[Testing] Wellington Testing Summary - Saturday 13 February

[Alastair Munro]

HI James,

Here is a directory listing of the Customisation key which I recreated from
scratch last night and managed to use to replicate the bug:

./boot:
actos.zip    runos.zip

./bundles:
AcousticMeasure-12.xo        WorldDigitalLibrary-5.xol    irc-5.xo
    socialcalcactivity-5.xo
Analyze-8.xo            browse-112.xo            jigsaw_puzzle-7.xo
speak-11.xo
Biology-9.xol            calculate-30.xo            joke_machine-10.xo
    tamtamedit-52.xo
Bridge-2.xo            cartoonbuilder-6.xo        log-23.xo
tamtamjam-53.xo
Distance-14.xo            chat-66.xo            measure-29.xo
tamtammini-52.xo
Doom-1.xo            colors-15.xo            memorize-34.xo
tamtamsynthlab-53.xo
Firefox-6.xo            develop-39.xo            moon-11.xo
terminal-31.xo
Help-10.xo            etoys-113.xo            paint-27.xo
timelapse-2.xo
Maze-6.xo            fileshare-9.xo            physics-3.xo
turtle_art-82.xo
Ruler-3.xo            finance-3.xo            pippy-35.xo
tux_paint-3.xo
Scratch-12.xo            geoquiz-4.xo            poll-22.xo
watch_me-2.xo
TurtleArtPortfolio-14.xo    help-1.xo            read-78.xo
write-67.xo
Words-4.xo            implode-9.xo            record-64.xo
xoeditor-2.xo


-Alastair Munro


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:17 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:35:19AM +1300, Alastair Munro wrote:
> > Tested and managed to replicate an interesting bug on the XO-1 with
> > build os802b1 (os802b1.img) that caused all the activities on the XO
> > to disappear and stopped the journal from being accessed. With an XO-1
> > running this build, if you load activities by holding the 'X' on the
> > game keys at start up method. Once all the activities have been loaded
> > of the USB drive, on the next boot and all subsequent boots there are
> > no activities shown in the ring or list views even though
> > investigation through the terminal shows they are all there, also the
> > Journal icon is labeled "Activity" and it isn't possible to access the
> > Journal.
>
> I've tried to reproduce this on os802b1 and failed.
>
> I created a customisation key (per
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_key ) and placed the
> HelloWorld-1.xo activity in the bundles directory.  I booted the XO-1
> and immediately pressed the 'X' (lowest) game key.  The bundle was
> installed and then the laptop powered off.  When it was booted the
> activities were present, the new activity was in the list view, and it
> was usable.
>
> Perhaps the known problem was triggered; that if you have a later
> version on the USB stick of an activity that is already installed on the
> XO, then the older version and newer version files for an activity will
> be overlaid, and Sugar may fail to enumerate the activities.
>
> This is more likely with os802b1 since it contains quite a few
> activities already.
>
> Could you please give me a listing of the contents of the customisation
> key?
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>
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