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
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