Cannot see activities in joyride-2005

2008-06-04 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Hello, Yesterday night I did an olpc-update to joyride-2005. After rebooting the system, I no longer had any activities in the ring view. The list view showed a list of faded out activities from /home/olpc . Thinking that it was caused by some settings in /home/olpc, I tried moving /home/olpc

Need help creating .xo file

2008-06-04 Thread shivaprasad javali
Hi All , I was wondering if you could help me out with this. I got the activity working fine on the OLPC. Now I want to create a .xo file for my activity so that I can install the activity on other XO's. My activity structure is as follows: -activity --has the .info file and

Re: XO communications interface naming

2008-06-04 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Wednesday 04 Jun 2008 1:21:34 am Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I don't have wireless - am using an USB-ethernet adapter instead. Network adapters are given logical device names using udev rules. See for rules matching net SUBSYSTEM in /etc/udev/rules.d (usually *persistent-net-generator.rules). On

Re: Project Hosting Application: olpc-netscripts

2008-06-04 Thread Morgan Collett
2008/6/4 Ixo X oxI [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Great idea! I have some scripts, thoughts, and code I might be interested with contributing myself. Is there a start to a list of tools, what they do, and maybe even a 'request/want' list ? AFAIK this is the wiki page:

Re: Need help creating .xo file

2008-06-04 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 04.06.2008, at 08:11, shivaprasad javali wrote: Hi All , I was wondering if you could help me out with this. I got the activity working fine on the OLPC. Now I want to create a .xo file for my activity so that I can install the activity on other XO's. My activity

Re: Need help creating .xo file

2008-06-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2008/6/4 shivaprasad javali [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can you figure out where I am going wrong?? What's your problem? The bundle seems to install correctly as its icon appears in the shell. Is the problem that the activity doesn't start? Logs will help in any case, as Bert said. Regards, Tomeu

Re: Need help creating .xo file

2008-06-04 Thread shivaprasad javali
The Bundle installs correctly only when I unzip it manually and then restart the X-server. I want to do this through sugar-install-bundle or through browse activity or through Journal. None of which seem to work. Anyway when I tried to install through the sugar-install-bundle command It failed

Re: Cannot see activities in joyride-2005

2008-06-04 Thread Michael Stone
Dov, First, please file a ticket that sugar fails to start up if /home/olpc is empty/missing. Please CC at least mstone and marco on it. Next, put your /home back in place and try to start Sugar. If you're successful, then go to the list view and click some of the stars so that they become

Re: Cannot see activities in joyride-2005

2008-06-04 Thread Marcus Leech
Michael Stone wrote: Dov, First, please file a ticket that sugar fails to start up if /home/olpc is empty/missing. Please CC at least mstone and marco on it. Next, put your /home back in place and try to start Sugar. If you're successful, then go to the list view and click some of the stars so

Re: Cannot see activities in joyride-2005

2008-06-04 Thread Morgan Collett
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Marcus Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Stone wrote: Dov, First, please file a ticket that sugar fails to start up if /home/olpc is empty/missing. Please CC at least mstone and marco on it. Next, put your /home back in place and try to start Sugar. If

Re: Need help creating .xo file

2008-06-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Could you upload your .xo somewhere so I can give it a look? Thanks, Tomeu On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:07 PM, shivaprasad javali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Bundle installs correctly only when I unzip it manually and then restart the X-server. I want to do this through sugar-install-bundle or

Re: Need help creating .xo file

2008-06-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
So can you replace the proprietary code from the bundle, see if you have the same problem then upload? Tomeu On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:31 PM, shivaprasad javali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Tomeu. Its a propreitary product .So cannot upload the.xo. On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Tomeu

Re: Need help creating .xo file

2008-06-04 Thread shivaprasad javali
ok. I will try that. Thanks Shivaprasad On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So can you replace the proprietary code from the bundle, see if you have the same problem then upload? Tomeu On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:31 PM, shivaprasad javali [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Joyride-2009 from 1949 (No standard activities)

2008-06-04 Thread Ixo X oxI
I too just upgraded to Joyride-2009 last night. I jumped from joyright 1949 to joywrong 2009 (about a 4 week difference)... Had 'standard' G1G1 activities, now it's only the ones which I've custom installed. So. it looks like joyride is going the route of Update.1 ? Shipping with no

Re: Joyride-2009 from 1949 (No standard activities)

2008-06-04 Thread Morgan Collett
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Ixo X oxI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too just upgraded to Joyride-2009 last night. I jumped from joyright 1949 to joywrong 2009 (about a 4 week difference)... Had 'standard' G1G1 activities, now it's only the ones which I've custom installed. So. it

Re: Cannot see activities in joyride-2005

2008-06-04 Thread Ixo X oxI
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dov, First, please file a ticket that sugar fails to start up if /home/olpc is empty/missing. Please CC at least mstone and marco on it. FYI, I filed one 5 months ago... the reply was 'won't fix' then it was closed.

what about having network connections inhibit sleep?

2008-06-04 Thread david
I just attempted to do an upgrade of one of my machines, and I ran into the problem that if I just kicked off the upgrade and let it sit, it went to sleep in the middle and died. what do people think about the idea of making the existance of established TCP connections inhibit sleep?

Wikipedia activity - unstoppable... bug?

2008-06-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Chris, here in Lima, I'm debugging a problem that the local team has shown me with the wilkipedia activity not starting for a second time. The problem is that the server never really closes, so the 2nd invocation finds the socket taken, and can't use it. Apparently this is a common issue with

Re: Wikipedia activity - unstoppable... bug?

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Martin, Hi Chris, here in Lima, I'm debugging a problem that the local team has shown me with the wilkipedia activity not starting for a second time. The problem is that the server never really closes, so the 2nd invocation finds the socket taken, and can't use it. Apparently

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:15 PM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Specifically, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125. What do people think of the straw man in that ticket? Should we implement it? My comments are in the ticket; let's move the discussion there, where it belongs.

Re: XO communications interface naming

2008-06-04 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:49:08AM +0530, K. K. Subramaniam wrote: On Wednesday 04 Jun 2008 1:21:34 am Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I don't have wireless - am using an USB-ethernet adapter instead. Network adapters are given logical device names using udev rules. See for rules matching net

Re: Wikipedia activity - unstoppable... bug?

2008-06-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the testing! We saw a report of this from Peru yesterday and fixed it¹, then released Wikipedia-10.xo² with the fix. I think Scott plans on putting Wikipedia-10.xo and other fixes into a 703-6 shortly. Cool. I

Re: Joyride-2009 from 1949 (No standard activities)

2008-06-04 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:41:38PM +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Ixo X oxI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too just upgraded to Joyride-2009 last night. I jumped from joyright 1949 to joywrong 2009 (about a 4 week difference)... Had 'standard' G1G1 activities,

iwconfig msh0 channel x broken in joyride 2009?

2008-06-04 Thread Bill Mccormick
Hey folks, iwconfig msh0 channel doesn't seem to be working in joyride 2009. iwconfig accepts the command, but does not change the channel. workaround is to use iwconfig on the associated eth0/eth1 interface. Can you advise how to open a ticket on this? thx, Bill McCormick Open innovation

Re: OLPC: Open Organized Transparent

2008-06-04 Thread Garrett Goebel
What we've got here is a failure to communicate On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:38 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure I haven't said all the things you'd have liked me to say, but I've done my best to be open and honest here. Thank you for starting this discussion. Thank you

New update.1 build 707

2008-06-04 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build707 Changes in build 707 from build: 706 Size delta: -0.13M -xkeyboard-config 1.1-19.20071130cvs.olpc2 +xkeyboard-config 1.1-20.20071130cvs.olpc2 --- Changes for xkeyboard-config 1.1-20.20071130cvs.olpc2 from

Re: New update.1 build 707

2008-06-04 Thread Ixo X oxI
FYI, I was looking through the files... and noticed that http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build-number says build #708 . Not sure if this is supposed to match. . . . . http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/LATEST-IS-707 :-) -iXo On Wed,

Synaptics multitouch.

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, This article's very interesting: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-touchpad/ Looks like Synaptics touchpads can detect (up to three?) fingers independently. This would allow us to start prototyping multitouch software using normal laptops. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL

Re: Synaptics multitouch.

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Looks like Synaptics touchpads can detect (up to three?) fingers independently. This would allow us to start prototyping multitouch software using normal laptops. Ah, looks like I'm wrong. It can detect how many fingers are held down -- which means that you can specify gestures

Trac: reports and queries and schema... oh my!

2008-06-04 Thread Garrett Goebel
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Noah Kantrowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I create a report? http://dev.laptop.org/wiki/TracReports tells you about reports, but not how to create one... Unfortunately we cannot allow non-admins to create reports because they are unrestricted queries

Trac: reports and queries and schema... oh my!

2008-06-04 Thread Garrett Goebel
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Noah Kantrowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I create a report? http://dev.laptop.org/wiki/TracReports tells you about reports, but not how to create one... Unfortunately we cannot allow non-admins to create reports because they are unrestricted queries

Re: Trac: reports and queries and schema... oh my!

2008-06-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:16:50PM -0400, Garrett Goebel wrote: If I wanted to create a report, who should I contact? One of the Trac admins? Who are the Trac admins? Where is an up-to-date list of Trac admins kept? JG, Noah, me, and Scott can do it for you, among others. Is the underlying

Re: what about having network connections inhibit sleep?

2008-06-04 Thread Jim Gettys
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 08:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just attempted to do an upgrade of one of my machines, and I ran into the problem that if I just kicked off the upgrade and let it sit, it went to sleep in the middle and died. This specific issue was fixed quite a while ago,

Re: [OLPC Security] G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-04 Thread Paul Fox
SJ wrote: I continue to be uncomfortable that we are sending out restricted / locked-down machines without a clear need. The arguments made so far for this are 1. Getting G1G1 people to test security steps 2. Protecting G1G1 donors from installing anything but signed builds 3.

RE: OLPC: Open Organized Transparent

2008-06-04 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:devel- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garrett Goebel Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:51 AM To: C. Scott Ananian Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: OLPC: Open Organized Transparent [snip] Please don't point me at:

RE: Trac: reports and queries and schema... oh my!

2008-06-04 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
-Original Message- From: Garrett Goebel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:17 PM To: Noah Kantrowitz Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Trac: reports and queries and schema... oh my! On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Noah Kantrowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Updating a mesh network full of machines.

2008-06-04 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 05:52:33PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Other folks have reported success using screen or Konsole to send identical commands over ssh to a large number of machines, which is a lower-barrier-to-entry option. Specifically the success I've had with a test bed of eight

Re: Help packaging some OLPC network status scripts?

2008-06-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 at 14:28:53 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: I think that it should be better to do a proper release first. Done. License info, README, and tarball-creation Makefile added. See the stub homepage at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-netutils for the gory details. Thanks again,

Re: what about having network connections inhibit sleep?

2008-06-04 Thread John Gilmore
what do people think about the idea of making the existance of established TCP connections inhibit sleep? What release are you running? Auto-suspend isn't enabled in production releases. Joyride should be awakened from suspend by any received unicast (TCP) packet, so I'm not sure why you

Re: [OLPC Security] G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-04 Thread reynt0
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote: . . . The original reason is that it allowed our G1G1 users to more fully exercise/test our secure boot paths, which are used in our deployment countries. This helps G1G1 users be more representative testers, and . . . I'm a G2G2. Among my

Re: what about having network connections inhibit sleep?

2008-06-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:12 PM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what do people think about the idea of making the existance of established TCP connections inhibit sleep? What release are you running? Auto-suspend isn't enabled in production releases. Joyride should be awakened from

Re: [OLPC Security] G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Paul Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SJ wrote: I continue to be uncomfortable that we are sending out restricted / locked-down machines without a clear need. The arguments made so far for this are 1. Getting G1G1 people to test security steps 2.

Re: [OLPC Security] G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:20 PM, reynt0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also want to be able to examine the XO as thoroughly as possible from my own (USA, educated, experienced, and so on) perspective. In that regard, FWIW I found the various infos I later could find from olpc a bit unclear or even

Re: #7188 HIGH Never A: Both telepathies are permanently down

2008-06-04 Thread Giannis Galanis
sorry for the multiple tickets. i had a problem accessing trac. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: squeak image sometimes takes very long to be responsive after XO suspend

2008-06-04 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Tomeu and all, At Fri, 16 May 2008 13:53:16 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Ties Stuij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically when coming out of suspend, the Squeak process takes up lots of cpu power and can be unresponsive for about a minute on build 703

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: squeak image sometimes takes very long to be responsive after XO suspend

2008-06-04 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
I forgot to mention one thing. So, Ties, you might be already doing this, but one workaround for the problem is to instruct kids not to touch the keys or touchpad when the unit is suspended... -- Yoshiki ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: what about having network connections inhibit sleep?

2008-06-04 Thread david
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:12 PM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what do people think about the idea of making the existance of established TCP connections inhibit sleep? What release are you running? Auto-suspend isn't enabled in production

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-04 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Martin, You're right we are closer than I thought on first read. Thanks for the added comments. I want to minimize the scope but I see feature creep coming so we better plan for it in advance. Here are some comments on these: - understand a simple level of identity roles (provided by XS

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to minimize the scope but I see feature creep coming so we better plan for it in advance. Me too. I also want to have a solid app with a long-term maintenance plan :-) Great to hear we aren'to far away... I