On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Jim Simmons<nices...@gmail.com> wrote: > Martin, > > For what it's worth, I've experienced this running the Sugar test > environment in both Fedora 10 and 11. It would not seem to be > specific to .82. The way to reproduce the problem is to run the Sugar > environment in Xephyr (sugar-emulator). Do some stuff, then instead > of shutting down cleanly click on the "close" button on the Xephyr > window. That will close your Sugar session and practically guarantee > that the next time you open it your Sugar Journal will be empty. I > regret to say that I've done this a few times.
I do this all the time and have never had a Journal corruption error in Xephyr. Curious. -walter > James Simmons > > >> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:56:17 +0200 >> From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> >> Subject: [Sugar-devel] RFH - Journal corruption reports fom 8.2.1 >> users in Uy >> To: OLPC Devel <de...@lists.laptop.org>, Sugar-dev >> <Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org> >> Message-ID: >> <46a038f90908200956h436459f3j9fa7b29bb111d...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> On olpc-sur we're seeing reports of "my journal contents disappeared >> after reboot". (Thread starts at >> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2009-August/004177.html ) >> >> This reminds me a lot of the issues we saw earlier in development of >> what became 8.2.x -- if for any reason Sugar doesn't like the Journal >> contents or indexes, it moves the 'datastore' directory aside, and >> starts anew. >> >> That's my hunch, and I am hoping to hear confirmation from the users >> reporting the problem. >> >> Two pleas for help >> >> - A sugar activity that does some data-recovery and freeing up the space. >> >> The good news is that we have a json file with the metadata for each >> Journal entry, so we can either load it back into the Journal (mstone >> had published a cli script that exports/imports to the Journal?) or >> create Journal Entry Bundles and save them to a USB stick. >> >> I suspect the JEB path might help users more -- if the Journal is >> choking on some specific metadata, a script that reloads it all in one >> go will make it choke again. Having files as JEBs allows step-by-step >> attempts. >> >> - Diagnosis. >> >> If it's something we can pin down, it'll be great to have a fix! This >> will surely involve getting in touch with teachers on olpc-sur. >> >> cheers, >> >> >> >> m >> -- >> martin.langh...@gmail.com >> mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect >> - ask interesting questions >> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first >> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel