[olpc-nz] Testing summary - Auckland New Zealand, 4 September 2010

[Tabitha Roder]

Testing summary - Auckland New Zealand, 4 September 2010

Who: Fabiana, Nevyn, Tom, Tabitha, Abhishek, Dave, Robin

We did one test with Dextrose os373pyg:
Tested journal send to ... in Dextrose os373pyg on XO-1.0s and XO-1.5s -- it
didn't work http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2281

Then we switched to 10.1.2 os852 on XO-1.0s and XO-1.5s

In the Speak-18 "ABC" menu, you can choose a variety of languages, but only
'spanish' and 'english' are available in the 'answer a question' mode. If
you choose "English" or "Spanish", the robot works as expected. If you
choose any other language in the 'ABC' mode and then go to have the robot
answer questions, the robot says it cannot speak that language and defaults
to english, however it speaks english with the accent of the language that
was selected on 'ABC'. For example, chose "Spanish latin america" from the
abc menu, switch to Robot and it says it can't speak Spanish latin america
so let's speak English instead, however it speaks english with a spanish
accent.

Tried collaborative Write on access point networking, no jabber server with
Write-63 between 3 XOs, worked for a short time then collapsed. Took
screenshots of divergent documents. We didn't see any errors or warnings in
the UI that collaboration had stopped. Tried again with 5 XOs and a
different initiator. Results were very inconsistent, some laptops could see
all participants in the frame, some could not. Some laptops saw most of the
writing, some saw none of it. Many arguments resulted about what might have
been the cause, but I suspect that we are seeing patterns where they don't
exist. One theory is that the XO-1.0s break everything.

Collaboration problems seem to be a theme. Does anyone want us to file a bug
with logs and screenshots?

Tried collaborative record, with inconsistent results and no consensus on
why it wasn't working properly.

Tried a virtualbox sugar on a stick using bridged networking and no
collaboration server thing. This sort-of worked. On the virtualbox machine,
I can see other XO's, but they cannot see me. Virtualbox joined a
collaborative write, but didn't see any updates from other XO participants
and they didn't see mine. The virtualbox worked in other respects.

This virtualbox was created with the appliance from
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:VirtualBox#Virtualbox_Appliance_of_SoaS_Mirabelleand
a bunch of painful steps. I couldn't work out how to become root, so I
broke in with system rescue cd. I adjusted gdm to auto login and I had great
trouble installing the virtualbox guest additions, it turns out you need to
install the updated kernel, as yum will happily install it's headers without
installing the kernel itself (wtf??). The virtualbox guest build script
doesn't tell you why it fails, so it took a bit of sluething to see the
version msismatch and realise I had to upgrade the new kernel. I didn't do
the full yum upgrade because I was borrowing someone's internet and the
upgrade was large.

Write on one of the XO-1.0 went into an infinite loop (100% cpu usage and no
updates to the display), http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2284 how do we
diagnose this? If it was java I would use jstack, but it isn't so I'm a
little stuck. I tried strace and there wasn't much interesting. I tried gdb,
but the native stack trace isn't all that comprehensible. I caught a core
file and attached it to the ticket.

Memorize on XO-1.0 - fine
Browse on XO-1.0 - fine
Maze on XO-1.0 - when rotates on XO-1.0 does not resize so on 90 degree or
270 degree angle you cannot see the whole Maze.
Implode on XO-1.0 - froze while playing but eventually came back (while
trying to reset touchpad).
Moon on XO-1.0 - fine, wish it could do more stuff
Record on XO-1.0 - picture, video and audio fine but mic pick up was low
(maybe the XO settings), there is a resolution option but you can't change
it
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