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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It is nothing to do with lubuntu, it is asking for help with the ubuntu ppc
system so they can try narrow down possible causes.

Thanks,

Phill.

On 28 March 2012 17:28, ∅ <maps.backward@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  i can't help but wonder why this is a failure in lubuntu. nautilus is not
> the file manager nor is gedit the text editor. i would never install these,
> personally. i think that lubuntu SHOULD work with these but i wouldn't call
> that a critical failure on the part of the beta.
>
> maybe i missed something?
>
> wxl
>
>
> On 03/28/2012 08:30 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>
> A big ask, I know. but could you mac guys have a look and see if you can
> help on this.
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>
>  Phill.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: o jordan <ojordan12345@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 28 March 2012 07:39
> Subject: RE: PowerPC questions
> To: jean-baptiste@xxxxxxxxxx, ubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>  Thanks for the quick response on that.
>
> Sadly, I am only going to do the live session testcase for beta 2.  I'll
> log my list of bugs against that so that they are on the record.
>
> There has been no progress on my nautilus bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-2d/+bug/945097 .  Without
> a working file manager it seems pointless doing any further testing.  The
> Ubuntu ISO shouldn't be released for PowerPC IMHO if nautilus doesn't
> work.
>
> I'm going to fail the live session testcase and log it as a critical
> bug.  I don't know if this is correct, but there is no testcase that
> specifically  checks if the core applications are working.
>
> If the Lubuntu PowerPC guys have a bit of spare time, could they install
> nautilus and gedit and see if they are working for them?  If it is a gtk
> bug then it could affect some of there applications also?
>
> Regards
>
> Adam
>
> > Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:56:27 +0100
> > From: jean-baptiste@xxxxxxxxxx
> > To: ojordan12345@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > CC: ubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: PowerPC questions
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 03/23/2012 02:00 PM, o jordan wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to drop the "Free Software Only" testcase from the
> > > Ubuntu PowerPC Desktop ISO?
> > >
> > > Currently, it is not possible to pass this testcase for this particular
> > > iso https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/944266 . There is
> no
> > > menu item with this option, and Colin Watson seems reluctant to put one
> > > in. I can do a workaround (passing yaboot parameters), but I'd rather
> > > the testcase was just dropped.
> > Thanks for pointing this out. I removed the test case for PowerPC.
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Baptiste
> > irc: jibel
>
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