Appears that I have not properly followed the required steps. The mounted 
partition was labelled casper-rw. The only file on the USB stick was "lost and 
found". 

I shall try it again and get back to you.

Ron Mitchell



On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:23:49 -0000
Brian Murray <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you followed the steps documented in the test case I would expect
> persistence to work for you.  You should have a file named casper-rw on
> your usb stick, not a partition.   Additionally, you would need to pass
> a persistent boot parameter to the kernel.
> 
> The easiest way to setup persistence is using usb-creator to make your
> usb stick.  Could you either confirm that you had a casper-rw file and
> passed the persistent boot parameter or recreate your usb stick and try
> the test again?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> ** Changed in: casper (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided => Low
> 
> ** Changed in: casper (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
> 
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> Title:
>   Lubuntu Live CD - AMD64+Mac 12.10 build Aug 21 2012. Persistence
>   functionality not enabled.
> 
> Status in “casper” package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
> 
> Bug description:
>   Attempting Test Case dls-003 Live Session Persistence with Lubuntu
>   12.10 build Aug 21 2012 - AMD64+Mac.
> 
>   formatted a 16 Gig USB stick in the prescribed manner, and followed
>   steps given in the details of the test case.
> 
>   Rebooted the Live disk with addition of the word 'persistence' added
>   to the command line <F6> booted into Lubuntu, and used the Chrome
>   browser provided to browse several websites.
> 
>   Rebooted the live CD as required by the Test Case, also with
>   persistence.
> 
>   The USB stick was installed throughout these two boots.
> 
>   There was no record of my browsing history provided by casper-rw.
> 
>   Accordingly I had to fail the test case
> 
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
>   Package: casper (not installed)
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-9.9-generic 3.5.0
>   Uname: Linux 3.5.0-9-generic x86_64
>   NonfreeKernelModules: wl
>   ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu1
>   Architecture: amd64
>   Date: Wed Aug 22 20:44:56 2012
>   InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64+mac 
> (20120813)
>   ProcEnviron:
>    LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
>    TERM=xterm
>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>    LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   SourcePackage: casper
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
> 
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