Collection (.xol) glitches

[S Page]

Samuel Klein wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:47 PM, S Page <info at skierpage.com 
> <mailto:info at skierpage.com>> wrote:
> 
>      >  and hitting start
>      > doesn't seem to do anything (other than triggering some disk I/O)
> 
>     That script had a bug, it doesn't specify a category.
> 
>     (Is there a general Sugar bug that if anything whatsoever goes wrong you
>     get no feedback? !!)
> 
> More feedback would definitely be useful. 

I filed low-priority Sugar bug http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8907 about 
the silent failure, as it says the test case is 
http://www.skierpage.com/olpc/bad_xol.xol

>     But the Journal leaves the .xol file in
>     /home/olpc/.sugar/default/data/ until it next installs something, and it
>     has errors if I later try to erase the collection.  I didn't have these
>     problems installing and erasing "World culture" v3; I'm not sure what
>     the difference is.
> 
> 
> sounds like another silent failure in the last step of the process. 
> Canyou post a but with specific bundles attached for reference?

I filed bug http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8906 , test case is 
http://www.skierpage.com/olpc/test_xol.xol . This time I had no errors 
on erase which cleared out the library; just the left-over file.

Cheers,
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=S Page