I believe also many activities can also run from terminal, which has the benefits of showing error output of situations. Hopefully, the messages will assist in pointing in the right direction of the sugar based conflict.<br>
-ixo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Steve Holton <<a href="mailto:sph0lt0n@gmail.com">sph0lt0n@gmail.com</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;">
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>
- <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ#After_working_properly_for_a_while.2C_activities_won.27t_load" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ#After_working_properly_for_a_while.2C_activities_won.27t_load</a><br>
<br>
Are you running the 650 release?<br>
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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 installing and running extra apps and changed the DISPLAY variable and added 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 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.<br>
><br>
> The "Terminal Activity" and lynx _do_ load, which suggests to me that the problem is with the GUI apps only.<br>
><br>
> 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.<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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