sugar-emulator hangs on start

[Edward Cherlin]

Binary package hint: sugar

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

sugar 0.83.8-0ubuntu2

The command 'sugar-emulator' should start an X session in Xephyr and bring up Sugar. Xephyr and X start fine, but Sugar hangs after its cursor appears on a black background, without ever showing the desktop.

Error messages:

[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!
[config/dbus] couldn't take over org.x.config: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied (Connection ":1.107" is not allowed to own the service "org.x.config.display100" due to security policies in the configuration file)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!
(EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
[config/dbus] couldn't take over org.x.config: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied (Connection ":1.107" is not allowed to own the service "org.x.config.display100" due to security policies in the configuration file)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!
[config/dbus] couldn't take over org.x.config: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied (Connection ":1.108" is not allowed to own the service "org.x.config.display101" due to security policies in the configuration file)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!
(EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
[config/dbus] couldn't take over org.x.config: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied (Connection ":1.108" is not allowed to own the service "org.x.config.display101" due to security policies in the configuration file)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
1246897649.549027 STARTUP: Starting the shell
matchbox: keyboard does not appear to have a <alt> key.
matchbox: ignoring key shortcut <Alt>return=fullscreen

/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/jarabe/desktop/meshbox.py:19: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  import sha
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/jarabe/desktop/keydialog.py:17: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import md5

[David Farning (dfarning)]

This has been fixed as of the most recent 10.04 release.

[Gizmoguy (gizmoguy1)]

Is there a fix available for 9.10?

[David Farning (dfarning)]

I am sorry, we have refactored our packaging to base off Debian for Ubuntu 10.4. It is rather unlikely that fixes will be backported to 9.10.

[Gizmoguy (gizmoguy1)]

Following the instructions on the Sugar wiki and installing from the PPA worked fine.