Test Day:2012-11-08 GNOME 3.6

Fedora Test Days
Gnome 3.6
Date	2012-11-08
Time	all day
Website	QA/Fedora_18_test_days
IRC	#fedora-test-day (webirc)
Mailing list	test

Can't make the date?
If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Bugzilla, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?

Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Gnome 3.6.

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

• Development - Developer1 (irc_nick1), Developer2 (irc_nick2)
• Quality Assurance - Martin Holec (Martix), Vítězslav Humpa (vhumpa), Vladimír Beneš (vbenes), Adam Williamson (adamw)

Prerequisite for Test Day

• bootable USB key or CD/DVD disk with latest Fedora 18 live image or:
• machine or VM with updated Fedora 18

• An updated Fedora F18 pre-release or a nightly live image
• Your hardware profile uploaded to Smolt according to these instructions

How to test?

This Test Day has two parts. First part is covered by test cases and it's focused on initial setup and getting you familiar with basic functionality. Second is exploratory testing when you are free to use software how do you like. Don't worry and try to break Gnome in various ways which you expect to work.

Update your machine

If you're running Fedora F18, make sure you have all the current updates for it installed, using the update manager. Or:

Live image

Optionally, you may download a non-destructive live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD. Live images can be found here.

Software Rendering

Computers with obsolete graphics with buggy 3D drivers and VM hypervisors like KVM or VirtualBox don't have complete 3D support yet. But you can run Gnome Shell using software rendering (llvmpipe driver) on the CPU.

• This may require creating and editing xorg.conf, or moving the DRI drivers for those cards out of the way to force fallback to llvmpipe, as in, mv /usr/lib*/dri/radeon_dri.so /tmp (substituting the right value for "radeon", ie, i915, nouveau, r200, etc.) You will need to restart X by logging out and back in for this to take effect.
• Of lesser interest, but still worth checking, is whether GPUs already on the hardware blacklist work with their native driver instead. This can be checked by commenting out the appropriate entry from /usr/share/gnome-session/hardware-compatibility and logging out and back in to Gnome.

Check if Xorg uses software rendering, run: glxinfo and check output for string: OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)

Test Cases

Feel free to review Test Cases marked:

pass

Gnome Shell

• Login Screen
  pass
• Gnome Shell Activities
  pass
• Lock Screen
  pass
• Gnome Shell Extensions
  pass
• Online Accounts
  inprogress
• Accessibility
  inprogress
• Control Center
  inprogress

Gnome Applications

• Web
  pass
• Documents
  inprogress
• Files
  inprogress
• Empathy
  inprogress
• Evolution
  inprogress
• Boxes
  pass
• Disk Usage Analyzer
  inprogress
• Disks
  inprogress
• Clocks
  inprogress
• Font Viewer
  inprogress

Test Results

Construct a table or list to allow testers to post results. Each column should be a test case or configuration, and each row should consist of test results. Include some instructions on how to report bugs, and any special instructions. Here's an example, from a Palimpsest test day:

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla usually for the component udisks, or gnome-disk-utility for bugs in the Palimpsest graphical front end itself. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from the first line as a template. The first column should be your name with a link to your User page in the Wiki if you have one, and the second should be a link to the Smolt profile of the system you tested. For each test case, use the result template to enter your result, as shown in the example result line.

User	Smolt Profile	Sample test 1	Sample test 2	Sample test 3	Sample test 4	References
Sample User	HW	none	pass	warn	fail