0.102/Testing

Testing Sugar 0.102

This page contains information and resources for testing this Sugar release.

What Should I test

Even though some general testing is required to detect regressions, it is important to give special attention to the new features. Some of these features are:

• Gender and Age in About Me control panel section.
• Limited number of activities and instance of activities that can be opened at once.
• Displaying icons on the Update control panel section.
• Rework of Network control panel section.
• Labels for Web Services control panel section.
• Layout of Languages selection method in control panel section.
• Filters toolbar in the Journal.
• Notification system to display messages from system and activities. Features/Notification System
• Sound adjustment options in the frame, to adjust microphone.
• Identify external volumes (eg USB drives) by colors.

Testing with a XO

We have created images with the latest Sugar 0.102 sources. These builds are "clean" Sugar Labs images, which do not include any customization.

• XO-4 41002SL4.zd (md5)

• XO-1.75 41002SL2.zd (md5)

• XO-1.5 41002SL1.zd (md5)

• XO-1 41002SL0.img crc([1])

• SD images for XO-1 41002SL0.zd ([2])

Installing

These images are NOT signed by OLPC, therefore you need an unsecured XO for installing these images. To save some time, you can use this tool.

XO-1

• Copy the file 41002SL0.img and the file 41002SL0.crc to a USB device.
• Boot your XO with the USB device and the charger connected.
• Go to the ok prompt: At boot time, briefly type the Escape key (top left on the XO keyboard, with a white X in a black disc) when you hear the startup jingle. Do not hold it down. In a few seconds, the FORTH ok prompt appears, along with a hint on help.
• Type

 copy-nand u:\41002SL0.img

• when flashing is finished, you will get the prompt again, type reboot.

XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4

• Copy the file 41002SLx.zd to a USB device. (Every model has a different x number, check above.)
• Boot your XO with the USB device and the charger connected.
• Go to the ok prompt: At boot time, briefly type the Escape key (top left on the XO keyboard, with a white X in a black disc) when you hear the startup jingle. Do not hold it down. In a few seconds, the FORTH ok prompt appears, along with a hint on help.
• Type

 fs-update u:\41002SLx.zd

• when flashing is finished, you will get the prompt again, type reboot.

About the SD images for XO-1

These images are a development of James Cameron, to help improve the performance on XO-1 devices.

To install these unsigned builds, you may use fs-update on an XO-1.5, XO-1.75, or XO-4, and then move the SD card.

Alternatively, this Open Firmware fragment: http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/z/1XCG63.txt can be added to the top of the 41002SL0.zd.zsp file, and then manually loaded from the ok prompt:

ok fl u:\41002SL0.zd.zsp

This will then read the 41002SL0.zd file and store it on an SD card.

Later versions of olpc-os-builder can add this fragment.

Changes

These images include the last version of sugar packages, and the following activities updates:

• Abacus 54 -> 56
• Calculate 41.2 -> 42
• Chart 10 -> 11
• Chat 80 -> 81
• FractionBounce 22
• Log 35 -> 36
• Measure 49 -> 51
• Memorize 47 -> 48
• Physics 19 -> 21
• Speak 47 -> 48
• Scratch 24 -> 25
• TurtleBlocks 202.1 -> 207

The following activities were added:

• Finance 11
• Story 13
• Words 21
• MusicPainter 12

The following activities were removed:

• AnimalsTv
• Level
• OneAcademy

The new list of activities is here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Sugar_Labs/0.102

The OsBuilder config used to generate these images is here https://github.com/sugarlabs/olpc-os-builder/tree/SL102

If you find problems in these images, please report on sugar-devel mailing list.

Known Issues

41002

• web activities don't close. A PR was filled for sugar-web, web activities need be updated later.

41001

• XO-1 only: in Maze activity the win window show a title bar
• FractionsBounce activity is very slow on XO-1 & XO-1.5, the sounds are played later
• MusciPainter activity don't start on XO-1 & XO-1.5
• web activities don't start (solved)
• activities updater control panel don't close (solved)
• web activities don't close.

34001

• The font size is too big (solved). SL #4758
• Sound adjustment in the frame is laggy and displays collaboration related errors (solved). SL #4759
• Web activities always crash, see the mailing list thread. (solved).

34002

• [XO4] maliit-plugins is not updated (this issue is also present in previous images).