[Sugar-devel] Running Sugar Desktop on Ubuntu 18.04

[James Cameron]

Oh, and I forgot to mention; the .xsession file is not used if you
have chosen Sugar from the desktop menu in the gdm3 greeter.  Our
deleted documentation for writing to .xsession was only in the context
of starting an Xorg session inside Xrdp or Xvnc.  The practices do not
combine.

On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 02:24:06PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> Thanks for the problem report.  Let's find the cause.  There are many
> potential causes, so rather than list them I'll ask questions to try
> to eliminate them;
> 
> 1.  what happens when you try to log in with Sugar selected in the
> desktop menu?
> 
> 2.  what is in the file /home/guest/.sugar/default/logs/shell.log ?
> 
> 3.  what is in the file /home/guest/.xsession-errors ?
> 
> 4.  what is the ownership of the file /home/guest/.xsession ?
> 
> Permission denied is unexpected.  The .xsession file should be owned
> by the same user as the directory.  You can check owner with stat and
> change it with chown.  Owner is shown as "Uid".  Check your shell
> history for where you may have created the file as root by mistake.
> You may increase the size of your shell history with the HISTSIZE
> environment variable.
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2019 at 07:24:11PM +0530, Swarup N wrote:
> > Hello,
> > For the last couple of days, I've been unable to launch the Sugar desktop
> > environment. I'm currently using Ubuntu 18.04 and have installed Sugar v0.114
> > via the native build.
> > 
> > As per the [1]docs, under Packaged Sugar, it now says Log out and Log in with
> > the sugar desktop selected. I note that the section about rdesktop and xdrp has
> > been removed. However doing the above does not let me access the Sugar desktop.
> > 
> > I tried running commands like sudo su - guest -c 'echo sugar >> .xsession' and 
> > echo sugar | sudo tee -a /home/guest/.xsession.
> > 
> > The former runs successfully whereas the latter returns, su: .xsession:
> > Permission denied. This has never happened before, and I was able to run both
> > successfully.
> > 
> > I wanted to ask in a private thread before asking it on [2]@Sugar-dev Devel,
> > incase anyone has encountered such a issue before. I have tried establishing a
> > sugar desktop, on both a bare machine with just Ubuntu 18.04, as well as a VM
> > (Oracle Virtualbox), and in both the places, I've encountered the same issue.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > - Swarup N
> > 
> > References:
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/development-environment.md
> > [2] mailto:sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> 
> -- 
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/

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James Cameron
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