[Testing] Software update problems in OLPC 10.1.3

[Simon Schampijer]

On 01/09/2011 04:38 AM, S Page wrote:
> Summary: Software update of Help keeps failing; python errors checking
> some activities; misleading output.
>
> My XO-1 was up-to-date against the Activities/G1G1Lite group for
> 10.1.2 before the olpc-upgrade to build 360.  On reboot I was prompted
> to run Software update (nice!), it updated several activities, but
> then offered to upgrade two activities.  I thought this was a second
> step so didn't pay attention to what activities they were and clicked
> [Install selected].  Now Software update keeps offering to upgrade
> Help from version 11 to 12.  ~olpc/Activities has a Help from
> 2009-12-12 whose activity.info says activity_version=11 and there is a
> Help v.12 available, so it seems Software update does have something
> to do but fails.
>
> I have accumulated various activities over time, particularly from the
> glitch in updating to 10.1.2 where I got the big set of activities for
> XO-1.5 before I changed to the G1G1Lite activity group.  I had removed
> some of those.
>
> I followed http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_update#Debugging_the_updater,
>
>
> $ sugar-control-panel -s install_update Help
>
> This was very slow checking some activities such as Help, Measure and
> Analyze, printing a "XX%" progress indicator
>
> == Misleading output ==
> I note again that the URL that Software update claims that it's
> checking is wrong.  It says "Fetching
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1Lite" but it's actually
> fetching something like
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1Lite/10.1.3 . I already filed
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10321
>
> == Python errors checking some activities ==
> Software update prints python traceback errors, for Physics, Colors,
> Words, Ruler, Firefox, Stopwatch.  All are the same:
>
> Checking ACTIVITY_NAME
> Failure updating ACTIVITY_NAME none none
> ...  in _retrieve_update_version... in only_best_update, in __lt__, ...
> sugar/bundle/bundleversion.py line 135, in _cannot_compare
>    % (Type(self). __name__, type(other).__name__))
> TypeError: Can not compare NormalizedVersion and str
>
> I think these are installed activities that aren't in the G1G1Lite
> activity group.

Does the full output say anything about which activities failed? Or do 
you maybe have a hint which activity is might be? I tried here with a 
vanilla system (852--->860) and could not reproduce the error.

Thanks,
    Simon