[sugar] not preserving journal

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
> I tend to __mess__ with my XO.  As such, I realize I have to take my
> lumps once in a while.  But - the OLPC appears to NOT be safe from
> people like me.
>
> I have two different builds (in /versions) on my XO - a Joyride and
> an Update.1.  From the Update.1, I used 'olpc-update' to install
> Joyride 2024.  It failed boot (sugar did not come up; and if I did
> not touch any buttons during boot I had no keyboard input, either).
>
> So I used the square button to boot into Update.1 -- and my Journal
> was empty.  I've had the Journal cleaned out before, so I did NOT
> have anything that mattered in there.  [I manually save everything
> important to a permanently-mounted SD card.]  But for anyone who
> depends upon Journal, it would have been a traumatic experience.

Yes, we have several tickets about these issues, but nobody to work on them :/

Anyway, note that most of the final users will have backups of their
journal before updating, and that they will update once or twice per
year, only to well tested images.

Thanks,

Tomeu