Soas2-200903271806.iso won't boot on XO-1, /home/liveuser is owned by root

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I tried booting Soas2-200903271806.iso from USB on an XO-1 and it would not proceed to the Sugar desktop from the "login:" screen. I noticed /home/liveuser is drwx-r-xr-x owned by root. After

  # chown liveuser /home/liveuser
  # chgrp liveuser /home/liveuser

logging in as liveuser proceeded to the Sugar desktop.

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I have an XO-1 with OFW q2e33. I downloaded Soas2-200903271806.iso and ran latest LiveUSB-Creator 3.6.3 under Windows XP to put it and a 256 MB persistent storage area on a USB flash drive.

Insert the USB flash drive, power on XO-1, hold down check key.

• The hot dog is back!
• After a minute the screen goes dark.
• After another 90 seconds of dark screen I get the blue swirl Login: screen with "liveuser",
• Log in.
• After several seconds that goes to dark screen, and a few seconds later I'm back at the blue Login: screen. :-(

In a console, ~liveuser has no .sugar subdirectory, so it looks like
Sugar never got rolling.

The file "/var/log/slim.log" (attached) has various errors, starting with

/usr/bin/xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /home/liveuser/.Xauthority

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contents of /var/logs/slim.log

[sdz]

Fixed this in the most recent commit to the SoaS repo. I'll double-check if it works now either today or tomorrow.

Thanks for figuring this out! :)

[sdz]

This has been confirmed to be fixed in SoaS!