[Server-devel] XSCE 0.2 - Network problems running xs-setup

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Fri Mar 22 09:39:59 EDT 2013


On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 10:24 -0300, Rodolfo D. Arce S. wrote:
> > That time to restart NM seems excessive, but we need to cover that
> > situation. What would you time is a safe amount of time to wait before
> > bailing out of the install? I'm thinking 2 minutes.
> >
> >
> 
> It takes some time because the conection is wi-fi and it takes a long
> time to "negotiate" the conection, the is restored a couple seconds
> before the scripts exists. The ideal would be to check if connection
> is up and then continue, with a simple ping to the previously found
> gateway should work and timeout after 2 minutes or so. DHCP servers on
> most routers are fast enough for that window of time with cable
> connections, but wireless could take a while. 2 minutes is more than
> enough.
> 
> > I have some revisions related to that in the testing repo, could you
> > start the next install with the testing repo enabled:
> 
> I have to enable testing and upgrade the xs-cofig package? or is there
> a specific package that needs to be downloaded?
> 

We haven't updated the stable repo yet, the latest testing rpm is at:

http://build.activitycentral.com/xs-repo/RPMS/noarch/?C=M;O=D

You can then install the latest by hand with rpm if you wish. You will
still need to have the repo file present to be able to install other
packages. 

Jerry
 




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