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

[Puneet Kaur]

Hey,

The key is already there in owner.key.pub file inside
/home/dotsugar/default directory.


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:59 PM, 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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