Re: Shutting down fds prior to execvpe in rainbow/inject.py: joyride 247 under Qemu

Albert Cahalan wrote: Marcus Leech writes: I experimentally put some code just before the execvpe() in inject.py to close FDs = 3 and = 10. I picked 10 out of the air, but I wouldn't expect there to be many open file descriptors at that point. Actually, given the semantics of dup

Re: WPA not working after upgrade to Joyride 1430.

Guillaume Desmottes wrote: Le dimanche 16 décembre 2007 à 23:03 -0500, Marcus Leech a écrit : I was running Joyride 1407, but upgraded to 1430. WPA appears to no longer function. I know that WPA broke around 1416, but I guess I assumed that it would have been fixed. But perhaps

Joyride 1436 a bust

Multitudinous modprobe errors on start. Avahi doesn't start HAL hangs for a LONG time various pieces of filesystem appear to not be there, including bits required by Network Manager various bits of dbus filesystem not there, so dbus doesn't start ___

Recent Joyride builds busted bad

Missing /usr/lib/modules/kernel/*.dep, etc. This is fixed by doing a depmod -a after upgrading. But there's also chunks of filesystem missing: /var/lock/subsys/{a-bunch-of-things} /var/run/dbus /security /var/lib/stateless/{a-bunch-of-things} I looked at the build.logs for 1438, 1437, and

Re: Recent Joyride builds busted bad

Bernardo Innocenti wrote: I'm surprised how much stuff was installed only as a consequence of mkinitrd. The Fedora people should be informed of this problem, as it is likely to bite on every embedded distro based off Fedora. So, things like find and cpio were only listed as dependencies

WPA anomalies in recent Joyride builds

I use WPA-PSK (WPA personal) at home, and I've noticed anomalies. One of the big ones is that it keeps re-prompting for the passphrase (this is with Joyride 1438), and tearing-down the association. I looked at /var/log/messages while this was going on, and it seems like it starts the

Re: New joyride build 1452

Bernardo Innocenti wrote: :-) I also disapprove adding bulky packages to our builds just for sake of debugging. In this case, this is said to be only temporary until we have shaken the most serious networking problems. There is still plenty of opportunity for debloating our images, and

Re: XO as a scientific platform: wiki page

David W Hogg wrote: FWIW, I started a wiki page (on my research group wiki) about setting up my G1G1 XO for scientific writing on the road (and, eventually, research, but right now my job is to write a grant proposal on the XO as I travel around this weekend).

Re: New joyride build 1514

Build Announcer Script wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1514/ +kernel.i586 0:2.6.22-20071213.7.olpc.807beb7d0b8a49a -kernel.i586 0:2.6.22-20071231.3.olpc.71454c965b73c4e -- This email was automatically generated Aggregated logs at

Joyride---Update.1 transition

Something I'm curious about (for a set of slides I'm working on) is how stuff transitions from Joyride to Update.1 builds--both the mechanics (how the bits get copied), and the procedural and decision processes involved. Cheers Marcus ___ Devel

Re: [OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 5:24 PM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Cleve Moler wrote: (I doubt that MATLAB runs in the OLPC, but I'm not sure.) There are a number of open-source replacements for MATLAB, including GNU Octave (

Re: New joyride build 1606

Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1606 Changes in build 1606 from build: 1605 Size delta: 0M -kernel 2.6.22-20080118.2.olpc.a985ba6d19d39cc +kernel 2.6.22-20080129.1.olpc.8842a09250ff229 So, with this build, the battery light keeps

XENified images for XO

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Where did all the activities go?

I just updated from a 1700-series Joyride to Joyride 1855. There's no activity bar along the bottom of the home page. Help? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

RE: New faster build 1889

Also, was the fact that it bricks your machine design intent? I'm sad now. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Stone Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 2:57 PM To: Build Announcer v2 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New faster build

Collaboration tools running over standard ethernet

If your (virtual) XO doesn't have an 802.11 interface, do the collaboration tools still work, and if so, how? -- Marcus LeechMail: Dept 1A12, M/S: 04352P16 Security Standards AdvisorPhone: (ESN) 393-9145 +1 613 763 9145 Strategic Standards Nortel Networks

RE: 65-node simple mesh test (and counting... ;-)

The following graph is the cumulative distribution function. It shows that, on average, each XO has received about 95% of the profiles of the rest of the nodes within just 20 seconds. This performance boost is due to the fact that each XO queried for its profile, responds by broadcasting the

RE: 65-node simple mesh test (and counting... ;-)

Marcus, this is indeed an interesting idea. However it has a significant problem: wiring up more than 60 XOs onto a switch requires equipment, time and space that OLPC cannot presently provide. Such a testbed though is absolutely necessary not only as a proof of concept for your suggestion,

RE: 65-node simple mesh test (and counting... ;-)

Robert, this is great. Do you think there is any chance that we will be able to remotely use this testbed also? regards, Pol The plan is to make the lab machines reachable from the Internet. Our IS organization has agreed to do this, and has earmarked a raft of somewhat-older ethernet

School server stuff

A few questions: What driver is required on an ordinary Linux system for the active antennae? [I ask because plugging one in to a hot-off-the-presses F9 system causes said system to freeze instantly :-( ] The XS images--are they designed for XO hardware, or garden variety desktop hardware? If

What's the latest safe Joyride build to use?

I updgraded from 1918 to 1946 today, and found that most of the activities had disappeared, they weren't even in the list view. -- Marcus LeechMail: Dept 1A12, M/S: 04352P16 Security Standards AdvisorPhone: (ESN) 393-9145 +1 613 763 9145 Strategic

Bricking for fun and pleasure

I bricked a lab machine today by doing an olpc-update joyride-2000 on it--it was previously running ship.2 Build 656. The system was unbootable, so I asked it to do a fallback boot, which fell back to the 656 load, but now the /bin/su command was made non-executable to ordinary plebs. This

Re: Bricking for fun and pleasure

C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Marcus Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bricked a lab machine today by doing an olpc-update joyride-2000 on it--it was previously running ship.2 Build 656. First off, a matter of nomenclature - not really directed at you

Activities bundle

I can't remember where the .rpm is for all the activities for late-model (recent joyride), since the joyride images no longer seem to contain any activities. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Cannot see activities in joyride-2005

remember the solution (which, I think, involved downloading and installing an RPM). -- Marcus LeechMail: Dept 1A12, M/S: 04352P16 Security Standards AdvisorPhone: (ESN) 393-9145 +1 613 763 9145 Strategic Standards Nortel Networks [EMAIL

Connector spec for XO power connector

Is there a pointer to (for example) a Digi-key part number for the DC power connector for the XO? I think I want to clean up the power situation in the lab, and run a bunch of XOs off of one or more clean DC supplies ___ Devel mailing list

School server on F8?

Are there any F8 RPMs for the school-server code? Our behemoth server is F8-based, partially because some of the hardware is only supported in F8 Kernels 2.6.24 and greater (Marvell P-ATA chips, etc). -- Marcus LeechMail: Dept 1A12, M/S: 04352P16 Security

Rx Invalid Frag numbers from /sbin/iwconfig msh0

Does anyone here know precisely what the numbers related to Rx invalid frag (/sbin/iwconfig msh0) actually mean on the XO? I'm seeing very large numbers--with large deltas. Sometimes as much as 2 of these per second. Cheers Marcus ___ Devel