On Oct 24, 2007, at 12:22 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On 10/24/07, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If it's Trial3, try this: >>> >>> umount /home/olpc/.Xauthority > > This seems to be related to machines which change their hostname or IP > address after first boot; I'm not sure exactly which. Everyone I > asked said that there's no way that the Xauthority file should care, > but it apparently does. It's not a security feature; it was a feature > designed to minimize flash rewrites by putting .Xauthority in a tmpfs, > and this particular line (in /etc/rwtab) has been in the builds for a > *long* time now (since the 500 series at least; I believe it was added > by J5).
I did check that the hostname on these machines, and they looked normal (i.e. last three digits of the MAC plus some text). I was greatly amiss in not mentioning that I have seen this in 581, but only on a single machine that had crashed hard many times, and reflashing fixed the problem. On the C2 machines, reflashing didn't help. > I'm not sure if we're seeing troubles with C2 machines because you're > doing "unusual" network operations on them, or if the problem is > actually in the xorg.conf (as Bernie suspects) or what. It happens on first (and subsequent) boots. We haven't touched the networking at that time. I hope it is the xorg.conf.... > As Bernie > said, we've got another approach the fixing the .Xauthority problem > for FRS (moving .Xauthority out of /home/olpc), but I can probably > remove /home/olpc/.Xauthority from /etc/rwtab for build -- er, 619 I > guess -- if that helps. We will get you more info in a couple of hours. Go Red Sox ! wad _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel