[Sugar-devel] Sugar Activities not working on Ubuntu

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Sun Dec 13 17:45:01 EST 2015


Sounds like a job for GCI :)  Martin: Can you write something up?

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 5:42 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> Agreed.
>
> Saw similar on Ubuntu 15.10 last week; this was failing;
>
>         import locale
>         locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
>
> Documentation says it can fail.  If an activity or toolkit doesn't
> handle failure, I think it needs to be fixed.
>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 05:03:20PM -0500, Walter Bender wrote:
> > Hmm. Shouldn't locale revert to en_US if the locale is not found? Seems
> like a
> > Sugar/Sugar toolkit bug.
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 4:40 PM, James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >     You are using sugar-build?  It seems so, because your screenshot has
> >     an Ubuntu desktop view.
> >
> >     In your logs, the following activities failed because of your en_NG
> >     language choice: Calculate, Moon, Measure, Pippy, Record, Turtle
> >     Blocks, and Speak.
> >
> >     But many activities worked fine.
> >
> >     An example from the Moon activity:
> >
> >     Traceback (most recent call last):
> >       File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 169, in <module>
> >         main()
> >       File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 164, in main
> >         instance = create_activity_instance(activity_constructor,
> >     activity_handle)
> >       File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 42, in
> create_activity_instance
> >         activity = constructor(handle)
> >       File "/usr/share/sugar/activities/Moon.activity/moon.py", line 90,
> in
> >     __init__
> >         activity_button = ActivityToolbarButton(self)
> >       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sugar/activity/widgets.py",
> line
> >     75, in __init__
> >         icon = _create_activity_icon(activity.metadata)
> >       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sugar/activity/widgets.py",
> line
> >     45, in _create_activity_icon
> >         bundle = ActivityBundle(get_bundle_path())
> >       File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py",
> >     line 72, in __init__
> >         linfo_file = self._get_linfo_file()
> >       File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py",
> >     line 141, in _get_linfo_file
> >         lang = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]
> >       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 543, in getdefaultlocale
> >         return _parse_localename(localename)
> >       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 475, in _parse_localename
> >         raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
> >     ValueError: unknown locale: en_NG
> >
> >     On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 05:29:42PM +0100, samson goddy wrote:
> >     > here are the logs
> >     >
> >     >
> >
>  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> >     > Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:57:01 -0300
> >     > From: [2]martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com
> >     > To: [3]samsongoddy at hotmail.com
> >     > CC: [4]sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> >     > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Activities not working on Ubuntu
> >     >
> >     > Hey Samson,
> >     >
> >     > Are you using this [1]? Can you send the logs? Check in
> ~/.sugar/default/
> >     logs/
> >     >
> >     > Regards,
> >     > Martin.
> >     >
> >     > Refs:
> >     > 1. [1][5]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Ubuntu
> >     >
> >     > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:14 PM, samson goddy <[2][6]
> >     samsongoddy at hotmail.com>
> >     > wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     Hello guys,
> >     >
> >     >     Most of the activities in sugar running on Ubuntu is not
> working.
> >     Prompting
> >     >     failed  to start. here is a screenshot of the sugar activity on
> >     Ubuntu.
> >     >
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> >     >
> >     > [1] [11]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Ubuntu
> >     > [2] mailto:[12]samsongoddy at hotmail.com
> >     > [3] mailto:[13]Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
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> > References:
> >
> > [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> > [2] mailto:martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com
> > [3] mailto:samsongoddy at hotmail.com
> > [4] mailto:sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [5] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Ubuntu
> > [6] mailto:samsongoddy at hotmail.com
> > [7] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [8] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
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> > [11] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Ubuntu
> > [12] mailto:samsongoddy at hotmail.com
> > [13] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [14] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
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> > [17] http://quozl.netrek.org/
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> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>



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Walter Bender
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