Re: Get serial number or XO name from command line or python
Hi Bert,
Thanks it's exactly what I'm looking for.
Best regards from France.
Lionel.
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 12:25:43 +0200
From: Bert Freudenberg
Subject: Re: Get serial number or XO name from command line or python
To: OLPC Devel
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On 28.05.2011, at 08:55, LASKE, Lionel (C2S) wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for all your answers. The serial was exactly what I expected. Great.
> About the "XO name", my question was not clear. What I'm looking for is the
> name in the Sugar Control Panel (Me).
> Any way to get it ?
Depends on the Sugar version, and is quite hard to make work universally.
In older versions, you could ask the PresenceService for the "ownerBuddy", and
access its nick. Or directly access the file:
${HOME}/.sugar/${$SUGAR_PROFILE}/config
In newer versions, it's stored in gconf:
gconftool-2 -g /desktop/sugar/user/nick
Both of these assume you are logged in as the Sugar user. If you are running
the script as root, you need to guess the user name. On an XO the user normally
is "olpc", on SoaS it typically is "liveuser". If all else fails you could look
for all user homes that have a ".sugar" directory. If there is only one you are
lucky, otherwise you should fail and ask for the right one.
Also, watch out for non-ascii nick names, and funny characters. Kids frequently
use them, unaware there may be problems in command line scripts.
- Bert -
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 08:25:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Yioryos Asprobounitis
Subject: stop sharing an activity
To: OLPC Devel
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I could not find a way to stop sharing an activity even when no peers are
connected or even present.
This was true in os860 and os20, XO-1 and XO-1.5 and activities like write and
Turtle blocks.
If this is indeed a feature and not a bug or something I miss, could someone
point me to the relevant discussion and/or rational of "once public, always
public"?
Thx
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I could not find a way to stop sharing an activity even when no peers are connected or even present. This was true in os860 and os20, XO-1 and XO-1.5 and activities like write and Turtle blocks. If this is indeed a feature and not a bug or something I miss, could someone point me to the relevant discussion and/or rational of "once public, always public"? Thx ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Get serial number or XO name from command line or python
On 28.05.2011, at 08:55, LASKE, Lionel (C2S) wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for all your answers. The serial was exactly what I expected. Great.
> About the "XO name", my question was not clear. What I'm looking for is the
> name in the Sugar Control Panel (Me).
> Any way to get it ?
Depends on the Sugar version, and is quite hard to make work universally.
In older versions, you could ask the PresenceService for the "ownerBuddy", and
access its nick. Or directly access the file:
${HOME}/.sugar/${$SUGAR_PROFILE}/config
In newer versions, it's stored in gconf:
gconftool-2 -g /desktop/sugar/user/nick
Both of these assume you are logged in as the Sugar user. If you are running
the script as root, you need to guess the user name. On an XO the user normally
is "olpc", on SoaS it typically is "liveuser". If all else fails you could look
for all user homes that have a ".sugar" directory. If there is only one you are
lucky, otherwise you should fail and ask for the right one.
Also, watch out for non-ascii nick names, and funny characters. Kids frequently
use them, unaware there may be problems in command line scripts.
- Bert -
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Re: upgarde with olpc-update
On 27.05.2011, at 23:09, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 27 May 2011 22:05, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: >> Is it possible to upgrade the XO-1 to 11.2.0 builds from 10.1.3 or earlier >> builds as the wiki page suggests? [1] >> Someone did try it and run into problems beyond the space limitation [2] >> >> [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/11.2.0#Upgrading_with_olpc-update >> [2] http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4965.msg33325#msg33325 > > Probably not, in that case. We had a similar report in IRC. Thanks for > the feedback! Failed for me because it ran out of space. The difference between these builds is just too big. I instead backed up /home/olpc/.sugar, reflashed from USB, and restored the backup. That worked pretty well. > However, it does work in the general case (I've tested it) provided > that there is enough disk space available. (i.e. if you work with a > smaller target image) > > We'll work on improving this... > > Daniel I seem to remember there was a "magic" upgrade image that copied the user data to the USB pen drive, reflashed, and restored the user data. That might be an option. - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
