Hi Ubuntu users. Before entering the technical detail, please let me tell you how sad I feel that nobody did bring these problems to the development team of GCompris. Unless it's clearly a packaging issue I see no reason why the development team of GCompris is not kept aware of problems found. That's a real problem for us, there are hundreds of GNU/Linux distributions and if every body discuss and implement workarounds in their distros, the developers don't have the necessary feedback to make a better software.
That said there are 2 main problems that may occur in the administration module of GCompris. First, we use sqlite to store the activities, users and so on in the file located there under your home dir: .gcompris/shared/profiles/gcompris_sqlite.db Sadly, sqlite doesn't work on NFS which means that if your HOMEs are on NFS, it won't work. The workaround is to run GC with the --database option or create a link from .gcompris/shared/profiles/gcompris_sqlite.db to a local file. To recreate the database if it's corrupted, you can erase it and start GC again or use the --create-db option. Another deep problem we have in the community is how and why we still run old version of software. Here you talk about GCompris 7.2 which is one year old. As a small development team, we don't know how to support so old code. And more important, since our users don't use the new version we make, we don't have feedback, neither on the feature or the bug reports. -- Gcompris administration menu not working https://launchpad.net/bugs/49840 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
