On 6/5/2012 7:22 AM, Holt wrote:
XO-1.5s do not show a "Register Again" option, except on that 1 single machine that registered successfully back on Saturday.

That single XO-1.5 registered successfully (back on Saturday) regardless whether its My Settings -> Network -> Server was set to schoolserver.providence.uwimona.edu.jm or was not set to anything at all.

As of Monday/now however, XO-1.5s cannot similarly register, no matter if My Settings -> Network -> Server is set or not, even with schoolserver.providence.uwimona.edu.jm remaining pingable.

Anything else I can try?


Aside: all XO-1.5s are running 11.2.0, and if we can resolve this register-then-backup dilemma, our intent is to reflash all to 11.3.1.


Jerry Vonau's not only Canajun, he also has PAPAL powers (!) exposing a serious bug blocking Jamaica's XO-1.5s (Release 11.2.0 for now) from registering with their XS 0.7 _unless_ live DNS is turned on.

Workaround:


1) Turn on DNS in /etc/named-xs.conf.in then run:
[root@schoolserver ~]# nano /etc/named-xs.conf.in
    changing this line...
    forwarders {196.2.1.2; 196.2.1.3;};
    to this line...
forwarders { 192.168.1.1; };
[root@schoolserver ~]# xs-domain-config
[root@schoolserver ~]# service named restart


2) Turn off all Internet except pings for our 4- and 5- year olds, at XS's firewall:
[root@schoolserver ~]# nano /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/iptables-xs.in
    # COMMENTED OUT THESE LINES BELOW, TO BLOCK KIDS FROM INTERNET
    # -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
    # -A FORWARD -o @@WAN@@ -j ACCEPT
[root@schoolserver ~]# xs-setup-network
[root@schoolserver ~]# service iptables restart
[root@schoolserver ~]# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:ssh
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW
REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere
REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination


3) APACHE WOULD NOT START; was misconfigured, so...
[root@schoolserver ~]# mv /etc/httpd/conf.d/munin.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/munin.conf.SAVE
[root@schoolserver ~]# service httpd restart


4) Jerry hasn't yet figured out why ejabberd (collaboration) isn't working, but will try to hack thru these error msgs with me tomorrow, when I can get back inside the school:
[root@schoolserver ~]# service moodle restart
Disabling Moodle access and cron job:                      [  OK  ]
Enabling Moodle access and cron job:                       [  OK  ]
[root@schoolserver ~]# service pgsql-xs restart
Stopping pgsql-xs service:                                 [  OK  ]
Starting pgsql-xs service: .                               [  OK  ]
[root@schoolserver ~]# service ejabberd-xs restart
Shutting down ejabberd: already stopped                    [WARNING]
Starting ejabberd:                                         [  OK  ]
[root@schoolserver ~]# ejabberdctl registered-users `hostname -f`
*The node ejabberd@schoolserver is started with status: started
ejabberd is not running in that node
Check for error messages: /var/log/ejabberd/ejabberd.log
or other files in that directory.*
[SNIP]
[root@schoolserver ~]# cp -pr /var/lib/ejabberd/spool /var/lib/ejabberd/spool.SAVE [root@schoolserver ~]# rm -f /var/lib/ejabberd/spool/* /var/lib/ejabberd/spool/.erlang.cookie
[root@schoolserver ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/ejabberd_domain_name
providence.uwimona.edu.jm
[root@schoolserver ~]# rm -f /etc/sysconfig/ejabberd_domain_name
[root@schoolserver ~]# cat > /etc/sysconfig/ejabberd_domain_name
INTENTIONALLYBOGUSprovidence.uwimona.edu.jm
[root@schoolserver ~]# service ejabberd-xs start
Starting ejabberd: /etc/sysconfig/xs_domain_name /etc/sysconfig/ejabberd_domain_name differ: byte 1, line 1
                                                           [  OK  ]
*Failed RPC connection to the node ejabberd@schoolserver: nodedown*
[SNIP]
[root@schoolserver ~]# ejabberdctl registered-users `hostname -f`
*Failed RPC connection to the node ejabberd@schoolserver: nodedown*
[SNIP]
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