Need help installing an activity

2008-06-02 Thread shivaprasad javali
Hi, I prepared a .xo file for my application to be installed on the XO. I created the .xo file by running the zip command on the activity folder. Now if I have to install the activity through a thumb drive, I go to the terminal move to Activities folder and then unzip the .xo file there.

Re: Need help installing an activity

2008-06-02 Thread Simon Schampijer
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#Manual_installation from Browse: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse#Install_an_activity Best, Simon shivaprasad javali wrote: Hi, I prepared a .xo file for my application to be installed on the XO. I created the .xo file by running the zip

Re: Need help installing an activity

2008-06-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2008/6/2 shivaprasad javali [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry didnt observe it properly. It is a D-BUS timeout. I am runing the command from the terminal activity on an actual XO. Which version of the software are you using? Some old versions would give you that error if the bundle was malformed. As

Re: [Server-devel] Weird Device Recognition in 163

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Anna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the lack of promptness, but they didn't invite me back to work on the server till this afternoon. You're right. In the BIOS, there was a ZIP drive (huh?) as Primary Master. The hard drive is the SATA master. I

Re: [Server-devel] [Colombia] Problema servidor OLPC XS

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/5/30 Carlos Dario Isaza Zamudio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Luego de mucho molestar y sufrir con esto... Lo instale en una maquina virtual en mi casa, y concluimos que es un problema con el proxy de la universidad. Ya tengo Moodle corriendo en el server en mi portatil y mañana lo probare en la

Re: Need help installing an activity

2008-06-02 Thread shivaprasad javali
Hi Bert, I tried sugar-install-bundle its giving me an error timeout in the network connection. Do i have to be connected in the network before I can run that command?? Also i tried Simon's suggestion in the follow up mail. When i try to install it through the browse activity

Re: Need help installing an activity

2008-06-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Are you sure it is a network timeout, not a D-Bus timeout? Also, the script will not work from the console, only from the Terminal activity. If this does not work, please open a bug report. - Bert - On 02.06.2008, at 12:23, shivaprasad javali wrote: Hi Bert, I tried

Re: Need help installing an activity

2008-06-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 02.06.2008, at 10:29, shivaprasad javali wrote: Hi, I prepared a .xo file for my application to be installed on the XO. I created the .xo file by running the zip command on the activity folder. Now if I have to install the activity through a thumb drive, I go to the terminal

Re: Need help installing an activity

2008-06-02 Thread shivaprasad javali
Sorry didnt observe it properly. It is a D-BUS timeout. I am runing the command from the terminal activity on an actual XO. On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure it is a network timeout, not a D-Bus timeout? Also, the script will not work from

Re: Need help installing an activity

2008-06-02 Thread shivaprasad javali
My directory structure for the activity is: -activity --has the .info file and the icon -bin -- has a shell script and the exe which i have to run -lib -- has the libs which my application is dependent on - MANIFEST file I used the information in this link :

pls checkout new project management site for E-Paath activities

2008-06-02 Thread Bryan Berry
I have setup redmine for E-Paath and E-Pustakalaya at http://redmine.olenepal.org . Please take a tour of using the guest account, password guest and let me know what you think. We wanted to use OLPC’s Trac set up but found it did not meet our needs. We have 47+ individual activities to keep

Re: pls checkout new project management site for E-Paath activities

2008-06-02 Thread John Watlington
Brian, Every country will need their own problem tracking and resolution system (probably more like RT than Trac). This is due to a number of reasons: language, country specific activities and content, the specific software release being used by the country, etc. The place to push issues

Re: pls checkout new project management site for E-Paath activities

2008-06-02 Thread Bryan Berry
will be happy to write it up. I have the setup in my personal wiki anyways. We are working out testing process that includes teachers, software testers, and the developers. The software testers test for stuff that plain just doesn't work and teachers review our activities to evaluate whether they

Re: pls checkout new project management site for E-Paath activities

2008-06-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:27 AM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every country will need their own problem tracking and resolution system (probably more like RT than Trac). This is due to a number of reasons: language, country specific activities and content, the specific software

Re: pls checkout new project management site for E-Paath activities

2008-06-02 Thread Bryan Berry
thanks John btw for some annoying reason our local ISP is blocking access to http://redmine.olenpal.org will have to fix that tomorrow. On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 11:27 -0400, John Watlington wrote: Brian, Every country will need their own problem tracking and resolution system (probably more

Bricking for fun and pleasure

2008-06-02 Thread Marcus Leech
I bricked a lab machine today by doing an olpc-update joyride-2000 on it--it was previously running ship.2 Build 656. The system was unbootable, so I asked it to do a fallback boot, which fell back to the 656 load, but now the /bin/su command was made non-executable to ordinary plebs. This

Re: Bricking for fun and pleasure

2008-06-02 Thread Marcus Leech
C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Marcus Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bricked a lab machine today by doing an olpc-update joyride-2000 on it--it was previously running ship.2 Build 656. First off, a matter of nomenclature - not really directed at you,

Re: Bricking for fun and pleasure

2008-06-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Marcus Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bricked a lab machine today by doing an olpc-update joyride-2000 on it--it was previously running ship.2 Build 656. First off, a matter of nomenclature - not really directed at you, Marcus, but for devel@ in general.

Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-02 Thread ffm
Well, the title is only partially accurate. The real issue is that there is no way to back up a user's data if the OS is borked sans developer key. If the autoreinstallation image's backup features were incorporated in offline upgrade, that would solve a lot of headaches. Use case: Alice has

[PATCH] libertas: support boot commands for flashing boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-02 Thread Brian Cavagnolo
Based on a patch from Brajesh Dave Also refine error codes returned by if_usb_prog_firmware. Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c | 57 +++ 1 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-02 Thread Brian Cavagnolo
To update boot2, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and: echo boot2_image_name /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_boot2 echo firmware_image_name /sys/class/net/eth2/lbs_fw Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c | 65

A feature opportunity (was: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.)

2008-06-02 Thread Robert Myers
ffm, and others, The real issue is that there is no way to back up a user's data if the OS is borked sans developer key. If the autoreinstallation image's backup features were incorporated in offline upgrade, that would solve a lot of headaches. Use case: Alice has worked on her final paper

Re: A feature opportunity (was: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.)

2008-06-02 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Myers wrote: | An alternative idea, but it would take 2 XOs and a USB cable. As long as the wifi hardware is working, you don't need a cable. Even if the system won't boot, OFW has a complete wifi network stack. You could implement this as a

New joyride build 2005

2008-06-02 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2005 Changes in build 2005 from build: 2000 Size delta: 0.00M -pygame 1.7.1-14.fc7 +pygame 1.7.1-17.fc7 -libpng 2:1.2.22-1.fc7 +libpng 2:1.2.29-1.fc7 --- Changes for pygame 1.7.1-17.fc7 from 1.7.1-14.fc7 --- + Update config patch (bz

New faster build 2005

2008-06-02 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build2005 Changes in build 2005 from build: 2000 Size delta: 0.00M -pygame 1.7.1-14.fc7 +pygame 1.7.1-17.fc7 -libpng 2:1.2.22-1.fc7 +libpng 2:1.2.29-1.fc7 --- Changes for pygame 1.7.1-17.fc7 from 1.7.1-14.fc7 --- + Update config patch (bz

Re: [Localization] [Fwd: Re: #7116 NORM Never A: Possible European G1G1 program needs appropriate keyboards]

2008-06-02 Thread Edward Cherlin
Sorry for so much cross-posting, but this affects us all. On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:59 PM, LASKE (or possibly LASKÉ), Lionel (C2S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just to add my one cent on the appropriate keyboard issue: Merci beaucoup. My name is Lionel Laské. Like others people I love

Re: [Localization] [Fwd: Re: #7116 NORM Never A: Possible European G1G1 program needs appropriate keyboards]

2008-06-02 Thread Edward Cherlin
I made an error in my previous posting. The OLPC French AZERTY keyboard layout exists, and is shown on the OLPC French Keyboard page on the Wiki. ISO_Next_Group and ISO_Prev_Group in the file listing are the keyboard switching commands. I see that this definition supports more than the two layouts

Re: [Server-devel] Weird Device Recognition in 163

2008-06-02 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 2, 2008, at 7:16 AM, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:22:40PM +1000, Martin Langhoff wrote: That makes bit more sense. A bad pci connection... but I'm not sure why it didn't come up with the right ip addr. I do wonder whether the fedora tools have anything to

Re: [Server-devel] Weird Device Recognition in 163

2008-06-02 Thread John Watlington
On May 30, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Anna wrote: The other weird device thing involved the second NIC. The first one gets recognized as eth0 just fine. However, the second one is seen as dummy0. I put the hardware address for the second NIC in both /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 and

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-02 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Martin, Thanks a lot for the review. I copied your reply to the Uruguay edublog volunteer list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will use that list to work with end users and for internal project tracking. That said, anyone can join. It's Spanish and English and occasionally I post in Spanglish :-) Tarun

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-02 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) wrote: Hi Martin, Thanks a lot for the review. I copied your reply to the Uruguay edublog volunteer list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will use that list to work with end users and for internal project tracking. That said, anyone can join. It's

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sanity check on our high level concept. The core idea of this software is to present an easy to use interface so kids can post to blogs. Enter text, click post you are done. Yes, and that's fantastic. But if I