Crashes on launch with "Testdrive instance has no attribute 'm'"

Hi Nicolas,

This is a known bug I'll fix in the next release. If you want it working now please just open the config file ("/etc/testdriverc") and uncomment the line #m = i386 by removing the #.

Thank you for your bug report.

additionally I get messages like:

Select an image to testdrive [1]: 1
INFO: Syncing the specified ISO...
      rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/current/maverick-desktop-i386.iso
receiving file list ...
rsync: link_stat "/daily-live/current/maverick-desktop-i386.iso" (in cdimage) failed: No such file or directory (2)
0 files to consider

I tried the parameter u = rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com in the config file ("/etc/testdriverc") but still I can not find maverick images

the best I can get is something like:

Select an image to testdrive [1]: 3
INFO: Syncing the specified ISO...
      rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/maverick-alternate-i386.iso
@ERROR: Unknown module 'daily'
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1524) [Receiver=3.0.7]

ERROR: Command failed
    `rsync -azP rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/maverick-alternate-i386.iso /home/hh/.cache/testdrive/iso/maverick-alternate-i386.iso`

the only way to get it download the file is:
use the option 6 and than enter a link (http: works rsync: does not)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/maverick-alternate-i386.iso

Hi Harald,

This is because the cdimage archive of ubuntu does not yet have all the ISO's. Don't worry this wil be addressed in a different way the next release that will come out in the next few days.

Just be patient :)

thank you.

now I could download the file but I get new error messages

verifying download...checksum matches OK
used 0 local, fetched 728484181
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/testdrive", line 313, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/testdrive", line 270, in main
    run_or_die(cmd)
  File "/usr/bin/testdrive", line 99, in run_or_die
    if run(cmd) != 0:
  File "/usr/bin/testdrive", line 96, in run
    return(os.system(cmd))
TypeError: system() argument 1 must be string, not None

How where you able to download the file? How did you run testdrive (with what commands), what virtualization method are you using. Please provide that information.

Thank you.

When I wanted to collect bug information with ubuntu-bug or apport-cli I was told that testdrive is not a genuine ubuntu package - why is that? How can I report bugs with the system's tools then?

Comment from #1 worked for me. Syncing of maverick-desktop via rsync was fine too.
Unfortunately testdrive fails to start the downloaded release - does this relate to the above mentioned fix in /etc/testdriverc?

user@machine:~$ testdrive
INFO: version passed: False
INFO: config passed: None
INFO: Trying config in /etc/testdriverc
INFO: Using configuration in /etc/testdriverc
INFO: Trying config in /home/user/.testdriverc
INFO: Trying config in /home/user/.config/testdrive/testdriverc
INFO: Using VirtualBox for virtual machine hosting...
INFO: Retrieving Ubuntu Development Release codename from cache...

Welcome to Testdrive!

  1. Ubuntu Desktop (maverick-i386)
  2. Ubuntu Server (maverick-i386)
  3. Ubuntu Alternate (maverick-i386)
  4. Ubuntu DVD (maverick-i386)
  5. Ubuntu Netbook (maverick-i386)
  6. Other (prompt for ISO URL)

Select an image to testdrive [1]: 1
INFO: Syncing the specified ISO...
      rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/current/maverick-desktop-i386.iso
receiving file list ...
1 file to consider
maverick-desktop-i386.iso
   705103872 100% 1.58MB/s 0:07:04 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)

sent 145 bytes received 705340717 bytes 1657675.35 bytes/sec
total size is 705103872 speedup is 1.00
INFO: Validating Virtualization Method....
ERROR: Unsupported version (3.2) of VirtualBox; please install v3.0 or v3.1.
INFO: Setting up Virtual Machine...
INFO: Creating disk image...
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.0_OSE
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...1...

Hugo,

It says that it is not a genuine package because you are installing it from PPA and not from the Ubuntu Archives. On the other hand, a new version of testdrive will be released soon fixing the above bug.

After giving a second look this is because Testdrive does not yet support VirtualBox 2.0. This will be fixed soon!!

Bugfix worked for me - testdrive 2.2-0ubuntu1~ppa4 - starts maverick with me. Thanks!