[Sugar-devel] diagnose record activity problem

[Aleksey Lim]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:09:40PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:07:31PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:57:40PM +0000, Rodolfo D. wrote:
> > > Hello:
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to get sugar on a stick (blueberry) to work on a couple of
> > > notebooks. A toshiba L305D and an Asus EEEPc701
> > > 
> > > When trying to launch the record activity, it doesn't start
> > > 
> > > I looked into the LOG activity and found this error
> > > 
> > > (plugin-scanner:1338): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin
> > > '/home/liveuser/Activities/Record.activity/gst/linux64/libgstvalve.so':
> > > /home/liveuser/Activities/Record.activity/gst/linux64/libgstvalve.so: wrong
> > > ELF class: ELFCLASS64
> > > Activity died: pid 1330 condition 139 data (None, <open file '<fdopen>',
> > > mode 'w' at 0x8e786b0>)
> > > 
> > > The camera is recgnized by the OS,
> > > Bus 001 Device 004: ID eb1a:2761 eMPIA Technology, Inc. EeePC 701 integrated
> > > Webcam
> > > 
> > > I tryed downloading the latest version of the activity, it appears to
> > > install correctly, but it doesn't start either
> > > 
> > > any ideas on how to diagnose better the error?
> > 
> > Unfortunately even if this problem(with blobs) will be fixed,
> > Record won't start in 0.86 properly. I'm going to rewrite Record from
> > scratch to have more robust UI and gst scheme but I'm stuck to
> > gst-plugin's(I want to use) development process. I'm tracking this issue
> > and will bump new Record when upstream issues will be solved.
> 
> hmm.. just found that Record is marked on ASLO as 0.86 compartible
> thats not right and dunno I've managed to do this mark.
> (fixed now)

and second hmm.. looks like a regression from applying sugar theme(thats
a shame), ASLO doesn't warn users who are downloading incompatible
versions.. trying to fix

-- 
Aleksey