[Server-devel] XS-0.7 fakeroot package updated to solve xs-rsync issue
Hi, German R in Nicaragua identified a problem with xs-rsync, where some files in the OS builds served to XOs are sent with bad permissions. This fails olpc-update's verification checks, and the systems can't update. This was a bug in fakeroot, not processing internal messages correctly, and recording bad permissions as a result. Fixed in fakeroot-1.18.4-1.el6.olpc1.i686.rpm, available in the usual repo: http://dev.laptop.org/xs/repos/stable/olpc/xs-0.7/i386/ Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] xs-activity-server updates
Hi, 2 recent updates to xs-activity-server, new version 0.4.0 published just now: 1. Dotted activity versions (e.g. Browse-149.3) are now supported. 2. Separated input and output a bit better, easier to use with puppet and similar. Use rsync to sync your activities into /library/xs-activity-server/activities and then run xs-regenerate-activities when done. The files are then linked elsewhere and the output html files are also kept separately. 3. Support for multiple activity groups. e.g. put some activities in /library/xs-activity-server/activities/2014 and they will come up in a new activity group at http://schoolserver/activities/2014 Thanks Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Interesting opportunity to study upstream - downstream relationship Was: Root fs on XO1
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 10:29 AM, David Farning wrote: > The is an example of the opportunities and potential challenges that > can occur between the community and the Association. This is why I was > very pleased that the XSCE-XS thread last week shifted to > clarification. > > The motivations and drives behind community volunteer decisions can be > very different than the motivations and drives behind the decisions of > an Association employee. As expressed in this thread, when working > with large and remote deployments, the Association must be very risk > adverse. Sending a qualified engineer to diagnose and fix a flakey SD > card can take days... during which time their reputation takes a > beating. I have some experience wearing those shoes :( I think you raise a valid question but we could revisit your thought process. By "Association" I assume you are referring to the OLPC Association. (actually perhaps it doesn't even matter which association you are referring to for the purpose of this mail) The above paragraph suggests to me: 1. Community projects can be deployed and it doesn't matter if they do not work properly 2. Association projects must be stable/reliable so that the reputation of the company is not damaged I disagree with both points and would reword them like this: 1. All projects aimed for deployment (regardless of developer) should strive for quality - which includes being "risk averse". 2. The reason for striving for quality is so that the project actually serves the users, and is stable and reliable. (nothing to do with reputation of the developer) Doing a mental search-replace of those points in the rest of your mail results in something that makes more sense to me, with the key question of how to ensure stability and quality. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS to become XSCE???
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > Yes, lets be clear here, is OLPC going to maintain 0.7 going forward? Yes, support and maintenance is still provided. That does not mean that every request can be met, but it isn't deprectated or discontinued or anything like that. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Dealing with the disruptions caused by XSCE.
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:47 AM, David Farning wrote: > This disruption is particularly evident in the relationship between > XSCE and OLPC. Long term, XSCE _might_ be valuable to OLPC in their > role as "The world food bank of education." Short term. in their roles > as a sustainable business, it is a pain in the ass. What do you say to > a customer when they ask for features which are still in a unreleased > version of a community project... which just showed up on their wiki > one day. I don't see an issue here. You can leave communication between OLPC and its customers to the relevant parties of the communication. That should not stop anyone from writing code. > A first question is should the XSCE wiki remain in a username space at > wiki.laptop.org ? Should it move to another home? Should it move to > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XSCE ? or should we wait 3 months and > revisit the issue? OLPC has historically been happy to host community project info on the wiki and I don't see any exception here. In some cases notices are added to pages noting that OLPC does not provide direct customer support but I hope that does not stop any efforts. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Attempting to upgrade XO 1.5 firmware. Says "activation lease not found"
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Kevin Cole wrote: > Will go back and try it later this evening without the firmware and > developer key in place. > >> Another useful verification item: turn on the laptop, wait to hear the >> boot jingle, press escape. Connect USB disk. At the "ok" prompt type >> "dir u:\" >> This will check that the laptop can read the USB disk successfully. > > OK. If it appears that the USB disk can be read OK, try renaming fs1.zip to fs.zip It might be that the old firmware you are running does not recognise the new name. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Attempting to upgrade XO 1.5 firmware. Says "activation lease not found"
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Kevin Cole wrote: > I thought I had given sufficient detail, but... Your original mail raised several questions which the additional detail below answer perfectly clearly, thanks. > "On the first day of summer vacation, I went downtown to look for a > job and hung out in front of the drug store. On the the second day of > summer vacation, I went downtown to look for a job and hung out in > front of the drug store. On the third day of summer vacation, I went > downtown to look for a job and hung out in front of the drug store..." > -- Cheech & Chong (Sister Mary Elephant) > > * I booted my Ubuntu laptop. > * I inserted a 1 GB USB thumb drive. > * I opened Chrome > * I went to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes > * I clicked on Release_notes/13.2.0 > * I clicked on 4.3 XO-1.5 > * I clicked on 32013o1.zd which saved it to ~/Download/ > * I clicked on 32013o1.zd.zsp.fs1.zip which saved it to ~/Download/ > * I opened a terminal window > * I typed: > cd ~/Download/ > mv 32013o1.zd.zsp.fs1.zip fs1.zip > cp -v fs2 /media/usb/ > cp -v 32013o1.zd /media/usb/ > diff fs2 /media/usb/ > diff 32013o1.zd /media/usb/ > sudo shutdown -h now What is the fs2 thing? Can you post "ls /media/usb" output for double-checking? > * I inserted the 1 GB USB thumb drive in the XO and pressed the > power button while holding the X key on the gamepad. > * I released the X when told it to do so. > * I received an error about NANDblaster. (Sorry, I don't have the > exact text of that message.) And if you can, post the output from the XO screen of the above. The NANDblaster error is not interesting, but the previous lines are. Another useful verification item: turn on the laptop, wait to hear the boot jingle, press escape. Connect USB disk. At the "ok" prompt type "dir u:\" This will check that the laptop can read the USB disk successfully. > * I booted my Ubuntu laptop. > * I inserted the 1 GB USB thumb drive. > * I opened Chrome > * I went to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware > * I clicked on XO-1.5 > * I clicked on OLPC Firmware q3c16 > * I clicked on q3c16.rom which saved it to ~/Download/ > * I typed > mkdir /media/usb/boot > cp -v q3c16.rom /media/usb/boot > diff q3c16.rom /media/usb/boot > sudo shutdown -h now > > * I inserted the 1 GB USB thumb drive in the XO and pressed the > power button while holding the X key on the gamepad. > * I released the X when told it to do so. > * After a few minutes, I saw three icons, and a message at the top > of the screen "Activation lease not found". It's not clear to me why you are holding the X key here, are you expecting that to upgrade the firmware from the rom file? It doesn't quite work like that. What the X does is make the laptop boot in secure mode. Your laptop has security disabled (as you mentioned: no wp tag) but by pressing X you are simulating security-enabled. As designed, this then goes and looks for an activation lease or developer key, and fails. (it wouldn't have upgraded the firmware from the .rom even if you made it happy with the appropriate lease/key) Anyway, no manual firmware upgrade should be necessary. Lets figure out why the reflashing doesn't work. Thanks Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Attempting to upgrade XO 1.5 firmware. Says "activation lease not found"
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Kevin Cole wrote: > I haven't done this in quite some time. I attempted to install the latest > OS release from a USB, but it complained about the NAND. So, I attempted to > upgrade the firmware from a USB, and it complained about the activation > lease. It would help if you could be more specific about exactly which steps you are taking, and exactly you are seeing. Thanks Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] School networks and electrical equipment damage
Hi, Those of us familiar with setting up school networks (server + switch + APs) in some of our deployments will be familiar with the occasional loss of hardware, due to surges in the low quality electrical supply or whatever, even when the system is protected by a cheap UPS which supposedly offers some protection. This has often been the case in Nicaragua, so the group is now buying more expensive UPSes, PoE switches, and PoE access points for new schools. This means that the server and switch are connected to mains power via a UPS which hopefully protects them, and none of the APs are connected directly to the mains (instead they get Power over Ethernet) which hopefully offers some isolation from bad electrical conditions. This equipment is expensive, especially in places like Nicaragua where lots of import taxes are applied. But the hope is that the investment pays off in that the equipment doesn't get zapped. However, one week after deploying this equipment in the first school, we are left with a server that doesn't boot, 3 out of 4 access points broken with a nice burning electronics smell, and a broken switch with a lot of visible damage to the electronics. And the most surprising thing - we had not even turned on the network yet, pending some electrical work. Everything was connected up except one crucial link - the UPS was not plugged into mains power. So all of this damage happened without any of the devices having a connection to the mains. Connectivity-wise, the setup was: WAN: Phone line - ADSL modem - XS LAN: XS - Switch - 4 APs And power connections: the XS, ADSL modem and switch were connected to the UPS. The APs were connected to the switch over ethernet for both power and data. Again, since the battery was not connected to mains power, none of the devices had a power source. The connectivity engineer's best bet is that a lightening bolt landed at the school or nearby, and that this caused a power surge on the phone line. This surge passed through the ADSL modem, server, switch, and 4 APs, destroying everything in its path (except 1 AP that was connected over a longer cable than the rest). I figured this is a story worth sharing, for any other projects considering splashing out on more expensive equipment... Also, I'm wondering if anyone has any advice/experience here. Would others expect this more expensive setup to be more resilient to bad electrical conditions than a cheaper setup - will the investment pay off? I figure that the case of a lightening bolt might be a bit extreme, but electrical storms are a nightly occurance here almost daily during the 6 month rainy season. I have seen that some UPSs (unfortunately not these ones) allow a phone line to be passed through them, supposedly offering some protection. Would such a system protect against a lightening bolt, assuming thats what happened here? Thanks Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] the plan for Puppet
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > I was wondering if someone on this list (Daniel, or Martin, someone > who knows more about puppet) can speak to the design behind the > incorporation of Puppet in 0.7. The incorporation is minimal. The client was added to the base install. It is just one small step further in the "official blessing" of puppet as an XS maintenance tool that happened a few years ago. That really is sufficient to get puppet synchronization deployed. It is hard to get much more specific without excluding certain deployment scenarios. And it also depends what you want to actually use puppet for, there are many possible uses. But there is some potential guidance here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Puppet Note that our blessing of puppet is for synchronization of XS, not for synchronization of XOs. > Additionally, I'd like to hear more about services like xs-rsync that > are available on the server, but documentation is scattered. If/how > can activities be pushed to XOs seamlessly? That has to be done with xs-activity-server http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-activity-server And the XO image has to be configured to look at the school server for activities (easily done with olpc-os-builder). You can use puppet to feed activities into this system from a central server. The README is missing some details here. You (or puppet) puts the activities in /library/xs-activity-server/activities and then runs xs-regenerate-activities. The missing step here is automatic activity update; every XO user has to go to the control panel and choose to upgrade activities. Hopefully something that can be automated in future. > RPM installations on the XO? That would be done by creating a new image in olpc-os-builder (with the RPMs added) and then offering it to XOs via xs-rsync. http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/xs-rsync/tree/README describes the steps that you need to instruct puppet to take. Then XOs can upgrade manually (by running olpc-update on the command line with the school server URL). That can also happen automatically, with a bit more work. The XS oats server does not advertise updates to the XOs although some patches were posted for that a few years ago. The oatslite oats server (designed to be run on a central server, not on the XS) can be used to advise XOs that there is an OS update available on their school server, resulting in this upgrade process being fully automated. > Pulling logs via ds-backup? Not sure what this means. Overall these kinds of tasks are possible with these systems, but we lack one crucial item (automatic activity update), a bit of documentation and some polish. Note the pattern here that puppet is used to feed stuff to the XS, then XS/OLPC systems are used to feed stuff to the XO. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] ds-backup
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:16 PM, George Hunt wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > I noticed that you were working on ds-backup recently. I was trying to get > XSCE running on fc18, and encountered the issue of fedora dropping > mod-python (see https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5165). > > Is it ok to just carry the fc17 version along in our repo, and try to see if > it just works, or should we set a goal of rewriting to mod_wsgi? Carrying along an old mod_python might be tricky, I think F18 has a new apache version with some incompatibilities. I would port it to wsgi. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] puppet
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Tim Moody wrote: > Over the years there have been a number of expressions of interest in > puppet. Are there any modules out there for actual XS services? > > I know about http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/puppet-example/tree/, > which has some manifests. That's what is currently available. If you are looking for something specific, please ask, maybe someone can help you write the appropriate manifest. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Running complete Wikipedia offline
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > I've been debating the possibility of running a *complete* copy of > Wikipedia (txt and images) offline on the XS. At this point, the > targets are English (https://en.wikipedia.org) and Hindi > (https://hi.wikipedia.org). > > The demand on the local server wouldn't be huge, given the relatively > small footprint at the school. Storage is cheap. This would be an > offline copy for one-way consumption, so I'm not looking for ways to > do local edits, and push these back upstream. I'd imagine the > Wikipedia dumps can be rsync'd once every x months over sneakernet. > Dump data is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps When I was in Nepal we cloned Wiktionary onto the school server, and I imagine the process is similar for wikipedia. The way we did it was: Install mediawiki and configure it the same way that the "real" version is configured: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/ Install the same plugins that are running on the real version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version Then import the db http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html Then make a few local tweaks (e.g. disable registration/editing) Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] usbmount alternatives
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 08:23 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Tony Anderson >> wrote: >> > The Community XS is being mounted on Fedora. Adam reports the Fedora does >> > not support usbmount. >> >> I'd be interested in confirming that usbmount is now unusable and >> unfixable on Fedora, if that is what is being suggested. Can anyone >> provide technical details? > > With the move to per-seat mounting of devices at > "/run/media//" I would thought that usbmount's > 20-umount.rules would override that behaviour but does not. This would > be a welcome addition in Fedora proper as lots of people are having > issues with the revised layout/behaviour of removable media. Have you tried disabling whatever component is requesting mounts at /run/media/? Note that this is not something that happens by "default" - you must have something running that explicitly makes the request. > Think the issue might be that a list (sda sda1) of character files is > passed by udev but usbmount doesn't test if it's a block device before > trying to mount, then failing and bailing if the first device in the > list doesn't mount. sda and sda1 will never be character devices, always block. It may try sda first, but I don't think that is something new. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] usbmount alternatives
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: > The Community XS is being mounted on Fedora. Adam reports the Fedora does > not support usbmount. I'd be interested in confirming that usbmount is now unusable and unfixable on Fedora, if that is what is being suggested. Can anyone provide technical details? Thanks Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] usbmount alternatives
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Holt wrote: > George/Daniel/Tony/Jerry, > > Was there a conclusion here, if any? I'm still waiting for someone to write here explaining what exactly the problem is with usbmount. Thanks Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Post XS-0.7 plans
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Tim Moody wrote: > So would it be accurate to say that OLPC does not plan any future XS other > than the Community School Server, currently a work-in-progress by George, > Jerry, and others? I can't comment on behalf of OLPC, and asking about an indefinite future is not really going to get you a concrete answer. However it is fair to say that OLPC has in one way already handed off the XS to the community. The last version (0.7) was not developed by OLPC, it was developed by the Zamora Teran foundation. > Documentation on the Community School Server is starting to appear outside > of the laptop.org wiki. I feel some uncertainty as to whether this is as it > should be or not. The developers of that project have been encouraged not to fork a new project, and instead simply create the next XS version. The decision (and workload) is up to them. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Post XS-0.7 plans
Hi, On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Tim Moody wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Can you tell me what plans there are for the XS beyond version 0.7 and who > would be undertaking them. Based on recent discussions at the OLPC community summit in San Francisco, it looks like the next version of the XS will be developed by George Hunt and Jerry Vonau and their collaborators. I think their plans are to continue moving in the direction that allows the XS to be more modular, and to additionally support the ARM hardware platform. I believe they still have some issues to solve caused from fallout with the move to Fedora 17, and then the work will need to be posted as patches for a technical review on this mailing list. Thanks Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] pushing activities to XOs
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Maybe we can prepare a Feature for the next cycle. > Also, we are shipping a old updater, not integrated with the changes done in > sugar > (sugar was changed to support different backends, as ASLO and OLPC, > but our code does not implement the backend). Yes. I put my notes (unfinished) here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Automatic_activity_updates But not planning to continue on this topic at the present time. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] pushing activities to XOs
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Sameer Verma 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 and grabs new activities. Is this expected > behavior? Yes. For a deployment you would use olpc-os-builder to preset that address. And yes, there is a missing link in that this currently must be user-invoked; theres no fully automated way of pushing activities yet. I hope to be a part of solving that in a future release cycle. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Networking issue with XS 0.7 on EPC-AT270
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:57 PM, 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 X_-v0.6 with no problems at all. > > This time I am trying XS-0.7 but we have a networking issue. It does not > configure either of the two Ethernet ports. Just to check one of the basic details... Are you aware that the XS-0.7 doesnt configure network by default? You must take extra steps. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software_0.7#Network_configuration Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] ARM on XS -- how can I integrate my work?
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:26 AM, George Hunt wrote: > Thanks Daniel for the reality check. I often seem to get caught up in > wanting to learn about something without seeing the larger context. > > I was looking at the function per watt, and not seeing the > development/testing/support costs involved in adding another distribution. > > In retrospect, I was also ignoring another fact, that the fitpci has a dual > core atom processor that draws 7 watts just like the ARM Trimslice -- ARM is > not really necessary to achieve low power school serving. > > All is not lost however, I enjoyed learning about ARM, and packaging rpms -- > skills I may find useful. I think there is still a lot of interest in XS-on-ARM - are you giving up? Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] ARM on XS -- how can I integrate my work?
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:14 AM, George Hunt wrote: > I'm not done yet, but I've been making progress on porting XS code to ARM by > making modifications to DSD's XS-0.7. Upon his suggestion, I have been > basing my work on the srpms posted at > http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xsrepos/stable/olpc/xs-0.7/source/. > > Now that I've got some of the services running, I'm wondering how to > contribute to the XS codebase. What I'd prefer is to contribute deltas from > XS-0.7 that use `uname -p` to enable the appropriate path through the > startup scripts. That kind of approach would suggest supporting both CentOS and F17+. I'm not sure if thats the direction we'd want to go - supporting 2 platforms has its costs. It might be preferred to do a full migration to F17. You'll need clarification from this from Martin, who's away until next month. > Earlier, I started using the git sources at dev.laptop.org, and I discovered > that there did not appear to be an obvious set of git repos, corresponding > to XS-0.7. Paths for repos that had the most recent changes included: > > /packages/ > /projects/ > /bios-crypto/ > /users/martin/ > > Any suggestions on how we should proceed? I think you just need to sit down and hunt these down. It shouldn't take you long, using version numbers found in the most recent RPM packages, etc. Many of the XS component webpages have links to the git repo, e.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-rsync If there are ones that don't, maybe you can add the links. And if you really get stuck, you can ask for help for a particular package. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] failed to register
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Holt wrote: > One XO-1.5 successfully registered back on Saturday. It successfully then > pushed 36MB to the XS' /library/users/SHC03801C2E (after running > /usr/bin/ds-backup.sh on the XO-1.5 and waiting ~30min). So we went home > Saturday night with a false sense of confidence! > > But no XO-1.5s will fully register today (all ~50 of the school's XOs are > XO-1.5s). > Clearly, Jamaica's change from XS 0.6 to XS 0.7 two months ago destroyed > reliable registration? Can you check if the XOs have any server listed in the Network section of the sugar settings? If they do, clear it and try again. You may be trying to register against an old XS hostname. (yes, this Sugar behaviour is questionable) Based on the rest of your mail, maybe you aren't facing this problem. But lets check anyway. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] xs-otp tarball pkg?
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:06 PM, George Hunt wrote: > For most of the packages, I've taken the easy way out, and used DDrake's > source rpms at http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xsrepos/stable/olpc/xs-0.7/source/ > as a basis for my arm rebuilds. > > But I'm wondering what diff's there might be with the git directories, > and/or if I should be trying to reconcile his builds with what's at > https://dev.laptop.org/git/. We dropped xs-otp because we don't think it has any users. I don't think you should be looking at the list of git repos. Instead, look at the list of packages included in a XS-0.7 install. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] From Marina Orth Foundation
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Tim Moody wrote: > How do you perform the initial installation of these XS servers? "next next next finish" in the XS-0.7 installer, then we enter the hostname, then configure the puppet server address and puppet does the rest. > What is your host naming convention so that each looks like schoolserver on > the lan, but some unique name on the wan? schoolserver.school.city.fundacionzt.org Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] From Marina Orth Foundation
Hi, On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Luis Fernando Sanchez wrote: > Hi Daniel, this is Luis Fernando Sanchez, Executive Director of Marina Orth > Foundation in Medellin, Colombia. I have a question, but let me > contextualize the situation first . In Itagui town in Colombia they are > going to implement an OLPC with 14.500 XO; they also have 38 schools and 38 > school servers. We would like to know if is good and practical idea to > install a central server where they can manage everything. If so, what kind > of server they will need and how they can implement that? I'd say that you should implement a central management system if you feel that you need it (i.e. if there are things that can be centrally done), and otherwise you shouldn't burden yourself with the effort. This really depends on what the role of the school server will be, and how often you forsee having to update files on the machine. As for server choice and implementation, I think such choices should be based on the expertise locally available. However I can recommend some systems of personal preference: In Nicaragua we have many servers but each one is almost identical (talking about the content that it hosts and the roles that it plays). We manage them with a central server that runs Fedora 16 and acts as a "puppet server": http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Zamora_Teran/Puppet Then we run puppet on all the school servers to keep them synchronized with the central server. We use puppet to send out new content and tweak the configuration of the system. With an active technical team you'll never finish configuring your server, and puppet's design reflects this nicely. This is a solid system but requires quite a lot of expertise. Good luck with your project! Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] oatslite under RHEL/CentOS x86_64
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: > Does this effect xs-activation installed on XS 0.7? XS-0.7 is 32-bits only. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 beta 2 installation successful
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Do you have any pointers to specs on the boxes you guys are using? Nothing too exciting, just what we could get our hands on at short notice. Regular/unbranded desktop systems with Intel motherboard, Intel G620 CPU (2.6GHz, 3M cache), 2GB RAM, 1TB HDD. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS on XO
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> I'd recommend, on XO-1.5
>
> - take a 11.x.y buid
> - use the yum repos dsd prepared for XS, groupinstall the right group ("OLPC
> School Server"?)
> - disable the prefdm service (remove/rename /etc/init/prefdm)
> - disable NM service, enable the 'network' service (using chkconfig)
>
> F14 and RHEL/CentOS6.2 are very close, the only incompat I am aware of is
> the Erlang runtime, so you probably need to rebuild ejabberd...
It seems closer to F13 to me (it has the F13 version of Python, anaconda, ...)
For this reason you'll have to rebuild all the XS packages that
include python scripts as well.
Another option you may wish to explore is running CentOS6 with the
OLPC kernel on the XO. (but I haven't really thought this through,
might be missing something obvious)
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Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 "Ometepe" released
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > Named after the island for which it was developed, XS-0.7 "Ometepe" is > released. > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software_0.7 Yesterday the above site had the download link as http://dev.laptop.org/xs/OLPC-School-Server-0.7beta2-i386.iso This was incorrect - sorry about that. The correct link is http://dev.laptop.org/xs/OLPC-School-Server-0.7-i386.iso Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 beta 2 released
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > I used the unetbootin approach to build a USB stick to boot from. I've > had trouble with the step where it looks for the media. Says something > like > > hd: LABEL=OLPC School Server 0.7 i386:olpcxs.ks > > and loops at that step. When I change it to > > hd:/dev/sda1:olpcxs.ks > > It continues the install, but failed twice around the part where it > sets up partitions on the target drive. I could have a bad USB stick, > so I'll try again later today. Is anybody else seeing this? It took quite some massaging to get the USB install working as I have scripted, so I'm not surprised that alternative paths do not work right away. Is there any special reason why you need to use netboot, or could you instead follow the procedure at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Installing_from_USB Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] How to make a public antitheft server
Hi, On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Juan Cubillo wrote: > Hello, > > Could anyone please tell me if there are up-to-date instructions to create a > centralized antitheft server? > > Currently the wiki page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Antitheft:Public_Server > talks about Fedora 11 (fairly old now) and the link for the repo ( > http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/xs-release.git/tree/olpcxs.repo?h=xs-0.6 > ) is not working. Here's another option: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Oatslite Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] XS-0.7 beta 2 installation successful
Hi, Over the last 2 days, German Ruiz and I installed six XS-0.7 beta 2 test servers in Managua. 5 were installed by USB, 1 by CD. Overall it was successful and the plan is still to produce XS-0.7 final on Monday. We found 2 minor problems, both added to XS release notes: The USB installer skips some steps (language, bootloader config, etc) for unknown reasons. Most of them aren't important (you're supposed to accept the defaults in most places anyway), but the one significant one missing is the keyboard configuration. Squid has been seen crashing on occasion (see squid bug #3048). However, it restarts automatically after a few seconds of downtime. Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] XS-0.7 beta 2 released
Hi, Repos updated, and new install media available: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software_0.7 Changes since XS-0.7 beta 1: Exclude fprintd-pam from install (#11631) Add more etckeeper checkpoints (#11632) Update named.root (#11626) Disable IPv6 DNS lookups (#11630) Include simple IPv6 firewall config (#11629) Thanks to Sam for the quick testing. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 beta 1 released
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > Hi Daniel: > > Just downloaded the install iso, before I burn this to cd should > /isolinux/initrd.img and /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz be 0 bytes in the iso? isolinux/initrd.img should be 30421445 bytes images/pxeboot/vmlinuz should be 4649728 bytes Just double checked the ISO uploaded (md5sum 7e7fac03c796031213a3fe09fefe3be6), so I think this must be something wrong at your end. > In /isolinux/isolinux.cfg, "upgradeany" is used with full install > options, think that will force anaconda into upgrade mode. This was copied over from the earlier XS-0.7 work. I see that XS-0.6 does not include this option. Any idea why, and what the implications are? Should we be including the option or not? Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] XS-0.7 beta 1 released
Hi,
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software_0.7 now includes
instructions and a working link for a XS-0.7 beta install CD.
You can also create USB install media easier than before, and this works great.
Also, a couple of packages in the repo have been updated since last
week ("yum update" should work fine for existing installs to pull them
in) fixing a couple of minor bugs.
This version will be deployed in 6 test schools on Thursday/Friday
here in Managua. I hope to label this version as 0.7 final (if Martin
approves) on Monday morning, to be installed that day on 13 servers
sent to the island of Ometepe the day after. Any last-minute testing
appreciated.
Thanks,
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[Server-devel] Old mirror URLs fixed
Hi, As reported several times here, running "yum update" on XS-0.6 or older wasn't working. This should now be fixed - the old URLs should continue to work even though we have moved things to a different server. Testing confirmation welcome! Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] initial notes on 0.7
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Problem: XS seems to cause XOv1 computers to repeatedly restart X > (brief text messages say something about dcon freeze?) > Happening to both XO-1 and XO-1.5 running build 883. XO 1.5 HS with > build 852 was unaffected. I've been running 6 XOs with this build for ~8 hours now, and haven't seen this problem. Would be interested in logs if you can reproduce. Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] initial notes on 0.7
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> Step 5: Boot server machine from USB stick using: default option
> In the "from" option (hard drive, CD/DVD, NFS etc.) pick:
> hard drive
> Which disk contains install medium: usually /dev/sda1
> Once installation is done, reboot server.
>
> Step 6: eth0 isn't up by default.
> # ifconfig eth0 up
>
> Step 7: Get a DHCP lease
> # dhclient eth0
>
> Step 8: wget isn't in minimal install
> # yum install wget
>
> Step 9: Add EPEL repository.
>
> # wget epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
> # yum localinstall epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
You can use curl (included), or just: rpm -ivh
http://whatever/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
> Step 12: Use chkconfig to make sure eth0 comes back on reboot
> # chkconfig
No need to do this - xs-setup-network will "take over" your network
configuration.
> Step 15:
>
> Add a USB-to-Ethernet dongle and plug into WAN
> Must run xs-setup-network and then reboot because we added a USB
> ethernet dongle (WAN connected) and now XOs have internet access, but
> no name resolution!
There was no need to run xs-setup-network again, you could have just
added the WAN connection and rebooted. But no harm in doing so.
> Step 15b (optional):
>
> Had to add forwarders section to /etc/named-xs.conf.in
> Add the following line between the "options" opening '{' and closing '}':
> forwarders {; ; ..};
> # xs-setup-network
> Reboot.
The fact that you had no DNS without this rings a bell - am I right in
saying you had the same problem on XS-0.6 on your network without
adding a forwarders entry?
> Problem: XS seems to cause XOv1 computers to repeatedly restart X
> (brief text messages say something about dcon freeze?)
> Happening to both XO-1 and XO-1.5 running build 883. XO 1.5 HS with
> build 852 was unaffected.
Can you run olpc-log on one of these systems after the crash happens
,and send the output?
Thanks for the detailed testing!
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Re: [Server-devel] datastore is corrupt on 0.7
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > This shows up on the Moodle end of things: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11619 This is the same on 0.6, for client XOs running recent releases. Or have you found a case where the same XO release works on XS-0.6 but not on 0.7? Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] XS-0.7 ready for early testing
Hi, The CentOS-based XS-0.7 is ready for early testing. I haven't produced install media yet (hopefully tomorrow!) but the "alternative" install method is now possible, where you install the XS stuff on top of a CentOS installation. Install CentOS 6.2 (minimal install will do) and then follow these instructions: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software_0.7#Installing_on_top_of_existing_OS_installation Thanks for any feedback! Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] XS-0.7 review round 3
Hi Martin, Everything acked so far has been pushed and built, output is at http://dev.laptop.org/xs/repos/stable/olpc/xs-0.7/i386/ Pending items are: 1. Moodle - needs 'pu' branch review, and the possible updates you mentioned. For now, the repo above includes a RPM from the pu branch (just temporarily so that I can build). 2. xs-activation - this wasn't working, pushed a new 'pu' branch for review. 3. Version numbers of the components. I haven't bumped any of them. Some had already been bumped for the 0.7 release when it was looking like it might be F11/F14-based. Which ones should I bump? ds-backup, idmgr, xs-activation, xs-activity-server, xs-config, xs-rsync, xs-tools 4. I put xs-release as version 6 (matching epel and centos packages), with Epoch 1 so that it is seen as an upgrade over the current xs-release-9 in XS-0.6. Is that OK? I've done an install based on the above repo and done quite a bit of testing, things are looking good. We're close! Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 CentOS6.2 rebase - other pending items
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > For users that install CentOS and *then* install our stuff, we may > need to add a warning if we don't see our custom revision prefix. It's > gotta be a soft warning 'cause we don't really know if it's wrong or > not. I'll check that in xs-services-check. >> olpc-xs-builder - pu branch ready for review. > > Looks good, > - where do you maintain the groups file? I was just going to stick it in public_html - any other suggestions? It's attached. > - does the resulting .iso file convert and now run nicely from USB > media? this used to be flakey... Haven't tested - will do after releasing initial test media if time permits. > AIUI, groups can only refer to packages in the same repo -- how do you > bring in things like puppet? Works fine pointing at packages from other repos. I'll start pushing and building the acked bits now. Thanks, Daniel olpc-xs true true 1024 XS-server This group is the XS server group of packages xs-config usbmount idmgr olpc-bios-crypto xs-tools xs-rsync xs-activity-server xs-activation moodle-xs ds-backup-server puppet ntp acpid ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] XS-0.7 CentOS6.2 rebase - other pending items
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 package as 'ejabberd' or 'ejabberd-xs' to move forward. Once that is done, I will update xs-config (if needed) and then push and release all the other components you have already reviewed. moodle - pu branch ready for review. If you're going to pull in moodle updates as well, now is the time :) I have tested this quite well, including the interaction with mod_admin_extra. xs-release - how do we go forward with this? I think we should drop the old approach (of *replacing* the system release package) and take the epel-release approach of just (additionally) installing our repo files. But I'm not sure how you want this in git - existing branch of existing repo, new repo? Or maybe I could create a new packages/xs-release repo, with all the files contained in the spec file repo (i.e. doesn't pull in a tarball, just ships the trivial repo files directly). xs-logos - Haven't really looked what this has. Given that we don't face copyright/trademark restrictions of the logo package in CentOS, can we just drop this? usbmount - I had to update to the latest version. It no longer uses any patches (they are all obsolete/upstream). How do I take care of this w.r.t. your existing usbmount git repository, where you actually forked the source? Perhaps we could just drop/obsolete that git repo, and create a new packages/usbmount repo with the simple .spec file? olpc-xs-builder - pu branch ready for review. Might need tweaking based on the outcome of the above. I dropped the idea of running xs-setup during the install, since the user might choose a hostname that doesn't start with "schoolserver.". The installation instructions will require the user to run xs-setup after the install completes. repos - I have reorganised slightly http://dev.laptop.org/xs/ "repos" is now a subdirectory there, which will be our main URL from now on. But the other URLs still work: http://dev.laptop.org/xsrepos/ http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/xsrepos Also, I have created aliases at http://dev.laptop.org/xs/stable and http://dev.laptop.org/xs/testing for the repos. This means that if we update the DNS of fedora.laptop.org, we will fix "yum update" / "yum install" for the existing XS's in the field, which use such addresses. What do you think? I had to bring some packages in from Fedora, these are: bitfrost-1.0.15-3.el6.i686.rpm - not in RHEL/EPEL. Recompiled for EL6 from rawhide. mtd-utils-1.3.1-3.fc14.i686.rpm - dep of bios-crypto, imported from F14 kernel-2.6.42.2-1.fc15.i686.rpm - as previously agreed, imported from F15 (kernel-* subpackages too) grubby-7.0.16-5.fc15.i686.rpm - dep of kernel, imported from F15 linux-firmware-20110601-1.fc15.noarch.rpm - dep of kernel, imported from F15 module-init-tools-3.16-2.fc15.i686.rpm - dep of kernel, imported from F15 acpid-2.0.9-1.fc14.i686.rpm - imported from F14. Needed for compat with new kernel. rssh-2.3.3-2.el6.i686.rpm - imported from EPEL-6 updates syck-python-0.61-12.el6.i686.rpm - dep of ds-backup, not in RHEL/EPEL. F14 version recompiled for EL6. syck-0.61-12.el6.i686.rpm - dep of syck-python Is it OK to stick these in the core xs-0.7 RPM repo, or would you prefer a separate "fedora-ports" repo to be created? (I vote just the one :)) Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] ejabberd-2.1.10 issues
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Ok. Following the breadcrumbe here, I get to > https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-919 which has a nice patch > authored by the Geoff Cant, a fellow Catalyst-er. I can help w a > rebuild here. As you've seen - getting this old version to build is difficult. Getting it to run is even harder. I think I've found the issue: it is a client bug, now exposed through ejabberd getting stricter: https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-1533 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45853 And I have an ejabberd patch to apply (attached) until we've fixed the client and let the fix propogate for a while. We need to fork the ejabberd package again, at least for the time being. Would you prefer for this fork to be named 'ejabberd' (with xs-setup modifying the EPEL repo file to exclude ejabberd upgrades from epel), or ejabberd-xs as before? Thanks Daniel persist-all-pubsub.patch Description: Binary data ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] ejabberd-2.1.10 issues
Hi, With the XS rebase to CentOS6.2, EPEL-6 brought us ejabberd-2.1.8. We found an issue that the Online group cannot be marked as @online@ correctly. Upgrading to ejabberd-2.1.10 (from EPEL6-testing) fixes this. However, there is a regression with collaboration: presence doesn't work right. I tried downgrading to the old ejabberd-xs package, but it needs a rebuild, and after some hassle of getting it to build, it crashes on launch. Looks like it is not compatible with the new erlang in EL6: http://www.ejabberd.im/node/3698 So, I think we have to look into the ejabberd-2.1.10 issue. The issue in question: When an XO connects to the network, it does not "see" any buddies that are already on the network. However, when new buddies join, it will see them. With 2 XOs, A and B: A sees B B does not see A - restart B A sees B B does not see A - restart A A does not see B B sees A In the cases when an XO connects to the network with existing clients, the XO *is* told about the existence of the other clients, but it receives an empty dictionary from the OLPC BuddyInfo telepathy interface: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-gabble/tree/extensions/OLPC_Buddy_Info.xml The Sugar code specifically waits for the 'key' to arrive before displaying the icon for the buddy (I guess the key is used for collaboration), hence the buddy does not appear. I'll keep looking into this; debugging tips welcome. Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS rebase review
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> xs-config: pu branch recreated. Changes since yesterday: > > I think that the new pu branch you pushed out is incomplete. It has a > very short run of patches, a massive diff from the pu I reviewed, and > it ends at > > 11bdbdb Add setup.d hooks Pushed an old branch - please look again now. >> ds-backup: pu branch ready for review > > Looks good. We'll make a server & client release together. I have a > buglet to fix client-side. OK, hopefully this will be ready today or tomorrow? :) >> idmgr: pu branch ready for review > > Much nicer layout, thanks! In fact, if you want to move it to > /var/lib, or /library... you got my nod as well. > > Request: list_registration is a command for sysadmins; > - rename it (xs-list-registration?), put it on the path > - maybe make it root-only? I'll do that, I assume this gets your approval once those changes are put in place so that I can push today? >> Remaining bits from the core packages: >> >> Moodle - seemed to fail on first boot, worked on second. Using >> moodle-xs-1.9.5.xs2-1.xs11.noarch. Need to dig further. > > I'll look into merging w 1.9.x latest, for security and stable > goodies. How much time have we got? Need to get it done this week really - latest on Monday. Hoping to be able to release this on Wednesday 15th for deployment at test schools in Managua on Thursday 16th. >> ejabberd - runs, accepts connection, but shows no presence info. Need >> to look into this. > > Hmmm, perhaps it's not getting the automagic Online group created? > Look in the ejabberd-xs.init script, run the commands from > setup_online_srg() by hand. The change in the ejabberd control module > changed the syntax of commands slightly. The online group is created. Any further debugging hints appreciated, I'm not exactly sure where to start. Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] XS rebase review
Hi Martin, Ready for the next round of reviews for the XS work. I've now performed basic testing of all aspects of the system, so I feel this is ready for merging and wider testing. xs-config: pu branch recreated. Changes since yesterday: - 172.18.0.1 binding readded - xs-services-check checks that NM is off - nautilus in GNOME will try to automount disks. usbmount always wins in my testing, but I added a xs-services-check warning anyway. - /etc/sysconfig further cleaned up - /etc/xs-config.make killed - Moved to etckeeper ds-backup: pu branch ready for review idmgr: pu branch ready for review xs-activation: pu branch ready for review xs-activity-server: pu branch ready for review xs-rsync: pu branch ready for review xs-tools: pu branch ready for review Remaining bits from the core packages: Moodle - seemed to fail on first boot, worked on second. Using moodle-xs-1.9.5.xs2-1.xs11.noarch. Need to dig further. ejabberd - runs, accepts connection, but shows no presence info. Need to look into this. Which moodle branch should I be working with? More tomorrow! Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] New XS release very soon
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > How will this play with XS on ARM? It won't at all, yet. However, the liberation of the packages from the base install is the first step in this direction. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] New XS release very soon
Hi, To avoid leaving the other threads dangling: I have been working on a new XS release in collaboration with the Zamora Teran Foundation (http://www.fundacionzt.org/). The underlying goal here is to move the XS to a new OS base, which supports new hardware. The foundation has recently had a fair amount of trouble finding hardware that is compatible with the dated Fedora 9 release. As agreed and directed by Martin this will become the next OLPC XS release. There are 3 major changes compared to XS-0.6: 1. CentOS 6.2 is the base (which is equivalent to Fedora 13/14), but we have included Linux 3.2 from Fedora 15 for maximum hardware compatibility. 2. It will be released as both a traditional install CD only requiring a couple of commands after the install to get up and running, but also as a set of packages that can be added to an existing CentOS installation (which probably also works with RHEL/Scientific Linux/etc). Some steps have been taken for these packages to be easier to install and run on existing networks (e.g. you can now run parts of the XS without the requirement that you surrender your networking setup and layout to the strange configuration that the XS ships). The usual "take over my network" option will still be there though. 3. If you choose to let the XS take over your network: Networking setup is reworked and greatly simplified. No more bonding, no more mesh support. eth0 is now the LAN, and eth1 is now the WAN (based on the thinking that if you only have 1 interface, you're going to want LAN, not WAN). eth0 runs on a single subnet (not 3) and all the services bind to 0.0.0.0, and we rely on iptables to drop traffic from the WAN to the school-internal services. Here in Nicaragua, the Zamora Teran Foundation has the task *this month* of deploying One Laptop per Child to every child on the mythical and beautiful island of Ometepe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ometepe). Unfortunately the hardware received for these 32 school servers is not compatible with XS-0.6, so we are under pressure to deploy this very very soon. This means the plan is to release this as an official XS release *next week* to be installed on servers immediately shipped to the island. Any help testing this before we ship it off will be greatly appreciated. I'll post installation instructions and some test media within a day or two - there are just a couple of obvious bugs remaining that need to be washed out first. cheers Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS-AU registration issue Fwd: Upgrade from XO 1.5 Firmware Q3B19 to Q3B22 results to "Registration Failed" Error
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Mitchell Seaton wrote: > Hey Guys and dev lists, > > You haven't seen this issue with XO build 883, and XS-AU 0.7? > > Can't be firmware issue as he says, must been OS or XS-AU issue/config. If > 'schoolserver' resolves on XO and registration shows up in > list_registration.. why could a failed registration message return - are > there particular logs we should look at? I can't remember the logs, and > don't have a machine available (at my current home) right now to test > XS-AU/XO registration. Check the network settings in the control panel. If a server is set there (for example: the address of an old XS that you previously registered to), it will use that server address rather than 'schoolserver'. I just got bitten by this. (is this behaviour new? It doesn't feel quite right for the field.) Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Martin Langhoff 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 any of the external repos have a kmod-staging or > kmod-atl1e that works for you? I've returned that system now; if I get the time and opportunity to test again, I will do so. Where is the list of external repos? I'm worried about the expertise required in order to identify such repos and packages. We need this process to be doable without me in the room. > My assumption is that RHEL/CentOS have fairly decent hardware support > from backported drivers, some in the RH kernels, EPEL or external > repos (in order of decreasing quality expectations...). I assume that RHEL is pretty good for server-class hardware found in US/EU; I can imagine why the support of desktop-class hardware found in the poorer parts of latin america may be lesser so. > I wonder if you've been unlucky in the mix of hw you got there; or > whether the driver support situation for essential things like NICs > and disk controllers is weaker than I had expected. Maybe others with > more practical experience with current RHEL/CentOS can comment...? 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 the only one that recognised the onboard NIC of the asrock motherboard). Yesterday we received 10 servers based on an Intel motherboard (and 12 more will be coming next week). F9 doesn't recognise the onboard NIC. C6 recognises the onboard NIC but isn't able to send/receive packets. F16 works fine (using e1000e driver). As these boards only have 1 PCI socket it is not possible to have 2 NICs (unless we resort to USB...) unless we move beyond C6. Also, F9 and C6 do not recognise the SATA DVD drive in these systems - no /dev/sr0 created, error in dmesg during boot. This will be a pain for field work. With F16 this works fine. I haven't yet found a case where the F9-->C6 upgrade adds hardware support for any hardware that we have here. I like your idea of using a F16 kernel on top of CentOS 6.2. So far, his seems to be working fine (and solves all of the compatibility problems mentioned above). If this continues to work I would like to push it as the default for XS install media. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts
Hi, Like others, I'm interested in moving the XS to a newer OS base. My key motivation for this is that the Foundation Zamora Teran (OLPC Nicaragua) is having difficulty buying servers for new schools being added to the project - Fedora 9 is too old to support this hardware. For the next XS release, Martin suggests that CentOS 6.2 (or another RHEL equivalent) is used as a base. As my contribution here will likely be limited to just this rebase, I'm prepared to accept that preference. However, having installed/run CentOS 6.2 for the first time I now have my doubts about this. I installed it on a server where the network interface does not appear with F9 (but does work with more recent Fedora). With CentOS, the same problem as F9 is presented: no network adapter. Digging further, I see that support was added to the Linux kernel for this particular network adapter (Atheros AR8152) on February 16th, 2010. However, since CentOS 6.2 uses a kernel from 2009, it does not support this hardware. This seems excessively old for a distro that was released in December 2011, and I imagine that we will see many such problems if we run with this. With this in mind, is there still a strong preference to go with CentOS, or would a more recent Fedora (e.g. 16/17?) be a better choice? Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, George Hunt 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 > to rebase XS on a more recent Fedora Core. Yesterday I also started looking at that task. Martin explained that he'd like to see it based on Centos 6.2 and installable as a group of packages on top of a vanilla base install. Hopefully he will send a few more details soon (he's travelling). Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] [PATCH] xs-activation: Support creating rtcreset signatures with master key
If the master keypair is available as lease.public/lease.private,
use it to create rtc reset signatures (rather than relying on
delegations).
The UUID of the client must be known to the server, stored in
the moodle database.
---
oat.py | 51 ++-
xs-activation-signer.py | 48
2 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
For the moment this patch is just for review as "sample code" - it relies
on the addition of UUIDs into the moodle database, which will happen at
a later date.
diff --git a/oat.py b/oat.py
index bb22a23..7ad78c9 100644
--- a/oat.py
+++ b/oat.py
@@ -63,6 +63,23 @@ class oat:
return False
+def get_uuid(self, sn):
+if not self.mdb_available():
+return False
+
+mdbh = self.get_mdb_handle()
+mdbc = mdbh.cursor()
+sql = """SELECT uuid
+ FROM mdl_oat_laptops
+ WHERE serialnum=%s
+ """
+mdbc.execute(sql, [sn])
+if mdbc.rowcount == 1:
+rows = mdbc.fetchall()
+return rows[0][0]
+
+return False
+
def mark_served_stolen(self, sn):
"""Returns False or the string 'STOLEN'"""
@@ -256,11 +273,19 @@ class oat:
return response
def get_rtcreset(self, sn, currentrtc, nonce):
+newrtc = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime("%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ")
+
+# use the master key to generate the rtcreset, if it is available
+kpath = self.get_master_lease_key_path()
+if kpath:
+uuid = self.get_uuid(sn)
+if uuid:
+return self.generate_rtcreset(sn, uuid, currentrtc, nonce,
newrtc)
+
# attempt to build a sig02 delegated rtcreset
kpath= self.get_key_path()
ldpath = self.get_lease_delegation_path(sn)
if kpath and ldpath:
-newrtc = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime("%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ")
return self.generate_delegated_rtcreset(sn, currentrtc, nonce,
newrtc)
def mdb_available(self):
@@ -286,6 +311,14 @@ class oat:
else:
return False
+def get_master_lease_key_path(self):
+path = os.path.join(self.BASEDIR, 'keys', 'lease.private')
+if os.path.exists(path):
+# strip ".private" suffix
+return path[:-8]
+else:
+return False
+
def get_lease_delegation_path(self, sn):
path = os.path.join(self.BASEDIR, 'lease-delegations',
sn[-2:], sn)
@@ -324,6 +357,22 @@ class oat:
return lease;
+def generate_rtcreset(self, sn, uuid, currentrtc, nonce, newrtc):
+(fh, tmpfpath) = tempfile.mkstemp(dir='/var/lib/xs-activation/tmp')
+os.write(fh, uuid)
+os.close(fh)
+
+fname = "rtc01_%s_%s_%s_%s_%s" % (sn, currentrtc, nonce, newrtc,
hexlify(os.urandom(8)))
+reqpath = '/var/lib/xs-activation/req/' + fname
+os.rename(tmpfpath, reqpath)
+
+rtcreset = self.get_signed_output(fname)
+if rtcreset == None:
+self.log_error("Timed out waiting for signed response")
+raise RuntimeError("Timed out waiting for signed response")
+
+return rtcreset
+
def generate_delegated_rtcreset(self, sn, currentrtc, nonce, newrtc):
fname = "rtc01delegated_%s_%s_%s_%s_%s" % (sn, currentrtc, nonce,
newrtc, hexlify(os.urandom(8)))
reqpath = '/var/lib/xs-activation/req/' + fname
diff --git a/xs-activation-signer.py b/xs-activation-signer.py
index 46ccec2..5383b1a 100755
--- a/xs-activation-signer.py
+++ b/xs-activation-signer.py
@@ -225,6 +225,52 @@ def generate_multiple_delegated_leases(dirpath, fname,
fpath, params):
destpath = '/var/lib/xs-activation/done/' + fname
save_atomically(destpath, cjson.write([1,leases]))
+def serve_rtcreset(dirpath, fname, fpath, params):
+# read UUID
+fd = open(fpath, 'r')
+uuid = fd.read()
+fd.close()
+os.unlink(fpath)
+
+if not uuid:
+raise RuntimeError('Missing UUID')
+
+randid = params.pop()
+newrtc = params.pop()
+nonce = params.pop()
+currentrtc = params.pop()
+
+sn = params.pop()
+if not validate_sn(sn):
+raise RuntimeError('Invalid SN')
+
+if len(currentrtc) != 16 or currentrtc[15] != 'Z' or currentrtc[8] != 'T':
+log_error("Unrecognised rtcreset timestamp")
+exit(1)
+
+if not nonce.isdigit():
+log_error("Unrecognised rtcreset nonce")
+exit(1)
+
+# find uuid and signing key
+myoat = oat.oat()
+
+kpath = myoat.get_master_lease_key_path()
+if not kpath:
+log_error("No master signing key available")
+exit(1)
+
+# prep params
+cmd = ['/usr/bin/obc-make-rtcreset',
+ '--signingkey', kpath,
+ sn, uuid, currentrtc, nonce, newrtc]
+log_error(cmd)
+rtcreset = subprocess.
Re: [Server-devel] mesh and newer builds
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > 1) I have a XS-on-XO-1 which shows up in the Neighborhood as > school-mesh-0 but when I connect the XO client, I get a > 169.254.xxx.xxx address and the XO won't register. If I connect to > mesh1, I get a 172.18.xxx.xxx address, and the XO registers. As Jerry says, we need more description here. How are you connecting to school-mesh-0, and how are you connecting to mesh1? I have never seen either of those terms appear in the UI - can you be more specific, take a screenshot, etc? > 2) I am seeing similar behavior with a mesh antenna (prototype black > box with screw-on antenna) in Bhagmalpur > (http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com/) > > I take it that this change of behavior is due to dropping support for > mesh in newer builds? Any way to change this on the server to gain > expected behavior ? When you say "newer builds" which versions are you referring to specifically? We have not intentionally or knowingly decreased the mesh support since early 2010 when we dropped support for Mesh Point Portals, but that is not what you are working with. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] deregister laptops
Hi David, On 16 May 2011 01:21, David Leeming wrote: > I tried sugar-control-panel -c registration and get this error: > > sugar-control-panel: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible > causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have > stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ > for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not > receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not > send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply > timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.) Can you confirm that you are running this command as the 'olpc' user, and not as root or someone else? Please double-check this by running the "whoami" command immediately before "sugar-control-panel -c registration" Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...
On 18 January 2011 19:29, Martin Langhoff wrote: > So -- going back on the traffic we've see in the last 24 months, what > would you highlight? What have people asked for (that wasn't > easy/trivial/possible)? What problems have we heard that were hard to > diagnose...? Some items that spring to mind: 1. activity-server support for dotted activities 2. can't register if your name includes a : 3. automatic olpc-update via OATS (code was posted, but we never finished deciding exactly how to integrate it) ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] oatslite: Report stolen and fix
On 28 August 2010 17:19, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Working in LR, fixed a bug in oatslite, plus minor improvements. Maybe > we are looking at the wrong repo or otherwise using stale code? > > The code as-is could not have worked as it's missing a \n that is > required in the format... Thanks, applied both. Sorry about that. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Schoolserver development in Uruguay
On 19 August 2010 18:25, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > == Jabber == > > There are two people working on Jabber. They have been using ejabberd > and, quite surprisingly, they've not seen any issues of high CPU load > and database corruption. Tomorrow I'll get to work more with them. XS-0.6 and some of the package updates that come later fix a few bugs related to ejabberd CPU/DB. I guess in Paraguay they are still on 0.5. > This is a black hole in all deployments I visited. > > Redundant storage is too expensive. One cheap 500GB hard-drive is > typical. In one year, 3 of the 10 schoolservers in Caacupé developed a > hard drive failure. But it's not a huge issue because the XOs also have a copy of the journal. So, if technical resources are available for a quick XS repair, disruption should be minimal. > Journal backups, however, amount to a whopping 238GB of rapidly > changing, mostly uncompressible and undeltable data. Quite not the ideal > case for an incremental backup. With today's available resources, we > could afford to backup everything *but* the journals. You're giving numbers but missing an important consideration - the XS backup system makes multiple backups. And it'll continue to do make more and more copes until it meets a certain threshold based on disk size (likely to be 238GB in your case). At this point, it will purge the oldest backups before making new ones. Saying that you've hit 238GB after a year isn't conclusive because its likely that you'll meet the threshold when you're measuring an active school over such a long time period. It's the design - use the available space. It's possible that within that space you have 10 backups of every journal. So you could possibly get away with a disk half the size, and "only" retain 5 copies. I'm inventing numbers (and they aren't strictly copies either), but you can provide real ones - how many backups (on average) are there of a journal in this server? What's the disk space used if you only total the space used by the most recent backup of each journal? Also, is it possible that your space-measuring script is counting a 5mb file with 2 hardlinks as 10mb of used disk space? > Paraguay uses Puppet. We're very happy with it. > Uruguay uses CFengine. They seem to be very happy with it as well. > > Both employ a flat hierarchy with one puppet master controlling all the > schools, which is simple and straightforward, but requires excellent > connectivity. "Excellent" is a bit subjective, but yes, the fact that it requires any form of connectivity is a roadblock in many cases. However, we came up with a way around this (ideas only, for now, but wouldn't be hard to implement) for puppet: - clone all the puppet repositories and the config files and put them on a USB disk (and do this periodically) - install puppet-server on all the XSs (but dont run it by default) - go to a school with said USB disk, plug it in and run puppet-server - run puppet-client, connecting to localhost - stop puppet-server, unplug USB disk, go home Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] wifi setup
On 3 August 2010 23:56, James Cameron wrote: > Just now I've set up three access points with the same essid; a NetComm > NB600W and two WRT54G running OpenWrt. > > XO-1.5 and XO-1 development build os304 for release 10.1.2 shows a > single icon in the Neighbourhood View, and clicking on it chooses one of > the access points. > > XO-1 stable build os802 for release 8.2.1 shows the same thing. > > "iwlist eth0 scan" shows three separate access points with different > address but same essid. They are on different channels. This is indeed the way to achieve what was asked for. But be careful - not too long ago, someone from Uruguay (on de...@lists.laptop.org) investigated a setup like this and found that the XO's behaviour in picking the "best" access point (and changing once the signal got to weak) was quite sub-standard. definitely needs some testing before deployment, and please share your results. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Help for unreliable ADSL and cable modems: bounce-eth0.sh
On 26 July 2010 17:22, Martin Langhoff wrote: > [ What I remember is that the NIC was a 'mii' device on an IBM > SOHO-style minitower server. The cablemodem is a Motorola modem I've > used before without trouble with Linux boxes. Cannot remember model, > apologies. ] I've had 3 motorola cable modems in the past and all of them have had a web admin interface, where you can control the DHCP behaviour when it is offline. That would solve one of the problems at least. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] automatic OS updates from school server
In my opinion one of the bigger holes left in the school server is the fact that we can't push OS updates to the XOs. And the team here in La Rioja keep asking about it, Actually the hard work is all done (XS has updates server, XO has update client, both work well), the only missing bit is a section in the OATS server implementation which actually tells the XOs about the updates. And I already did most of the work, anyone interested in continuing? http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2009-October/004261.html The conclusions from that thread is that MyConfigParser can probably be reimplemented as a trivial ConfigParser subclass (diff it against Python's copy, it's a trivial change IIRC) or we could switch to the external iniparse module. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] documentation for customizing XS ISO
On 4 May 2010 12:58, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> I thought I saw some "official" documentation once for how deployments >> can customize kickstart, add more packages, etc. Can't find it now. >> Was I dreaming? > > A wikipage, a mirage... > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Making_customisations_to_your_install_process That's under the USB section. Intentional? >> Right now we are struggling because installation media is not >> available during %post. > > Should be during %post --nochroot as it's explained in the wiki. I > tested this from USB sticks -- it's known to work with CDROMs but I > did not test it explicitly so YMMV. It's not available. It gets unmounted before %post is executed. (google and you'll see many other people running into this headache as well) Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] OATs delegations -- change in procedure -- need to use sig01 format too...
On 28 April 2010 14:54, Martin Langhoff wrote: > All fixed now, see my earlier messages. The truncated "needs fixing" > was related to the brokenness of dynlibs in olpc-bios-crypto and the > -utils splitoff. > > I have reverted both temporarily and built an RPM that works well. > Still builds the SOs but the binaries are all statically linked. OK But nothing on the XS side needs changing, right? Just the format of the files that are sent to it. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] olpc-bios-crypto - relative vs abs symlinks?
On 27 April 2010 12:03, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> Now I recall. I was bringing it (and the spec) in line with "normal" >> packaging: > > Thanks for the clarification. Many Fedora pkgs have abs symlinks though. > > I can see why it is tricky to differentiate between the target path in > the build root and the installed target path. The way I'd done it was > yielding the right results ;-) But it duplicated all the install logic for RPM vs non-RPM cases. My version just has a single install path. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] olpc-bios-crypto - relative vs abs symlinks?
On 27 April 2010 11:51, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 27 April 2010 11:44, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> Curious - I see in your makefile and spec fixups you've changes the >> obc-* symlinks from abs to relative. Is it better in some sense in the >> context of an RPM? > > Can't recall, but I suspect it would have been something in fedora > package guidelines, or a complaint from rpmlint. Now I recall. I was bringing it (and the spec) in line with "normal" packaging: In most packaging systems, make install is run with DESTDIR as some build root (in this case, the RPM build root), and then all the files are moved to / during installation. If the symlinks are made absolutely and consider DESTDIR, then they will be broken at time of package installation (still pointing into the RPM build root). Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] olpc-bios-crypto - relative vs abs symlinks?
On 27 April 2010 11:44, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Curious - I see in your makefile and spec fixups you've changes the > obc-* symlinks from abs to relative. Is it better in some sense in the > context of an RPM? Can't recall, but I suspect it would have been something in fedora package guidelines, or a complaint from rpmlint. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] problems installing xs-activation on F12
On 27 April 2010 10:34, Peter Robinson wrote: > Does a recompile of this against a F-12 system not fix the python 2.5 > -> 2.6 problem? Probably yes, but not so sure I want to leave such a task in the hands of the deployment here, as this is something that will have to be repeated for time to come. The mail was mostly to inform Martin that its not such a smooth ride as we hoped for in another thread. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] problems installing xs-activation on F12
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 xs-tools olpc-contents and python-json easily installed by yum. xs-tools requires python 2.5. usbmount installs with the RPM. The packages that need python-2.5 install their files in the wrong place for a python-2.6 system. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] make-server-delegations output and importing to XS
On 26 April 2010 10:07, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > I can do a python version. > I don't like having hundreds of files opened, it's ok with you? I just wrote one, committing now. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] OATs delegations -- change in procedure -- need to use sig01 format too...
On 25 April 2010 01:40, Martin Langhoff wrote: > - We should make --act a no-op, so we just forget about it in the > future. Gonzalo and Daniel have been working on the scripts and I am a > bit behind on what they've done. Guys, would be great if you apply > this -- or I'll patch it later in the week. Done. Does the XS need a software update now? Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Roadblocks for a central OATS server
Hi Martin, As discussed we're planning on putting a central internet-accessible OATS server in La Rioja, in addition to the ones in the schools. The purpose is to be able to deactivate stolen laptops before their lease expiry (assuming the thief doesn't take the laptop to the school, but does put it online somewhere else). We're not yet in the stages of implementing this part of the system (still working on the in-school OATS server and delegation technicalities, obviously more important) but our discussions have brought up some things which you'd probably be interested in commenting on: 1. Our central internet-accessible server for this task runs Fedora 12 and will need to be kept up to date with any security fixes, distro EOLs, etc. Your olpc-bios-crypto package does not install on F12 (dependency hell). While me doing a F12 rebuild is any easy option for me, I don't feel comfortable leaving that process with the deployment team. So we've showed them how to install it from git in a home directory, which is easy, documented, and sufficient for these tasks. Problem solved, for now, but OLPC really needs to get olpc-bios-crypto into Fedora... 2. Installing an OATS server We need to actually install an OATS server on this F12 system and...well...how? I assume installing the xs-activation RPM would pull in a lot of XS packages, and perhaps has implicit dependencies on certain XS elements (moodle?). Another option is oatslite, but that doesn't support stolen notifications and doesn't support delegations -- Guillermo decided that we can't put the OATS master key on this server so we have to produce keys for it, and give it delegations for all 60k laptops. (trivial to add this code to oatslite, but this point remains as something undecided and uninvestigated for now) Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] make-server-delegations output and importing to XS
On 23 April 2010 12:54, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> OK, no problem. >> Just curious though, whats the justification behind this? is there an >> existing project that runs in this way? >> The single file model just doesn't seem so scalable. > > Thanks! If we have a utility script that splits up such a file, I am happy. > > From the PoV of the programmers of the inventory systems we interop > with, the simplest thing is to export a single file. That is what I > want to ask from inventory backends. > > A single file simplifies little corner cases like "what when a school > disappears / stops having XOs ?" (empty file? file removal?). > > There are number of such corner cases, and by putting them clearly on > our side of the interoperability we make them our problem, and we can > work to make sure we handle them correctly. OK, I pushed our work to git along with a README.delegation, comments appreciated. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] make-server-delegations output and importing to XS
On 22 April 2010 17:39, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> I propose a different design: > > Works for me as long as you also craft a script that handles the run > from a whole CSV file. > > In other words, the main workflow starts with a single 3-field CSV > file exported from an inventory system... OK, no problem. Just curious though, whats the justification behind this? is there an existing project that runs in this way? The single file model just doesn't seem so scalable. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] make-server-delegations output and importing to XS
Hi Martin, We're working on the antitheft stage where the private signing server generates delegations and sends them to the internet-accessible antitheft server. We can work with the scripts that are already in bios-crypto but we're a bit confused by their design. Perhaps we are missing something, or maybe we're just encountering a disconnect being the first project to be doing this. The make-server-delegations script handles all laptops for all schools, but is written in a model where all output data goes in 1 directory, separated by school, where the school name is embedded in the output filename. But the XS expects something quite different -- if you're putting these on USB, it expects one-directory-per-school (where directory name = school name), and within that directory it looks for very specific names (e.g. d-lease.sig) which do not embed the name of the school. And if you're going to be setting up an internet-based sync service instead of using USB, the same structure makes sense, since each school just rsyncs an entire directory and then passes it to xs-activation-import. While it's not hard to write a script to take the make-server-delegations output and put it in the form expected by the XS, we're wondering why this is necessary. Surely every deployment is going to need to do this. We're also a little unsure of the design -- it maintains 1 open file handle per school. Thats 400 here, or presumably thousands if we're talking a bigger deployment. I propose a different design: make-server-delegations works for 1 school, with 1 key, to produce a single file full of delegations. The input file is: SN1,UUID1 SN2,UUID2 and the output goes to stdout. (designed to be redirected to a file) That way, the user gets much more control over the output structure. Here, we'd run it one time for every school we want to process. Thinking on an ongoing basis, it also means that it's much easier to only generate delegations for the schools where the lists of laptops have changed. You can store md5sums of the one-file-per-school laptop lists and only re-run that school through the delegation generator if it has changed since yesterday. Thoughts? Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS implementation questions...
On 27 March 2010 09:58, Juan G. Narvaez wrote: > The first one... > Why the school server does't use the last version of fedora? Because developer time is limited. Are you looking for a project? :) You can browse the list archives to see some discussion (and an alpha-quality image) about a F11-based release. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Now completely fixed - ejabberd crashes when segregating presence by course...
On 29 December 2009 12:37, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Thanks to Devon's good reporting, a few peeks at the server, and some > discussion with the ejabberd dev team, this is completely fixed. > > Short version: > > yum --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing install moodle-xs ejabberd-xs Should this be moved into stable now? cheers Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] OpenDNS instructions don't work
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Use_OpenDNS This doesn't work - xs-config.make says it shouldnt be used for named-xs.conf, and named doesn't work afterwards since the config file is borked. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Broken download link for XS-0.6 iso
On 3 February 2010 15:16, Daniel Drake wrote: > If you go here: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server > > On the left you see: > Schoolserver: XS-0.6 (Notes) (9/2009) > > Following the XS-0.6 link takes you to > http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/ Also, this directory indicates that there is a 0.7 final release (which was also assumed to be the latest by the team) since it doesn't have a 'd' or anything to distinguish it... Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Broken download link for XS-0.6 iso
If you go here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server On the left you see: Schoolserver: XS-0.6 (Notes) (9/2009) Following the XS-0.6 link takes you to http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/ and there is no 0.6 final ISO there. This confused the team here into thinking that 0.6d5 was final :( Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Technical questions
2010/1/21 Eustace Amah : > One of the problem that am experiencing now is that I configured the 15 APs > with same ESSID, different channels(1,6,11) shared among them and located all > around the school. Remember that the APs are configured with different subnet > from the lease of DHCP server but when more than 3 XO tries to connect it > knocks everyone out immediately. The APs are PoE enabled. The models are > Cisco Small Business Model WAP4410N. I have increased the power to the APs. Sounds like an access point problem indeed. Do you remember in the training that we also had trouble with this access point? I can't remember our conclusion exactly, did we decide that they didn't work well because we weren't using an antenna? Perhaps our conclusion was wrong and this access point is simply crashing for other reasons - perhaps due to the "load" of 3 XOs, as you observe. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] xs-activation and OS update info
2009/10/30 Martin Langhoff : > It is about avoiding maintaining a bespoke lib. If you say it is a > variant on a python standard lib, do you think we can subclass it? Or > is there a reason not to? Yeah it can probably be subclassed. >> It is needed up until Python 3.0, unless you know of a python ordered > > I saw a commend mentioning that something wouldn't be needed w 2.6. On > F11 we have 2.6... but maybe I misunderstood. Ah yes, I forgot the specifics. odict is needed until Python 3.0, but Python 2.6 adds the dict_type constructor parameter for ConfigParser so MyConfigParser is not needed with python 2.6. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] xs-activation and OS update info
2009/10/27 Martin Langhoff : > Right... makes sense. I am a bit intrigued with the custom config file > parser / writer (that is 3x the sloc of the whole xs-activation ;-) ). It's not really a custom config file parser. It's a trivial change to Python's own ConfigParser class. The only change is in the constructor IIRC, which now lets you use a custom dictionary type. > I am guessing the key motivator is that YAML, JSON and other config > formats won't preserve ordering correctly, right? I didn't feel that JSON is appropriate for a config file, especially so in oatslite (which allows more per-OS configuration). I don't know anything about YAML. > - is MyConfigParser used anywhere else? I don't understand this question. My patch only adds it for xs-activation purposes. > - odict is only needed on F9, correct? It is needed up until Python 3.0, unless you know of a python ordered dictionary class which is shipped with your distro-of-choice. (I don't know of any, meaning that it will still be needed even with F12) It's a bit ugly with these 2 classes but at least their importance is trivial to explain and they can sit independently, and we have a path for getting rid of them (Python 3.0). > What is needed in terms of config parsing is pretty simple -- I > suspect there are a couple of simple ways we could avoid depending on > the ordering of the config file, with less code. Alternative implementations/suggestions welcome :) In my opinion the ordering is the main purpose of having to use a config file here. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] PolicyKit dependency chain for headless machines
2009/10/23 Martin Langhoff : > Working on the OLPC XS rebase to F11 -- I end up with random bits of > gnome and kde, brought in by PolicyKit, which wants a > PolicyKit-authentication-agent. > > Yum only seems to know of KDE and Gnome authentication-agents. > > How does PK handle users logging in in a VT? What is the > authentication agent there? The authentication agent is used only when a specific application requests an operation which the local authority has marked as requiring authorization. It is not used when logging in. I don't know of any command line applications that make policykit requests, and I don't know of any commandline authentication agents. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Nepal XS customizations
2009/10/23 Martin Langhoff : >> - a script to simplify eth0 configuration > > How does that work? http://hg.olenepal.org/NEXS_scripts/file/tip/netsetup.sh >> Notes on self test: >> - 32 tests performed, to check that: hostname has been set, both >> ethernet interfaces present, all the regular XS services running > > How does that work? Without the Nepal specific bits, that might be a > nice addition to the XS... A bash test wrapper and a series of tests: http://hg.olenepal.org/NEXS_scripts/file/tip/tests >> - a clone of http://en.wiktionary.org - an English definition dictionary >> - a clone of www.nepalisabdakos.com - a Nepali definition dictionary > > How do you mirror those? Sabdakos: our personal contacts with the site sent us their db and source Wiktionary: blog entry coming up whenever I have time, there were a few challenges... Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] minor xs-activation-httphandler bug
xs-activation-httphandler.py does: lease = myoat.get_lease(sn, 300) if lease is not None: myoat.mark_served_lease(sn) resp["lease"] = lease However, get_lease doesn't look like it will ever return None. Instead, it returns False if there is no lease. So we get a response with "lease":false and the lease is marked as served for that SN. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Nepal XS customizations
Here are the customizations we're making on top of XS-0.6 here in Nepal. This version will start being distributed to the field on Monday. Kickstart file modifications: - no GUI, just use text mode - auto reboot at the end of installation - no interactivity during installation - timezone and root password hardcoded - packages added: dansguardian, dependencies for nepal's E-library system (www.pustakalaya.org) e.g. mysql, some php modules, ImageMagick, java - added a nepal-specific "nexs-custom" customization package, and a script from that package to run on firstboot (details below) - nepal-specific XS build number written to /etc/motd and /etc/issue Build scripts including the customization file can be found at http://hg.olenepal.org/NEXS-image-builder/ The customizations from nexs-custom: - udev rules to make sure that onboard LAN is eth1, and USB ethernet adapter (for WAN) is eth0 - apache configs to set up aliases for our various content components and E-library - mysql config file to enable storage in /library and 1-file-per-table innodb setting - a script to simplify eth0 configuration - a self test system (details below) - various usbmount scripts to enable automatic content installation from USB The firstboot script from nexs-custom: - configure and enable dansguardian - setup "admin" user account, with a predetermined SSH public key and password - configure and enable mysql - enable moodle admin account and set a predetermined password - beep and print some instructions to the screen Notes on self test: - 32 tests performed, to check that: hostname has been set, both ethernet interfaces present, all the regular XS services running, Nepal content has been installed - it runs on every boot, logging the test results and info into /var/log (max 500 logs kept) - it can also be run from a usbmount script which is triggered by a file named "nexs-run-self-test" on the USB disk. In this mode it will use aural beep codes to indicate test success and failure, in addition to logging the test results and info back to the USB disk. nexs-custom code is found at http://hg.olenepal.org/NEXS_scripts/ The content that we add: - Fedora Commons (www.fedora.info) and Fez frontend, and huge content collection -- a clone of pustakalaya.org - a clone of http://en.wiktionary.org - an English definition dictionary - a clone of www.nepalisabdakos.com - a Nepali definition dictionary - wikipedia for schools (http://schools-wikipedia.org/) - latest full version of OLE Nepal's huge educational content activity, including the whole years worth of lessons (this is also present on the XOs but only for a certain time period at a time -- the overall activity is split into 6 different XO activities which are distributed at different times through the year, the full version is too big to store on XO) - some world maps, an atlas, and educational videos some scripts we use for supporting the above content installation can be found at http://hg.olenepal.org/NEXC-maint/ Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] create_user and re-registration
2009/10/12 Martin Langhoff :
> So that's the issue. I think you sent the wrong patch. No awk line in
> the patch, at least that I can see...
Odd, lets try again.
--- create_user.orig2009-10-12 12:36:44.0 +0545
+++ create_user 2009-10-12 12:36:44.0 +0545
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@
mkdir -p --mode=700 .ssh || clean_up_and_die "Unable to mkdir .ssh"
echo "ssh-dss $pubkey" >> .ssh/authorized_keys || clean_up_and_die "Unable to
set up authorized_keys"
+
+# remove duplicate lines
+awk '!x[$0]++' .ssh/authorized_keys > .ssh/authorized_keys.tmp
+mv -f .ssh/authorized_keys{.tmp,}
+
chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys || clean_up_and_die "Unable to chmod
authorized_keys"
chown -R $username .ssh || clean_up_and_die "Unable to chown .ssh"
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Re: [Server-devel] create_user and re-registration
2009/10/12 Martin Langhoff : > Hi Daniel, > > Reasonable request... I reviewed the patch, expecting you'd be running > `sort -u` over a tmp copy of authorized_keys, but it does nothing like > that. > > How does it help, then? What does "sort -u" do? The man page doesn't make it very clear. The awk command I inserted simply removes all lines from a file that are a duplicate of another. Or at least I hope it does - I don't really know awk but have used this command in a handful of projects now! So if there are 3 copies of the key in the file, 2 of them will get removed. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] create_user and re-registration
Hi, If an XO re-registers with the XS, its key is once again appended to .ssh/authorized_keys. Since introducing automatic registration in nepal we end up with many duplicate copies of the keys... any chance this small patch could be added? or that we could overwrite instead of append to the authorized_keys file? Thanks, Daniel create_user_keys.patch Description: Binary data ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.6 -
2009/10/7 Martin Langhoff : > 65d0816e002fe83f4e0130b6a92577377b9fd2e3 OLPC-School-Server-0.6-i386.iso > c872907f1f696ea7bb1bb6e95319fa27e62ce76c OLPC-School-Server-0.6-i386.img.gz Great! What's changed since 0.6d5? Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] what is xs-callhome?
I just noticed for the first time this xs-callhome thing. What's the intended purpose of it? It seems quite broken at the moment. It is launched by cron every few hours, but looks for configuration in the wrong place (/etc/sysconfig/callhome instead of /etc/sysconfig/callhome/callhome.conf). Can it be fixed or removed? Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] noisy "service dhcpd status"
Running XS-0.6d, "service dhcpd status" is unusually noisy. It looks like it is regenerating the config file every time I check its status. Is this intentional? # service dhcpd status /etc / xs-commitchanged -m 'Dirty state' dhcpd-xs.conf #SERVERNUM := 1 #BASEDNSNAME := testxs.olenepal.org cp /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/dhcpd.conf.1 dhcpd-xs.conf.tmp sed -i -e "s/@@BASEDNSNAME@@/testxs.olenepal.org/" dhcpd-xs.conf.tmp mv dhcpd-xs.conf.tmp dhcpd-xs.conf xs-commitchanged -m "Made from /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/dhcpd.conf." dhcpd-xs.conf / dhcpd (pid 3312) is running... Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11
2009/9/17 Jerry Vonau :
> Well not quite the way I would of done it, I was hoping someone else
> would test my idea, but glad you got what you needed done. Mind sharing
> the yumdownloader routine? I might try to use something like that to
> populate my updates repo, then remove any duplicates in the rpms what
> would take extra space on the iso.
During the build script:
cat < yum.conf
[main]
reposdir=$(pwd)/yumrepos
cachedir=/var/cache/yum-xs
EOF
pushd ${isocopy}/Packages
yumdownloader -c ../../yum.conf --resolve mysql-server mysql php-mysql
expect ImageMagick graphviz php-tidy java-1.6.0-openjdk
java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel
popd
yumrepos/ then contains 2 repo files, one for F9 and one for F9 updates.
The only slightly awkward thing is that the added packages have to be
listed twice, once above and once in the kickstart file. Of course, we
could automate the construction of the ks file but that's adding more
complexity than I'd like to leave behind in Nepal.
Daniel
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Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11
2009/9/16 Jerry Vonau : > That should be do-able using mkslim (read it first) from xs-livecd's git > repo, along with my idea to use a pre-configured "updates repo" on the > iso. > > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2009-February/002937.html Thanks! Got it working as follows: 1. extract ISO 2. copy in new ks file 3. add more RPMs to Packages/ (using creative use of yumdownloader to make sure that deps come with the new RPMs) 4. createrepo --database --groupfile repodata/comps.xml . 5. remove stuff that mkslim removes 6. mkisofs no need to mess with bdb stuff any more :) Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11
2009/9/15 Jerry Vonau :
> Are you just adding rpms to the install media? Or are you trying
> something more difficult? I have a process in mind if you're just adding
> rpms to the mix...
Just adding RPMs would be enough, but also we're customizing the
kickstart file a little.
> However, I see that the older buildinstall(s) are not present any
> more(?)! (File a bug I guess) If you were to add the buildinstall from
> F9's anaconda in revisor's script directory as F9-buildinstall, then the
> buildinstall from F9 should be used instead of the one on the host
> system.
I did that and it now fails at a later point. I first had to modify pungi.py
+buildinstall.append('--output')
buildinstall.append(self.topdir)
and the end result is:
Linking in release notes:
100.0%
Size of the installation tree is 518 MB
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/revisor/__init__.py", line 528, in run
self.base.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/revisor/base.py", line 106, in run
self.cli.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/revisor/cli.py", line 44, in run
self.base.lift_off()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/revisor/base.py", line 867, in lift_off
self.buildInstallationMedia()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/revisor/base.py", line 1478,
in buildInstallationMedia
f = open(os.path.join(mypungi.topdir,"isolinux","isolinux.cfg"),"rw+")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/var/tmp/revisor-pungi/0.5.2/xs-f9-i386/i386/os/isolinux/isolinux.cfg'
Traceback occurred, please report a bug at http://fedorahosted.org/revisor
The size should be more like 850mb.
Did you have any luck in your own experiment?
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Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11
2009/9/15 Martin Langhoff : > I keep my build machine of F9 due to similar issues I saw building F7 > from F9 -- however, ISTR there's been some discussion of this > recently. Hmmm, a bit of googling leads to a nice thread > > http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-buildsys-l...@redhat.com/msg02210.html > > which if you read in depth seems to indicate that either of: > > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* > /bin/rpm --rebuilddb > > fixes the problem. Probably either triggers the other. Yeah, I found that thread too. It doesn't help. There are no files that match __db* and "rpm --rebuilddb" complains with the same error. Still stumped. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] [PATCH] create_user: fix handling of parameters - fixes empty authorized_keys
2009/9/15 Martin Langhoff : > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> oops, I ran into the same issue with my own patch but looks like I >> completely forgot to send a fixed one. Thanks for taking care of that! > > Bad boy! Question: have you got other forgotten patches? Now'd be a > good time to hear of them... Not at the moment. I'm now tying up my work on the XS, which has basically been modifying it to enable easy installation of Nepal's pustakalaya E-library as well as all the other webapps they install (wiktionary, wikipedia for schools, a Nepali dictionary, ...) primarily using usbmount scripts. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
