20:03:35 <wilcal> #startmeeting 20:03:35 <Inigo_Montoya> Meeting started Thu Feb 25 20:03:35 2021 UTC. The chair is wilcal. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 20:03:35 <Inigo_Montoya> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 20:03:46 <wilcal> Hello everyone to this weeks QA meeting 20:04:09 <wilcal> I was hoping David would be here today as he as part of the activity this week 20:04:27 <wilcal> #topic Who's new? 20:04:36 <wilcal> Anyone new here today? 20:05:30 <wilcal> lets move on 20:05:32 <wilcal> #topic M8 release 20:06:02 <wilcal> So M8 is in the process of being released. Lots of chat about the torrents being populated 20:06:22 <auroud_85[m]> Already spreading through torrents 20:06:42 <wilcal> I honestly haven't seen anything for weeks that can't be worked on after release 20:07:08 <wilcal> What is the official announcent of the release date 20:07:40 <wilcal> Hi TJ 20:07:49 <wilcal> We're taking M8 release 20:07:55 <auroud_85[m]> Tomorrow 0900 utc 20:08:05 <wilcal> It's working it's way through the torrents 20:08:32 <MageiaTJ> Finally. First time using konversation with M8. They changed my config file on me. 20:08:33 <wilcal> So the last ISOs will be up on the mirrors this weekend 20:09:15 <auroud_85[m]> They are spreading in mirrors already 20:09:15 <wilcal> There's still issues but not anything hat can't be worked after release 20:10:00 <wilcal> I always scrub what I have here and start fresh with the official isos off the mirrors 20:10:04 <auroud_85[m]> Bugsquad has not seen any major bugs reported since RC1 release public. 20:10:29 <DavidWHodgins> Sorry, was working on another screen 20:10:36 <wilcal> When do you expect the updates repos to start to populate? 20:10:43 <auroud_85[m]> We are in process to look for M7 to M8 bug reports 20:10:51 <wilcal> Hello David Whew 20:11:07 <wilcal> #chair DavidWHodgins 20:11:07 <Inigo_Montoya> Current chairs: DavidWHodgins wilcal 20:11:09 <auroud_85[m]> Tier1 mirrors should have the iso 20:11:15 <DavidWHodgins> http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/iso/ doesn't 20:11:16 <[mbot> [ Index of /pub/mageia/iso ] 20:11:45 <wilcal> I'll wait till the weekend to start the transition here 20:11:46 <auroud_85[m]> Princeton Edu should have or something wrong with the process. 20:11:48 <DavidWHodgins> I've sent a msg to Benjamin, but that was only about 10 minutes ago 20:12:00 <MageiaTJ> The upgrade changed my konversation config. Made the toolbar disappear, for some reason. 20:12:06 <DavidWHodgins> Likely a full hard drive again 20:12:15 <wilcal> how about kernel.org? 20:12:31 <MageiaTJ> I had to find the file and manually edit to get it back. 20:12:50 <DavidWHodgins> kernel.org now looks ok 20:12:59 <DavidWHodgins> It was slow syncing properly too 20:13:30 <wilcal> I'll start looking at things on Sat, LA time 20:13:53 <DavidWHodgins> The official announcement is supposed to be tomorrow, but if there are more mirror problems that may have to wait some more 20:14:31 <wilcal> When will the updates repos start to get opulatted 20:14:40 <wilcal> populated 20:15:51 <DavidWHodgins> The should be started already, but again depends on the mirror syncing 20:16:39 <DavidWHodgins> Pretty much don't expect everything to be fully synced for another day. 20:17:30 <wilcal> isos are on mirrors.kernel.org 20:17:51 <wilcal> http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/8/ 20:17:52 <[mbot> [ Index of /mageia/iso/8/ ] 20:18:44 <DavidWHodgins> That's one of the tier 1 mirrors. But as princeton is also a tier 1 mirror that many other mirrors sync from, that's a problem 20:20:09 <wilcal> Trickling through 20:20:16 <DavidWHodgins> Hopefully that will be fixed quickly and the announcements can go out tomorrow, but if not the announcements will have to be held back too. 20:20:48 <auroud_85[m]> Yes but what about torrent people should use? 20:21:19 <DavidWHodgins> The torrent files (on the mirrors that have them now) are the same on all of the mirrors 20:21:38 <auroud_85[m]> Ok 20:22:32 <DavidWHodgins> So, for example https://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/8/torrents/ 20:22:33 <[mbot> [ Index of /mageia/iso/8/torrents/ ] 20:23:01 <Benmc_> sorry to be late (been out fixing security cameras at local cinema) 20:23:07 <DavidWHodgins> On my system ktorrent is now showing from 14 to 20 seeders for the Mageia 8 iso images 20:23:18 <DavidWHodgins> HiYa Ben 20:24:38 <neoclust> we need to wait for the torrents to be shared :-) 20:24:57 <Benmc_> 2 hrs ago (at home) ~200MB per iso shared 20:25:12 <neoclust> DavidWHodgins: on MLO forum, someone told that the signatures were not OK 20:25:16 <wilcal> busy busy 20:25:20 <neoclust> can someone at the QA verify this ? 20:26:29 <DavidWHodgins> According to mageiasync, the sigs for the sha512 files validated. I'll check the rest after the meeting. 20:27:21 <DavidWHodgins> Any gpg file in particular mentioned on the forum? 20:27:46 <auroud_85[m]> neoclust: oh I'll stop my Freebox... 20:28:58 <neoclust> DavidWHodgins: i asked but no answer yet 20:29:06 <neoclust> auroud_85[m]: :) 20:29:15 <DavidWHodgins> $ gpg --verify Mageia-8-x86_64.iso.md5.gpg Mageia-8-x86_64.iso.md5 shows gpg: Good signature from "Mageia Release <release@mageia.org>" [full] 20:34:28 <DavidWHodgins> I would like to thank everyone now for all of the work done in testing Mageia 8. It's paid off. In my opinion, this has been one of the cleanest releases yet! 20:34:28 <wilcal> Lots of good work everywhere 20:34:28 <wilcal> M* became very usful weeks and weeks ago 20:34:28 <wilcal> M8 20:34:28 <wilcal> I have two issues I need to mention here. Mostly for M9 20:35:38 <wilcal> Just before we started jeeebz inquired about an ARM ( Rasperry Pi ) version of Mageia 20:36:07 <wilcal> #2 Continued support of 32-bit Mageia. Yes or No 20:36:34 <DavidWHodgins> I now have m8 working on an rpi4 except no sound over the hdmi to a tv. 20:36:39 <wilcal> I expect very strong support of 32-bit going forward 20:37:10 <DavidWHodgins> As long as the build system can support 32 bit, I see no reason to drop it. 20:37:28 <DavidWHodgins> The newer laptops with 32 bit uefi need it 20:37:41 <wilcal> The latest Pi the 4 and 400 has more then enough power to run an Xfce version of Mageia 20:37:58 <neoclust> DavidWHodgins: wilcal Yes, the QA is better every day, every release : -) 20:38:02 <DavidWHodgins> I'm running plasma on it. Speed is reasonable 20:38:42 <DavidWHodgins> A lot of that is better procedures and checking being done by packagers. Far fewer upgrade conflicts etc. 20:38:45 <barjac> Hi all, Anyone used VBox recently in Mga8? I can't get the file chooser to work when selecting a file for the install media. It works in Mga7 not 8. 20:39:29 <DavidWHodgins> barjac: Not in the last week or so. I can check it quickly though. Be right back 20:40:18 <wilcal> I've used Vbox on a Dell Laptop runiing both M7 & M8 and all versions run nicely 20:40:34 <wilcal> But, the laptop was less then a year old 20:40:59 <wilcal> I run it off USB storage 20:41:57 <barjac> wilcal: Could be something here then as I have not used it for a while, and this is not a new install of Mga8 it my old cauldron, but almost up to date. 20:42:59 <barjac> When selecting the iso for the install disk the chooser does not respond. (plasma) 20:43:14 <wilcal> IMO box is a bit tricky to master 20:43:36 <wilcal> Once you understand it it throws you a curve from time to time 20:43:38 <DavidWHodgins> barjac: Just confirmed. Clicking on the directory in the left part of the panel is not working, but, typing the directory name in the Name: field is working 20:43:44 <wilcal> Keeps life interesting 20:44:05 <wilcal> Sounds like a bug to me 20:44:14 <MageiaTJ> I used it a few days ago, looking for trying an upgrade from the CI. Worked OK as I recall. 20:44:16 <DavidWHodgins> Yep 20:44:52 <leuhmanu> we already have one 20:44:56 <leuhmanu> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27433 20:44:58 <[mbot> [ 27433 – Virtualbox 6.1.18 : Storage Section under VM configuration : Can't select ISO file in KIO Open dialog [Was OK before release of 6.1.14] ] 20:45:20 <DavidWHodgins> I've gotten into the habit of typing the directory names as I find it faster (I'm a touch typist), so would not have noticed normally 20:45:44 <DavidWHodgins> So we have a work around. 20:45:55 <barjac> DavidWHodgins: Oh dear! Well I have switched to Mga7 for the job in hand and can't stop just now. Ah OK thanks leuhmanu glad it's in hand! 20:46:14 <DavidWHodgins> On my new laptop, I only have m8 installed 20:48:24 <wilcal> Anything else on M*? 20:48:28 <wilcal> M8 20:48:41 <DavidWHodgins> Not for now. :-) 20:49:05 <wilcal> #topic Testing Updates & Backports 20:49:10 <wilcal> short list 20:49:41 <MageiaTJ> We have some for M8 already. 20:49:44 <wilcal> I put some issues being talked about on the QA ML in my notice this morning 20:50:03 <DavidWHodgins> I was supposed to test guacd last week but got sidetracked. I'm thinking of validating that one just based on a clean install over the prior version. 20:50:21 <wilcal> xfce won't wake: re-login failure 20:50:22 <wilcal> Grub menu gone after installing M8 20:50:24 <wilcal> upgrade testing 20:50:35 <wilcal> CPU sleep/suspend 20:50:55 <wilcal> 32bit i586 and SSE/SSE2 instructions slipping 20:51:03 <wilcal> anything in there of concern? 20:51:35 <DavidWHodgins> The xfce won't wake bug may end up as an errata item, as in "don't do that" :-( 20:52:11 <DavidWHodgins> The grub menu gone I don't have a clue what caused it, nor been able to replicate. 20:52:52 <wilcal> what's the 32bit i586 and SSE/SSE2 instructions slipping issue 20:53:11 <DavidWHodgins> That's some packages marked i586 that have i686 instructions in them 20:54:33 <DavidWHodgins> That's not supposed to happen, but some packages have wrong compiler options 20:54:33 <wilcal> warrent a bug being written? 20:54:34 <DavidWHodgins> There are not many, and as far as I know none for packages on the iso images so they can be fixed later as they are identified 20:54:58 <wilcal> Ok lets move on to: 20:54:59 <wilcal> #topic Anything else? 20:55:09 <wilcal> I don't have anything 20:55:20 <wilcal> except to wait about 48-hours 20:55:28 <DavidWHodgins> Sunny day here finally! :-) 20:55:43 <wilcal> sunny windy and cook in Las Vegas today 20:55:47 <wilcal> cool 20:55:56 <DavidWHodgins> +1C here right now 20:56:01 <MageiaTJ> Warmed up again here yesterday. 20:56:06 <wilcal> OK thanks all for being here. Especially David 20:56:13 <wilcal> We'll do it again next week 20:56:18 <wilcal> Countdown time 20:56:19 <MageiaTJ> Turned my driveway into a sheet of ice. 20:56:22 <wilcal> T-5 20:56:25 <DavidWHodgins> Thanks again everyone! 20:56:26 <joeghi> DavidWHodgins: there were a few, flac, ligraphene, etc., the one that were identified lately were posted in ML in the thread. 20:56:32 <MageiaTJ> All I can do to walk on it. 20:56:42 <wilcal> T-4 20:56:49 <wilcal> T-3 20:56:54 <wilcal> T-2 20:56:56 <wilcal> Bye all 20:56:59 <wilcal> T-1 20:57:02 <wilcal> #endmeeting