[olpc-nz] [Testing] Testing Summary: Auckland - 2 October 2010 Comments

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Tom;

Thanks for the detailed comments on the Virtualbox Appliance of USR-922

http://download.sugarlabs.org/usr/USR-i386-20100922.iso

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#VirtualBox.

I am forwarding your testing summary of the Virtualbox Appliance of USR 
to the people who are doing the work of getting sugar onto Ubuntu.

Cordially;

Tom Gilliard
satellit on #sugar and #ubuntu-sugarteam (Freenode IRC)


References:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar

Tom Parker wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 18:18 -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
>   
>> Tabitha Roder wrote:
>>     
>>> Tried out USR-20100922 virtualbox appliance with virtualbox 3.2.8 on MacOS
>>> 10.5.8
>>> Downloaded from
>>> http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/USR-922-IRC-Remix.ovf
>>> http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/USR-922-IRC-Remix.mf
>>> http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/USR-i386-20100922.vmdk
>>> Wasn't asked for a name or a colour on startup
>>> "sugar" user's password is "sugaruser"
>>>   
>>>       
>> add your own user with user manager in gnome
>>  password root = sugarroot
>>     
>
> So what is the purpose of this virtual machine? If it is to be a
> potentially multi user system, would it better to have a first-run
> create user process? How do you choose which user to log in with?
>
>   
>>> *Home screen did not resize, but activities did. After apt-get upgrade and
>>> reboot, home screen resized.
>>>       
>>  
>> It is important to do apt-get update and apt-get upgrade from terminal
>>     
>
> Is there any integration into the sugar ui? I've seen a check for
> updates on some olpc XO builds, but I've never investigated what it
> does.
>
>   
>>> ctrl-shift-c and command-c cut-n-paste keyboard shortcuts don't work in
>>> terminal (mac virtualbox host), and middle click cut-n-paste doesn't work on
>>> a single button mac. Using ctrl-v pastes into surf.
>>> Clicking the "become root" button in terminal asks for a password, I tried
>>> blank and "sugaruser" but every password I tried ends the terminal
>>>   
>>>       
>> use "sudo su" instead ( it is a Ubuntu thing )
>>     
>
> The "become root" button should be removed, or at the very least not
> kill the terminal. I didn't experiment with multiple tabs, does it just
> close the tab, or does it kill the whole terminal?
>
> Where is the appropriate place to report USR bugs?
>
>   
>>> Frame hot-corners worked well in full screen mode, but once I left full
>>> screen I couldn't return to it. 
>>>       
>> Log in on gdm bar for Sugar fullscreen
>> use "sugar-emulator -f "command from gnome for full screen
>>     
>
> Sorry, this was very much a virtualbox thing. I couldn't make the guest
> window fill the host's screen. In hindsight, host-f might have made it
> go full screen. It worked after a restart of the host.
>   
>   
>>> Shutdown didn't work from the home view, used sudo halt in the terminal or
>>> power off signal in virtualbox.
>>>       
>
>   
>> You need to logout  then hit right bottom of gdm bar for shutdown
>> options
>> It is set up for multiple users......( Students) 
>>     
>
> If shutdown isn't possible from the home view, then there shouldn't be
> an option to shut down there that does nothing.
>
>   
>>> Tried out
>>> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/soas-i386-20100930.15.isoin
>>> virtualbox as above. Created virtual machine with hard disk and 512MB
>>> memory. Booted from iso, got the fedora boot screen and then the 3 progress
>>> bars which completed and were replaced with a black screen. Nothing happened
>>> after that. Checked that iso checksum does matche checksum file in from
>>> download directory. Didn't do any further testing of this iso.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I have not been able to make one either.
>>     
>
> I see you reported 20101002.18 worked with some bugs. Is this an
> improvement over 20100930.15 which didn't work at all, or am I doing
> something wrong with virtualbox?
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