[Sugar-devel] diagnose record activity problem

[Aleksey Lim]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:06:55PM -0300, Rodolfo D. wrote:
> I lost you there.. the record version in the ASLO repository is not
> compatible with the version in soas blueberry??

yup, blueberry is 0.86, there are no 0.86 compatible Record versions at
all, but on ASLO, it was marked as 0.86(and I've fixed it)

> which version is compatible?

for a while, no one

> I found thet soas strawberry was compatible with the asus eeepc 701, but i
> could get it to install..

strawberry is 0.84, so you can start last Record in strawberry

> only live-stick mode wors.. id there a workaround
> to install strawberry in a hard drive?
> 
> cheers.. R
> 
> 2009/12/17 Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org>
> 
> > 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
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rodolfo D. Arce S.
> www.rodolfoarce.com
> irc.freenode.net rodolfo @ #fedora #centos

-- 
Aleksey