Need help creating .xo file

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 04.06.2008, at 08:11, shivaprasad javali wrote:

> Hi All ,
>           I was wondering if you could help me out with this.
>
>          I got the activity working fine on the OLPC. Now I want to  
> create a .xo file for my activity so that I can install the activity  
> on other XO's. My activity structure is as follows:
> ->activity -->has the .info file and the icon
> ->bin  --> has a shell script and the exe which i have to run
> ->lib  --> has the libs which my application is dependent on
> -> MANIFEST file
>
> There is a shell script in the bin folder which I have included in  
> the exec tag in activity.info.
>
> I created the activity bundle according to the information in the  
> post http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1555.0 .
> I have named my .xo file name.activity.xo
>
> If I unzip the .xo in the Activities folder and then restart the X- 
> server it gets installed and I get the icon in the activity tray.
>
> I tried installing it by copying the .xo to a thumb drive and then  
> running sugar-install-bundle on the XO but it gave me a DBUS timeout  
> error. I also tried to install it through the browse activity as  
> given in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#Manual_installation  
> and through the Journal without success.
>
> Can you figure out where I am going wrong??


Not without logs. See

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Attaching_Sugar_Logs_to_Tickets

- Bert -