[OLPC-AU] [Testing] Testing summary, Auckland - 17 March 2012

Thu Mar 22 00:47:55 EDT 2012

Hi all

Can you explain the below mentioned defect more clearly. Any suggestion on
how to reproduce this?

Shared memorize on ivy on adhoc network and ended up with 6 ivy’s
around the memorize activity! Not sure how this is possible, see:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/_Oov9ppYnvvKIAHN1n0m8dMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink

Link for the above defect raised in OLPC-Au:
http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1167

Regards
Deepak

On 17 March 2012 15:01, Tabitha Roder <tabitha at tabitha.net.nz> wrote:

> Testing Summary, Auckland - 17 March 2012
> Who: Fabiana, John, Oliver, Rachel, Tom
>
> Tested build “30 customized” on XO-1.75 and “build 206 11.3.1-au” on XO
> 1.5.
>
> XO-1.5 Summary (details below):
> Power saving blanks the screen while recording a video
> Terminal font still too big
> Jigsaw puzzle quite slow for complex puzzles
> Saving custom Memorize games still a problem
> Shared memorize had lots of Ivy’s clustered around it in the neighbourhood
> Flipsticks doesn’t work so well
> Visual match style changes don’t work
>
> XO-1.75 Summary (details below):
> B1 clock reset breaks yum, makes recovery more difficult
> Browse crashed, gained some insight into google docs stability
> Chat is much less chatty on the network when used with the
> schoolserver, suspend and resume really really good in this situation.
> Maze crashes immediately when collaborating
>
> Power logs attached.
>
>
> build 206 11.3.1-au on XO 1.5:
> Rosella:
> Record activity - works fine for photo and video. high and low res.
> even long ones. But quite quickly the screen goes black - it is not
> going to sleep - there is no flashing of the power light and it
> continues recording. On Ivy it takes 1 minute to go black. Tabitha
> raised the issue that since the screen goes black you might not know
> you are being recorded and that might not be a good thing.
> On on occasion on Ivy, record showed the preview (with a line of
> “noise” pixels at the bottom), but the preview went black during video
> recording and the camera light went out. Pressing stop left a busy
> pointer. Record exited normally. Log is attached.
>
> Paint: Seems to be working ok.
>
> Terminal: The font is too big - true that hitting the zoom button can
> make the font smaller, but the large default font makes the welcome
> screen look awkward as the ‘welcome children of the world’ sentence
> breaks in a wierd place and this remains after zooming down.
>
> General: The time to ‘sleep’ seems really fast. Even leaving the
> laptop unattended for a short time turns the screen black which I find
> quite annoying.
>
> Stopwatch - seems to work but I still think it would be nice to be
> able to save the times that were marked to use in a different actiity
> (like write, to write a lab report) Seems silly that I would have to
> write that on paper to transfer to a document.
>
> Calculate: basic functions seem to be working ok. Sort of odd that
> when I get an error message not all letters in the message are the
> same colour.
>
> Physics: Still have trouble drawing short lines - i see the cursor
> track but dont get a line drawn. Is there a minimum length it expects?
>
> Jigsaw puzzle - too much lag when trying to move the pieces - makes it
> very difficult to play. This seems to be a problem as the number of
> pieces of the puzzle increases (not a problem in the setting for few
> puzzle pieces).  When I start the actiivty and choose a puzzle it will
> not show me the puzzle when I hit solve - need to hit shuffle. Same
> with Slider Puzzle activity.
>
> n Editor: When I mouseover the scissors, the drop down covers the
> first  3 lines of text - makes it difficult if one is trying to work
> on those particular lines. Otherwise seems to be workinng ok.
>
> Compris Click game - seems ok.
>
> Poll: I can build a poll but after I close, I don't seem to be able to
> find it. Where is the ‘choose a poll’ point to? I did save my poll....
> I can, however, reopen it from the journal, but it would be useful to
> see it on hte choose a poll when i start poll again (I am not starting
> as ‘new’).
>
> Measure: Seems ok.
>
> Slider Puzzle activity: When I start the activity and choose a puzzle
> it will not show me the puzzle when I hit solve - need to hit shuffle.
> Just like with jigsaw.
>
> Ivy: GCompris click game - when you shut off the lid, the game seems
> to continue to play cause the computer keeps making giggly noises -
> seems like a waste of battery.
>
> Memorize - really struggle with saving the games you create yourself.
> It is not user friendly or intuitive. Found that the only method that
> did reliably save your game in the Journal was if you clicked on one
> pair of tiles and then clicked on “update this pair”. That doesn’t
> seem a relevant method to save the game in the Journal. We spent quite
> a lot of time on this using Ivy and Poppy. We wanted to easily be able
> to save games that we make for each topic we are studying (so you can
> set a homework task to create these games and then share them with
> your classmates the next day in each class).
>
> Shared memorize on ivy on adhoc network and ended up with 6 ivy’s
> around the memorize activity! Not sure how this is possible, see:
>
> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/_Oov9ppYnvvKIAHN1n0m8dMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
>
> TuxMath (Ivy) worked. Suitably irritated everyone around.
>
> Cartoon Builder (Ivy) worked. Again, it irritated everyone around,
> other than the baby who loved it for about two minutes.
>
> Flipsticks (Ivy) sort of crashed. I posed the stick figure and saved
> different poses in each keyframe. Played the frames, changed the
> speed. Got black screen. Managed to get to activity ring and start
> Terminal to type Top. Found X using 75% of CPU and Flipsticks using
> 20% of CPU. Waited a long time and eventually got the Flipsticks
> screen back, sort of. But the stick figure was moving along half off
> the screen which didn’t match the keyframes. On a restart I can reset
> the position in each of the keyframes but wonder how they all were
> broken.
>
> Poll (Ivy) works. Would be neat if you could create a poll where the
> participants had to choose their answers in order of preference. e.g.
> Put the colours into a list from the most liked to the least liked.
>
> Maze (Ivy) worked.
>
> Moon (Ivy) worked.
>
> Numbers (Ivy) worked. Got a bit muddled when I was thinking about
> BEDMAS but found the game knew what to do so I just had to do my
> things in order. e.g. number required was “30” and you have “3 3 7” to
> use, so you have to make “3+7=10” then you can make “3x10” as if you
> do “3+7x3” you don’t get the right answer. Perfect.
>
> Visual Match (Ivy) broken. The button with the 5 escaping from a box
> has a whole lot of other game styles on it’s sub toolbar but they all
> just cause a reshuffle with no change in the tiles.
>
> Gcompris clickgame (Ivy) - interestingly we could hear this playing
> its sounds while we were not using it (yes, I was playing with the
> baby). The game didn’t seem to sleep when the computer was idle.
>
> Clock (Ivy) worked.
>
> Ruler (Ivy) worked.
>
> Terminal (Ivy) starts. No further testing done.
>
> Paint (Ivy) tried most tools but not all, found all that I tried
> worked. For the first time, I have noticed that the greyscale button
> and the rainbow button being next to each other suggests they are
> similar tools when in fact they are not. The greyscale button strips
> the colours out of your picture. The rainbow button gives you a
> rainbow coloured pen to draw with. Maybe they should not be situated
> next to each other.
>
> power logs were not collected last week because my power log collector
> attempts to mount ext3 and the filesystem is ext4 and somehow
> incompatible. Removing the manual filesystem type option to mount
> fixes the situation. I don’t know why I set this option in the first
> place? Maybe it makes mounting faster? or it’s only needed on XO-1?
> Will test that shortly.
>
> XO-1.75 os30 testing for OLPC
> Discovered one reason for the erratic behavior of yum on XO 1.75.
> Bonnie fairly regularly looses the time (known problem in the B1
> prototypes), resetting to January 2000, when you use yum to get
> ntpdate to fix the time, yum fails with a cryptic message:
>
> [olpc at xo-6d-6c-3a ~]$ sudo yum install ntpdate
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
>
> Using tcpdump and wireshark we find that the reason is that the
> certificate on mirrors.fedoraproject.com is not valid until some time
> after the year 2000. Maybe we should install ntpdate by default?
>
> Browse on os30 hung while entering my google password, unfortunately I
> wasn’t able to diagnose. The “do you want to save this password”
> dialog appeared and wouldn’t go away, with the refresh of the browser
> itself behind stuck. The force quit dialog appeared in Portuguese and
> I chose the wrong option and killed it :(
>
> Chat on os30 with schoolserver produces far less traffic than on os29
> on adhoc network. We could wait for a laptop to go to sleep and then
> send a message in chat and within a second the other laptop wakes up,
> receives it and goes back to sleep! Chat seems to have no problems
> with sleep or latency when used with schoolserver.
>
> Discovered a possible reason for unstable google docs on Browse on XO
> 1.75 -- if someone types fast enough into the doc on another computer,
> Browse can’t keep up, you can watch their changes coming in a couple
> of words at a time (including words which then get deleted) with a
> delay of a couple of minutes. I suspect it will recover if the other
> user stops typing for long enough but we didn’t wait long enough. This
> would explain why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't -- it
> depends on how fast the changes come.
>
> Maze crashes almost immediately when you collaborate, I think we
> reported this before? There is an exception in the logs (attached).
> This happens on all versions we’ve tried recently, not just os30.
>
> Had record crash once after playing a video.
>
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