[Server-devel] deregister laptops

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 06:34:05PM +1100, David Leeming wrote:
> James wrote:
> > David wrote:
> > > James wrote:
> > > > G'day David,
> > > > XO-1 software release 10.1.2 is based on Sugar 0.84, which moved
> > > > to using gconf for storing this setting.  What should work is:
> > > > 1.  start Terminal activity,
> > > > 2.  type
> > > >     sugar-control-panel -c registration
> > > > 3.  use ctrl-alt-erase to restart Sugar.
> > > > If that doesn't work, please let me know, as I'd like to track
> > > > it.
> > >
> > > Sorry it has taken me a while to get round to testing this. Well
> > > it does not work. In terminal, the command above gives a lot of
> > > text feedback, referring to a configuration server.
> >
> > Good, please provide the text feedback, it is critical for
> > understanding the problem.  You can capture that with a screenshot,
> > Alt/1, or use the Linux script command.
> 
> sugar-control-panel: Failed to contact configuration server; some
> possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for
> ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
> http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1:
> Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible
> causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the
> message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
> expired, or the network connection was broken.)

This happens for me on 10.1.2 only if I try it at a virtual terminal
console (ctrl-alt-f1), but it doesn't happen for me if I do it in the
Terminal activity.  I checked that I mentioned using the Terminal
activity.  Please confirm this is where you typed it?  Certain
environment variables are needed from the running Sugar session, and
these are available by default to Terminal.

Please confirm the OLPC OS build number, and the version number of the
Sugar RPM package:

	# cat /boot/olpc_build
	852
	# rpm -q sugar
	sugar-0.84.22-1.fc11.i586

> > Did either of these alternate methods work?
> 
> - gconftool method gave same output as the first (as above)

That also happens in a shell that is missing the required context.

> - rm -rf .gconf gave no errors but after reboot there is no "Register"
> option present in the home view shutdown menu, only Shutdown and My
> Settings. So I guess no.

Interesting, thanks.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/