[SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

[Thomas C Gilliard]

TEST of 
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/soas-i386-20100414.22.iso
> ./livecd-iso-to-disk  --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 1200 
> /home/robert/Desktop/soas-i386-20100414.22.iso /dev/sdg
To 2Gb firefly USB
Boot on EePC900

Same behavior: continous restart from "wheel" on graphics startup after 
bars >f13

This seems to fix it:

IRC log(edited):

* soas-9ad7 (~urk at 2002:42dc:6d04:0:21f:c6ff:fe8f:d3a) has joined #sugar
<soas-9ad7> soas-i386-20100414 on 2GB USB
* soas-9ad7 is now known as satellit_414
<satellit_414> to get it to boot:
* init 3 at boot <esc><tab>add init 3 to boot line
* log in: liveuser
* su -
* update sugar-artwork-0.88.0-2.fc13.i686.rpm :
 rpm -Uvh 
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/sugar-artwork/0.88.0/2.fc13/i686/sugar-artwork-0.88.0-2.fc13.i686.rpm
*yum install gdm* hal*
 (gdm* (7pkgs)  hal* (6pkgs))
<satellit_414> reboot
<satellit_414> Now it works and IRC starts fine.
*installed analyze from ASLO in browse
<satellit_414> local xmpp only (no presence service in log)
<satellit_414 has quit (Remote host closed the connection)
*
Tom Gilliard
satellit


Peter Robinson wrote:
> Thanks for the update, that's good news.
>
> Peter
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Thomas C Gilliard
> <satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
>   
>> Peter;
>>
>> I works... thanks.
>> ....................
>> I  completed a f13 Beta RC5-(gnome + sugar) netinstall to a 8GB SD
>> I hope to see if sugar 0.88.0 will run here. (Latest soas spins are not
>> starting...)
>>
>> NO!
>> I cannot log in to sugar from gdm. If I try, it reboots. Gnome from gdm
>> works fine.
>> sugar comes up with first select color screen then crashes if next or back
>> buttons are selected.
>> if in gnome terminal :command
>> sugar
>> comes up with missing XO avitar, has ring of applications, and blank buttons
>> in top bar.
>> Sugar-emulator in gnome crashes
>> ...........
>>
>> rpm -Uvh
>> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/sugar-artwork/0.88.0/2.fc13/i686/sugar-artwork-0.88.0-2.fc13.i686.rpm
>>
>>
>> fixed it.
>>
>> IRC now works
>>
>> Tom Gilliard
>> satellit
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Peter Robinson wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Sorry for my lack of response over the last week. I've been on
>> holidays and tried to stay offline as much as possible.
>>
>> I think I've now caught up on most of the backlog of emails and other bits.
>>
>> New points from the last week or so:
>> - New Record release 66. It should be appearing in nightly before
>> long. For those that want to test _NOW_ you can do a
>> ' rpm -Uvh
>> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/sugar-record/66/1.fc13/noarch/sugar-record-66-1.fc13.noarch.rpm'
>> Please report success/failures
>>
>> - All the final releases of sugar 0.88 should now be in the nightly
>> build so please test
>>
>> - Problems with latest nightly builds. I'm downloading the current one
>> as I write this and will be testing it this evening. More detailed
>> reports welcome.
>>
>>
>> The problems with sugar starting should now be fixed when the next
>> build push it done. I've spent a number of hours this evening to
>> identify and test the problem and push out fixes to the package.
>>
>> The issue is due to deprecated GTK symbols, bug reports are upstream
>> and need to be applied [1] [2].
>>
>> Those that a chomping at the bit to test the fix can do so by running
>> "rpm -Uvh
>> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/sugar-artwork/0.88.0/2.fc13/i686/sugar-artwork-0.88.0-2.fc13.i686.rpm"
>> and you should have the sweetness of fixed Sugar once again....
>>
>> Those not so adventurous can get it from a nightly build hopefully in
>> the next day or so as I've pushed the patched package straight to
>> stable.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>>
>> [1] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1899
>> [2] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1930
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