copy-to-journal dbus error

[skierpage]

I'm using Rawhide-XO 20090316 which contains "Sugar 0.84.0" (e.g. sugar-datastore-0.84.0-1.fc11.i586).

I had a .xol file on a USB flash drive that the Journal had not mounted. To copy it into the Journal, I tried

copy-to-journal -m application/vnd.olpc-content /mnt/temp_usb/Little-Brother-1.xol

but that resulted in

Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: No protocol specified
Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.

WARNING: root:DSObject was deleted without cleaning up first.  Call DSObject.destroy() before disposing it.

[skierpage]

D'oh, this happened when I ran it as root, I retried as the Sugar user "liveuser" and it completed (but then Sugar crashed and I returned to the login screen). So maybe the bug is just that error is confusing.

[homunq]

should copy-to-journal ensure it's not running as root?

[tomeu]

Yeah, I would say that the message error could be improved to say that the command should be run in the same environment as Sugar is running, which would be in a terminal activity without having sudoed.

[tomeu]

I like the idea but I would try to avoid moving all that code into a single try..except block.

[alsroot]

 http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-datastore/repos/mainline/commits/7148f1a664963cbfc991fdc67774d27ac6f30bca