| Fedora Test Days | |
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| Power Management | |
| Date | 2013-04-17 |
| Time | all day |
| Website | QA/Fedora_19_test_days |
| IRC | #fedora-test-day (webirc) |
| Mailing list | test |
The Test Day page is yet in construction. It will be ready for the Test Day - when this message is removed :) .
If you come to this page 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.
You can attend this event online or personally in Red Hat Brno office
What to test?
Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Power Management
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
- Development - Jaroslav Škarvada (jskarvad) / PowerManagement SIG
- Quality Assurance - Jan Ščotka (jscotka), Martin Holec (Martix)
Note: jskarvad will be available at least during 10:00 - 22:00 (UTC+2) on #fedora-test-day, #fedora-power, #fedora-devel, otherwise he will be on e-mail with non guaranteed response time. He will be also available on site in Red Hat Brno office during 13:00 - 19:00, Visitors room, 4th floor (in the front of reception desk).
Prerequisite for Test Day
- It is possible to convert the LiveCD into LiveUSB by following the How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB instructions. If you convert the LiveCD into LiveUSB it is recommended to create on USB another primary partition that will serve as swap. This is useful for pm-hibernate test case.
- If you attend the event on-site in Red Hat Brno office, there will be prepared bootable USB flash disks/CD ROMs, thus you only need to bring your hardware there. (13.00-17.00 CEST)
- Optional: account on fedoraproject.org if you plan to upload the pm-utils bugreport file. If you do not have one and you do not plan to get it, you can still attend the test day - there are instructions in the appropriate test case(s) bellow how to handle such situation.
Typing convetions
In the following text commands that needs to be run as root are prefixed by #, e.g.:
# id
means to run id command under the root account. Commands prefixed by $ do not need to be run under the root account.
How to test?
It is focused especially on suspend, hibernate, power-consumption, LCD brightness control and tuned. Some test cases are only for laptop users and it is noted in the test case description field. If you do not have laptop just skip them. You can also skip other test cases (e.g. if you do not have enough time). In this case just leave the columns for skipped test cases blank. Please note that your report will be still valuable even if you do not finish all test cases. The procedure:
- Run test cases bellow.
Prepare your system
If you are using our PM Test Day Live medium, please skip the following steps, because everything is already prepared for you.
- Install the public key (in case you would like to verify the PM Test Day support package, otherwise you can skip this step because the public key will be installed automatically with the PM Test Day support package in the next step):
# rpm --import http://jskarvad.fedorapeople.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-pm-test-day
- Install the PM Test Day support package by:
# yum install http://jskarvad.fedorapeople.org/pm-test-day-repo/pm-test-day-4-1.fc18.noarch.rpm
- This procedure will also install the public key which will be then used for verification of packages from the PM Test Day repo.
Make sure you have all current updates (and temporal fixes) installed by:
# yum update
Clear your audit log (especially important in case you aren't running from the live medium):
# echo -n > /var/log/audit/audit.log
Known Bugs / Workarounds
- RHBZ #862801 - Anaconda hangs when 'Configuring installed system'
- You can encounter this when doing liveinst from the live media, current workaround: 'pkill anaconda'.
- Problem with screen locking:
- Screen locking is disabled on live medium, to enable:
- Set password for liveuser:
# passwd liveuser
- Enable the locking feature:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen 'false'
- Enable the lock in gnome-control-center:
$ gnome-control-center screen
- The desktop locking is task of gnome-settings-daemon/UPower not pm-utils (pm-suspend*, pm-hibernate). Pm-utils is backend for UPower and knows nothing about desktop locking. To lock your desktop you need to suspend/hibernate from gnome-shell UI.
- Problem with hibernation from gnome-shell
- AFAIK currently it is not possible to hibernate from gnome-shell UI without tweaking (please don't ask me why, I am not Gnome developer), you can invoke the full hibernation (including desktop locking if set, see above) by the following dbus call:
$ dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Hibernate
- Or with gnome-shell 3.6:
# dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.Hibernate boolean:false
- RHBZ #859224 - Please take systemd-logind's handle-power-key/handle-suspend-key/handle-hibernate-key/handle-lid-switch inhibitor locks if GNOME wants to handle the respective keys on its own
- Double suspend problem.
Test Cases
| Testcase | Description | Target | Approx. time required |
|---|---|---|---|
| pm-suspend | Tests suspend / resume via pm-utils. | All | 2 minutes |
| pm-hibernate | Tests hibernate / resume via pm-utils. | All | 2 minutes |
| pm-suspend-hybrid | Tests hybrid suspend (AKA suspend to both) / resume via pm-utils. | All | 2 minutes |
| pm-powersave | Tests detection of AC / battery (upower functionality) and pm-powersave reactions to power source changes (pm-utils). | Laptops | 1 minutes |
| Lid close | Tests system reaction to lid close. | Laptops | 1 minutes |
| Backlight control | Tests LCD backlight control. | Laptops | 1 minute |
| Tuned | Tests tuned-adm (tuned) basic functionality. | All | 5 minutes |
| Tuned disabled idle | Measures power consumption of machine in active idle with tuned disabled. | Laptops or users with wattmeter | 15 minutes |
| Tuned powersave idle | Measures power consumption of machine in active idle with tuned laptop-battery-powersave profile. | Laptops or users with wattmeter | 15 minutes |
| Selinux AVCs | Tests if there are no SELinux AVCs during profile switching. | All | 1 minutes |
Test Results
If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla usually for the component pm-utils, selinux-policy, kernel, or tuned. If you are reporting suspend/hibernate problem, please also attach output from dmesg and pm-utils-bugreport-info.sh. 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. The first column should be your name with a link to your Fedora User Wiki page (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 |
pm-suspend | pm-hibernate | pm-suspend-hybrid | pm-powersave | Lid close | Backlight control | Tuned | Tuned disabled idle | Tuned powersave idle | Selinux AVCs | References |
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| Sample User | Sample Machine |  |
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| User | Smolt Profile |
pm-suspend | pm-hibernate | pm-suspend-hybrid | pm-powersave | Lid close | Backlight control | Tuned | Tuned disabled idle | Tuned powersave idle | Selinux AVCs | References |