[olpc-help] Sugar GUI applications (activities) won't start

[Steve Holton]

Hi Andrew-

There was a problem seen in the 650 loads where the flash would
fill-up completely and prevent activities from starting.
-   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ#After_working_properly_for_a_while.2C_activities_won.27t_load

Are you running the 650 release?

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Andrew <andrew2006 at flight.us> wrote:
> All worked well for a couple of weeks in our new XO laptop, but i have been installing and running extra apps and changed the DISPLAY variable and added to /etc/hosts a few times.  (currently
>
>  i have yum-installed various apps, including gcc, wvdial, emacs, lynx
>
>  yesterday the GUI apps appear to have stopped loading. When invoked from Desktop bottom row of icons, the icons appear in the circle but their status is just "Starting..." ad infinitem, and they just hang in that state and don't load.  Rebooting doesn't seem to help.
>
>  The "Terminal Activity" and lynx _do_ load, which suggests to me that the problem is with the GUI apps only.
>
>  HOWEVER, it seems to be SUGAR apps, in particular, because when I run  emacs GUI, as user olpc and with DISPLAY=:0 , emacs GUI does come up correctly.
>
>  Or maybe i'm barking up the wrong tree, entirely?
>
>  /etc/hosts currently has:
>
>  127.0.0.1 xo-14-4F-01.localdomain xo-14-4F-01 localhost
>  127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
>  172.18.0.1      schoolserver
>
>  TIA
>
>  Andrew
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Steve Holton
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