automating lists of events, jams, etc.
Seth Woodworth wrote: I've migrated as many of the dates from the [[Events]] Page to the [[Xo roadshow]] wiki page. ... People should annotate wiki pages for events, jams, meetings, etc. with [[start date::2008-08-22]]. Pages can query this instead of users manually updating lists every few weeks. For example, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Events#Upcoming_events_on_wiki.laptop.org This already found a jam missing from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Jams#Upcoming_Jams It's fairly straightforward, for example replace The Physics Game Jam will be held August 29th-31st 2008 with The Physics Game Jam will be held [[Start date::August 29, 2008]]-[[End date::August 31, 2008]] -- =S Page user:skierpage Nifty, but does it put a laptop in a child's hands? ;-) === More details... === Every event page is different, so I didn't create Form:Event and Template:Event; instead you annotate the existing date on the page. An annotation is much like a page link, so you can provide alternate text or hide it, e.g. [[Start date::2008-08-29 | around the end of August]] [[End date::2008-08-31| ]] (nothing shows) Date properties recognize most date formats in English, and you can include a time and maybe a time zone. Note the *only* world-wide language-independent unambiguous date format is ISO8601: 2008-08-29 21:30 I doubt it's worth annotating events in the past with this info. MediaWiki caches the queries, which helps performance but means changed pages don't immediately appear in the results display. You can also display query results as a timeline (like http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments), or as rss, vCard, etc. See http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Inline_queries#Result_formats This can only show info from pages in the wiki. But many events are on external web pages. You could create a wiki page for each external event and give it start_date and end_date to make it show up in queries. I did this for http://wiki.laptop.org/go/BookSprint_August_2008. You could go nuts adding the extra local info on the Events page like has_attendees, piques_interest_of, requests_OLPC_support_in_the_form_of, etc. and query for this to make an Event planner table. But it's probably more work than maintaining one Events page. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [sugar] is there something that eats develop.sig ?
3) What started my muddle was that OFW did not *recognize* the USB stick (until much later, once the system was rebuilt, when I tried unplugging the external keyboard from the XO). OFW would not boot the customization stick - it jingled and let me invoke the 'ok' prompt (where commands I entered told me there was no u: device). The u: devalias only applies to USB 2.0 mass storage devices. disk: applies to either USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 mass storage devices, whichever is present. USB keyboards are almost always USB 1.1 devices. I wonder if your USB stick is a USB 1.1 device, or perhaps it is plugged into a USB 1.1 hub, or perhaps the presence of the keyboard is causing the stick to be detected in USB 1.1 mode. I don't have a fully-formed explanation for your problems, but those are my preliminary thoughts. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: updating OLPC_{Region} pages, with a payoff
I definitely like the idea of a G1G1 deployment page.SJ
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:48 PM, S Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Summary: people who know about deployments, please update the pages in
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Deployments
(Is there's a better e-mail list for deployments?)
I added deployment data and a timeline of deliveries to Gregs's status
in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments . It's interesting and
motivating IMO.
It queries deployment pages (using Francesca/femslade's work) for the
info. So if you know more about a deployment, please update its
OLPC_{Region} page using its [edit] or [edit with form] tab, or you can
privately e-mail me the info and I'll do it.
Should there be an OLPC_G1G1 page for the G1G1 deployment?
Cheers,
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Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried using ps_mem.py to compare memory used by processes, but the method that ps_mem.py uses has changed as a result of kernel change. http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2008-08-22-ps-mem/ has the samples that I took, showing how they are difficult to compare. Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've seen it in another bug report already). I can't reproduce on a clean 2328 joyride, not sure if it has been fixed or something weird is going on. Marco ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Workaround for the sound lockup?
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's fixed in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e14. Thanks for the hint! Shame that I didn't know earlier... m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've 703 and 2311 available to compare. Here's a few things I found. -- A test to compare available memory by eliminating buffer cache. Method: boot, wait for UI to be stable, switch to text console, echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, run free(1) and note the free column, repeat a few times. Result: build 703 has 123528 pages free, build 2311 has 93716 pages free. Which row are you looking at here? In -/+ buffers/cache I get 130368. This is joyride-2328. ps_mem gives me your same output, except for cerebro. Marco ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried using ps_mem.py to compare memory used by processes, but the method that ps_mem.py uses has changed as a result of kernel change. http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2008-08-22-ps-mem/ has the samples that I took, showing how they are difficult to compare. How they are difficult to compare? Btw it's a shame that the python processes are grouped all together. I wonder if we can fix ps_mem to show them separately, with the full command. Marco ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:36:17AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: Which row are you looking at here? In -/+ buffers/cache I get 130368. This is joyride-2328. That test was using the free value on the first line, which matches MemFree in /proc/meminfo. I chose that because I knew that after the cache drop the only cache remaining was needed by the processes that were active. Looking at -/+ buffers/cache for this test would not have been useful, since the cached pages are effectively unreleasable despite any memory demand. I did look at the values, but there was no point reporting them. The value you report seems normal. ps_mem gives me your same output, except for cerebro. I've no idea why cerebro chose to run. Under what conditions is it run? -- James Cameronmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:01:07PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried using ps_mem.py to compare memory used by processes, but the method that ps_mem.py uses has changed as a result of kernel change. http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2008-08-22-ps-mem/ has the samples that I took, showing how they are difficult to compare. How they are difficult to compare? They are difficult to compare *because* of the different method by which ps_mem accounts for shared memory. Every process was changed in some way, but when you realise that the cause included a different accounting method, you see how difficult they are to compare. Take for instance the cat process, which should not have changed unduly from 703 to 2311. In the ps_mem of 703 the RAM used estimate is 464 KiB, but in 2311 it is 100 KiB. While it looks great, it doesn't match other evidence. The change is mainly due to the different accounting for shared memory. The private memory changed from 72 KiB in build 703 to 76 KiB in build 2311. Btw it's a shame that the python processes are grouped all together. I wonder if we can fix ps_mem to show them separately, with the full command. I agree. -- James Cameronmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've seen it in another bug report already). I can't reproduce on a clean 2328 joyride, not sure if it has been fixed or something weird is going on. Cerebro is enabled in joyride builds, started from /etc/init.d; it should be disabled in 8.2 builds at the moment. How much memory usage is cerebro responsible for? --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Workaround for the sound lockup?
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's fixed in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e14. Thanks for the hint! Shame that I didn't know earlier... Incidentally, the workaround was to turn up the volume in OFW. The sound lockups were only seen on machines that had the startup chime muted. (If OFW didn't make noise, it wasn't bothering to initialize the sound hardware properly.) --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've seen it in another bug report already). I can't reproduce on a clean 2328 joyride, not sure if it has been fixed or something weird is going on. Cerebro is enabled in joyride builds, started from /etc/init.d; it should be disabled in 8.2 builds at the moment. How much memory usage is cerebro responsible for? 6.5 Mib according to ps_mem You are right, it's enabled in joyride... it's failing for me because it can't find msh0 (not sure why). Marco ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
New joyride build 2330
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2330 Changes in build 2330 from build: 2325 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar 0.82.0-1.fc9 +sugar 0.82.0-2.20080822git454def195d.fc9 -sugar-toolkit 0.82.1-1.fc9 +sugar-toolkit 0.82.1-2.20080822git2e6be9ea55.fc9 --- Changes for sugar 0.82.0-2.20080822git454def195d.fc9 from 0.82.0-1.fc9 --- + Fix #6605 #7877 #7965 #7220 #7874 #7971 #7970 #7764 #7823 #7841 --- Changes for sugar-toolkit 0.82.1-2.20080822git2e6be9ea55.fc9 from 0.82.1-1.fc9 --- + #7270 Add update functionality to Config in bundlebuilder + #7680 Widen activity tile entry + #7841 Wrap message in alert + #7881 Make Palette handle changes of the invoker widget -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html for aggregate logs See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride_vs_update1.html for a comparison ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
New release8.2 build 756
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/xo-1/streams/8.2/build756 Changes in build 756 from build: 755 Size delta: 0.00M -libX11 1.1.4-2.olpc3 +libX11 1.1.4-3.olpc3 -sugar 0.82.0-1.fc9 +sugar 0.82.0-2.20080822git454def195d.fc9 -sugar-toolkit 0.82.1-1.fc9 +sugar-toolkit 0.82.1-2.20080822git2e6be9ea55.fc9 -xkeyboard-config 1.3-2.olpc3 +xkeyboard-config 1.3-3.olpc3 --- Changes for libX11 1.1.4-3.olpc3 from 1.1.4-2.olpc3 --- + More fixes to the Amharic Compose table (The US English keyboard works) --- Changes for sugar 0.82.0-2.20080822git454def195d.fc9 from 0.82.0-1.fc9 --- + Fix #6605 #7877 #7965 #7220 #7874 #7971 #7970 #7764 #7823 #7841 --- Changes for sugar-toolkit 0.82.1-2.20080822git2e6be9ea55.fc9 from 0.82.1-1.fc9 --- + #7270 Add update functionality to Config in bundlebuilder + #7680 Widen activity tile entry + #7841 Wrap message in alert + #7881 Make Palette handle changes of the invoker widget --- Changes for xkeyboard-config 1.3-3.olpc3 from 1.3-2.olpc3 --- + Fixes to the Amharic symbol file (#7474) -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/release8.2-pkgs.html for aggregate logs See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride_vs_update1.html for a comparison ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've seen it in another bug report already). I can't reproduce on a clean 2328 joyride, not sure if it has been fixed or something weird is going on. Cerebro is enabled in joyride builds, started from /etc/init.d; it should be disabled in 8.2 builds at the moment. How much memory usage is cerebro responsible for? 6.5 Mib according to ps_mem You are right, it's enabled in joyride... it's failing for me because it can't find msh0 (not sure why). Marco ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel Same for me. Joyride 2325 has cerebro enabled, but it aborts because device msh0 cannot be found. This also hangs up the shutdown when trying to kill cerebro. So somehow cerebro is enabled in 2325. Also idle suspend is enabled again in 2325, while it should be off. The msh0 disappearing might have something to do with the new libertas firmware. I also have much more problems with wireless connections. Will do some more testing. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))
ton van overbeek wrote: Also idle suspend is enabled again in 2325, while it should be off. i think this was intentional. now that we're building separate release (Subject: New release8.2 build 7nn) and joyride streams, idle suspend was re-enabled in joyride in order to help continue flushing out suspend-related bugs. paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?
Noticed that idle suspend was enabled again in recent joyrides. pgf replied that this was intentional since we now have a revived 8.2 build stream. But I have not seen any announcement yet on branching/freezing etc. What is the status and which builds should we be testing for the 8.2 release? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Media Lab: Fwd: [outages] Major file system outages and ML upgrade next week
There may be some disruption of services at 1cc this week due to the announced MIT Media Lab upgrades. At the moment we have no DHCP services at 1cc. --HH. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:22 PM Subject: [outages] Major file system outages and ML upgrade next week To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, In addition to the outages this weekend (while we rearrange our machine room), we will also be upgrading our central file server file.media.mit.edu (and its sidekick dell3.media.mit.edu) next week. While this service interruption will be less major in scope than the ones this weekend, it will still affect many systems here at the Lab. It also needs to be done during a weekday so that we can have the expert, on-site assistance of the file system software vendor. The outage will happen either next Thursday, August 28, or possibly next Wednesday, August 27 (it depends on the availability of the file system expert). Plan for Thursday and we'll let you know as soon as possible if it becomes Wednesday. During the outage everyone's central Unix home directories, and machines such as hub.media.mit.edu, ml.media.mit.edu, and file.media.mit.edu (including any file shares they serve like machub and winhub), will be unavailable. People's personal Web sites served by web.media.mit.edu will also be unavailable. The outage will start in the late afternoon around 3pm or so and will continue all night. Everything should be back online before the next morning. Email and general network access will be unaffected. There is a much less used file server, dell3.media.mit.edu, which will go offline the day *before* the file.media.mit.edu outage. This should only affect a small number of people who use this server to mount the /mas tree under special circumstances in order to work around compatibility problems with using file.media.mit.edu directly. This is mainly Mac OS X people who have configured the automounter to provide access to the /mas tree (and they should know who they are). Also during this time we will be taking the opportunity to upgrade ml.media.mit.edu. This will involve a significant upgrade to ml's hardware and operating system. Currently, ml.media.mit.edu is an AlphsServer DS20 running Tru64 UNIX v4.0G. It will be replaced by a Dell PowerEdge running Linux. Email, ssh, and ftp services will work as they do now, and the upgrade brings with it newer versions of many utilities and packages. However, in the event you have compiled some Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX) binaries for use on ml, they, of course, will no longer work. Our apologies for any inconvenience as we try to fit in all these infrastructure upgrades before the start of the semester. Please alert us to any problems this may cause so we can work out solutions as quickly as possible. Cheers, NeCSys If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Write cannot handle Composed dead characters
Hello, It looks like Write is unable to handle Composed dead characters, at least for the Amharic keyboard. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8127 Things are more complicated by the fact that the right click menu in Write has been disabled, so I have no way of knowing which GTK input module is active with Write. Any ideas - is this a known problem with Write ? Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Write cannot handle Composed dead characters
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:45:11PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello, It looks like Write is unable to handle Composed dead characters, at least for the Amharic keyboard. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8127 Things are more complicated by the fact that the right click menu in Write has been disabled, so I have no way of knowing which GTK input module is active with Write. Any ideas - is this a known problem with Write ? May be you need to set GTK_IM_MODULE environment variable? -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Write cannot handle Composed dead characters
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Khaled Hosny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:45:11PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello, It looks like Write is unable to handle Composed dead characters, at least for the Amharic keyboard. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8127 Things are more complicated by the fact that the right click menu in Write has been disabled, so I have no way of knowing which GTK input module is active with Write. Any ideas - is this a known problem with Write ? May be you need to set GTK_IM_MODULE environment variable? We are already setting this in olpc-session. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: 6.5 Mib according to ps_mem You are right, it's enabled in joyride... it's failing for me because it can't find msh0 (not sure why). Marco I filed #8128 to address the memory usage that seems excessive. I have also disabled cerebro from start-up while this is being investigated and the issue with blocking shutdown process (#8108). Should be picked up at the next version of joyride. p. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
New joyride build 2331
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2331 Changes in build 2331 from build: 2330 Size delta: 0.00M -cerebro 2.9.12-1.olpc3 +cerebro 2.9.13-1.olpc3 --- Changes for cerebro 2.9.13-1.olpc3 from 2.9.12-1.olpc3 --- + 2.9.13: Disabled Cerebro on default start-up while working on #8128, #8108 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html for aggregate logs See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride_vs_update1.html for a comparison ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Noticed that idle suspend was enabled again in recent joyrides. pgf replied that this was intentional since we now have a revived 8.2 build stream. But I have not seen any announcement yet on branching/freezing etc. What is the status and which builds should we be testing for the 8.2 release? Michael and I have been working on creating an acceptable 8.2 test candidate. There have been 8.2-753, 8.2-754, 8.2-755, and 8.2-756 builds, but none of them have (so far) made it through initial QA here at 1cc. In particular, we tried to turn of X shared memory in the 8.2 stream to work around some of the known X corruption problems in Browse, Etoys, etc, but this turned out to cause more problems than it solved. In 755 and 756 we reverted that and turned off EXA instead. With koji out, we also had difficulty making a build which contained the latest work from the sugar guys. Build 8.2-756 is the first to contain recent sugar work. I believe the sugar snapshot made Friday inadvertently left out several important sugar bug fixes. I think the plan is for another sugar snapshot Wednesday-ish -- but 8.2-756 is our best stable candidate so far. Michael (the release manager) will presumably announce it as such after we do our usual local QA to ensure it really is a reasonable candidate for test -- if he doesn't, it's because we've found some other major issue we want to fix before we let a release candidate loose on the world. =) [We'd like to get gstreamer and Record reverted to their 8.1 state to fix some video issues; that hasn't been done yet. Not sure if that will delay our first RC.] We will freeze once we have an acceptable release candidate. Again, with the koji outage a number of people have been scrambling to get their local fixes in, and it has been expedient just to continue synchronizing with joyride to pull in everyone's latest work. But the 8.2 stream has already diverged in some important areas: as noted in a previous email, cerebro and idle suspend are disabled, and at the moment X EXA acceleration is disabled as well. The sugar team has already forked from their 0.82 release for the stable stream. So we're getting darn close. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Fwd: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?
Forgot to include devel@ and mstone in my reply to Scott -- Forwarded message -- From: Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:45 PM Subject: Re: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now? To: C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many thanks for the clarification. Now I (and I hope many others) have a good idea where things stand w.r.t. 8.2 release and the 8.2 and joyride build streams. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?
Am 24.08.2008 um 00:04 schrieb C. Scott Ananian: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Noticed that idle suspend was enabled again in recent joyrides. pgf replied that this was intentional since we now have a revived 8.2 build stream. But I have not seen any announcement yet on branching/freezing etc. What is the status and which builds should we be testing for the 8.2 release? Michael and I have been working on creating an acceptable 8.2 test candidate. There have been 8.2-753, 8.2-754, 8.2-755, and 8.2-756 builds, but none of them have (so far) made it through initial QA here at 1cc. In particular, we tried to turn of X shared memory in the 8.2 stream to work around some of the known X corruption problems in Browse, Etoys, etc, but this turned out to cause more problems than it solved. In 755 and 756 we reverted that and turned off EXA instead. The Etoys display corruption was solved in 754 but reportedly is back in 756: https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8008 - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Write cannot handle Composed dead characters
Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Khaled Hosny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:45:11PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello, It looks like Write is unable to handle Composed dead characters, at least for the Amharic keyboard. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8127 Things are more complicated by the fact that the right click menu in Write has been disabled, so I have no way of knowing which GTK input module is active with Write. Any ideas - is this a known problem with Write ? May be you need to set GTK_IM_MODULE environment variable? We are already setting this in olpc-session. Not sure if it actually matters here but... gtk is preloaded by rainbow, which is run as a system daemon and hence doesn't get the same environment of olpc-dm runned processes. If gtk does something with GTK_IM_MODULE in gtk_init(), we are probably in troubles. Easy way to verify is to disable rainbow by removing /etc/security. Marco ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
where is msh0 ?
Joyride: 2331 firmware: Q2E14 machine: B4 I don't see mshX in my interfaces. Is this a known issue? Didn't find anything similar in the archives, sorry if I 'm repeating it. Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?
C. Scott Ananian wrote: Michael and I have been working on creating an acceptable 8.2 test candidate. There have been 8.2-753, 8.2-754, 8.2-755, and 8.2-756 builds, but none of them have (so far) made it through initial QA here at 1cc. In particular, we tried to turn of X shared memory in the 8.2 stream to work around some of the known X corruption problems in Browse, Etoys, etc, but this turned out to cause more problems than it solved. In 755 and 756 we reverted that and turned off EXA instead. With koji out, we also had difficulty making a build which contained the latest work from the sugar guys. Build 8.2-756 is the first to contain recent sugar work. You are missing this one: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=59761 I believe the sugar snapshot made Friday inadvertently left out several important sugar bug fixes. I think the plan is for another sugar snapshot Wednesday-ish -- but 8.2-756 is our best stable candidate so far. Just a couple really. But yeah, we will do snapshots on Wed. Thanks, Marco ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: where is msh0 ?
On 24 Aug 2008, at 00:31, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: Joyride: 2331 firmware: Q2E14 machine: B4 I don't see mshX in my interfaces. Is this a known issue? Didn't find anything similar in the archives, sorry if I 'm repeating it. Same here on joyride-2330, Q2E14, B4, ifconfig just shows eth0 and lo, sure it was there last time I was poking about a week or two ago. --Gary ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: olpc school request
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Jerry and Amy Higdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks so much. When I search for OLPC I find many such references are made about buying for those really in need like Bangladesh... How can I find out if there is a program of sort for Bangladesh going right now or not? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments There isn't one. Jerry John 3:30 He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less. - Original Message From: Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jerry and Amy Higdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:17:58 AM Subject: Re: olpc school request 2008/8/21 Jerry and Amy Higdon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greetings, I am a missionary who is inquiring upon olpc for a couple small schools in Bangladesh. I also work as a technology management professional for the past 25 years and have a heart for children. Who might I contact to find out if these schools could qualify for the program. Your question seems to be whether OLPC would accept an application to donate XOs to your schools. That is not how the program works. There are three ways to get XOs into a country. * Have the government buy a large number of units. This is what Peru and Paraguay (Uruguay) have done. * Have an NGO or private donor buy laptops through GiveMany. This is the case in Mexico, where billionaire Carlos Slim has made the first major purchase. * Get into the GiveOneGetOne program. I have no idea how G1G1 countries are selected. The current list is Haiti, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. Other processes should become available over time, but not yet. Whom might you approach for donations? How many children do you have? What are the local issues? (Economic, health, agriculture, environment, or whatever.) When your children get educated, what economic opportunities will they be able to take advantage of? Thank you for your help. Pastor Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.NewHopeQC.com John 3:30 He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less. -- Silent Thunder [ 默雷 / शब्दगर्ज ] is my name, And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, And Truth my destination. -- Silent Thunder [ 默雷 / शब्दगर्ज ] is my name, And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, And Truth my destination. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... but 8.2-756 is our best stable
candidate so far. Michael (the release manager) will presumably
announce it as such after we do our usual local QA ...
Unfortunately 756 appears to have screwed up some sort of definition
for yum, resulting in 'yum install' failing for me with a
RPM_GPG_KEY error. {The keyfiles in the directory it is looking in
appear unchanged from other builds, but 756 wants a keyfile ending
in '-i386'.) In 754 and 2330, 'yum install' worked for me.
The result is that for my home setup/work, 756 is unusable. (I need
to download additional rpms.) Guess I will have to wait until next
wednesday to get back to using an up-to-date build from 8.2 stream.
Please file a trac bug to ensure we don't forget this one. My guess
is that the upstream yum packages ought to include updated fedora
keys, and that we're not actually pulling those updated packages yet.
--scott
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Re: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:04 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael and I have been working on creating an acceptable 8.2 test candidate. There have been 8.2-753, 8.2-754, 8.2-755, and 8.2-756 builds, but none of them have (so far) made it through initial QA here at 1cc. Between the X problems and the sound hard freeze the test efforts of the Wellington volunteer crowd yesterday were a not particularly productive :-/ Sadly, I had been so busy with the XS that I'd been out of touch with the state of XO builds. Ah, well... with the Fedora infra back online and all eyes on the 8.2 branch I sure hope there's a good candidate for next Saturday. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Help test OLPC_XS_169 - RC1 for xs-0.4
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 05:33:21PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: YES. I nowrealise that I forgot this bit of instructions (I think I included in an earlier set). It goes like this: - if you are upgrading, you *must* re-run domain_config yourbasedomain OK, fair enough. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# find /etc -type l -lname '*fsroot*' /etc/squid/squid.conf.old [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# find /etc -type f -name '*rpmnew' (nothing) ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Help test OLPC_XS_169 - RC1 for xs-0.4
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 05:33:21PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: YES. I nowrealise that I forgot this bit of instructions (I think I included in an earlier set). It goes like this: - if you are upgrading, you *must* re-run domain_config yourbasedomain OK, fair enough. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# find /etc -type l -lname '*fsroot*' /etc/squid/squid.conf.old [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# find /etc -type f -name '*rpmnew' (nothing) That sounds like good news! hmmm! m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
