[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Resuming Snapshot Creation

[Gary C Martin]

On 24 Apr 2009, at 09:31, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:10, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>  
> wrote:
>> On 23 Apr 2009, at 22:37, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> after our most recent beta release, we've now a new image ready for
>>> you!
>>> This is the first of a number of snapshots on our road to another  
>>> real
>>> SoaS release. Links to the iso image, as well as the archive with  
>>> the
>>> appliance are provided below.
>>>
>>> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/ 
>>> Soas2-200904231400.iso
>>>
>>> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas2-20090423.zip
>>>
>>> Note that this is heavily 'work in progress'. Here are the news:
>>>
>>> * It's now again based again on Rawhide, as we move on.
>>>
>>> * The Labyrinth, Paint, Record and TamTam activities have been
>>> included.
>>>
>>> * Further news regarding an easier process of gathering feedback on
>>> system configurations is coming up. Please stay tuned!
>>>
>>> We've also a number of known issues in this snapshot:
>>>
>>> * etoys needs to be rebuilt to get sound working.
>>>
>>> * the tamtam activities still need to be fav'ed.
>>>
>>> Currently, early plannings for the upcoming release are taking  
>>> place.
>>> Please give this image a try and report the issues you come along.
>>
>> Hi Sebastian, just some quick feedback.
>>
>> OK managed to boot the .vmdk here on a Mac (VirtualBox), seemed a
>> little more painful than previous ones I've tried. Odd Sun licensing
>> page and account/password user registration, then lot's of errors,  
>> but
>> booted after that into the Gnome login and then into Sugar.
>>
>> Regarding activities, all I'm only seeing Pippy-25, Calculate-28,
>> Jukebox-8, Chat-65, ImageViewer-7, Write-63, Terminal-25,
>> TurtleArt-41, Browse-108, Read-66, Log-18, Etoys-100. Perhaps the
>> screed of errors I got at first boot were failed bundle installs
>> (sorry, was on auto pilot and just clicked past without reading)?
>>
>> Pippy launches but is still unusable as it's missing all buttons and
>> all examples due to broken font size or layout.
>>
>> In the 800x600 default resolution I was presented with, activities
>> like Write with more than 5 tabs, I didn't realise that tabs had no  
>> UI
>> fallback if there was not enough horizontal space (vs. toolbar  
>> buttons
>> that get a drop-down "v" menu with any overflow buttons). I'm sure
>> this breaks a few other activities. FWIW 800x600 is too small for
>> Sugar in many UI places, quite a fixer-upper job if serious intention
>> is to play well at 800x600.
>
> I suspect you are using SUGAR_SCALING=100 and need to use 72 instead.
> Chema's patch at http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/39 would have set it
> for you automatically, but I would like to find a solution that took
> into account both the screen size (in pixels) and the dpi. Maybe we
> could calculate the size in mm and use that instead?

Yea just checked, the env is SUGAR_SCALING=100

>> TurtleArt fails to launch, log suggests issue with numpy: File "/usr/
>> lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/polynomial.py, line 18; from
>> numpy.linalg import eigvals, listsq; ImoortError: No module named
>> linalg (sorry couldn't copy paste the full traceback, some breakage  
>> in
>> numpy.oldnumeric support?).
>
> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/797

Any pointers to the file where SUGAR_SCALING is being set? Wanted to  
manually tweak and try at 72, but don't know the start-up sequence  
files (the patch mentions sugar.in but that file doesn't seem to exist  
in a real build, poking about xinitrc/Xsessions/Xclients and the /etc/ 
init.d I came up blank).

Regards,
--Gary

>> The other activities I saw present launched fine (though most were
>> unpleasant at 800x600).
>>
>> Access to the network worked (surfed in Browse) and I could see folks
>> on the default jabber server.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
>>
>>> Thanks and happy testing!
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