[Testing] Problem with installing Colors!-13 and Record Activities

[Gary Martin]

Hi Arafath,

On 27 Aug 2010, at 12:40, Arafath Rizan <mrarafath at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> This is regarding activity installation problem, I have been installing activities in XO 1.0, OLPC OS85.
> Installed activities are;
> Physics 
> Stopwatch
> SocialCalc 
> Above three installed successfully and working fine.
> 
> But having problem with installing Record and Color activity.(Its getting installed and the icon appears in the Sugar Lab Home View and the journal but when i tried to open the activity white screen with a specific logo (Record or Color) appears for some time and its goes back to Sugar Home view.

This sounds like these activities are crashing when they try to start. First quick thing to check is that you don't have many other activities running at the same time as this can cause activities to crash as there is not enough memory to run many at the same moment in time. I usually test activities running one or two at a time (though you can usually run 5-10 before running out of memory, depending what the activities are).

If low memory is not the issue, start the Log activity (it may not be favourite starred by default, so look in the home list view if you can't see it in your home ring). The Log activity will let you view the error logs generated by all activities and is great for tracking down bugs. Use it to look at org.laptop.RecordActivity.log and org.laptop.community.Colors.log (there may be several numbered logs with this name, one for each time you tried to start it, old logs are removed when you reboot). These logs will have perhaps a page or so of expected WARNINGS, and DEBUG type messages, these are quite normal. Use the search in the Edit tab to look for ERROR or a Traceback message, these usually help us find/understand/fix crashing type bugs. If you see any, select the text and copy and paste it into an email, or open a bug ticket and paste it there as part of you report.

I've just tried testing Colors-15 (not installed by default so I downloaded it from http://activities.sugarlabs.org) and Record-86 in the latest OLPC build 852 on an XO-1, both started up OK and I could paint and take a few photos.

Regards,
--Gary

> Can anyone please kindly help me out
> Thanks 
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