[Sugar-devel] 32(+) XO-1's on Mesh Potato 2 as AP on XSCE

[Ajay Garg]

Perhaps the following links might be useful ::


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51501
http://www.mail-archive.com/telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org/msg05699.html

Also, I wrote a patch for Avahi, which allows to customize the TTL time,
after which the "disconnected" buddy actually gets removed from Avahi's
list ::

http://people.sugarlabs.org/ajay/root/freedesktop_bug_51501/common-patch-for-f14-and-f17/customize-avahi-default-ttl-values.patch


Thanks and Regards,
Ajay



On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:46 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> As this is a question about Sugar, perhaps the Sugar developers should
> be involved.
>
> +CC sugar-devel@
>
> Problem description: 32 XO-1 laptops are booted and registered to a
> school server, and all 32 icons are visible in neighbourhood, but the
> icons persist after any XO leaves.  Sugar-0.96 (yes, really), on OLPC
> OS 12.1.0.
>
> Sorry, I don't know how the XO is being asked to leave; forced power
> off, shutdown request using power button, or shutdown using Sugar
> menu.  This would be something to investigate.
>
> My experience is that a shutdown request using power button is similar
> in effect to typing "shutdown -h now" via sshd, and this leaves the
> SSH client stranded without the connection clearing down.  Perhaps all
> that is required is time for the ejabberd connection to time out?
>
> Perhaps this is fixed in a later release of Sugar, and an upgrade or
> field change can be recommended?
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 06:58:40AM +0000, Tim Moody wrote:
> > As far as I know the implementation of ejabberd on xsce was a straight
> port
> > from xs 0.7, so I wouldn't have expected a bug to have been introduced,
> but it
> > is speculation either way.  All we know is that what Nathan observes was
> not
> > previously reported as a bug.
> >
> > Still, it is an annoyance.  So the question is, what is the event that
> causes
> > sugar to remove an icon from the NN and how does it arise.  If it is a
> poll of
> > ejabberd then we should investigate, regardless of whether it is a new
> bug or
> > an old one.
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:09:16 +1000
> > > From: quozl at laptop.org
> > > To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org
> > > Subject: Re: [support-gang] 32(+) XO-1's on Mesh Potato 2 as AP on XSCE
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:54:30AM -0400, Nathan C. Riddle wrote:
> > > > Hopefully, later XSCE (ejabberd) version has corrected issue of
> > > > falsely persistent icons in neighborhood. Not AP model related
> > > > (same on TP Link).
> > >
> > > We don't know that this is an ejabberd problem yet, it could be a
> > > problem with Sugar. It would require deeper investigation.
> > >
> > > > Any comments by XSCE development team ?
> > >
> > > You can write to them at
> > > xsce-devel at googlegroups.com
> > >
> > > There's also
> > > server-devel at lists.laptop.org
> > >
> > > --
> > > James Cameron
> > > http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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-- 
Regards,
Ajay
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