#8533 NORM 8.2.0 (: 8.2-760 olpc-update from 656 uninstalls core Activities, doubles sessions in Journal when reinstalled

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#8533: 8.2-760 olpc-update from 656 uninstalls core Activities, doubles sessions
in Journal when reinstalled
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 Reporter:  mchua         |         Owner:                      
     Type:  defect        |        Status:  new                 
 Priority:  normal        |     Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
Component:  not assigned  |       Version:  not specified       
 Keywords:                |   Next_action:  never set           
 Verified:  0             |     Blockedby:                      
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 Two strange things occurred while running the
 [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tests/Upgrades/DataIntegrity data integrity
 test] (to see if pre-upgrade Activity sessions are still usable post-
 upgrade) for a build 656 to a release-candidate 8.2-760 upgrade.

 Immediately after upgrading to 8.2-760 via olpc-update, the core
 Activities being tested (Browse, Write, TurtleArt, Record, EToys) were
 found to be no longer present in Sugar (strange thing #1).

 Pre-upgrade sessions from these Activities were still in the Journal under
 their correct names with a generic "file" icon, and attempting to resume
 them failed (as expected, since the Activity that should be used to open
 them was not present), with the exception of the Record session, which
 displayed and was opened as a simple image.

 When these Activities were reinstalled (via the Update option in the
 Control Panel), the Journal still displayed their pre-upgrade sessions
 with a generic "file" icon. Attempting to resume these pre-upgrade
 sessions now succeeded, with the correct Activity launching.

 After launching the pre-upgrade sessions successfully with the reinstalled
 Activity, the Journal displayed ''two'' sessions for each pre-upgrade
 session (strange thing #2): one with the generic "file" icon and a
 timestamp dating to the last time it was resumed before the upgrade, and
 one with the correct Activity icon and a correct/recent timestamp from the
 resume that had just been carried out.

 Again, the exception here was the pre-upgrade Record session, which still
 displayed and launched as a simple image. (Record sessions started after
 Record was reinstalled save/resume in the Journal as Record sessions.)

 More investigation is needed to tell whether this is a 656 to 760 olpc-
 update issue, an Activities updating issue, something that can happen
 occasionally during upgrades from various builds, or something else. Will
 try to reproduce.

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