[Sugar-devel] Problems starting the XO

[Jerry Vonau]

On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 12:50 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> The error was from your part, when did  "rpm --force --nodeps" 
> You should not do this.
> 
> 

Wouldn't of made a difference, sugar requires sugar-toolkit but doesn't
state a minimum version level of the toolkit to enforce.

Jerry




> Gonzalo
> 
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com>
> wrote:
>         Yup, I had the missing updated "sugar-toolkit" package.
>         
>         But I have to say, that there wasn't any hint of any error-log
>         anywhere :-\
>         May be this could be improved sometime in the future :)
>         
>         
>         Thanks Jerry, Gonzalo and Ruben.
>         
>         
>         Thanks and Regards,
>         Ajay
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Gonzalo Odiard
>         <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>                 I don't know what rpms are you using in dx,
>                 but if you want use the last code in sugar, should
>                 update sugar-toolkit too.
>                 
>                 
>                 yum update sugar 
>                 
>                 
>                 should be a better option.
>                 
>                 
>                 Gonzalo
>                 
>                 
>                 On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Ajay Garg
>                 <ajay at activitycentral.com> wrote:
>                         Also, for brevity, I am attaching the python
>                         files of the culprit "src/jarabe/journal"
>                         folder, as this could help in reproducing the
>                         issue.
>                         
>                         I am sorry for bothering everyone on the
>                         weekend; but this does not seem to show any
>                         hints of the solution to the path :-\
>                         
>                         
>                         Regards,
>                         Ajay
>                         
>                         
>                          
>                         
>                         On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Ajay Garg
>                         <ajay at activitycentral.com> wrote:
>                                 Hi Martin.
>                                 
>                                 Thanks for the reply.
>                                 
>                                 On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:12 PM,
>                                 Martin Langhoff
>                                 <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>                                         On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:25
>                                         PM, Ajay Garg
>                                         <ajay at activitycentral.com>
>                                         wrote:
>                                         > Thanks Chris and Mikus for
>                                         the replies.
>                                         
>                                         
>                                         Hi Ajay,
>                                         
>                                         please ansert cjb's question.
>                                         It has a good chance of
>                                         leading to your
>                                         answer. What deps are you
>                                         ignoring? Why --force?
>                                 
>                                 I am sorry I did not give the full
>                                 info :(
>                                 Usually, for "development" testing, I
>                                 use this method,  as long as only
>                                 "sugar" changes  are involved.
>                                 
>                                 When I first  came across the issue, I
>                                 followed the normal way, and installed
>                                 the "sugar-control-frame" and
>                                 "sugar-control-accessibility" packages
>                                 too (dependencies of "sugar"). I
>                                 installed all the three packages
>                                 without "--force" then.
>                                 
>                                 However, there came to be no
>                                 difference in behaviour (as long as
>                                 XO-boot was concerned). :(
>                                 
>                                 
>                                 
>                                 
>                                  
>                                         
>                                         Also -- /var/log/olpc-dm* logs
>                                         are likely to have important
>                                         info.
>                                         Please post them.
>                                 
>                                 
>                                 Please find attached the entire
>                                 "/var/log/" directory, of the
>                                 "failed-to-launch-X-server" boot on
>                                 the XO-1.
>                                 
>                                 Note that the names of the files are
>                                 capitalized and shortened - it so
>                                 happened when I copied the "var/log/"
>                                 directory onto my pen-drive, from  the
>                                 shell login on the XO.
>                                 
>                                 
>                                 Thanks and Regards,
>                                 Ajay
>                                 
>                                 
>                                 
>                                 
>                                 
>                                         
>                                         
>                                         m
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