You're running 656, which eliminates a few things. Thanks.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>I'll trust you know what you've done to it better than I can guess.<br><br>Have a look at these bugs in Trac:<br><br><a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5317">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5317</a><br><a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6742">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6742</a><br>
<br>Do any of the symptoms sound familiar? Does it 'smell' like the flash disk is full, or should we be thinking along other lines?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Andrew <<a href="mailto:andrew2006@flight.us">andrew2006@flight.us</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">>Hi Andrew-<br>
><br>
>There was a problem seen in the 650 loads where the flash would<br>
>fill-up completely and prevent activities from starting.<br>
>-<br>
><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ#After_working_properly_for_a_while.2C_act" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ#After_working_properly_for_a_while.2C_act</a><br>
>ivities_won.27t_load<br>
><br>
>Are you running the 650 release?<br>
<br>
</div>/etc/issue:<br>
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OLPC build 656 (stream ship.2; variant devel_jffs2)<br>
Kernel \r on an \m<br>
<br>
uname -a:<br>
<br>
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<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
<br>
<br>
><br>
>On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Andrew <<a href="mailto:andrew2006@flight.us">andrew2006@flight.us</a>> wrote:<br>
>> All worked well for a couple of weeks in our new XO laptop, but i have been<br>
>installing and running extra apps and changed the DISPLAY variable and added<br>
>to /etc/hosts a few times. (currently<br>
>><br>
>> i have yum-installed various apps, including gcc, wvdial, emacs, lynx<br>
>><br>
>> yesterday the GUI apps appear to have stopped loading. When invoked from<br>
>Desktop bottom row of icons, the icons appear in the circle but their status<br>
>is just "Starting..." ad infinitem, and they just hang in that state and don't<br>
>load. Rebooting doesn't seem to help.<br>
>><br>
>> The "Terminal Activity" and lynx _do_ load, which suggests to me that the<br>
>problem is with the GUI apps only.<br>
>><br>
>> HOWEVER, it seems to be SUGAR apps, in particular, because when I run<br>
>emacs GUI, as user olpc and with DISPLAY=:0 , emacs GUI does come up<br>
>correctly.<br>
>><br>
>> Or maybe i'm barking up the wrong tree, entirely?<br>
>><br>
>> /etc/hosts currently has:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://127.0.0.1" target="_blank">127.0.0.1</a> xo-14-4F-01.localdomain xo-14-4F-01 localhost<br>
>> <a href="http://127.0.0.1" target="_blank">127.0.0.1</a> localhost.localdomain localhost<br>
>> <a href="http://172.18.0.1" target="_blank">172.18.0.1</a> schoolserver<br>
>><br>
>> TIA<br>
>><br>
>> Andrew<br>
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