Activation problems

[Mitch Bradley]

C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:16 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>   
>>> You can try to search the SN of the laptops you're trying to activate in
>>>       
>> the lease.sig file to see if they're there...
>>     
>>  The activation leases in the lease.sig file seem fine.   And I'm using
>>  a collector key to get the serial number/UUID, so I don't expect that
>>  it is a modified UUID causing the problem.
>>     
>
> The collector key also puts the laptop's idea of the current time in
> the laptops.dat file; you might check that it doesn't think it's
> living in 2037.  Switching to VT1 will also tell you if python is
> throwing any errors or exceptions that might be relevant.  Trying to
> generate a dev key (as Richard suggested) may also help diagnose the
> issue (bad UUID, bad key, etc).  Finally, there were firmware changes
> made at one point which affect OFW's ability to read nand:/security.
> It's not entirely clear from your description, but if the machine
> boots successfully with the activation key in, but won't boot w/o the
> activation key, it could be firmware-related.  Otherwise, Mitch seems
> correct that this doesn't look to be a firmware issue.
>  --scott
>   

Richard's suggestion of holding the check key will give valuable clues 
about what the firmware is seeing during its portion of the process.