[Server-devel] My Observations and experiences with XSCE 0.2.1

[tkkang at nurturingasia.com]

In my last e-mail  mentioned about instability. Reinstalled again today and so far things are looking good. Registration went well and showing up when I ran the ejabberdctl connected-user command. 

On a XO and I did a ds-back.py and it seems to work. Have not found where in the XO will it be backup to. 

Once I am convinced that thing are OK I will try to switch to 2 USB-Ethernet connection - switch off wireless, plugin in another USB-Ethernet connected to WAN and run xs-setup again.

Thanks to those who worked at it!!                      

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Moody [mailto:timmoody at sympatico.ca]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 06:20 AM
>To: 'Richard Smith', server-devel at lists.laptop.org
>Subject: Re: [Server-devel] My Observations and experiences with XSCE 0.2.1
>
>I have installed 0.2.1 on an XO 1.75 successfully in one go and the XO 1.75 
>server and another XO were both able to register and connect to schoolserver 
>(without http:// I sometimes get a google search instead of the url), so 
>either we have regressed or we didn't handle your non-MN machine.
>
>Not sure if you reflashed for each iteration of installing, but I don't 
>think we restart very well.
>
>Thanks for the suggestion on reading manf tag.  I have puzzled over the 
>missing ']', because the syntax looks right; thanks again for the 
>suggestion.
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Richard Smith
>Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:33 PM
>To: server-devel at lists.laptop.org
>Subject: [Server-devel] My Observations and experiences with XSCE 0.2.1
>
>I want to try and make some tweaks to the ds_backup so I need a
>working school server.
>
>I grabbed a random XO 1.75 I had with 12.1.0-21 installed and tried to
>install XSCE 0.2.1 but I was not successful in getting a working
>config.
>
>After installing xs-config-xo and runnign bootstrap-xo I received the 
>message
>"Not an XO pleasea run 'xs-config'" So I did. xs-config: command not found.
>
>Searching for xs-config in the xs-config-xo package with rpm -ql I find that
>xs-config is not in that that package so I took a look at bootstrap-xo
>to see why it was unhappy.
>
>It was unhappy because I have a bastard machine and I have no MN
>manufacturing tag.  :)
>
>However, looking at script I would recommnd that rather than read the
>mfg tags directly you try to source
>/usr/share/olpc-utils/olpc-utils-functions and use the facilties of
>that script.  There are functions that will let you read mfg tags in
>an XO generation independent way and functions that will let you
>determine what
>XO generation you are using.
>
>I noticed several occurrences of error messages the debug output of
>xs-setup a message of:
>
>/usr/bin/xs-setup-functions: line 242: [: missing ']'
>
>You may want to start using [[ ]] rather than [ ] for tests as [[ ]]
>is much more tolerant and supports several enhancements over [ ]
>
>The rest of the installation appears to have gone ok except that
>ejabberd didn't seem to start up.  The message was
>
>"Failed RPC connection to the note ejabberd at schoolserver: nodedown"
>
>On reboot various ejabber things seems to be running so perhaps that
>was expected.
>
>If I go to a root shell I don't get an expected # in my prompt.  The
>difference between olpc@ and root@ is hard to notice.  I'd like to see
>a # added when you are root.
>
>Because I don't have a full deployment infra setup I ran into this
>http://sugardextrose.org/issues/2685 . Also nothing in the
>instructions indicate that when you set up a local AP for the XO lan
>you have to disable any dhcpd server that might be running on the AP.
>Obvious to me but perhaps not obvious to others and multiple dhcp
>servers can be a bitch to debug.
>
>Trying to register the XSCE with itself fails.  "Can't connect to the 
>server"
>
>Trying to register a client XO to the schoolsever fails as well.  The
>IP the the client received looks good. I can ping schoolserver and
>schoolserver.local and browsing the Internet works. Trying to browse
>to http://schoolserver or schoolserver.local dosen't work.  Nmaping
>the server with my laptop shows that nothing is
>running on port 80.
>
>There's nothing in /var/log/httpd but systemctrl status httpd.service
>indicates there were startup errors and looking
>in /var/log/messages I find that httpd is choking on line 9 of
>/etc/httpd/conf.d/pathagar.conf which is:
>
>PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
>
>rpm -q django shows its not installed so I tried yum -y install django
>but no dice.  Still won't start up.
>Ideas? I've run out of time for now to try and sort this out.
>
>Cheers.
>-- 
>Richard A. Smith
>One Laptop per Child
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