proven tester

I was approved to Fedora proven tester group:-) I'll do my best.
I hope I can help to making Fedora release better. anyway, I need to learn a lot about whole fedora's features, critical path pakcages feathers and so forth.

memo: boot option

This is my memo to pass boot option to anaconda.
There is two ways to enter boot option.
1. add repo=<host>/Linux/fedora/releases/13/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/
This option get install.img from the URL.

2. add askmethod
This option ask you to where to get install.img from(e.g. http, nfs and so on).

Testing rawhide.

I submitted three bug reports against rawhide today.

The reports are following URLs.
#611037
#611073
#611083

AFAIK, run a program from terminal emulator is good way to test. cuz, if run a program from an icon or likewise, it may works fine but sometimes error message is shown at stderr or stdout.
If you run a program via an icon, you won't miss to see an error messages. so I think run a program both way is useful.

Bug report 2010/07/01

I reported it today.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=610087

It summary is qemu-kvm chrash. I have some fedora images e.g. FC13, rawhide. but I only had this happen while I was running FC13 image.
I could reproduce sometimes but I don't know what is the cause of the crash:-(

Bug reports.

I've submitted two bug reports today. Both are against elfutils package.

One is crash /usr/bin/eu-strings if you run without any arguments.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609476

The other is minor l10n bug.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609468

to be...

Today, I've submitted a ticket to fedora-qa's trac that request for a mentor to be a proventester.
I'd be happy to working with proventesters:-)

Started Updates Testing

I thought that better update testing environment is my main desktop environment because I use many softwares every day on it. so I enabled update-testing repo on it instead of test environemt.
AFKIK, it good test case because it's real use case, right? although, it may be job to fill update comment but it's ok. you know, helping QA activiteis is my purpose anyway.
Ahh, of course, I've installed fedora-easy-karma:P

Sharing USB-HDD via nfs.

My main laptop has only two USB ports. It isn't enough, isn't it? Therefore, I use USB hub to plug USB-mouse and speaker.
However, my USB-HDDs need electricity. If I plug it into USB port directory, it works but USB hub doesn't. Luckly, I have an eeepc so that I decided to share USB-HDD via nfs.

At first, I tested to share local disk. Then I got following messages.
[masami@moon]~% LANG=C sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.1.26:/home/masami /mnt/home
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.26:/home/masami,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount. helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
I tested to mount that directory at eeepc was no problems. Eeepc could mount directory by itself also /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny's setting is correct.
It seemed like fedora has some problem I thought.
Then, I googled and got answer that I should have installed nfs-utils package.
Finally, I could share USB-HDD via nfs:-)

Starting fedora life.

I used Debian for many years but I started to use Fedora recently for some reasons.
Anyway, I want to help to develop it. so, I'm reading Fedora's QA pages and created bugzilla account, subsrcibed some mailing lists, prepare testing environments on kvm.

I tried to create own live cd but I had one problem which is already reported to the Bugzilla. I added "LANG=C" before the sudo command and it worked fine:-) I did like this.
LANG=C sudo livecd-creator

I used FC13 repo instead of Rawhide. anyway, my PC may be ready to test FC14 but I need learn about QA activities.