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

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Thomas C Gilliard
> <satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
>   
>> Peter Robinson wrote:
>>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Thomas C Gilliard
>> <satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> This was from log application on working soas 414
>> I do not know which of these are needed to fix problem.
>> This is what I did:
>>
>>
>> Could you reply in line (as in at the bottom of the mail) as it makes
>> the conversation much easier to follow.
>>
>> That aside you still don't tell me what was broken in the first place
>> that this fixes. If it was the fix for Sugar not starting the only
>> thing that needs to be fixed is the new sugar-artwork build. Can you
>> confirm that is what you were trying to fix?
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> Peter;
>>
>> I do not know what extra files are needed.
>> The sugar-artwork fix did not get me to the sugar name screen it stopped at
>> a blue screen.
>>
>> I will repeat this test with a new USB if you like..
>>
>> Only after the init 3 boot login/liveuser/su -
>> yum install gdm* hal* install and reboot did it work
>>     
>
> Thanks for the clarification. I will be looking at the latest live cd
> over the weekend. This week has been a little manic but looking at the
> list of packages that were installed above there is nothing there that
> should have had any impact on the booting at all. Most of them are
> either development packages or finger print or smart card related
> stuff.
>
> Peer
>
>   
I got the idea from discussion with alsroot on IRC with USR-414 (Ubuntu 
)having similar starting problems:
> <alsroot> satellit__: I downloaded USR414 and there are bunch of issues
> > <alsroot> not python-xklavier, even in packages
> > <alsroot> hal is not installed
> > <alsroot> sugar packages are pretty outdated - 0.87.1
> > <alsroot> satellit__: to make clear test, sugar should be at least 0.88.0
> > <satellit__> thanks for your help
Thought I would try "scattergun approach" thus
gdm* and hal*
and it worked...???

Tom Gilliard
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