Fedoristas in the crowd,
I am trying to find a tool that allows me to
- automount usb devices when they are plugged in (via udev/hal)
- would be nice to support removable devices
- trigger an associated script on mount
- all on a headless server!
There is no udev/hal automounter that works
Don't know about Fedoristas, but on Debian and derivatives this is what
I do for a backup disk that is identified by UUID and then backed up to
... all when plugged in ... beep ... wait for rsync ... beep beep ...
pull it out.
/etc/udev/rules.d/010_local.rules:
# backup drive a 2008-05-02
#
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:52 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't know about Fedoristas, but on Debian and derivatives this is what
usbmount is a slightly longer and nicer version of that, which will
- mount various partitions if various partitions are available
- run scripts from
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2266
Changes in build 2266 from build: 2265
Size delta: 0.13M
-sugar-update-control 0.6-1
+sugar-update-control 0.7-1
-olpc-update 2.13-1
+olpc-update 2.14-1
--- Changes for sugar-update-control 0.7-1 from 0.6-1 ---
+ Trac #7845:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build2266
Changes in build 2266 from build: 2265
Size delta: 0.27M
-sugar-update-control 0.6-1
+sugar-update-control 0.7-1
-olpc-update 2.13-1
+olpc-update 2.14-1
--- Changes for sugar-update-control 0.7-1 from 0.6-1 ---
+ Trac #7845:
Michael Stone wrote:
Charlie tested some Joyrides today but they suffered from a nasty bug
(which was promptly fixed) that would have made them less than suitable
for further testing. We'll try again tomorrow morning.
Michael
joyride-2262 contains the fix, thanks for waiting.
Best,
Advanced bash/shell scripting question - I cannot seem to do the
correct incantation with /usr/bin/flock to make it work in a bash
block. Can any Master of the Bash give me a hint?
In other words, I am trying to put into to use the example in man
flock, where it says:'second form is convenient
Well dont know if this helps but I was playing with dovecot recently,
and remember reading this:
# Locking method for index files. Alternatives are fcntl, flock and dotlock.
# Dotlocking uses some tricks which may create more disk I/O than other locking
# methods. NFS users: flock doesn't work,
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Option two - help me package tweak usbmount for F7 and F9. The
codebase is *tiny*, we can carry it.
...
I'll probably start chipping away at #2 tomorrow...
FWIW, I've imported the history into git, made some minor
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please don't forget to think about what 'idle' means.
Chris Ball is the power guru; if you can come up with a succinct test
that ohm can do to determine if there is 'real work' going on that
should inhibit idle, I'm sure
Hi All,
Thanks a lot for the great response to the request for test results on 2230.
Its super heartening to have so many smart people on the team; ready,
willing and able to test these images!
As Michael said recently, we're going to nominate another for mass
testing as soon as it gets
Been noticing more and more that often my XO acts non-responsively.
For instance - the XO has been sitting there for a minute or more
(in Terminal). I want to key in a command, so I start typing.
Nothing changes. I do *NOT* know if my XO is alive or dead.
Suddenly (after one or more seconds)
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:46:35AM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Been noticing more and more that often my XO acts non-responsively.
joyride-2258 feels more responsive to me that joyride-2251.
Quantitative feedback this is not.
I know that garbage collection can make the XO appear
Hi all,
a question for the OS people: what is the level of preemption
in the olpc supplied kernel?
Victor Lazzarini
Music Technology Laboratory
Music Department
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
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victor wrote:
a question for the OS people: what is the level of preemption
in the olpc supplied kernel?
hi victor -- does this help?
$ grep PREEMPT .config
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU is
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 02:57:58PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:46:35AM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Been noticing more and more that often my XO acts non-responsively.
joyride-2258 feels more responsive to me that joyride-2251.
Quantitative feedback this is not.
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:25:56AM -0400, Erik Garrison wrote:
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 02:57:58PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:46:35AM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
I know that garbage collection can make the XO appear unresponsive.
I'm not sure what you mean;
Hi,
[Removing sugar@ from CC: to keep this to one list.]
First of all. I want to mention that when I first install a Joyride
build, the initial state of the 'inhibit' flags (i.e., filenames)
in /etc and /etc/ohm is not present -- that allows the XO to
'suspend'. Yet on the
Hi,
If you think a bug should be considered a release stopper, please
put blocks:?8.2.0 in the keyword field.
I will read those every weekday. I either: - leave them alone if
the fix is already going in - or ask questions to get more detail -
or set to blocks:8.2.0 to signify
chris wrote:
I think what you actually want is one of two things:
* Not to suspend in the presence of any large network transfer.
I think this would only be necessary for your ethernet case, since
on wireless we're just going to be woken up by the next incoming
As an FYI, i updated to 2258 and the result is the same. I even tested the PDF
found on the wiki just to ensure the various PDF's I had weren't bad.
Same behavior, selecting the PDF will open Read, but it will show 0/0 pages.
behavior described in the following ticket which is shown as closed:
Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
would like 'idle' to mean processor is idle -- not just keyboard
is idle (of course my keyboard is idle -- I'm waiting for the
still-ongoing downloads to finish before I type the next command).
Good idle detection is hard. What you are really wanting is system
idle
Hi Jacob,
On 7 Aug 2008, at 17:45, Jacob Haddon wrote:
As an FYI, i updated to 2258 and the result is the same. I even
tested the PDF found on the wiki just to ensure the various PDF's I
had weren't bad.
Same behavior, selecting the PDF will open Read, but it will show
0/0 pages.
[I use ethernet, and 'suspend' currently kills it - so
I have to reboot to again have an ethernet connection.]
Could you file a bug? I don't understand why you have to reboot to
regain your ethernet connection after suspending.
I did back in January (#5990). Guess it's time to add log
I am happy to present a preview of the forthcoming release of the
xf86-video-geode driver. This time around, we are adding RandR 1.2
support to the driver, which means that we add far superior control
over modes and outputs while removing enormous chunks of now
useless code. But wait, there's
I was asked to say a few words on how to test the panel
scaling feature.
First of all, you need a TFT panel, meaning something not
attached to the VGA port. If you have an XO, then you
have a TFT panel, others, check your hardware.
Scaling is a pretty easy concept - we use a set of static
We are thrilled to announce a new test build, joyride-2230, valid until
Wednesday, August 13.
Please help test it according to the detailed instructions at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing
while we still have time to fix issues you might find!
Our specific interest this week
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 02:45:56PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
We are thrilled to announce a new test build, joyride-2230, valid until
Wednesday, August 13.
Apologies for the text substitution failure. The correct build is, in
fact, joyride-2263.
Michael
... but the idleness threshold obviously isn't working for you.
If I allowed any CPU use at all (ie. the minimal amount you're using
to write to the NAND from the network) to inhibit suspend, suspend would
never happen; kernel threads use CPU in the background all the time.
We look for CPU
For instance - the XO has been sitting there for a minute or more
(in Terminal). I want to key in a command, so I start typing.
Nothing changes. I do *NOT* know if my XO is alive or dead.
Suddenly (after one or more seconds) the typed character appears on
the screen. My XO is alive,
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW, I've imported the history into git, made some minor changes and
it installs and works on F7.
git
git://dev.laptop.org/users/martin/usbmount.git
gitweb
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Rahul Sundaram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you going to submit it for review in Fedora?
I don't think so - as I mentioned before, upstream is mostly dead, so
I doubt it'll be accepted. Trivial as it is, I am happy to support it
for as long as we have a use for
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build2269
Changes in build 2269 from build: 2266
Size delta: -0.13M
-xorg-x11-drv-geode 2.10.0-1.fc9
+xorg-x11-drv-geode 2.10.0-1.olpc3.1
-hal-info 20080607-1.fc9
+hal-info 20080607-1.olpc3.1
-sugar 0.81.8-3.20080806git0e744d9629.olpc3
+sugar
Daniel Drake wrote:
Hi Victor,
Thanks a lot for the feedback.
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:45 +0100, victor wrote:
One of the things I have been playing with is a little MIDI file
player
(one of the test/example activities in
devel.laptop.org/activities/csndsugui),
which uses a soundfont
On 07/08/08 19:45 -0700, Dhimant Bhayani wrote:
Hello Jordan,
This is excellent news. Does this also mean that graphics
performance goes up as well? Is anyone you know doing
Optimization of OpenGL library for LX800? Lot of new apps
are using OpenGL for UI and I have noticed that this
Some more 2 1/2 cents.
Sometimes when the storage is full (or near full), response time is down.
(check in Terminal with 'df' and see how much free disk space you have.) If
downloading large amounts of data, or in process of updating, could also be
the cause.
Frequently, when I see such
One method also to keep the XO from going into 'keyboard-idle' mode...
Sometimes what I do, is hit one of the 'modifer' keys on the keyboard to
keep the machine awake. (i.e. Hand, Fn, Ctrl, Shift, Top row function keys,
etc)
I wonder if there's a method to simulate this in software, so one
Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW, I've imported the history into git, made some minor changes and
it installs and works on F7.
git
git://dev.laptop.org/users/martin/usbmount.git
gitweb
Hello Jordan,
This is excellent news. Does this also mean that graphics
performance goes up as well? Is anyone you know doing
Optimization of OpenGL library for LX800? Lot of new apps
are using OpenGL for UI and I have noticed that this becoming
an issue.
Thanks.
db
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On Aug 07 2008, at 21:45, victor was caught saying:
a few ms. I wondered about a change in
preemption settings in the kernel that comes with the new OS.
For some reason, 2263 seems slightly better than 2232, but I have
to test more (I only updated it this evening)
As noted in #7603, the
On Aug 08 2008, at 00:13, Michael Stone was caught saying:
Friends,
I took a few minutes today to piece together two new Trac reports which
I hope will aid us in reaching our 8.2.0 goals:
http://dev.laptop.org/report/24 - Bugs blocking 8.2.0 Release Contracts
Is #6211 (Per-packet mesh
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing
Preparing for a smoketest event I'm organising tomorrow, I am doing
a copy-nand install on 5 XOs I have here, and want to have a
consistent set of activities.
What activities do
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there a better / handier way?
On first boot, it found my local School Server and up a big Software
Update window popped, and said do you want to install all these
activities.
Colour me impressed. Bravo!
Now, who's
Don't know about Fedoristas, but on Debian and derivatives this is what
I do for a backup disk that is identified by UUID and then backed up to
... all when plugged in ... beep ... wait for rsync ... beep beep ...
pull it out.
/etc/udev/rules.d/010_local.rules:
# backup drive a 2008-05-02
#
The LTSP version of Fedora does automounting of drives (usb, floppy,
cd)... maybe take a look at the code used to implement it...
David
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Option two
Hey guys,
I am still not feeling well and not sure I can make tomorrow's meeting.
Can we postpone it until next week?
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Bryan W. Berry
Systems Engineer
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
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Hi Guys,
I'm OK with reschedule. How about next week at the same time?
Hope you feel better soon.
Thanks,
Greg S
Bryan Berry wrote:
Hey guys,
I am still not feeling well and not sure I can make tomorrow's meeting.
Can we postpone it until next week?
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 08:48 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm OK with reschedule. How about next week at the same time?
Hope you feel better soon.
Same here. Postpone 7 days? Can Jim make it too next week?
I think so.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW, I've imported the history into git, made some minor changes and
it installs and works on F7.
git
git://dev.laptop.org/users/martin/usbmount.git
gitweb
After a bit of looking around, I've packaged and added usbmoutn to our
repository. yum install usbmount (from the testing repo) will do the
trick,
With this, teachers and field technicians can trigger actions just by
plugging USB sticks on the XS. For example, I am working on a script
that will
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