Fedora 14 Beta RC2 (inc. live) available for desktop testing

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
While it may not be what was asked for, there is a problem with the i686 
gnome desktop one. When I boot it, wait for the desktop to appear and 
then try and launch the orca screen reader http://live.gnome.org/Orca 
(press alt+f2 for run and then type orca and press enter) orca fails to 
load.

Unfortunately as I rely on orca for output from the system I cannot see 
any error message when I launch orca from gnome-terminal. However I can 
say the following, I know the sound and text to speech chain is working 
from orca as when I give the command "orca -t" from gnome-terminal orca 
will go through its text based set up questions providing speech output. 
Even after doing the text based set up and logging out and back in orca 
still fails to load.

This is a severe accessibility issue.

As I said, being unable to see I cannot get the error message so cannot 
proceed with working out the cause, however if someone could try 
launching orca (without any options) from gnome-terminal and give me the 
output, I can try and find out the cause.

Michael Whapples

On -10/01/37 20:59, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hey, everyone. So, it's time for pre-release testing again!
>
> I know this didn't work perfectly for Alpha, but I've got together with
> releng and tightened up processes and it should be better for Beta. So:
> right now, here:
>
> http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14-Beta.RC2/Live/
>
> you will find live images for all of the desktop spins (KDE, XFCE, LXDE,
> Desktop) for RC2 of Fedora 14 Beta. I have tested them, and all four at
> least boot in a VM, so they're not completely broken like some of the
> Alpha images :) I also tested KDE and Desktop on bare metal, and I think
> Christoph has LXDE booted on bare metal right now, so we're pretty sure
> these are working at a basic level. You won't be wasting a download :)
>
> So with these spins we need to fill out these tables:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test
>
> As you can see, I've made a start on this already, but there's many
> tests to fill out. We absolutely need to fill out all the Alpha and Beta
> tests for each spin. It would be great to also do the Final tests, as
> this gives us a head start on identifying and fixing blocker issues for
> the final release.
>
> If people could do some of these tests over the next few days (by
> Wednesday) that would be awesome. Also note that I'm running a session
> at FUDCon Zurich this afternoon where we'll hopefully be able to get
> together and fill out some of the table, so if you're at FUDCon, come
> out to my session at 2pm :)
>