[OLPC-AU] Testing OLPC Australia XO-AU OS 12 beta 2

Jerry Vonau jerry at laptop.org.au
Sun Feb 19 17:17:08 EST 2012


On 18 February 2012 23:09, Peter Hewitt <prh at mulawa.net> wrote:

> Hi Jerry,
>
>
> On 19/02/2012, at 1:17 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote:
>
> > Hi Peter:
> >
> > On 17 February 2012 22:21, Peter Hewitt <prh at mulawa.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> 3. Power down via right click on XO icon and "Shutdown" - ext mouse
> >> attached and on ext power - XO stayed at b/w warnings screen - as
> reported
> >> before.
> >>
> >>
> > Can you confirm that the hang doesn't occur without having the ext mouse
> > plugged in please? I'll see if I can reproduce the issue locally.
>
> This has just happened on my XO1 with Sugar .82. I suspect the issue is
> that I still had the USB plugged in.
>
> I have just confirmed this happens on your beta as well.
>
>
I have yet to look into this one, I can't seem to reproduce this with my
USB mouse here.


>
> > 4. I have a shell script which installs all my activities - always this
> >> has run to the end without intervention BUT on this build the XO kept
> going
> >> to sleep and I had to repeatedly stroke the mousepad to get through to
> the
> >> end. XO was on ext power.
> >>
> >
> > That is part off the aggressive power management, how long does the
> script
> > take to run?  I'd like to reproduce the issue locally, can you share your
> > script with me and maybe a list of your activities?
>
> I raised this because I could imagine teachers using a similar method to
> do bulk installs - it doesn't worry me.
>
> Anyway I've attached my script but of course it requires all the xo files
> to be in the same directory.
>
> Please appreciate that I'm a linux newbie - this is a very crude script
> but does the job.
>
> The current list of my published activities is:
>
>  36,133 Castle 23
>  33,159 Jumble 22
>  24,738 Sudoku 28
>  22,695 Spirolaterals 23
>  14,327 Follow Me 22
>  11,865 Numbers 25
>  11,767 Boxes 22
>  11,705 Turtle Machine 22
>  9,976 Mancala 22
>  9,839 Triples 25
>  8,218 Sokoban 23
>  7,298 Tessellations 23
>  6,860 Soma 25
>  6,428 Ominoes 22
>  6,191 PMJ 22
>  5,231 Eleusis 22
>  4,191 Letters 23
>  4,141 Pursuit 22
>  4,046 Shapes 22
>  3,728 IQ 22
>  3,697 Trails 23
>  3,522 Rectangles 23
>  3,462 PJ Lite 22
>  3,454 PJ 22
>  2,750 Appel Haken 24
>  2,591 End Game 28
>  2,373 SimCom 26
>  2,335 Across and Down 24
>  1,483 DidgArt 27
>  1,394 Python Tute 29
>    665 Countries 33
>    609 Weigh 23
>    149 Trans 26
>    108 Oct 29
> 271,128 TOTAL DOWNLOADS
>     34 ACTIVITY COUNT
>
> >> 5. Still can't understand why you insist on supplying old versions of my
> >> activities - from memory: Spirolaterals, Numbers, Turtle Machine and
> Jumble.
> >>
> >>
> > That is more of a documentation blocker, we have documentation assembled
> > for the teachers on what to expect with the installed activities. Until
> the
> > documentation is updated we're a little hesitant on present a different
> > user experience from what is in the documentation. Bugfixes we can slip
> in
> > but changing how the activity looks or new features would render the
> > documentation incomplete.
>
> Thank you for that - I can understand that answer. If you're prepared to
> send me the documentation I can check whether this is an issue or not - I
> suspect not in the case of my activities.
>
>
> My script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> rm -r ~/Activities/AcrossandDown.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/AppelHaken.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Boxes.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Castle.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Countries.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/CountriesES.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/DidgArt.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Eleusis.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/EndGame.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/FollowMe.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/IQ.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Jumble.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Key.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Letters.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Mancala.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Numbers.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Oct.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Ominoes.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/PJ.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/PJLite.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/PMJ.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Pursuit.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/PythonTute.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/PythonTuteTwo.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Rectangles.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Seneto.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Shapes.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/SimCom.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Sokoban.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Soma.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Spirolaterals.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/StarCatcher.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Sudoku.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Tessellations.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Trails.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Trans.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Triples.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/TurtleMachine.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/WebTute.activity
> rm -r ~/Activities/Weigh.activity
> sugar-install-bundle AcrossandDown-24.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle AppelHaken-24.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Boxes-22.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Castle-23.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Countries-33.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle CountriesES-41.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle DidgArt-27.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Eleusis-22.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle EndGame-28.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle FollowMe-22.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle IQ-22.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Jumble-22.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Key-1.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Letters-23.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Mancala-22.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Numbers-25.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Oct-29.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Ominoes-22.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle PJ-22.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle PJLite-22.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle PMJ-23.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Pursuit-22.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle PythonTute-29.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle PythonTuteTwo-28.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Rectangles-23.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Seneto-23.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Shapes-22.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle SimCom-26.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Sokoban-23.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Soma-25.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Spirolaterals-23.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle StarCatcher-31.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Sudoku-27.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Tessellations-23.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Trails-23.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Trans-26.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Triples-25.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle TurtleMachine-23.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle WebTute-25.xo
> sleep 10
> sugar-install-bundle Weigh-23.xo
> sleep 10
>
>
I'd try removing the sleep 10s that are present, but there is a deeper
underlying problem that I'll try to address in the next test image.
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