#5559 HIGH Never A: change language to Turkish, machine keeps rebooting

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#5559: change language to Turkish, machine keeps rebooting
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  Reporter:  chihyu  |       Owner:  marco         
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:                
Resolution:          |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0       |  
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Comment(by chihyu):

 == steps to revive the laptop ==

 * Ctrl-Alt-F2

 * login as root

 * su olpc

 * export SUGAR_PATH=/usr/share/sugar

 * sugar-control-panel -s language English/USA

 * restart the machine by pressing the power button, while holding down the
 right mouse button (o)




 Replying to [comment:1 chihyu]:
 > Restarted the machine by holding down the power button, but it still
 kept rebooting. This was stopped by
 >
 > * Ctrl-Alt-F1
 >
 > * login as root
 >
 > * type `init 3`
 >
 > Tried setting the language back to English by typing
 >
 > `sugar-control-panel -s language English/USA`
 >
 > and the error message showed up:
 >
 > -bash-3.2# sugar-control-panel -s language English/USA [[br]]
 > Traceback (most recent call last): [[br]]
 > File "/usr/bin/sugar-control-panel", line 26, in <module> [[br]]
 > sys.path.insert(0, env.get_shell_path()) [[br]]
 > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sugar/env.py", line 90, in
 get_shell_path [[br]]
 > return _get_sugar_path('shell', path) [[br]]
 > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sugar/env.py", line 36, in
 _get_sugar_path [[br]]
 > raise RuntimeError("The SUGAR_PATH environment variable is not set.")
 [[br]]
 > RuntimeError: The SUGAR_PATH environment variable is not set.
 >
 >
 > Replying to [ticket:5559 chihyu]:
 > > build: 653, running continuously for less than 2 days
 > >
 > > serial no.: CSN74400083
 > >
 > > Tried changing the language to Turkish by following
 > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Control_Panel#Languages
 > > but the machine kept rebooting afterwards.
 > >
 > > == steps of reproduction ==
 > >
 > > * go to Terminal activity
 > >
 > > * sugar-control-panel -s language Turkish
 > >
 > > * Ctrl-Alt-erase to restart sugar
 > >

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5559#comment:3>
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