2013-03-21 Gnome 3.8

Fedora Test Days

Gnome 3.8

Date	2013-03-21
Time	all day

Website	QA/Fedora_19_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 3.8. Read more.

Who's available

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

Development - hadess, rtcm
Quality Assurance - Martin Holec (Martix), Vítězslav Humpa (vhumpa), Vladimír Beneš (vbenes), Adam Williamson (adamw), Vadim Rutkovsky (vrutkovs)

Prerequisite for Test Day

bootable USB key or CD/DVD disk with latest Fedora 19 live image or:
machine or VM with updated Fedora 19

An updated Fedora F19 pre-release or a Test Day #Live image

Known issues

There are two entries for the live image in the boot menu. This is a result of using a special non-debug kernel in the live image to make it run smoothly. I've no idea why it results in two entries on the boot menu, but never mind. Just use the one that's selected and it'll boot fine.

It's known that the system doesn't wake up properly from the idle time out screen blank / lock at present. On the live image, pressing 'Esc' should wake it up. On an installed system, you can only escape by restarting GNOME Shell from a console. See bug #923364. To avoid this inconvenience, you can disable screen blanking and locking from the Power and Privacy panels in the control panel.

If you have an Intel chipset system and find it freezes - possibly with a kernel trace visible - repeatedly during testing, try using the kernel parameter intel_pstate=disable. See bug #923102.

There are known to be several problems in submitting crashes via the 'abrt' automated reporting tool. If you need to report a crash, someone in #fedora-test-day should be able to help you to report it manually.

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 19, 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	bda651c2ddba6102cc04197b8345beef9d0e128aeb8df0074857f3a630817829
i686	191a9fd5ada686909429b6dbfcaf4bfc882c442ec3d391385dd3d8fa5cc69cc9

Installation not supported
The Test Day live image contains the Fedora installer, but Fedora 19 is in a very early (pre-Alpha!) state right now, so installing it is strongly discouraged on anything but a disposable test system. Additionally, testing suggests installation is broken on these particular Test Day images.

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 you are using software rendering in the Control Center -> Details (llvmpipe)

Test Cases

GNOME Shell

System Settings

Online Accounts

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	Initial Setup	Login Screen	Activities	Lock Screen	Message Tray	Extensions	Accessibility	Gnome Classic mode	References
Sample User	none	none	none	none	none	pass	warn ^[1]	fail ^[2]	↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321 ↑ RHBZ #12345
vrutkovs	none	none	pass	warn ^[1]	none	pass	pass	none	↑ brightness is 0 after switch users
fholec	none	warn ^[1]	fail ^[2]	warn ^[3]	none	none	warn ^[4]	pass	↑ Cannot change layout while logging in (not even using shortcut). Problem is when password contains characters not from current layout ↑ RHBZ #924266 ↑ Option 'Brightness & Lock' is not present in System Settings ↑ System is very slow after zoom is turned on
bnater	none	fail ^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6]	warn ^[7]	none	none	none	none	none	↑ step 2. Keyboard layout is not the same as I have selected on login screen RHBZ #924360 ↑ I'm not able to continue working after idle/screen off (live image, Esc doesn't work) ↑ Keyboard layout have to be set for login screen separately??? RHBZ #924371 ↑ Sametimes when I wanted to switch between users using "switch user" no user accounts are displayed, just gray screen. Then when I press ctr+alt+F2 lock screen of current user is displayed ↑ When I unlock "User" dialog, user account is diplayed. When I add regular user, root user account disappeare? ↑ "User" dialog. There should be no option "enable account" when password is not set for user. When you select it, account is switched back to disabled. ↑ step 6. doesn't work for Shotwell application
Jeff Bastian	warn ^[1]	fail ^[2] ^[3]	none	none	none	none	none	none	↑ custom timezone setting ignored ↑ no users on login screen due to i915 rc6 bug RHBZ #923994 ↑ locale settings blocked by selinux RHBZ #924306
lzachar	none	pass ^[1]	none	none	none	none	none	none	↑ layout selection
Jan Scotka	fail ^[1]	warn ^[2]	pass	warn ^[3]	none	none	none	none	↑ Unable to install to disc RHBZ #924229 propably EFI ↑ No created users via command adduser listed in gdm list of user, aviable only in case created password via passwd ↑ usability: Unlocking of screen is very unintuitive (no help that you have slide from bottom up)
Jaroslav Škarvada	fail ^[1]	pass	pass	warn ^[2]	none	none	none	none	↑ RHBZ #924385 ↑ RHBZ #924378
Martin Holec	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress

System Settings

User	System Settings	Privacy Settings	Sharing Settings	Search Settings	Color Settings	References
Sample User	none	none	pass	warn ^[1]	fail ^[2]	↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321 ↑ RHBZ #12345
vrutkovs	warn ^[1]	pass	pass	pass	none	↑ Bluetooth profile cannot be changed to A2DP
fholec	warn ^[1]^[2]	pass	none	warn ^[3]^[4]	none	↑ System froze while changing background (only once) ↑ Cannot drag & drop images to background images ↑ Search query responses were displayed 4 times the same window (only once) ↑ Search for Users -> 'use' string search displays three items from settings (Users item is not displayed since it is 4th item, would be better if more relevant were displayed first)
vbenes	warn ^[1]	warn ^[2]	none	warn ^[3]	none	↑ print test page doesn't work RHBZ #924329 ↑ after switching oon/off stealth mode the other options state is not preserved RHBZ #924343 ↑ cannot turn on/off photos search RHBZ #924303
Martin Holec	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress

Online Accounts

User	Online Accounts - Google	Online Accounts - Facebook	Online Accounts - Windows Live	Online Accounts - MS Exchange	Online Accounts - Kerberos	Online Accounts - ownCloud	Online Accounts - IMAP	References
Sample User	none	none	none	none	pass	warn ^[1]	fail ^[2]	↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321 ↑ RHBZ #12345
vrutkovs	pass	fail ^[1]	pass	pass	pass	warn ^[2]	none	↑ 'Internal error' on connecting to Empathy ↑ Owncloud addressbook was not added
fholec	pass	none	none	none	none	none	none
Martin Holec	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress

Applications

User	Web	Documents	Files	Empathy	Empathy (audio)	Empathy (video)	Evolution	Boxes	Font Viewer	References
Sample User	none	none	none	none	none	none	pass	warn ^[1]	fail ^[2]	↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321 ↑ RHBZ #12345
vbenes	none	warn ^[1]	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	↑ cannot zoom with numerical +/- RHBZ #924379
vhumpa	warn ^[1]	warn ^[2]	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	↑ Can't scroll to zoom GNOME#696293 ↑ gnome-keyring, reported GNOME#696304
Martin Holec	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress

User	Clocks	Photos	Contacts	Disks	Disk Usage Analyzer	Others	References
Sample User	none	none	pass	warn ^[1]	fail ^[2]	pass	↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321 ↑ RHBZ #12345
vbenes	pass	fail ^[1], ^[2], ^[3], ^[4], ^[5], ^[6], ^[7], ^[8]	none	none	none	fail ^[9], ^[10], ^[11]	↑ cannot be set as default app RHBZ #924264 ↑ Crash when opening shotwell imported picture RHBZ #924273 ↑ crash when organizing RHBZ #924285 ↑ print does nothing RHBZ #924295 ↑ favourite icon is so big and ugly RHBZ #924312 ↑ no ptions bar after first right click RHBZ #924315 ↑ svg not supported RHBZ #324368 ↑ cannot zoomRHBZ #924376 ↑ gedit crashes when scrolling RHBZ #924277 ↑ evince has no quit menu RHBZ #924290 ↑ combo box disapperars after first click RHBZ #924370
Martin Holec	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress
vhumpa	none	none	none	none	none	fail ^[1]	↑ Seahorse segfaults on startup RHBZ #924392

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

[2] RHBZ #12345

[3] rightness is 0 after switch users

[4] Cannot change layout while logging in (not even using shortcut). Problem is when password contains characters not from current layout

[5] RHBZ #924266

[6] Option 'Brightness & Lock' is not present in System Settings

[7] System is very slow after zoom is turned on

[8] step 2. Keyboard layout is not the same as I have selected on login screen RHBZ #924360

[9] I'm not able to continue working after idle/screen off (live image, Esc doesn't work)

[10] Keyboard layout have to be set for login screen separately??? RHBZ #924371

[11] Sametimes when I wanted to switch between users using "switch user" no user accounts are displayed, just gray screen. Then when I press ctr+alt+F2 lock screen of current user is displayed

[12] When I unlock "User" dialog, user account is diplayed. When I add regular user, root user account disappeare?

[13] "User" dialog. There should be no option "enable account" when password is not set for user. When you select it, account is switched back to disabled.

[14] step 6. doesn't work for Shotwell application

[15] ustom timezone setting ignored

[16] users on login screen due to i915 rc6 bug RHBZ #923994

[17] settings blocked by selinux RHBZ #924306

[18] yout selection

[19] Unable to install to disc RHBZ #924229 propably EFI

[20] No created users via command adduser listed in gdm list of user, aviable only in case created password via passwd

[21] usability: Unlocking of screen is very unintuitive (no help that you have slide from bottom up)

[22] RHBZ #924385

[bz924378-23] RHBZ #924378

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

[25] RHBZ #12345

[26] Bluetooth profile cannot be changed to A2DP

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Test Day:2013-03-21 Gnome 3.8

Contents

What to test?

Who's available

Prerequisite for Test Day

Known issues

How to test?

Update your machine

Live image

Software Rendering

Test Cases

GNOME Shell

System Settings

Online Accounts

Applications

Test Results

GNOME Shell

System Settings

Online Accounts

Applications