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Ikke and myself did some new efforts to get the stateless-snapshooter to work, but it was no use. First, I'll post the error that started it all:

[root@ftwlinux /]# stateless-snapshooter --list
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/stateless/stateless-snapshooter.py", line 22, in ?
import gtk
File "/usr/src/build/435489-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
line 37, in ?
RuntimeError: could not open display
[root@ftwlinux /]# stateless-snapshooter --new --protosystem LVStateless1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/stateless/stateless-snapshooter.py", line 22, in ?
import gtk
File "/usr/src/build/435489-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
line 37, in ?
RuntimeError: could not open display

First I tried to adjust the old stateless-snapshooter.py file, by deleting all but one 'gtk' commands/calls/whatever :-P . This is the 'best' output I got:

[root@ftwlinux snapshooter]# sh stateless-snapshooter --list
Protosystems:
LVStateless1
[root@ftwlinux snapshooter]# sh stateless-snapshooter --new
--protosystem LVStateless1
[root@ftwlinux snapshooter]# ( 0%)

The snapshooting started, but failed immediately. No errors, however. So I changed everything back to the way it was, and left for class. XX(

After class, Ikke joined me, and we spent some time updating the entire system to Fedora Core 3 (stable, as it should be on a server). Again there were a few problems though. First some 404-errors (Ikke's fault :-P ), and then header errors, until we adjusted the /etc/yum.conf file so it would download everything from the Belnet server. That did the trick :. .

No luck with the snapshooting though, even with an up to date system. We got a could not connect to display error. In the mean time, we're starting to worry about the (very) low activity of the Fedora Stateless project...

We in Belgium know a guy called "Sinterklaas". He comes from Spain every year, brings "mandarijntjes" (picture) and gives every child that has been gentle last year some present on december 6. Here's what he looks like. He also got some workers called "Zwarte Pieten" (picture).

Yesterday, we had a "party" with VTK with "Sinterklaas" as theme, because yesterday *was* 12/06. First time this year I want to a so-called "Goliarde", and it was fun. Had some sort of camera-fight with Lode (no, not the laptop guy), had a few beers, but had to go home way too soon :-(

Pictures of the event are aviable here.

Sinterklaas, friend of all children:

Some other members of this blog were there too:

Lennert

Peter

Even Santa Clause was there:

I need more RAM. By downloading these pictures from my camera, my machine just hang twice because I hadn't enough RAM (128Mb) and/or swap space (128Mb) aviable (well, I had X, Firefox, Gaim and some other apps running too). Bizarre.

Back to business: I wrote that Subversion Howto I talked about this morning. It is not finished (yet), but well... I'll try to LaTeX'ize it, which will be my first attempt at creating a LaTeX document :-)

Ordered 40 Ubuntu CD's today. 20 x86, 10 PPC and 10 AMD64. Ubuntu is one of those Linux distributions I'm going to try on the PC I should get once. Ordered all these CD's to spread them among friends and VTK members trough WVS. Ruben, once a big Gentoo fan, switched over to Ubuntu some time ago. I'll find out why he did so, and if what he did is the right thing to do :-)