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Kernel 6.11 Test Week

Date 2024-09-29 to 2024-10-05
Time all week

Website QA/Test Days
Matrix #test-day:fedoraproject.org
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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?[edit]

This Test Day will focus on the 6.11 Linux kernel. The primary aim is to test it with Fedora 41.

Who's available[edit]

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

You can chat with us on IRC. See the infobox on top of the page to learn the right IRC channel.

Prerequisite for Test Day[edit]

  • A fully updated F40 test day image or 39 Workstation/Server installation, either on bare metal or VM (please make sure you have no important data on that installation, things might go wrong -- don't do this on your production machine!)
  • The 6.11 kernel for an existing installation from F40 koji (see below) or kernel-stabilization copr if not using the test day image. (koji is recommended for secure boot users).
  • Enough free space on storage.

Koji download instructions[edit]

Download Koji[edit]

Kernel builds can be downloaded from Koji using a command-line tool.

Fedora Workstation[edit]

Install Koji on Fedora Workstation if not installed:

sudo dnf install koji

Fedora Silverblue, Kinoite, Sericea, Onyx, CoreOS, IoT[edit]

Install Koji in a toolbox:

toolbox create
toolbox enter
sudo dnf install koji

Or directly on the host:

rpm-ostree install koji

And reboot.

List available kernel builds[edit]

You can list available kernel builds with:

koji list-builds --package=kernel --after="2024-09-27" --pattern "kernel-6.11*"

Download kernel[edit]

Download the RPMs for the 6.11 kernel build you want to test to a test directory, for example kernel-6.11.0-200.fc40:

mkdir -p ~/work/kernel_test
cd ~/work/kernel_test
koji download-build --arch=$(uname -m) kernel-6.11.0-200.fc40

Install kernel[edit]

Fedora Workstation[edit]

Update your kernel:

sudo dnf update kernel-*.rpm

And reboot.

Fedora Silverblue, Kinoite, Sericea, Onyx, CoreOS, IoT[edit]

If not done so already, download the kernel:

Download the RPMs for the 6.11 kernel build you want to test to a test directory, for example kernel-6.11.0-200.fc40:

mkdir -p ~/work/kernel_test
cd ~/work/kernel_test
koji download-build --arch=$(uname -m) kernel-6.11.0-200.fc40

Override the kernel:

rpm-ostree override replace kernel-modules-core-6*.rpm kernel-core-6*.rpm kernel-modules-6*.rpm kernel-6*.rpm kernel-modules-extra-6*.rpm

And reboot.

How to test?[edit]

Run the tests[edit]

  1. Follow the instructions in QA:Testcase kernel regression. For users running the test day image, the tests are pre-installed in /home/liveuser/kernel-tests/.
  2. Visit the result page and enter your result in the 'Regression' column by clicking Enter result.
  3. If there are any other result columns, click on the column title links to see the tests that need to be run: most column titles are links to a specific test case. Follow the instructions there, then enter your results by clicking the Enter result button for the test.
  4. While the results from the regression tests are interesting, we are also interested in your overall experience with the new kernels. You can put those under QA:Testcase Exploratory Testing.

Reporting bugs[edit]

Note to Virtualbox users: By default, the insert_leap_second test will fail, this is because Virtualbox syncs the guest time with the host in the middle of the test. This is not a kernel or test suite failure, it is a Virtualbox design issue. It should skip this test if your kernel-tests repo has been updated since 2021-09-12.

If you have problems with any of the tests, have a look in the results page. Please include the vulnerability output at the end of the test suite in the comments.

If you don't see it, please file a new bug to Bugzilla, probably against kernel component. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC #fedora-test-day or #fedora-qa and we will help you.

Revert override on Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite[edit]

If you are a Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite user, you can revert the override and use the stable kernels again. Run the following command to revert it back:

rpm-ostree override reset kernel-modules kernel-modules-extra kernel-core kernel kernel-modules-core

And reboot.

Test Results[edit]

Regression Test[edit]

User Profile Regression Exploratory Testing References
MinegameYTB Guest: Fedora 40, kernel 6.11.0-200.fc40.x86_64 (tested on: hp 240 g7, Celeron N4000, Qubes os 4.2.3 (based on Fedora 37) (xen 4.17.4, HVM mode)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. default test: OK Performance test: OK
MinegameYTB Guest: Fedora 40, kernel 6.11.0-200.fc40.x86_64 (tested on: hp ProLiant ML10 Gen9, Intel Xeon E3-1225 v5, Proxmox 8.2.7 (qemu/kvm)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Default test: OK Performance test: OK
aalam Fedora 41 Gnome, AMD 2400G with B450
Pass pass
[1]
  1. regression= PASSED
adriend X470 GAMING PRO + AMD Ryzen 5 2600X + AMD Radeon RX560
Pass pass
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Multi soundcards OK - MOMO Racing OK - Videogames : OK - IA : OK
alciregi Assembled Intel i3-1115G4 16GB RAM nvme
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Vulnerability status: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/gather_data_sampling:Mitigation: Microcode /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mmio_stale_data:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/reg_file_data_sampling:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/retbleed:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass:Mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: SW loop, KVM: SW loop /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort:Not affected
alciregi F40 KVM VPS pc-q35-7.2
Pass pass
[1]
  1. /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/gather_data_sampling:Unknown: Dependent on hypervisor status /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf:Mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: flush not necessary, SMT disabled /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Mitigation: PTI /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mmio_stale_data:Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT Host state unknown /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/reg_file_data_sampling:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/retbleed:Mitigation: IBRS /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass:Mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: IBRS; IBPB: conditional; STIBP: disabled; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: SW loop, KVM: SW loop /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort:Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown
alciregi F40 on Oracle Cloud VM.Standard.A1.Flex
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Vulnerability status: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/gather_data_sampling:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mmio_stale_data:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/reg_file_data_sampling:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/retbleed:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass:Mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: CSV2, BHB /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort:Not affected
anotheruser Kernel 6.11.2 on Virtualbox VM
Pass pass
[1]
  1. default test: OK
blhughes Dell OptiPlex 3050
Pass pass
bojan Hyper-V VM, kernel 6.11.2 on F41
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Works fine in general day to day use.
bretth 6.11.0-200.fc40 (KVM)
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
  1. Default & performance tests pass
  2. Default & performance tests pass
bretth 6.11.2-200.fc40 (KVM)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Default & performance tests pass
clnetbox NVIDIA RTX 2070
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
Pass pass
[3]
Pass pass
[4]
Pass pass
[5]
Pass pass
[6]
  1. kernel-6.11.2-300.fc41.x86_64 | mesa-nouveau-nvk
  2. kernel-6.11.1-300.fc41.x86_64 | mesa-nouveau-nvk
  3. kernel-6.11.0-63.fc41.x86_64 | mesa-nouveau-nvk
  4. kernel-6.11.2-300.fc41.x86_64 | nvidia-560.35.03-MIT/GPL
  5. kernel-6.11.1-300.fc41.x86_64 | nvidia-560.35.03-MIT/GPL
  6. kernel-6.11.0-63.fc41.x86_64 | nvidia-560.35.03-MIT/GPL
derekenz F40/F41 Workstation VM on an AMD 5600g system
Pass pass
dhugh ASUS TUF Gaming F17 FX706 w/Fedora 40 Workstation base, QEMU guest
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Passed both base and performance tests
edugaedke AMD Ryzen™ 5 PRO 7640HS Baremetal
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Default and performance tests pass
ersen kernel-6.11.0-200.fc40 on vmware workstation 17 player
Pass pass
filiperosset
Pass pass
[1]
  1. no regressions noted
filiperosset 6.11.2-200.fc40.x86_64 vbox guest (4 cpu / 8gb) running on Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2696 v3 @ 2.30GHz
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
  1. no regressions noted, all normal tests / performance tests passed.
g6avk 6.11.0-200.fc40.x86_64 > Work Station, Asus prime mobo - Ryzen5 5600g/AMDGPU 400 Series Chipset, (UEFI) Secure boot, SSD's > RAID1 (ext4)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. The enabled Default and Performance tests pass OK.
g6avk 6.11.1-300.fc41.x86_64 > Work Station, Asus prime mobo - Ryzen5 5600g/AMDGPU 400 Series Chipset, (UEFI) Secure boot, SSD's > RAID1 (ext4)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. The enabled Default and Performance tests pass OK.
geraldosimiao F41 KDE at Acer Aspire V3-571 / i7-3632QM
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
Pass pass
[3]
  1. Kernel 6.11.1-300.fc41.x86_64
  2. Kernel 6.11.0-63.fc41.x86_64
  3. Suspension is working fine.
imabug Dell Precision 3620 Intel Xeon E3-1240 Fedora 40 KDE
Pass pass
itrymybest80 kernel-6.11.1-300.fc41.x86_64
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Default (libhugetlbfs, memfd & paxtest skipped) and performance tests pass; works in general.
jbk0 Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition) on an i5-1240P Framework Laptop 13, 32 GiB RAM
Pass pass
jbk0 Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition Prerelease) on an i5-1240P Framework Laptop 13, 32 GiB RAM
Pass pass
laolux Fedora 40, baremetal, Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 Gen 10
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Passed both regular and performance test suite
lihis Lenovo T470 - Intel Core i5-7300U, Intel HD Graphics 620, 16Gt RAM
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Both tests passed
lily ampere hr330a
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
  1. all default and performance testcases passed
  2. all default and performance testcases passed
lily ampere hr350a
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
Pass pass
[3]
  1. all default and performance testcases passed
  2. all default and performance testcases passed
  3. all default and performance testcases passed
lily dell per7425
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
  1. all default and performance testcases passed
  2. all default and performance testcases passed
lily dell r730
Pass pass
[1]
  1. all default and performance testcases passed
lily fujitsu fx700
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
Pass pass
[3]
  1. all default and performance testcases passed
  2. all default and performance testcases passed
  3. all default and performance testcases passed
lily hp xl420gen9
Pass pass
[1]
  1. all default and performance testcases passed
lily hpe apache
Pass pass
[1]
  1. all default and performance testcases passed
lily hpe apollo
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
  1. all default and performance testcases passed
  2. all default and performance testcases passed
lily hpe bl460cgen8
Pass pass
[1]
  1. all default and performance testcases passed
lily hpe sy480gen10
Pass pass
[1]
  1. all default and performance testcases passed
lily hpe sy480gen9
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
  1. all default and performance testcases passed
  2. all default and performance testcases passed
lily hpe xl220agen8v2
Pass pass
[1]
  1. all default and performance testcases passed
luisribeiro AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 365 w/ Radeon™ 880M × 20
Pass pass
luisribeiro AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 365 w/ Radeon™ 880M × 20
Pass pass
luya Dell Inc. Inspiron 14 7425 2-in-1 equipped with AMD Ryzen™ 7 5825U with Radeon™ Graphics × 16
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Passed with default and performance
malucious Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B550M DS3H AMD Ryzen™ 7 5700G with Radeon™ Graphics × 16 32.0 GiB RAM AMD Radeon™ RX 6700 XT
Pass pass
[1]
  1. memfd and paxtest were skipped.
mattf 6.11.2-300.fc41 6.11.1-300.fc41
Fail fail
[1]
  1. cachedrop failed with 6.11.2 and 6.11.1 but not 6.11.0
mikoim Intel Core i9-13900K
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Default & performance tests pass
nielsenb HP Compaq 8510w Intel T9300 AMD RV630 BIOS
Pass pass
nielsenb Raspberry Pi 4b+ 4GB
Pass pass
nixuser 6.11.1-300.fc41.x86_64 in VirtualBox Fedora 41 guest on Fedora 41 host also running 6.11.1-300.fc41.x86_64
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Tests passing.
nixuser 6.11.1-300.fc41.x86_64 on Dell Precision T5610 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2603 v2 @ 1.80GHz (8 cores total) NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 760] (rev a1)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Tests passing and server side components seem to be working OK.
nixuser kernel-6.11.0-200.fc40.x86_64 on Intel NUC NUC13ANHi7 (NUC13ANHi7000) (rev N11225-207) 1 x 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1360P Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 04)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Regression tests passing, server side components appear to be working OK.
nixuser kernel-6.11.2-200.fc40.x86_64 on Intel NUC NUC13ANHi7 (NUC13ANHi7000) (rev N11225-207) 1 x 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1360P Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 04)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Everything working so far, kernel tests passing.
pampelmuse 6.11.2-200 on laptops 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900 @ 2.50GHz with nvidia 560.35.03 / Intel(R) Pentium(R) Silver N6000 / Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz
Pass pass
pampelmuse on laptop i9-11900, nvidia 560.35.03
Pass pass
py0xc3 F40 KDE with confined user accounts, 6.11.0-200.fc40.x86_64 on KVM/QEMU (cpu-passthrough with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U with Radeon Graphics), tainted = 0
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
  1. Vulnerability status without "Not affected": .../vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow:Vulnerable: Safe RET, no microcode .../vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass:Mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl .../vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization .../vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP: disabled; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  2. Works fine in average activities (working in file manager, firefox, libreoffice, terminal, KDE)
qiankehan Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4210 CPU @ 2.20GHz
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Test suite called with default ./default/cachedrop PASS ./default/insert_leap_second PASS ./default/libhugetlbfs SKIP ./default/memfd SKIP ./default/modsign PASS ./default/mq-memory-corruption PASS ./default/paxtest SKIP ./default/posix_timers PASS ./default/selinux-dac-controls PASS ./default/stack-randomness PASS ./default/sysfs-perms PASS ./default/timer-overhead PASS Test suite complete PASS ./performance/lmbench3 PASS Test suite complete PASS
rafneq HP Elite Desk 705 G5 Desktop Mini, AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G, Vega 11 Graphics, 16 GB RAM, Realtek r8169 GbE
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
  1. Both default and performance test cases were passed successfully
  2. In normal desktop tasks everything seems to be ok, network card and sound card are working correctly. The only HW related issue visible in logs is: amdgpu: psp gfx command LOAD_TA(0x1) failed and response status is (0x7) amdgpu: psp gfx command INVOKE_CMD(0x3) failed and response status is (0x4) amdgpu: Secure display: Generic Failure. amdgpu: SECUREDISPLAY: query securedisplay TA failed. ret 0x0
rafneq Intel Atom x5-Z8350, 4 GB RAM, WiFi/Bluetooth RTL8723BS
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Passed default and performance test cases
rafneq VM, ESXi 7.0 U2, i5-4590T x2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, NIC: VMXNET3
Pass pass
[1]
  1. [1] Completed default and performance test sets
rai510 Virtualbox 6.11.0-200.fc40.x86_64
Fail fail
[1]
  1. Vulnerability status: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/gather_data_sampling:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mmio_stale_data:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/reg_file_data_sampling:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/retbleed:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow:Vulnerable: Safe RET, no microcode /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Retpolines; STIBP: disabled; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort:Not affected
ratad 6800xt + F40 + koji
Pass pass
[1]
  1. default --OK performance --OK
rebtoor Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4i - i7-11850H / 64Gb RAM
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Both default and performance test suits passed
romangherta F40 KVM 6.11.2-200.fc40.x86_64
Pass pass
romangherta romangherta
Pass pass
seaninspace T470
Pass pass
sumantrom T14
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Vulnerability status: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/gather_data_sampling:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mmio_stale_data:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/reg_file_data_sampling:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/retbleed:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass:Mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: SW loop, KVM: SW loop /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort:Not affected
tharadash kernel-6.11.0-200.fc40 from koji
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Seems to work fine on bare-metal HP Z440, AMD RX570 with UEFI. Kernel regression test PASS.
tqcharm MacOS Sonoma host, UTM with Apple Virtualization
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
Pass pass
  1. Performance test suite passed.
  2. Default test suite passed.
vortexbyte 6.11.0-200.fc40 (Gnome Boxes) AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Pass pass
[1]
  1. default & performance: PASSED
xbt573 Intel Xeon E5 2666 V3, AMD Radeon RX 570
Warning warn
[1]
Pass pass
Pass pass
[2]
  1. lmbench3 failed to compile
  2. GNOME and Firefox works fine