Anyone interested in helping the last few steps in getting XO-1 mesh
support running again?
Sorry - but my news (testing mesh support in F11) is not good.
Could not run a Chat session using any F11-on-XO1 systems. Don't
know if it is a problem with Chat-65 itself, or with the interface.
I start Chat somewhere, and tell it to share with Neighborhood.
All systems (802, os6) see that Chat icon on their own Neighborhood
Views - and if in any system I click that icon, Chat launches. But
on (os6) systems, the Share with text in the activity header never
gets greyed out - in other words, the Chat activity never goes
on-line. [Using only (802) systems, Chat works fine on those.]
Was able to get 'rsync' to transfer directories between (os6)
systems, using the local mesh connection (IP address 169...).
[Also was able to get 'rsync' to transfer directories between (os6)
systems, using the local wireless connection (IP address 10...).]
But my overall impression of mesh support in F11 is that currently
it is flaky. One system ended up showing a blank screen whenever
F1 (for Neighborhood View) was pressed (went back to normal after
being rebooted). Neighborhood view often showed invitations to
chat even half an hour after the inviting system had been shut
down. Some systems connected quickly to the local mesh - others
took many minutes of pulsing to do so. Sometimes not all on-line
systems showed in Neighborhood. It was unpleasant whenever the mesh
icons in Neighborhood stopped accepting clicks - all I could do was
to reboot the system this happened on. [IIRC, one of the ways to
trigger this was to click on the (mesh) Frame icon's 'Disconnect' -
there seemed to be no way to 'Connect' again.]
My personal desire is to *control* what is happening. I realize
that for kids (the primary user target), the more things get done
hands off, the easier to use the product. But that means that
when things do not go as expected, users can be left helpless. It
was frustrating to see Chat launch but fail to show messages from
others on its screen; it was frustrating to see Neighborhood View
showing the same information as before, when I knew things had
changed; it was frustrating to not be able to turn mesh back on,
when it appeared to have given up.
mikus
p.s. attachment shows some meshbox messages
1253325333.007362 DEBUG sugar.presence.presenceservice: Created proxy Buddy
object at 0x95282d4 (sugar+presence+buddy+Buddy at 0x90ff160)
** (sugar-session:1959): DEBUG: starting phase 1
** (sugar-session:1959): DEBUG: ending phase 1
** (sugar-session:1959): DEBUG: starting phase 2
** (sugar-session:1959): DEBUG: ending phase 2
** (sugar-session:1959): DEBUG: starting phase 3
** (sugar-session:1959): DEBUG: ending phase 3
** (sugar-session:1959): DEBUG: starting phase 4
** (sugar-session:1959): DEBUG: ending phase 4
** (sugar-session:1959): DEBUG: starting phase 5
** (sugar-session:1959): DEBUG: ending phase 5
1253325333.503768 DEBUG root: STARTUP: Loading the desktop window
1253325333.628769 DEBUG root: STARTUP: Loading the home view
1253325333.631072 DEBUG root: STARTUP: Loading the favorites view
1253325339.292493 DEBUG root: FavoritesSetting layout 'spiral-layout'
1253325339.296294 DEBUG root: Icon without fixed_position: _MyIcon object at
0x95285a4 (SugarFavoritesMyIcon at 0x94b2c90)
1253325339.298559 DEBUG root: Icon without fixed_position: CurrentActivityIcon
object at 0x9528874 (CanvasIcon at 0x94b2d08)
1253325339.300673 DEBUG root: STARTUP: Loading the activities list
1253325339.696847 DEBUG root: ('Setup widget', gtk.RadioButton object at
0x9528f54 (GtkRadioButton at 0x922a940))
1253325339.704580 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level window.
1253325339.744635 DEBUG root: ('Setup widget', gtk.RadioButton object at
0x95319b4 (GtkRadioButton at 0x922ac40))
1253325339.751851 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level window.
1253325339.757904 DEBUG root: STARTUP: Loading the group view
1253325339.770991 DEBUG sugar.presence.presenceservice: Reused proxy Buddy
object at 0x95282d4 (sugar+presence+buddy+Buddy at 0x90ff160)
1253325339.906036 DEBUG root: STARTUP: Loading the mesh view
1253325340.229738 DEBUG root: Not an activity icon _MyIcon object at 0x95285a4
(SugarFavoritesMyIcon at 0x94b2c90)
1253325340.232643 DEBUG root: Not an activity icon CurrentActivityIcon object
at 0x9528874 (CanvasIcon at 0x94b2d08)
1253325340.368353 DEBUG root: activate channel 1 anycast \xc0'\xc0'\xc0\x00
1253325341.537885 DEBUG root: Connection activated:
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/1
1253325341.583291 DEBUG sugar.presence.presenceservice: Reused proxy Buddy
object at 0x95282d4 (sugar+presence+buddy+Buddy at 0x90ff160)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py, line 586, in
msg_reply_handler
reply_handler(*message.get_args_list(**get_args_opts))
File
