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

[Steve Holton]

You're running 656, which eliminates a few things.  Thanks.

I remember hearing about other people who reported the same problem on a
stock system, but I'm pretty sure that was 650 or 653.  There's a
possibility some changes you've made might have interfered with the system
but let's presume this isn't the case.

I'll trust you know what you've done to it better than I can guess.

Have a look at these bugs in Trac:

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5317
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6742

Do any of the symptoms sound familiar?  Does it 'smell' like the flash disk
is full, or should we be thinking along other lines?


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Andrew <andrew2006 at flight.us> wrote:

> >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_act
> >ivities_won.27t_load
> >
> >Are you running the 650 release?
>
> /etc/issue:
>
> OLPC build 656 (stream ship.2; variant devel_jffs2)
> Kernel \r on an \m
>
> uname -a:
>
> Linux xo-14-4F-01.localdomain 2.6.22-20071231.2.olpc.83e0631da83a269 #1
> PREEMPT Mon Dec 31 10:37:17 EST 2007 i586 i586 i386 GNU/Linux
>
>
>
> >
> >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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> >
> >
> >
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