#9559 NORM 1.5-F11: os33 - Journal misbehaving

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#9559: os33 - Journal misbehaving
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           Reporter:  mikus     |       Owner:  marco                            
               Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                              
           Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  1.5-F11                          
          Component:  sugar     |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:            |    Keywords:                                   
        Next_action:  diagnose  |    Verified:  0                                
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Comment(by mikus):

 Replying to [comment:7 Quozl]:
 > Your screen shot shows external media was mounted, and so the contents
 of the journal on that media would be critical to the problem.  It was
 input data to the journal reading code.

 I doubt whether me having external media mounted was the cause of the
 unexpected screen content.  [I believe that in Sugar 0.84, information is
 not kept about the content of external media - rather, that media is
 scanned anew each time it is accessed.]

 I have had a "permanent" SD card in my OLPC from the first day I got it
 (in 2007).  As I got more XOs, each of them got its own "permanent" SD
 card.  If the presence of these external media were the causative factor,
 I would have noticed more such incidents of Journal misbehavior -- but I
 have not.

 In particular, the only times I have seen the presence of the external
 media affect the content of Journal View is if I explicitly click on the
 external media icon at the bottom of Journal (instead of using Journal
 View to show the content of the "internal" Journal).  To the best of my
 recollection, I had not done so when I encountered the #9559 misbehavior.

 > It may relate to #9658 "''New journal cannot read old stored Journal
 Entries''", in which case you might be able to verify this by using the
 media with build 802, saving a journal entry, and then trying to use it
 with a later build.

 Not the situation here.  The "internal" Journal is "reset" from scratch
 every time I install a new build.  [Although my build 802 machines also
 have a "permanent" SD card, I never swap cards between machines.]
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 What you've said leads me to reconsider whether those 'olpc_episode4.ogg'
 entries in the Journal are a record of me on the day before having
 accessed content from the "permanent" SD card.  It's possible -- it was
 cumbersome in Sugar 0.82 to access external media content, and I might
 have been checking out how such access worked in Sugar 0.84.  I don't
 remember.

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