[OLPC-AU] [Testing] Testing Summary, Auckland - 5 May 2012

[James Cameron]

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 08:50:48PM +1200, Tabitha Roder wrote:
> olpc 12.1.0 build 8 tested on XO-1.75s - Kotare
> [...]
> Wikipedia EN on Hoiho - loaded front page but when you choose a
> category it says unable to load page, problem occured while loading
> the URL http://localhost:8001/wiki/Energy, Connection terminated
> unexpectedly. Back button in toolbar doesn?t work but home button
> does. On repeating the same (click on Energy) the back button now does
> work. Restart activity and the back button works but the error message
> stays the same. Also get this message on the other links on the home
> page of this activity. Also it takes a very long time to load this
> activity.

I was able to reproduce the long load time (#11837), but not the
error.  A log may be interesting.

> Modifying the code to log more information in this particular
> situation wasn?t so useful because all the laptops have a hostname of
> ?none? and the laptop name isn?t present in the properties.
> Correllating the IP address is possible but difficult in a less
> controled environment. Should changing the name of the laptop change
> the hostname?

Yes.  This is fixed in os9.

> While doing development on 4 XOs (one to run the code, one to watch
> the log, one to read the documentation and one to edit the source) it
> turns out it would be nice if the XO itself was a git repository or
> similar, so you can do a diff against what you had before. I?m
> hesitant to suggest that this is generally useful for the target
> audience, but it shouldn?t be too hard to copy a .git into the right
> place(s) and be able to do a diff. Has anyone got a recipe for doing
> this?

I like this idea.  It would take installing git, and adding everything
needed to a git repository at /home/olpc first.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/