[Bugs] #928 HIGH: Salut: Sharing activities not working

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#928: Salut: Sharing activities not working
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    Reporter:  erikos     |          Owner:  gdesmott
        Type:  defect     |         Status:  new     
    Priority:  High       |      Milestone:  0.86    
   Component:  telepathy  |        Version:  0.84.x  
    Severity:  Blocker    |       Keywords:  GPA     
Distribution:  Fedora     |   Status_field:  New     
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Comment(by Jose Icaza):

 Very sorry to reply this late - somehow comments to this ticket did not
 get to my gmail address, when other ticket's comments did.

 Replying to [comment:13 gdesmott]:
 > From my understanding of this bug, the logs attached by Erikos were
 because of A (firewall issue); right?
 >
 Yes I think so; but turning off the firewall did not work for us.
 >
 > Jose: When you say "can't share", what do you mean exactly? The shared
 activity doesn't appear in the peer's mesh view? It appears but when
 trying to join it nothing happen (data are not exchanged between the 2
 laptops)?
 >
 Correct, the shared activity does not appear in neighborhood view of the
 other machine... sometimes! Couldn't reproduce bug reliably

 > Is this problem specific to a set of laptops (classmate?)? That could be
 a network driver issue (buggy multicast implementation).

 Perhaps... It didn't happen between an older model Dell laptop and a
 Toshiba. But it did happen between two Dells for Caroline...

 > Did you observe this bug only on SoaS or did you reproduce it using
 sugar-jhbuild as well (using the same hardware in both cases)?
 >
 Just with plain Strawberry. Should try it with jhbuild

 > Could you reproduce this issue and attach telepathy-salut log when it
 happens? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Telepathy-debug uses to contain
 instructions about how to enable Telepathy debugging but I don't know if
 that still apply for SoaS. Sugar guys would probably be able to help you
 for this.

 Sure, I will... For the moment we have solved the problem by installing a
 local ejabberd server running Xubuntu on a Classmate serving as server.
 The student classmates are addressed to the local IP of the jabber server.
 But in some other deployment without server (just an access point to set
 up the wireless net) the problem will likely appear.

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