[Sugar-devel] Problems with Read Activity on XO

[Jim Simmons]

Sayamindu,

FYI, Read can't be launched from my Activity Ring either.  The only
thing that works is the sugar-launch from the Terminal.

James Simmons


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sayamindu,
>
> Didn't see any evidence of segfault in dmesg or shell.log.  However, I
> tried out:
>
> sugar-launch org.laptop.sugar.ReadActivity
>
> and it worked beautifully.  Read gave me that ugly dialog that lets
> you select a document from the Journal, I selected one of the PDFs,
> and it loaded right up.  Everything worked just fine, and it created a
> Journal entry called "Unknown" with the Read icon on it.  When I try
> to resume from the Journal, either the new entry or one of the
> original PDFs, I get the symptoms I described before.
>
> I *might* be able to launch Read from the Activity Ring.  I turned off
> my XO and put it away before I thought to try it.  (I'm at work).
>
> So it looks to me that there is nothing wrong with Read itself, but
> there might be something wrong with how its installed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It may be possible is something is segfaulting (I vaguely remember
>> seeing something like this). dmesg usually keeps track of things that
>> segfault, and you can also take a look at shell.log
>>
>> Another way would be to use the Terminal:
>> sugar-launch org.laptop.sugar.ReadActivity
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sayamindu
>