[Sugar-devel] SOAS Fedora 22 Final Release: Collaboration in Activities

[Iain Brown Douglas]

On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 13:41 +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 08:10:38PM -0700, Thomas Gilliard wrote:
> > On 5/20/2015 6:52 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> > >Are you finding this problem with peer to peer (telepathy salut) or
> > >with a jabber server (telepathy gabble)?
> > >
> > >Do the two SOAS share a network?
> > >
> > >Did previous SOAS work okay?
> > >
> > >Is there a ticket number?
> >
> > https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3629  maybe  there are a lot of tickets
> 
> Yeah, that one doesn't match.  What I'm after are detailed problem
> descriptions; not a "it doesn't work, why don't you test it to prove
> me wrong", but rather what was tried, what the result was, and what
> the expectation was.
> 
> One problem description for each of the three connection methods; with
> Jabber, without Jabber but with access point, and with ad-hoc.
> 
> > I like the way you fixed the OLPC sugar Ubuntu!  collaboration in
> > sugar 0.104  on jabber.sugarlabs.org
> 
> Thanks, but we're talking about SOAS in this thread.
> 
> > The fedora 22 RC-2 collaboration fails
> >  Shared activities and collaboration has failed since about 0.98 in
> >  fedora
> 
> Thanks.  (This is worrying.  Collaboration is so fundamental and yet it
> has stayed broken for so long?)
> 
> I don't think this relates to 0.98, because 0.98 works fine on other
> Fedora systems such as XO laptops.  But that gives us a date range.

Hi James,

Just from POV date range, these pages give an indication of the known
bugs to anyone testing collaboration over a wired connection since 2013.

F18 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/%C3%8A%C2%BB%C3%85%C5%
92helo_%C3%8A%C2%BBai

F19 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Avocado

F20 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/10

> Thomas, check your notes; did it work with a Fedora 18 SOAS?
> 
I have a memory of using this workaround successfully, once only, to get
wired collaboration to work in Fedora 18 SOAS.

(Updating from telepathy-mission-control-5.14.0-1.fc18 to 5.14.0-2.fc18
fixes this problem.)

Iain