Re: Syncronizing defconfig between XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2011-09-15 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 14:37 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: - Did not enable drivers for Joliet and other CD filesystems. I doubt we care -- we don't seem to have CD-ROM drivers anyway. Why do we have this on XO-1.5

test /switches

2011-09-22 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: Has anybody seen an XO fail to run the heat spreader test once you activate the ebook switch? I have 1 XO-1.5 (Q3B19) and 1 XO-1.75 (Q4B09) that return to the OK prompt without starting the test. This seems a bit strange as other XOs start the testing just fine. Anybody have any thoughts?

Re: test /switches

2011-09-22 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 08:41 +1000, James Cameron wrote: Compare the manufacturing tags. The definition of selftest in the /switches vocabulary depends on the values of manufacturing tags. Thanks, that explains the XO-1.5, I was playing with adding the missing mfg-tags on replacement

Re: Activities won't auto-install from USB bundles folder onto 11.3.0?

2011-11-10 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 20:40 -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: Here's an old thread of a convo I had in Feb. Maybe it will help? Message: 5 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:20:59 -0500 From: Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com Subject: Old bundle update method To: OLPC Development devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] Host AP on XO-1.75 and XO-3

2011-11-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi all: On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 08:09 -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Just wondering whether the XO-1.75 and XO-3

Re: http://fedora.laptop.org/ Site Down

2011-11-18 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 05:46 -0500, HALL,Brian C wrote: Good Day, I recently installed an XS server(OLPC-School-Server-0.6-i386.iso) and as I was trying to do an update I got the error repomod not found I thought it was the proxy but when I tried to access the site at home iam was still

RE: http://fedora.laptop.org/ Site Down

2011-11-18 Thread Jerry Vonau
___ Not sure where I went wrong. Iam assuming that I missed a couple lines..Not sure where. Regards, Brian -Original Message- From: Jerry Vonau [mailto:jvo...@shaw.ca] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 11:32 AM To: HALL,Brian C Cc: Kevin Gordon; Sridhar Dhanapalan; XS Devel

Re: [OLPC-AU] VPN Client.conf File

2011-11-21 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi Brian: First thing is you have a typo in the .conf file correct the proto line, is should be udp. For further setup information have a look at: http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html#config Jerry On 21 November 2011 08:20, HALL,Brian C

Re: os-builder F14

2011-12-18 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 11:59 -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: Folks: I'm going to install another machine F14 with OS builder, and I have a couple of pre-launch (translate:newbie) questions :-) It looks like the F14 sample .ini files are no longer on the site which is pointed to by the wiki.

what is the root filesystem mounted as??

2011-12-19 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All, While testing the latest images for OLPC-AU, we've discovered that the root filesystem is being mounted as ext3. I'm wounder if someone with os883 installed could check what / is mounted as, without me having to install the image. Thanks in advance, Jerry

Re: what is the root filesystem mounted as??

2011-12-19 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 15:52 +1100, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: closest i have installed is os880 All images os874 or greater should be the same. Jerry Hi All, While testing the latest images for OLPC-AU, we've discovered that the root filesystem is being mounted as ext3. I'm

Re: what is the root filesystem mounted as??

2011-12-19 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 21:07 -0800, Hal Murray wrote: On a XO-1, c2, running os883, Sugar 0.94.1 [murray@xo-0d-57-33 ~]$ more /etc/mtab /dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 Thank you, just as I suspected, mounted as ext3. The release notes for 11.2, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.2.0

Re: what is the root filesystem mounted as??

2011-12-19 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 23:32 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 21:07 -0800, Hal Murray wrote: On a XO-1, c2, running os883, Sugar 0.94.1 [murray@xo-0d-57-33 ~]$ more /etc/mtab /dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 Thank you, just as I suspected, mounted as ext3. The release

olpc-update for arm

2011-12-20 Thread Jerry Vonau
According to the release notes for 11.3.0 this should work but doesn't: sudo olpc-update official_xo1.75-883 When I view the server with rsync official_xo1.75-883 is not present. Jerry ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: enabling tap-to-click

2011-12-20 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 11:56 -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Is it possible to enable tap-to-click on an XO-1.5 using 11.3.0? While I certainly wouldn't recommend it for children,

[Fwd: Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] sl#2822: Software-Update should pre-select only to-be-upgraded activities by default.]

2011-12-22 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi all: What this patch solves is the issue of once you remove an activity from the XO, running sugar-update-control then wants to re-install the activity by default. This patch will show those activities as available for installation but not pre-selected, only activities that are an upgrade to

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] sl#2822: Software-Update should pre-select only to-be-upgraded activities by default.]

2011-12-22 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 13:54 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi all: What this patch solves is the issue of once you remove an activity from the XO, running sugar-update-control then wants to re-install the activity

Re: Query regarding error message

2011-12-26 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sat, 2011-12-24 at 22:44 +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: Hi all. I am trying to update an activity, via olpc-update-control rpm, on a sugar-jhbuild. Think you mean sugar-update-control. Towards the end, I get these logs ::

Re: Run OFW heat spreader test

2012-01-22 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 13:00 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: We are using a custom olpc.fth to present a boot menu so that users can easily flash their XOs. As a precaution, we run a lid switches test before the OS installation begins. Some of our XOs have older, less effective heat spreaders,

Re: Run OFW heat spreader test

2012-01-22 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 23:16 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 00:02 -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote: On 01/22/2012 09:00 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: We are using a custom olpc.fth to present a boot menu so that users can easily flash their XOs. As a precaution, we run

Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-30 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 12:40 -0500, George Hunt wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new to this list. Hi George: I'm the author of the XSAU-F11 based rework of the XS that Sridhar is referring to. I met Tony Anderson in Haiti, and again at the San Francisco OLPC Summit in late 2011. He prevailed

Re: [OLPC-AU] Unable to Browse the Internet from XO

2012-01-30 Thread Jerry Vonau
On 27 January 2012 12:45, HALL,Brian C brian.hal...@uwimona.edu.jm wrote: Good Day All, I am currently using the 1.5 XO at a couple of schools. I am able to connect to the school server and hence access moodle instance on the server itself. However i am unable to browse the internet from

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-01 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 22:42 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: While I understand the frustration, this is going to wrong direction. We need to hunt down the problems and fix them. I think we have the root problem well

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-09 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 13:24 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: In our next build, we will be doing two things [1]: 1. enabling the patch 2. disabling wake-on-LAN I would not do #2. How would one disable

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-09 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 17:47 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Well, we're testing this combination, someone has to take the lead. Without doing anything the XOs will never use the full potential of power saving that maybe available

power saving available in different stages

2012-02-20 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: I'm wonder if anybody would know what the potential power savings might be while in the stages of dim, blank, and sleep? Thanks for any feedback, Jerry ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: powerd and wlanpacket [PATCH]

2012-02-20 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi Paul: I'll see if I can be clearer in my explanation. On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 08:47 -0500, Paul Fox wrote: hi jerry -- jerry wrote: Hi All: While working with powerd in debug mode I noticed that wlanpacket would always cause a break in snooze(). I realized that yes -- that

Re: powerd and wlanpacket [PATCH] revised patches

2012-02-26 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 08:25 -0500, Paul Fox wrote: jerry wrote: Hey Paul: I'm back, and I think I can explain this now once you patch powerd for some better logging around set_wake_on_wlan, that would be patch 1. what version of powerd did you start from? paul

Re: powerd and wlanpacket [PATCH] revised patches

2012-02-26 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 10:46 -0500, Paul Fox wrote: hi jerry -- let me make sure i understand these. jerry wrote: Hey Paul: I'm back, and I think I can explain this now once you patch powerd for some better logging around set_wake_on_wlan, that would be patch 1. patch 1 has

Re: powerd and wlanpacket [PATCH] revised patches

2012-02-26 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 09:08 +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 03:48:29PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: After every almost every rtcwake there is DCON activity, is that not what causes the need to re-set the wol setting? Sounds interesting. The DCON is the display controller

Re: [OLPC-AU] [Dextrose] latest test image for testing

2012-02-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 22:43 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Thanks to you and the rest of the team for your hard work on this. On 28 February 2012 21:22, Jerry Vonau je...@laptop.org.au wrote: -- auto shutdown after five minutes I don't think this is a good idea - it can be very

Re: [OLPC-AU] [Dextrose] latest test image for testing

2012-02-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 13:27 -0500, Chris Leonard wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Jerry Vonau je...@laptop.org.au wrote: Hi All: I have the latest dextrose based builds ready for your evaluation from here. Jerrry, Just out of curiousity are you using (or including en_GB

latest test image for testing

2012-02-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: I have the latest dextrose based builds ready for your evaluation from here http://build.laptop.org.au/xo/os/. Changes Fixes latest powerd-44 with some add-ons patches and revised config file. -- wol enabled -- very short dim/blank -- auto shutdown after five minutes -- tracing

Re: [Dextrose] [PATCH dextrose 1/3] Fix root file system type in /etc/fstab

2012-03-01 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 20:10 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: Since 41b79e7aaa17e5f3003fd5a72f8bfc20b2fc4f1c the root file system is ext4, but we were still telling kickstart it's ext3. This caused an incorrect fstab to be written, so booting using regular (i.e. Fedora) initramfs failed.

Patch: Mobile dongles

2012-03-26 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 16:44 +1100, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: David This message was sent with a gsm dongle on an xo-1 modem:Huawei E160E carrier:Locked to Dodo (an Optus reseller) XO-1 OS31 development which is same as os884 signed in my settings, enter username, password,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch: Mobile dongles

2012-03-26 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 11:54 -0400, Paul Fox wrote: jerry wrote: On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 16:44 +1100, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: David This message was sent with a gsm dongle on an xo-1 modem:Huawei E160E carrier:Locked to Dodo (an Optus reseller) XO-1

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch: Mobile dongles

2012-03-26 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 13:27 -0400, Paul Fox wrote: jerry wrote: On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 11:54 -0400, Paul Fox wrote: jerry wrote: On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 16:44 +1100, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: David This message was sent with a gsm dongle on an xo-1

PATCH: revise firmware name used in OOB

2012-03-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: Patch to correct the firmware name used in olpc-os-builder, due to the recent renaming of the bootfw rpm. Jerry diff --git a/olpc-os-builder/modules/xo1_5/kspkglist.50.xo1_5.inc b/olpc-os-builder/modules/xo1_5/kspkglist.50.xo1_5.inc index a678230..9843807 100644 ---

Re: Disable mesh

2012-03-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 10:17 -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote: Folks: If one never uses mesh in a 15-20 group XO-1 classroom environment, but always uses AP's, is there any appreciable benefit to disabling mesh completely - perhaps to reduce chatter or power usage? I have read one can use the

Re: PATCH: revise firmware name used in OOB

2012-03-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 16:04 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi All: Patch to correct the firmware name used in olpc-os-builder, due to the recent renaming of the bootfw rpm. This fix is already in the master branch of OOB

Re: [Techteam] Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 09:46 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: How useful is this for a layperson to clone an XO's setup across a school/classroom? Is this a replacement for

Re: XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 09:46 +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:36:15AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: Sridhar - the changes (and the fix James proposes) apply to the internal organization of the .zd files. So the fix willbe in the OOB toolchain. Applied, #11776. Is

Re: Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-01 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 20:50 +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: Thanks Paul. I will give it a try myself. Just one last question :: I suppose that 'echo 0 /sys/class/net/eth0/lbs_mesh' is a hack that is olpc-customised. So, I will be really grateful if you could point me to some docs (a wiki page

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-10 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 23:11 +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: Oops.. please ignore my previous mail. Instead, this is what the issue is (seems this issue has put me in mental sleep; I am making stupid, idiotic mistakes) :| Anyways, here it is .. (again, please ignore my previous mail completely)

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 15:20 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Ajay Garg a...@activitycentral.com wrote: I tried the rmmod/modprobe hack in olpc-configure, and it worked (obviously because, this time the /etc.modprobe.d/libertas.conf could be fetched/read from

Re: Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-14 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 18:32 +1000, James Cameron wrote: Are there any deployments that still want the mesh to work? It might be simpler to pull it out now, given that only XO-1 supports it. +1 Given that the mesh layout was intended to work with the XS's Active Antenna which isn't being

[PATCH powerd] Look in /var/lock/ppp for LCK..ttyUSB* also.

2012-05-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: My usb dongle works well with os11. If you were to configure a mobile broadband connection via Modem Configuration in My Settings the connection would be disconnected after the first suspend cycle. I see this patch is just a partial crutch, once you connect via the frame it takes several

Re: [PATCH powerd] Look in /var/lock/ppp for LCK..ttyUSB* also.

2012-05-29 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 21:20 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca writes: [Hack to prevent suspend while GSM connection is in use] How could we have dbus delay suspend while the ppp connection is becoming active? You need to extend powerd-dbus/nm_monitor.c to monitor

How-to make the XS appear in the neighbourhood view of the XOs

2012-06-03 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: I was thinking that since the XOs uses two different methods to display what is seen in the neighbourhood view, how can I make the XS appear when using salut? I'm thinking if that can occur then maybe we could advertise that this is an XS. We then could have the register to schoolserver

Re: How-to make the XS appear in the neighbourhood view of the XOs

2012-06-03 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 20:45 -0400, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: I have pondered this, along with enterprise (larger school) XS installations in general. The thought I was having was to run the XS on XO hardware(or some cast off old hardware), but employ several per school(maybe one per class).

Re: olpc.fth question

2012-06-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 11:08 -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote: Disclaimer: Newbie Forth question :-) We are trying to create a consolidated unsecured update stick. This is not for use in the real world, but in our wild lab. We have learned and experimented a lot today, and everything pretty

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 20:06 +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: - Seems to be related to umount of /home failing. Adding sync ; sleep 2; before umount

Re: Passphrase must be re-entered when XO loses then regains wifi connection

2012-06-14 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 18:44 +1000, James Cameron wrote: Sridhar begins in the bug report by saying that the repeated prompt for the WPA passphrase is due to losing connection. Is there other evidence, other than the repeated passphrase prompt, to suggest that a connection was lost? If so,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Passphrase must be re-entered when XO loses then regains wifi connection

2012-06-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
:) Seems fine to me, but not my call on if this gets picked up by sugarlabs or olpc. For olpc-au use I can patch this in via OOB but I would prefer this to be in the rpm proper. Thanks and Regards, Ajay Thanks a bunch, Jerry On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to disable Authentication Required By Wireless Network popup in Fedora 17

2012-06-22 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 19:16 +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: Forgot to tell the link in the previous mail. I used http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/885/, to download the .img, .crc and .fs.zip. The F17 based series is called 12.1.0 with the latest image in:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Passphrase must be re-entered when XO loses then regains wifi connection

2012-06-25 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 12:23 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.com writes: The issue of sugar prompting users to enter wifi passphrase after a connection is broken and is re-established[1] has been in Sugar/OLPC for some time. The purpose of this email is to

Re: [Sugar-devel] glibc-devel F14 package for armv5tel

2012-07-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
Ajay: Check /etc/yum/olpc-exclude for glib*, if present remove it and rerun yum. Check the all the fedora repo files for an exclude=glibc* also. Jerry On 12 July 2012 15:41, Ajay Garg a...@activitycentral.com wrote: Jon, Doing sudo yum clean all, followed by sudo yum list glibc* has the

Re: [Sugar-devel] glibc-devel F14 package for armv5tel

2012-07-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
Most likely that is it, the exclude= list is created from the list of rpms that are not found in fedora's/koji's repos. Jerry On 12 July 2012 15:50, Anish Mangal an...@sugarlabs.org wrote: could it be a problem with mirros? http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/dx3/rpms/i386/os/

sugar-presence-service

2012-07-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi folks, Just wondering, with the rework of sugar-presence-service[1] that was done for sugar-0.90, is there any requirement for sugar-toolkit to have a dependency on sugar-presence-service in F14 or F17? 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Remove_Presence_Service Jerry

Re: [Sugar-devel] glibc-devel F14 package for armv5tel

2012-07-14 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 15:56 +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: Thanks Jerry, Anish. That was it. Removing the glibc-devel package from /etc/yum/olpc-exclude did the trick. But me just curious, why is /etc/yum/olpc-exclude needed? The olpc released rpms may be a fork of the fedora code and a newer

forth scripting

2012-07-22 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: Is there a build-in function in OFW that I can use to detect a non-empty directory before I re-invent the wheel? Any quick way to display all the defined words in use in OFW? Jerry ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: forth scripting

2012-07-23 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 16:03 +1000, James Cameron wrote: Thanks, James. The methods I've used to check for non-empty directory are: 1. try assuming the directory is empty and if an exception occurs handle it, using catch, 2. try assuming the directory is non-empty and if an exception

Re: Fwd: [PATCH]Add --cacheonly to livecd-create (and to olpc-os-builder)

2012-07-24 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 10:23 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:09 AM Subject: [PATCH]Add --cacheonly to livecd-create (and to olpc-os-builder) To: liv...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: What is the difference between 'buddy-joined' and 'buddy-joined-activity' signals, with-respect-to activity-collaboration ?

2012-07-25 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 23:39 +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: I would actually want to add the 'joined' signal too, in my list of queries. So, I am now confused, as to what is the difference between :: I'm getting into the telepathy code also. buddy-joined I believe that to mean other XO's joining

[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging

2012-07-26 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: I would like to propose a feature for discussion and inclusion in the 0.98 cycle is packaging all control-panel applets as rpms. As this discussion does not impact the UI and more of a packaging issue I'm an not creating a Features page. The discussion can take place here on the

Re: Fwd: [PATCH]Add --cacheonly to livecd-create (and to olpc-os-builder)

2012-07-26 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 15:31 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: after the first pass of OOB, so why bother with the upstream patches. Yum has good support for it already. Avoiding upstream would require torturing yum first

sugar-gnomekeyring.patch

2012-07-26 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: Just looking at the current 0.96-3 src.rpm for sugar and wondering if sugar-gnomekeyring.patch should be somewhere else other than in the sugar package. This is a one time configuration that the olpc-utils[1] package currently handles. Perhaps olpc-utils would be a better place for this

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging

2012-07-29 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 00:20 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: I would like to propose a feature for discussion and inclusion in the 0.98 cycle is packaging all

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging

2012-07-30 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 10:14 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 00:20 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Jerry

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging

2012-08-02 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 09:53 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 30 July 2012 23:26, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: The idea works well for users of Dextrose where OLPC-AU as a deployment could omit features

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging

2012-08-10 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 15:28 -0700, John Gilmore wrote: We have no control over the network environment what so ever and need to work within the confines of what is available. This is our primary constraint: we cannot install servers or proxies. Schools in remote areas have

Re: [OLPC-AU] OLPC testing summary Auckland 18 August 2012

2012-08-18 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 07:35 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: OLPC testing summary Auckland 18 August 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Tabitha, Tom Today we tested XO-1s build 860 Sugar 0.84.31 with a bunch of customizations for NZ

Re: Migrating XO-1.75 to device tree - upgrade considerations

2012-08-21 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 12:04 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, We want to follow the upstream direction of dynamically driving hardware detection by the firmware-provided device tree, rather than hardcoding a board file into the kernel. We have in-development kernel and firmware versions that

Re: Migrating XO-1.75 to device tree - upgrade considerations

2012-08-22 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 09:53 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: While working with Australia, we have found the need to have the AC plugged-in for a firmware update while not requiring AC for a image upgrade to be problematic

Re: Impossible to set date in 11.3.0?

2012-08-25 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 18:25 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: File a ticket and someone may jump in to tackle it. -walter see http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11004 On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 2:26 PM, C. Scott

Re: Problems starting the XO

2012-09-01 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 10:27 +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: Hi all. I flashed an image on an XO-1, after building it from osbuilder; and booted the machine. The process went fine. Therafter, I upgraded the sugar package, via sudo rpm --force

Re: Problems starting the XO

2012-09-01 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 00:02 +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 10:27 +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: Hi all. I flashed an image on an XO-1, after building it from osbuilder

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problems starting the XO

2012-09-04 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 12:50 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: The error was from your part, when did rpm --force --nodeps You should not do this. Wouldn't of made a difference, sugar requires sugar-toolkit but doesn't state a minimum version level of the toolkit to enforce. Jerry Gonzalo

Re: [Server-devel] pushing activities to XOs

2012-09-05 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 10:28 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Jerry, I had to manually add http://schoolserver/activities; to the Group under Software Update in the Control Panel. Then, when I run the update, it pings the XS

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-09-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 22:12 -0400, Martin Abente wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: Have anyone actually tried to emulate?

Re: Completely disable buildt-in WLAN

2012-09-25 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 13:56 -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:12 PM, kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Well then. Silly me assuming it would be called libertas, or usb8xxx ;-). I'll try that when I get home. Thanks, KG Hi Kevin, Can you please test with both

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-10-02 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 09:54 -0400, Jose Prous wrote: Thanks for all the replies. We did a build using qemu, it took about 3 hours, it's acceptable for our needs. Now the problem is signing the build. But it looks like bios-crypto doesn't work with arm. I have my XO-1.75 signing

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-10-02 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 17:51 -0700, John Gilmore wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Jose Prous josepr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes it's a x86 machine, I guess that is the problem. Thanks. Glad that we found the reason. We should add an explicit check in OOB that gives you a more useful

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging

2012-10-04 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 21:29 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi All: I would like to propose a feature for discussion and inclusion in the 0.98 cycle is packaging all control-panel applets as rpms. As this discussion does

Re: [OLPC-AU] Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012

2012-10-06 Thread Jerry Vonau
Thanks for testing. On 5 October 2012 23:47, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012 Who: John, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing build 44 11.3.1-au XO-1.75: Browse 192.3!! Rocking like it’s January 2010! Based on Firefox 3.6.23, 5 security releases made

Re: [OLPC-AU] Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012

2012-10-07 Thread Jerry Vonau
On 6 October 2012 13:27, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Jerry Vonau je...@laptop.org.au wrote: Thanks for testing. On 5 October 2012 23:47, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012 Who: John, Oliver

Re: SD Card bug? XO 1.75 (Repeat post)

2012-10-08 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 19:42 +0530, RJV wrote: Mikus, I am sorry, too, that you found it SO important to answer an email that is not to your wavelength. Btw, your email looks like human spam to me so marking your email id for spam and is so offensive in tone that I have a good mind to withdraw

Re: SD Card bug? XO 1.75 (Repeat post)

2012-10-08 Thread Jerry Vonau
. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 19:42 +0530, RJV wrote: Mikus, I am sorry, too, that you found it SO important to answer an email that is not to your wavelength. Btw, your email looks like human

Re: 3G USB Dongle usage

2012-10-09 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 20:02 +0530, RJV wrote: Jerry, Configured the modem through Sugar but although the USB stick gets recognized, the autorun is not invoked and also tried a few commands from the terminal but could not make it work. Can you plug in your 3G dongle, copy

Re: Testing Summary - Auckland 13 October 2012

2012-10-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 04:13 -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote: Auckland Testing Summary 13 October 2012 Who: Alana, Fabiana, John, Oliver, Tabitha and Tom Tam Tam Mini was mostly translated but the category names

Re: Adobe Flash no longer compatible with XO-1

2012-10-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 11:59 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: For XO-1 and XO-1.5, Adobe Flash is easily included in custom OLPC OS builds (once you have obtained distribution permission from Adobe - seems like they give this out quite readily on request) with the [adobe_flash] olpc-os-builder

Re: Adobe Flash no longer compatible with XO-1

2012-10-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 13:05 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: If is was installed for a while there should be older copies in OOB's yum cache, check build/cache/imgcreate/adobe/packages/. If present you should be able to pin

Re: viafb-camera: Funky IRQ

2012-10-21 Thread Jerry Vonau
Doesn't attaching a serial console disable the camera on a XO-1.5? Jerry On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 07:36 +1100, James Cameron wrote: These kernel messages seem normal to me, in that they were present in manufacturing tests and apparently did not affect the Sugar Record activity. I don't think

Nandblaster and OFW

2012-10-24 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All, Any plans on updating OFW's nandblaster to make better use of the updated naming scheme? Looking at #nb-secure-def and #nb-update-def for the 1.75 think that maybe become fs2.zip and fs1.zip for the 1.5 but what should fs.zd be? Just to prevent mixing up images between the arches maybe

Re: Installing patch on XO-4

2012-10-25 Thread Jerry Vonau
As a workaround, maybe edit /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repos and toggle gpgcheck= to 0? OOB could do that till the issue is resolved upstream. Jerry On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 00:55 -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: AFAICT, no GPG keys are checking out. Try sudo yum install patch --nogpg I have seen the

Re: Software Update section

2012-10-29 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 01:13 +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: Hi all. How is the Software Update section (/usr/share/sugar/extensions/cpsection/updater) installed in http://build.laptop.org/13.1.0/os7/xo-1.75/ done? As I see, the contents of extensions/cpsection/updater present on the build; and

Re: gathering use cases

2012-11-08 Thread Jerry Vonau
=1dnhU2F6EntepVXTgN8QpkME8fZVUuPjcCoMUfAVKbcc I am the primary author, but it was written by canvassing feedback and opinions from schools and XS community members (including Jerry Vonau, George Hunt, Adam Holt and many others). The paper discusses several use cases and design goals, and outlines the underlying

Re: gathering use cases

2012-11-08 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 17:10 -0500, Tony Anderson wrote: On 11/08/2012 05:01 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: Hi Tony and all, On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 13:32 -0500, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi, Sridhar One of the important potential benefits from gathering use cases is to clarify the roles

Re: [Sugar-devel] x11vnc

2012-11-15 Thread Jerry Vonau
That's because the rpm is blocked via by olpc from being installed from the fedora's repos by its presence in /etc/yum/olpc-exclude but is available from the olpc repos. Think you should try disabling the rpmfusion repos before trying to install. hope it helps, Jerry On 16 November 2012 06:54,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [TRANSIENT ISSUE] 3G-Modem not being recognised

2012-11-20 Thread Jerry Vonau
On 20 November 2012 19:33, Ajay Garg a...@activitycentral.com wrote: Hi all. I have been facing transient issues in getting the 3G-Modem recognised (via the appearence of the corresponding icon in the bottom-tray). There really is no fixed pattern; sometimes the icon appears when the modem

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