Re: OFW sad face doesn't say why

2008-07-21 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jul 19, 2008, at 9:36 PM, John Gilmore wrote: But a certain former security wizard at OLPC removed that recommendation from the Wiki page, thus leading to your current troubles. This is untrue; please support your claims with diffs. As per:

joyride builds failing due to insufficient space

2008-07-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, sugar - 0.81.6-4.20080715git8137d5c37f.fc9.i386: Insufficient space in download directory /home/cscott/public_html/xo-1/streams/joyride/build2187-20080720_2235/devel_jffs2/install_root/var/cache/yum/olpc_development/packages to download Regards, Tomeu

Re: PlayGo Patches/Commit access

2008-07-21 Thread Bastien
Hi Andrés! I'm also a Go player and I'd really love to see this activity improve. Is it already possible to share this activity so that children can play together from two different XOs? I was unable to get this working when I last tried. If this is not possible yet, I think this should be a

Re: OFW sad face doesn't say why

2008-07-21 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 21.07.2008 11:53, Ivan Krstić wrote: On Jul 19, 2008, at 9:36 PM, John Gilmore wrote: But a certain former security wizard at OLPC removed that recommendation from the Wiki page, thus leading to your current troubles. This is untrue; please support your claims with diffs. As

Re: OFW sad face doesn't say why

2008-07-21 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jul 21, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Sorry, but that's untrue, unless your definition of nothing else is political stuff. My definition of nothing else is nothing else relevant to the claim the poster was making. John was quite aware of the changes to the political

Report on `switching between activities and the journal'

2008-07-21 Thread riccardo
Hi, Problem: switching between activities and the journal is slow Test-case: the test consist of starting Write and switching between it and the journal for a sensible amount of time. All tests were run on a xo; the journal had 50 entries. Switching was automated by calling

Fwd: Announcing the Fedora OLPC Special Interest Group

2008-07-21 Thread Daniel Drake
Greg rocks! ---BeginMessage--- I've already sent this note to a bunch of lists, but this is the list that really counts. You folks are the ones who will make or break this effort. Much of the work that lies before us is exactly the kind of work that all of you have been doing for years now.

Fwd: Announcing the Fedora OLPC Special Interest Group

2008-07-21 Thread Daniel Drake
Forwarding again without the annoying attachment style Forwarded Message From: Greg Dekoenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Announcing the Fedora OLPC Special Interest Group Date: Mon,

Re: [sugar] Autosave in 8.2.0?

2008-07-21 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 20.07.2008 um 12:27 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 17.07.2008 um 07:37 schrieb Bert Freudenberg: Am 17.07.2008 um 00:10 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso: Marco has added a session manager to Sugar (in 8.2.0) that takes care

Re: [sugar] Autosave in 8.2.0?

2008-07-21 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 20.07.2008 um 08:59 schrieb Marco Pesenti Gritti: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for not answering, Hmm? Both Tomeu and me answered. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-July/016914.html

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread John Watlington
I think this is a huge problem. Here in Uruguay they are seeing a flood of machines with this problem, and it will only get worse over time (and we will encounter this in every other deployment soon.) They desperately need a fix... wad On Jul 21, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Greg Smith wrote: Hi

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread Jim Gettys
There are two issues here that we should be sure to not intertwingle: 1) whatever behavior Sugar may have when low/out of space, during operation, or at boot time. 2) JFFS2's behavior when the file system is almost full. When it gets almost full, it can spend all its time trying to garbage

gnome-vfs2 / GConf2 / dbus

2008-07-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 19:54 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: In update.1 we shipped the DBus version of gnome-vfs2 (Nokia patches) which didn't bring ORBit in. I'm not sure if that's still the case in joyride. I looked at the OLPC-2 gnome-vfs2 spec file and I don't see what you mean here.

Re: gnome-vfs2 / GConf2 / dbus

2008-07-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 19:00 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: I guess GConf2-dbus provides an equivalent interface to the GConf2 package and hence is a drop-in replacement. Oh ok, that make sense and I guess it's the case here... So do we want to use GConf2-dbus like we did for update1,

Re: gnome-vfs2 / GConf2 / dbus

2008-07-21 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 19:00 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: I guess GConf2-dbus provides an equivalent interface to the GConf2 package and hence is a drop-in replacement. Oh ok, that make sense and I guess it's the

Re: OFW sad face doesn't say why

2008-07-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 9:36 PM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: security wizard at OLPC removed that recommendation from the Wiki page, thus leading to your current troubles. If Mikus had followed your suggestion, we would not have found this (legitimate) bug. Thank you, Mikus. It's

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two issues here that we should be sure to not intertwingle: 1) whatever behavior Sugar may have when low/out of space, during operation, or at boot time. A number of independent issues here: a) the initscripts

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Jul 21 2008, at 13:39, C. Scott Ananian was caught saying: 2) JFFS2's behavior when the file system is almost full. When it gets almost full, it can spend all its time trying to garbage collect, and you can lose completely (the system sort of gets the slows, and grinds to a halt).

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread Jim Gettys
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 09:51 -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: On Jul 21 2008, at 13:39, C. Scott Ananian was caught saying: 2) JFFS2's behavior when the file system is almost full. When it gets almost full, it can spend all its time trying to garbage collect, and you can lose completely (the

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, agreed on the action items, not so sure about the roadmap. On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: d) trying to save new content to the journal should also give an obvious message that the NAND is full. Should the DS also reserve some free space?

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 09:51 -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: On Jul 21 2008, at 13:39, C. Scott Ananian was caught saying: 2) JFFS2's behavior when the file system is almost full. When it gets almost full, it can spend all its time trying to garbage collect, and you can lose completely (the

Re: Joyride and microphone

2008-07-21 Thread Richard A. Smith
Robert Myers wrote: Is this a software issue or did my mic die? Things were working before I upgraded to Joyride. Anything I can do to check? You stated that it work in the ofw selftest so your hardware appears good. If this is a software issue are there libraries or versions I need to

Re: PlayGo Patches/Commit access

2008-07-21 Thread Andrés Ambrois
On Sunday 20 July 2008 01:14:48 Edward Cherlin wrote: 2008/7/19 Andrés Ambrois [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello all! I've recently started learning python and sugar programming and, while trying to be useful in the meantime, have been tinkering around with the PlayGo activity. Thanks. I

Re: gnome-vfs2 / GConf2 / dbus

2008-07-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:28 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: The bonobo-activation-server likes to chew up 40mb (of RAM), for doing almost nothing. ORBit doesn't appear to depend on any bonobo components. And we've successfully kicked bonobo out of the build. Daniel

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:55 PM, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #6480 is fixed as of yesterday, should be in next joyride. Yeah. Since it was purely cosmetic I figured it might as well just wait to come through 'naturally'. It's not purely cosmetic: in my testing the bogus

Re: gnome-vfs2 / GConf2 / dbus

2008-07-21 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:28 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: The bonobo-activation-server likes to chew up 40mb (of RAM), for doing almost nothing. ORBit doesn't appear to depend on any bonobo components. And we've successfully

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A number of independent issues here: I have edited http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125 to clarify the pieces of this bug and to make the component tasks (including #5317) more obvious. I have *not* attempted to set

Re: gnome-vfs2 / GConf2 / dbus

2008-07-21 Thread Jim Gettys
In general, gnome is moving away from Bonobo/Orbit toward dbus based messaging. - Jim On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 20:09 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:28 -0400, Jim Gettys

Re: PlayGo Patches/Commit access

2008-07-21 Thread Andrés Ambrois
On Monday 21 July 2008 08:50:53 Bastien wrote: Hi Andr�s! I'm also a Go player and I'd really love to see this activity improve. Is it already possible to share this activity so that children can play together from two different XOs? I was unable to get this working when I last tried. If

Re: gnome-vfs2 / GConf2 / dbus

2008-07-21 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, gnome is moving away from Bonobo/Orbit toward dbus based messaging. Yeah, there is no plan yet (that I know of) to replace GConf with something dbus based though :( Marco

Re: [laptop.org #16813] joyride builds failing due to insufficient space

2008-07-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sugar - 0.81.6-4.20080715git8137d5c37f.fc9.i386: Insufficient space in download directory

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Jul 21 2008, at 13:55, Jim Gettys was caught saying: #6480 is fixed as of yesterday, should be in next joyride. I'll be re-doing Nokia's patches so that they go upstream if we still want them after 8.2 is out; however, I don't think the approach used by them actually helps us.

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:39:25PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two issues here that we should be sure to not intertwingle: 1) whatever behavior Sugar may have when low/out of space, during operation, or at

Re: gnome-vfs2 / GConf2 / dbus

2008-07-21 Thread Jim Gettys
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 20:25 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, gnome is moving away from Bonobo/Orbit toward dbus based messaging. Yeah, there is no plan yet (that I know of) to replace GConf with something

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b) sugar should, ideally, start even if flash is full. It is currently failing when writing to ~olpc/.boot_time or some such, and crashing. In olpc-utils: usr/bin/olpc-session. This was done for performance testing

Reminder: Tuesday Release Wednesday Software Meetings -- 2:00 PM in #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org

2008-07-21 Thread Michael Stone
Dear world, We should meet tomorrow to discuss release questions and on Wednesday to discuss tickets. I will arrive fifteen minutes early for each of these meetings to finalize the agenda for each; however, here are some tentative items: - For TUESDAY: *

Re: State of 8.2.0, July 21, 2008

2008-07-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 15:36 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: 7319 DBG jcardonaMulticast rx broken in joyride \ No wireless team members present; we'll need to get a separate update. I'll have fixed this before I leave tonight. Looks like a number

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread John Watlington
It sounds like you are working on the root causes. Tday I'm hanging out with the logistics/repair team, and the problem is worse than I thought this morning. They are being innundated with new problems caused by full disk (but weren't really aware that was the cause.) Since fixes in 8.2 won't

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:57 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like we should be able to produce a upgrade and customize key that does this in one step, and preserves the activation key for the laptop. Yes. The issues in the past have just been coordination-related. I

Project name : Conozco Uruguay is set up

2008-07-21 Thread Henry Edward Hardy
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:45:51 -0300, Gabriel Eirea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : Conozco Uruguay Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/conozco-uruguay Please follow instructions here for importing your project:

Re: State of 8.2.0, July 21, 2008

2008-07-21 Thread NoiseEHC
My changes from the last 2 weeks are now in joyride, leaving us 2mb over target. I slimmed down 2 more packages today (pam and xorg-x11-utils) which should bring us to the target. We also need to get these package forks into Fedora. I filed a load of RH bugzilla bugs about them today.

Re: PlayGo Patches/Commit access

2008-07-21 Thread Bastien
Andr�s Ambrois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I don't own an XO, but I've tried running two sugar-jhbuild instances, and it works fine. Well, there's no turn enforcement (you can play anywhere anytime, even if it's the other guys turn), and you can't really tell if anyone connected until

Java and Watch-Listen nonfree

2008-07-21 Thread David Leeming
Hi, I am looking for the right rpms to install for the Java plugin java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin For a G1G1 XO-1 build 703, previously advertised method did not work; Also trying to locate watch-listen-nonfree-14.xo The wiki says download it from Helix site, it's not there, the Hleix Community

Re: PlayGo Patches/Commit access

2008-07-21 Thread Bastien
Hi Andrés! I'm also a Go player and I'd really love to see this activity improve. Is it already possible to share this activity so that children can play together from two different XOs? I was unable to get this working when I last tried. If this is not possible yet, I think this should be a

Re: running speech-dispatcher as non-root using setuid on XO and accompanying security issues

2008-07-21 Thread Jan Buchal
HG == Hemant Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HG Hi, What is the need for speech-dispatcher to run as root? Is it HG possible to run it as non-root? We need to modify the HG speechd.conf files from a non-root program and as such run the HG speech-dispatcher daemon with non-root

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread John Gilmore
They are being innundated with new problems caused by full disk (but weren't really aware that was the cause.) Since fixes in 8.2 won't help them for months, they need the short term fix (c). Mitch added Forth words to delete files from the NAND flash, after we had similar troubles after

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread John Gilmore
I should've said that just removing a couple of useless or easily replaced files -- rather than reflashing -- means that the kids don't lose all their work when the NAND fills up. John ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 10:29 -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: I can go ahead and apply the existing Nokia patch into the 8.2 kernel as a short-term measure but don't want to arbitrarilly choose a reservation size. Dave, do you have a suggestion as to what percentage should be reserved to keep

For review: NAND out of space patch.

2008-07-21 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Here's a small Python script that acts as a final fail-safe in the event that the datastore is full and we can't boot because of it, by deleting datastore files largest-first until we cross a threshold of how much free space is enough. It could be incorporated into the Python init process.

Re: For review: NAND out of space patch.

2008-07-21 Thread david
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, Here's a small Python script that acts as a final fail-safe in the event that the datastore is full and we can't boot because of it, by deleting datastore files largest-first until we cross a threshold of how much free space is enough. It could be

Re: For review: NAND out of space patch.

2008-07-21 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I'll go on record repeating the comments made earlier. deleting the students largest file is probably deleting their most important work. Of course, it should be only a last resort; I tried to make that clear. I hope that in 8.2 we'll fix the problem in general, in a way that

Re: [Server-devel] Missing XOs in neighbourhood view using XS

2008-07-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:37 AM, David Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying out the school server for the first time at a training session in a Solomon Islands deployment. With 23 trainee teachers, using G1G1 XO-1 laptops with build 703 (update 1). All registered successfully and all able