No filesystem found after several app closures

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:33:05AM -0000, mr brad wrote:
> Robot app crashes when ask null question (e.g. ">?"), [...]

Thanks, I've sent that on to the developers, in a recent bug report:
http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1779#comment:3

However, this is very unlikely to have anything to do with your other
symptoms "stick is ruined, must reformat and make a new one from iso
image with live USB creator." Does that symptom occur independently of
Speak activity Robot mode failing?

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v14 should work, about "stick is ruined.." I didn't see original issue in gst-espeak but it's possible that gst-espeak are falling to infinite loop thus "stick is ruined.." is possible.

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:58:32PM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:33:05AM -0000, mr brad wrote:
> > Robot app crashes when ask null question (e.g. ">?"), [...]
>
> Thanks, I've sent that on to the developers, in a recent bug report:
> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1779#comment:3

I've tested, and this particular problem is fixed in Speak-14.

Doesn't help you with your "stick is ruined", but thought I'd let you
know.

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Ok, I haven't downloaded Speak-14 yet, but I have been able to
duplicate "stick ruined"

1. Open speak
2. Click robot
3. Type Cheshire question to Alice: "?"
4. Crash returns to home screen
5. Open speak again, thinks a long time, returns to home screen, no app opens.
6. Open speak *again*, thinks a long time, power off/on to reboot
7. Dead stick.

This is a Dell Latitude D600. A 1GB Sandisk Cruzer stick formated Fat32.

I'm guessing that there is some files being written at power-down and
the non-journaling filesystem loses it's inodes or whatever and takes
a long dump.

I'll try new software after work tonight if I can download just that one app.

Also, how do you get to the unix command-line? There *must* be a way
to do it, otherwise you will you ever teach the little kids how to be
real hackers??

A simple "du" might tell me what's going on underneath, though.

Thanks,

Brad

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:09 AM, James Cameron
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> Your question #103677 on Sugar on a Stick changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/soas/+question/103677
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> James Cameron proposed the following answer:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:58:32PM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:33:05AM -0000, mr brad wrote:
>> > Robot app crashes when ask null question (e.g. ">?"), [...]
>>
>> Thanks, I've sent that on to the developers, in a recent bug report:
>> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1779#comment:3
>
> I've tested, and this particular problem is fixed in Speak-14.
>
> Doesn't help you with your "stick is ruined", but thought I'd let you
> know.
>
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On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:48:21PM -0000, mr brad wrote:
> 7. Dead stick.

Could you describe what "Dead stick" means?

> Also, how do you get to the unix command-line?

Control/Alt/F1? Terminal activity?

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Dead stick is no longer bootable.

I finally got to the documentation, and found out about the risks of a small
stick, and the terminal activity, etc.

You can close this issue, sorry to waste any more of your time.

On Mar 11, 2010 7:39 PM, "James Cameron" <
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Your question #103677 on Sugar on a Stick changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/soas/+question/1036...
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James Cameron proposed the following answer:
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:48:21PM -0000, mr brad wrote:
> 7. Dead stick.

Could you describe what "Dead stick" means?

> Also, how do you get to the unix command-line?
Control/Alt/F1? Terminal activity?

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