On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Miguel Salazar wrote:
> Hi, my name is Miguel Salazar and I'm working on the OLPC Chiapas
> deployment. We're working with Intel Classmates notebook computers running
> Sugar-on-a-Stick.
Hi!
> The XS Recommended Hardware wiki page states in the Hardware Profile sec
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Caroline
Meeks wrote:
> There are people on the Sugar Devel list working on making the games run on
> Sugar. They are having some issues, but its probably not Flash vs Gnash at
> the root cause of them. The Teachermate hardware only uses Gnash afaik.
> Cross postin
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:58 PM, wrote:
> I am Ray Baquirin of Asia Pacific College in Makati, Philippines. We are
> looking to port to the XS the Classroom Management System that Caroline
> Meeks posted about here:
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2009-July/003690.html
Cool
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> Is this is sane thing to do?
Yup.
> 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 for every attempt.
Most students trying to get into their mate's account are not t
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Does anyone know how to automate the anaconda step of the XS install?
Just remove/comment out "interactive" :-)
I think there is a comment in the ks we ship, suggesting exactly this.
Also note that the ks we ship has things you'll want.
che
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Douglas Bagnall wrote:
> Martin wrote:
>
>> - we don't have any scripts that write, but we will likely do, so
>> mounting ro is not a good idea
>
> I'm pretty sure the xs-otp scripts write to the usb drive, if you have
> that enabled. Not that anyone does that, or
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> 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
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:46:33PM -0600, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> - wiki material?
>
> Added, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software#Internet_Filtering
>
> Is it worth mentioning DansGuardian? DansGuar
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Rodolfo D. wrote:
> Is there an md5 sum of the XS-0.6d3 ISO?
> I recently downloaded and just wanted to male sure everything is fine
I built and uploaded 0.6d3 a few days ago, but only today had a chance
to give it a good testing, installing it on a few machines (w
Our current recommendation is to
= Use OpenDNS if possible =
Set it in a forwarders line in /etc/named-xs.conf.in , and then
cd /etc
make -f xs-config.make named-xs.conf
/etc/init.d/named restart
OpenDNS is good, and for simple deployments it may be enough. Many
schools use it and u
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> It works fine and the usbmount code is already crafted to cleanly
> handle such a situation. how do you feel about this 98-umount mount.d
> trigger?
umount $UM_MOUNTPOINT && log notice "Unmounted" && exit
log notice "Failed to unmount"
exit
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> Have a look at "mkslim" in the git repo.
Exactly, though functionally your ISO will be the same.
Hoping the toolchain will work better on F11 :-)
cheers,
m
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> One of the messages I saw suggested to me that it is necessary to run
> network_config (in addition to domain_config) while setting up XS-0.6.
> Is that true, or is domain_config still sufficient for the
> single-XS-per-school setups?
Not need
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> It seems a little strange to me that the XS scripts that process files
> on USB sticks do not unmount the disk after use. In fact they don't
> even mount the disk in read-only mode.
>
> Do we encourage users to login as root and unmount the dis
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> Finally! OK, we'll start playing with moodle.
Cool.
> If you guys need any help testing the XO laptop autologin stuff, don't
> hesitate to
> ask. I'll do whatever I can to help you figure out why it's not working for
> us.
I think yo
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> tar --numeric-owner should work, right?
heh! no no, the reverse. What tar does is fantastic, and saves us a
lot of work. I *thought* tar could only store numeric uids/gids and
that we'd have to write code to keep them in sync.
Sorry about the
This sounds interesting. It is something I was hoping to implement
somehow, using IMS-CP (or similar) plus a repository scheme copied
from the Debian "apt" repository format, or the yum repo format.
Both repo formats are fantastic for this, very rsync, http and cache
friendly, super-scalable and d
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Any interest in adding functionality to the XS to back up and restore user
> data?
Yes!
> Including:
> - stuff that has been posted on moodle
> - XO backups
> - registration information
Yes...
> but *not* stuff where deployments should
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Which platform do you use to make the XS builds?
I have a F9 machine dedicated to it, usually fully up-to-date.
> I tried to set it up on F9, revisor reached the Creating Repository
> Information stage and then died:
Was your build command "
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> 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 g
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' dirs rainbow makes). Open it with sqlite3 and you should
find it has 1 table, and that table has a some cookies for
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> 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
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Martin
Langhoff wrote:
> Excellent notes. Thanks! So, if I
>
> - leave the current machinery in place, and...
>
> - add the /etc/moodle/coursecreators support so that
> - if it exists, even if empty, magic "first come is CC" is
Sorry for the crosspost.
I am hoping to drag people's attention towards an interesting thread
in the k-12 forum, about exemplary and interesting use of moodle in
high school.
It is of course different from our scenarios, but some patterns stand
out, and I think they are worth our attention... _co
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response. Yes, it sounds like the following might work?
>
> - disable/delete all Registration functionality in sugar
I would move the backend to a lib that both Sugar and a cli command
can call, and _not_ delete. Once reg
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> No need. The solution is to MASQ ppp0 instead of eth0. It works fine now.
Excellent news!
> The question is, what to change in /etc to make the change permanent?
OLPCCorps people were asking similar questions couple days ago -- CC'd
(gu
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
> pppd. If I enable debug in /etc/ppp/options, will I see something extra
> in /var/log/message
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> Shall I add some notes on the wiki? I'm bound to forget and ask you the
> same questions next year.
Good idea! maybe in a subpage (to keep the basic install instructions
simple). It would be a good idea to run them past dd-wrt experts...
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
> assume I want DHCP Forwarding? Should I turn off DNSMasq?
- yes, turn off DHCP server (DNSmasq)
-
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> If I understood Martin correctly, he is saying that nothing listening on
> 5280 is expected and correct behavior.
Correct :-) If for other reasons you want the web interface, then the
block in the config file is just commented out, it's
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> 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.h
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Deds Castillo wrote:
>> Today I installed 0.6d2 from scratch. I noticed a few problems:
>>
>> 1. "Basic ejabberd Configuration" went smoothly. However, I got
>> stuck in "Setup Shared Roster Groups for ejabberd." ejabberd is not
>> listening on port 5280:
For xs0.6
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> Not to bikeshed or anything, but I was curious about the reasons behind
> pgsql.
Several posts in the list archive tell the story :-) -- the gist (but
notthe full story, do search the archive!) is:
- behaviour under hard-power-off, brownouts
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Varun Arora wrote:
> Hey XS Dev team,
Hey Varun!
> I am a ICT consultant working in the South Pacific Islands. Sorry if you
> guys are tired of reading newbie problems. But I had a serious concern with
> installation of XS in a pilot deployment in Niue:
Great to
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> 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 k
Very stale! You should just install the XS-0.6 betas I've published,
Moodle in included there and works out-of-the-box automagically.
Did you edit the XS install pages recently, perhaps?
cheers,
m
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> I found http://docs.moodle.org/en/OLP
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Can you extend on that? I think we need to extend telepathy-gabble a
> bit to add buddy tagging. Or are you referring to regular jabber
> groups?
Regular jabber groups. Once you make a group of users (a course in
Moodle parlance) then the Nei
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> I remember replying to your mail at
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2009-June/003590.html
> but I can't find the response anywhere so maybe i was dreaming :)
> The solution you propose there sounds good.
I remember it too. Per
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> I just had a go at fixing the page:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=XS_Installing_Software&diff=212755&oldid=212729
> Please review.
Thanks! Makes sense.
(I've been away for a few days as you've probably noticed. Now I am
trying to g
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Caroline
Meeks wrote:
> Hi Server people,
>
> I wanted to make sure the server people saw this Buddy Tagging
> proposal as it might be something that could be more easily
> accomplished with Moodle's help.
Good point. I don't know Kartik Rustagi, and have no idea i
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> I'd like to load test Moodle+Pg. Maybe Wen(@SF State) has some scripts to
> load test it? I know he's been working on that for a while now...cc'd.
You can get through a very simple test just by
- enabling profiling (see the defines in config
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>> Or, is this something you think our volunteer programmers should try to
>> reverse-engineer and create for Sugar and the XO?
>
> Yes, or more likely for the XS. My first thought on how to approach it is
> to rewrite the server/teacher softw
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> Just added some notes from a test we did today at OLPC-SF's meeting.
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-on-XO Will add more notes as we go.
Cool. The take home message is "Moodle is dog-slow", I guess :-) --
the problem there is disk-IO, if someon
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Dave Bauer wrote:
> I am not sure if there is any documentation:
- pgsql-xs the postgresql database for Moodle (and any other Pg DB we
might add :-) )
- users which I think are home directories for the registered XOs which
will contain their backups.
- xs-activ
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> Any suggestions on how to log data on RAM and CPU usage on the XS? I've
> looked at mem.py and top variants, but I want something that logs at x
> intervals to a file that I can pull into a spreadsheet. I have munin running
> on the xs, but it
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> As Greg said we finally got collaboration working!
>
> The problem was that we had cloned the owner.key and owner.key.pub. The fix
> was to delete those before cloning and on existing sticks delete them and
> restart.
Excellent. Great to h
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Caroline
Meeks wrote:
> The other theory we are working on is that something is not set to long
> enough in "keepalive"
The logs we saw earlier were clearly of a "domain" vs IP address mismatch.
Did you try the fix that I've suggested (changing the 'jabber server'
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Dave Bauer wrote:
> OK, we can workaround this two ways,
>
> Use schoolserver as the jabber server name in the settings then
> 1) set the IP in /etc/hosts as a quick hack to make sure things work
> 2) set up the SoaS to use the built in DNS on the XS.
I'd strongly
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Caroline
Meeks wrote:
> Just so we have two threads and we don;t get it confused with the GPA work,
> where we are just trying to get collaboration working right now, here is
> where I am with testing the SoaS registration code.
Cool.
> On a Sugar stick in my house
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> no, we are still just trying to get the machines in the lab to see the
> Jabber Server in the lab via the server setting in the control panel.
H. On Sugar 0.82 "Register" achieves exactly the same (plus 2 more
things) and is easier to use
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Anurag Goel wrote:
> We booted several computers with SoaS and changed the
> network settings from the default (jabber.sugarlabs.org) to the IP address
> on the XS. After doing this, the computers in the computer lab still would
That is a workaround to the missing "
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:03 AM, John Watlington wrote:
> The XS server software should set up any mesh interfaces
> to accept the anycast MAC address, but this might have
> been lost in more recent builds.
Interesting. When was this last seen to work? I can do some quick
archeology and resuscitate
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Dave Bauer wrote:
> I am just doing this to try to understand what gadget is doing. Since XS
> doesn't use gadget in its specific config, it is just experimental for my
> own education.
Well, I'm curious too, so keep us posted ;-)
m
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> We plan to set up a server tomorrow at the Gardner School. Can you point to
> those instructions you followed to your success?
The question is, IMO: what does gadget do better? The best I
understand is that when there are many XOs it can show
You'll want to comment out the code. Will be in one of (under
/var/www/moodle/web, in order of likelyhood)
- auth/olpcxs/auth.php (look for a 'cron' function)
- local/lib.php (look for a cron function...)
- admin/cron.php
Sorry for the vagueness. Away from the relevant sourcecode ATM.
m
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Martin
Langhoff wrote:
> Excellent news -- keep us posted on server-devel. If after some testing you
> think it's viable, I'll get one of those boards too.
You can see what binary packages we have that will need a rebuild by
looking a
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> Does anyone have a sample moodle course for say literacy or math that
> can be used as an example on the school server?
I don't, but the place to ask is the k-12 forum in moodle.org so
that's what I did:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> I finally managed to find enough time to install the xs on a SD card
> and boot an XO from it. I am impressed! It took a bit longer to go
Glad to hear that!
> through the first boot (I presume its because of the SD card) but
During first boot
Hi Kevin,
You might need to get a "developer key" but that is something that
should be done once for the whole pilot or deployment.
Which deployment is this part of? Who did you get the XOs from? The
request for devkeys or a keyjector must come from the person that is
coordinating the deployment.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Caroline
Meeks wrote:
> I had a feeling that our Moodle people didn't even know this work needed to
And you were right :-)
Gregdek was pushing hard for a hacking session on integrating Journal
entries (let me call them documents for a sec ;-) ) with what's
happeni
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Caroline
Meeks wrote:
> My understanding is that both GCompris and Teachermate have teacher admin
> functionality that let teachers view student progress etc.
>
> Is there a roadmap or plan for how we are going to bring that functionality
> into our Sugar-XS world?
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Rodolfo D. Arce
S. wrote:
> The moodle directory is /var/lib/moodle, that's for the files and
> data, but the database, could that be backed up as a binary database
> file? i had some expriences with mysql (not ps-sql) that didn't work
> so well, should and "export"
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Rodolfo D. Arce S.
wrote:
> What should be backed up for a reintallation of the server? Or better
> yet, what would be the steps for backup and restore of the XS?
Good question!
In general, I would say that you want to backup
- /library
- /home/idmgr
- /var/
I just published a new xs-activation rpm that wraps up all the recent
work for around antitheft. A nice wikipage is in the works, but for
now a quick summary will do:
- serves over port 191, and http (using the OAT protocol)
- serves "root" leases, and also serves delegated leases, created on
t
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Martin
Langhoff wrote:
> Will prepare a new xs-config for your folks in a few hs.
done, tested, published. Upgrade using
yum --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing install xs-config
or otherwise grab
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xsrepos/testing/olpc/9/i386/xs-con
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
> Anyone have any luck fixing this?
I have found the guilty file. Somehow I have been running some of my
dev XSs with a local change that fixes the problem.
Will prepare a new xs-config for your folks in a few hs. In the
meantime, the magic
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
> I have experienced this with every 0.6d2 install. The passchange.php method
> mentioned in this link did NOT work:
> http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=18103
Right. I owe you guys an apology. This is related to a change I made on pu
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:22 PM, wrote:
> I had no problems before with the admin and password (from
> /etc/moodle/passwd) combination to get admin access - so that I could install
> language pack, etc
>
> However I notice recently with new test few XS machines I am uable to login
> as admin. I
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> We can take this as a specific example. Lets say we had someone in this
> thread who though wizzy was awesome and wanted to help? What should that
> person do?
A good start: google for mentions of wizzy in wiki.laptop.org and in
the devel a
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Dave Bauer wrote:
> Most Moodle installs are available to the internet. Does it really make
> sense to rely only on Moodle being on the internal network to provide
> security?
You are right, and a lot of my pre-OLPC work has been in making the
largest of those inst
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:34 PM, wrote:
> What settings do I need to configure for this? Thanks
You can shoot yourself in the foot, but I'm not sure how much I'll help ;-)
The instructions start... "find the DNS server in the 'outer' network..."
cheers,
m
--
martin.langh...@gmail.com
mar.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:03 PM, wrote:
> Now with the a fixed internal IP I am able to map the actual external IP
> with it for external access. Change the apache httpd-xs.conf to listen to
> 192.168.1.30:80 as well as 172.18.0.1:80 Loaded the pafm application and
> external upload and download
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
> Glad to hear you found the root cause. If we can come up with one or two
> simple commands for the OLPCorps teams to type at the command line to fix
> this and then enable squid; I'm sure they will be glad to do so.
It had all been a theore
Have you tried searching the archives? "Fedora-11" and "F-11" are
good keywords ;-)
m
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Kevin
Benavides wrote:
> Well the information provided is very helpful but what I trying to say is
> that if you need to install the server vercion OLPC on a server "X" to
> re
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Rodolfo D. Arce
S. wrote:
\> The main installation doesn't filter anything.. i think :S..it does
> use a squid proxy, but no blocking
Yes. Strategies for filtering have been discussed on the list before.
Using google to search the archives is the way:
http://www.g
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> That might work, in a perfect world.
> Here's what happens in real life ;)
Excellent notes. Thanks! So, if I
- leave the current machinery in place, and...
- add the /etc/moodle/coursecreators support so that
- if it exists, even if emp
id-xs.conf or httpd.conf
cheers,
m
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Dave Bauer wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Martin Langhoff
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Dave Bauer wrote:
>> > Is it possible to upgrade from 0.5.2 to 0.6 y
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Dave Bauer wrote:
> Is it possible to upgrade from 0.5.2 to 0.6 yet or is it necessary to do a
> new install to test it?
Hmmm. I haven't tested an upgrade. I usually
- develop/test updating via yum & rpm
- when getting ready to release, first test clean install,
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> The teachers already had their XOs at this point
The teachers have XOs and the kids don't yet. Correct?
> I think this is basically a conflict between the case when you are
> installing 1 XS (in which case what you are describing is perfect)
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Frederick Grose wrote:
> http://www.wizzydigital.org/index.html
Wizzy Digital Courier is right in the middle of my longer-term plans.
A quick google shows a few pages I've written in the wiki about it.
Not that I'm original. When I joined OLPC, Jim Gettys toured m
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Vamsi Krishna
Davuluri wrote:
> p.s. the burnt version of 0.6b doesnt work, I tried with two
> writers just to be sure.
- did you check the sha1sum?
- what problem are you having _exactly_?
m
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martin.langh...@gmail.com
mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Arch
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Vamsi Krishna
Davuluri wrote:
> I'm following this guide http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software,
> and i blindly changed the binding address to the
> one given in the link, I changed it again to localhost.localdomain
> and it gives me the following
Oops.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> I am using mkusbinstall to install xs-0.6d on to a USB stick. I am
> doing this on Ubuntu 9.04 which does not ship udevinfo. I get an error
> of "command not found". Ubuntu 9.04 ships udevadm.
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/universe-bugs/2
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:25 PM, wrote:
> Maybe the WIKI need an update that include ... take a break and come back for
> the cache stuff
Probably a strategic reboot is better, faster and clearer. You do need
it once you've set the domain.
If you
1 - install
2 - set the domain (which sets reso
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:24 PM, wrote:
> Thanks for all the advice and help. I went to sleep after setting it without
> success ... and came back after work at it again - when I ping it works!!
> Maybe the lesson is to wait for the network stuff to sort things out and be
> patient?
Fantastic
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> Have you tried adding your ISP's DNS server(s) to the
> /etc/named-xs.conf file as forwarders?
Yep! that's the 2 steps needed for a static IP address on eth0
- an ifcfg-eth0-local file as Rodolfo's example
- upstream DNS servers set as forwa
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Anna wrote:
> I just installed the latest XS 0.6d2, and in addition to setting up OpenDNS
> in named-xs.conf to do the usual filtering, hunted around to find an easy
> way to enforce safe Google image searches, as that seems to be an issue.
I see the problem you
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 1:55 AM, wrote:
> BTW is the XS already a ejabber server by default?
>
> When I type ejabberdctl status I get this message:
>
> Node ejabb...@schoolserver is started. Status: started
> ejabberd is not running
If you
1 - install the XS distro
2 - run domain_config
3 - res
There's a new olpc-bios-crypto rpm that prepares things for the proper
segregation of oats and act delegations.
It also introduces a new file format - del02 - form the commit msg:
For the case of "act" delegations we need a delegation file format that
includes the uuid. For other delegati
Is being transferred to
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/OLPC-School-Server-0.6d2-i386.iso
The sha1sum is 7157cc3db259cea6242cb395217ff8af166c1626 -- it contains
various fixes to (minor) initial installation problems. With this
version, the 1-2-3 of install, domain_config & reboot just works.
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Dave Bauer wrote:
> This works. After making the first backup on the new SoaS I can see the
> previous snapshots and restore individual items.
So - I'll have to fix that bug :-)
m
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Dave Bauer wrote:
> Ok I ran the backup and then tried to login to the schoolserver from Browse.
> It prefills in my login name as the aliased user instead of the new username
> and my magic cookie doesn't work anymore.
Correct. Once your 'new' machine has been ali
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Neo Masilo wrote:
> Active antenna plugged in on the usb port and the XO's do connect to the
> server, but not the internet (DNS)>>Reuben Will the XS act as a gateway to
>From what you are saying, you are right in setting up the static
address. Your ISP is blockin
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Dave Bauer wrote:
> Ok, I am asked here after I read the XS Blueprint for account aliasing, I am
> not sure I am thinking about this the right way.
>
> I registered SoaS and generated a backup and its available from Moodle just
> fine.
Cool.
> I later register an
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Caroline Meeks
wrote:
> We are working on making software update (both activities and underlying OS)
> work for Sugar on a Stick and we aren't that clear on what the vision, spec
> and state of code is for software update on the XO.
Right -- it is a major considera
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> You may have problems getting 50 people connected to the same access
> point (the step *before* registration). Some access points that I
> tested would crash after accepting the 31st user. Some are OK though.
> But in any situation, 50 is prob
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> I don't know what a SRG is, but I haven't done anything outside of the
> standard installation instructions. Yes, it is the standard version
> from 0.5.2.
Sorry. Short for 'shared-roster-group' which is the terminology used
in the code.
I wi
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:35 AM, wrote:
> I did a new installation with the XS 0.6 alpha and tested various
> registration with the both Chinese & English XOs (5 XOs) with complicated
> names, etc... All seems to work OK and stuff get displayed well in the backup
> in the Moodle.
>
> Hope to s
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> More errors are flooding in, are they related to the patches that are
> applied to ejabberd for XS?
You are using the ejabberd from 0.5.2, correct? What SRGs have you
setup? (It's talking about a SRG called 'Friends'...?)
m
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
> Today I performed a fresh install.
Thanks for the report! The procedure is correct. Tomorrow I'll get
onto the XS builds and check the issues you're reporting.
cheers,
m
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