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

[Rishabh Thaney]

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 - update your blog; it is two weeks out of date, (lower the time cost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/
> >     _______________________________________________
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> >     [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
>
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