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[Iain Lane <laney@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:29:10AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Over the last week or so, we've had a lot of reports of folks not being able
> to update their devices using System Settings.  This has been quite tricky to
> track down.  I think I have a fix, and I'd like to ask the adventurous among
> you to test it out.  If you do, please follow up here, or in LP: #1277589, or
> to me directly (via email or irc).
> 
> Below I'll go into some gory detail of what I think was going on, but you
> don't need to know all that if you just want to test updates.  I don't think
> you should worry about bricking your device, since nothing's changing in the
> way updates are applied during recovery, but OTOH take prudent precautions if
> you're going to attempt this on your only phone. ;)
> 
> Here are the steps you need to take in order to test the new package.

Just a quick note to say that, since this was quite a high-impact bug,
on Tuesday we decided to turn off the feature in system-settings that
exposed this bug.

So if you have an image newer than 191 then you /shouldn't/ see this
problem any more, unless we've misdiagnosed it.

That'll make it hard to verify Barry's fix. Barry, I've made a CI train
request - line 47 on the spreadsheet. To that I added a revert in
ubuntu-system-settings which re-enables the functionality. Would you be
able to add your s-i branch(es) to this landing & then we'll be able to
get a silo with the fixes and the functionality re-exposed in the
settings app. To get the updates, people will then just have to
dist-upgrade to the silo's PPA.

In the meantime, CI has kindly produced debs for us.

  http://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/job/ubuntu-system-settings-trusty-armhf-ci/151/artifact/work/output/*zip*/output.zip

Make sure you install these before performing any testing.

Cheers,

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Iain Lane                                  [ iain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ]
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