[Sugar-devel] GSoC project- Sugar on Raspberry Pi image build

[Rishabh Thaney]

G'day everyone

The WiFi issue(RPi3) has been fixed and I've configured automatic login in
the latest image build.
It also switches to Sugar session automatically.

The image builds for raspberry pi 2 & 3 can be found here:
https://people.sugarlabs.org/rishabh/

The repository used to reproduce is this:
https://github.com/Rishabh42/rpi23-gen-image

And I've also updated the Debian/Raspberry_Pi page with the method I used
to configure automatic login,
please refer to this page: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Debian/Raspberry_Pi

Please note: The RPi 2 image has not been tested by me because I don't have
a raspberry pi 2, please share the test results
if anyone tests that image.

Warm regards
Rishabh

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Rishabh Thaney <rishabhthaney at gmail.com>
wrote:

> G'day James
>
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 at 3:58 AM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> Please try the latest release candidate build 1.5 published yesterday,
>> see the edits by Thomas on the Wiki page.  This will test whether your
>> problem with booting was fixed.
>>
>> If the problem persists, please verify the data on the microSD card
>> using the method that I described in IRC; using dd with bs=1024 and
>> count set to number of 1024 byte blocks in the original image, piped
>> to md5sum.  Compare the md5sum with that of the .raw file.
>
>
> I had tried flashing my card using the method described on their website
> but even that didn't work. I'll try testing it with the new changes made by
> Thomas.
>
>>
>> If the problem persists, please log a bug with Fedora.  Sugar Labs
>> needs Fedora SoaS to work well, as it has a good set of example
>> activities.
>>
>> Thanks for adding automatic login feature, but I've no idea what you
>> did.
>
>
> I will update the Debian/Raspberry_pi page with the method I used to add
> the automatic login feature. I basically configured the lightdm.conf file
> while the image was building, will share the configuration.
>
>>
>>
>> Please also;
>>
>> - update your GitHub repository; last update was 14 days ago therefore
>>   your build is no longer reproducible,
>
>
> Okay
>
>>
>> - update your blog; it is two weeks out of date, (lower the time cost
>>   of an update by reducing how much you write),
>
>
> I was working on my next blog post currently, I wanted to include the
> method to add autologin feature in the post too which we added day before
> yesterday.
>
>>
>>
>> - update the Wiki page; by removing broken links and answering any
>>   ambiguities,
>
>
>>
>> - don't delete old builds so quickly; on people.sugarlabs.org it is no
>>   longer possible to compare your previous build and the new build,
>>
>
> Okay, should I upload the build that I deleted?
>
>>
>> - be more consistent with file names on your people.sugarlabs.org
>>   directory; the naming was inconsistent until you deleted an old
>>   build,
>>
>
> That file which I deleted wasn't an image build but a raw file of the
> build, I had uploaded that by mistake.
>
>>
>> - always mail to sugar-devel@ any new build; don't expect people to go
>>   looking in your people.sugarlabs.org directory for changes.
>>
>
> Was thinking of including the method to add autologin feature with the
> image build I will publish on sugar-devel, will do both today.
>
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions :)
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 08:49:27PM +0530, Rishabh Thaney wrote:
>> > Thanks James for suggesting the Fedora SoAS, I did follow the
>> instructions
>> > on their page to flash it on my SD card but it still doesn't boot.
>> >
>> > Moreover we did arrive at a fix for automatic login today and it's
>> working
>> > pretty well.
>> > I wil work on reproducing an image with the automatic login fix and
>> upload it
>> > to my Sunjammer account.
>> >
>> > Warm regards
>> > Rishabh
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 12:20 PM, James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Thanks to Thomas for testing and comparison of a recent Fedora SoaS
>> >     image, which has way more activities and has automatic login
>> >     configured.
>> >
>> >     [2]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Debian/Raspberry_Pi updated.
>> >
>> >     Given this, and the problems so far with rpi23-gen-image missing out
>> >     on recommended packages, and the two weeks it has taken to not fix
>> the
>> >     automatic login, and their unfamiliarity with X server display
>> manager
>> >     configuration, may I suggest the team switch to using Fedora SoaS?
>> >
>> >     This will set them forward on their task significantly, while still
>> >     meeting the original project idea.
>> >
>> >     There's also an issue with distributing the wireless firmware;
>> Fedora
>> >     avoids it, but provides a FAQ explaining how to download it.  As
>> >     Fedora has a problem with distributing, so too may Sugar Labs.
>> >
>> >     [3]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/
>> Raspberry_Pi?rd=
>> >     Raspberry_Pi#Wifi:
>> >
>> >     --
>> >     James Cameron
>> >     [4]http://quozl.netrek.org/
>> >     _______________________________________________
>> >     Sugar-devel mailing list
>> >     [5]Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> >     [6]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>> >
>> > References:
>> >
>> > [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
>> > [2] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Debian/Raspberry_Pi
>> > [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/
>> Raspberry_Pi?rd=Raspberry_Pi#Wifi
>> > [4] http://quozl.netrek.org/
>> > [5] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> > [6] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>>
>> --
>> James Cameron
>> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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