On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Bill Bogstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not an operational problem, just a bit of user confusion. I've now
> skimmed the python/shell/cron/incron code/configs and see how the
> everything more or less fits together now. Although, I've never seen
> setfacl actua
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Pia Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> They have the right ownership, and the ds-backup.py on my 767 image doesn't
> look the same as in that trac log. I'll look into it some more.
The other thing to check is that ~/.sugar/default/owner.key in the XO
is mode 600 .
Ok - I had missed the whole thread in my earlier reply.
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:24 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *But*, we should be able to:
>* Print postscript (or pdf, or whatever, just pick *one*) to
> school server via CUP (IPP?), and install a "decent selection" o
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Bill Bogstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin will probably hate me for this...
Oh, I won't! However implements this gets to say how it's done; good
to hear you have an opinion that you're willing to back with code :-)
> If you can assume the existence of an X
I think we are RC-ready, I should be running revisor and uploading an
iso now. Unfortunately, I'm packing for a 36hs plane ride, and then
I'll probably be behind really bad connections for a few days.
Will see what I can do. In the meantime, you can install the latest
iso and update from the olpcx
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Grab a recent xs-0.5 and do
>
> yum --disablerepo=olpcxs --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing install
> xs-config moodle-xs
> /etc/init.d/moodle start
>
> Now you have a (basic!) Moodle as the in
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just so you know, service dhcpd "anything" or /etc/init.d/dhcpd "anything"
> from the keyboard is broken... until you change away from the built-in
> defaults. "You must run the *_config before DHCPd can run", is the meat of
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:43 AM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> Is there a list of the changes you made somewhere... from a
> standard moodle install...?
This will probably never have a pretty list - sorry! - but you can
track the patches that diverge from upstream in
Grab a recent xs-0.5 and do
yum --disablerepo=olpcxs --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing install
xs-config moodle-xs
/etc/init.d/moodle start
Now you have a (basic!) Moodle as the index page of the XS. Most of
the work has gone into the infrastructure behind it.
Some changes to moodle I've haven't
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well there are 2 issues here, that one above and the root cause of having
> named, dhcpd, etc.. fail on firstboot is that olpc-network-config was used
> to call domain_config and network_config to enable the auto-configuratio
If you have a XS-0.4 server with its publc IP address on the internet
or on any other public network, make sure you firewall off *all* the
ports on that interface. You might want to make an exception for SSH
is you connect with ssh to the public address.
This is a rather important security measure
Grab it and take it for a spin
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/OLPCXS-0.5-dev7-i386.iso
SHA1 8327b0176fa35db01aa544dce5ad568a0bb9df15
Size 532M
Has all the network changes -- I don't think it will upgrade 100%
correctly from earlier previews, but will upgrade from xs-0.4
correctly.
cheers,
m
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However "domain_config" is leaving
> its xs_domain_name file in olpc-scripts instead of sysconfig causing "make
> dhcpd.conf" and thus dhcpd to fail.
That is very weird - and was fixed ages ago - perhaps you have an
outdated
If you look at xs-config-0.4.5-1.noarch.rpm (in olpcxs-testing) you'll
see some major changes around networking - the commit is
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/xs-config;a=commitdiff;h=80eea6eeb20a353200ce3fbfe9a4cdeb9b50f1c2
This naturally needs some peer review. What I've done is roughly..
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Grab it and take it for a spin
> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/OLPCXS-0.5-dev5-i386.iso
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/OLPCXS-0.5-dev6-i386.iso
is now slowly being copied to the
A while ago the install instructions on the Wiki got a big cleanup,
and now are short and simple. Once xs-0.5 is out the door I'll review
and update them. But a lot of work has already been done. Thanks to
Wad who tackled the main cleanup and to others thjat have done some
editing on it since.
I'm
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With the change to OLPCXS, anaconda is no longer finding the cdrom as valid,
> think you have to revise xs-release.
duh! Fixed and building a replacement.
thanks for the sanitycheck!
cheers,
m
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Mike McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you go this route, I think what you want is obsoletes. Obsoletes says
> "this packages replaces this one." Conflicts says "this package cannot be
> installed at the same time as this other one."
Does 'obsoletes' also mean
Thanks a lot for your notes. *Extremely* useful. A few comments below,
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:39 PM, James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:48 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> I am shipping a heavily "preconfigured" spin, the OLPC School Se
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could you not use the xs-config/xs-pkgs to state specific Requires:= to
> control whether an updated package is able replace what is currently
> installed or "to be installed" on the system, kind of protecting the "base
> ins
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:27 PM, seth vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you can use yum's priorities plugin to achieve similar results.
It's a bit simpler than apt but I can sure work with this. Thanks!
> Just as in the apt-world configuring priorities/pinning for
> longterm/widespread use is a
OLPC's XS ships a number of patched packages. The packages are
normally built with a different "stream" or "flavour" (they don't say
"f9" but "xs05") and sit in a special repository.
Is there a good way to ensure revisor/yum prefers the packages from
the xs stream or repo over the standard F9 rele
Grab it and take it for a spin
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/OLPCXS-0.5-dev5-i386.iso
SHA1 3b911f1cf92d2f90314b8332ff8d9661a2c145ad
Size 532M
This preview includes various fixes --
cheers,
m
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Connie Sieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Add
>
> excludes=glibc*
>
> to /etc/revisor/conf.d/revisor-f9-i386.conf in the [fedora] section.
> (substitute x86_64 as needed)
thanks - I found the excludes in the manpage as well - that definitely
fixed it.
cheers,
m
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Connie Sieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I excluded glibc* from the "Everything" repository in the
> revisor-f9-i386.conf file just to get past this error.
How do you do that?
m
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Right now, revisor can build a pristine F9 installer CD but cannot
build a F9 + updates installer CD.
The problem appears by merely enabling the additional repo in the
stock F9 config files that ship with Revisor. It has also been
reported elsewhere: https://fedorahosted.org/genome/ticket/28
The
After 2 weeks of not building the XS build, I built it again today. It
didn't want to build. Running with --debug 10 the output ends with...
Running command: /usr/bin/xsltproc --novalid -o
/var/tmp/revisor-pungi/0.5/xs-f9-i386/comps.xml
/usr/share/revisor/comps/comps-cleanup.xsl
/var/tmp/revisor-p
For those playing at home with the XS build, I had been carrying a few
chagnes in xs-livecd that had not been committed or published. Done
now. Conspiracy theorists can rest assured, no mystery in how the XS
is composed.
and before I forget - thanks again to Jerry for all the help figuring
that an
Had a good chat last week with Ed, Kim and others, and one of the
items that came up was "what is this moodle thing and why is it
important?".
To state it briefly, Moodle is a fantastic learning mgmt system /
course mgmt system and it's been for a while very much what OLPC
people thought the XS so
[Note: this is a resend - with some better editing - the earlier email
got sent prematurely...]
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2) IMHO using
> the XO as XS is not a good idea.
Nothing explains in your post why it's a bad idea. If you are going to
setup a
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2) IMHO using
> the XO as XS is not a good idea.
Nothing explains your post why it's a bad idea. If you are going to
setup a "safe" cabinet of some sort, it's not very different to make
an XO safe from making a tower pc safe
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't fully understand all the vagaries of access to root, but I do
> want to warn you about having any open ports or users with password
> authentication only.
>
> Be really careful about dictionary style attacks.
Agreed -
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Tim Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure what the plans are for XS deployment, whether large or small
> scale. I've been working (often struggling) with refreshing images in our
> classrooms using Symantec Ghost, which is now working fairly well. This i
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Tim Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How does the user get the SOTP pw list?
OTP blueprint docs here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Tony Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At the moment, I am enabling password authentication for SSH. However,
> root login via SSH will not be possible. So this test would require the
> installer to log in as admin, for example. He would then su to root with
> t
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Reuben K. Caron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Great, thanks. I was steered to the correct files and got it to work from
> both the USB and command line. The files I used can be found at:
Cool. Are you doing this on xs-0.5? If you update to the newest rpms
from the
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Tony Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I think we need urgently is a simple procedure someone in the field can
> use to verify an XS installation. It has to be simple and effective, because
> this person is also bringing up a school-set of XOs.
This is grea
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:17 AM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In existing deployments (not trials) content filtering
> is being done upstream in the internet connection.
Interesting! I didn't know that -
> Content filtering is a very sensitive subject, and any
> offering made by
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I completely realize that and I hope you and Greg use my e-mails as
> ammunition to get more resources :)
thanks! :-)
> I am also trying to communicate that for us and probably many other
> pilots DG is a higher priority tha
We care about l18n to non-latin languages more than most so I
"cross-pollinated" this idea to moodle.org -- and *already* hit a bug
:-)
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=107555#p472760
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From: Martín Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> DG may not be a good long term solution, but the pilots need it asap and
> it still isn't part of the default install. Greg is right that the XS is
> already a production project but it lacks one of the key features that
> all
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Such tests would save Tony a ton of time testing a new XS install,
> whether it be 0.4, 0.5-0.9 I suspect they would save time for others as well.
We are working with a core team of 2, soon to shink to 1 1/2. There is
a *very
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Tarun Pondicherry
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's great! With the ou blog fixes and tinyMCE integration already in
> HEAD, the edublog changes will be much easier to clean up and integrate.
And here we go: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=107550
So wh
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm still a bit ambivalent with regards to DG and how much of a good
> fit it is, so let's be clear - long term, what we want is a good
> quality content filter.
Been ruminating on this a bit.
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Tony Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Most USB drives are not bootable. This requires:
>
> parted /dev/sdb
> toggle 1 boot
> quit
Yes. livecd-to-iso automates most of this
> The three remaining (big) steps are:
>
> 1. Add Dansguardian
> 2. Add Moodle
> 3. Deve
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If Bryan needs Dansguardian built in that's good enough for me. I take
> back what I said about it not being critical.
Good enough for me too. It's not like we cannot imagine why this is needed :-)
I'm still a bit ambivalent
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Andrés Ambrois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> - What's your timeframe?
>
> The timeframe for our project is 5 weeks starting from last Wednesday, in
> which I need to cover the interface (Moodle and Wordpress theming), course
> configuration, authentication, modifying
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Andrés Ambrois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am, together with Pablo Flores, working in preparing EduBlog for
> deployment in Ceibal (yay!). However, one of the big challenges ahead is
> deciding on the security infrastructure needed. So I've decided to consult the
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> P.S. - You should send your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well
> since there are a number of interesting folks hanging out there who
> don't regularly frequent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It'll be fantastic if security+development min
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dans can use a good bit of memory but I haven't really calculated how
> much. Top shows me a lot dansguardian processes, each using about 10K of
> RES memory, 980 of SHR, and 0.5% of Mem. What I understand about top and
> memo
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> How happy are you with DanGuardian? Is it a useful filter?
>
> We use it internally w/in our office and we are happy w/ it. We use it
> locally to "eat our own dog food." By default it blocks a lot if not
> most content on th
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We will be setting up two labs here in Nepal, one in the next couple
> weeks and likely one in the first week of November at Nepal's Dept of
> Education. Depending on our experiences in those labs, we want to roll
> out a new
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On your question of who is waiting for XS 0.5, I know of at least two
> deployments that are building labs and testing configurations with XS
> software:
>
> Paraguay
> Birmingham
Those two appear to be a bit later. We can pr
Quick note --
Been talking with Mathieu today, and will probably be working with him
backporting TinyMCE to 1.9.x tomorrow. He's aware of some bugs with
TinyMCE and Browse that he wants to fix as well (in HEAD), so I'll
backport the fix as well. Also is Sam Marshall releasing a new oublog
with bug
Overall, XS 0.5 is looking shaping up nicely... and late. The F9 port
took quite a bit more time to get finished off, perhaps because I
tried too hard to get it work relatively well, and uncovered a whole
lot of problems with it -- it was a good thing to do as we now have
fixes for all of them (mos
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's more concerning to me is that ejabberd has never once worked for
> me "out-of-box." I have always had to reinstall it before getting it to
> work. Has anyone out there gotten ejabberd to work consistently on new
> XS i
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Tarun Pondicherry
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Most of it is self contained in
> lib/editor/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/sugar/.
I suspected it'd be "most" :-) that's how it is usually. Those little
changes... is specially good if you have them as a separate co
Hi Tarun,
As I said, I like it! Playing a bit with themes today, I wonder what
do we need to do to add that theme to Moodle HEAD?
- is it all self-contained in
lib/editor/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/sugar/ ?
- did you have to patch tiny_mce or other parts of moodle at all?
cheers,
m
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One of the issues I see here is the relative difficulty in pushing
> translator upstream. I won't be a problem for active languages like
> Spanish, Turkish, etc, but for languages like Pashto, etc, which have
> very fe
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Chris Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It just strikes me that if you already have Apache running - that adding
> mod_proxy would have a limited overhead as you already have most of the
> Apache code running for the HTTP server adding mod_proxy would not be a
> s
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Tony Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> started ejabberd:
>
> chkconfig --level 345 ejabberd on
> service ejabberd start
>
> and attempted to register admin:
>
> ejabberdctl ejabberd register admin schoolserver.schoolnet.gov.np admin
>
> This failed with a me
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Chris Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has any one considered using the proxy module in Apache HTTP server.
> You are already taking the hit of running a web server, - the proxy module
> just might give you enough features.
>
> Certainly you get Caching and Acce
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Henrik Nordstrom
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On tis, 2008-09-23 at 14:57 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> I could probably do that in a week or so once I've finished my upcoming
>> travel.
>> Someone could try beating me to it..
>
> The relevant code locations for i
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Mark Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Overall, what do you want to use Squid for here; caching, access control..?
Caching and plugins such as squidgard (does that qualify as access control?)
> If you want caching, realise that you're not going to see much b
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've looked into this a bit (and have a couple of OLPC laptops to do
> testing with) and .. well, its going to take a bit of effort to make
> squid "fit".
Any way we can kludge our way around it for the time being? Does squ
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This should correct the non booting issue, and resolve the missing .discinfo
> file from the cd, once anaconda loaded was loaded.
Great, thanks! Haven't tested it end-to-end (ie: complete install,
complete upgradE) but it l
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does the above make sense in general? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
The current squid config file is here - I have not done any tuning on it at all:
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/xs-config;a=blob;f
Hi!
I am working on the School Server (aka XS: a Fedora 9 spin, tailored
to run on fairly limited hw), I'm preparing the configuration settings
for it. It's a somewhat new area for me -- I've setup Squid before on
mid-range hardware... but this is... different.
So I'm interested in understanding
Similar to the httpd bug I mentioned before -- trivial fix, and I've
included a patch. If a fix percolates in F9, it saves me from having
to shipping a custom squid for what amounts to... 10 characters :-)
Squid init script test the wrong configfile
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?i
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Tarun Pondicherry > You're right,
trying to change to tinyMCE in Moodle itself by porting
> relevant portions of Mauno's modifications is a large job. However, there
> were some versions I came across that simply stick tinyMCE into the theme
> files. I was plannin
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So my thinking at the moment is as follows...
Moodle translation resources:
Main forum - use "login as guest" to see it
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=43
Moodle's own "po
Hi Sayamindu,
I am preparing a Moodle package for the XS and looking a bit into
localisation strategies. Looks like Moodle and the XS software in
general is going to be rather different from the laptop sw
translation.
For this release of the XS I am going to not worry too much about
translations
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The DEVICE= line for mshbond1 should be mshbond1 not mshbond0
Ooops! Good spotting!
fixed and pushed out to git, and to a new rpm...
m
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hence the log-file is of interest to me ;-)
Sent it in a private email :-)
> Yes, anaconda-runtime needs to exist in the repositories you use.
Sorry - I should have clarified - anaconda-runtime *is* in the repos
co
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yea, revisor needs anaconda-runtime,
> cat /usr/lib/revisor/scripts/F9-buildinstall | grep anaconda
Yes, but from what Jeroen has said, revisor will pull it in to satisfy
the need at CD build time, without it being listed in
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> in any case, I've run a quick check
>
> - cp -P does not imply --recursive, so I reverted to -a
> - the 3rd param was not optional, and without it, I think t tried to
> overlay /* -- oops!
Hi Jerry,
I've merged the mkslim I found in the url you posted - wondering
whether stage2 works and in general how "done" it is...
in any case, I've run a quick check
- cp -P does not imply --recursive, so I reverted to -a
- the 3rd param was not optional, and without it, I think t tried to
o
On Fedora 9, using F9's revisor which has not changed in a while...
- last week, I was able to invoke revisor and create a new installer
CD without any problem...
- this week, buildinstall dies, and if I enable logging it complains
missing anaconda-runtime
- this is looking at a local copy of t
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have run servers like this for a few years with ext3. I was surprised
> how well it worked. I never got anything resembling file system
> corruption. ext3 worked like a charm.
Good to hear!
> What tended to fail was
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Jeremy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How often are you actually getting to having fsck questions?
Hi Jeremy,
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
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do you tell what XS version you have installed? Someone tried the
> usual way but it only gives me the Fedora version.
Douglas has the answer for 0.5 onwards. For earlier releases,
rpm -qa xs-config
and match it with t
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Anyway, I believe I should be cleaning up the messes I create, so I'll try
>> to write two patches based on the current moodle-r2 code in catalyst (1-
>> enable tinyMCE, 2-integrate the Su
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Tarun Pondicherry
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Really sorry for the newb mistakes. This is my first time on a project
> where the repository is actually significant. I'll be sure to pay close
> attention to my commits in the future.
Hey - no problem.
> The Moodl
For people playing along on the XS side...
yum --disablerepo=olpcxs --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing install xs-config
will install xs-config-0.4.3.4.g647d996-1.noarch will install the new
xs-config, which configures an auto-tuning PostgreSQL. Either start it
manually (it's called pgsql-xs) or rebo
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Use bind to resolve wiki.laptop.org to be that of the local XS server?
> Not too sure if that would break anything else.
Running a split horizon dns breaks access to the wiki :-/
> You could use iptables here to pick out th
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Assuming a 128MB target, I've been poking and probing with the
> postgresql.conf and the new settings...
Actually, I misreported the host memory - 128MB is not in the picture
anymore. The minium
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jerry Vonau wrote:
>> Cool, it works with method= also, just use method=hd:LABEL=foo:/path and
>> you don't get prompted for dvd location.
> And fails later at stage2's reposetup, think I can fix that.
Whoa! Lots of progres
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> these questions depend on the actual code that performs the restore.
> I'm going to comment on what happens when the user clicks on an entry
> from Browse (the only restore mechanism that is available today).
Tomeu and I ha
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1 - Does the backup attempt every 30 minutes and run successfully no
> more than 1 per 24 hours?
yes, with a subtlety. No more than once "per day". If it succeeds
today at 3pm, it'll start trying again tomorrow as soon as you
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That sounds fantastic.
In my enthusiasm, I missed one bit:
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I will build something against your F9 kernel that you
> ca
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Ricardo Carrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's more straight than saying: The team recommends that the only
> firmware to be used with the new 2.6.25 kernel is 22.p18
As a developer, I can relate 100% to that. As a release manager (and I
have to play both here
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, my job description is simply "kernel guy", not tied to XO
> or XS, so I will build something against your F9 kernel that you
> can test and will volunteer myself to keep XS libertas in sync
> with XO libertas until w
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Tarun Pondicherry
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm curious how to get some bug fixes upstream into ou blog. I think its
> not maintained by Moodle right? I'm trying to figure out also where to get
> the latest ou blog code to see if those bugs are there. Mostly,
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Having been once the maintainer of the Pg compat layer in Moodle, I
>> also have first-hand experience with this. When the casts removal was
>> mentioned in pg-devel, who was there asking about backwards compat?
>
> If you nee
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the --isolinux-cfg helps here, doesn't it? Using ks=hd:LABEL=foo:ks.cfg in
> one of the menu items should work like Chris and Jeremy mentioned...
Yes it definitely does, thanks! We need a tiny patch to add a 2nd ks
fi
2008/9/12 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I am *very* against this one. It is not packager's job to run
> dump/reload:
I agree with you in a normal rpm package. I am working to some very
special requirements :-)
> * You may never be sure that it will work. We had this issue in 8.3 for
> exam
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Michail Bletsas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Where is that list? Who has it? Who coordinates bugtracking for the
>> libertas stuff? Can't be that much of a mistery.
>>
> If that's a mystery to you after so many months of working for OLPC, I
> really don't want to
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Michail Bletsas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Our advice is to use 5.110.22.p18
Sorry if I am sounding difficult -- I am just trying to understand the
upsides and downsides of 22.p18
Clearly, it fixes some bugs we knew about and we already know it
introduces others
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hm, well, maybe I haven't been paying enough attention. I remember the
> cursing ;-) but not whether they'd gotten it sorted adequately.
Cursing? When!? :-) -- anyway, from the "don't do this, dummy"
department, a tiny patch,
2008/9/12 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Not really. I think Devrim Gunduz has been working on a similar idea
> for the RPM distributions, but no results yet. Obviously the lack of
> a convenient upgrade path is a real PITA, so I'm in favor of solving
> it somehow, but how to do it without break
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