gnome applet can't initialize Clutter

[Paul Fox]

scott wrote:
 > I'm new to the XO-4.  So it appears that nobody is running a GUI besides
 > Sugar on these?
 > 
 > We don't have opengl support in the X drivers because of the video type on
 > these?
 > 
 > I wonder why OLPC published a build with Gnome if it is this broken?

i think it's fine if you don't try to install new gnome things.  i.e.,
what we shipped is self-consistent.

we were aware of the bluetooth issues -- bluetooth wasn't needed by
any of our deployments, so it was a low priority.  i think we tested with
the bluez stack.

paul

 > 
 > 
 > 
 > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>wrote:
 > 
 > > I don't remember the details of the 13.2.0 build, I seem to remember
 > > that it was the last release to include fall back mode. The gnome3
 > > fallback mode had issues in that anything that was linked against
 > > clutter fails because of the lack of opengl support in all of the X
 > > drivers.
 > >
 > > Peter
 > >
 > > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Scott Chapman <scott at mischko.com> wrote:
 > > > That appears to be the version included with the 13.2.0 build?
 > > >
 > > > What build should I downgrade to that will run Gnome correctly? Or is
 > > there
 > > > an easy way to get a non-sugar GUI working on one of these?
 > > >
 > > >
 > > > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
 > > > wrote:
 > > >>
 > > >> most of the gnome3 stack won't currently run on any of the XOs
 > > >>
 > > >> Peter
 > > >>
 > > >> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Scott Chapman <scott at mischko.com>
 > > wrote:
 > > >> > This affects other gnome commands such as gnome-control-panel as well.
 > > >> >
 > > >> >
 > > >> > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Scott Chapman <scott at mischko.com>
 > > >> > wrote:
 > > >> >>
 > > >> >> Hi!
 > > >> >>
 > > >> >> I just got an XO-4 and working to get some things working - bluetooth
 > > >> >> in
 > > >> >> this case.
 > > >> >>
 > > >> >> I installed the latest OLPC distro to the internal storage as follows
 > > >> >> from
 > > >> >> the ok prompt:
 > > >> >> fs-update u:\32013o4.zd
 > > >> >>
 > > >> >> booted to sugar - switched to Gnome
 > > >> >>
 > > >> >> Bluetooth applet won't show a screen when you right-click on the icon
 > > >> >> in
 > > >> >> upper right and select "Bluetooth Settings".
 > > >> >>
 > > >> >> So, I killed the existing bluetooth-applet and ran another one from
 > > the
 > > >> >> command line in a terminal:
 > > >> >>
 > > >> >> [olpc at xo-d2-7f-9f ~]$ bluetooth-applet
 > > >> >>
 > > >> >> # Here I selected "Bluetooth Settings" in the new icon and got this:
 > > >> >>
 > > >> >> (gnome-control-center:1100): GModule-CRITICAL **: g_module_close:
 > > >> >> assertion `module->ref_count > 0' failed
 > > >> >>
 > > >> >> (gnome-control-center:1100): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to
 > > initialize
 > > >> >> Clutter: Failed to connected to any renderer due to constraints
 > > >> >>
 > > >> >> How do I get this working?
 > > >> >>
 > > >> >> Thanks,
 > > >> >> Scott
 > > >> >
 > > >> >
 > > >> >
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