[Server-devel] failed to register

[Jerry Vonau]

On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 18:19 -0400, Holt wrote:
> On 6/4/2012 3:27 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Jerry Vonau<jvonau at shaw.ca>  wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 13:15 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Sameer Verma<sverma at sfsu.edu>  wrote:
> >>>> XS 0.7
> >>>> OLPC build 874
> >>>> Sugar 0.92.2
> >>>>
> >>>> The XO fails to register, but a folder is created for the XO on the XS
> >>>> under /library/users/
> >>>>
> >>>> The XO shows no collaboration server under Control Panel | Network
> >>>>
> >>>> Any ideas? Pointers?
> >>>>
> >>>> cheers,
> >>>> Sameer
> >>> On the XS I see the machine as registered via /var/log/messages
> >>> (schoolserver olpc_idmgr: Registered user abcdefgh with serial
> >>> SHC03345845)
> >>>
> >>> So, looks like the server end is doing what it should, but the XO end is not?
> >> Think you bumped into this: https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11056
> >>
> >> Jerry
> >>
> > Thx. Will investigate. Copying Adam Holt and the Jamaica team on it
> > (the trouble in in a school there).
> >
> > Sameer
> 

Hi Adam:

> One XO-1.5 successfully registered back on Saturday.  It successfully 
> then pushed 36MB to the XS' /library/users/SHC03801C2E (after running 
> /usr/bin/ds-backup.sh on the XO-1.5 and waiting ~30min).  So we went 
> home Saturday night with a false sense of confidence!
> 
> But no XO-1.5s will fully register today (all ~50 of the school's XOs 
> are XO-1.5s).
> Clearly, Jamaica's change from XS 0.6 to XS 0.7 two months ago destroyed 
> reliable registration?
> 
> Frustrating as all XO-1.5s do connect to XS, whose /library/users become 
> populated with each XO's serial number, when they 1st attempt to 
> register.  EG. directory /library/users/SHC03801C18 on XS is just 1 of 
> many examples of an XO-1.5 "incompletely" registering -- all similar 
> directories contain:
> 
>      .bash_logout
>      .bash_profile
>      .bashrc
>      .ssh
> 

Think that just means that the backup on the XO has not run yet.

> Is it normal that XO-1.5s can ping the schoolserver in these 3 ways:
> 
>      ping 18.172.0.1
>      ping schoolserver    (responds as 18.172.196.1)
>      ping schoolserver.providence.uwimona.edu.jm    (responds as 
> 18.172.196.1)
> 
> But yet CANNOT ping the schoolserver's eth0 IP address:
> 
>      ping 18.172.196.1    (its "inet addr" according to "ifconfig etho" 
> anyway)
> 

Is the above a typo? Think that should be 172.18.96.1 according to what
is in my ifcfg-eth0 What are your contents of
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0?

> If it matters, a failng-to-register XO-1.5's /etc/resolv.conf reads as 
> follows:
> 
>      # Generated by NetworkManager
>      domain providence.uwimona.edu.jm
>      search providence.uwimona.edu.jm localdomain
>      nameserver 172.18.196.1
> 
> What should I be trying?? :)
> 
Again is 172.18.196.1 a typo? 
On the XS what is in /etc/resolv.conf?

Hope it helps,

Jerry

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