Re: Error running socialcalc on sugar live cd
Hello Tomeu and all, I just got the chance to try installing socialcalc on the sugar live cd and I have been able to install it properly. Here is the review of the process, might be helpful for other activities also in case anybody faces a similar problem-- 1. Actually, the error which was coming earlier was because of the permission being denied by sugar. So, in order to install any activity one is supposed to use the sudo command to have super user access. I mean, the following command would lead to above mentioned errors--- sugar-install-bundle SocialCalcActivity.xo However, using sudo will resolve the issue-- sudo sugar-install-bundle SocialCalcActivity.xo 2. However, I was unable to install the activity directly from the journal, when we click on the activity bundle in the journal, nothing actually happens. Hi, can you check you can write to /home/olpc/Activities? Yes, we can write but by using sudo command. Regards, Tomeu Cheers, VIJIT aka sumit ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Error running socialcalc on sugar live cd
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:54 AM, vijit singh vijitthetopco...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Tomeu and all, I just got the chance to try installing socialcalc on the sugar live cd and I have been able to install it properly. Here is the review of the process, might be helpful for other activities also in case anybody faces a similar problem-- 1. Actually, the error which was coming earlier was because of the permission being denied by sugar. So, in order to install any activity one is supposed to use the sudo command to have super user access. I mean, the following command would lead to above mentioned errors--- sugar-install-bundle SocialCalcActivity.xo However, using sudo will resolve the issue-- sudo sugar-install-bundle SocialCalcActivity.xo 2. However, I was unable to install the activity directly from the journal, when we click on the activity bundle in the journal, nothing actually happens. Hi, can you check you can write to /home/olpc/Activities? Yes, we can write but by using sudo command. The directory /home/olpc/Activities should be writable by user olpc. That would explain your trouble with installing activities. The question remains, why was the ownership/write permissions of /home/olpc/Activities improperly set? -walter Regards, Tomeu Cheers, VIJIT aka sumit ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
soas70xo impressions
Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; I'm sharing my experiences. Ran with soas70xo (booted from nand) on my XO-1. Many of the difficulties with previous SoaS builds were still present, with some new ones added. The X crash scrolling problem is a BLOCKER - for instance, because of this problem I cannot change the Jabber server specification. Speak did not produce any sound. [It did not even attempt to wiggle its mouth until I in Frame unmuted the volume.] Record did not launch. Browse came up with its display window size significantly exceeding the physical size of the XO screen. 'rpm -q kernel' attests to sloppy composing of the build. With now more exposure to it, I still do not like the new toolbar design. The XO has a *small* display screen. Now many Activity capabilities (such as 'Edit' in Terminal) can only be invoked from a secondary toolbar that drops down from the primary toolbar. The two toolbars together take up a significant amount of XO screen real estate. And each time the secondary toolbar needs to be shown or hidden, it takes one *extra* click (after me having to move the cursor off the part of the screen that I was doing my work on). I notice that now Sugar 0.86 has been upstreamed into Rawhide. I suspect that some Activities still need changing to fit 0.86. mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: soas70xo impressions
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Mikus, On 29 Sep 2009, at 15:14, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: With now more exposure to it, I still do not like the new toolbar design. The XO has a *small* display screen. Now many Activity capabilities (such as 'Edit' in Terminal) can only be invoked from a secondary toolbar that drops down from the primary toolbar. The two toolbars together take up a significant amount of XO screen real estate. And each time the secondary toolbar needs to be shown or hidden, it takes one *extra* click (after me having to move the cursor off the part of the screen that I was doing my work on). Just a quick hint that you do not need to click if you don't want to. The secondary toolbars hover expose (or right click if you want them instantly), in this mode they work just like any palette menu, taking up no canvas space, forcing no canvas redraw. I would argue your 'significant amount of XO screen real estate' is a rather large exaggeration ;-) Here's a quick screen shot comparison for the worst case when you have a secondary toolbar locked open to the canvas. On a 1200x900 display, two layers of toolbars is only an extra ~30 pixels, and you have the choice of not locking open the secondary toolbar (especially for edit, just use the keyboard shortcuts), gaining you an extra ~40 vertical pixels of canvas space. Not to mention that many (most) toolbar items have keyboard shortcuts. Edit certainly does :) -walter Regards, --Gary ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: soas70xo impressions
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:14:34AM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: The X crash scrolling problem is a BLOCKER I know, you heard it here first. Care to bugzilla it? 'rpm -q kernel' attests to sloppy composing of the build. Sloppy is hardly the moniker for the general practice of having two kernels installed (one backup/running and one to-be-booted into, for example). The way the kickstart file installs the OLPC one is indeed terrible, and I'm not proud of it. I notice that now Sugar 0.86 has been upstreamed into Rawhide. I suspect that some Activities still need changing to fit 0.86. Oh yeah. It's going to get worse before it gets better, I think. mikus Martin pgplNXgiTzuCs.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: soas70xo impressions
The X crash scrolling problem is a BLOCKER I know, you heard it here first. Care to bugzilla it? 'rpm -q kernel' attests to sloppy composing of the build. Sloppy is hardly the moniker for the general practice of having two kernels installed (one backup/running and one to-be-booted into, for example). The way the kickstart file installs the OLPC one is indeed terrible, and I'm not proud of it. I notice that now Sugar 0.86 has been upstreamed into Rawhide. I suspect that some Activities still need changing to fit 0.86. Oh yeah. It's going to get worse before it gets better, I think. Record would be one of those. Peter ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Error running socialcalc on sugar live cd
Hello Walter and all, The directory /home/olpc/Activities should be writable by user olpc. Yes, they should be in the live cd also as they are writable in the normal xo and the sugar emulator as well. That would explain your trouble with installing activities. The question remains, why was the ownership/write permissions of /home/olpc/Activities improperly set? Well, I didn't changed any settings ( I think sugar doesn't permits an user or even an administrator to change such settings on the sugar system). So, I think these permissions are set by default in the live cd by the rainbow system. I think some more related person would be able to explain better. -walter Cheers, VIJIT ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: soas70xo impressions
Regarding _using_ the 'new' toolbar: I would argue your 'significant amount of XO screen real estate' is a rather large exaggeration ;-) My XO-1 screen is 4.5 inches vertically. On soas70xo, two toolbars together visually black out .75 inches vertically. That's 1/6 of my entire screen. [What I'm remembering is the *total* visual impression of those two totally black toolbars; what you are measuring is the *incremental* area of that second toolbar vs. the less obtrusive former tabs.] Just a quick hint that you do not need to click if you don't want to I did not mind the click, since I was already clicking on the old toolbar. [To me, more time gets wasted when hovering than when clicking.] What I see as a duplication of effort (unless I leave the second toolbar in place, which I perceive as taking away limited XO screen real estate) is that I have to first [click|hover] to bringup the second toolbar - only then can I [click|whatever] on the service I want. With the old design, I *would* leave the appropriate tab selected, yet not feel as though by doing so I was obstructing part of my doing-the-actual-work area. mikus p.s. I suspect that on an XO-1 with Sugar 0.86 I will end up switching to full screen whenever possible, thereby visually _eliminating_ the distraction of seeing those thick toolbars. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
[Server-devel] firewalling/nocat
Hi Martin: I've worked up what I think the basic layout of what the firewall rules need to look like that would be used with nocat's access.fw I've stripped and ported nocat's initialize.fw script for our needs, should set up the required iptable rules. access.fw accepts 4 inputs: [permit\|deny] [MAC] [IP] [Class] There are 4 classes of access, Owner, Member, Public, with None being the default, The access from ranging from full to none. (read the script) I have my rough script and the resulting rule set at: http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/iptables/ I have not tested this yet... (I need sleep now..) Just looking for feed back at this point. Just wondering since the hood is up, should we be looking to lock down the services a bit? Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list server-de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
os30
Just noticed http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9459 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9467 Is there a way to test os30 without an XO-1.5? Or shouldn't I worry about these? - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: os30
Hi Bert, Is there a way to test os30 without an XO-1.5? I think you can boot the os30.iso that's output by the build process in your VM environment of choice: http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/ Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
My view of OS7 on XO-1
It now connects to my home AP without manual intervention, and quickly too. Yea! Thanks. I haven't figured out how to setup a mesh network. I've got two circles on the frame. One is a copy of the icon for my AP in the neighborhood view. The other one is gray and the text says Create new wireless network. Poking it doesn't do anything that I can see. I had a power failure this afternoon. That gave me a pop-up asking for the password to my AP. The AP was dead. It already knows the password to my AP. At one point, I had 4 strange AP icons on the neighborhood view, all the same color, all said olpc-mesh. They may have been created while I was poking around after my AP got killed by the power failure. After a while, they went away when I wasn't watching. Turning off the Automatic Power Managment check-box in the control panel doesn't work. I can uncheck the box, but after poking OK and opening it up again, it comes back checked again. After a while, an idle system goes into a funny power saving mode. The radio LED is off and pings are ignored. If I poke a key, the CPU active LED (right of the battery LED) blinks but the system doesn't wake up. Poking the power button gets me back to the system. An occasional ping (75 seconds) avoids this. If the display has been dimmed, poking the LED-brighter key (F10) turns the display on, but it comes up all white. Poking a letter key or moving the cursor shows the picture. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS upgrade
2009/9/28 Henry Vélez Molina henry.lap...@gmail.com: First: ejabberd web admin should be _gone_. What does `rpm -V xs-config` say? SM5T c/fsckoptions Ok. That sounds _very_ sane. Can you re-run domain_config and restart the machine? The ejabberd web UI should be gone after that. (And your connectivity problems should probably get fixed with that too -- if not, we need to explore that more. Can you tell us more about the connectivity issues?) Second: the problem with Moodle may be related to Postgresql. Can you tell us the output of these 2 commands? chkconfig --list pgsql-xs chkconfig --list postgresql 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off Ok, the second one should _not_ be on. Can you try # switch the generic postgresql service off chkconfig --off postgresql # check the results -- should say all off chkconfig --list postgresql and then restart... with the restart, moodle should get started correctly... m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] DNS/dhcp question
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 18:49 -0400, Gerald Ardito wrote: Jerry, I am still having problems. I thought I would try to simplify the network to see if that would make a difference. How about this: 1. eth0 is plugged into our school network/internet 2. eth1 is connected via ethernet cable to an access point. Would this work? That is the default layout. If so, how should eth1 be configured? As long as the access point is in bridging mode there should be no issues, and nothing needs to be changed with eth1. Are you able to re-configure the AP if needed? If so, what ip address does the AP use for management? I only know what you tell me about your network layout, with your XS setup like that, what are the results of ip route ls? I'll assume that eth0 has a static ip address. Just to get a feel of what your layout looks like in my head. Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] DNS/dhcp question
Jerry, I am not trying to be vague about anything. I would love to give you a sense of what is happening. I want to apologize ahead for not being clear. Not all of this makes perfect sense to me. Current situation: My XS box has 2 NICS Eth0 connects to the school internet and has a static IP address (10.125.105.153; subnet 255.255.248.0) Eth1 connects to a VLAN set up for the XOs. The Access Points for the VLAN point toward the XS box as the DHCP server (so I'm told). I was given that IP address by my tech guy. Here are the parameters: -IP range is 10.125.140.0 -Give the SchoolServer an IP address of 10.125.140.31, -set up DHCP for a range of 10.125.140.100 - 254. -Subnet mask should be 255.255.248.0 Ongoing questions: 1. I have been working under the assumption that eth1 should have the Schoolserver address above (10.124.140.31). Is that correct? 2. What do I need to do (if anything) to configure the DHCP functions of the XS? 3. Is there anything else you need to help with this. Thanks. Gerald On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 18:49 -0400, Gerald Ardito wrote: Jerry, I am still having problems. I thought I would try to simplify the network to see if that would make a difference. How about this: 1. eth0 is plugged into our school network/internet 2. eth1 is connected via ethernet cable to an access point. Would this work? That is the default layout. If so, how should eth1 be configured? As long as the access point is in bridging mode there should be no issues, and nothing needs to be changed with eth1. Are you able to re-configure the AP if needed? If so, what ip address does the AP use for management? I only know what you tell me about your network layout, with your XS setup like that, what are the results of ip route ls? I'll assume that eth0 has a static ip address. Just to get a feel of what your layout looks like in my head. Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] firewalling/nocat
Please mark it GPL. A README.GPL file on your server or some comments in the source or in email should do. Lots of scripts do not have a GPL line but may have an Implied GPL in a source tree policy. Since you are not checking it in yourself it seems like a good thing to do and a courtesy to those that take it an run with it. Scripts have source so the key obligation of the GPL is done. On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi Martin: I've worked up what I think the basic layout of what the firewall rules need to look like that would be used with nocat's access.fw I've stripped and ported nocat's initialize.fw script for our needs, should set up the required iptable rules. access.fw accepts 4 inputs: [permit\|deny] [MAC] [IP] [Class] There are 4 classes of access, Owner, Member, Public, with None being the default, The access from ranging from full to none. (read the script) I have my rough script and the resulting rule set at: http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/iptables/ I have not tested this yet... (I need sleep now..) Just looking for feed back at this point. Just wondering since the hood is up, should we be looking to lock down the services a bit? Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
