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Fedora Test Days

GNOME 3 (pre-F15 Alpha)

Date	2011-02-03
Time	all day

Website	http://www.gnome3.org
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 installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on GNOME 3. This is the first of three Fedora 15 Test Days focusing on GNOME 3. The goal of these events is to test as much as possible of the functionality of GNOME 3 to ensure that it works correctly and provides the necessary basic features for a day-to-day usable desktop.

Big changes ahead
Remember, this ain't your momma's GNOME - the overall user experience of GNOME 3 is very different from GNOME 2. It's fine to ask about the changes and make feature requests, but before filing a bug on something that's 'missing' from GNOME 2, please ask in #fedora-test-day to make sure it's not an intended change. There should always be someone there who can answer your question. Thanks!

Who's available

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

Development - Matthias Clasen (mclasen)
Quality Assurance - Adam Williamson (adamw)

Prerequisite for Test Day

Getting the right Live image
The live image that will be used on the test day is still being built. To perform the tests against current code, you will need an installed rawhide machine that you can update to the latest packages, or wait for the correct live CD to become available!

An updated Rawhide (tips on installing Rawhide below), or the specific Test Day Live CD Image.
Your hardware profile uploaded to Smolt according to these instructions

Smolt not working?
Is smolt crashing or otherwise not working in Rawhide? A temporary fix is available to address bug#673015. Packages are available in the koji build system. To upgrade the smolt package(s), with root permissions, type:

yum update "http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=2745512&name=smolt-1.4.3-2.jlaska.fc15.noarch.rpm" \
  "http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=2745512&name=smolt-firstboot-1.4.3-2.jlaska.fc15.noarch.rpm" \
  "http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=2745512&name=smolt-gui-1.4.3-2.jlaska.fc15.noarch.rpm"

For most testing, a graphics adapter capable of compositing: we are aiming to support all NVIDIA GeForce adapters, all Intel adapters except for GMA 500 (Poulsbo) and pre-i915 (i8xx) adapters, and all ATI/AMD Radeon adapters. If you are using an unsupported adapter, you can still help us with fallback testing - see below.

Shell will not work in VirtualBox or virt-manager / KVM
Virtual machines without 3D acceleration pass-through support will not be suitable for most testing: the Shell will not run in these configurations. Also, even though some VirtualBox editions have passthrough support, the current Fedora implementation does not support it, so Shell will not work in VirtualBox either. If you are using a virtual machine, you can still help us with fallback testing - see below.

Also helpful, if you have or can get them:

Additional displays (monitors, TVs...)
As many storage devices as you can access
Optical media (burned, commercially pressed, and blank burnable, CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays)
Graphics adapters, virtual machines, or driver configurations not capable of compositing, to test fallback support (see below)

How to test?

As this event comes before the release of Fedora 15 Alpha, you will need a Rawhide installation or live image to perform the testing.

Live image

You may download a non-destructive Rawhide live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD. Live images can be found here. This is likely the easiest way to participate in testing for most people. Or:

Update your machine to Rawhide

If you want to try Rawhide, see the instructions on the Rawhide page on the various ways in which you can install or update to Rawhide.

Perform testing

Please perform as many of the test cases listed as you have the time and the resources to complete, and fill out your results in the table below. You do not need a Fedora account to fill in the table.

Fallback testing

QA:Testcase_gnome3_fallback

This test case will test that GNOME falls back correctly to a 'classic' environment if your hardware does not support the GNOME Shell. If your hardware starts GNOME Shell correctly, please leave the fallback test column empty, and fill in the other test result columns. If your hardware is unable to start GNOME Shell, but falls back correctly to a classic environment, please mark the fallback test in the results table as 'pass', and leave the other test columns empty. If your hardware is unable to start GNOME Shell, and does not fall back correctly to a classic environment, please mark the fallback test in the results table as 'fail', file a bug against gnome-session, and leave the other test columns empty.

Regular tests

Unplanned testing

As well as running the formal test cases, you can help simply by running GNOME 3 and reporting any problems you come across in the course of your typical use, even if they do not match up with any of the test cases. Please remember, though, that just being different from GNOME 2 is not necessarily a problem, and check in #fedora-test-day before you file a bug.

Test Results

If you have problems with any of the tests, try and report a bug. Most bugs in this event should be reported to GNOME Bugzilla. Bugs that are clearly issues in Fedora GNOME integration should be reported to Fedora Bugzilla. You will need an account to report bugs, but creating one is easy, and we will help you do this if you ask in IRC.

If you are not sure of the appropriate component, please check in IRC before filing, there are many possibilities. 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 describe your result, following the examples in the Sample user row.

User	Smolt Profile	Sample test 1	Sample test 2	Sample test 3	Sample test 4	References
Sample User	HW	none	pass	warn ^[1]	fail ^[2]	↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321 ↑ RHBZ #12345

User	Smolt Profile	Desktop Browser	Desktop Login	Audio Basic	Desktop Automount	Desktop Menus	Desktop Keyring	References
David Le Sage (Red Hat)	HW	pass	pass	none	pass	pass	pass
kenda	HW	none	warn ^[1]	pass	pass	fail ^[2]^[3]	none	↑ blank entry in gdm for users without a real name. ↑ Using the live image of 31.01. there is a 'Other' menu. ↑ System Settings -> Network has no icon.
Doron	HW	pass	none	pass	none	none	none
japafi	HW	pass	none	pass	pass	warn ^[1]^[2]^[3]	pass	↑ Character map application RHBZ #669891 ↑ Gedit RHBZ #673674 ↑ tested: Accessories, Graphics (excl simple scan), Internet
kato	HW	pass	none	fail ^[1]	pass	none	pass	↑ No Sound from the Sound Card. I tried to modifiy Sound Setting but when I tried to test the Speaker it crash RHBZ #669037 and RHBZ #669279
andreskru	[]^[1]	warn ^[2]	none	pass	pass	none	none	↑ smolt doesnt work "ImportError: No module named devicelist" ↑ when i do alt+f2 i cant input text in text box "please enter a command"
HUK	HW^[1]	pass	pass	pass	pass	warn ^[2]	pass	↑ smoltSendProfile gives error ImportError: No module named devicelist ↑ All the applications disappeared after installing some additional program(chrome and vlc). They only came back after relogin
David Ramsey	Add 32-bit Smolt Profile HW URL ^[1]	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	↑ Dell Precision eight core with i686 support use new smolt at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=216715
David Ramsey	Add 64-bit Smolt Profile HW URL ^[1]	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	↑ Dell Precision eight core with x86_64 support use new smolt at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=216715

[1] Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321

[2] RHBZ #12345

[3] try in gdm for users without a real name.

[4] Using the live image of 31.01. there is a 'Other' menu.

[5] System Settings -> Network has no icon.

[6] Character map application RHBZ #669891

[7] Gedit RHBZ #673674

[8] tested: Accessories, Graphics (excl simple scan), Internet

[9] No Sound from the Sound Card. I tried to modifiy Sound Setting but when I tried to test the Speaker it crash RHBZ #669037 and RHBZ #669279

[10] smolt doesnt work "ImportError: No module named devicelist"

[11] when i do alt+f2 i cant input text in text box "please enter a command"

[12] smoltSendProfile gives error ImportError: No module named devicelist

[13] All the applications disappeared after installing some additional program(chrome and vlc). They only came back after relogin

[14] Dell Precision eight core with i686 support use new smolt at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=216715

[15] Dell Precision eight core with x86_64 support use new smolt at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=216715

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 == Prerequisite for Test Day ==
-* An updated [[Releases/Rawhide|Rawhide]] (tips on installing Rawhide below), or a [http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/desktop/ nightly live image]
+{{admon/important|Getting the right Live image|The live image that will be used on the test day is still being built. To perform the tests against current code, you will need an installed rawhide machine that you can update to the latest packages, or wait for the correct live CD to become available!}}
+* An updated [[Releases/Rawhide|Rawhide]] (tips on installing Rawhide below), or the specific Test Day Live CD Image.
 * Your hardware profile uploaded to [http://www.smolts.org Smolt] according to [http://smolts.org/smolt-wiki/Main_Page#Usage these instructions]
 {{admon/important|Smolt not working?|Is smolt crashing or otherwise not working in Rawhide?  A temporary fix is available to address [http://bugzilla.redhat.com/673015 bug#673015].  Packages are [http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID{{=}}2745512 available] in the koji build system.  To upgrade the <code>smolt</code> package(s), with <code>root</code> permissions, type:

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