[Server-devel] stability of XS 0.5

2008-12-17 Thread Sameer Verma
Given that we still have issues cropping up with XS 0.5, are we still going to call it "stable"? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ __

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration unreliable 0.5

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Anna wrote: > I just created a jabber login called "anna-test" via the webadmin interface > and logged in via pidgin. I didn't see anyone online, though I logged out > and logged back in repeatedly. My previously established login could see > seven users online,

Re: [Server-devel] Exploding wireless interfaces on your laptop

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > How do you debug this thing? Can you give me a hand? ;-) Right, so I've told udev to get into debug mode, and what it tells me is *very* interesting. When I plug in the antenna (which will trigger 2 device-add events) the first device wor

Re: [Server-devel] Exploding wireless interfaces on your laptop

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > Or you could edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and rename > the offending device to be something else, and rename/edit the ifcfg- > file to match the new device name. Yes, could do that too. Anyway - here's an interesting problem

Re: [Server-devel] Exploding wireless interfaces on your laptop

2008-12-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 11:12 -0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > It was, however, something a lot more mundane. > > This test machine is a laptop, and sports its own wifi gear > (centrino). Our device naming scheme for the pair of devices that the > Libertas appears as is wlanN/mshN. However, the buil

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration unreliable 0.5

2008-12-17 Thread Anna
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > I'm trying to reproduce the problem. Any hints as to how long it takes > for it to happen? What triggers laptops not seeing eachother? I'll > keep trying stuff... but any hint... > I just created a jabber login called "anna-test" via t

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration unreliable 0.5

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/12/16 Anna : > So I think we've tested ejabberd on XS 0.5 with as much as any user group Anna, David, I'm trying to reproduce the problem. Any hints as to how long it takes for it to happen? What triggers laptops not seeing eachother? I'll keep trying stuff... but any hint... (All along I a

Re: [Server-devel] Blog Integration && Forewarded Workflow Simplification

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/12/17 Lucas Wojciehcowski : > What do you think about the moodle Elgg integration? Is that too much "extra > baggage" for the OLPC project, or could it be a nice solution for blog > integration? I wrote most of the Elgg/Moodle integration a few years ago. It's hideous -- in part because Elgg

Re: [Server-devel] New xs-config and a 5.1-dev iso...

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Anna wrote: > In one experiment, I registered 2 XOs (XOA and XOB) to the XS and it created > the moodle logins with links on the moodle login page. For some reason, XOA > was given student permissions and XOB was given course creator permissions. That's by design

[Server-devel] Fwd: [Grassroots-l] Need some information about OLPC server

2008-12-17 Thread Sameer Verma
Forwarding from the grassroots-l list. Sameer -- Forwarded message -- From: Manoocher Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:49 PM Subject: [Grassroots-l] Need some information about OLPC server To: grassro...@lists.laptop.org Dears, This is Manoocher salam from OLPC Afghanistan, the O

[Server-devel] Blog Integration && Forewarded Workflow Simplification

2008-12-17 Thread Lucas Wojciehcowski
What do you think about the moodle Elgg integration? Is that too much "extra baggage" for the OLPC project, or could it be a nice solution for blog integration? I'm not sure how we are going to be able to tackle some of your more ambitious moodle modifications (such as blog integration) working ups

Re: [Server-devel] New xs-config and a 5.1-dev iso...

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > - A new iso candidate > http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/?C=M;O=D That iso is taking several attempts to upload - I suspect the local ISP is throttling connections. This is what it fixes: http://dev.laptop.org/query?group=status&m

[Server-devel] Exploding wireless interfaces on your laptop

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
I spent a good part of yesterday trying to diagnose why an active antenna was failing to work on my test mauhine. Not only it was failing, over time stranger and stranger messages would appear in dmesg, random strings, chunks of hex. The machine would get less and less stable, things would fail str

Re: [Server-devel] Debugging tips for presence over Telepathy/Gabble?

2008-12-17 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 12:19 -0200, Martin Langhoff a écrit : > Looking for Telepathy/Gabble hints... > > With the new ejabberd in 0.5 (2.0.1 + Collabora's patches) people have > reported very unreliable Network View listings. The problem seems to > be that everyone disappears after a short w