[Sugar-devel] Sugar Activities not working on Ubuntu

samson goddy samsongoddy at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 14 10:51:13 EST 2015


sure i could be one of the mentors if that's allowed. 

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 17:45:01 -0500
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Activities not working on Ubuntu
From: walter.bender at gmail.com
To: quozl at laptop.org
CC: samsongoddy at hotmail.com; martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com; sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org

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] 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

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> [12] mailto:samsongoddy at hotmail.com

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James Cameron

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