Re: [Trisquel-devel] Install testing as per the dev meeting 2020/06/05, 2020/06/26 and 2020/07/10

2020-07-11 Thread Leny
I did some amd64 install testing from the new isos 2020-07-10-11.  All
but one of the installs were successful.  With one exception the
installed systems worked as well as can be expected (KDE was a bit
ropey in 18.04).

First the two issues I believe have enough priority to be fixed before
ship.


* LE-29 Triskel netinstall fails after tasksel

The log screen shows it's because triskel-recommended depends on
plasma-nm but it is not going to be installed.


* LE-30 In both Trisquel and Triskel trying to create a test local
  database with LibreOffice Base fails because the sdbc driver is
  missing.


"The connection to the data source 'testdatabase' could
 not be established.

 The connection to the external data source could not be
 established. No SDBC driver was found for the URL
 'sdbc:embedded:hsqldb'."

When I found this for the second time in Trisquel I found it was fixed
by a

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb

Which also pulled in a few dependencies.

HSQLDB databases are the only type of database the user is given the
option of creating in LibreOffice Base as shipped.




The rest are cos I spent 40 minutes or so systematically going through
the Triskel launcher menus and starting each one.  Didn't finish all
of the menus.  As Luis said, they are upstream KDE bugs.


* LE-31 launching Kontact opens a two frames, starts Akondai server and
  then prompts you for your own contact details including email.  The
  original two frames disappear within a few seconds.  Might be
  they're SEGFAULTing.  The fact you have to launch Kontact again after
  creating an email account suggests this might be the case.

* LE-32 Amarok SEGFAULTs trying to download the Magnatune (plugin)
  catalog if you type in a Download account details.

* LE-33 Launching Applications > Internet > IM Contacts results in two
  frames.  The top one asks you if you want to configure any IM
  accounts now.  Replying Cancel closes the frames then two or three
  seconds later the parent frame (empty contacts list) disappears.

* LE-34 Launching Applications > Multimedia > Disk Burning (k3b)
  results ina dialog saying MP3 decoder plugin cannot be found.

* LE-35 Applications > Multimedia > KMix doesn't launch anything.  It
  does show a Kmix entry in the panel for a few seconds.





i686 testing tonight.


Leny / Andrew




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Re: [Trisquel-devel] Install testing as per the dev meeting 2020/06/05 and 2020/06/26

2020-06-27 Thread Leny
* From my own testing 

** LE-17 Triskel needs kwalletmanager and kleopatra (and additonal
   deps) adding to default install packages.

These are the two password and key management packages which provide a
GUI to KDE's Password and GPG key management. Much meeded for Kmail if
the user follows the default route and either uses their own key or
generates one (and sends it to the servers).

** LE-18 xul-ext-kwallet5 depends on firefox or thunderbird but not
   abrowser or icedove.

* Bugs reported on the forum =

** LE-19 paolo reports black screen on boot of Trisquel Mini 9.0 on
  Atom machines.

Interestingly, that doesn't happen on a dist-upgrade from Trisquel 8.0
(Missing driver? - there is one old Intel driver we always forget).
Seems to be same as problem LE-13 I've reported.


[OP] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/problem-black-screen-trisquel-mini-9

** LE-20 paolo reports after dist-upgrade of Mini from 8.0 to 9.0 the
  pcmanfm setting 'Open files with one click' is lost on reboot.

Is also

[OP] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/problem-black-screen-trisquel-mini-9

** LE-21 Masaru Suzuqi reports the digitizer on a Wacom One tablet is
  not supported by Trisquel 9.0

This was self fixed by installing the GPL-2 Wacom support from source
here

[OP] 
https://github.com/linuxwacom/input-wacom/wiki/Installing-input-wacom-from-source

https://trisquel.info/en/forum/wacom-one-tablet-does-not-work-trisquel-9

** LE-22 Beformed reports after upgrade to Trisquel 9 resolv service
   is not working correctly. There is a workaround.

[OP] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-9-not-able-resolv

** LE-23 Connochaetes spotted neither yelp nor mate-user-guide are installed
   with Trisquel

https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-9-graphical-iso-available-testing#comment-145849


** LE-24 ollonois discovered the desktop screen is shown briefly after
   resuming from suspend, before the lock screen appears.  A security
   issue.

[OP] 
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-9-graphical-iso-available-testing?page=2#comment-148773

* From my testing of the 2020-06-16 amd64 graphical install ISOs *

** LE-25 plasma-discover has broken progress bars when doing update.

** LE-26 plasma-discover is missing all but installed apps from its
   list

** LE-27 Trisquel Mini 'Try' install doesn't save Wifi password for
   the installed system.

** LE-13 'nomodeset vga=normal' works but it turns out
   xserver-xorg-video-intel and deps are  misssing.

i686 media has this after install vga=normal install.  amd64 hs it
after Trisquel 'Install In Text Mode' was used.




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[Trisquel-devel] Install testing as per the dev meeting 2020/06/05

2020-06-07 Thread Leny
Hi All,

Here are the bugs I found in the testing Etiona on various bits of kit I keep
around here.  All, so far, are with the 2020/05/15-16 amd64 ISOs.

* MATE

** LE-01 nVidia 1050 GTX support (kernel really).  The kernel is
   carrying non-free blobs for nVIDIA GM20x and later cards.

The default kernel for MATE and presumably all of them supports the
nVIDIA 1050 GTX in 4K far enough to provide the greeting screen but
crashes on login.  It shouldn't even do this, as the nouveau
developers indicate [1] GM20x and later nVIDIA cards require the
firmware to be signed by nVIDIA and there's little hope of that being
allowed for free software.

jxself's linux-libre doesn't carry them and correctly hands over to
fbdev for 1024x768 on my 28" 4K monitor :-).

** LE-02 Abrowser / Web - stale install link for Privacy Badger plugin

It should be https://www.eff.org/files/privacy-badger-latest.xpi

** LE-03 Emacs25 indicates a missing standard GTK package

Running emacs25 GUI from the terminal shows a GTK error message
indicating libcanberra-gtk-module can't be found.  Emacs still
runs. This isn't present in either the KDE or LXDE flavours. (They
have a different problem).

This is fixed by installing libcanberra-gtk3-module.  Which should
either be a dependency of emacs or in trisquel-desktop-common.

* KDE

** LE-04 Booting from the 'Install Trisquel' option on the ISO's menu
   selects the standard installer not the KDE one.

As a consequence the installer issues a message after pairing with
WiFi and you are taken to the Try Triskel desktop to investigate
further.  ISTR this being an issue last release.

** LE-05 (also LXDE) Emacs warns an accessibility service is missing.

The error message running GUI emacs from Terminal on both Triskel and
Trisquel Mini is

(emacs:31646): dbind-WARNING **: 19:07:47.111: Error retrieving
accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:
The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files

** LE-06 plasma-discover says 'Checking for updates' all the time and
   behaves strangely in general with the stale db. 


/usr/bin/script recording of the output when run from konsole is after
the cut line at [2]

** LE-07 System Settings -> Online Accounts won't configure them.
   Telepathy is a mess.

System Settings -> Online Accounts shows the following message when
you try to add an account.

'Following missing providers are required by installed services:
google owncloud(I18N_ARGUMENT_MISSING)'

I've added bits of telepathy in the hope of getting it to work.  But
no luck. It needs further investigation.

** LE-08 'Error malformed URL' when clicking on 'Open in File Manager'
   from the notification when removable USB media are inserted.

* netinst

** LE-09 Netinst on a USB stick doesn't detect supported USB WiFi.

It has no problem with supported mini PCIe cards.  ISTR way back
Debian Installer netinst couldn't see a second USB drive when it was
booted from a USB stick itself.

** LE-10 Lot's of 16.04 hwe kernels in the netinst list.

ISTR old kernels in the list happened with early betas of the Fildas
netinst iso.

** LE-11 netinst fails

According to the log console this is because trisquel depends on
trisquel-desktop-common which is not going to be installed.  This is
since the maintenance to a number of trisquel-xxx pacakges happened on
Saturday. 


So having said I can't recreate Friday's #1 on a standard install, I
now don't have the opportunity to test it on a netinst install.

* * *

Next: i686 testing.  I'm using Triskel as my daily desktop to see what
other problems I shake out.

Yours,

Andrew/Leny

[1] https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
[2] /usr/bin/script recording of plasma-discover's output
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$ plasma-discover
no packages for "org.kde.kmail2"
no packages for "ca.desrt.dconf-editor"
no packages for "org.kde.konsole"
no packages for "org.kde.kate"
no packages for "org.kde.ktplogviewer"
no packages for "org.kde.kmag"
no packages for "org.kde.akregator"
no packages for "org.kde.gwenview"
no packages for "org.gnome.ColorProfileViewer"
no packages for "org.kde.ktorrent"
no packages for "org.kde.ksysguard"
no packages for "org.kde.ark"
no packages for "org.kde.ktpcontactlist"
no packages for "org.kde.k3b"
no packages for "org.kde.korganizer"
no packages for "org.kde.skanlite"
no packages for "org.kde.kwalletmanager5"
no packages for "org.kde.Help"
no packages for "org.kde.kmousetool"
no packages for "org.kde.partitionmanager"
no packages for "org.kde.klipper"
no packages for "org.kde.ksystemlog"
no packages for "org.kde.krdc"
no packages for "org.kde.okular"
empty appstream db
setting currentApplicationBackend PackageKitBackend(0x55eac43de730)
already resetting
no packages for "org.kde.kmail2"
no packages for "ca.desrt.dconf-editor"
no packages for "org.kde.konsole"
no packages for "org.kde.kate"
no packages for "org.kde.ktplogviewer"
no packages for "org.kde.kmag"
no packages for "org.kde.akregator"
no pack