Re: idea for running out of RAM

2008-10-31 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you continue down this path (auto-saving application state to NAND when we run out of memory)? How tenable is the idea of saving application state to NAND on our system? Could the oom-killer have a hook to enable

GCompris bundle download is disabled

2008-10-31 Thread Bruno Coudoin
I am sorry to inform you that I disabled the download of GCompris bundles. There are more downloads than our server can sustains. The 11 Oct 2008 I requested a hosting place to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but got no response so far. For information it drains almost 3TB of download in Septembre. If

Epaati name change, and requesting account for Roshan Karki

2008-10-31 Thread Ties Stuij
Not sure where to send these requests to. cjb helped me before, but... Anyway, first of all I'd like to request a name change for the hosting facilities of epaati on laptop.org. Due to the meaning of epaati and some social dynamics, epaati is now the name for the laptop amongst the teachers and

Re: Status of Joyride

2008-10-31 Thread Peter Robinson
is there a plan to start up joyride again so we can (somewhat more easily) test this stuff out? Or is that waiting till after XOcamp2? Did I maybe miss the email thread about this? Joyride's back now. joyride-2520 contains the queued-up userspace changes, and joyride-2521 is the

Re: setup for XO development

2008-10-31 Thread Bobby Powers
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 04:35:30PM -0500, David Farning wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, for a variety of reasons, I'm working quite hard to make rainbow usable on

Re: idea for running out of RAM

2008-10-31 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert Cahalan wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you continue down this path (auto-saving application state to NAND when we run out of memory)? How tenable is the idea of saving application

Re: Data Storage and User-facing System Requirements [was Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Files]

2008-10-31 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:09:16PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Garrison wrote: It seems from my reading of mailing lists, IRC logs, and listening to conversations with people that we are trying to resolve all of these issues by

Re: Status of Joyride

2008-10-31 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 31.10.2008, at 03:02, Peter Robinson wrote: Can someone poke the announcer scripts that updates the following URLs. http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride_vs_update1.html In the mean time you can still use what the old scripts generate:

Sucrose 0.83.1 Development Release

2008-10-31 Thread Simon Schampijer
This is our first Development Release in the 0.84 cycle. The code base has seen many refactoring efforts to improve the platform. To improve performance several heavy shell dependency have been dropped and the journal and the shell service has been merged into the shell. Furthermore the

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread kawk
Every time I try one of the debxo 0.3 or debxo 0.2 JFFS2 images, I get the error message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:75: Error writing to NAND FLASH and it fails. From 0.3, I've tried JFFS2 base and kde, and from 0.2 I've tried KDE. Same error message. I've re-downloaded the images, tried a md5sum on

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Every time I try one of the debxo 0.3 or debxo 0.2 JFFS2 images, I get the error message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:75: Error writing to NAND FLASH and it fails. You need to upgrade Open Firmware to q2e20. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:10:08PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, Every time I try one of the debxo 0.3 or debxo 0.2 JFFS2 images, I get the error message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:75: Error writing to NAND FLASH and it fails. You need to upgrade Open Firmware to q2e20. You can do so

Re: Sucrose 0.83.1 Development Release

2008-10-31 Thread S Page
Simon Schampijer wrote: This is our first Development Release in the 0.84 cycle. The code base has seen many refactoring efforts to improve the platform. Will OLPC joyride builds pick up the new Sucrose? Furthermore the datastore has been rewritten, to simplify and improve maintainability.

Re: Please unlock Activities/G1G1/8.2

2008-10-31 Thread Bert Freudenberg
*bump* Can we do something about the still-locked pages? Since joyride is active again this part needs to be opened up too. E.g., the 8.2 page should be made to include Activities/Etoys_(8.2) instead of Activities/Etoys_(latest) so that we can get on with the work. - Bert - On

Re: Please unlock Activities/G1G1/8.2

2008-10-31 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *bump* Can we do something about the still-locked pages? Since joyride is active again this part needs to be opened up too. E.g., the 8.2 page should be made to include Activities/Etoys_(8.2) instead of

Re: Please unlock Activities/G1G1/8.2

2008-10-31 Thread Samuel Klein
Please update the [[Activities/Etoys (8.2)]] page if there are any 8.2 changes. For other activity developers, make sure you have a valid [[Activities/activityname (8.2)]] page; that is what will show up on the g1g1 page. The (latest) activity pages are now unlocked. SJ On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at

Re: [Server-devel] TinyMCE in Moodle

2008-10-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With help from Martin, I created a branch (mdl19-sugarytinymce) with the Sugar Theme for tinyMCE in the EduBlog repository (projects/EduBlog at dev.laptop.org). So far, it has really basic options

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:26:35PM -0400, Erik Garrison wrote: You can do so by downloading http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/q2e20/q2e20.rom to a usb key, booting into the the OFW prompt, and typing: flash disk:q2e20.rom You can also do this from the OFW prompt without using any USB

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread kawk
I have updated the firmware to Q2E20, and that error message is gone. Instead, once its complete, and I try to boot into debxo, it gives me a sad face and powers off after 10 seconds. Is this because it's an unsigned build, and I have no devel key after the reflash? If so, how can I put a devel

Re: Please unlock Activities/G1G1/8.2

2008-10-31 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Hmm, Activities/Joyride still referred to Activities/Etoys_(8.2) but I can't really find my way in the tangle of G1G1 redirects to fix this properly. It should point to Activities/Etoys_(latest), so I thought I could fix it by making Activities/Etoys-G1G1 redirect to Activities/

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:52:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have updated the firmware to Q2E20, and that error message is gone. Instead, once its complete, and I try to boot into debxo, it gives me a sad face and powers off after 10 seconds. Is this because it's an unsigned build, and

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread Richard A. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have updated the firmware to Q2E20, and that error message is gone. Instead, once its complete, and I try to boot into debxo, it gives me a sad face and powers off after 10 seconds. Is this because it's an unsigned build, and I have no devel key after the reflash?

Re: Status of Joyride

2008-10-31 Thread genesee
joyride-2522 updated, rewrote firmware Q2E20, rebooted fine the first time...then hung up on 2nd reboot, (after removing gnash and installing flash). Now I get this with olpc-update joyride-2522 (and joyride-2521 and 767): $ sudo olpc-update joyride-2522 -r Downloading contents of build

2.6.27 artifact ?

2008-10-31 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Joyride 2521. When as root I type in the 'passwd' command (in Terminal) and it asks me for the new UNIX password, I see 14 repetitions of the message: (data fread failed): Input/output error These messages do not show up when it asks me to retype the new UNIX password (as confirmation).

Re: 2.6.27 artifact ?

2008-10-31 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Oct 31 2008, at 22:10, Mikus Grinbergs was caught saying: Joyride 2521. When as root I type in the 'passwd' command (in Terminal) and it asks me for the new UNIX password, I see 14 repetitions of the message: (data fread failed): Input/output error That looks like a

Re: InputMethod doesn't work with Rainbow activity isolation

2008-10-31 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Wow - what a coincidence - I have been working on the same thing for the past one week :-D I think I got the m17n input methods working - I'll check if SCIM anthy works or not. Thanks, Sayamindu On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Korakurider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have difficulty to make

[Server-devel] 8.2 and updating

2008-10-31 Thread David Leeming
We are all getting used to the new slick version 8.2 Please could I have advice on updating via the server. Some of our deployment sites have Internet, some don't, but most will have servers. I apologise if some of the answers to my questions are on the wiki, we looked but might have missed

Re: [Server-devel] 8.2 and updating

2008-10-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/10/31 David Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are all getting used to the new slick version 8.2 Cool! (a)Will the XS support update service, caching updates so that they are only downloaded once? Yes - look for wiki documentation (and posts on this list) about - xs-rsync for core OS