<html><head></head><body><br><br>>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>>http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5317<br>most likely NOT 5317<br><br>>http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6742<br><br>very well might be it! I had an enclosed hard drive connected. Although, even after unmounting and disconnecting it, the failure-to-launch glitch persisted -- apparently only going away on the next reboot.<br><br>I rebooted, then launched the apps first (before connecting the drive)<br>and, lo and behold, the apps worked again.<br><br>Then, i (inadverently) connected the enclosed DVD drive, and, lo and behold, /it/ worked too! <br><br>(I meant to test the enclosed hard drive, to ascertain its culpability, but it is now late in the day, and i will resume testing later)<br><br>Also: it now occurs to me: there is a glitchy superblock on ONE of the partitions on the enclosed drive. When the XO tries to mount probe & mount it, it apparently delays considerably.<br><br>The partitions types include NTFS, vfat and ext3 (all are good, except a bad vfat one). <br><br>(still, it's strange to have such a causality)<br><br>I'll post an update later.<br><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>On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Andrew <andrew2006@flight.us> wrote:<br><br>>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>>http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ#After_working_properly_for_a_while.2C_act<br>>ivities_won.27t_load<br>><br>>Are you running the 650 release?<br><br>/etc/issue:<br><br>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><br><br><br><br><br><br>><br>>On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Andrew <andrew2006@flight.us> 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>>> 127.0.0.1 xo-14-4F-01.localdomain xo-14-4F-01 localhost<br>>> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost<br>>> 172.18.0.1 schoolserver<br>>><br>>> TIA<br>>><br>>> Andrew<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> community-support mailing list<br>>> community-support@lists.laptop.org<br>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/community-support<br>>><br>><br>><br></body></html>