<div dir="ltr"><div>I reinstalled Ubuntu 18.04 once again, and install sugar v0.114 via the native method</div>I have attached the shell.log after running attempting to run sugar from Terminal for the very first time.<div> </div><div>I shall also investigate further based on suggestions from James</div><div> </div><div>Thanks. <div> </div></div></div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 8:45 AM James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Thanks. With datastore not running, expected symptoms are as you say; activities are not shown, and activities cannot be started. (Colour of icon in home view is determined by existence of a journal object for that activity, so before home view is shown the journal must be searched for matching objects. The journal is held by the datastore.) However, I am surprised at your shell.log, for three reasons; 1. it does not show any errors about trying to contact the datastore. 2. the timestamp in the file of 1564399715.389937 is 29th July at 4:58pm, which was 2.65 days ago, yet the traceback was from 31st July at 10:17am. 3. it shows Sugar was being started on an X11 display that already has a window manager; normally Sugar is run on a display with no window manager, and this may imply you are starting Sugar from a Terminal instead of from an X session or login greeter. On the theory that the datastore is failing to start, please test again by one or more of; (a) looking at apport /var/crash to find evidence confirming failure, (b) temporarily excluding Sugar and activities, using instead the copy-to-journal tool provided by the datastore, (c) deinstalling the /usr/local datastore and reinstalling the packaged datastore, (d) running the datastore by hand instead of requiring D-Bus to start it, and look for errors. Hope that helps. On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 08:21:27AM +0530, Swarup N wrote: > I agree with James, > I have not had a problem with the order either, because I have often used > multiple orders while settings up Sugar v0.114 in the past. > > The activity is being run outside the sugar desktop environment. When I log > into to the Sugar desktop, from the initial gdm3 greeter, the activities in the > home view (Favourites) do not appear. On trying to run an activity from the > home view (All activities), the activity does not start, rather, the icon > continues to blip on the screen, > > On looking at the shell.log in the logs directory, I have the following > warnings, > > (metacity:3385): metacity-WARNING **: 16:58:35.241: Screen 0 on display ":0" > already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the > current window manager. > 1564399715.389937 ERROR root: window manager did fail, > /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jarabe/main.py:378: Warning: > g_spawn_command_line_async: assertion 'command_line != NULL' failed > Gtk.main() > > Thanks. > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:40 AM James Cameron <[1]<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote: > > I've not had a problem with order, but have had problems mixing > install destination because of the extra changes needed. > > I'll speculate some more. > > Looking at the traceback shows the toolkit is installed to /usr/local, > and the activity source is being run in > /home/buba/sugar-stuff/sugar-activities/ via > /usr/local/bin/sugar-activity. > > I can't tell if sugar-activity is being run by a Terminal inside > Sugar, or by a Terminal outside Sugar. > > When the datastore does not work, the Sugar shell.log would also > indicate this, and the Journal would not be usable. > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 04:00:58PM +0530, ANIKET MATHUR wrote: > > Swarup, what is the order of installation you followed for datastore, > sugar and > > sugar-toolkit? > > > > I am not much sure about it but it might be related. > > > > Thanks. > > > > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, 3:55 pm James Cameron, <[1][2]<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>> > wrote: > > > > The datastore process failed. Look in datastore.log for more > > information. > > > > Datastore is started by Sugar through D-Bus API, and would normally > > continue operating until Sugar is stopped. If it fails before an > > activity is started, then the activity call through the D-Bus API > will > > restart the datastore. The traceback you pasted shows this has > > happened, and then the datastore failed again. > > > > Check the D-Bus service file created by the datastore source. It may > > refer to the wrong path for the binary. > > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:21:48AM +0530, Swarup N wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I setup Sugar 0.114 via the Native method on a new laptop. On > running > > > sugar-activity, I get the following message. > > > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > File "/usr/local/bin/sugar-activity", line 5, in <module> > > > activityinstance.main() > > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sugar3/activity/ > > > activityinstance.py", line 230, in main > > > instance = create_activity_instance(activity_constructor, > > activity_handle) > > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sugar3/activity/ > > > activityinstance.py", line 59, in create_activity_instance > > > activity = constructor(handle) > > > File "/home/buba/sugar-stuff/sugar-activities/convert/ > activity.py", > > line 41, > > > in __init__ > > > activity.Activity.__init__(self, handle, True) > > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sugar3/activity/ > > activity.py", > > > line 432, in __init__ > > > self._jobject = self._initialize_journal_object() > > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sugar3/activity/ > > activity.py", > > > line 520, in _initialize_journal_object > > > datastore.write(jobject) > > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sugar3/datastore/ > > datastore.py", > > > line 394, in write > > > transfer_ownership) > > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sugar3/datastore/ > > datastore.py", > > > line 344, in _create_ds_entry > > > object_id = _get_data_store().create(dbus.Dictionary > (properties), > > filename, > > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sugar3/datastore/ > > datastore.py", > > > line 51, in _get_data_store > > > DS_DBUS_PATH), > > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 241, in > > get_object > > > follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes) > > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line > 248, in > > > __init__ > > > self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name) > > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 180, in > > > activate_name_owner > > > self.start_service_by_name(bus_name) > > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 278, in > > > start_service_by_name > > > 'su', (bus_name, flags))) > > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line > 651, > > in > > > call_blocking > > > message, timeout) > > > dbus.exceptions.DBusException: > > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: > > > Process org.laptop.sugar.DataStore exited with status 1 > > > 1564548420.435550 WARNING root: DSObject was deleted without > cleaning up > > first. > > > Call DSObject.destroy() before disposing it. > > > > > > I would be grateful for any suggestions on fixing this. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > James Cameron > > [2][3]<a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a> > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > [3][4]<a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" 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