~robcee/ more than just sandwiches

qm-centos5-01 a little orange

I mentioned earlier today that I was bringing up a new machine for Great Justice. The sparky new qm-centos5-01 sporting a new Reference Platform VM. Well, it turns out there’s enough of a difference in the base libraries that a number of tests are failing out of the gate.

Ted M. noted that 3 of the four failing reftests appear to be kerning differences. The fourth, “(actually the first in the list) looks like it’s off by one pixel in size or so”.

The mochitests and chrome tests I haven’t looked at closely, but they appear to be a mixture of timeout, textarea and focus bugs.

If you want to take a look, grep the full log for instances of ERROR FAIL. Your help in getting qm-centos5-01 to turn green will be greatly-appreciated.

Also, an apology to Paul Reed: Apparently twm is the fallback window manager after all other options have been exhausted. I deleted the standard build user and was left with a partially-configured user. With his help I was able to turn on gdm. IOU five bucks, Paul!

IOU five bucks, Paul!

Is it too late to mention that I “accidentally” deleted all the other window managers on the ref VM because twm was the only one that met my high aesthetic standards?

Paul is gonna get rich

Preed: I honestly did enjoy seeing twm for the first 15 minutes. It was like a blast from the past.

I think I know what the problem is with capitalize-1 at least… ASCII text is normally not kerned, but ASCII text going through the Unicode path (which text-transform does) is kerned.