[Sugar-devel] new SoaSv5 test image - Last change to test andfix issues

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> {...}
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 4) Main issue #2: activities only start 50% of the time. This is true
>>>> for *all* activities. It's not clear why an activity will start one time and
>>>> not another (it prints "didn't start" message). With Mango Lassi, this
>>>> happens occasionally/rarely for me; here it happens *a lot*.
>>>
>>> Yes, I'm seeing this on a LiveUSB key but not on a standard Fedora 15
>>> install with sugar (same release), it seems to have only started recently,
>>> or maybe regressed more recently,
>>
>> This problem also occurs with Sugar in standard Fedora-15 Desktop (Linux
>> Dell 2.6.38.7-30.fc15.x86_64, fully updated) when the Sugar environment is
>> selected at login.
>>
>> I noticed from the yum.log that dbus-libs was updated:
>>
>> Jun 01 22:32:44 Installed: 1:dbus-libs-1.4.6-4.fc15.i686
>>
>> https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2892#comment:3
>>          --Fred
>>
>>>
>>> but I'm not sure of what the fix is. It really needs a Sugar dev to look
>>> closer at it but they don't seem to be interested at the moment.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I thought maybe this had something to do with the USB drives I'd made
>>>> with LiveUSB Creator. It doesn't. I created two: one 2GB, one 4GB with all
>>>> memory protected.
>>>
>>> It might be something to do with the live image vs a full install. It
>>> almost seems timing oriented.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> {...}
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Peter
>
> Booting SoaS 5 with a disconnected Ethernet cable eliminates this problem.
>
> It seems that the crowded jabber.sugarlabs.org Neighborhood (see the
> attached Neighborhood screenshot) interferes with the Activity startup
> process.

Wow. It may be a bug, but it is cool!

-walter

>
> I noticed the same startup failures (same trackbacks) on an XO-1 with OLPC
> os23 when set to the jabber.sugarlabs.org Neighborhood.
> https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2892#comment:4
>       --Fred
>
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