[SoaS] SoaS Digest, Vol 32, Issue 1

[mark at ntugigroup.org]

Here are the logs, Peter:

http://fpaste.org/hMim/
http://fpaste.org/3kpM/

Mark Roy Battley
www.ntugigroup.org


On 2012-04-02, at 12:00 PM, soas-request at lists.sugarlabs.org wrote:

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>   1. [Fwd: SoaS problem with GeoQuiz and TuxMath] (Bernie Innocenti)
>   2. Re: [Fwd: SoaS problem with GeoQuiz and TuxMath] (Peter Robinson)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:42:09 -0400
> From: Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> To: SoaS <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Subject: [SoaS] [Fwd: SoaS problem with GeoQuiz and TuxMath]
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> FYI:
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> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Mark Battley <mark at ntugigroup.org>
> To: morfila at marcosorfila.com
> Cc: bernie at sugarlabs.org, holt at laptop.org, Thomas C Gilliard
> <satellit at bendbroadband.com>
> Subject: SoaS problem with GeoQuiz and TuxMath
> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 20:23:13 -0400
> 
> Hey Marcos:
> 
> 
> Bernie Innocenti suggested I email you after an IRC chat on #Sugar. 
> 
> 
> I am in BOS for the BookSprint, and I was hoping to do some screencasts
> of a variety of Activities from a MacBook Pro running SoaS within
> VMware. Most of the Activities are running fine, but when both TuxMath
> and GeoQuiz failed, I figured that there might be an underlying issue. I
> am very non-techy (I have to be talked through anything in terminal) and
> am really a user, not a hacker, so be patient with me. Anyway, let me
> know if you think this is something that might be fixed this week so
> that I can plan whether  or not we will be able to get it running in
> time for the BookSprint.
> 
> 
> Here's the chat with the fpaste urls for the log records:
> 
> 
> <NtugiMark> I am using SoaS 16-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso and am having
> trouble with Activities that I download and add. For instance GeoQuiz
> launches but quits when you try to use the arrow keys to select the
> continent, and TuxMath fails immediately after hitting 'play' on the
> welcome page. Any idea why?
> <NtugiMark> I am using the iso installed in VMware using Terminal, and
> all the pre-loaded activites work fine.
> <masquerade> NtugiMark: if you could get some logs from the log viewer,
> those would be helpful in determining what is going wrong
> <bernie> NtugiMark: go to http://fpaste.org and paste them there
> Ariel_Calzada joins #sugar
> Ariel_Calzada leaves: Client Quit
> dirakx joins #sugar
> <NtugiMark> masquerade: http://fpaste.org/hMim/
> FlaviaMarti-7675 joins #sugar
> FlaviaMarti-7675 leaves: Remote host closed the connection
> <NtugiMark> masquerade: This was the fail message from GeoQuiz
> <bernie> who's the author of GeoQuiz btw?
> danielfrancis_ joins #sugar
> <NtugiMark> masquerade: This is the TuxMath log when it fails after I
> hit 'Play': http://fpaste.org/3kpM/
> FlaviaMarti-7675 joins #sugar
> <FlaviaMarti-7675> cd.sugar
> <bernie> FlaviaMarti-7675: this is not a shell, it's a chat network
> <FlaviaMarti-7675> cd default
> <FlaviaMarti-7675> nano config
> <bernie> FlaviaMarti-7675: no you don't get it... this is not the
> terminal
> <masquerade> NtugiMark: the GeoQuiz one looks like a bug that may need
> to be fixed upstream
> <bernie> masquerade: you mean in Sugar? or in GeoQuiz?
> <FlaviaMarti-7675> 00FF80
> <bernie> FlaviaMarti-7675: dude, listen to me
> FlaviaMarti-7675 leaves: Remote host closed the connection
> <masquerade> bernie: GeoQuiz
> <NtugiMark> GeoQuiz works fine on my 1.5.
> FlaviaMarti-7675 joins #sugar
> <bernie> masquerade: but mark already has the latest release from aslo
> <bernie> FlaviaMarti-7675: habla espanol?
> <masquerade> bernie: actually looking more closely, it appears to be a
> bug in olpcgames
> damason joins #sugar
> <bernie> masquerade: hmm... that would explain a few other crashing
> activities on mark's SoaS
> <masquerade> bernie: it may. It looks like it's a mismatch between
> olpcgames and the pygame version. Newer versions of pygame accept a
> tuple for rect.move(), while older ones don't.
> FlaviaMarti-7675 leaves: Quit: Server missing, presumed dead
> <bernie> masquerade: SoaS 16 seems to have olpcgames 1.6.5
> <satellit_> bernie: f16 Soas i686 on VirtualBox: TuxMath 1 and 2 .xo:
> error when loading shared libraries: libSDL_Pango.so.1
> <masquerade> bernie: happen to know which version of pygame? I'm
> guessing it's 1.8 maybe
> <bernie> satellit_: well, virtualbox or vmware shouldn't matter
> <satellit_> ok
> <bernie> satellit_: i guess this is the issue we're seeing here. does
> pbrobinson know already?
> <satellit_> no Idea. I have not tested either of these activities before
> <bernie> masquerade: pygame-1.9.1
> user-bd65 joins #sugar
> user-bd65 leaves: Remote host closed the connection
> <bernie> NtugiMark: hey, drop a line to the author: Marcos Orfila
> <morfila at marcosorfila.com>
> <bernie> NtugiMark: and maybe cc also sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> <masquerade> Oh oh, I lied, the pygame version doesn't matter, it's just
> really a bug in olpcgames
> <satellit_> svgsprite line 42  in set SVG TypeError: argument must
> contain 2 numbers
> walterbender leaves: Remote host closed the connection
> <bernie> masquerade: btw, are you an activity developer? i've been
> distracted from sugar development lately
> <masquerade> bernie: I do some development, but nothing official
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Battley
> http://ntugigroup.org
> 
> -- 
> _ // Bernie Innocenti
> \X/  http://codewiz.org
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 08:06:46 +0100
> From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> To: Development of live Sugar distributions
> 	<soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>,	mark at ntugigroup.org
> Subject: Re: [SoaS] [Fwd: SoaS problem with GeoQuiz and TuxMath]
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> Hi Mark,
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> I suggest you subscribe to the SoaS mailing list, that's where the
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>> Hey Marcos:
>> 
>> 
>> Bernie Innocenti suggested I email you after an IRC chat on #Sugar.
>> 
>> 
>> I am in BOS for the BookSprint, and I was hoping to do some screencasts
>> of a variety of Activities from a MacBook Pro running SoaS within
>> VMware. Most of the Activities are running fine, but when both TuxMath
>> and GeoQuiz failed, I figured that there might be an underlying issue. I
>> am very non-techy (I have to be talked through anything in terminal) and
>> am really a user, not a hacker, so be patient with me. Anyway, let me
>> know if you think this is something that might be fixed this week so
>> that I can plan whether ?or not we will be able to get it running in
>> time for the BookSprint.
>> 
>> 
>> Here's the chat with the fpaste urls for the log records:
> 
> Can you attach the Logs for the broken activities, you can get them
> from the Log Activity
> 
> Peter
> 
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