Broken build 613-20071004_0142 ?

[Bert Freudenberg]

It's definitely worth a bug report. It's very hard to get an  
emulation environment up and running for people unfamiliar with  
Linux. But this is the only way for most to test if an idea works in  
Sugar.

- Bert -

On Oct 7, 2007, at 12:34 , Michael Vorburger wrote:

> FYI, solved!  The loop of attempting to start X/Sugar, then aborting,
> then re-starting, over and over, was apparently caused because I
> didn't have networking set-up correctly in qemu (start-up parameter
> missing; Wiki instructions inconsistent! Just fixed.). With that
> corrected, things seems to work.
>
> Question: Should a bug in Trac be raised (e.g. "Sugar/X start-up
> screwed if no network" ?) or is this not worth pursuing, as you can be
> SURE that eth0 will be up with a valid IP during startup??
>
>
> On 10/6/07, Michael Vorburger <mike at vorburger.ch> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just downloaded build 613-20071004_0142
>> (olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-613-20071004_0142- 
>> devel_ext3.img)
>> and tried it under qemu/Windows, but Sugar/X keeps attempting to  
>> start and
>> fails, and loops and loops... it asked for the user name and  
>> colour, and
>> then got into a infinite loop, starting and aborting X/sugar.
>>
>> Managed to take a screenshot, see
>> http://www.vorburger.ch/olpc/build613-20071004_0142-startup- 
>> failure-loop-console-screenshot.png
>> - if that is of any help?
>>
>> Noticed http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Autoreinstallation_image
>> currently reads "There are a couple of reports of problems  
>> upgrading to the
>> current q2c28 and 613." but on
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_Feedback_on_Images#QEMU_on_Windows
>> somebody reports 613 works fine for him.
>>
>> Let me know if I provide any logs or anything to help clarify this?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael
>>
>>
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