Activity crashes when using libsugarize.so

2011-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
If a newcomer to Sugar follows the instructions at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Running_Linux_Applications_Under_Sugar to use Albert Calahan's libsugarize.so from a precompiled binary, lots of funny things happen. X.org crashes with BadWindow at apparently random times -- some of the crashes can b

Re: turn off logs?

2011-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:58 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:14:56AM -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:06 AM, James Cameron wrote: >> > the kernel has the right to convert the write into an >> > effectively synchronous operation. >> >> I am not unders

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity crashes when using libsugarize.so

2011-02-09 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Last year I experimented with sugarize and stored the files required in a local repo: copied from: http://www.catmoran.com/olpc/#sugxterm--- http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/sugarize/ where I have a repo of the required files: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/sugarize/libsugarize.so Ic

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity crashes when using libsugarize.so

2011-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: > Last year I experimented with sugarize and stored the files required in a > local repo: Right. Could you please change your notes to recommend that people... - download libsugarize.c and compile it on the target OS instead of downloadi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity crashes when using libsugarize.so

2011-02-09 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Thomas C Gilliard > wrote: >> Last year I experimented with sugarize and stored the files required in a >> local repo: > > Right. Could you please change your notes to recommend that people... > >  - downloa

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity crashes when using libsugarize.so

2011-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Jon Nettleton wrote: > Any reason not to package both of these into an rpm and provide it in > the OLPC repos? Missing: a maintainer who knows and understands that it does, a maintainer that has time to do maintain it. m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@la

11.2.0 development build 8 released

2011-02-09 Thread Daniel Drake
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/11.2.0 http://build.laptop.org/11.2.0/os8 en_AU was added for the OLPC Australia project. Fixed bugs: #10642 font too big in non-english languages #10613 geode video corruption when Xv is in use #10617 Drop /var/cache/yum tmpfs #10618 Evince python bindings are brok

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity crashes when using libsugarize.so

2011-02-09 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I just wrote this up on the wiki : http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category_talk:Live_USB#Sugarize_an_application_for_use_in_a_SoaS_USB I do not know where libsugarize.c is stored. Hopefully it will be made available to us. I modified the wget paths to reflect the present repo. (I have not teste

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity crashes when using libsugarize.so

2011-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: > I do not know where  libsugarize.c  is stored. Just follow the link in my email. m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC  - ask interesting questions  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  -

Re: Activity crashes when using libsugarize.so

2011-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > The solution is to grab the src and recompile. That .so is likely old. Actually, not so much of a solution. Still getting some crashes. May be related to the program misbehaving. grr. m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org

Re: Language support for 11.2.0

2011-02-09 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 02/06/2011 07:36 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 4 February 2011 13:00, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> I request German for inclusion! At least I use it in my small >> 'deployment' of 5 machines :) I remember as well a class in Austria that >> used the builds, Christoph (in cc) will know better. Sebas

Re: Language support for 11.2.0

2011-02-09 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 02/06/2011 07:51 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 6 February 2011 12:36, Daniel Drake wrote: >> Does anyone know what the difference between "ht" and "ht_HT" is? >> I see that SKU24 does set the system locale to ht_HT. But does that >> mean we should include ht *and* ht_HT? Just ht_HT? Or ...? > >

Re: [IAEP] !! in 10.1.3, setting "languages" property clears all activities

2011-02-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Tim, On 30 January 2011 13:44, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 28 January 2011 15:36, Timothy Falconer wrote: >> sugar-control-panel -s languages Kreyol/Haiti >> >> And after restarting, ALL OF THE ACTIVITIES ARE GONE. >> >> Can anyone confirm this or give me guidance.  How can I set the language in

Re: turn off logs?

2011-02-09 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:54:30AM -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:58 PM, James Cameron wrote: > > On XO-1.5 with 10.1.3 ... using "strace -ff -e write" against olpc-dm, > > followed by use of Terminal, Write, and StopWatch activities, filtering > > by fd 1 and 2, generate

magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: Ever want to have an action occur when you plug your usbkey in on an XO? With a bit of udev magic that is possible. First you need to have a udev .rules file in place to trap the occurrence, I created /etc/udev/rules.d/99-setup.rules that contained, on one line: ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="s

Re: [OLPC-AU] magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 10 February 2011 12:37, Jerry Vonau wrote: > Hi All: > > Ever want to have an action occur when you plug your usbkey in on an XO? > With a bit of udev magic that is possible. First you need to have a > udev .rules file in place to trap the occurrence, I created > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-setup.rule

Re: [OLPC-AU] magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread James Cameron
You might also construct a bootable USB drive that makes these changes without requiring pre-existing support on the installed operating system image. This lets you redefine the tool without worrying about what is installed. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Power_Log_Collection_Flash_Drive for an ex

Re: [OLPC-AU] magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:07:00PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > A practical example of how this can be used: > http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/346 netcfg.sh blindly sources xonet.cfg without any filtering. Very brave, very powerful. An rm rf / planted by a child in the borrowed drive will

Re: [OLPC-AU] magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 10 February 2011 14:45, James Cameron wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:07:00PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >> A practical example of how this can be used: >> http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/346 > > netcfg.sh blindly sources xonet.cfg without any filtering.  Very brave, > very powerful.

Re: [OLPC-AU] magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:59:18PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On 10 February 2011 14:45, James Cameron wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:07:00PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > >> A practical example of how this can be used: > >> http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/346 > > > > netcfg.sh

Re: magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > Ever want to have an action occur when you plug your usbkey in on an XO? > With a bit of udev magic that is possible. First you need to have a Just install usbmount, and you can just put your scripts in /etc/usbmount/mount.d/ -- they get passed

Re: magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 10 February 2011 15:56, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: >> Ever want to have an action occur when you plug your usbkey in on an XO? >> With a bit of udev magic that is possible. First you need to have a > > Just install usbmount, and you can just put

Re: [OLPC-AU] magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 15:09 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:59:18PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > On 10 February 2011 14:45, James Cameron wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:07:00PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > >> A practical example of how this can be

Re: [OLPC-AU] magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 05:09:19PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > We're also using a olpc.fth file to make some other things easier for > teachers. Since our XOs are developer unlocked, there's nothing > stopping someone from editing it to brick the XO! > > Just a bit worse than Windows autoru