[Testing] Testing summary, Auckland - 17 March 2012
James Cameron
quozl at laptop.org
Sun Mar 18 19:29:36 EDT 2012
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:31:19PM +1300, Tabitha Roder wrote:
> XO-1.75 os30 testing for OLPC
> Discovered one reason for the erratic behavior of yum on XO 1.75.
> Bonnie fairly regularly looses the time (known problem in the B1
> prototypes), resetting to January 2000, when you use yum to get
> ntpdate to fix the time, yum fails with a cryptic message:
>
> [olpc at xo-6d-6c-3a ~]$ sudo yum install ntpdate
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
>
> Using tcpdump and wireshark we find that the reason is that the
> certificate on mirrors.fedoraproject.com is not valid until some time
> after the year 2000. Maybe we should install ntpdate by default?
Yes, there is frequent need for ntpdate. I would like to see it
installed too. Meanwhile, I copy it in when I need it.
I suggest for the XO-1.75 B1 units you make a note to compensate for the
real-time clock failure after fs-update and before testing.
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11425 has several useful methods. The
easiest might be for you to edit olpc.fth (e.g. using microemacs in
OpenFirmware, "ok emacs int:\boot\olpc.fth") and add a fixed valid
looking date set just before olpc-fth-boot-me:
decimal 0 0 0 19 3 2012 " set-time" clock-node @ $call-method
olpc-fth-boot-me
If you find the clock is only occasionally forgetful, then the code
could be expanded to check for incorrect year before setting the clock:
: get-year ( -- year ) time&date 2nip 2nip nip ;
decimal
: silly-time ( -- s m h d m y ) 0 0 0 19 3 2012 ;
hex
: set-clock ( -- )
silly-time " set-time" clock-node @ $call-method
;
: ?fix-clock ( -- )
get-year d# 2012 < if silly-time set-clock then
;
?fix-clock
olpc-fth-boot-me
--
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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