[Testing] Caryl's 8.2.0 smoketest results

[Mel Chua]

The wonderful Caryl Bigenho did smoke testing for 8.2.0 last week - 
ccing the testing list in on the discussion of results.
>
> * Just checking - this was on build 767 signed, right? Does your XO have
> security enabled / a dev key?
>
> I have a dev key and downloaded 767 before I left Montana on the 25th 
> of Sept.  I think it may have been still unsigned at that time.  
> Security is not enabled, and I don't know how to turn it back on and I 
> don't know how to get back to a pretty-boot.  I haven't been back to 
> the instructions to try them and now have no idea where they are!
>
> * On a slightly meta note, do you have any thoughts or feedback on how
> we could make it easier for you and others to run smoke tests?
>
> Smoke testing can be fun, especially when something goes wrong! Maybe 
> we could ease folks into testing a little at a time.  Ask them to 
> download the target build and test just one particular activity that 
> may be a special problem.  If they "take the bait," congratulate and 
> thank them profusely and invite them to try another test or tests.
>
> The current instructions really are pretty good, but they sort of jump 
> around between things you can do and can't do depending on the number 
> of machines you are using. I'm a great believer in the old fashioned 
> flow-chart way of doing things.  Maybe the smoke test could be set up 
> that way, with a simple start leading to other things depending on the 
> results and the computer set-up of the tester. (MoveOn's online tool 
> for calling volunteers is an excellent example of how this could be done).
>
> * Do you have any ideas on how to recreate the "clipboard doesn't work"
> bugs?
>
> I haven't followed through on this yet.  I will go back through the 
> olpc-sur lists again and find out what activities were giving them the 
> problems and then I'll go back and try all sorts of things on my test 
> machine.  I'll let you know in a few days.
>
> I have been doing a smoke test of my own this evening.  There is a 
> wonderful web site put up by the University of Nottingham in England.  
> It is called "The Periodic Table of Videos" 
> (http://www.periodicvideos.com/#). It uses Flash.  I anticipate a lot 
> of questions about Flash from our new G1G1 donors, so I decided to 
> test it out and see what happened.
>
> I was hoping to get it to run on my test machine (running 767).  Gnash 
> wouldn't work so I tried all the steps on the wiki to install Flash, 
> test to be sure I had it, and disable Gnash.  After disabling Gnash I 
> was supposed to "reboot" (why does the XO call it "Restart?"  NuBs 
> will be confused.) It started to restart and then hung. I'll put the 
> error message I got at the bottom of this.  I finally did a force quit 
> with the power button and turned it back on. 
>
> So, then I tried the Periodic Videos again.  The video loads 
> completely but will not play.  You can scroll through it and it seems 
> to want to play but doesn't. Of course, there is no sound. These 
> videos are UTube based.
>
> Next,  I tried Webkinz.  Since I don't have a webkinz "pet," the best 
> I could do was look at the introductory presentation, which worked fine.
>
> Then I tried another favorite of mine, the Discovery Channel's 
> "Virtual Volcano." 
> (http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pompeii/interactive/interactive.html) 
> It almost works.  You can pick the conditions and it will draw your 
> volcano and tell you what type it is (much more slowly than on my 
> Mac), but it will not do the eruptions.
>
> I expect we will be getting a lot more questions about Flash from our 
> new G1G1 donors.  I would like to be able to help them and I know many 
> other Support-Gang members would also.  Any ideas how I can get these 
> sites to work?
>
> Enough....It is getting late and I have to work on the house 
> tomorrow.  Hope this info is useful.
>
> Caryl
>
> P.S. Error message....
>
> a full page of:
>
> invalid filter 1
> invalid filter 1
> invalid filter 1
> invalid filter 1 (etc)
>
> followed by:
> waiting for x server to shut down
> xinit: unexpected signal 15