On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 03:19:40PM +1100, David Leeming wrote: > > G'day David, > > XO-1 software release 10.1.2 is based on Sugar 0.84, which moved to > > using gconf for storing this setting. > > What should work is: > > 1. start Terminal activity, > > 2. type > > sugar-control-panel -c registration > >3. use ctrl-alt-erase to restart Sugar. > >If that doesn't work, please let me know, as I'd like to track it. > > Sorry it has taken me a while to get round to testing this. Well it does not > work. In terminal, the command above gives a lot of text feedback, referring > to a configuration server.
Good, please provide the text feedback, it is critical for understanding the problem. You can capture that with a screenshot, Alt/1, or use the Linux script command. > Not sure what it is trying to do, but what I am > trying to achieve is to get the "Register" to appear on the XO home page > when you hover over the middle, under "Shutdown" and "My settings"; i.e. to > have the Register option available again in the shutdown dropdown menu so > that I can register the XO on another XS. Yes, that is what I understand you need. > We have to do this quite often, for instance right now we have 25 teachers > from 3 schools with OLPC projects visiting one school for training. They all > need to access the XS server at that school, using their own laptops. I've no issue with the need for the task. > Hence we need to deregister them. I am not sure if this question is for the > Sugar dev or server dev list, but is certainly server related. It is Sugar related, but I'm happy to answer here. > Any help appreciated! We are stuck at the moment. We are otherwise stuck; we > upgrade them XOs to 10.1.2 and now don't have access to the server without a > lot of time consuming work. > > (it is a pity as the rm /home/olpc/.sugar/default/config method was well > understood here) This changed in Sugar. > >There's an alternate method using the gconftool-2 program that is > somewhat more complex. > > gconftool-2 --set --type=string \ > /desktop/sugar/backup_url \ > '' > > And finally a brute force method "rm -rf .gconf" but this destroys other > settings, most of which may not be important. Did either of these alternate methods work? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel