ANN: 8.1.1 Candidate Build - candidate-708

[Kim Quirk]

Great! Thanks for the updates, S Page!

Michael, Scott,
I believe the incorrect warning message that you are trying to load a build
that isn't secure on a secure machine has been a bug for the last couple of
builds. I wrote it up: 7265
( http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7265).

Thanks,
Kim


On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:12 AM, S Page <info at skierpage.com> wrote:

> Michael Stone wrote:
> > Dear world,
> >
> > I'm pleased to announce that our first signed release candidate for the
> > 8.1.1 bugfix release is now available for downloading and updating.
> > Please help test it by
>
> I did, it basically worked fine with some minor glitches (marked ==>
> below).  Thanks!
>
> >
> >   1. Procuring activities if you need them. See the release notes for
> >   details.
>
> (I had updated my G1G1 to 703 a few weeks ago.  For some reason
> installing the G1G1 activity pack from my USB flash drive didn't work
> for me and I had used Bert's script to install.)
>
> >   2a. olpc-update -f candidate-708 && reboot
>
> D'oh, first time I didn't use the -f option.  `olpc-update
> candidate-708` displayed
>
> Trying irsync_pristine update from
> rsync://updates.laptop.org/build-candidate-708
> ...
> Verifying update.
> Contents manifest failure at line 383
> Last file examined: localtime
>
> (Maybe that's why you said use -f.)
>
> Then it went on to
>
> Trying irsync_dirty update from
> rsync://updates.laptop.org/build-candidate-708
>  - Creating contents for existing tree.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/olpc-contents-create", line 90, in <module>
> ...
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/.... utils.py, line 100, in mkdirobject
>    entry['h'] = mkhashes (file(fullname), read())
> MemoryError
>
> so I pressed Ctrl-C.
>
> Entering
>   # free -m
> printed
> Mem: total 232, used 227, free 5, shared 0, buffers 0, cached 48
>
> ==> Should update instructions suggest that users first stop running
> activities, or is this python "MemoryError" just an artifact of not
> using the -f "skip incremental update attempt" flag?
>
> Anyway, I retried using `olpc-update -f candidate-708` as instructed.
> It printed:
>
>   WARNING: You seem to be attempting to download an unsigned
> development build, but you don't have a developer key.  This will
> probably fail.
>
> ==> Is that warning expected since you said "signed release candidate" ?
>
> but it updated fine anyway.
>
> My laptop restarted three times, the last one brought me into Sugar.
>
> Home view > little guy > About this XO displays
>   Build update.1 708
>   Firmware: Q2D16
>   Serial Number: CSN748011C2
>
>
> ==> Maybe "About this XO" should say "8.1.1" and/or "candidate" instead
> of "update.1" part, otherwise looks fine!
>
> > please help update the
> >   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_8.1.1_Software_Release_Notes
>
> I reorganized it a bit to focus first on changes from Update.1, and
> tweaked other referenced pages.
>
> HTH, XO FTW, BBL,
> --
> =S Page
>
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