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Mer/Releases/0.16testing

Revision as of 15:52, 10 September 2009

By using these testing images, you're morally obligated to test them and to edit this page and report -every single bug you find-, no matter if they're theme flaws, quirks, bugs or crashes. You can optionally also use bugzilla , use version 0.15.

IF YOU SEE ANY MISSING TRANSLATIONS, PLEASE REPORT THEM IMMEDIATELY.

Please send the bug report urls to mer-chatter (see Mer/Awareness ) as well and share your bugs, testing experiences.

Test master is Meizirkki, and can be found in #mer on irc.freenode.net usually and you can ask him if there's some specialized areas that need testing. Take the "Completed" things first. If you are testing, go to #mer anyway. Good place to be.

These images will not be the only ones this week. In N8x0 installer, when it asks for URL=, write URL=http://the.image.intended. Instructions on Mer/Documentation/Installation still apply.

These images may potentially turn your device into a insane machine bent on removing humanity from this earth and may potentially brick your device, so, NO WARRANTY.

CURRENT VERSION: 0.16testing5

Mer X86 VMDK

Mer X86 rootfs version

Mer N8x0 kernel, not for JFFS version

Mer N8x0, rootfs version

Mer N8x0, JFFS version, use with JFFS kernel

Mer N8x0 kernel, JFFS version

Mer 770, rootfs version

Mer SmartQ5, firmware version

Mer SmartQ7, firmware version

Mer SmartQ5, rootfs version

Mer SmartQ7, rootfs version

For use with QEMU & KVM, download the Mer X86 VMDK version, unzip, and convert to a qcow2 image with the qemu-img convert command.

MD5sums:

6afbde479a11a3f74cef8ff26971b145  mer-armel-770-image-v0.16testing5.tar.gz
afa571d89aaf328be68c3e0b8d94b436  mer-armel-n8x0-flashrootfs-v0.16testing5.zImage
b4eca8db4a16b96de31952868a377752  mer-armel-n8x0-image-v0.16testing5.jffs2
86727a207ffa72654eaaeaa648913110  mer-armel-n8x0-image-v0.16testing5.jffs2.raw
43b119e35c10b32c2882dcdf30b355db  mer-armel-n8x0-image-v0.16testing5.tar.gz
8c5396913f7879c681e8f9080e4c2d0e  mer-armel-n8x0-standard-v0.16testing5.zImage
216f47376a914e48a42353f0e43e589c  mer-armel-smartq5-image-v0.16testing5.SmartQ5
77b79ea8755305592b6b83670d343185  mer-armel-smartq5-rootfs-v0.16testing5.tar.gz
5a39416e8f8599328388a34d9267d154  mer-armel-smartq7-image-v0.16testing5.SmartQ7
d79844e9e7651423c80f44750bbd5859  mer-armel-smartq7-rootfs-v0.16testing5.tar.gz
ac1246aca723bec3971f895b88d2ec3e  mer-x86-generic-image-v0.16testing5.tar.gz
710d386dfacfea8c55a18f82d683c674  mer-x86-generic-image-v0.16testing5.vmdk.zip

Bugs in 0.16testing5

• No settings application in menu->Settings item.

• [Nokia 770] desktop fails to appear (machine stuck at high cpu load). Only the sea picture is displayed, after the mer logo has disappeared. Maybe related to the fact that Mer has found my swap partition. 0.15 used to find it.

• [Nokia n810] Unable to enter WPA password, dialog box is empty. 0.15 does not have this problem

• [SmartQ7] No obvious way to exit App Manager. In fact, exiting applications in general can be hard to figure out; the top row icons don't convey much meaning --kyelewis

• [SmartQ7] SD card is not auto-mounted, nor is a mechanism provided to mount it. --kyelewis

• [SmartQ7] Widget support dies after first reboot- widgets cannot be moved, and text placement for the provided widget is incorrect. Also occured in 0.16testing3 --kyelewis

• [SmartQ7] Unable to enter WPA password, dialog box is empty. (Carried from 0.16testing3) --kyelewis

• [SmartQ7] Editing Wireless Security Settings in network-manager freezes mer when clicking 'Apply' --kyelewis (Update: only occurs if Wireless is enabled while you try to make change)

• [SmartQ7] Bluetooth Manager is incredibly slow, takes >5 minutes to load, using all CPU time.

Bugs in 0.16testing3

Insert bugs here.

• [Nokia n810] conflict between libphonon4 and libqt4-phonon packages which is preventing installation of kdepim:

 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libphonon4_4%3a4.3.1-0ubuntu3_armel.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libphonon.so.4', which is also in package libqt4-phonon

• [Nokia n810] dpad left and dpad down do not have auto key repeat. dpad up and dpad right as well as other keys do.

• [Nokia n810] GtkTreeView row dragging not working. This worked in 0.15.

• [Nokia n810] can't install maemopad due to missing libhildonhelp0

• [Nokia n810] screen calibration menu item does nothing

• [Nokia n810] app manager crashes:
  • on first start after pressing "Check for updates" button
  • after installing finefm from available applications menu
  • everytime it tries to list available applications after that - this seems to be a timing-related problem. If I try to access the Available applications button immediately on startup, it crashes. If I wait 30 seconds, it works.

• [Nokia n810] Fn not working in first-boot-wizard - Stskeeps: expected testing4

• [Nokia n810] onscreen keyboard always pops up during text entry even though built-in hardware keyboard is being used

• [Nokia n810] display rotation did very bad things. Stskeeps: Did you install Mer kernel with rotation support?. No, just clicked rotation icon in brightness app shortly after first-boot-wizard finished.

• [Nokia n810] python "import gtk" generated lots of Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Stskeeps: sadly fairly normal. Only a warning.

• [Nokia n810] xterm menus messed up. Stskeeps: We are waiting with new osso-xterm because the newer one was broken - it is actually not a matter of translations. Has to be past 0.16 :/

• [Nokia n810 & SmartQ7] Unable to enter WPA password, dialog box is empty. 0.15 does not have this problem. Stskeeps: I suspect it's due to the movable dialogs problem. Someone revert the movable dialogs patch and see if it work? Meizirkki: no, the dialog is still empty after disabling movable dialogs and rebooting

• [Nokia n810] hildon-application-manager crashes. Output here.

• [SmartQ7] After installation, on-screen keyboard is completely white and has no key symbols (Working for me on Q7 /Gnuet) (Works for me --kyelewis)

• [SmartQ7] USB Networking wont start automatically on boot- needed 'sudo ifconfig usb0 192.168.2.15 up' to get it going- also, if 'up' missed, ifconfig will segfault! --kyelewis. Stskeeps: /etc/network/interfaces show it as being set up. That's weird. (Extra info: Device is actually pingable for about 15 seconds, then at some point during bootup it loses the IP setting --kyelewis). Stskeeps: expected testing4

• [N800] Power button do no work
• [N800] Installing gpesummary crashes the desktop, same after reboot (unusable), message is like "cant open /home/<user>/.gpedo" --Eichi
• [770] starting bluetooth manager kills MER / MRP

Bugs in 0.16testing2

Please test bugs in http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Releases/0.15 and see if they still persist. Otherwise add them below:

• [Nokia n810] Fn not working in first-boot-wizard - Stskeeps: expected testing4
• [Nokia n800] Could not pass first-boot-wizard "Type your full name" (don´t have a usb keyboard to test with it/screen keyboard do not appear with stylus or with finger) Stskeeps: maemo-launcher wasn't being run, expected fix in testing3 "marshel: fixed in testing3"
• [SmartQ7] As above, could not pass "Type your full name". No soft keyboard and usb keyboard did not work. as above
  • This can be worked around by using USB networking and installing first-boot-wizard_0.8_armel.deb then doing a reboot
• [SmartQ5 & Q7] Wifi-enabler not working, lacking unzip. The file 47smartq-firmware misplaced and in DOS-format. Stskeeps: expected fix in testing4
  • Workaround: Copy contents of /etc/47smartq-firmware and make new file: /etc/first-boot.d/47smartq-firmware
  • Don't forget to make read/executable (chmod a+rx /etc/first-boot.d/47smartq-firmware) Stskeeps: not needed
  • Install unzip_5.52-12ubuntu1_armel.deb, reboot and presto - wizard runs. Stskeeps: Expected in testing4
• [SmartQ5 & Q7] Application manager doesn't work. Starts but nothing more.
  • Try plugging in the bluetooth dongle... spooky... (the log shows : get btadapter: No such adapter)

PS.: at 3pm@GMT the trac above cited is offline. Stskeeps: yeah, power cut in my city'.