Another F11 build for the XO-1 has been released
Peter Robinson
pbrobinson at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 19:10:08 UTC 2009
Hi Paul,
> > Speaking of olpc-powerd. I've been playing with various the various
> > builds that have been around and it works terribly in VM environments,
> > or non XO physical machines. It should check for XO hardware and if it
> > doesn't find any it should just exit. Also it logs massive amounts of
>
> yes, i agree. i'll fix that. getting it to work properly on the
> correct h/w seemed more important at the time than getting it to
> not work correctly on the wrong hardware.
>
> > stuff to the console which is lost because its not logged to the
> > messages file. It just took 30 odd mins for a VM to boot up because of
> > all the olpc-powerd spew and when I could finally ssh into it there
> > was not a single bit of the spew in either dmesg or /var/log/messages.
>
> this part surprises me... oh. no it doesn't. i normally run
> with tracing turned on, and all previous releases have had it on
> by default. and when tracing is enabled, stderr is redirected to
> a file. with tracing off, it's not. oops. will fix.
I just just this in koji. Thanks!
* Thu Aug 13 2009 Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org>
- 10-1 - prevent running on non-XO hardware
- workaround rtcwake bug
- prevent console spew, by redirecting stderr weven when not logging.
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