X is broken on 385 under qemu-ext3

[bemasc]

Under Gentoo, running the default install of qemu-softmmu-0.8.2, I find that build 385-ext3 does not load X properly. X loads until it shows the "X" cursor on a black background, then falls back to the text-mode login prompt. The text-mode console works, and I was able to scp Xorg.0.log to a remote server.

Previous builds have run flawlessly.

[bemasc]

/var/Xorg.0.log from inside the emulator.

[cjb]

Please also attach /home/olpc/.sugar/default/logs/shell.log, since it doesn't look like there's anything wrong with X here.

[bemasc]

There is no .sugar/ directory inside /home/olpc.

Presumably it has not yet been created because sugar has not yet started.

[jg]

You are going to have to do the heaving lifting on this one (unless it is easily reproducible on Fedora on Ubuntu), as we don't have gentoo laying around.

Marco, close this as won't fix if we can't reproduce it.

[rwh]

I have the same behavior under qemu in Windows XP. Seems to be related to the fact that there is no free space in the image and directories like ~/.sugar can not be created (where is that message supposed to go; I only saw it after restarting X from the command line). After removing 8MB from the library it boots fine.

[jg]

Apparently, there amount of file system space allocated for the Qemu images is too small; if you delete (some of) the library content, you will have a working system.

This is getting fixed by moving the library out of the base system images.

[holtzman]

I can confirm both the problem (X won't start due to insufficient free space) and the work-around (deleting some of the library. While removing the library from the base image will fix this, I would like to offer another thought -- since jffs2 is compressed, and ext3 is not, wouldn't it make sense to increase the size of the stock img filesystem?

[jg]

No, the right solution is, since the library will need to be customized on a per country/region/school district/school basis to get the library out of the software distribution. This is planned for b3.

[roozbeh]

Replying to jg:

(unless it is easily reproducible on Fedora on Ubuntu)

Easily reproducible here on FC6 with qemu-0.8.2-4.fc6.

[jg]

J5, have we squeezed the size a bit so this has gone away?

In any case, at most this should be a release note; please add the release note about too much space to the software release notes and mark this wontfix, because when we've extracted SJ's monster, there will be plenty of space.

[J5]

newer builds do not add the Library