[Testing] Caryl's 8.2.0 smoketest results

[Joseph A. Feinstein]

At 05:06 PM 10/14/2008, S Page wrote:
>Mel Chua wrote that the wonderful Caryl Bigenho said:
>
> >> After disabling Gnash I
> >> was supposed to "reboot" (why does the XO call it "Restart?"  NuBs
> >> will be confused.)
>
>In all wiki pages, it should be a link to the reboot page which explains
>the ways to do it.  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash#Installation
>has the [[reboot] link.  I think we should do the opposite and change
>all pages to say "restart your XO" while linking to that page.
>
> >>  It started to restart and then hung. ...
> >> waiting for x server to shut down
> >> xinit: unexpected signal 15
>...
> >>  I finally did a force quit
> >> with the power button and turned it back on.
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There are two other tickets regarding this bug: #7812 and #7531. 
Ctrl-Alt-F2 will allow reboot/shutdown to proceed.
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>That sounds like something I saw in "Re: Please help test our new 8.2.0
>weekly beta, joyride-2301!", Deepak Saxena responded:
> > On Aug 15 2008, at 01:49, S Page was caught saying:
> >> > I rebooted from the XO menu in Home view.  The last message on screen
> >> > was in a console error, something like "error 15 from xinit".  But 10
> >> > minutes later that was still on screen.  I pressed a few keys and the
> >> > screen changed to the safety graphic and the machine restarted.
> >
> > See #7812. The pressing a few keys and getting it to restart is new
> > information and I've added it to the bug.
>
>
> >> a full page of:
> >>
> >> invalid filter 1
> >> invalid filter 1
>
>That's one of many irritating yet benign messages that show up.
>IMO they ought to be fixed, they're a real disincentive to everyone who
>peeks under the covers and discovers an error message, only to learn
>programmers have determined it's not relevant.  I filed trac 8833.
>
>Cheers,
>--
>=S Page
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