[Server-devel] deregister laptops

[David Leeming]

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:


Terminal Activity was used, yes, version 31
	

# cat /boot/olpc_build
852
# rpm -q sugar
sugar-0.84.22-1.fc11.i586
All above are results from the same XO 

David


> > 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/