| valorie | just sent out the email asking for testers | 00:26 |
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| valorie | not sure how much we want to publicize this? | 00:26 |
| tsimonq2 | valorie: a lot | 00:30 |
| tsimonq2 | <shameless plug> asknoahshow.com is tonight at 9 PM, he'll be talking about it :) </shameless plug> | 00:31 |
| valorie | cool | 00:31 |
| valorie | well, would could put it on the website | 00:31 |
| valorie | it was so hush hush until now I didn't know | 00:32 |
| valorie | and the kernel patch is not yet available, correct? | 00:32 |
| wxl | keep an eye out for anyone that has problems with their machine because of Dot One | 00:35 |
| wxl | there are solutions, even if it appears BIOS is borked | 00:35 |
| valorie | like what, wxl? | 00:37 |
| valorie | I thought it required a bios flasher gizmo? | 00:37 |
| wxl | no | 00:37 |
| wxl | the problem was caused by flipping the wrong bit. flipping the bit back can fix it and you can do it with software | 00:37 |
| wxl | you can also do it with a flasher, but that's not required | 00:38 |
| valorie | so why is that not being done in the respin? | 00:38 |
| wxl | it is | 00:38 |
| wxl | but whether or not it's been fully tested on every single piece of hardware it could affect? | 00:38 |
| valorie | so then, why would people have a problem? | 00:38 |
| valorie | got it | 00:38 |
| wxl | it affected 3 chipsets and like 20 different serial flashes | 00:38 |
| valorie | so how would a person fix the problem if their BIOS was borked? | 00:39 |
| wxl | admittedly though this update should also NOT include any SPI stuff, so if it's not broken they shouldn't be again, but who knows | 00:39 |
| wxl | can't save BIOS settings | 00:39 |
| wxl | can't boot to USB | 00:39 |
| wxl | e.g. | 00:39 |
| valorie | if there is even a chance I will not be using this machine to test | 00:40 |
| wxl | again, the issue was caused by the SPI being compiled into the kernel and that in turn having some bugs in it that caused issues | 00:41 |
| wxl | since then, there have also been improvements to the module to repair issues | 00:41 |
| wxl | BUT the new stuff should not even have SPI compiled in | 00:41 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> Lubuntu published a blog post including an FAQ: http://lubuntu.me/lubuntu-17-04-eol-and-lubuntu-17-10-respins/ | 00:41 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> It's licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ so feel free to grab it and give us credit ;) | 00:42 |
| valorie | thank you | 00:44 |
| valorie | I have some other stuff cooking so perhaps tomorrow! | 00:44 |
| tsimonq2 | Awesome :) | 00:44 |
| tsimonq2 | valorie: The only thing is it's noderiv so you have to quote it word-for-word | 00:44 |
| valorie | pfff | 00:44 |
| valorie | that I will not do! | 00:44 |
| valorie | you do a good job of lubuntu missionary work on your own | 00:45 |
| tsimonq2 | Put it in quotation marks and then give us credit, that's what the license is ;) | 00:45 |
| valorie | well, your info is not my info so I'll have to be "inspired by" instead | 00:46 |
| valorie | :-) | 00:46 |
| tsimonq2 | Right :) | 00:46 |
| tsimonq2 | Or you could link to our post ;) | 00:46 |
| valorie | I will | 00:46 |
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| BluesKaj | Hey folks | 12:11 |
| mparillo | Hey BluesKaj. New spins of 17.10 are out to address the BIOS bug. In a VM, I tested the whole disk test cases. I know you have done partitioning in the past. | 13:27 |
| BluesKaj | mparillo, i haven't seen the UEFI/BIOS bug on my laptop | 13:39 |
| BluesKaj | on 17.10 | 13:39 |
| mparillo | I sure hope not. As far as I know it most commonly hits consumer-grade Lenovos. But valorie sent a e-mail last night asking us to treat it as a release candidate. | 13:40 |
| acheronuk | BluesKaj: testing is not for the bug. just to make sure the new iso doesn't regress on the usual iso tests | 13:40 |
| acheronuk | from release " No need to test on affected machines, we're 99.783% sure that not compiling in the spi driver into the kernel at all will prevent that driver from breaking your bios" | 13:42 |
| BluesKaj | well my Lenovo G500 is a consumer grade laptop | 13:43 |
| BluesKaj | mparillo, I normally prepartition with gparted and use the manual partitioning when installing to / and then setting the /home mount point | 13:47 |
| BluesKaj | guess I'm missing the point about the kernel causing the bios to break | 13:48 |
| mparillo | I do not think any of us can creditably test that bug...It is more a sanity check that 17.10.1 is basically as good as 17.10 was. | 13:50 |
| acheronuk | also, it's not mandatory that flavours do these QA tests. but it's best policy for our users to run them | 13:52 |
| DarinMiller | I can test 17.10 iso. Is download location hidden or is it just the standard download location? | 15:58 |
| acheronuk | DarinMiller: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/artful/daily-live/20180105.2/ | 15:59 |
| acheronuk | the link on the iso tracker is broken | 15:59 |
| acheronuk | hopefully will be fixed later | 16:00 |
| acheronuk | thanks :) | 16:00 |
| blaze | any chance lp builder will be up online soon? | 17:00 |
| acheronuk | blaze: [22:10] <cjwatson> we'll hopefully be able to get things running again early next week; apologies for the inconvenience | 17:20 |
| IrcsomeBot | <myfenris> @acheronuk> blaze: [22:10] <cjwatson, few days to go ... | 18:04 |
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