Quick run through of Activities on Soas2-200903061846
by Gary C Martin
Hi folks,
I wanted to get an idea for what Activities are actually currently
working in a reasonable condition, here's a quick run through using
the latest SoaS F11 build – Tomorrow I'll do the same with a recent
F11 build from cjb. A few of these have already been recently fixed at
least in git (alsroots json patches), but didn't have .xo to hand to
quickly install.
Environment: VirtualBoxVM running on an Intel Mac
SoaS: Soas2-200903061846
Build: Fedora release 10.91 (Rawhide)
Sugar: 0.84.0
Etoys-100: Fails, line 77: exec etoys: not found
IRC-5: Fails, no module named ircactivity
Maze-6: Fails, No module named pygame
Record-59: Fails, 'module' object has no attribute '_sha_data'
Scratch-12: exec: /usr/bin/squeak: cannot execute: No such file or
directory
TamTamEdit-50: Fails, ImportError: libcsound.so.5.1: cannot open
shared object files: No such file or directory
TamTamJam-51: Fails, ImportError: libcsound.so.5.1: cannot open shared
object files: No such file or directory
TamTamMini-49: Fails, ImportError: libcsound.so.5.1: cannot open
shared object files: No such file or directory
TamTamSynthLab-51: Fails, ImportError: libcsound.so.5.1: cannot open
shared object files: No such file or directory
Measure-21: Fails, no module named numpy (larger issues than just numpy)
Speak-9: Fails, No module named numpy.core (larger issues than just
numpy)
TurtleArt-42: Fails, no module named numpy (OK after yum install
numpy, but fails to keep when stopped)
Distance-14: Fails, no module named numpy (OK after yum install numpy,
didn't test collaboration)
Finance-2: OK, but stopping gives keep error (json module)
Implode-5: OK, but stopping gives keep error (json module)
Moon-9: OK, but stopping gives keep error (json module)
Typing Turtle-16: OK, but stopping gives keep error (json module)
Browse-105: OK (but URL completion has stopped working)
Jukebox-7: OK (but I can't generate any sound, might be a virtual
machine issue)
Pippy-30: OK (but font issue cause the loss of sidebar, and all run
controls)
Ruler-3: OK (but clearly most measurements are now useless due to dpi)
Analyze-8: OK
Calculate-28: OK
CartoonBuilder-2: OK
Chat-64: OK
Image Viewer-6: OK
InfoSlicer-3: OK
Log-17: OK
Paint-23: OK
Terminal-23: OK
Write-63: OK
Regards,
--Gary
15 years, 2 months
Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Booting SoaS on a PC and on an XO with the same stick (Yes, it can be done)
by Luke Macken
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 04:13:24PM -0400, Chris Marshall wrote:
> I get the following error log running the
> 3.6.1 liveusb-creator just downloaded and
> unzipped on winXP:
>
>> [creator:689] Unable to get GetVolumeInformation: (21, 'GetVolumeInformation', 'The device is not ready.')
>> [creator:735] Problem determining free space: (21, 'GetDiskFreeSpace', 'The device is not ready.')
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "liveusb-creator", line 75, in <module>
>> File "liveusb-creator", line 70, in main
>> File "liveusb\gui.pyc", line 54, in __init__
>> File "liveusb\gui.pyc", line 245, in __init__
>> File "liveusb\gui.pyc", line 267, in populate_devices
>> File "liveusb\creator.pyc", line 699, in detect_removable_drives
>> IndexError: list index out of range
>
> The previous version downloaded (version 3.2) started
> up ok. Unfortunately, I deleted the 3.2 version when
> I unzipped the 3.6.1 and cannot fall back since there
> does not appear to be a link to the earlier release
> at
This issue should be resolved with v3.2.3
luke
15 years, 2 months
a better way to make XO images
by Scott Douglass
Hi,
I propose that we use the Fedora virtualization infrastructure to create
Rawhide OS images for the XO.
It should be simple using a kickstart file and the virtualization tools
to create an OS installed on a loopback mounted file that contains a
normal ext3 file system.
Then, we just mount that file, and use it as the source for the rest of
CJB's livecd-iso-to-xo.sh.
No live CD cruft at all. No squashfs. Much much cleaner.
I'm going to give it a try once I come up with a machine that has enough
memory/diskspace for this operation...
15 years, 2 months
No build today
by Chris Ball
Hi,
We got past all our depsolving problems (thanks, SMParrish!) today,
but the live squashfs is full of read errors; it's a generic problem
affecting everyone. I'll delete the build so that people don't download
it and get disappointed.
- Chris.
--
Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org>
15 years, 2 months
pretty boot plymouth security
by Scott Douglass
Two questions and a tip for newbies related to booting rawhide on the
XO.
Q1
What is the status of "pretty boot" or plymouth in rawhide on XO? Is
that supposed to work? It did work when booting F10 off SD card a while
back.
Q2
A somewhat related question...
I have just re-verified that I have disable-security'd my XO in the
firmware (reports "No wp tag" which supposedly means no security
enabled.) However, when I turn on my XO which has rawhide on the NAND,
the XO doesn't appear to do anything. I just get the XO person in the
middle of the screen.
The only way I can boot is to hit the escape key and type "boot" at the
"ok" prompt. I've been sort of just accepting this... but I'm starting
to get a bit frustrated.
Is there some trick to help the XO boot without my intervention?
TIP
Just for anyone else who might be playing with rawhide kernels and
booting, make a backup of a working /boot/olpc.fth before you do
anything you don't fully understand :-)
Then at the OK prompt you can rescue yourself by doing:
ok editenv boot-device
change the nand:\boot\olpc.fth to nand:\boot\olpc.fth.good
Save the change and boot.
15 years, 2 months
Re: [Sugar-devel][SoaS] Booting SoaS on a PC and on an XO with the same stick (Yes, it can be done)
by Luke Macken
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 04:32:46PM -0500, Ton van Overbeek wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Luke Macken <lmacken(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:54:27PM -0500, Ton van Overbeek wrote:
> > [...]
> >> I suggest to update liveusb-creator to have the '-x' option turned on
> >> by default in both the
> >> windows and fedora versions, at least for the one advertised on
> >> http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation.
> >
> > I have no problem enabling --xo mode by default.
> >
> >> The olpc.fth file in liveusb-creator should be fixed (remove the
> >> extraneous backslashes).
> >
> > I fixed this issue in changeset 379c7f825c6348d188a93283e9840c7d783dbd02
> > a while back, but have yet to push out a new windows release. I will
> > try to spin up a new release this week.
> >
> > luke
>
> Looking forward to it. Thanks for the quick reply.
I released version 3.6 of the liveusb-creator last night, which enables
XO support by default, and fixes the typo in the olpc.fth boot file.
http://liveusb-creator.fedorahosted.org
Cheers,
luke
15 years, 2 months
Re: Neighborhood View follies
by Mikus Grinbergs
>> It's one thing to have current Sugar not supporting the mesh. What
>> I think is salt in the wound is that 'iwconfig msh0 mode' is not
>> supported (it defaults to 'Repeater'), but 'iwconfig msh0 channel'
>> *is* supported.
>
> I don't understand this message. What are you trying to achieve with
> "iwconfig msh0 mode"? The eth0 device should be used to set ad-hoc
> vs. managed mode, because setting those doesn't make sense for a mesh.
I know that the same /radio chip/ is used by both mesh and wifi.
What is not clear in my mind is how much of the "driver software"
(as seen by an user sitting at a console) gets to be shared between
the mesh interface ('msh0', which uses one set of radio messaging
protocols) and the wifi interface ('eth0', which I suspect uses a
different set of radio messaging protocols).
My motivation came from reading someplace or other that 'Repeater'
mode means "do not originate information" (i.e. only do "relaying").
It seemed odd to me that if I want to facilitate collaboration
over 'msh0', then I would have to mess with (setting mode on) 'eth0'.
mikus
15 years, 2 months
Anyone seeing working salut based collaboration?
by Gary C Martin
Just wondering, has anyone has seen working collaboration from the F11
XO builds using salut with an AP (i.e blank out the jabber server name
in the network CP and attach a couple of machines to the same access
point network)? Have a couple of XO's running the latest images, but
they have never seen each other as buddies via salut.
FWIW: Using a jabber server does seem to be working ok for buddy
neighbourhood visibility (not tested actual collaboration yet), though
the default jabber.sugarlabs.org server is currently not responding to
port 5222 (I've filed a sl ticket).
--Gary
15 years, 2 months
easy questions for Fedora gurus
by Scott Douglass
1. when I install new kernel via yum update, do I need to rebuild the
initrd-*.img that came with that kernel in order for the /dev/root disk
label to be known? Right now, I can't boot any new kernel as the
"/dev/root" device specified in olpc.fth can not be found by the new
kernel.
2. how do I make the timezone stick? I;ve told the system that I'm using
America/New_York, but the system clock is always giving me the time in
GMT. The file /etc/syscofing/clock says that it's not used... and the
GUI version of system-config-date fails to run on my XO (it starts up,
policy kit asks me to authenticate, then it just vanishes...)
Thanks,
Scott
15 years, 2 months
Re: Blocker - rpm fails to install files
by Mikus Grinbergs
> I just tried to reproduce this on my non-XO laptop running today's
> Rawhide, but can't. So it doesn't seem like it's affecting everyone,
> whatever it is.
I re-installed 20090306, and 'rpm' now worked correctly.
Note that the symptom of this 20090307 problem is that 'rpm' runs
normally, and produces all the expected output messages. But (for a
package which was *not* previously in the system), while 'rpm -q -l'
now lists all the files that were supposed to have been installed by
that package -- doing 'ls' shows those files did *not* get inserted
into the system.
mikus
15 years, 2 months
