[sugar] not preserving journal
I tend to __mess__ with my XO. As such, I realize I have to take my lumps once in a while. But - the OLPC appears to NOT be safe from people like me. I have two different builds (in /versions) on my XO - a Joyride and an Update.1. From the Update.1, I used 'olpc-update' to install Joyride 2024. It failed boot (sugar did not come up; and if I did not touch any buttons during boot I had no keyboard input, either). So I used the square button to boot into Update.1 -- and my Journal was empty. I've had the Journal cleaned out before, so I did NOT have anything that mattered in there. [I manually save everything important to a permanently-mounted SD card.] But for anyone who depends upon Journal, it would have been a traumatic experience. mikus ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] not preserving journal
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tend to __mess__ with my XO. As such, I realize I have to take my > lumps once in a while. But - the OLPC appears to NOT be safe from > people like me. > > I have two different builds (in /versions) on my XO - a Joyride and > an Update.1. From the Update.1, I used 'olpc-update' to install > Joyride 2024. It failed boot (sugar did not come up; and if I did > not touch any buttons during boot I had no keyboard input, either). > > So I used the square button to boot into Update.1 -- and my Journal > was empty. I've had the Journal cleaned out before, so I did NOT > have anything that mattered in there. [I manually save everything > important to a permanently-mounted SD card.] But for anyone who > depends upon Journal, it would have been a traumatic experience. Yes, we have several tickets about these issues, but nobody to work on them :/ Anyway, note that most of the final users will have backups of their journal before updating, and that they will update once or twice per year, only to well tested images. Thanks, Tomeu ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] not preserving journal
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:06:37AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, we have several tickets about these issues, but nobody to work on them :/ Please cite ticket numbers. > Anyway, note that most of the final users will have backups of their > journal before updating, Huh? How are they going to have backups? Did someone release backup software without my noticing? Or are you simply betting that it will get done soon? Michael ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] not preserving journal
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:06:37AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, we have several tickets about these issues, but nobody to work on them >> :/ > > Please cite ticket numbers. Will try to set some time aside to get those tickets to you. >> Anyway, note that most of the final users will have backups of their >> journal before updating, > > Huh? How are they going to have backups? Did someone release backup > software without my noticing? Or are you simply betting that it will get > done soon? Are you telling me that kids are going to update to a newer build without having backups? Tomeu ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
