[OLPC-AU] Critical issue - testing required

[Jerry Vonau]

On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 00:44 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> We at OLPC Australia have come across a critical issue, and we'd
> really appreciate some assistance from the community in testing the
> fix.
> 
> It seems that some XOs suspended and placed in charging racks are
> waking each other up. This has led to overheating in some units - to
> the point where the plastic warps and the screens become damaged.
> 
> OLPC have come up with a solution - a new version of olpc-powerd:
> 
>   http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/rpms/olpc-powerd-29-1.fc11.i586.rpm
>   md5sum 285753a1a54999b7dc58508020b1f184
> 
> It has been tested on an XO-1.5, but it has not had wider community testing.
> 
> We would be very grateful if we could have some help in testing it on
> two different builds:
> 
>   * on our latest XO-AU build (most important for us)
>   * on OLPC's os852 (helpful for OLPC)
> 
> XO-AU is based on OLPC's os85x, and is what we intend to use in
> Australian schools. For more information:
> 
>   http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-au/2010-October/000087.html
>   http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-au/2010-October/000101.html
> 
> Feel free to ask me if you require further information to facilitate testing.
> 

Hi All:

You can install this update via the command prompt in terminal:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo wget
http://download.laptop.org.au/XO/F11/10.1.2/updates-testing/xoau-testing.repo

sudo yum -y --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=xoau-testing update

Hoping this makes things easier for testing,

Jerry