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coordination #116449: [epic] Manual testing for ALP in Yam squad

Initial manual testing for D-Installer (ALP December prototype) - Part 1

Added by JERiveraMoya about 2 years ago. Updated about 2 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
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Target version:
Start date:
2022-12-12
Due date:
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0%

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Description

Motivation

For this new release of ALP in December we should perform some initial manual testing.

Acceptance criteria

AC1: Perform manual testing of D-Installer

Suggestion

Read this blog to kick off this process: https://yast.opensuse.org/blog/2022-12-05/d-installer-needs-you
In case of finding bug, check in Slack channel #proj-alp-wg-installation if it is not already reported.


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Actions #1

Updated by JERiveraMoya about 2 years ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
Actions #2

Updated by JERiveraMoya about 2 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
Actions #3

Updated by JERiveraMoya about 2 years ago

  • Priority changed from High to Normal
Actions #4

Updated by JERiveraMoya about 2 years ago

  • Parent task deleted (#121837)
Actions #5

Updated by JERiveraMoya about 2 years ago

  • Parent task set to #116449
Actions #6

Updated by JRivrain about 2 years ago

Tests on build 3.18:
Some more testing was done by another contirbutor visible here: https://suse.slack.com/archives/C03GL42JKBL/p1670847477743389
He encountered a problem where we get a grub shell after reboot, see discussion here https://suse.slack.com/archives/C03GL42JKBL/p1670838801836239.
I had the same issue but without secure boot, just with standard partitioning. However, it is sporadic. I collected some logs and shared the info on the same thread. See attached log.
I spent some time trying to reproduce it with debug output without success. The outcome of this is:

For debugging of d-installer we must kill the installer and re-launch it with debug, as follow:
open terminal with ctrl-alt-t
"# d-installer -k"
"# Y2DEBUG=1 d-installer"
click reload in d-installer, upload y2log somewhere at the end of install before clicking reboot.

Now switching to newer build.

Actions #8

Updated by JRivrain about 2 years ago

Issues found in 5.1:
I tried an install with 2 disks, 2 nics, 1 user with auto-login.

  • If I create a user, accept, then decide to go back to it to activate auto-login, I have to input passwords again.
  • Cannot use more than one disk for partitioning. But this looks obviously like work-in progress as very little options are available for now.
  • After reboot, I had to unlock two devices but then ended-up with grub prompt, see log in attachment.
Actions #9

Updated by JRivrain about 2 years ago

So, a summary of isues found by different persons on builds 3.18 and 5.1:

https://suse.slack.com/archives/C03GL42JKBL/p1670847477743389:

  • The drop down list offers quite a few languages for which the live image doesn't have fonts, so it shows these 1001 "unicode character" boxes
  • The menu appears unsorted, or at least sorted wrt some unusual ordering
  • I selected "Deutsch", and the installed system indeed has de_DE.utf-8 in locale.conf. However, the corresponding glibc locale files do not get installed, and the shell prints a pretty prominent warning about that upon login
  • I couldn't find a place to select my keyboard layout. Where should I be looking?

https://suse.slack.com/archives/C03GL42JKBL/p1670838801836239:

  • System will not boot after install, both with and without encryption, sporadic but frequent.

https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/121837#note-7:

Here are some of the things I found during a quick installation test:

  • alt + tab works (shouldn't imo)
  • Too much time to start firefox
  • Installer should accept urls for the ssh key (will it automount flash drives?)
  • Installer should make clear that either root has a password or an ssh public key must be provided
  • Disconnecting network cable during the installation breaks the installation
  • Installing system without network results in not working system (installation completes in seconds)
  • No clear information on how to get logs if something fails, or see the instalation progress

https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/121840#note-8:

I tried an install with 2 disks, 2 nics, 1 user with auto-login.

  • If I create a user, accept, then decide to go back to it to activate auto-login, I have to input passwords again.
  • Cannot use more than one disk for partitioning. But this looks obviously like work-in progress as very little options are available for now.
  • After reboot, I had to unlock two device but then ended-up with grub prompt, see log in attachment.
Actions #10

Updated by JERiveraMoya about 2 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
Actions #11

Updated by JERiveraMoya about 2 years ago

  • Due date deleted (2022-12-16)
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