Rainbow interferes with launching of Browse

[mikus]

G1G1, recent Joyride. Frequently, when I launch Browse, its icon pulses on the Frame for many many seconds, then vanishes.

In these cases (I think I used Browse earlier in the same boot), the Browse log identifies the problem as: 'File exists'. I believe this behavior started when I installed rainbow 0.7.12-1.olpc2.

[mikus]

Browse log - Browse did not launch

[mstone]

Mikus,

Thanks for filing this ticket with the log attached. Viewing the log with 'less -R' shows that I made false assumptions about the initial conditions of the spool and therefore attempted to create a symlink without checking that it was safe to do so. I'll think for a little bit about the proper way to resolve the issue.

[mstone]

I've created a sample RPM at http://teach.laptop.org/~mstone/rainbow.rpm that I think might fix this problem. I hope to test it myself in the next couple of days; however, you're welcome to do so before then if you want. The difference from rainbow-0.7.12 is minor, but I believe it will suffice.

[erikos]

I tested in joyride were I saw this issue before and your fix looks good. I could restart browse another time without restarting rainbow.

Thanks for the fix

[mikus]

The "could not restart Browse" problem appears to have been fixed in rainbow 0.7.13-1.olpc2.

Thanks.