[OLPC New Zealand] [Testing] Testing summary, Auckland - 17 March 2012

Mon Mar 19 04:23:02 EDT 2012

Hi all

Here are the links for the issues mentioned against build 206 11.3.1-au” on
XO 1.5

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:
> http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1164
> Terminal font still too big: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1087
> Jigsaw puzzle quite slow for complex puzzles:
> http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1165
> Saving custom Memorize games still a problem:
> http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1166
> Shared memorize had lots of Ivy’s clustered around it in the
> neighbourhood: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1167
> Flipsticks doesn’t work so well: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1168
> Visual match style changes don’t work:
> http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1169
>
> 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.: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1173
>
> 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.:
> http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1170
>
> 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.: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1174
>
> 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?:
> http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1148
>
> 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.: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1165
>
> 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.:
> http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1175
>
> 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’).: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1178
>
> 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.: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1172
>
> 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.: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1176
>
> 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.:
> http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1171
>
> 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.: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1177
>
> 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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