Test group release notes/2009 and earlier

NOTE: Entering issues on this page does not count as reporting them.

Purpose of Test Group Release Notes
If you are thinking of loading a new image; come to this page first and see if the build you are going to load has any major problems. If it can't even pass the Smoke Test, you probably don't want to use it.

If you don't see anything here on the latest release, please add your notes on smoke test and/or basic functionality to help the next guy.
- Kim

Use Trac to file bugs.

Regression/Smoke Test

This set of test cases represents a quick smoke test that the build should pass:

1. boot into sugar
2. connect to a local mesh and see other XOs (this needs to be in a location with no school server or infrastructure AP)
3. run a collaborative activity (AbiWord, Connect4, or Chat) with another XO
4. ensure that the journal is able to resume an activity
5. connect to an AP (and/or school mesh) and browse the web
6. connect one XO to an AP; then boot a second XO, which should connect to a local mesh and browse the web through the second XO.

Please add build release notes below and provide info as to whether the build passed the smoke test.

Build 542

• ChangeLog 542

Smoke Test:

1. Sugar boots up
2. Connected properly to mesh, saw others via link local
3. Shared Abiword, chat, camera successfully
4. Journal was able to resume from an abiword doc successfully
5. I'm currently having trouble connecting to an external AP from within 1CC. This worked at home.
6. Need to test item 6 in a different environment.

• I had to remove the battery and power adapter for a few seconds after upgrading in order to boot up properly.
• To boot with backup edit the olpc.fth file to change 'false' to 'true' in line 11. This will save the activation key as well as user data (including the nickname and color of the XO). If you have never upgraded to code base with activation keys, you will need a different process. (I will try this soon)
• It is not very difficult to 'hang' the mesh and require a reboot to start again. Not sure of exact steps to repeat -- Walter saw it; I've seen it.

Some Notes for the formal Software Release Notes:

• A laptop connected to a WEP or WPA enabled Access Point cannot provide a mesh for other laptops to connect to. Each laptop in that environment, would have to connect to the WEP or WPA access point.
• B1 laptops cannot come out of suspend properly. Trial-2 code is not recommended for B1.
• B2-1 laptops do not have enough RAM to run Trial-2 code.
• To change from Access point to Mesh or vice versa, you need to click on the object in the neighborhood mesh view; not the home view.
• If you are running Tamtam or another activity that uses the speakers, close the activity before suspending the laptop. You can suspend the laptop by closing the lid or pushing the suspend/resume button. If Tamtam or another sound activity is still running, when the laptop resumes from suspend, it will squeal very loudly. To recover, shut down the laptop by holding the suspend button for >5 seconds or remove the battery and adapter for a few seconds.
• If the laptop has been put into suspend mode and doesn't come out; reboot by holding down the suspend button for >5 seconds.
• Now that we have made the power button suspend; to shutdown completely, hover over the XO in the home view and click on 'Shutdown'.
• Need to know how to turn on logs
• Backup to School Server: To register with a school server and backup data (for build 542):

1. Open a developer's console
2. View the config file to see that you are not registered with any school server; and to get your Serial Number (SN)
3. SSH into the school server (for 1CC this is schoolserver.laptop.org); type 'yes' to accept keys
4. Type 'olpc-register' to register with the server
5. Reboot for this config file to take affect.
6. From the Journal, click on the 'Backup' tab, and then the 'Backup' icon.

Build 541

• ChangeLog 541

• Doesn't see USB stick in the Journal. You must remove any .olpc.store files and directories for this to work.

• Removable media with lots of data cannot be unmounted
• Not enough feedback for unmount failure

- Zack

Build 540, RC for Trial-2

• ChangeLog 540

Smoke Results - Good:

• Sugar loaded properly on 2 out of 3. One of them is experiencing the infinite loop described in build 539 below.
• Two laptops got on the school mesh, were able to browse the internet and shared an Abiword doc.
• I was able to resume the abiword doc from the journal.
• I shared photos between two laptops.
• I connected directly to an open Access Point and browsed the web.
• Can't test item 6 on the smoke test unless I get into an environment without a school server.

End Smoke Results

• Can't get image from clipboard into an abiword doc.
• I can use CTL-C and CTL-V to copy and paste text across activities (like Abiword to Chat), but I can't drop and drag these items from the clipboard.
• Too many things wake the laptop up from suspend. I pushed the suspend button on a laptop that was plugged in as well as one running only on battery. After about a minute or two they both resumed themselves.
• I pushed the suspend and resume button many times (at least 10) on two laptops and they consistently suspended and resumed properly (a B3 and a B4). The gamepad buttons do not put it into suspend. So right now we are too agressive about coming out of suspend -- but only the lid close and button press are putting it into suspend. Need more data to make any conclusions.
• I spoke too soon (above) -- both my laptops stopped coming out of resume after a few more tries, bug 2426.

Build 539

• ChangeLog 539

• Sugar fails to start; infinite loop
• WPA still not working
• Record's new clipboard functionality doesn't work
• Neighborhood view isn't updating APs often enough
• Can't install build 539 on my B3
• Still can't get both my B4s on the mesh

- Zack

• Record activity still does not render colours properly on B2 machine

- Luya Tshimbalanga

Build 537

• Build 537 change log
• Read's stop button doesn't work after it fails to open a file.
• Paint journal entry that was copied to clipboard opens in Etoys.
• TamTam fails to start when datastore is writing changes.
• The clipboard functionality in Record doesn't appear to be working.
• TamTam Mini appears to have been fully sugarized with sharing and close buttons; however, TamTamEdit hasn't, and TamTam SynthLab's activity bar only has a close button (no sharing capability).
• Camera Activity on a B2-1 does not show colors correctly. -Rowen

Build 536

• Build 536 change log
• Files copied to a USB stick can't be resumed from Journal properly.
• Unable to copy some images into Write.
• Journal entries appear as black boxes when uploading in Browse.
• Holding power button sometimes reboots instead of shutting off.

Build 535

• Build 535 change log
• Resumed activities aren't creating an icon in the mesh view when shared.
• Kicked out of shared activities improperly.
• Keyboard keys aren't always resuming from suspend on B4.
• Resume icon in journal is broken.
• No scrollbar in Journal when viewing USB sticks in journal.
• The Changelog indicates that Paint should have Copy functionality, but it does not.
• Some Chat activities are automatically making a shared activity icon in the mesh view of the XO that created it, but their sharing status defaults to Private. This happens consistently if the XO cannot complete the "Connecting..." step, which is understandable, but it happens at other points too. In some other cases, the Sharing status defaulted to My Neighborhood properly.
• Chat activities that were never shared show up in the Journal with a normal Chat icon. Those that were shared show up with a Read icon.
• On one B3 I encountered a snag where the laptop completely refused to suspend. Power button wouldn't work, and closing the lid didn't do anything either.
• If I share a Write, News Reader or Connect activity with "My Neighborhood," I can't change it back to Private.
• Trying to share with "My Neighborhood" for Paint and Browse does nothing.
• Etoys isn't making a journal entry anymore (again).
• Opening shared Newsreader activities doesn't seem to share anything; it's as though the user who joined has his own newsreader activity.
• Videos are not being shared in a shared Record activity.
• The "Invite" option has been removed from user context menus in the mesh view.

Build 532

• Build 532 Change Log
• Was able to pass all but step 6 of the smoke test.
• Cannot use copy in a shared Write activity.
• Context menu for user in a shared activity doesn't stay open.
• Rollovers for XOs in neighborhood view are getting cut off.
• Being unable to resume from suspend on B3/4s has become a very significant problem. Very frequently on the B4 I am using, when I try to resume using a key on the keyboard, the XO's screen will turn fully dark and can not be resumed by any means. Sometimes, it will turn fully dark and can only be resumed by the power button. I haven't encountered problems resuming with the power button on the B4 except in that instance, but the B3 still cannot resume via the power button.
• B2s are still losing control of the cursor and keyboard upon resume.
• I tried connecting to the mesh and, unlike in other recent builds, the exterior of the mesh icon started blinking and the mesh icon in my Home view turned blue. However, I was still unable to browse the web.
• Between #1935 and #2412, the neighborhood view is getting really crowded. Icons are beginning to overlap again.
• Write does not share automatically when opened from Neighborhood view.
• Downloaded files are taking a long time to appear on the clipboard. Also, if they are canceled, every journal entry says that they were downloaded, even though they weren't.
• Etoys is finally making a journal entry.

Build 530

• Change Log
• Cannot resume from suspend by pressing the power button on a B4.
• Write will not open.
• Location of a storage device's context menu in Journal needs to be moved to prevent accidental unmounts.
• User names aren't displayed when clustered around a shared activity
• On some boots of the B2, mouse went insane.
• Brightness buttons don't work. This is apparently an intentional change in functionality and brightness is now completely controlled with the F9 and F10 key.
• Record's real-time display is persisting after it is closed.
• Usually, I am able to resume from suspend by pressing a key. The screen will turn darker for a brief moment, and then resume normally. However, occasionally the screen will turn dark and stay dark, never resuming. I had to reboot.
• When I click the mesh network icon in the neighborhood view, it will blink for a bit, and then it will stop blinking (neither the interior nor the border blinks). When I go to the Home view, I have neither a mesh icon nor a wireless access point icon.
• On some boots of the B4, everything I typed appeared to be using a different set of characters (as though the alt key was held down or something, or it loaded the wrong language settings. I couldn't recognize them.)
• After booting, the frame became togglable in the Home view. It stopped being togglable once I switched views.
• The changelog seems to indicate that the Journal should be detecting and providing an interface for storage devices. However, it's very inconsistent about actually doing this. Inserting a USB stick didn't add an icon to Journal most of the times I tried it. Occasionally, I managed to get Journal to create an icon for it (usually the bar at the bottom didn't even appear), but clicking the USB stick icon didn't do anything. (Two entries named "" appeared at the top of my regular journal, though.)
• In TamTam, mousing to a corner will only bring up the top section of the frame.

Networking

• One of my B4s can't get on the mesh today

Presence

• Buddies not disappearing even when connection does

Journal

• User should not know about "unmounting"

Record

• Record isn't shared automatically when started from the Neighborhood view.
• Record doesn't share videos.
• Record breaks if the record button in movie mode is double-clicked
• Photos from a shared Record session can only be accessed by resuming that Journal entry.
• Photos from a shared Record session that were sent by another XO cannot be viewed or deleted.

- Zack

Build 528

528 ChangeLog

Smoke Test - looks good; this might be a good RC4:

• Boots up (you need to use the new Autoreinstallation_image process to get the activation to work properly).
• Connected to local mesh with a B2 and a couple of B4s - they ran Abiword, Connect4, and Chat
• Journal can resume and search is working better, but it seems you need to go in and out of the journal once or twice before all the searching, detail view, and renaming works.
• I had some problems connecting to my WEP enabled access point.
• I suspect the xo may not be scanning channels for a local mesh. I couldn't get an XO to connect to a local mesh created by another XO, which was connected to an AP.
• I wanted to create a paint picture and add it to an abiword, but I can't figure out how to do that. More later.
• B2 machines don't come out of suspend properly. I used the suspend/resume button and when I resumed the touchpad and keyboard don't work (this will need to be pretty high priority since the machines can go into suspend on their own).

-Kim

Build 525

525 ChangeLog

• I wasn't able to activate using copy-nand. This is intended, I think?
• Wasn't able to activate using the old autoreinstallation method, but once I tried the new one, the XO was able to boot just fine.
• I did run into a bit of trouble with autoreinstallation - if you used copy-nand first, it does successfully install the build, so when you try to do autoreinstallation it will say you already have the latest build and think it's finished.

* It is normal because the autoreinstallation checks if the build number is lower than the recent version. - Luya Tshimbalanga 

• Pressing the power button on the B4 didn't suspend.
• Recent builds had been borderline-usable on B2s, but it's insanely slow on them again.
• On B2, there is occasional freezing of sugar interface.

Camera

• Camera is still badly render on B2 machine. I think it would be nice to recheck build 406.15 and even build 430 have better rendering.

Build 518

518 ChangeLog

• B2 report: Sugar takes a long time to load. The screen will stay black for a while. - Luya Tshimbalanga

Build 517

• PDFs don't open from the clipbaord (but do from the Journal)
• Mesh did not connect between laptops (away from any access points)
• Real Video didn't launch from Journal (Helix player not integrated with Journal?)
• One of two machines did not suspend with lid closed
• missing STOP icon in browser
• search doesn't work in the Journal
• Changing the label (in the detail view of the Journal) very slow
• CAMERA Still blurred and screen goes out of right colors when camera activity is on, on a B2-1. -Rowen/ wenmi
• White blur on screen when suspended by power button -Rowen / wenmi

Activity Details 517

Build 515, RC3

515 ChangeLog

Smoke results: passed all tests 1-5; not able to test 6.

• This one should have the developer's console back and the Journal dates corrected.
• B4 is not shutting off the display and backlight when suspended. The B2 suspended, but with the backlight and display still on, but the screen at least faded to white. With the B4, the screen does not change at all.
• XOs only see themselves clustered around shared activities in the mesh view.
• Content indexing in Journal is supposed to be fixed, but the search feature still doesn't work. Sorting by activity works fine.
  • There is a bug with metadata in the journal that's been fixed in jhbuild but it not yet in build 515, makes the load and save in TamTam fail.
    • The bug is still there in 517...
• At one point, when in a chat session, the XOs stopped seeing each other on the mesh. For one of them, messages just didn't go through. However, for the other, it sent the message "Kim-B2" has left the chat - but the B2's messages were still able to reach the B4, albeit with a white, nameless XO icon attached rather than the normal icon. See #2090 for more specific info and logs.
• Perhaps related to the above problem of losing communication between XOs when collaborating - I had one XO share a Connect activity and another XO join it. While both XO's appeared on each other's mesh view, the XO that shared never detected that the second XO joined. In the console, each XO is unable to ping each other. However, they still display each other on the mesh view.
• XOs aren't seeing each other as much in the mesh compared to 514. They also appear and drop off randomly, even among two who are sitting right next to each other.
• Shared activity icons sometimes still get stuck on the mesh view after everyone has left them.
• Undo/Redo and Copy/Paste do not work in a shared Write activity. Is this intended to prevent the complexities that arise from two users, or are these supposed to be functional?
• CAMERA Still blurred and screen goes out of right colors when camera activity is on, on a B2-1. -Rowen/ wenmi
  • Camera colors still screwed up on B1 as well. --gnu
• Keyboard and Touchpad will freeze after B2 switched to suspend mode and an user resumed it. Rebooting the machine will restore their functionality until B2 suspends. #2230 - Luya Tshimbalanga
• B1 does not suspend when lid closed. --gnu
• B1 suspends OK on power button, screen gradually fades. But keyboard doesn't break it out of suspend. --gnu
• B1 when resumed from suspend with power button, touchpad doesn't work. However, keyboard works (CTRL-ALT-F1), and you can type. Using the touchpad from the F1 screen, produces this message rapidly while touching the pad: "psmouse.c: PenTablet at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1". I got about twenty such messages, with timing ticks from 88.315121 to 88.867698. --gnu

Record

• Record breaks after suspend/resume cycle
• Record can't be properly rotated
• Record could use Copy functionality
• The only effects of sharing Record seem to be removing the pupil from the eye button of the non-initiators, and also disallowing them from capturing any images. The live preview shown is of their own camera, and pictures taken by the initiator are not shared.

Chat

• Initial keyboard focus in Chat isn't the text entry
• When the initiator leaves the Chat session, he can't properly rejoin
• When a non-initiator leaves the Chat session and returns, there is no "joined" message
• Chat isn't properly handling multiline messages
• Chat needs copy and paste functionality

Connect

• Connect isn't share automatically when started from the neighborhood view
• Connect has no "play again" option

Presence

• Activities shared after they are started aren't clustering properly
• Collaboration in general is slow, which I'm sure is known
• After testing collaboration with 2 B4s, I booted a B3. It could see the B4s, but they could not see it.

- Zack

• Hang on B1 after "INIT: Version 2.64 booting"

- gnu

Build 513/514

513 Change Log
514 Change Log

• Bottom half of screen goes blank in Neighborhood view on B2 machines.
• "Joined the chat" messages in Chat don't display user's name or color.
• XOs in a shared activity are not always displayed in the frame.
• In Chat, users in the activity are not displaying properly in the frame. In one instance, the frame did not even show the XO's own icon.
• XOs are now able to find plenty of other XOs and display them on the mesh view, even after rebooting (!)
  • Is this bug #2214? --CScott 16:23, 16 July 2007 (EDT)
  • Was more of an update to indicate a fix to #1955, but I suppose it presents a new problem of its own as #2214 indicates.
• Collaboration in Write works now.
• Browse does not have a default page. When opened you just get a blank screen, and aren't directed to Google. Has no problems loading pages once told to, though.
• XOs are more consistent about connecting to the mesh, but still take ~2 minutes after booting.
• Clipboard selections are no longer all treated like downloads.
• Mesh connectivity indicator is now accurate.
• There doesn't appear to be a way to start a new game in Connect once a player has won.
• Activities now appear to properly fall off the mesh when no one is using them, but only on other XO's screens - NOT on the screen of the XO that created and shared the activity.
• Frame toggle key works again.

Build 511

ChangeLog 508
ChangeLog 510
ChangeLog 511

• Laptops suspend right after boot. When you first boot this build you can get all the way to the sugar home view, but then within a minute, the system switches graphics mode and goes into suspend. It goes in and out of suspend, but if you start up some activities you may be able to work/test for a while.

==> NOTE: to turn off power manager, open a console window and type: /etc/init.d/ohmd stop

• I was not able to get the XO MPP to work as it had in 502. With 511, I connected one XO to an infrastructure AP and was able to browse; and then booted a second XO and it could never connect to the first one's mesh. In 502 the second XO could browse the web through the Mesh to the first XO.
• Laptops shutdown if adapter is added or removed.
• With two laptops that have no connectivity to a school mesh or AP, they were able to see each other in the neighborhood mesh. When trying to share an abiword doc, I could see the 'Write Activity' in the neighborhood mesh view, but the text was not available, Bug #2183. If you click on the 'Write Activity' from the neighborhood mesh, you get a new document. IF you click from the journal, you get the saved doc.

- kim

• CAMERA ON B2-1 doesn't get enough color. Very slow and it hangs. -ROWEN

• When the sugar interface resumes, the cursor of the touchpad froze. The test was done from the XO B2.

- Luya

Build 505

ChangeLog 504
ChangeLog 505

• This build is missing some pieces for proper IP connectivity. Do not use it for AP or mesh testing. Build 502 was better. This build is good for looking at activities.

- Kim

• Text color is not selectable from text tab in Oficina, and instead defaults to the currently selected "Shapes" interior color.
• Undo and Redo in Oficina does not work properly with the grayscale function. I can undo the effect, but not Redo it.
• There is no way to remove part of an image in Oficina except with the eraser. I cannot select something and delete it (actually, there's no cut/copy/paste functionality at all).
• Web and Oficina cannot be shared.
• Journal entries that have copied to the clipboard now have a proper icon, but still cannot be pasted.
• Journal is no longer displaying storage devices at the bottom of the screen. That entire area that lets you switch between journal and storage devices has been removed (either that or it cannot detect any of them, but it usually at least displayed the Journal icon anyway).
• Basic Journal features like Go Back and Erase are taking a very long time.
• When using ctl+alt+F3 to return from the console to Sugar, I am automatically returned to the Home view, regardless of whether I was in an activity or mesh view before. Not sure if this is intentional.
• Clicking the "Stop Download" option on a clipboard selection does not stop the download.
• Text insertion boxes get stuck on canvas in Oficina.
• Selection box in Oficina disappears after moving the selection.
• Oficina activity icon does not share the user's color on the activity donut.
• Fill feature in Oficina does nothing.
• Camera sometimes becomes misaligned.
• Brush size menu in Oficina should not be numerical
• Color in a picture becomes corrupted sometimes in Oficina.
• Using Undo confuses the polygon tool's starting point in Oficina.

- John

• Can't open things from the clipboard. I have tried (new) paint and write activities.
• New paint does not have startup notification (throbbing the icon in the donut)

- Cameron

Build 502

Change Log

• I was able to open two XOs on the train and they came up and saw each other in their neighborhood mesh views! There were no servers or access points anywhere in the vicinity. I was not able to share any activity, but they did see each other.
• I was able to connect one XO to my home WEP AP; after it was up and running with a good connection to the internet, I booted the second XO, and it connected to the local mesh. It made sure it did NOT connect to the AP, but only to the local mesh and it was able to get to the internet through the first XO!
• Next we have to make the collaboration work...

- Kim

• Journal entries are visible again.
• XOs can never detect any access points.
• 1950 is still at large - been an issue for a while now.

- John

• Still no feed back on Record mode bug 2101
• Font corruption appears to be fixed bug 1837
• can't see my AP so I can't test the Browse bugs
• new login UI (nickname/color)
• esc key does not close any apps still
• paint still does not stop bug 2105
• Frame button does nothing
• Looks like Record still breaks after viewing a video bug 2106
• additionally trying to take photo hangs the activity

-Cameron

• 'Stop Download' appears in the clipboard object context menu for local objects
• White oval (text field?) in clipboard object context menu.
• Clipboard object from Write gets Read's icon
• text-only Clipboard object from Write gets Opened in Web

- Zack

Build 499

Change Log

• Journal is not displaying any entries.
• XOs are constantly losing the ability to access the internet and then gaining it again.
• Web is not displaying webpages properly. Sections that are supposed to be white don't fill the window completely.
• The mesh connection indicator in home view now sometimes works, and the icons in neighborhood view sometimes blink properly when working, but they still don't a lot of the time. In fact, now, instead of saying that I'm not connected when I am (as was the case in #1950, the bigger problem is it saying that I am connected when I'm not. It may be the case that the mesh network status is changing so frequently that the XO is constantly playing catchup and never actually displaying the current state.
• In Browse, the icon for the "Stop" button in the Browse tab is broken.

- John

• At olpc I connected to a mesh network that really had no internet connectivity - so I can't ping or browse. Dan suggested this might be the case of an XO that was connected to the internet and then lost its connectivity; but is still advertising a mesh. All of us here will connect to that -- and we can see a few other XOs, but we won't get to the internet if that mesh is not connected. I will write up a few bugs on this.
• Clicking on the infrastructure AP worked, updated my laptop IP address, and I was able to get to the internet that way.

- Kim

• Still no labels on the login screen
• The following eye is kinda creepy in Record
• I can't tell which mode I am in, Video or Photo bug 2101, fixed in v14 of Record
• Font in toolbar tabs change color randomly, I have seen mixed black and white, and green bug 2102 marked as a dup of bug 1837
• Progress bar in Browse obscures the location url bug 2103
• web pages with flash content have serious rendering issues bug 2104
• paint activity will not close bug 2105

- Cameron

• Sugar shouldn't let the two "My Colors" be identical
• Record breaks after playing a video

- Zack

Build 496

Change Log

• Has new kernel, including almost all of our current work, including suspend/resume, up to date libertas driver, 2.6.22 kernel, etc. Still lacking:
  • frame buffer driver patch for dcon control, ergo dpms/screen saver broken
• X server is FC7 based, but:
  • evdev driver not present, so Super-sensitive tap-to-click is still a problem, and seems to be worse than before; it's to the point of rendering the XO completely unusable.
  • Fonts rendering is broken; fix should be in next build.
• B2 cannot get on the mesh.
• The icon for closing activities is broken.
• New Journal icon to address #1962.
• Battery indicator now displays properly.
• Even worse performance problems on B2 than usual. B2 takes ~5 minutes to boot, and sometimes lags severely or hangs indefinitely as soon as the Sugar UI loads - completely unusable.
• Connect sometimes desyncs player turns.

- John + Jim

• iwlist and iwconfig are hanging indefinitely

- Zack

• "My Name" and "My Color" don't appear on B4s.

- C-Scott

Old Release Notes