[Testing] Triangle tool not clearly visible and tool options not available

Gonzalo Odiard godiard at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 09:28:02 EDT 2010


I don't understand how the activity.info file can have these permissions.
The Zip file does not support set permissions of the files.

Gonzalo

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Mikus,
>
> On 31 Aug 2010, at 23:46, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>
> >> FWIW I've tested on XO-1s running 0.84.16 and 0.88.1 and Paint-28 runs
> great,
> >> however running on the original XO-1 0.82.1 (OLPC build 767) it fails to
> start
> >> with some obscure Rainbow related exception that leads to a
> "MalformedBundleException:
> >> No activity.info file" which is a spurious error message as looking in
> the bundle
> >> the activity.info file is installed and looks just fine.
> >
> > Often an "MalformedBundleException" message results from Linux file (or
> > directory) permissions not allowing access to an activity's
> > activity.info file.  That is the case here - the Linux permissions on
> > Paint.activity/activity/activity.info are '-rw-------', which permits
> > access only by userid 500.  [Under Rainbow, when that Activity runs it
> > is under userid 1000-something.]  I changed the permissions on that file
> > to '-rw-r--r--', and Paint-28 ran as it should on a build-802 system.
>
> Fantastic, well spotted, thanks! I did have a quick look at owner and group
> but didn't notice the activity.info had odd rw permissions.
>
> I've just run:
>
>  sudo chmod g+rw ~/Activities/Paint.activity/activity/activity.info
>  sudo chmod o+r ~/Activities/Paint.activity/activity/activity.info
>
> ...to match what is else where, and Paint-28 now launches just fine under
> 0.82.1 build 767 on an XO-1 now. Gonzalo: No need to add the MANIFEST, but
> thanks for the .xo bundle with it to test!
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> > mikus
> >
>
>


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Gonzalo Odiard
Responsable de Desarrollo (pasando la antorcha...)
Sistemas Australes
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