[Dextrose] Display not occurring on a "osuilder" dx2-xo1 build

[Anish Mangal]

On Thu 03 Nov 2011 02:34:17 PM IST, Anish Mangal wrote:
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> On 11/01/2011 05:49 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
>> Excerpts from Ajay Garg's message of 2011-10-25 15:53:52 +0200:
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>>> b. Put a hack, to install "sugar-0.88", and not "sugar-0.84".
>>
>> Are you sure plain Fedora 11 has recent enough versions of all
>> dependencies required by Sugar 0.88? A quick glance at 
>> examples/f11-0.88-xo1-py-nognome.ini and the dextrose-f11-0.88 used
>> in there suggests you'd have to pull in at least some backports.
>>
>
> hmm... we had backported a few rpms which are present in the dxo2
> repo... it maybe a question that somebody has removed some more rpm's
> from the official fedora repos.. I guess it should be checked that all
> dependencies are satisfied.
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The additional dependencies for sugar 0.88.1-dx are:

Requires: sugar-settings-manager
Requires: metacity
Requires: python-xklavier
Requires: python-xlib
Requires: ipython

All are present in either the fedora repos or the dextrose-2 repos.

>>> 9. The bootup got going, however the display wudn't come up.
>>>
>>> 10. On the sugarless-terminal, I switched to "olpc" login.
>>>
>>> 11. Tried running sugar manually; however the following
>>> stacktarce was observed :
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I take this to mean that you tried running sugar from a Linux
>> virtual console in text mode, i.e. outside of X. Since Sugar builds
>> on X, this can't work and explains the errors you ran into.
>>
>> Unfortunately olpc-dm sends all error messages to /dev/null by
>> default, making it unnecessarily hard to diagnose this kind of
>> problem. You could, however, start xterm instead of sugar in
>> ~olpc/.xsession and run sugar manually from inside the xterm to see
>> the errors.
>>
>> Sascha
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>>
>>
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