Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Dan Poltawski talkto...@gmail.com wrote:
 One slight drawback to this approach is that it does conflict with the goal
 of eventually rebasing onto Moodle 2.0. In Moodle 2.0 the complete file layer
 has been rewritten which means some of the work would be of targeting 1.9
 only. (The webdav patches need updating for 2.0, for example).

I am assuming that there's enough interest in the webdav patches that
they'll be ported to 2.0. Hell, I'd be happy to port them if nobody
else does by the time I need them... ;-)

My overall plan is that most (all?) of the custom work on Moodle for
the XS has to find its way upstream -- though with the 2.0 cycle it's
a bit hard. So I'm focusing on 1.9.x for now. When the time comes,
I'll probably rebase things on 2.0 and start landing them for 2.1 ...

If I have things in shape for landing in time for 2.0 feature freeze,
fantastic, but I'm not sure how schedules are going with that...

cheers,



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Re: [Server-devel] XS 05

2009-01-20 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:15 -0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Henry VĂ©lez Molina
 henry.lap...@gmail.com wrote:
  Thanks Martin for you answer.
 
 No problem!
 
  We have been trying to install the server via the Kickstart, but that
  happens when anaconda  to start  can not do it and the screen turns off.
 

Do you even get any kind of UI or does the install shut down with
install exited abnormally [1/1]?

 H, I can think of some possible causes...
 
  - your download was corrupt or truncated - check that the sha1sum of
 the iso is
 
$ sha1sum OLPCXS-0.5.1-dev03-i386.iso
eab0fd3596bbfca532eec51eb5e774cb00b25cd8  OLPCXS-0.5.1-dev03-i386.iso
 
  - You are hitting a low mem condition while installing the
 selinux-policies package. How much RAM does the machine have?
 
  We
  tried the solution that is in the wiki-press tab and add text and nothing
  happens. One of the ways that we return to the terminal is pressing
  Ctrl+Alt+2, then Ctrl+Alt+1.
 

Sounds like your in the Loader or GUI part of anaconda.. 


 That can help if the problem is with RAM - I think you need to hit tab
 earlier -- before the graphical installer starts. There is a very
 early screen, as soon as the CD or USB stick is read - hit escape
 *there*...
 
  Could be the GPU problem?
 
 Very unlikely to be GPU or CPU
 
  What can be do in these cases?
 
 - Ensure the iso is good (with sha1sum), check memory, try to uyse the
 text installer.
 - Installing from USB is a bit less reliable - try with a CD
 - Try is to install a standard Fedora 9 on the machine - sometimes
 there are subtle incompatibilities there...
 
  Is there another way to start the installation?
 
 Not really :-/
 
 
 keep us posted on your progress so we can help...;
 
Can you confirm that you have the OLPCXS-0.5.1-dev03-i386.iso, please


Martin:

I have not run a full install for the latest xs-0.5, I ran an upgrade
from a prior 0.5 install... I'm thinking that this could be a
kernel/anaconda issue with the change in kernel headers for 2.6.27.

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git;a=commit;h=aa27086f78e9997c8904e4e274acda64709ff0b4

This would show up just as the partitioning is about to happen

If this is the case I have a patched version of anaconda that I
re-rolled, for the missing CF card kernel modules, 
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git;a=commit;h=da459689b78a80108916f58ea467db55026b14a1


Along with one that fixes auditd.c, wouldn't build without it.
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git;a=commit;h=03632989910557d955c1b5362c401addc62d0146

And the patch in my custom anaconda that doesn't copy stage2.img to RAM
when using a hard drive for the source. My version of these patches
apply cleanly against F9's anaconda version.

This rpm would need to be installed on the build system and added to the
main XS repo. I'm just at the point of testing, loader builds fine,
looks to install the modules when run. I'm re-rolling the installation
media so as mkimages adds the needed modules, so loader can install
them, then on to testing the partitioning

Jerry  



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[Server-devel] XS as virtual image

2009-01-20 Thread David Van Assche
Is it possible to run the XS server as a virtual Image. The school
where we have currently deployed XOs has a windows 2003 server that
could carry a virtual image... Its not what I called Ideal, but I was
wondering whether it would work...

kind Regards,
David Van Assche
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