[Sugar-devel] Problems with Read Activity on XO
Sayamindu, I've been having an odd problem with the Read activity on my XO lately. I'd report it as a bug but I don't know how to recreate it or give enough information to see where the problem is coming from. I'm hoping you can help me diagnose what's happening. You might remember giving me a version of Read that worked better with DJVU files. I uninstalled the original Read and used that one successfully for a couple of months at least. One day, for no reason I can see, it stopped coming up. You'd see the pulsing book icon for a few minutes, then nothing. I'd bring up the Log activity and there would be an entry for Read but it would contain no messages whatever. Totally empty. I've seen my own Activities fail any number of times while they were in development but I always got *some* messages, even if they weren't very helpful. I removed the Read activity from the Journal then used the Software Update dialog to reinstall the original Read. It apparently did so. However, when I test it with a PDF it shows exactly the same symptoms as the other one did. Everything else on my XO seems to work just fine, so I'm stumped. If you have any ideas on things I could look at to resolve this I'd appreciate it. Thanks, James Simmons ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Problems with Read Activity on XO
It may be possible is something is segfaulting (I vaguely remember seeing something like this). dmesg usually keeps track of things that segfault, and you can also take a look at shell.log Another way would be to use the Terminal: sugar-launch org.laptop.sugar.ReadActivity Thanks, Sayamindu On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Sayamindu, I've been having an odd problem with the Read activity on my XO lately. I'd report it as a bug but I don't know how to recreate it or give enough information to see where the problem is coming from. I'm hoping you can help me diagnose what's happening. You might remember giving me a version of Read that worked better with DJVU files. I uninstalled the original Read and used that one successfully for a couple of months at least. One day, for no reason I can see, it stopped coming up. You'd see the pulsing book icon for a few minutes, then nothing. I'd bring up the Log activity and there would be an entry for Read but it would contain no messages whatever. Totally empty. I've seen my own Activities fail any number of times while they were in development but I always got *some* messages, even if they weren't very helpful. I removed the Read activity from the Journal then used the Software Update dialog to reinstall the original Read. It apparently did so. However, when I test it with a PDF it shows exactly the same symptoms as the other one did. Everything else on my XO seems to work just fine, so I'm stumped. If you have any ideas on things I could look at to resolve this I'd appreciate it. Thanks, James Simmons -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Problems with Read Activity on XO
Sayamindu, Didn't see any evidence of segfault in dmesg or shell.log. However, I tried out: sugar-launch org.laptop.sugar.ReadActivity and it worked beautifully. Read gave me that ugly dialog that lets you select a document from the Journal, I selected one of the PDFs, and it loaded right up. Everything worked just fine, and it created a Journal entry called Unknown with the Read icon on it. When I try to resume from the Journal, either the new entry or one of the original PDFs, I get the symptoms I described before. I *might* be able to launch Read from the Activity Ring. I turned off my XO and put it away before I thought to try it. (I'm at work). So it looks to me that there is nothing wrong with Read itself, but there might be something wrong with how its installed. Thanks, James Simmons On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: It may be possible is something is segfaulting (I vaguely remember seeing something like this). dmesg usually keeps track of things that segfault, and you can also take a look at shell.log Another way would be to use the Terminal: sugar-launch org.laptop.sugar.ReadActivity Thanks, Sayamindu ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Problems with Read Activity on XO
Sayamindu, FYI, Read can't be launched from my Activity Ring either. The only thing that works is the sugar-launch from the Terminal. James Simmons On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Sayamindu, Didn't see any evidence of segfault in dmesg or shell.log. However, I tried out: sugar-launch org.laptop.sugar.ReadActivity and it worked beautifully. Read gave me that ugly dialog that lets you select a document from the Journal, I selected one of the PDFs, and it loaded right up. Everything worked just fine, and it created a Journal entry called Unknown with the Read icon on it. When I try to resume from the Journal, either the new entry or one of the original PDFs, I get the symptoms I described before. I *might* be able to launch Read from the Activity Ring. I turned off my XO and put it away before I thought to try it. (I'm at work). So it looks to me that there is nothing wrong with Read itself, but there might be something wrong with how its installed. Thanks, James Simmons On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: It may be possible is something is segfaulting (I vaguely remember seeing something like this). dmesg usually keeps track of things that segfault, and you can also take a look at shell.log Another way would be to use the Terminal: sugar-launch org.laptop.sugar.ReadActivity Thanks, Sayamindu ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
