[sugar] Sugar restart lost Journal, and some customization

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net
Sun Apr 13 12:59:25 EDT 2008


Hi,

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
> G1G1.  Joyride 1848.  Made the mistake of pressing ctl-alt-erase.
>
>  When the new Sugar came up, it asked me for the Name and the Colors.
>  I found that I had lost the previous Journal contents, and the Main
>  screen's activity ring.

Cannot reproduce this. Can you?

>  I don't depend upon the Journal.  What got me upset was that from
>  then on, if I did a manual edit of /home/olpc/.sugar/default/config
>  and then rebooted the XO -- this file's content was RESET to however
>  that earlier Sugar "restart" had set up this file.  [I had hoped
>  that this file's contents would *persist* between reboots.]
>
>  Reinstalled Joyride, to try to ward off this behavior.  But will NOT
>  again attempt to "restart" Sugar (as it advises) after changing
>  sugar-control-panel -- will instead be rebooting from scratch.

Would be great if you could help us to track this down.

Thanks,

Tomeu


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