[Sugar-devel] unable to launch record activity in sugar development environment

[Puneet Kaur]

I am unable to launch the record activity in my sugar development
environment due to the following (as seen in the log):

** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (HippoCanvasBox)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/broot/sugar-build/
build/out/install/bin/sugar-activity", line 164, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/broot/sugar-build/build/out/install/bin/sugar-activity", line
122, in main
    module = __import__(module_name)
  File "/home/broot/sugar-build/activities/Record.activity/record.py", line
48, in <module>
    from model import Model
  File "/home/broot/sugar-build/activities/Record.activity/model.py", line
38, in <module>
    from instance import Instance
  File "/home/broot/sugar-build/activities/Record.activity/instance.py",
line 6, in <module>
    class Instance:
  File "/home/broot/sugar-build/activities/Record.activity/instance.py",
line 8, in Instance
    keyHash = util.sha_data(key)
  File "/home/broot/sugar-build/build/out/install/lib/python2.
7/site-packages/sugar/util.py", line 48, in sha_data
    sha_hash.update(data)
TypeError: must be string or buffer, not None
Exited with status 1, pid 6433 data (None, <open file '<fdopen>', mode 'w'
at 0xa163cd8>, '00ff052bdf454798f5c949c07f1ec80b985eaeba')

As far as I have traced the error, it is due to the null value in key in
line 7 in record/instance.py  which in turn is due to no os path in line 87
in sugar-build/build/out/install/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sugar/profile.py,
I saw the path it was set to /home/broot/.sugar/default/owner.key.pub whereas
no such path exists when I look through the terminal, the correct path
where the owner.key.pub is /home/dotsugar/default/owner.key.pub , I changed
the path to this in line 83 of profile.py but still the condition of *not
os.path.exists(key_path)* exists is true and its returning None because of
which activity not launching. Other activities are running fine. I also
looked into env.py there the follows the path through line 46 to 48, that
is path = None condition is true.

Can somebody please tell me why am I not able to launch record activity ?
why is it giving such an error.I am on ubuntu 12.04
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