Record fails to launch

[walterbender]

While testing the SoaS-2 beta (http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-2-beta.iso) onthe Classmate 2 (Magalhães edition), Record failed to launch. The only thing in the shows up in the log is:

Activity died: pid 1757 condition 11 data (None, <open file '<fdopen>', mode 'w' at 0x8fb86b0>)

Record on the same hardware using the Strawberry release works (except for some audio issues).

[Sebastian Dziallas (sdziallas)]

This is confirmed with the latest snapshots. We'll need to figure out whether that's a problem with your hardware (which I doubt) or a more general one.

[Sebastian Dziallas (sdziallas)]

Mikus has kindly provided us with logs in another ticket (making this the general ticket for Record, at least for the moment).

1257099176.942493 DEBUG root: use /home/liveuser/Activities/Record.activity/camerac/linux32_2.5 blobs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 21, in <module>
    main.main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/activity/main.py", line 111, in main
    module = __import__(module_name)
  File "/home/liveuser/Activities/Record.activity/record.py", line 41, in <module>
    from model import Model
  File "/home/liveuser/Activities/Record.activity/model.py", line 50, in <module>
    from ui import UI
  File "/home/liveuser/Activities/Record.activity/ui.py", line 55, in <module>
    import glive
  File "/home/liveuser/Activities/Record.activity/glive.py", line 62, in <module>
    camera_presents = _does_camera_present()
  File "/home/liveuser/Activities/Record.activity/glive.py", line 59, in _does_camera_present
    v4l2src = gst.element_factory_make('v4l2src')
gst.ElementNotFoundError: v4l2src
1257099179.161546 DEBUG root: _cleanup_temp_files
Activity died: pid 2659 condition 256 data (None, <open file '<fdopen>', mode 'w' at 0xaeff340>)

[Sebastian Dziallas (sdziallas)]

Taking it down to confirmed again. Installing gstreamer-plugins-good doesn't fix it.

[Tomeu Vizoso (tomeu)]

> Taking it down to confirmed again. Installing gstreamer-plugins-good doesn't fix it.

gstreamer-plugins-good will add the v4l2 driver we need, but there's some issue with the binary blob in Record and the particular version of Cairo in F12.

[Sebastian Dziallas (sdziallas)]

Oh, I see. Is there a corresponding bug somewhere for that? Would be good to track it...

[Caroline (cmeeks)]

I saw this on my classmate. Let me know if you need help testing or logs.