gnome applet can't initialize Clutter

[Paul Fox]

scott wrote:
 > Paul,
 > The Gnome Control Panel is not present in the build.  Am I missing
 > something or is it left out also?
 > 
 > How do you edit the menu system in Gnome without it, etc?

i think you need to think about this differently:  this isn't a gnome
laptop.  this is a sugar laptop, with the ability to do some gnome
stuff if you need to.  we didn't used to include gnome at all -- gnome
was added because at some point the laptops got faster and had enough
storage, and because one of our deployments wanted to be able to run
some applications that weren't sugar-compatible.  but when things got
difficult (e.g., gnome3), we had to choose between getting a release
out the door or not.

paul

 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
 > 
 > > 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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 > >  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
 > >

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