Re: [Server-devel] xs-activation-server over IPv6

2009-02-14 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/14 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Later. 0.5.2 or 0.6. If you need it in a formal release, let me know and I'll see about building a 0.5.2 That would be very useful if you could do that within the next week... also if you could include my xs-activity-server patches? We will

[Server-devel] [xs-activity-server] Support .xol library bundles

2009-02-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Generalize into a a bundle superclass and create a Content subclass for content bundles. --- src/xs_activities.py | 250 +- 1 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/xs_activities.py b/src/xs_activities.py index

Re: joyride, staging builds, sugar releases

2009-02-12 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/12 victor victor.lazzar...@nuim.ie: Sorry to insist on this, but I have not got it quite yet. Joyrides = obsolete (even though the builder script keeps churning them out and telling the olpc devel list). Obsolete, but not really obsoleted by anything usable *yet*. staging = what are

[Server-devel] consequences of re-registering with XS

2009-02-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, As I noted here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_wishlist#Delete_registration_info we are in a sticky situation where a load of XOs are registered to one XS, which no longer exists. We want to register them to a new one, and we are having to manually go to each laptop and modify the

Re: [Server-devel] xs-activation-server over IPv6

2009-02-12 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/8 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: So initially I am going with #1-- do you think you can tweak the initrd a bit more to poke at ef01 over mesh, and ef02 over abg? Looking at activate.py, adding it to the array in try_network()... Thanks, done! New patch at

Re: Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-02-06 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/6 S Page i...@skierpage.com: In Sugar control panel Language, Swedish (Sweden) was highlighted! Sure enough, in the bash shell, LANG is set to sv_SE.utf8. I'm pretty sure I never chose that, and other settings like Date Time were unchanged. Has anyone else noticed Language changing?

Re: Please update etoys in 8.2.1

2009-02-06 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/6 da...@lang.hm: sorry if I seem like a pest, and I definantly do appriciate the volunteers here, but what I am trying to understand here are the plans of the olpc orginiztion itself. it's one thing to transition the maintinance of the Sugar UI to an outside orginization, it's

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-02-06 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/6 Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com: I see. Something which is a SUBSTANTIAL improvement (being able to view .pdf files without fetching them to Journal and separately launching Read) will be available only to deployments which explicitly ask for it - and not to general 8.2.1 users. It's

Re: [Server-devel] Network addressing for activation-over-IBSS

2009-02-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/4 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Great -- I am not too conversant on the initrd code, probably makes sense to repost it to devel@ where cscott and mstone lurk... Yes, but I would prefer to sort out the networking first. The XS routing routes 172.18.16.xx the first active

[Server-devel] xs-activation-server over IPv6

2009-02-05 Thread Daniel Drake
I have got xs-activation-server working over IPv6. It is quite simple. Firstly, the server must bind to a hardcoded address on the LAN. This can be done with this command: ip addr add fe80::abcd:ef01/64 dev lanbond0 Secondly, /etc/xinetd.d/xsactivation should be replaced with the attached

Re: [Server-devel] xs-activation-server over IPv6

2009-02-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/5 Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:04 -0300, Daniel Drake wrote: I have got xs-activation-server working over IPv6. It is quite simple. Firstly, the server must bind to a hardcoded address on the LAN. This can be done with this command: ip addr add fe80

Re: [Server-devel] Network addressing for activation-over-IBSS

2009-02-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/5 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Sure can do, and there is a related change other people have asked for (free addresses for the APs themselves, so that the telnet or webbased config UIs can be used). Great. Can you pick a range so that I can make the assignment locally too?

Re: Which wikipage lists activities for 8.2.1 ('staging') ?

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/4 Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com: I'm confused as to which Activities are mated to 8.2.1. The subject came up before, when it was pointed out that wikipage Activities/G1G1 lists some newer activity versions than wikipage Activities/G1G1/8.2. Correct. G1G1 lists activities that have

Re: Life in an insecure world

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/4 John Watlington w...@laptop.org: I insist on b) in order to prevent inadvertent bricking of laptops by typing enable-security, Are you concerned that there is a realistic and common use case when a particular type of user would want or need to run enable-security? Or is your concern

Re: Life in an insecure world

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/4 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org: Yes, I was particularly thinking of you and your experience in Ethiopia and the difficulties you faced to re-secure the laptops. I prefer to think of it as: Is there a realistic and common use case for when a *deployment* would want or need to run

8.2.1 wireless testing results #2

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Comparing staging-25 against 8.2-767, I have 2 more APs to play with: 1. D-Link DWL-7100AP Open and WEP work fine. I also confirmed that connection is automatically reestablished on reboot. WPA(TKIP): 8.2.0 connects every time. 8.2.1 always fails to connect, bringing up the password request

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/31 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net: Probably best to upload somewhere and put a link here. http://www.megapathdsl.net/~hmurray/tmp/messages.11 It also contains the info from when I poked my icon and it worked. That starts at 08:49. I inserted a few blank lines at that point to

[Server-devel] Network addressing for activation-over-IBSS

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
which seems to be free of dhcp assignments. Thoughts? Daniel From: Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org diff --git a/src-olpc/activate.py b/src-olpc/activate.py index f21b30d..f9b27e7 100644 --- a/src-olpc/activate.py +++ b/src-olpc/activate.py @@ -6,10 +6,14 @@ from initutil import blk_mounted, SD_DEV

Re: Joyide on Fedora 11/rawhide

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/4 Chris Ball c...@laptop.org: Hi Jerry, I've been playing with booting fedora on the XO, mostly with anaconda (F9/F10) to be able to run an install on the XO itself for the XS. I'll try to boot the F11 kernel/installer when one is available, it looks like there are issues

Re: Touchpad problem

2009-02-02 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/2 Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com: Tks all, I will try the four finger salute! I might try 8.2.1, but I don't really have time for now, maybe soon. Either way, the real problem hasn't been identified, is that right? Since the solution seems to be running some kind of script, either

Re: some 8.2.1 questions

2009-02-02 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/2 Ties Stuij cjst...@gmail.com: mostly the first two I'd like answers to: - which major bugs relevant to Nepal, if any, that are not yet addressed by the staging builds are likely to be fixed by 8.2.1 in general. And if any: are they expected to be fixed in the next couple of days?

Re: Touchpad problem

2009-02-01 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/1 p...@laptop.org: i asked dan the same thing. the only true fix i know of in 8.2.1 keeps the touchpad from locking up entirely on occasion. this happens only rarely in earlier releases (and can be corrected by suspending/resuming the laptop). That's what I'm referring to. Details

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-31 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/30 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net: It created a new version of /home/olpc/.sugar/default/nm/networks.cfg which differs from the old one only in time stamps and in having the bssids field filled in. Sounds like a pretty critical difference. I would recommend not using wpa.sh, or at

Re: OLPC where to go development advice.

2009-01-31 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/31 Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com: [And if I stop Network manager, the XO manages to 'vanish' the *hardware* device to which I would be assigning my static-address communications interface.] A little OT, a hint for you: I think you need to learn about more about interface state. By

Re: OLPC where to go development advice.

2009-01-31 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/31 Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com: I do realize that 'ifconfig' only shows interfaces that are up -- and that it is 'ifconfig iface up ip-addr' that would be used to configure a static ip address (and bring iface up). The problem was that when I tried to assign a static address, the

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-31 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/31 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net: /var/log/messages is 63K. 644 lines, 328 from NetworkManager. Should I send it as email or put it someplace or ??? Probably best to upload somewhere and put a link here. Bear in mind that it is lost every reboot, so if you did not already take a

Re: Touchpad problem

2009-01-31 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/31 Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com: Almost already as I started using it, I noticed that sometimes the touchpad would be irresponsive. I may use it for hours without having a problem but, when it happens, it usually doesn't start working again soon. Which OS version are you using?

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Hal, I'm having trouble comprehending your mail 2009/1/30 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net: [Context is WAP connection not getting set via NetworkManager] I expected this to get fixed in build 24. I grabbed build 25 since that announcement came by before I started pulling things over.

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-30 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/30 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net: What is 1352? joyride-1352? Ticket 1352? Sorry, I didn't keep good notes. The real filename was very long so I renamed it to something reasonable, or at least it seemed reasonable at the time. It's joyride or whatever rather than a ticket. I

Re: Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-29 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/29 Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com: Remember - in addition to new function being tested, there ought to be regression testing (especially of vital things like wireless). I've been doing a lot of wireless testing with no problems. However, I only have one AP available to me. It would be

my 8.2.1 wireless testing results

2009-01-29 Thread Daniel Drake
I have tested 3 access points with staging-21 plus my fixed WEP kernel that got included in staging-24. I tested as many connectivity modes as I could and I repeated each connection 3 times. I also compared to 8.2.0. I detected and ignored occurances of bug #8104 by looking in /var/log/messages

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas snapshot

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/27 Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com: Any tips as to what to do with these 2 on an XO? The only thing I've done with .img and .crc before is copy-nand from firmware – is it possible to run them from a usb stick without wiping nand or effecting the existing nand install (so we can

Re: Moving joyride to rawhide

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/28 Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com: With the plans of releasing what is/was going to be 9.1.0 as based on Fedora 11 (rather than the original plans of Fedora 10) what is the plans on moving the joyride daily builds to pull in rawhide rather than Fedora 10? Is the plan for the 9.1.0

Re: [Server-devel] IP addressing of access points

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/28 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: The base range has a very large netblock. It is a /19 at 172.18.96. with 8K addresses for the LAN / AP network. How do we reserve the IP addreses? - All together? (do your APs like to be on top, or bottom?) - a few per /8? (can make

Re: Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/27 S Page i...@skierpage.com: `sudo olpc-update staging-9` gives I don't think the requested build number exists. I get the same for staging-11, I guess we have to use the full .img (or olpc-update --usb) for now: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/staging/build11/devel_jffs2/

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: WHERE are they supposed to look to determine whether a newer version of an Activity is available for their (e.g., 657) builds ? [Their builds are __older__ than 8.2.] Unfortunately, we do not have any page set up for this,

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: For the evince vs sugar-evince I suspect we need to try and get the mainline evince split out into evince and evince-libs so that we can build sugar-evince against it similar to what we do with abiword and

Re: status of forks

2009-01-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote: There's a discussion going on right now at FUDCon with gregdek and cjb running down the 20 or so forked packages and smoothing out how to merge them back in. So there should be helpful updates soon. Don't forget that we have

Re: March date realistic ?

2009-01-07 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: There's about 35 normal workdays between the end of XOCamp and the proposed date for factory-release. As a mere sampling of the distance that ought to be covered, I'm listing a dozen regressions (things that worked in 767

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-07 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: The software update facility assumes that a connection to the network is already available when it gets to run. If conditions are such that the network connection has *not* been set up when booting completes, should the

Re: March date realistic ?

2009-01-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Please use reply-to-all On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Please ensure there are tickets filed for all of these. All except the first 2 are news to me Yes, all but one have tickets. The one that doesn't is GUI for accessing removable storage content -- I

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Greg Smith gregsmitho...@gmail.com wrote: Your suggestion that we allow addition of RPMs and get those built into a signed image via pilgrim or puritan is certainly valuable and part of the requirement. However, it doesn't cover a few added things (language

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Greg Smith gregsmitho...@gmail.com wrote: Both have challenges. My preference is clone because I think its easier for the end user (create an XO the way you like it then click clone). However, we need to figure out the list of things that should not be cloned as

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:08 PM, p...@laptop.org wrote: ssh host keys are probably generated on first boot as well. with partitioning support, it should be possible to have a r.o. root overlaid by a unionfs writeable mount, so machine-specific changes don't modify the released partition.

Re: Cmap tools (with image customization cross over)

2008-12-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Greg Smith gregsmitho...@gmail.com wrote: Dan, Here's a good use case for the image customization feature. To install Cmap, I open the X activity, downloaded a zip, then unpacked it which created a bin file. I made that executable and ran it which launched an

Re: 2588 - Journal unusable

2008-12-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Journal entries do not show the object icon - so they cannot be launched from. This SEVERE error has now lasted through five Joyride builds. joyride builds are automatic. 5 builds is about 1 day. Please be a little

Re: Wireless activation improvements.

2008-12-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is definitely a must have/must fix item for 9.1.0. It is needed by Ethiopia and other deployments. It may be used in a warehouse where the XOs are prepared as opposed to in a school where we assume there is less ability

Re: [Testing] Activity Set for 9.1.0

2008-12-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of our deployments except one currently take the default image. Many change it (usually adding more than subtracting) after they get the XOs in country but they start with our factory image. Where can this image be found?

[PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop

2008-12-09 Thread Daniel Drake
This patch enables interrupts for DMA and command completion events, and uses them to determine when commands and transfers have completed. This avoids a busy-wait loop which was a waste of CPU time. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Where do we go with this? Who's adventurous

Re: [PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop

2008-12-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice! One quick test, for starters, is to do some file accesses to large files (dd or tar or whatever) and use the time command to look at the system and user times. With the patch, the system time should drop to a

rainbow preloading disabled in joyride (temporarily?)

2008-12-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, rainbow's python module preloading causes a lot of activity breakage in joyride (any activity based on gstreamer such as Record, Chat, etc). Some reasons are detailed here: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9035 I just released rainbow-0.7.27 which turns off preloading. It will be in the next

proposal for updating Activities/Joyride page

2008-12-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Joyride is out of date. Some activities, e.g. Record and Read, need new versions listed which are not backwards compatible with 8.2. The current listed versions are included because of Joyride including Activities/G1G1 which includes

Re: New joyride build 2577 [glyph truncation]

2008-12-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2577 Changes in build 2577 from build: 2575 Size delta: 0.00M -xorg-x11-server-Xorg 1.5.3-5.olpc4.1 +xorg-x11-server-Xorg 1.5.3-5.fc10

Re: New joyride build 2578

2008-12-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -pygobject2 2.15.4-3.fc10 +pygobject2 2.15.4-3.olpc4.1 --- Changes for pygobject2 2.15.4-3.olpc4.1 from 2.15.4-3.fc10 --- + Experimental; fix PySignal_SetWakeupFd() semantics to reduce wakeups Is there an upstream bug

Re: joyride 2578 does not boot on my XO

2008-12-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The error I get is: File /usr/bin/sugar-session, line 30, in module import gconf ImportError: could not import gobject: (error was '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/glib/_glib.so: undefined symbol:

Re: New joyride build 2570

2008-12-02 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this ready for people to start testing yet? Activity launching is broken, so I'd say this is still for developers (probably for another month at least). Daniel ___ Devel mailing list

Re: Touch pads

2008-11-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Ties Stuij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Berry wrote: Here at 1cc we still don't have many units that have chronic symptoms to test with. Oh really? I've seen trouble with almost any

Re: Module loading problem in joyride?

2008-11-24 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is CONFIG_JFFS2_RTIME option. Will re-enable it and and push to master. I agree that ideally we should just disable it but as per Daniel's experience this will break unless we change the mkfs.jffs2 option. Even if

Module loading problem in joyride?

2008-11-22 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Can anyone else reproduce this? modprobe asix under joyride fails. I tested 2550 and 2556. dmesg says: JFFS2 compression type 0x02 not available Error: jffs2_decompress returned -5 Module len 20480 truncated Thanks, Daniel ___ Devel mailing list

Re: joyride build fixes cont

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ntp-ntpdate package is now called just ntpdate. I've tagged the standard F-10 build package for olpc-4 in koji so if someone could update the build script for the new name it should be fixed. Ah, I was wondering

Re: joyride build fixes cont

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Dennis Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please untag it. it will be picked up through regular inheritance. by having it tagged any fedora updates will not get picked up automatically. Hmm, then perhaps I should undo what I did yesterday (tagged 3 packages in

Re: libertas firmware version query

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick query on the libertas-usb8388-firmware package. Is the firmware version dependent on the kernel version or anything else? The reason I ask is that the version in joyride is 2:5.110.22.p18-1.olpc2 from the old olpc2

Re: F-10 joyride vs 8.2 - getting fixes upstream.

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And you've managed to make it so that if anyone else writes an app using totem-pl-parser and expecting that the podcast bits will work will utterly fail. Last time around, I tested my patch with podcasts and they worked OK.

Re: F-10 joyride vs 8.2 - getting fixes upstream.

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've started looking through the various packages that have been pulled into joyride as part of the upgrade to Fedora-10 and reviewing packages to see what differs from upstream, 8.2 and various other olpcX packages. I'm

Re: F-10 joyride vs 8.2 - getting fixes upstream.

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inlined below but the problem we have at the moment with things pretty locked down in preparation for Fedora-10 final the changes and fixes we get in are being held in the updates queue (like the ones I fixed yesterday).

Re: F-10 joyride vs 8.2 - getting fixes upstream.

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also notice that the Size delta on the 8.2 vs joyride build is reporting 0meg difference which is clearly rubbish :-) Can someone fix it for me please. The URL I'm referring to is

Re: New joyride build 2544

2008-11-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another query, what is the reason in a number of packages to drop the gtk-docs option from some packages? I can't see the difference in files between packages, just wondering what the reasons are? You should be more

Re: Rebase joyride to Fedora 10

2008-11-12 Thread Daniel Drake
2008/11/12 Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Looks like Dennis has put pilgrim to build from F10, but we are now failing because our sugar-evince requires a libpoppler older than what is in F10. I think that Daniel Drake is working on this, but in the meantime, if we applied the attached patch

Re: NetworkManager-0.7

2008-11-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... joyride will break often over the ... next few months ... I appear to be having difficulties communicating with this list. When I ask for advice - it is sparse; when I don't ask - it is offered. I'm not sure of

Re: sugar 0.83 in joyride

2008-11-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: genesee writes: NetworkManager-0.7 and/or NetworkManager-glib killed my Neigborhood view. Same problem here. We're mid-way through the upgrade to sugar-0.83. And even when that's done, there will be mucho breakage (see

Re: [sugar] sugar 0.83 in joyride

2008-11-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon, The patch looks fine to me but I'm headed off to UY, so it would probably be best if someone else did the packaging. Done, and updated bug #8850 for when you get back. Daniel

Re: ship Gnash 0.8.4 RC1 in OLPC 8.2.0?

2008-10-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10/12/08, Carlos Nazareno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey OLPC team. No, really, is there any chance OLPC can ship Gnash 0.8.4 with XO OS final 8.2.0? Very doubtful.. this Gnash release is several weeks too late to meet 8.2.0. We froze things quite a while ago. My suggestion would be to find

Re: ship Gnash 0.8.4 RC1 in OLPC 8.2.0?

2008-10-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You really do not get it do you!! The basic functionality should be provided by OLPC with a build of gnash optimized for the Geode. I'm glad to hear that 0.8.4 will result in a significantly better experience for XO

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 00:10 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: - whether we can get Browse to behave intelligently when it receives BadAlloc errors from X? I have no doubt that Browse/xulrunner has room for improvement with memory usage but this is not where you should be looking. These

#6930 shipped activities need to be audited for licensing information

2008-09-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Does anyone have advice on how to deal with this blocking ticket? Some questions I would have: - which activities do we ship? - do we *require* or just encourage that such activities add COPYING files before 8.2 is released? - where do we document the procedure for new activities to ensure

Re: X11 performance in Joyride 2373 vs 712

2008-09-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 04:16 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hi all, I noticed a few messages on the list about possible X11 performance issues, and I ran a small tool called gtkperf on update.1 and joyride: here are the results joyride-2385 includes a new X server which made a very noticable

Re: browse and x11 performance

2008-09-03 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 11:30 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a bug open on this issue? i reverted a machine to joyride 2212, which, as indicated in #7787, was before pygame.mixer was lost, and then brought back. bounce works fine in that build -- performance and audio are very

Re: [PROPOSAL] Change PILGRIM_LOCALES_* to better reflect the current situation

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:04 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: b) To reflect the current and near future deployments (including G1G1 2008) and the level of translations that we have in Pootle, the variables get changed to

Re: Ext3 images from recent 8.2 builds do not boot in qemu.

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 11:58 -0500, Erik Garrison wrote: I am working with the construction of a Qemu ext3 image. On Qemu boot I get the following error: Checking filesystems fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=OLPCRoot'[FAILED] Have you tried setting the label of the filesystem in the

Re: qemu: generating ext3 images including activities

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I am stuck because I do not know how to write grub to an image file. Here is what happens when I try to write the bootloader [3] on a loopback (produced via losetup /dev/loop0 os.img). Any ideas? Someone out

reverting to ancient gstreamer, good time to implement change control?

2008-08-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I've spent too many hours on Record and there are still outstanding blockers. I'm pretty stumped on one of them: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7452 http://marc.info/?l=gstreamer-develm=121848539729018w=2 And haven't even started looking at the others: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7887

wireless 'lights went out' issue

2008-08-15 Thread Daniel Drake
I have one of Greg's laptops here, running joyride-2263. According to /var/log/messages it has not suspended at all this session. libertas reported a lot of unknown event ids, then commands timed out, then the kernel reset it via EC. The USB device disconnected, came back a few seconds later, and

Re: jackd on OLPC?

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 16:54 +0100, victor wrote: Noting a couple of lines for jackuser group in limits.conf made me search around and I found that libjack jackd are present in the laptop system. Can't comment on future plans, but I can explain the present: portaudio is pulled in through

Re: First impressions of joyride-2280

2008-08-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 09:17 -0400, Ton van Overbeek wrote: I might have spoken too soon. Yesterday the touchpad jumping was back in joyride-2280. In my initial run of joyride-2280 the battery was full and the XO was connected to the mains power. This time I was on the battery and the

mesh point portal?

2008-08-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, just curious: While watching NetworkManager logs, I plugged in a usb-ethernet adapter and noted how that NetworkManager logged a message along the lines of it making the ethernet connection available on a mesh channel through msh0 (MPP mode). Does this functionality work? Daniel

Re: Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2263!

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 22:59 +1000, James Cameron wrote: 2263 hung on a B4 and MP several times while I was testing this evening, the mouse would not move, keyboard did nothing, the display would be static, and no ping response. Things that I did that could induce it: - running a pygame

Re: Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2263!

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 15:45 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: Speak cannot be started (the icon blinks for a long time and then the application stops starting). Please file a ticket. What started with 2263 is that when the system wakes the display acts strangely. What I see is similar when there is a

Re: comments on late joyrides re: rt performance

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:10 -0400, Ton van Overbeek wrote: Here an other observation which might have something to do with this. In joyride-2266 (booted from SD card) I noticed that there is a lot of logging of the traffic to the EC. Just do dmesg and you see a burst of about 18 olpc-ec:

Re: Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:16 -0400, jean piche wrote: TamTamJam v50 TamTamEdit v49 TamTamSynthLab v50 TamTamMin v48 I dont know why we even bother making new bundles with bug fixes that never get included into the builds. I mean the TamTam you are using is like 8 months old...

Re: Test results on Joyride 2230?

2008-08-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 04:01 -0700, S Page wrote: Question: what should we put in Trac's Version field? There's no joyride-2230 and it isn't Development build as of this date. Is joyride still considered olpc-3 ? Yeah, we use the olpc-3 dist tags for our Fedora stuff so that seems

Re: Test results on Joyride 2230?

2008-08-05 Thread Daniel Drake
Ton, On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 08:43 -0400, Ton van Overbeek wrote: Installed it on both USB and SD card. USB boot still does not work. See trac #7620 SD boot is OK. Raised several trac tickets on 2230: Thanks so much for the extensive testing and feedback! This is exactly what we need - issues

Re: Test results on Joyride 2230?

2008-08-05 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 14:03 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: I have downloaded it even before it was selected as a weekly stuff. Record-54 crashes the build (the machine freezes). I did not create a TRAC entry since my last TRAC entry did not receive any attention so I just did not care (actually I do

Re: Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-05 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:16 -0400, jean piche wrote: I dont know why we even bother making new bundles with bug fixes that never get included into the builds. I mean the TamTam you are using is like 8 months old... Many thanks for producing the releases. Sorry for my slow response. I am

Re: Test results on Joyride 2230?

2008-08-05 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 23:07 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: Okay, it is a question I have been wanting to ask for a very long time. Is it better to spam the TRAC with crashes or similar malfunctions about alpha quality releases (like latest joyrides), or just be silent since it happens occasionally

Re: specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-30 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 07:02 -0400, Greg Smith wrote: Michael and team, Can we get documentation of all API changes (since 708 and 656) that affect activities ASAP? Are you talking about sugar APIs, or APIs for other library components present on the system which some activities may use?

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-30 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 17:09 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Please ensure that you have filed tickets for each and every one of them What good will that do? We track issues through trac. Doing it through email is harder when you have a lot of email and a lot of issues. Filing a ticket

Re: New joyride build 2222

2008-07-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 19:42 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Anyone whose activities use Numerical arrays in Python should check that they still work in +. If anything is broken, I'll be happy to help fix it. The only Activity I am sure needs to be checked is Measure. I can confirm

Re: TuxPaint woes

2008-07-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 20:56 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: There are people like me who like TuxPaint better than Oficina. However, to run TuxPaint, users of current Joyride need to re-install SDL_mixer and libmikmod. What are the errors that you encounter? Do you know libmikmod is needed?

Re: [sugar] Random observations with joyride-2225 and latest activities

2008-07-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 09:32 +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: a) Record: using v56 the activity starts up fine, the display shows whatever the camera is capturing, I can go into fullscreen-mode, switch to different tabs, etc. However once I press the capture-button the whole thing basically

Re: New joyride build 2222

2008-07-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 14:51 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: See the discussion about PAM last week on this list. We decided not to fork but instead just to replace big dictionaries with small/empty ones. The size increase suggests that maybe my pilgrim hack to zap the big dictionaries did not work

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