[Sugar-devel] Debian Advocacy for Sugar - Update

[Chihurumnaya Ibiam]

Can you test to confirm if it's the problem?

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Ibiam Chihurumnaya
ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com



On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:11 AM Shaan Subbaiah B C <
shaansubbaiah.cs18 at bmsce.ac.in> wrote:

> Hello Ibiam,
> Great to know that the markdown formatted as html is more convenient.
>
> I'm not entirely sure that the web activity issue is due to libglib2.0-dev
> no being present as a depenency but the error seems to be caused due to
> some header file missing that is fixed by installing that package.
>
> I'll open the issues as you specified and test further.
>
> Best,
> Shaan
>
> On Sat, 6 Jun, 2020, 4:40 am Chihurumnaya Ibiam, <
> ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the update Shaan,
>>
>> The error you shared in 2) happens in #840 like you said but the
>> traceback in the logs is seen for the first time
>> and looks like it's a Python 3 port regression, kindly open an issue in
>> sugar so it can be tracked.
>>
>> Can you confirm that 3) is caused by libglib2.0-dev not listed as a
>> dependency in the control file?
>>
>> Could you open an issue for 4) in the write repo?
>>
>> I find the markdown rendered as HTML convenient and most of it appears as
>> plaintext
>> <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2020-June/058403.html>
>> in the devel archive,
>> except the bullet points that start with a `-` above them.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Ibiam Chihurumnaya
>> ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 10:08 AM shaansubbaiah.cs18 at bmsce.ac.in <
>> shaansubbaiah.cs18 at bmsce.ac.in> wrote:
>>
>>> I have tried to install sucrose on the standard Debian Live ISO (it has
>>> no Desktop Environment, only CLI) as there were some issues while trying to
>>> do so in the Debian Live (KDE Plasma) ISO:
>>>
>>>    -
>>>
>>>    Attempting to install sucrose v117-x after adding the unstable
>>>    repositories to sources.list and setting the default release as
>>>    stable by sudo apt install -t unstable sucrose causes 100’s of
>>>    packages to be removed (Including all KDE applications, Firefox, Konsole,
>>>    etc) and initiates the install of several 100 language packs for Firefox,
>>>    LibreOffice, etc.
>>>    -
>>>
>>>    Installing by setting the default release as unstable and sudo apt
>>>    install sucrose causes the same issue above.
>>>    -
>>>
>>>    Setting default release as ‘stable’ and attempting to install using sudo
>>>    apt install sucrose/unstable does not cause this issue but requires
>>>    including all the dependencies with /unstable postfix (otherwise
>>>    dependencies are fetched from the stable repo itself). This is very messy,
>>>    the Desktop Environment and almost all useful preinstalled applications get
>>>    wiped, some dependencies aren’t satisfied while testing Sugar after
>>>    install.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Install Debian Live Standard ISO
>>>
>>> https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/debian-live-10.4.0-amd64-standard.iso.torrent
>>>
>>> Set default package repository to unstable
>>>
>>> # /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/my-default-release
>>> APT::Default-Release "unstable";
>>>
>>> Update, Install gcc-8-base, sucrose
>>>
>>> sudo apt updatesudo apt install gcc-8-base # select 'yes' on the promptsudo apt install sucrose
>>>
>>> Debian Live Standard doesn’t come with a Display Manager by default,
>>> install lightdm
>>>
>>> sudo apt install lightdm
>>>
>>> Reboot, select Sugar and log in.
>>> ------------------------------
>>> On testing:
>>>
>>> 1) Sugar launches. Again *most* activities work without issues. Listed
>>> issues below.
>>>
>>> 2) Error in shell.log
>>>
>>> 1591278095.943871 ERROR dbus.proxies: Introspect error on :1.28:/org/laptop/Activity/376730b6f93a8aa9b2929c28e423b45b73f2b515: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying
>>> 1591278095.944801 ERROR root: set_active() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.28 was not provided by any .service files
>>> 1591278100.365706 ERROR dbus.proxies: Introspect error on :1.30:/org/laptop/Activity/376730b6f93a8aa9b2929c28e423b45b73f2b515: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying
>>> 1591278100.366105 ERROR root: set_active() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.30 was not provided by any .service files
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jarabe/desktop/viewcontainer.py", line 69, in do_size_allocate
>>>     self._layout.allocate_children(allocation, self._children)
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jarabe/desktop/favoriteslayout.py", line 250, in allocate_children
>>>     name_hash = hashlib.md5(child.get_bundle_id().decode())
>>> AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
>>>
>>> ^ Seems to be *similar to Sugar issues #840 and #843*
>>>
>>> 3) Web Activity doesn’t launch, error:
>>>
>>> sh: 1: glib-compile-schemas: not found
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity3", line 5, in <module>
>>>     activityinstance.main()
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sugar3/activity/activityinstance.py", line 230, in main
>>>     instance = create_activity_instance(activity_constructor, activity_handle)
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sugar3/activity/activityinstance.py", line 59, in create_activity_instance
>>>     activity = constructor(handle)
>>>   File "/usr/share/sugar/activities/Browse.activity/webactivity.py", line 192, in __init__
>>>     self._tabbed_view = TabbedView(self)
>>>   File "/usr/share/sugar/activities/Browse.activity/browser.py", line 145, in __init__
>>>     self.settings = _get_local_settings(activity)
>>>   File "/usr/share/sugar/activities/Browse.activity/browser.py", line 127, in _get_local_settings
>>>     source = Gio.SettingsSchemaSource.new_from_directory(path, None, True)
>>> gi.repository.GLib.Error: g-file-error-quark: Failed to open file “/home/ssbc/.sugar/default/org.laptop.WebActivity/data/schemas/gschemas.compiled”: open() failed: No such file or directory (4)
>>> Terminated by signal 11, pid 866 activity_id 376730b6f93a8aa9b2929c28e423b45b73f2b515
>>>
>>> ^ This occurred while using the other installation methods as well. It
>>> was fixed by installing libglib2.0-dev. *This may be a packaging issue
>>> where ‘libglib2.0-dev’ is not specified as a dependency for the Web
>>> Activity?*
>>>
>>> 4) Write Activity crashes when trying to move a table.
>>> ^ Reproduced by: Opening Words Activity -> Insert a table -> Try
>>> dragging/resizing one of the inner row/horizontal lines (Not the ones
>>> forming the outer boundary) -> Crash
>>>
>>> Terminated by signal 11, pid 4715 activity_id 6305d02f3035c4afc03030e685fe338e6e394807
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> I’m trying to keep a log/executed snippets in markdown on a Github
>>> repository. Some files may not contain anything useful, just snippets for
>>> future reference. I’ll make it public after I clean it up a bit.
>>>
>>> I’ll post anything important through mail. I have used the ‘Markdown
>>> Here’ extension to render markdown as HTML. Let me know if you find this
>>> more convenient and I’ll have to check how this appears in the Sugar Devel
>>> Archive. If not suitable, I’ll revert back to markdown/plaintext.
>>> ​
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