[Bugs] #1014 UNSP: Instability in seeing people in Neighborhood view at GPA on Strawberry

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#1014: Instability in seeing people in Neighborhood view at GPA on Strawberry
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    Reporter:  CarolineM                  |          Owner:  tomeu                      
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |     Resolution:                             
    Keywords:                             |   Distribution:  Unspecified                
Status_field:  Unconfirmed                |  
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Comment(by walter):

 This was SoaS Strawberry (booted with a helper CD). The hw was old HP
 desktops, EVOs, with a hardwired ethernet. The systems were configured to
 point to jabber.sugarlabs.org. The network connection itself was working,
 e.g., browse worked consistently. The machines initially would connect to
 the ejabberd server, display XOs and activities in the neighborhood view,
 but after several seconds, the neighborhood would go empty (except for the
 xo in the center) and the machine would attempt to connect through salut.
 Only some machines would occasionally appear in Salut. Every once in a
 while, we'd be reconnected to the server and momentarily see a populated
 neighborhood view.

 I had my laptop connected to the same network running a very up-to-date
 jhbuild and experienced the same behavior, only the duty cycle seemed to
 be much faster. I'd get a flash of the jabber server every few minutes.

 It was definitely pingponging between gabble and salut as per ps. At no
 point did my laptop report that the network itself was down.

 There was no one around to query re the network configuration for these
 machines. No idea what was between us and the Internet.

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