automating lists of events, jams, etc.

2008-08-23 Thread S Page
Seth Woodworth wrote: I've migrated as many of the dates from the [[Events]] Page to the [[Xo roadshow]] wiki page. ... People should annotate wiki pages for events, jams, meetings, etc. with [[start date::2008-08-22]]. Pages can query this instead of users manually updating lists every

Re: [sugar] is there something that eats develop.sig ?

2008-08-23 Thread Mitch Bradley
3) What started my muddle was that OFW did not *recognize* the USB stick (until much later, once the system was rebuilt, when I tried unplugging the external keyboard from the XO). OFW would not boot the customization stick - it jingled and let me invoke the 'ok' prompt (where

Re: updating OLPC_{Region} pages, with a payoff

2008-08-23 Thread Samuel Klein
I definitely like the idea of a G1G1 deployment page.SJ On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:48 PM, S Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Summary: people who know about deployments, please update the pages in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Deployments (Is there's a better e-mail list for

Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried using ps_mem.py to compare memory used by processes, but the method that ps_mem.py uses has changed as a result of kernel change. http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2008-08-22-ps-mem/ has the samples that I took,

Re: Workaround for the sound lockup?

2008-08-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's fixed in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e14. Thanks for the hint! Shame that I didn't know earlier... m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions -

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've 703 and 2311 available to compare. Here's a few things I found. -- A test to compare available memory by eliminating buffer cache. Method: boot, wait for UI to be stable, switch to text console, echo 3

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried using ps_mem.py to compare memory used by processes, but the method that ps_mem.py uses has changed as a result of kernel change. http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2008-08-22-ps-mem/ has the samples that I took,

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-23 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:36:17AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: Which row are you looking at here? In -/+ buffers/cache I get 130368. This is joyride-2328. That test was using the free value on the first line, which matches MemFree in /proc/meminfo. I chose that because I knew that after

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-23 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:01:07PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried using ps_mem.py to compare memory used by processes, but the method that ps_mem.py uses has changed as a result of kernel change.

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've seen it in another bug report already). I can't reproduce on a clean 2328 joyride, not sure if it has been fixed or something weird is going on. Cerebro is enabled in

Re: Workaround for the sound lockup?

2008-08-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's fixed in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e14. Thanks for the hint! Shame that I didn't know earlier... Incidentally, the workaround was

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've seen it in another bug report already). I can't reproduce on a clean 2328 joyride, not sure

New joyride build 2330

2008-08-23 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2330 Changes in build 2330 from build: 2325 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar 0.82.0-1.fc9 +sugar 0.82.0-2.20080822git454def195d.fc9 -sugar-toolkit 0.82.1-1.fc9 +sugar-toolkit 0.82.1-2.20080822git2e6be9ea55.fc9 --- Changes for sugar

New release8.2 build 756

2008-08-23 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/xo-1/streams/8.2/build756 Changes in build 756 from build: 755 Size delta: 0.00M -libX11 1.1.4-2.olpc3 +libX11 1.1.4-3.olpc3 -sugar 0.82.0-1.fc9 +sugar 0.82.0-2.20080822git454def195d.fc9 -sugar-toolkit 0.82.1-1.fc9 +sugar-toolkit

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread Ton van Overbeek
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've seen it in

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread pgf
ton van overbeek wrote: Also idle suspend is enabled again in 2325, while it should be off. i think this was intentional. now that we're building separate release (Subject: New release8.2 build 7nn) and joyride streams, idle suspend was re-enabled in joyride in order to help continue flushing

Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?

2008-08-23 Thread Ton van Overbeek
Noticed that idle suspend was enabled again in recent joyrides. pgf replied that this was intentional since we now have a revived 8.2 build stream. But I have not seen any announcement yet on branching/freezing etc. What is the status and which builds should we be testing for the 8.2 release?

Media Lab: Fwd: [outages] Major file system outages and ML upgrade next week

2008-08-23 Thread Henry Edward Hardy
There may be some disruption of services at 1cc this week due to the announced MIT Media Lab upgrades. At the moment we have no DHCP services at 1cc. --HH. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:22 PM Subject: [outages] Major

Write cannot handle Composed dead characters

2008-08-23 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, It looks like Write is unable to handle Composed dead characters, at least for the Amharic keyboard. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8127 Things are more complicated by the fact that the right click menu in Write has been disabled, so I have no way of knowing which GTK input module is active

Re: Write cannot handle Composed dead characters

2008-08-23 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:45:11PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello, It looks like Write is unable to handle Composed dead characters, at least for the Amharic keyboard. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8127 Things are more complicated by the fact that the right click menu in Write has

Re: Write cannot handle Composed dead characters

2008-08-23 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Khaled Hosny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:45:11PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello, It looks like Write is unable to handle Composed dead characters, at least for the Amharic keyboard. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8127 Things

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: 6.5 Mib according to ps_mem You are right, it's enabled in joyride... it's failing for me because it can't find msh0 (not sure why). Marco I filed #8128 to address the memory usage that seems excessive. I have also disabled cerebro from start-up while this

New joyride build 2331

2008-08-23 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2331 Changes in build 2331 from build: 2330 Size delta: 0.00M -cerebro 2.9.12-1.olpc3 +cerebro 2.9.13-1.olpc3 --- Changes for cerebro 2.9.13-1.olpc3 from 2.9.12-1.olpc3 --- + 2.9.13: Disabled Cerebro on default start-up while working

Re: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?

2008-08-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Noticed that idle suspend was enabled again in recent joyrides. pgf replied that this was intentional since we now have a revived 8.2 build stream. But I have not seen any announcement yet on branching/freezing etc.

Fwd: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?

2008-08-23 Thread Ton van Overbeek
Forgot to include devel@ and mstone in my reply to Scott -- Forwarded message -- From: Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:45 PM Subject: Re: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now? To: C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many

Re: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?

2008-08-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 24.08.2008 um 00:04 schrieb C. Scott Ananian: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Noticed that idle suspend was enabled again in recent joyrides. pgf replied that this was intentional since we now have a revived 8.2 build stream. But I have not

Re: Write cannot handle Composed dead characters

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Khaled Hosny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:45:11PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello, It looks like Write is unable to handle Composed dead characters, at least for the Amharic keyboard.

where is msh0 ?

2008-08-23 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Joyride: 2331 firmware: Q2E14 machine: B4 I don't see mshX in my interfaces. Is this a known issue? Didn't find anything similar in the archives, sorry if I 'm repeating it. Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058

Re: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
C. Scott Ananian wrote: Michael and I have been working on creating an acceptable 8.2 test candidate. There have been 8.2-753, 8.2-754, 8.2-755, and 8.2-756 builds, but none of them have (so far) made it through initial QA here at 1cc. In particular, we tried to turn of X shared memory in

Re: where is msh0 ?

2008-08-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Aug 2008, at 00:31, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: Joyride: 2331 firmware: Q2E14 machine: B4 I don't see mshX in my interfaces. Is this a known issue? Didn't find anything similar in the archives, sorry if I 'm repeating it. Same here on joyride-2330, Q2E14, B4, ifconfig just

Re: olpc school request

2008-08-23 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Jerry and Amy Higdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks so much. When I search for OLPC I find many such references are made about buying for those really in need like Bangladesh... How can I find out if there is a program of sort for Bangladesh going right now

Re: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?

2008-08-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... but 8.2-756 is our best stable candidate so far. Michael (the release manager) will presumably announce it as such after we do our usual local QA ... Unfortunately 756 appears to have screwed up some sort of

Re: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?

2008-08-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:04 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael and I have been working on creating an acceptable 8.2 test candidate. There have been 8.2-753, 8.2-754, 8.2-755, and 8.2-756 builds, but none of them have (so far) made it through initial QA here at 1cc.

Re: [Server-devel] Help test OLPC_XS_169 - RC1 for xs-0.4

2008-08-23 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 05:33:21PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: YES. I nowrealise that I forgot this bit of instructions (I think I included in an earlier set). It goes like this: - if you are upgrading, you *must* re-run domain_config yourbasedomain OK, fair enough. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Server-devel] Help test OLPC_XS_169 - RC1 for xs-0.4

2008-08-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 05:33:21PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: YES. I nowrealise that I forgot this bit of instructions (I think I included in an earlier set). It goes like this: - if you are upgrading, you *must*