[Server-devel] failed to register

Mon Jun 4 20:49:29 EDT 2012

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 20:04 -0400, Holt wrote:
>> On 6/4/2012 7:32 PM, John Watlington wrote:
>> > On Jun 4, 2012, at 7:30 PM, John Watlington wrote:
>> >
>> >> Adam, something is wrong with those addresses.
>> >> The 18.nn.nn.nn subnet is owned by MIT.   You shouldn't be
>> >> using any of them.    Perhaps you meant 172.18.nn.nn ?
>>
>> Wad's exactly right -- I spent too many years at MIT and so typed 18.*
>> without thinking.  The correct IPs for the XS (no idea why there are 2)
>> are in fact:
>>      172.18.0.1  (pingable, ssh, etc)
>>      172.18.196.1  (schoolserver?)
>>
>
> Still don't think that is right, mine is using 172.18.96.1, what's in
> the ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 filea in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/?
>
>> I remain very concerned that 172.18.196.1 is not pingable from the
>> XO-1.5s, even when this IP's names {schoolserver,
>> schoolserver.providence.uwimona.edu.jm} are pingable, responding with
>> 172.18.196.1
>>
>
> Have a look in the /var/run/named-xs/school.internal.zone.db file think
> there might be an error there, but mine has 172.18.96.1.
>
> What is in /etc/dhcpd-xs-conf?
>
>> In Response to DSD:
>> There is no server set in My Settings > Network > Server on any of the
>> XO-1.5s
>>
>> Hopefully Sameer who helped with the original XS networking config 2
>> months ago can respond to Wad's WAN/LAN request below??
>>
>
> DSD, any way to quickly restore the stock settings?

Settings are stock. Adam confused 172.18.96.1 as 172.18.196.1

Sameer

>
> Jerry
>
>> > And I never got around to the second part of the comment.
>> > eth0 (the "WAN" port) on the XS should be in a different subnet
>> > than the laptops (the "LAN" ports).    If for some reason it is not,
>> > difficulties will ensue as the routing tables will be screwed up.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > wad
>> >
>> >
>> >> On Jun 4, 2012, at 6:19 PM, 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
>> >>> 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
>> >>>
>> >>> 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)
>> >>>
>> >>> 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?? :)
>> >>>
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