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

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Should we move sugar-toolkit to github too?

Gonzalo


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oooh damn gtk2... This needs to be backported to sugar-toolkit
>
> commit fe192be798ac1a9bd13983d197cb5775b7da2ad5
> Author: Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
> Date:   Wed Sep 11 16:36:31 2013 +0200
>
>     Add a SUGAR_HOME environment variable
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>     We should really use XDG directories but that will be a bit
>     more complicated and require migration scripts. This is a
>     short time solution to "expose" the dot sugar directory in
>     sugar-build.
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>
>
>
>
> On 4 April 2014 11:33, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>
>> Record is a gtk2 activity, then is using sugar.profile, not
>> sugar3.profile,
>> and is not looking at the broot directory, but to .sugar/default/
>> I think we discussed this issue about the compatibility with gtk2
>> activities before,
>> but don't remember what we decided.
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Aren't the keys supposed to be created by sugar on first start?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, 4 April 2014, Sam Parkinson <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Try copying your ssh keys to [dot sugar dir]/default/. You should copy
>>>> the id_rsa.pub to owner.key.pub
>>>>
>>>> Have a look at this for how to make ssh keys if you need to:
>>>> https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps :)
>>>>
>>>> Sam
>>>> On Apr 4, 2014 8:15 PM, "Puneet Kaur" <puneet.gkaur at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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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>>>
>>> --
>>> Daniel Narvaez
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>
>> SugarLabs - Learning Software for children
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> --
> Daniel Narvaez
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Gonzalo Odiard

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