[OLPC-SF] Problems Upgrading to 12.1.0 & 13.1.0

Sun Mar 10 15:32:40 EDT 2013

Hi all,
I am glad I am on this list still! I can help here.

1. In Sugar View, Terminal is installed fine, it is just not on the
Favorites Home screen. Click on the "List View" the horizontal lines, in
the right hand corner, scroll down the list to find terminal and click the
star. This will put Terminal on the Home Screen. You'll notice there are
other unstarred Activities here. Jukebox and Image Viewer and Read will
open automatically with Activities that require them, so you needn't have
them on the Home Screen unless you want them. You can unstar any Activity
that you wish to hide from the home screen but keep on the XO. Or, you can
also remove Activities from this view by hovering/right clicking and
removing them. To save your choices just switch back to the Favorites View
(the Circle)next to the list View.

2. In Gnome, the link to Switch o Sugar can be found in Applications>System
Tools

3. /var/tmp I don't know what this means. Can't hep with that one, sorry.

4. I'm upgrading the Contributors stock of G1G1 re-donated XO-1's that I
have here for redistribution to 13.1.0. Going to 12 and 13, I am still
getting a % of XOs that get stuck at the grey dots when booting after the
reflash is complete. Richard Smith figured out that this is a Pretty Boot
issue. He had a workaround that worked on an XO 1.5, but I have not been
successful had getting that to work on an XO 1.0.

Richard, after interrupting the boot with the Escape key, at the ok prompt
I type:
change-tag TS blah  and the reply is
New value and old value have different lengths
ok

Does blah need to be a different length word on the XO-1 as opposed to the
XO-1.5? Or what do I try next to workaroud this issue.
Can you submit a request to whoever needs to fix this big?

5. I have one XO that boots to the ok prompt after reflash. How do I change
that to make it Pretty Boot to the Home View? (Huge thanks Richard!)

Warm regards to all,
Nancie:)
Nancie Severs
OLPC Volunteer

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> Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 22:11:52 -0800
> From: Mitch Patenaude <patenaude at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [OLPC-SF] upgrade to 12.1.0 didn't go smoothly
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> So I was trying to upgrade my xo-1 from 11.3.0 to 12.1.0, and it didn't go
> smoothly.
>
> First I had a heck of a time clearing enough disk space for the upgrade
> process to complete cleanly, and once it did, it wouldn't boot any more
> (missing root filesystem, kernel panic.)
>
> So.. not deterred, I just went ahead and did a fresh install, and that
> worked okay... sorta.
>
> Once I got it up, I noticed that the terminal activity was missing, and I
> couldn't figure out how to get it back, or how to do a general activities
> update.  Can anybody help here?  (assuming I can ever get back to Sugar..
> because...)
>
> Next.. I switched to Gnome, but now I can't figure out how to switch back.
>  In 11.3.0 there was a link on the desktop, but that link seems to be
> missing in 12.1.0.  I tried "sudo olpc-switch-to-sugar", and while it
> brought up a dialog saying that it would switch back to sugar, it didn't
> actually switch back.
>
> Next, /var/tmp is now so small that yum can't download a full index of
> packages, so I can't even install new stuff.
>
> Anybody tried this upgrade before on an xo-1?
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>   -- Mitch
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> From: Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com>
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> Mitch,
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> It just so happens I was updating some XOs tonight and was able to take
> snapshots to answer your questions:
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/8543403717/in/photostream
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/8544502904/in/photostream/
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> Mike
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> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Mitch Patenaude <patenaude at gmail.com
> >wrote:
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> > So I was trying to upgrade my xo-1 from 11.3.0 to 12.1.0, and it didn't
> go
> > smoothly.
> >
> > First I had a heck of a time clearing enough disk space for the upgrade
> > process to complete cleanly, and once it did, it wouldn't boot any more
> > (missing root filesystem, kernel panic.)
> >
> > So.. not deterred, I just went ahead and did a fresh install, and that
> > worked okay... sorta.
> >
> > Once I got it up, I noticed that the terminal activity was missing, and I
> > couldn't figure out how to get it back, or how to do a general activities
> > update.  Can anybody help here?  (assuming I can ever get back to Sugar..
> > because...)
> >
> > Next.. I switched to Gnome, but now I can't figure out how to switch
> back.
> >  In 11.3.0 there was a link on the desktop, but that link seems to be
> > missing in 12.1.0.  I tried "sudo olpc-switch-to-sugar", and while it
> > brought up a dialog saying that it would switch back to sugar, it didn't
> > actually switch back.
> >
> > Next, /var/tmp is now so small that yum can't download a full index of
> > packages, so I can't even install new stuff.
> >
> > Anybody tried this upgrade before on an xo-1?
> >
> >   -- Mitch
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