[Issue]: Neighborhood view

[David Farning]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:58 AM, David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Manusheel Gupta <manu at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Dear team members,
>>
>> Interesting report. Any recommendations/steps on how we can arrive at a good
>> conclusion on this issue?
>
> This leads me to another bug. I am unable to modify the text in 'My
> Settings' -> 'Network' -> 'Server' to test other jabber server.
>
> hmmm the term server appears light grey.  maybe some part of the
> collaboration stack is no turning on correctly.

Ok when in doubt check the logs....

presenceservice.log has the following error information.

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1278338484.359758 INFO s-p-s: Starting presence service 0.88.0...
1278338484.367579 DEBUG s-p-s.presenceservice: Debug flags: set([''])
1278338484.368658 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <ServerPlugin object
at 0x2a73640 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835ba0)>:
Starting up...
1278338484.368804 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <ServerPlugin object
at 0x2a73640 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835ba0)>:
Postponing connection
1278338484.368944 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <LinkLocalPlugin
object at 0x2a735f0 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835b00)>:
Starting up...
1278338484.369052 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <LinkLocalPlugin
object at 0x2a735f0 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835b00)>:
Postponing connection
1278338484.372868 INFO s-p-s.linklocal_plugin: Avahi appeared on the
system bus (:1.9) - starting...
1278338484.373050 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <LinkLocalPlugin
object at 0x2a735f0 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835b00)>:
Starting up...
1278338484.373359 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <LinkLocalPlugin
object at 0x2a735f0 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835b00)>:
init connection
1278338484.374209 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <LinkLocalPlugin
object at 0x2a735f0 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835b00)>:
no existing connection. Create a new one
1278338484.395369 DEBUG s-p-s.psutils: IP4 address now '10.0.0.5' (wlan0)
1278338484.395753 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: ::: IP4 address now 10.0.0.5
1278338484.395939 DEBUG s-p-s.server_plugin: ::: valid IP4 address,
conn_status 2
1278338484.396128 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <ServerPlugin object
at 0x2a73640 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835ba0)>:
Starting up...
1278338484.396643 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <ServerPlugin object
at 0x2a73640 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835ba0)>: init
connection
1278338484.399224 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <ServerPlugin object
at 0x2a73640 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835ba0)>: no
existing connection. Create a new one
1278338484.419185 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: ::: IP4 address now 10.0.0.5
1278338484.419535 DEBUG s-p-s.buddy: Successfully preloaded buddy props
1278338484.419886 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <LinkLocalPlugin
object at 0x2a735f0 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835b00)>:
connecting...
1278338484.420183 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <LinkLocalPlugin
object at 0x2a735f0 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835b00)>:
Connect() succeeded
1278338484.425333 DEBUG s-p-s.buddy: Successfully preloaded buddy props
1278338484.426049 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <ServerPlugin object
at 0x2a73640 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835ba0)>:
connecting...
1278338484.426337 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <ServerPlugin object
at 0x2a73640 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835ba0)>:
Connect() succeeded
1278338485.204739 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <LinkLocalPlugin
object at 0x2a735f0 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835b00)>:
connected
1278338485.210821 DEBUG s-p-s.buddy: Setting current activity to '' (handle 0)
1278338495.008520 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <ServerPlugin object
at 0x2a73640 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835ba0)>:
disconnected (reason dbus.UInt32(2L))
1278338495.009026 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <ServerPlugin object
at 0x2a73640 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835ba0)>: restart
reconnect time out (5 seconds)
1278338500.015571 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <ServerPlugin object
at 0x2a73640 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835ba0)>:
reconnect timed out. Let's try to connect
1278338500.016140 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <ServerPlugin object
at 0x2a73640 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835ba0)>:
Starting up...
1278338500.017173 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <ServerPlugin object
at 0x2a73640 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835ba0)>: init
connection
1278338500.020895 DEBUG s-p-s.telepathy_plugin: <ServerPlugin object
at 0x2a73640 (telepathy_plugin+TelepathyPlugin at 0x2835ba0)>: no
existing connection. Create a new one
1278338500.024648 ERROR dbus.proxies: Introspect error on
:1.8:/org/freedesktop/Telepathy/ConnectionManager/gabble:
dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.8 was not
provided by any .service files
1278338500.024932 DEBUG dbus.proxies: Executing introspect queue due to error
process 9620: Array or variant type requires that type string be
written, but end_dict_entry was written.
The overall signature expected here was 'sa{ss}' and we are on byte 4
of that signature.
1278338500.025224 ERROR dbus.connection: Unable to set arguments
('jabber', {'account':
'0bb5e6a51779bf38f0542ea1230d7af181671888 at schoolserver.xsdev.solutiongrove.com',
'password': '064d13204088f724213998bd1b96ba1350181c2a',
'fallback-conference-server':
'conference.schoolserver.xsdev.solutiongrove.com', 'register': False,
'ignore-ssl-errors': True, 'old-ssl': True, 'port':
dbus.UInt32(5223L)}) according to signature None: <type
'exceptions.TypeError'>: Expected a string or unicode object
Local only activity
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/sugar-presence-service/telepathy_plugin.py", line
188, in _reconnect_cb
    self.start()
  File "/usr/share/sugar-presence-service/telepathy_plugin.py", line
596, in start
    self._init_connection()
  File "/usr/share/sugar-presence-service/telepathy_plugin.py", line
219, in _init_connection
    conn = self._make_new_connection()
  File "/usr/share/sugar-presence-service/telepathy_plugin.py", line
261, in _make_new_connection
    self._PROTOCOL, acct)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 610, in
call_blocking
    message.append(signature=signature, *args)
TypeError: Expected a string or unicode object

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>
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Dipankar Patro <dipankar at seeta.in>
>>
>>
>> Hello Sir,
>>
>> The following is the detailed report of the bug/issue that we tried to
>> resolve on 4th July.
>>
>> ISSUE:
>> Can't find others on neighbourhood view.
>>
>> How to reproduce the issue:
>> Just open neighbourhood view in Sugar ('F1'). We find nobody online except
>> for us.
>>
>> Investigation:
>> With alsroot's help we were able to detect whether the activities were
>> getting shared or not. It was crucial. If activities are not getting shared
>> that means the coding for neighbourhood is faulty. But the activities were
>> getting shared (chat activity) only on systems which were running native
>> (Ubuntu 10.04 , Debian). The system running on Virtual Box could not share
>> the activities.
>>
>> Now it was clear that code for neighbourhood is not faulty. So we arrived at
>> the conclusion that the server itself is down, thats why we cannot find any
>> other sugar users online.
>>
>> --
>> Dipankar Patro
>>
>>
>