t was 2009052500 but it should have been 2008030500. After
changing the version, the upgrade proceeded without much trouble. I used
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On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 07:23:38PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Martin
> Langhoff wrote:
> > I've integrated your script, with some changes to make it atomic, as
> > you can see at
> >
> > http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/xs-config/commit/
>
> And pushed out
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:15:39PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:45:15AM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > + if re.match('@@MASQ@@', line):
> > + print '-A POSTROUTING -o %s -j MASQUERADE' % wan
>
> This is du
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:45:15AM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> + if re.match('@@MASQ@@', line):
> + print '-A POSTROUTING -o %s -j MASQUERADE' % wan
This is dumb. I'll try to fix the patch tomorrow to substitute only
@@WAN@@. Or do you really wan
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 08:55:55PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > Here is the script I promised Martin.
>
> Right - thanks for that! I assume it works well and it's been tested
> for normal and ppp0 connectivity
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:48:16AM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 2009/8/10 Joshua N Pritikin :
> > Is there an easy way to disable security on 30 laptops besides
> > requesting dev keys, etc?
>
> You could send the 30 serial numbers to OLPC and ask if they will
> creat
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:02:13AM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Activation leases are unrelated to the security features around signed
> images. Currently the only option for creating your own signed images
> which can be installed at the OFW level is to insert your own "S"
> security key into the
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 01:00:07PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > Looking at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_developer_keys, it
> > seems like the lease should be stored in /security/lease.sig
>
> Yes.
I
Goal: I have a bunch of already activated XO laptops. I want to be able
to serve activation leases from the school server so I can reflash the
NAND with NANDblaster. At this stage, I don't want to create deligated
leases.
Looking at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_developer_keys, it
s
Here is the script I promised Martin.
>From f7333e727d7c3d89c3f6bc727dba7061d7ae584d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Pritikin
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:26:23 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Automate iptable rules generation
---
sysconfig/iptables-config |7 +
sysconfig/olpc-scripts
I'm not sure how, but one of our students triggered errortoomanylogins.
Restarting the browser did not seem to help. Therefore, I removed the
check.
Is this is sane thing to do?
What is the point of this check anyway? If I was going to try to guess a
password then I would create a fresh cookie
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 07:20:18AM -0600, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> You do buy into a much harder usage model
Yah, I know.
The thing is, our teachers have never seen anything like moodle before.
I figured if they realize what they're missing, they will better
understand the need for laptops.
Th
Our site is one of the crazy OLPC sites that lacks sufficient funds to
supply one laptop to every child. We are using the infamous "computer
lab" model. Hence, I want to turn off the wonderful OLPC autologin
authentication method and use the tedious manual method.
Is this the correct way to do
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > This freaks me out. We are giving unfiltered internet access to
> > elementary school children? Is this wise?
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 08:50:45PM -0430, Faaez Ul Haq wrote:
> Could you refer me to the article? It might be another olpcorps team
> that does.
This freaks me out. We are giving unfiltered internet access to
elementary school children? Is this wise?
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:36:15AM -0700, Faaez Ul Haq wrote:
> I just completed an OLPCorps deployment in Sierra Leone;
I just saw your article on OLPCPlanet. You folks have Dansguardian or
something installed right?
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 02:45:48PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> I think you may have a bogus Browse.xo
Yes, that was the problem. It worked after I erased browse manually and
then reinstalled.
Amazingly, I was not able to upgrade browse by customization key.
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:29:30AM -0400, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
> Pass this first and then try to login (you may need to reboot after:)
>
> sudo -u apache php /var/www/moodle/web/local/scripts/adminuser-enable.php
Finally! OK, we'll start playing with moodle.
If you guys need any help testing th
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:25:35PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > Can I create regular logins just to get started on exploring moodle?
>
> - If you want to get 'admin' on the patched Moodle on XS, see
>
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 03:49:56PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > How do I further debug this?
Can I create regular logins just to get started on exploring moodle?
Can somebody point me in the right
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:42:10AM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
> Hmm. I vaguely remember that there was some confusion as to which copy of
> Browse was going to be 102. I hope that was resolved. I use the 102 that
> comes via the Control Panel's update process and my control panel update
> points to
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 03:49:56PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > How do I further debug this?
>
> On the client side:
>
> - find the cookies.sqlite file (which will be in one of the
> 'isolation'
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:41:43PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
> Make sure you update your Browse version to 102. This version has all the
> bits needed to do seamless login. Do this via the Control Panel | Software
> Update
I updated to Browse-102 from activities.sugarlabs.org using a
customizati
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 08:50:22PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Martin Langhoff
> wrote:
> > - add the /etc/moodle/coursecreators support so that
> > - if it exists, even if empty, magic "first come is CC" is disabled
> > - it reads /etc/moodle/coursecreato
We have an LCD projector. Since we don't have a USB->VGA adapter yet, I
would like to drive projector with the schoolserver (using VNCLauncher &
ssvnc).
The groupinstall includes dnsmasq and NetworkManager. Is it safe to
install these packages or am I asking for trouble?
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 05:11:32PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:00:49PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > The question is, what to change in /etc to make the change permanent?
>
> For Fedora, I don't yet know. For Debian and Ubuntu, the usua
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:56:21PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:47:14AM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > I feel really dumb:
>
> Could you please send me by e-mail the output of the following commands,
> which must be run as root:
>
>
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:32:37AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> The symptom is that your pppd receives an LCP Configuration Request from
> the modem that attempts to begin authentication all over again. pppd
> handles this (correctly) by shutting down the link.
>
> My analysis of this when I was
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:59:55PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:38:27PM +0200, Marten Vijn wrote:
> > You can de-brick with soldering a tll to serial converter on the board
> > on of the linksys. Then you can have a serial line to bios/dd-wrt.
>
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:54:20PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > I looked at the options for wvdial and turned off anything suspicious. I
> > don't think wvdial is implicated. It looks like something crazy with
&
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:38:27PM +0200, Marten Vijn wrote:
> You can de-brick with soldering a tll to serial converter on the board
> on of the linksys. Then you can have a serial line to bios/dd-wrt.
> In the bios you can enable tftp to reflash the linksys over network.
> The are clear recovery
As I mentioned, I have a CDMA EVDO modem for Internet access. This works
fine Ubuntu and Debian laptops. On the schoolserver, pppd restarts
within a minute for no reason.
I looked at the options for wvdial and turned off anything suspicious. I
don't think wvdial is implicated. It looks like som
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:48:07PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Joshua N Pritikin
> wrote:
> > 2. To not run a DHCP Server means that I should turn off DHCP
> > completely? I only see options for DHCP Server and DHCP Forwarding. I
>
I had my first experience of bricking a wireless router today.
Fortunately, I had a backup router on hand.
The steps listed in "AP Configuration" seem incomplete.
Today I flashed my secondary WRT54GL with DD-WRT and loaded factory
defaults.
"Make sure that the access point is NOT running as a
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 05:37:11PM +0800, Deds Castillo wrote:
> On Thursday 23 July 2009, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:18:14AM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > > For xs0.6 you should _not_ configure ejabberd. I've posted the
> > > (much
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:09:22PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
> This might get fixed by doing a forwarders for DNS. I have to do this when I
> use the XS on campus.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/server-devel@lists.laptop.org/msg02381.html
Added to the end of "Network Configuration":
"If you can o
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:18:14AM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> For xs0.6 you should _not_ configure ejabberd. I've posted the (much
> simpler!) instructions for 0.6on this list about 2 months ago. Google
> has excellent coverage of the archive ... ;-)
For future reference, it appears Martin wa
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:18:14AM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Sameer's suggestion to set forwarders is very good, recommended.
Yes, this worked for me.
It would be more ideal to include /var/run/ppp/resolv.conf into
named-xs.conf dynamically, but I am happy enough.
_
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 02:24:05PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Then I think around the time you looked at the instructions the
> DNS configuration steps were all messed up.
>
> Daniel Drake just did a major cleanup of that. Maybe it'd be a good
> idea to retry from the start with the better in
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:51:24PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Did you edit the XS install pages recently, perhaps?
Yes, I got stuck on the installation because a step was missing. The
"Install using kickstart" option is not present until you get past the
first boot prompt. I mentioned that
I found http://docs.moodle.org/en/OLPC_XS_installation
However, I have a vague recollection that XS Moodle is set up with
Postgresql. Are the instructions stale or shall I follw them?
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There is some DNS dysfunction. I can ping external sites (e.g.
laptop.org) from the schoolserver. I can ssh to the schoolserver from my
laptop. However, I cannot ping external sites from my laptop.
I am using a USB EV-DO CDMA adapter to connect to the Internet. When it
connects, it creates a pp
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:49:22PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> good question. In the field, the XS machines never get switched off -
> they are headless, and set in the bios to auto-switch-on. Most of them
> will be in locations with unreliable power - so they will switch off
> when power gets
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:49:22PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> good question. In the field, the XS machines never get switched off -
> they are headless, and set in the bios to auto-switch-on. Most of them
> will be in locations with unreliable power - so they will switch off
> when power gets
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:53:19PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles#Disconnected_operation is
> >> a principled means to substitute unavailable resources in the offline
>
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
OK, fair enough.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# find /et
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 01:33:48PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Odder even. What's your version of xs-config?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -q --provides xs-config
config(xs-config) = 0.3.5-1
xs-config = 0.3.5-1
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 04:16:38PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> Might know what the issue is, could you post the contents of
> /etc/sysconfig/named,
OPTIONS='-c /etc/named-xs.conf'
> /etc/named-xs.conf
Attached.
> just to confirm my suspicions.
> Also, does /var/named-xs exist?
Yes.
[EMAIL PR
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 05:15:19PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> Did you run config_domain after the upgrade?
No. Should I have?
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After upgrading, I got this:
Error in named configuration:
/etc/named-xs.conf:53: open: /var/named/named.root.hints: file not found
It's a broken link:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /var/named/named.root.hints
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2008-07-30 06:44 /var/named/named.root.hints ->
//fsroot.olp
I don't know if this is worth mentioning, but recently ejabberd is
resisting shutdown when I reboot. It takes long enough that I get tired
of waiting and hit the power switch.
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:33:42PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I updated to testing. The GIT stuff is great.
>
> Did your configuration survive? Any _broken_ symlinks? Things still work?
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:24:48PM -0700, Nifty Egg Mitch wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:53:02AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > What is the proper way to install ext2resi
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:07:02AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I accidentally upgraded from XS_165 to a new xs-config (maybe 0.3.1?).
>
> Ouch. That will be a big disaster, I am just f
What is the proper way to install ext2resize? It doesn't appear to be in
yum?
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I accidentally upgraded from XS_165 to a new xs-config (maybe 0.3.1?).
The upgrade got stuck halfway through, and I cancelled it. What is the
proper way to fix config files? Copy foo.conf to foo-xs.conf? I already
fixed named and squid. What other services do I need to check?
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:23:30AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Our networking setup is somewhat rigged (something that Jerry is
> looking at curing for F9 :-) ) and according to Wad running netplugd
> makes it trip up so we've disabled it. Maybe the usb connection
> scripts start netplugd?
Tha
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:36:38PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> The USB modem works fine at long as my wired network is disconnected. As
> soon as I connect the WRT54GL, the something is running ifdown/ifup on
> ppp about every 5 seconds. When I disconnect the wired networ
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:38:53PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:21:11PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Enable pppd debug, configure syslog to capture the debug lines, and
> examine why the disconnection occurs.
Oh! I didn&#x
I copied my perfectly working wvdial config to the schoolserver (XS
165). It doesn't work.
Looking in /var/log/messages, I see that CHAP authentication succeeds. I
am assigned a local and remote IP address. I receive DNS servers. Then
pppd terminates on signal 15.
The connection lasts for 0.1
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:06:17AM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> What version of squashfs-tools are you using? If it 3.3.x
> try adding -no-sparse -b 64k to the mksqushfs call
Yup, that worked.
However, my kickstart modifications were not successful. My hard drive
got repartitioned. Eventually gru
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:57:47AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Yes, but you will need to tweak the kickstart file on the image (no
> "do your own partitioning" option yet, sorry). By default, the XS
> install CD will wipe the disk and setup an LVM (w/o RAID).
I modified the kickstart file foll
I finally got a reasonably fast internet connection at our school in
India (BSNL EV-DO). I would like to try to install the school server. We
have 15 XO laptops.
Just to get something working, I installed Ubuntu with
Squid/Dansguardian. I have about 200Gb of hard drive and 2G RAM. Can I
get an
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