Re: [Server-devel] serious Raspbian WiFi flaw discovered: works for 10SEC then cycles OFF/ON

2018-01-01 Thread Peter Robinson
>> We need to report this to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to see if they can >> fix it -- WiFi connections are repeatedly failing, sometimes even very soon >> after booting, profoundly affecting Internet-in-a-Box 6.5 ! >> >> But first a big Thanks In Advance to all who can reproduce this & offer >>

Re: [Server-devel] Apache 2.4.6 on CentOS and 2.4.10 on Debian/Raspbian

2017-05-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 1:37 AM, Adam Holt wrote: > Just FYI... > > Apache 2.4.6 was released July ~19, 2013 (used by IIAB/XSCE 6.2 on CentOS). > > Apache 2.4.10 was released Jule ~19, 2014 (used by IIAB/XSCE 6.2 on > Debian/Raspbian). > > Apache 2.4.25 was release Dec ~19,

Re: [Server-devel] ssh.service error on CentOS 7.3

2017-05-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 9:07 PM, Adam Holt wrote: > IIAB/XSCE 6.2 is installed on CentOS 7.3 on a NUC, and this error message > appears whenever I open a Terminal: > >Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status ssh.service >Unit ssh.service could not be found. > > Does anyone

Re: [Server-devel] Fedora 24 released / Fedora 22 "end-of-life" July 19 2016

2016-09-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: >> > Congrats to the F2

Re: [Server-devel] Raspberry Pi 3

2016-09-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Tim Moody wrote: > For those who wish to experiment I have added several rpi3 images to > http://xsce.org/downloads/xsce-release-6.0/rpi-images/ Fedora 25 will have Raspberry Pi support for both the RPi2 and RPi3 as part of Beta due in a couple

Re: [Server-devel] Fedora 24 released / Fedora 22 "end-of-life" July 19 2016

2016-06-23 Thread Peter Robinson
; On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: >> > Congrats to the F24 Team: >> > >> > The strategic question from a broad deployment pe

Re: [Server-devel] Fedora 24 released / Fedora 22 "end-of-life" July 19 2016

2016-06-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Adam Holt wrote: > Congrats to the F24 Team: > > The strategic question from a broad deployment perspective across the > world's lower-middle class is increasingly Raspberry Pi support, according > to so many grassroots/field groups I'm speaking

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: Announcing the release of Fedora 24 Beta for aarch64!

2016-05-10 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On May 10, 2016 3:21 PM, "Peter Robinson" <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> We do have initial pine64 support, I plan to improve it more for GA and >> have a disk imag

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: Announcing the release of Fedora 24 Beta for aarch64!

2016-05-10 Thread Peter Robinson
We do have initial pine64 support, I plan to improve it more for GA and have a disk image for use. Peter On 10 May 2016 18:44, "Adam Holt" <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Not sure the 64-bit implications of this for RPi3 and Pine64, but FYI. > -- Forwarded message ---

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: [UKids] Raspberri Pi/clone(s) most ruggedizable for OLPC fieldwork?

2016-04-06 Thread Peter Robinson
is more work to get to F24. I agree that we want to get there. > >> -Original Message- >> From: Peter Robinson [mailto:pbrobin...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 6:42 AM >> To: Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com> >> Cc: xsce-de...@googlegroups

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: [UKids] Raspberri Pi/clone(s) most ruggedizable for OLPC fieldwork?

2016-04-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Tim Moody wrote: > For xsce I'd start with f22. You can look at the rpi images on > xsce.org/downloads They're 32 bit ARMv7 are they not? Personally I'd be starting with Fedora 24 as you'll have support until July 2017, instead of the 3 or so

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Raspberri Pi/clone(s) most ruggedizable for OLPC fieldwork?

2016-04-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Adam Holt wrote: > Awesome we can start banging on this long-awaited HW!. > > Who can recommend the best/emerging/viable Fedora 22 vs. 23 vs. 24 options > to Alex? Fedora 24 definitely here, I'll actually be producing aarch64 images shortly for

Re: [Server-devel] Rapberri Pi/clone(s) most ruggidizable for OLPC fieldwork?

2016-02-07 Thread Peter Robinson
> You are the expert here (on the low end especially, with $5 Raspberri Pi > Zeros!) leading OLE refugee camp deployments across many countries. Whereas > most OLPC-like schools I talk to want to spend $100 (or more) for a > mini-server that's truly resilient for years in tropical environments, >

Re: [Server-devel] Raspberry Pi/clone(s) most ruggedizable for OLPC fieldwork?

2016-02-07 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Feb 7, 2016 3:22 AM, "Peter Robinson" <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> things like >> the PINE64 above it has a SoC attached network but not storage. > > Both SATA (real TB+ disk

Re: [Server-devel] Two (minimal) goals for a kernel for XO1.5 based upon fc22?

2015-05-28 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org wrote: Given I looked into this before with F22 Beta(*), I ran OLPC OS Builder tonight, excluding nothing from all repositories, and let it loose. Funny! I was doing exactly the same yesterday for the 1.5! There were a few

Re: [Server-devel] Two (minimal) goals for a kernel for XO1.5 based upon fc22?

2015-05-28 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:05 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: The v4.1-rc5 kernel boots fine on XO-1.5, though there are a few things to be fixed; screen blanks on boot, camera LED stays on and camera doesn't work, temperature of CPU is not accessible, and suspend fails to complete.

Re: [Server-devel] Two (minimal) goals for a kernel for XO1.5 based upon fc22?

2015-05-28 Thread Peter Robinson
Given I looked into this before with F22 Beta(*), I ran OLPC OS Builder tonight, excluding nothing from all repositories, and let it loose. Funny! I was doing exactly the same yesterday for the 1.5! There were a few more minor issues found with the build process. But I managed to build

Re: [Server-devel] UEFI workaround?

2014-10-31 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Tony Anderson’s is leaving to Africa in 6 days, assisting many different school server deployments, and needs help getting around secure BIOS/firmware UEFI on the following platforms: - NUC 34010 - BIOS upgrade solves this, by

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: [XSCE] UEFI workaround?

2014-10-31 Thread Peter Robinson
So to confirm there is no support for Secure Boot in RHEL-6 and hence CentOS-6. For this to work you'll definitely need CentOS7. If the NUC devices are baytrail the issue might not actually be SecureBoot at all but rather that they have a 32 bit uEFI implementation and that's not currently

Re: [Server-devel] raspi project

2014-10-16 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: I personally have not had much luck with Indiegogo as far as actually getting stuff is concerned, but an interesting project if rather expensive.

Re: [Server-devel] raspi project

2014-10-16 Thread Peter Robinson
testing/specs — I guess nobody will ever drop it… And kids aren't rough wit things at all... ever ;-) On Oct 16, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: I personally have not had much luck with Indiegogo

Re: [Server-devel] Cubieboard - linux-sunxi

2013-04-21 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Another ARM board, courtesy of Robert Howard. http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubieboard There's a Fedora 18 remix image that will work with this device available. Peter ___ Server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] Hardware for Schoolservers (EDIT)

2013-01-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:46 PM, German Ruiz germa...@opensuse.org.ni wrote: Hello everyone Sorry, last message was sent without finish. Just asking if anyone here knows about fanless server in the field, in any country, i was looking at the wiki[1], and the only information about hardware

Re: [Server-devel] Networking issue with XS 0.7 on EPC-AT270

2012-08-01 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 09:57 +1000, David Leeming wrote: Hello, I am training some teachers in PNG to set up school servers. We are using the EPC-AT270 (brochure attached, specs on page 7) and previously have installed

Re: [Server-devel] Networking issue with XS 0.7 on EPC-AT270

2012-08-01 Thread Peter Robinson
Reinstalling with 0.6, the networking works fine David -Original Message- From: Peter Robinson [mailto:pbrobin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2012 7:28 p.m. To: Jerry Vonau Cc: David Leeming; XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Networking issue with XS 0.7 on EPC-AT270

Re: [Server-devel] armv7hl vs armv7l

2012-07-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:42 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, You probably know the answer to this question off the top of your head. I've played with fedora's Trimslice armv7hl, using it to recompile XS rpms. Now in conversation with OLPC-Australia, I've agreed to try

Re: [Server-devel] armv7hl vs armv7l

2012-07-06 Thread Peter Robinson
what I want it to do. But I have google for that! Why do you need to override the arch? What exactly are you trying to do? Thanks for your help, George On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:42 AM, George Hunt georgejh

Re: [Server-devel] ARM on XS -- how can I integrate my work?

2012-06-28 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:11 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 25, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:14 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not done yet, but I've been making progress on porting XS code to ARM by making

Re: [Server-devel] School server on ARM related question: Systemd on fc17 doesn't see ethernet dongles or USB sticks

2012-05-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On May 19, 2012 8:22 PM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, There are no entries in /var/log/messages or dmesg relating to my test USB stick at /dev/sdb1, even though during the boot process, dracut sees an 8 GB sdb as well as the 132GB hard disk on sda that is the rootfs (so I

Re: [Server-devel] XS on ARM update.

2012-04-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:12 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: Note that currently Puppet relies on some hard coded intel specific code. Oh really? I'm assuming it'd be in the facter code, using lspci and dmidecode to get the facts about hardware I just checked ARM Koji

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:58 PM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 10, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be pressed into

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Why not an XO-1.75 ? Good point. And XO + AP + HDD would work fantastic. George, how many users per server? If 100, an XO-1.75 will do

Re: [Server-devel] initial notes on 0.7

2012-02-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: We managed to install XS 0.7 using the CentOS 6.2(minimal) + EPEL + OLPC XS approach.

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 CentOS6.2 rebase - other pending items

2012-02-10 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, I now have an XS fully up and running and passing all my basic tests. Here are the remaining items that need addressing before we have a test release: ejabberd - see the other thread. Need to decide on forking the

Re: [Server-devel] XS rebase review

2012-02-08 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:27 PM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 8, 2012, at 3:35 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:23 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: Which releases of erlang and ejabbered are you using? I unfortunately don't

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: I assume here that CentOS is reasonably in sync with RHEL. Does http://elrepo.org/bugs/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=126 help? More generally, does

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I've now seen 3 failure cases - the AR8152 mentioned above, and another case which I only had time to do a quick boot check of F9/C6/F16 (F16 was

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

2012-01-31 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I met Tony Anderson in Haiti, and again at the San Francisco OLPC Summit in late 2011. He prevailed upon me to spend some time trying to figure out how

Re: [Server-devel] using a USB modem for Internet access

2011-10-08 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I have a XS setup at a remote location in India, where the XS has a Ethernet port set up as WAN, and a Mesh antenna (USB) set up as the LAN interface. We've used the Ethernet WAN port via a crossover cable via

Re: [Server-devel] XS on the XO 1.5

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I was thinking (once again) about the possibility of running XS on a XO 1.5. On the XO-1 the built-in radio runs in the 802.11s mesh mode and serves out IPs via DHCP. Given that the 1.5 does not do 802.11s mesh, can't the

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] Sugar Server project initiation announce

2011-06-11 Thread Peter Robinson
Again, I like where this discussion is going, so it may be worthwhile to take some of this back to the drawing board. There is the issue of: 1) distro independence If you want distro independence you end up with a document of best practices on how to install a XS/Sugar server. That's not a

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC-AU] OLPC Australia XS concerns

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: I think my biggest technical concerns in XS-land are twofold:  * we need the XS to behave well on an *existing* network (i.e. single interface), without trying to be a gateway or duplicating core network services

Re: [Server-devel] Observations and question about http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Software_Repositories

2010-09-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:58 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: I am back to working on getting the XS working on one of my ARM systems with a more recent Fedora version. Hi Robert - that's

Re: [Server-devel] Observations and question about http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Software_Repositories

2010-09-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: There's more details about ARM on Fedora on the project page (which also links to the arm mailing list etc). http://fedoraproject.org

Re: [Server-devel] problems installing xs-activation on F12

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: http://fedora.laptop.org/xs/stable/olpc/xs-0.6/i386/xs-activation-0.2.39.g2277cdf-1.xs9.noarch.rpm Straightforward rpm -ivh of the RPM gives dependency errors. It needs: olpc-contents python = 2.5 python-json usbmount

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:19 AM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.comwrote: Sorry if this has been asked before. The Mac Mini was tested by someone here with a watt meter and ran between 16 and 30 watts max. Very useful for solar powered locations. Are there any issues with

Re: [Server-devel] We need: examples of XS hardware in use --

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Hamilton Chua hamilton.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Martin, Happy New Year ! We run our XS inside virtual machines. I have XS inside virtualbox on my Lenovo T61 laptop Santa Rosa Core 2 DUO 2.0 Ghz 4GB DDR2 120GB HDD while Solutiongrove runs a couple of

Re: [Server-devel] Early F11 XS build

2009-10-24 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Martin, On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: In between various complications, I have been working on getting an initial rebase of the XS packages and build infra to F11. After much wrangling with revisor, comps and image-creator, I have an

Re: [Server-devel] XS - rebase on F-11, notes and RHF

2009-10-08 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Martin, 0.6 looks like a great release. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: So the F-9-based XS-0.6 is closed (at long last), and the next step is to prep 0.7 based on F-11. Here is a rundown of the packaging / installer work I think needs to

Re: [Server-devel] XS - rebase on F-11, notes and RHF

2009-10-08 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) boche...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I think I told you that at the SugarCamp in Paris You weren't the only one :-) and in general it seemed to make sense.

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-22 Thread Peter Robinson
I'm afraid that's not always true. Running Debian Lenny here without Paul, Iñaki, -- you guys are right. It also means that there's no point worrying about pushing extra records in the DNS responses. It won't affect the XS side of things, but from the XO client side of things the new

Re: [Server-devel] Booting F9 kernels on XO...

2009-04-16 Thread Peter Robinson
I have anaconda running on the XO, installs to usbkeys/booting from are fine with F9. F11's anaconda runs straight away, but opps when installing the rpms to the MMC card. I think the issue your seeing with F11 should be fixed in the next rawhide push (anaconda-11.5.0.45-1), I've been seeing