[SoaS] SoaS 32 is silent?

[Peter Robinson]

> With Fedora-SoaS-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso I'm hearing no sound.
> And see no log messages.
>
> Is this a common problem?

Ultimately in this cycle in particular an awful lot changed, we moved
completely from python2 -> python3 among a lot of other changes.

For me the Speak activity works for me on a VM and that's my usual
go-to sound tester as I don't need to find any media to play.

Things like sound are very complex, multiple output, defaults,
different hardware. Some level of detail of the hardware and the setup
is useful to even begin to know what the issue may be, is there any
errors in dmesg etc.

Peter

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> From: James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
> Date: Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:04 PM
> To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
> Cc: Development of live Sugar distributions <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>, Sugar-dev Devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>
>
> I've no idea about your sound problem.  It doesn't happen for me on
> Debian or Ubuntu.  I get sound from Speak and Music Keyboard.  I get
> sound into Measure.
>
> For not seeing any log messages; Python 3 holds messages in process
> memory and does not flush logs.  Another layer of buffering.
>
> Log files in .sugar/default/logs should be read after stopping the
> program that writes to them.
>
> For activity logs, you have to stop the activity and confirm with
> Frame F6 that it is stopped.
>
> For shell.log you have to log out and log in again.
>
> For datastore.log you have to log out for a couple of minutes and then
> log in again.  Otherwise the same datastore process may be reused.
>
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>
>
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> From: Alex Perez <aperez at alexperez.com>
> Date: Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:11 PM
> To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
> Cc: Development of live Sugar distributions <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>, Sugar-dev Devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>
>
> Frederick,
>
> Chances are, with the sound problem, that this is a system/Fedora specific problem, and has nothing to do with Sugar. You can test this hypothesis by downloading a different spin of RC1.6, for example the LXDE Live ISO, and test sound there. https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/32_RC-1.6/Spins/x86_64/iso/Fedora-LXDE-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso
>
> &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
>
> Thanks for the hints.
>
> I tested a live USB installation of LXDE 32-1.6 and got sound for the music player sample.
>
> So probably not Fedora in general, nor Sugar, but something in the SoaS build.
>
> I've opened https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4998 and attached the zipped logs from some test sessions.
>
>
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