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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 new features in Gnome 3.6. Read more.

Who's available

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

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

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.

Architecture SHA256SUM
x86_64 ccad161340ee88d28e375074bfa73b9b0684d1e5ec832ec0a6e648d82ce494d5
i686 a0fcf67ebee0f4c547d351240a4fc3dc08359bd9f6d9a21d4d3d2e3ee10dfcb8

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.

  • You may need to uninstall your GPU driver by running yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau for example to force enable llvmpipe driver. 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). Or you can check if using soft rendering in Control Center -> Details (llvmpipe)

Test Cases

GNOME Shell

System Settings

Applications

Test Results

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla for the appropriate component. 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 lines.

GNOME Shell

User Login Screen Activities Lock Screen Extensions Accessibility References
Sample User
none
none
Pass pass
Warning warn
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
  1. ↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321
  2. ↑ RHBZ #12345
mkrizek
none
Pass pass
Pass pass
none
Pass pass
pschindl
none
Warning warn
[1]
Warning warn
[2] [3]
none
none
  1. ↑ RHBZ #874543
  2. ↑ RHBZ #874638
  3. ↑ RHBZ #874648
aday
Pass pass
Pass pass
none
none
Pass pass
Jan
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Warning warn
[1]
  1. ↑ no notification shown for slow keys

System Settings

User System Settings Online Accounts - Google Online Accounts - Facebook Online Accounts - Windows Live Online Accounts - MS Exchange Online Accounts - Kerberos References
Sample User
none
none
none
Pass pass
Warning warn
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
  1. ↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321
  2. ↑ RHBZ #12345
Dinyar
Warning warn
[1]
Warning warn
[2]
none
none
none
Fail fail
[3]
  1. ↑ Test pass, but encountered RHBZ #874585 and RHBZ #874591
  2. ↑ Test pass, but encountered RHBZ #874569
  3. ↑ RHBZ #873759
aday
Warning warn
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
Fail fail
[3]
none
none
none
  1. ↑ Wasn't able to test printers. Encountered RHBZ #874591 - left a comment.
  2. ↑ Encountered RHBZ #874640
  3. ↑ Encountered RHBZ #874670. Also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678161.
Jan
Pass pass
Pass pass
[1]
none
none
none
none
  1. ↑ gnome-contacts had to be restarted before Google contacts showed

Applications (part 1)

User Web Documents Files Empathy Empathy (audio) Empathy (video) References
Sample User
none
none
none
Pass pass
Warning warn
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
  1. ↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321
  2. ↑ RHBZ #12345
Dinyar no Smolt in F18
Warning warn
[1]
Pass pass
Pass pass
none
none
  1. ↑ Encountered RHBZ #873668, RHBZ #863896
pschindl
none
none
Warning warn
[1]
none
none
  1. ↑ RHBZ #874512
Jan
Fail fail
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
Pass pass
none
none
none
  1. ↑ Encountered RHBZ #874678, RHBZ #874691
  2. ↑ Encountered RHBZ #874687

Applications (part 2)

User Evolution Boxes Font Viewer References
Sample User
none
none
Fail fail
[1]
  1. ↑ RHBZ #12345
Dinyar
none
none
Fail fail
[1]
  1. ↑ Font was installed, but font viewer crashed. RHBZ #870753
Jan
Warning warn
[1]
none
Fail fail
[2]
  1. ↑ RHBZ #869182
  2. ↑ RHBZ #870753
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