm now running in scalingstack
[14:20] <jibel> pitti, in scalingstack firewall rules might be a problem depending on the mirror the installer uses
[14:21] <pitti> jibel: hm, that should be handled by setting the proxy already
[14:21] <pitti> /var/log/syslog: Nov 17 14:06:41 ubuntu partman:   No matching physical volumes found                                    [98/9150]
[14:21] <pitti> /var/log/syslog: Nov 17 14:06:41 ubuntu partman:   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
[14:21] <pitti> /var/log/syslog: Nov 17 14:06:49 ubuntu ubiquity[4026]: switched to page partman
[14:22] <pitti> those were the last messages, looks more like it's got some trouble creating and formatting a disk
[14:22] <pitti> downloading the autopilot debs into the live session works fine
[14:22] <jibel> pitti, you can start ubiquity with -d if it is not already the case and /var/log/installer/debug will contain more information
[14:23] <jibel> there is also a flag for that IIRC
[14:23] <pitti> ah, so there is
[14:23] <jibel> pitti, is there enough space in the VM to create the disk image?
[14:24] <pitti> yes, plenty
[14:24] <jibel> it'd need something like 10GB free
[14:24] <jibel> k
[14:24] <pitti> 150 GB
[14:24] <jibel> it should be enough indeed :)
[17:39] <dkessel_> DanChapman: mo - the keyboard issue is still present
[17:45] <DanChapman> dkessel_: seems it's a known issue. bug 1108742 doesn't seem to be a workaround either :-(
[18:04] <dkessel_> DanChapman: right... "affects me" ;)
[18:04] <flocculant> heh
[18:05] <flocculant> not sure that de is all that exotic nowadays :p
[18:05] <dkessel_> that really does not make it easier for international contributors to write tests
[18:05] <dkessel> I guess it's a exotic AS any non-US
[18:06] <flocculant> dkessel: blame balloons
[18:06]  * balloons sees why he's blamed
[18:07] <flocculant> don't blame me for that :p
[18:07] <balloons> ugh, that seems annoying
[18:07] <balloons> I wonder if there's a simple fix
[18:08] <dkessel> The most annoying part for me is really the corrupted graphics in Autopilot vis though... with forced reboot
[18:08] <flocculant> I suspect that autopilot assumes that any keyboard not connected to an Ubuntu install is gtk2 ...
[18:09] <dkessel> I should file a bug for that graphics bug
[18:10] <veebers> flocculant, dkessel: Yes please file a bug for that, this is the first I've heard of it :-)
[18:10] <flocculant> dkessel: so does autopilot only work with en-US settings ?
[18:11] <veebers> flocculant: that wouldn't surprise me if that's the case, we haven't exactly done extensive testing with it in other locals :-\ *blush*
[18:11] <flocculant> mmk
[18:12] <flocculant> veebers: tbh - I'm only interested in as much as xubuntu qa lead - up to now, it's all been a moot point because gtk2
[18:12] <flocculant> but dkessel is trying for us again :)
[18:17] <veebers> flocculant: when you say moot because gtk2, that's what's used in xubuntu (please excuse my ignorance :-P)
[18:18] <flocculant> introspection fail with gtk2 as far as we knew/know - so we stopped even thinking about trying to use autopilot
[18:18] <dkessel> I am not giving up that easy :) But I really have very limited time lately due to commuting for 3 hours per day now, and many times when things like that happen it really stops me from getting anywhere
[18:19] <flocculant> dkessel: as you know - anything is better than what we've managed up to now :D
[18:19] <veebers> dkessel, flocculant: gtk2 is not supported by autopilot unfortunately
[18:20] <dkessel> veebers: gtk3 is really getting more common in xfce4 lately.
[18:20] <dkessel> Or Xubuntu, even
[18:23] <veebers> dkessel: ah good to hear :-)
[18:23] <dkessel> flocculant: it works with 'de', but only if the tests use some subset of ASCII in Text comparisons
[18:26] <dkessel> for example, i replaced "this_is_my_text!" with "this is the text" now because that is identical in both Keyboards. Pretty surevthat this won't work with Dvorak or French Layouts though
[18:41] <flocculant> right
[18:50] <balloons> veebers, is it not possible to actually fix https://bugs.launchpad.net/autopilot/+bug/1108742?
[18:50] <balloons> dkessel, that is one way to avoid it.. only use characters that will be the same
[18:53] <veebers> balloons: I would have to investigate, I wouldn't know how to do it off the top of my head :-\
[18:54] <veebers> balloons: At the moment the keyboard stuff is pretty barebones, I'm sure there is a better way to do it. any suggestions or help is much appreciated :-)
[19:01] <balloons> veebers, ack. I know it's bare-bones, but that maybe you did have insight on how to do it properly as it were
[19:01] <balloons> *thought
[19:02] <veebers> balloons: yeah, that's true, I didn't know how to do it properly. I would love to learn how to though :-)