[Sugar-devel] #2295 UNSP: Sugar 0.88 [Dextrose] not reporting all favourite connections to NetworkManager at startup

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 18:34, Franco Miceli <fmiceli at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
> Tomeu,
>
> Following code traces of ListConnections from the NMSettings class within
> Network.py, I've come across the following sequence of calls from NM's code:
>
> NetworkManager.c's main function calls nm-manager-get (from nm-manager.c).
>
> Within nm-mannager-get the function initial_get_connections gets called. I
> think it is this the function we are looking for since it invokes other
> functions (query_connections and poke_system_settings_daemon_cb) that call
> the ListConnections through the d-bus (dbus_gproxy_begin_call()).
>
> So effectively I think that ListConnections is the one NM calls at startup.

You mentioned that NM is only considering one connection, but if you
can check that Sugar returns alls of them in ListConnections, why is
NM only taking one of them?

Regards,

Tomeu

> Hope I helped.
>
> Cheers
>
> 2010/9/8 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 13:42, Franco Miceli <fmiceli at plan.ceibal.edu.uy>
>> wrote:
>> > For what I've been able to see load_wifi_connections collects all wifi
>> > connections from /home/olpc/.sugar/default/nm/connections.cfg. This
>> > function
>> > gets called by load_connections who gets called by get_settings.
>> >
>> > I think that the class NMSettings is where sugar communicates this to
>> > NM,
>> > but I don't seem to find a "main loop" that I can follow in order to
>> > determine what happens when the process starts for the first time.
>> >
>> > Could it  be that this first "connection culling" is not provided by
>> > Sugar,
>> > but in fact by other entity?
>> >
>> > Sorry that I can't be of much help, but I'm very new to python and am
>> > still
>> > trying to understand some of the basics.
>> >
>> > Please tell me what I can do to help in solving this, since I've made
>> > changes in the autoconnection feature for the XO in NM, and in order to
>> > get
>> > the algorithms working well I need to get reliable data of the favourite
>> > connections. So I'm very interested in getting this solved.
>>
>> Hi Franco,
>>
>> I'm not familiar with this part of Sugar, but if you can check if this
>> is the method that NM calls at startup to retrieve the available
>> connections, we may get a step closer:
>>
>>
>> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/nops/blobs/master/src/jarabe/model/network.py#line354
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> > Thanks for everything.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > 2010/9/8 Sugar Labs Bugs <bugtracker-noreply at sugarlabs.org>
>> >>
>> >> #2295: Sugar 0.88 [Dextrose] not reporting all favourite connections to
>> >> NetworkManager at startup
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ------------------------------------------+---------------------------------
>> >>    Reporter:  fmiceli                    |          Owner:  tomeu
>> >>        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new
>> >>    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified
>> >> by
>> >> Release Team
>> >>   Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  0.88.x
>> >>    Severity:  Minor                      |       Keywords:
>> >> Distribution:  Dextrose                   |   Status_field:
>> >>  Unconfirmed
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ------------------------------------------+---------------------------------
>> >>
>> >> Comment(by tomeu):
>> >>
>> >>  Hi Franco, have you found the place in Sugar that provides that single
>> >>  connection to NM?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2295#comment:2>
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>> >
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> Ing. Franco Miceli
> CITS - Plan Ceibal - Investigación & Desarrollo
> Av. Italia 6201 - Montevideo, Uruguay
> CP: 11500
> Tel: (598 2) 601 5773 int.: 2227
>