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#862 GRUB Out-Of-Memory Error Test Day - Second Part
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Test day proposal

Extending [1] test coverage but this time actually installing a Fedora system and not just booting the live OS, we want a new test day with the aim of testing grub2-2.12-50.fc44 [2] again on a fresh system. On previous test day [1], this fix was already embedded into the live OS so it was just a matter of live booting and nothing else, but this time the idea is to actually install a system and then install the corresponding fix. [2] was supposed to fix [bz#2263643] but unfortunately some systems were affected with other non-OOM issues [bz#2427945] where apparently GRUB has trouble finding the partitions. In particular, we want to identify those machines that fail and see the particular partitioning scheme.

Prerequisite for the Test Day

  • A bare metal machine (no VM)
  • Download [3] and write it to a USB through Fedora Media Writer
  • Make sure Secure Boot is enable (mokutil --sb-state)

Test case

  1. Install Latest Fedora OS live image [3] and decide any convenient partition layout for your needs
  2. Once installed, run 'lsblk -f'
  3. Run 'koji download-build --arch=x86_64 --arch=noarch grub2-2.12-50.fc44' and install the corresponding rpms
  4. reboot
  5. share the following results:
    5.1. desktop motherboard name, or laptop manufacturer + model name.
    5.2. HW info: 'lshw -short'
    5.3. Partition layout: 'lsblk -f'

Time Frame

We need data so as soon as possible. Realistically starting Feb, any week?

[1] https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/issue/853
[2] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2878934
[3] https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/nightlies.html
[bz#2263643] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263643
[bz#2427945] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2427945

Sorry I forgot to mention before:

For ownership, I believe I need help from the QA team for hosting/organizing the test day.

Metadata Update from @kparal:
- Custom field story_points adjusted to 2
- Issue set to the milestone: Fedora 44
- Issue tagged with: test days

Metadata Update from @jgroman:
- Issue assigned to jgroman

Hi @lsandova

I'll prepare wiki page and testdays result page for you.

Regarding available dates - how would next week (Jan 26 - Feb 2) work for you?
There are already KDE and Gnome test weeks planned after that. It is not a big problem to have
two testdays to share dates so we could also do that as well.

Thanks!

Hi @jgroman ,

Hi @lsandova

I'll prepare wiki page and testdays result page for you.

Regarding available dates - how would next week (Jan 26 - Feb 2) work for you?

I talked to the rest of the team and we agreed that we need to wait a bit more until we have a fix and then test both scenarios, the incoming fix and the one mentioned above.

Is it OK if we keep this ticket open for some time ? Hopefully it will not take much.

There are already KDE and Gnome test weeks planned after that. It is not a big problem to have
two testdays to share dates so we could also do that as well.

Thanks!

Yes, OK, no problem with that!

This issue has been migrated to Fedora Forge:
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/tickets/issues/862

Please continue any further discussion there.
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